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Four walls of fun
. Eagle Scout builds a new playhouse for kids at shelter
Joshua Melton, 17, toured the Lighthouse for Women and Children shelter in Oxnard's La Colonia neighborhood late last year in hopes of finding a project he could take on to earn his Eagle Scout badge.
The shelter's volunteer coordinator, Mary Kay Huszar, led the Camarillo teen to the side yard, where children played on a rotting wooden playhouse.
"The shingles were coming off and there were nails sticking out," Huszar said. "It really was a safety hazard."
Huszar told the children to get off the structure, and Joshua realized he'd found his Eagle project.
"I thought it would be a fun idea to build a playhouse," Joshua said. "The original playhouse went up to my waist. It was just a bunch of small pieces of wood, tons of bugs and spider webs."
Soon enough, the dilapidated playhouse was hauled away, and Joshua got to work on a new playhouse that he built in his backyard with the help of fellow Scouts from Troop 262, chartered by St. Columba's Episcopal Church.
"We started before Thanksgiving but only worked on it a couple of hours on the weekend," Joshua said. "Once it was at the shelter, we worked five hours on Saturday and five hours on Sunday."
Joshua modified playhouse designs he found online. The plans included a porch and windows, and a house tall enough for parents to play inside.
"He wanted the parents and moms to go in there with (their kids)," Huszar said.
Joshua's father helped him with woodworking and measuring. The building process wasn't easy, Joshua said, the hardest part being the roof.
"Sometimes it was really frustrating, and it seemed like we had to redo a lot of stuff," the teen said.
Joshua and his father wanted to make sure the roof wouldn't leak when it rained.
"My dad is an engineer, and he made sure everything was up to code," Joshua said with a laugh.
To earn the rank of Eagle Scout, a Scout must write a full description of the project and how it will benefit the community, and plan a budget.
Joshua raised most of the money for the playhouse's material through a garage sale. Nattie and Kenneth Yoshimoto, an aunt and uncle of a fellow Troop 262 member, donated the rummage sale items, which allowed Joshua to raise about $1,800.
He went over his initial budget, but his dad covered the remaining construction costs.
In January, Joshua and his father trucked the unfinished playhouse from their home to the shelter in Oxnard.
The finished playhouse was unveiled yesterday.
"It was a ton of work, but it was worth it," Joshua said. "The kids really seem to like it."


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EARLY SPRING along the Platte River is sheer magic. For more than a month migratory sandhill cranes pour into central Nebraska, attracted by the shallow river's abundant roosting sites and nearby meadows and farms for feeding. Looking like legions of gray ghosts from a distance, the birds often cover wet meadows and cornfields from one end to the other. Flocks of a thousand or more fly low over the river, their voices rising and falling as they approach, pass overhead and disappear. With nearly a half-million cranes stopping here each spring, the placid Platte is transformed into the site of the greatest gathering of these birds in the world.
Not only does the Platte shelter sandhill cranes at this time of year, it also is a magnet to nearly ten million ducks and geese that sprinkle the sky with intricate patterns from horizon to horizon for hours. Add to this the occasional appearance of an endangered whooping crane or a Eurasian "common" crane that has veered off course, and you have the ingredients of a spectacle that draws more than 20,000 people to the Platte Valley each spring. This coming together of the river, the birds and bird-watchers is a true congruence—a word derived from the Latin grus, which originally meant an assemblage of cranes.
Photo: © MICHAEL FORSBERG
WILD FOR WATER: Sandbars and wetlands in and around the Platte River provide staging grounds for migrating cranes to rest, feed and court potential mates (above). But these rites of spring have been disrupted in the past century, as people have built dams along the river and drained off much of its flow for agricultural and residential use. Conservationists are attempting to increase flows in the Platte for cranes and other wild visitors.
Cranes as a group have been present on Earth for more than 50 million years, and the 16 species of these large wading birds are scattered across most of the continents. I have studied them for the past 30 years, writing three books on the group, yet I never tire of seeing the birds in person. Each year I await the cranes' return to Nebraska with breathless excitement. Indeed, I mark the start of spring not so much by the calendar as by the day these birds first appear in the Platte Valley from their winter homes in Texas and New Mexico. Then there is a unique concatenation of cool breezes out of the south, of hundreds of clarion crane calls, of blue skies and of joy in witnessing the simple act of cranes dropping into the waiting safety of the river at sunset. There is also a majesty and balletlike beauty in the synchronized movements of hundreds of birds all simultaneously setting their wings, lowering their legs and parachuting downward, as if they knew they had finally returned home. There is the slow crescendo of their calling, as flock after flock drops into the river and as the sun sinks below the horizon, slowly transforming the silvery gray birds into black silhouettes.
What is it that brings so many cranes to the Platte Valley each spring? The answer is largely geography. The Great Plains offer an unobstructed flyway between the Gulf Coast winter habitat and the arctic breeding grounds for cranes and many other long-distance avian migrants. At a convenient mid-point in this long journey, the Platte courses east from the mountains of Colorado and Wyoming, moving slowly through farms and meadows to its eventual confluence with the Missouri River. The wide, shallow channels of the Platte provide roosting sites on bare islands and sandbars that are far away from coyotes and other land-based predators. The nocturnal protection offered by the river and the presence of spring food in the form of waste corn and invertebrates (which are abundant in the nearby wet meadows) are key attractions for cranes.
Each evening near sunset, flocks of a thousand or more cranes fly low over the river, their voices rising and falling as they approach, pass overhead and disappear again in the distance. As the sun sinks toward the horizon the birds become increasingly nervous, hoping to find a safe landing place before it is wholly dark. A lone, brave crane then touches down, followed moments later by another, then dozens and finally hundreds. Eventually as many as 20,000 may occupy a single roost, stretched out along a mile or more of the river. After some initial jostling for position, and rejoining of any pairs or family members separated in the confusion of landing, darkness settles on the crane roost. But even during the darkest hours it is never completely quiet, as nighttime conversations suggest that a few birds are always awake and on the alert for danger.
As darkness gives way to dawn, the volume of crane conversation gradually builds. Typically, small groups of Canada and white-fronted geese begin to leave their river roosts before the cranes, but with the first appearance of the sun the cranes start to stir. Then, sometimes as a single amorphous mass, an entire roost of several thousand birds may take flight, their combined notes shattering the dawn like the thunder of a sudden electrical storm. The flocks head out from the river toward their favorite foraging sites. Within half an hour after sunrise, the river is usually devoid of cranes, leaving it free for the common mergansers, mallards and pintails to feed and conduct their courtship rituals. The cranes spend most of the day in the cornfields and meadows harvesting whatever grain and invertebrates they can find, building up fat stores essential for their remaining spring migration and arctic breeding.
After five or six weeks of such regular cycles of daytime foraging and nightly roosting, the pattern breaks up, almost without warning. During a sun-warmed day in mid-April, when thermals are forming under cottony white clouds and a gentle breeze comes out of the south, the birds ascend in great slow-motion whirlwinds, their wings lifted by the invisible thermals until the cranes are almost out of sight. Their excited calls waft down as they head to nesting spots along the northern rim of the world. Soon after leaving the Platte Valley, the great flocks begin to split up, some heading for Hudson Bay shorelines and islands, others for the high-arctic tundras of far-northern Canada. Still others head to the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta of Alaska, and others to Siberian tundras some 3,000 miles away. They may not arrive at these nesting grounds until the end of May or early June, just as these areas are becoming snow-free.
Not all of the birds venture to the Arctic, however. Some of the larger sandhill cranes (the so-called "greater" race of the birds) nest in the northern Rocky Mountains, as far south as Wyoming. Others breed southward into the Great Lakes region. Greater sandhill cranes once even nested as far south as the marshlands of the Nebraska Sandhills in the north-central part of the state, where long breeding seasons and abundant food must have provided an ideal combination. But hunting pressure and disturbances caused by ranching and farming in the Sandhills eventually pushed nesting cranes out of Nebraska by the late nineteenth century. There is hope that the cranes will eventually reclaim the Sandhills marshes for nesting: A few of the birds have successfully nested south of the Platte in recent years, and some pairs have been sighted lately in the Sandhills.
It is risky business for sandhill cranes to nest near humans, as the birds are highly sensitive to disturbance. Once in Grand Teton National Park, I found a pair nesting at the edge of a small beaver pond, but I knew that if I set up a blind too near, the birds were likely to desert their nest. Luckily there was an old outhouse located about 50 yards away, dating from the time before the park had been established. I found that by sitting on one of the seats and opening the door just far enough to get my telephoto lens out, I had a perfect view. During the next few weeks, I felt I used that outhouse more than anyone else in its long history.
Although I have seen millions of sandhill cranes in my years of study on the Platte, I was in my sixties before I finally saw a wild whooping crane in Nebraska. It was on a March field trip with my university ornithology class. There was a mixture of rain and snow coming down, and I was driving with special care over a muddy road. Near Grand Island, one of the students innocently asked if I had seen the white bird standing among the flock of sandhills feeding in a nearby cornfield. I assumed it was probably a lone snow goose, since sometimes snow geese feed with flocks of cranes, but in spite of the bad road I thought we should stop and check it out. I could hardly believe my eyes when we located the whooper through a veil of snowflakes.
The whooping crane is the gold standard of American birds: It is the tallest, one of the rarest, and certainly one of the most beautiful of all North American bird species. Like the sandhills, whoopers migrate from winter habitat on the Gulf Coast to breeding grounds in the north. But unlike their smaller relatives, whooping cranes move in small flocks, with family-sized units the norm. They also are more water-dependent than sandhills, preferring foraging sites in wetlands rather than uplands, and seeking out roosting sites with wider stretches of river.
Historically, perhaps the entire species' population (possibly as many as 1,000 whooping cranes) moved up the central flyway each spring, many of them probably stopping at the Platte River. A survey I once made of whooping crane sightings recorded during the early to middle 1900s indicated that the "big bend" region of the Central Platte Valley was their most important stopover point. But as the Platte and its nearby wetlands declined from human use, the whoopers stopped coming here. Their total population eventually dropped to fewer than 50 birds. In recent decades as whooping crane numbers have slowly recovered, they have increasingly used the Rainwater Basin, an area of shallow wetlands south of the Platte, and some of the rivers and wet meadows in the Nebraska Sandhills, as far north as the Niobrara River.
ALLURING SPREAD: Dave Brandt (left), a biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, sets up decoys on land near Phillips, Nebraska. Brandt and his colleagues are attempting to lure sandhill cranes so they can net them and attach transmitters to the birds. These devices will provide valuable data on the cranes' movements and habitat preferences. This study is a small part of a larger effort to safeguard crucial habitat for the birds.
The changes in whooping crane distribution in Nebraska probably are the result of wholesale "dewatering" of the Platte by agricultural and residential water users during the twentieth century. The river has lost as much as 70 percent of its historic flows to irrigation, eliminating many of its myriad channels, reducing its width, drying up the grassy meadows along its shorelines and allowing woody vegetation to grow on its margins and sandbars. Sandhill cranes have adjusted to these changes fairly well, but rarer avian species breeding on the river's sandy bars and islands—such as piping plovers and least terns—have not. Recent federal mandates for minimum river flows to protect these imperiled species have slowed changes to the Platte's ecology. Yet much of the damage done will be difficult to reverse. And the river's recovery was dealt a setback last year, when the driest, hottest summer in Nebraska history and a low snowpack in the Rockies caused the Central Platte to dry out completely for more than a month—the first time I have seen this in the four decades I have lived in the state.
Despite the challenges facing the Platte, the annual avian spectacle here remains enchanting. In all my years of studying birds around the world, from the Bering Sea to southern Chile to the Tasman Sea of Australia, nothing I've witnessed compares to the return of the cranes to Nebraska. From the middle or the end of February through the end of March, my excitement gradually builds along with the number of sandhill cranes. Then, during the ides of April, I sadly bid them farewell as flock after flock lifts off and heads resolutely northward. After they have gone, the Platte reverts to an ordinary Great Plains river, waiting silently for another congruence of the cranes.
Paul A. Johnsgard is Foundation Professor Emeritus at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. This article is adapted from part of a forthcoming book, Great Wildlife of the Great Plains (University Press of Kansas).
NWF Priority
Protecting Whoopers and Their Kin
Standing five feet tall and resplendent in its snowy white plumage, the whooping crane is the most statuesque and striking visitor to Nebraska's Platte River each spring. It is also the rarest, with fewer than 280 of the birds surviving in the wild.
Historically, small flocks of "whoopers" (named for their trumpeting call) stopped in central Nebraska on their way from Gulf Coast winter habitat to northern breeding grounds. At the Platte, they joined legions of sandhill cranes and other birds feeding in wetlands and fields during the day, and roosting on sandbars at night.
But in the past century, as much as 70 percent of the Platte's flow has been diverted for irrigation, flood control and residential use. These diversions have caused drastic changes to the river, causing crucial roosting sites and wetlands to disappear.
The National Wildlife Federation and its affiliate, the Nebraska Wildlife Federation, are working to reverse these worrisome trends and protect endangered whoopers. A key element in that effort is Whooper Watch, a volunteer research program funded in part through a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Each spring and fall, volunteers monitor sites along the Central Platte River for the presence of whooping cranes. They record information about crane sightings and habitat use. This information will be used to help develop and implement a recovery plan for crane habitat along the Platte.
"More than 60 volunteers have helped us watch for whoopers or carry out habitat conservation work that will benefit cranes," says Diane Beachly, Whooper Watch coordinator.
NWF and its Nebraska affiliate are also working with state and federal officials to develop a new water management program for the Platte River Basin. The goal: to protect land and manage Platte River dam operation and water use in ways that will conserve endangered species and their habitat.
"This may be our best chance to save one of America's great wildlife treasures," says Duane Hovorka, Nebraska Wildlife Federation executive director. "We can't afford to wait until the water's all gone to take action."
A draft Environmental Impact Statement on the water management program is due this fall, and the public will be invited to comment on the plan then.
For more information, see Platte River.


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Saturday, May 31, 2014
Saturday Night At The Liberal Curmudgeon: The Zombies Live
The Zombies, one of the original British Invasion bands, played their 1964 jazz-tinged hit "She's Not There" in Metropolis Studios, West London, January 2011. The performance included founding members Colin Blunstone, vocals, and Rod Argent, keyboards.
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- Michael J. Mand said...
I recently got to see Colin Blunstone at the Boulton Center in Bay Shore. He's still in great voice and there is a new album out here (recorded in 2012), call 'On the Air Tonight'. In 2011, The Zombies released a reunion album 'Breathe Out, Breathe In'. Colin is truly one of rock 'n' roll's great vocalists.
- June 1, 2014 at 6:46 AM
- Jeff Tone said...
Yes, and he hasn't gotten the recognition he deserves. Neither has Rod Argent as a keyboardist. I suggest a Zombies retrospective on Saint James Infirmary.
- June 1, 2014 at 12:37 PM
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Donald G. Ainslie: Unfortunately I am not overly optimistic, and the reason being is that I think the folks I have been working with in trying to advise is a lot of folks are looking at the government. The government is going to take care of them. As I have described with the adjust in time economy, that is not going to be there. The government is not going to build or provide you help in this pandemic. It is important that the companies prepare. To answer your question, I think it is a very small percentage.
Elisabeth Rosenthal: We talk a lot about surveillance. Obviously we saw with SARS, one person with the virus gets sick, gets on a plane, goes to Hong Kong, gets in an elevator with some people, and in this time of global travel, your virus is spread to I think half a dozen different countries in that case. And that was with a virus that was not particularly contagious. To Dr. Nabarro, how do you get surveillance and detection refined? Let's not even talk about getting someone flying from Guangzhou to Hong Kong. But in rural Indonesia, how do you get surveillance to the point where a guy with a runny nose and a cough thinks 'Could I have bird flu?'
David Nabarro: So in rural Thailand in early 2005, when they were starting to have human cases, the Thai's entire authorities made use of the million village health volunteers that exist in their country who were trained very rapidly to identify individuals with flu like symptoms and to make sure that they were followed up and that necessary specimens were taken. An interesting case, they did turn out to be human cases of avian influenza. They were detected and then managed. When you engage communities in that kind of surveillance—we have seen it also in Vietnam and China to perhaps a lesser extent Indonesia—when you engage the community in a participatory way you will get certain people identified as sick who have not actually turned out to have got any kind of unpleasant bug. So there is a degree of false positivity, but it is the only way to do is to have communities engaged. For example, from the bird flu reporting in Indonesia, the technique that people use is their cell phones, and they send text messages to central points which then lead to action which is then undertaken fairly rapidly in order to bring the issue under control. So there will be much more use of modern reporting techniques like cell phones. China for example has invested hugely in building a more efficient and streamlined reporting system from provinces to headquarters to try and make sure that information comes through. It is then reported to the World Health Organization in the case of human sickness or the World Organization for Animal Health in the case of bird illness. I think Asia is better prepared to do this kind of thing than just about anywhere else. They've had the experience of SARS; they have been living with Avian Influenza for a number of years and with human cases. There are other parts of the world that are much less well prepared. So the world Health Organization and the other organizations with whom I work are investing massively in making sure that the international regulations on disease reporting whether for animals or for humans are being properly implemented. Are we doing it well enough? Well, we never do things as well as we would like to, but I think we have the architecture there. We have the frameworks there. What remains is the political will to ensure that this kind of reporting is done properly and is done transparently. I think that there are people in the audience who may have views whether or not we have actually reached the point where we can be confident that we will all know when untoward incidences occur. Personally I think we have some way to go.
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Exclusive: IFC Films has picked up Sundance '12 Stanley Kubrick doc Room 237. A world premiere in the festival's New Frontier section, the experimental documentary directed by Rodney Ascher explores the numerous theories about the "real meaning" of Kubrick's film The Shining. Word has it the film will screen this Spring in the New Directors/New Film series in New York and Cannes is a likely bet to debut the film across the Atlantic. IFC Films will roll out the film later this year via a theatrical/day and date VOD release.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no REAL MEANING behind The Shining. It was a Stephen King novel. And if there was, he's still alive to discuss it. It's not like you're trying to unravel something written by Chaucer. Where's the movie in this? It's like the documentary about some filmmaker's search for Paul Williams. Yeah, he lives in Beverly Hills. Alive and well. We see him out all the time. Mystery solved.
Yeah, but that's the point of the docu as I understood it reading reviews, that everyone gains something from it, whether Kubrick intended it or not, and it takes a look at the "coincidences" of the film. Stephen King made his version of The Shining and most people hate it, so no one wants to hear what he has to say.
exactly…its Kubrick's film, not Kubricks story. You can debate about why he chose Jack N for the lead or what inspired the infamous tricycle shot…but not about what the story means.
Read the article, Sherlock. It's about the Kubrick film, not the novel. And yes, there IS a movie there.
I'm well aware of what it's about, thanks. This isn't a film, it's a conversation you have in college after you've sucked on a three foot bong with your roommate. Way to go, IFC.
Saw it at Sundance and loved it. To answer your snide question, "the movie" in this is derived by illustrating a theory about Kubrick's use of subliminal messaging. Room 237 proposes that he used this film, and others, to tell another story without direct exposition. Whether or not this is the case is up to the viewer. what makes this documentary exciting is the way the evidence is presented to the audience.
(To clarify, my post above was in response to Kieren's post – not the replies to it.)
Yes – but how is it that he's so short and over the years still gets the ladies? Somebody's doin' somethin' right. You'd think he was Wallace Shawn.
From Film Stage's Sundance Review:
"The film is broken down into nine segments, each chapter focusing on a different specific element of The Shining that may reveal hidden clues and hint at at a bigger thematic oeuvre. These range from background art decor of Native Americans and symbols referencing Nazi Germany to camera movement and long dissolves creating subliminal illusions with subtle image juxtaposition. It's the type of thing you would only notice after obsessively re-watching a film scene by scene, moment by moment, for any peculiarities that might jump out. Some examples go even farther, from mapping out the geography of the hotel to carefully dissecting the bike pattern that young Danny follows. For the die hard fans it's all very fascinating and extremely revelatory to show potential methods Kubrick was using to subtly manipulate the audience."
Most of these comments are completely stupid and miss the real point. The real point is that thirty years on, some people are still obsessed enough with a film and a filmmaker that they would study it to the point where they discern patterns that may or may not be there. Name one filmmaker alive today who inspires this level of obsession. Name one who merits this level of scrutiny and admiration. You can't. There isn't one. Stanley was the one true God of the cinema. In part this is because of the level of detail he imputed into his movies. In part it was due to his brilliance. Sadly, I fear there will never be another like him. Instead, we have Michael Bay and Stevie Boy Spielberg (who, by the way, showed his inferiority to Kubrick with the risible AI.
That's delightful. Still not a movie.
This is an interesting movie and Kubrick is a legend. At the end of the day, people take what they want from all art forms — whether the artist included it or not.


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More Rising Food Prices? Grocery Bills to Skyrocket as Drought Crushes Crop Production
Lisa Garber
Activist Post.com
Saturday, August 11, 2012
The U.S. Department of Agriculture cut its projected domestic corn and soy production by 17 and 12 percent, respectively, since last month. This breaks the hearts of many farmers expecting record harvests, but could affect ordinary citizens too in the form of rising food prices and larger grocery bills.
Rising Food Prices Worldwide
The U.N. food agency directly correlates rising food prices in grocery store staples and the current drought's effects on farming regions. Tensions are running high as dry weather in Russia pushes prices up 19 percent, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization. Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack, says that Americans have no need to be concerned about devastating food prices.
Food, unfortunately, is not all that will be affected. Because corn and soy are ever-present—even cosmetics and pet food—we shouldn't be surprised to see nearly every trip to the grocery store go up a few cents or dollars.
But of course this isn't the beginning of rising food prices.
Costs have been going up for some time now; you can see a food price index here in an article we covered around just last Thanksgiving. The food index count, which is an overall score reflecting the total price of the top 6 food commodities, rose to 215 in December of 2010 — up from 90 in the year 2000. Sugar spearheaded the spike, hitting only 2 points away from the 400 mark in December of 2010.
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The Bank of Japan said Thursday it will keep its radical quantitative easing policy in place and leave its previous description of the economic recovery intact despite slowing growth in exports.
The central bank's nine-member Policy Board wrapped up its two-day meeting with a unanimous decision to continue the unorthodox monetary easing policy it launched in April. The goal is to double the nation's monetary base and aggressively ramp up purchases of government bonds to artificially stoke 2 percent inflation in two years and put an end to chronic deflation.
The economy still appears to be "recovering moderately" on a path toward overcoming deflation, because consumer prices are rising steadily and domestic demand remains solid, due partly to robust public works investment, the central bank said in a statement, citing the exports and capital investment amid an improvement in corporate earnings. It also kept the view that public investment and housing investment have increased.
On private consumption, the BOJ said it has "remained resilient," with some improvement seen in the employment and income situations.
Regarding overseas economies, the BOJ said they are "picking up moderately" as a whole, although a lackluster performance is partly seen.
On the outlook, the BOJ said the world's third-largest economy "is expected to continue a moderate recovery," while noting it still faces "a high degree of uncertainty," including the outlook for the European debt problem, developments in emerging economies and the pace of recovery in the U.S.
The government said earlier this month that Japan's economy slowed to annualized real growth of 1.9 percent in the July-September period, following a 3.8 percent expansion the previous quarter, as consumer spending stalled and external demand shrank against the backdrop of a downturn in some emerging economies.


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Solegnathus hardwickii
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Solegnathus hardwickii
|Species Authority:
|(Gray, 1830)
Common Name(s):
Solegnathus polyprion Bleeker, 1853
Solenognathus asperrimus Philippi, 1896
Syngnathus hardwickii Gray, 1830
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Dawson, C. E. 1982. Synopsis of the Indo-Pacific genus Solegnathus (Pisces: Syngnathidae). Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 29(2): 139-161.
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Preliminary investigations into the taxonomy of this species suggest that the true Solegnathus hardwickii is restricted to the South China Sea and Japan (the type specimen is from China). It has been suggested that there may be two undescribed species, one distributed on the east coast and the other on the west coast of Australia (Kuiter 2000). Until the taxonomy is resolved, we have treated Solegnathus hardwickii as one species which occurs in all the areas mentioned below.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Data Deficient ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
Needs updating
|Morgan, S.K., Pogonoski, J.J., Pollard, D.A. & Paxton, J.R.
|Morgan, S.K. & Martin-Smith, K. (Syngnathid Red Listing Authority)
Information presently available on which to assess S. hardwickii includes limited catch data from the Queensland trawl fishery, Australian trade records and minimal biological data. Consideration was given to listing the species as Vulnerable or Near Threatened under Criteria A (Reduction in Population Size) and/or B (Geographic Range). None of the information, however, provides compelling evidence for listing based on trends in catch, area of occurrence or area of occupancy, and this is why the species remains in the category DD. This is due to poor and/or unreliable data, rather than information that points towards population stability.
Australian export data, showing take in commercial trawls along the Queensland coastline, indicate that there may be the potential for bycatch to threaten populations. Between February 1998 and May 2000, a combined total of 2,384 kg of dried Solegnathus dunckeri and S. hardwickii were taken in trawls by commercial fishers along the Queensland coastline. Considering that dried pipehorses probably weigh less than 50 g, at least 20,000 individuals would be expected to occur in 1 t (1,000 kg). A total of only 31 kg of dried S. dunckeri and S. hardwickii were landed from Jan. to Sept. 2000. These figures for the 2000 calendar year are of potential concern, considering the high 1998 (2,175 kg) and 1999 (209 kg) export statistics for the abovementioned species combined (Pogonoski et al. 2002). While this represents declines of 99% and 85% between 1998 and 2000 and 1999 and 2000 respectively (a period of time S. dunckeri and S. hardwickii remained constant in catch across years, making it difficult to interpret species-specific effects. Furthermore, there is presently no way of contextualizing bycatch and export volumes (of bycatch sold into the traditional medicine trade) relative to in situ population abundances.
The extent of occurrence for this species is presently much greater than 20,000 km², however there remains taxonomic confusion where S. hardwickii is concerned. Animals from Asian and Australian waters are considered one species, where they may not be; it has also been proposed that there may be two species within Australia. Taxonomic research is therefore necessary to resolve the biological separation or integrity of what is presently referred to as S. hardwickii. Once the species' taxomony has been fully resolved, the resultant species and/or populations should be re-evaluated.
There is reliable anecdotal and scientific (Connolly et al. 2001) evidence suggesting that S. hardwickii associates with particular types of habitat. However, until these associations are understood, and ocean coastlines are mapped at high benthic resolution, it will not be possible to differentiate between the species' area of occurrence and its area of occupancy.
Accurate distribution and depth data are required to identify key habitats. These data may be logistically challenging to obtain given that a large proportion of the species' population may inhabit waters deeper than those that can be visited on SCUBA for monitoring. Some species-specific data on distribution and biology could be obtained by monitoring trawl catch on the southern Queensland and northern New South Wales coastline. In Queensland, a Species of Conservation Interest (SOCI) logbook programme is in progress and a ship-board observer programme is scheduled to start in the near future (K. Martin-Smith, pers. comm). There does not appear to be the option to return trawled specimens which probably do not survive if released due to prolapse (K. Graham, pers. comm.).
The designation of suitable non-trawl protected areas with bottom structure suspected to support pipehorses in the northern New South Wales and southern Queensland region would be a suitable precautionary approach, until the impact of trawling both in terms of direct capture as well as the indirect effects of habitat damage can be established.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|South China Sea north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia. Solegnathus hardwickii is known from tropical and subtropical Australia, the South China Sea and Japan (Dawson 1985) as well as from the western Indian Ocean in Mauritius, although doubts have been expressed about whether all specimens represent a single species or a species complex (Kuiter 2000: see below). The type specimen for the species comes from China. In Australia it occurs in Western Australia, the Northern Territory and in Queensland southwards to the NSW-Queensland borders (Paxton et al. 1989). Landings surveys confirm that S. hardwickii has been landed as far south as Ballina (NSW) (Bowles 2001). Russell (1983) reported it as rare in the Capricorn-Bunker section of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. In Western Australian waters it is has been found north of Onslow (21°38'S) (Allen and Swainston 1988).
Museum Records (Australia)
29 specimens (Standard Length 235–440 mm), collected from depths of 20–180 m, ranging in geographical distribution from off Cairns (16°55'S), Qld, southwards to the Tweed River mouth (28°10'S), NSW on the east coast of Australia and on the west coast from north-east of Monte Bello Islands (20°03'S), WA northwards to north-east of Cape Lambert (19°15'S), WA. There are also two records from the Arafura Sea (08°53'S, 135°12'E and 09°42'S, 133°58'E), NT and one record from near Kempsey (31°05'S), New South Wales, but the Kempsey specimen has been destroyed, so the identification cannot be verified. Specimens were collected between 1894 and 1997. Additionally, 40 specimens (381–510 mm total length) are housed at Griffith University, Queensland that were collected in October 2000 in a depth range of 16–89 m between Shoalwater Bay (22°32'S) and Hervey Bay (24°55'S), Qld as part of a scientific trawling survey.
Australian Marine Protected Areas in Which the Species Occurs:
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Qld.
This species possibly occurs in the following MPAs:
Bowling Green Bay Fish Habitat Area A; Repulse Fish Habitat Area B; Mackay-Capricorn Marine Park, Qld; Broad Sound Fish Habitat Area, Qld; Bustard Fish Habitat Area A; Hervey Bay Marine Park, Qld.
See the Supplementary Material for a map of the known range of S. hardwickii.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia); China; Indonesia; Japan; Malaysia; Mauritius; Philippines; Thailand; Viet Nam
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Indian Ocean – western; Indian Ocean – eastern; Pacific – northwest; Pacific – western central
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|A scientific trawling survey carried out in October 1999 between Hervey Bay and Shoalwater Bay in Queensland provides the first density estimates for this species (Connolly et al. 2001). In the abovementioned study, density estimates for Solegnathus hardwickii range from 0 to 128 individuals per km² (mean 3.2 km-2 ± 12.9 sd). Within this study region populations were very patchily distributed and the sex ratio was even (Connolly et al. 2001). No information is available from any other populations in the species' range.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
Solegnathus hardwickii is mostly known from trawled specimens captured from 12 m to 100 m depth (Dawson 1985), though it has been collected in depths of up to 180 m. Fishers in south-eastern Australia report catching S. hardwickii in association with gorgonians, black corals, algae or sponges (Bowles 2001, Bowles and Martin-Smith, unpublished data). Positive correlations with the carbonate fraction of the seabed were found during trawl surveys in 1999 and it has been suggested that S. hardwickii is associated with deep edges of coral reefs (Connolly et al. 2001). Further in situ research is needed to confirm both general habitat use and specific habitat critical for particular life history stages (e.g., nursery areas, spawning grounds, etc.) for Solegnathus hardwickii. Connolly et al. (2001) suggest that habitat structure or other environmental variables may be important to the survival of this species.
Behaviour and Biology:
Solegnatus hardwickii is ovoviviparous and males carry the eggs embedded in spongy tissue under the tail (Paxton et al. 1989). Pear-shaped eggs that may be yellow, orange or amber are embedded in the epithelial tissue, and the surrounding capillaries supply oxygen to the embryos (Lourie et al. 1999). Pregnant males have been found at total length as small as 29.6 cm (Dawson 1985), and the species grows to a recorded maximum total length of 50 cm (Dawson 1985). The number of egg scars (a proxy for egg number) ranged from 19 to 207 with a mean of 117 ± 64 sd for trawled specimens from southern Qld (Connolly et al. 2001). Using modal progression analysis Connolly et al. (2001) calculated a growth rate of 0.25–0.33 mm d-1 for females and 0.29–0.50 mm d-1 for males over the size range 30–45 cm. Limited otolith work estimated age at 3–5 years for these trawled individuals (Connolly et al. 2001). Pipehorses probably rely on camouflage to avoid predators. The diet is unknown, but like other species in the family, it probably feeds on small crustaceans (Teixeira and Musick 1995, Teixeira and Musick 2001, Woods 2002).
Solegnathus hardwickii attains a total length of at least 510 mm (Connolly et al. 2001).
|Major Threat(s):
The main threat to this species is commercial trawling, where S. hardwickii is bycatch in prawn and scallop fisheries. A secondary and related concern is the demand for pipehorses in traditional medicine. Animals taken in trawls as bycatch are sold to Asian markets as medicinal ingredients. It is not known whether availability creates demand, but using fairly conservative estimates of the total retail trade in Hong Kong, Martin-Smith et al. (2003) concluded that that all Australian exports of pipehoses, could be consumed in Hong Kong and still leave a shortfall.
Between February 1998 and May 2000, a combined total of 2,380 kg of dried Solegnathus dunckeri and Solegnathus hardwickii were taken in trawls by commercial fishers in the Queensland East Coast Otter Trawl Fishery. Exports from Australia generally consist of approximately 40% Duncker's Pipehorse and 60% Hardwick's Pipehorse (Connolly et al. 2001); major destinations include Hong Kong (62%), Taiwan (31%) and China (6%) (Martin-Smith and Vincent, in press). These trades could potentially threaten the populations of these two species, particularly if current levels of exploitation continue. Data are not presently available to examine to what degree bycatch of pipehorses may subsidize the prawn fishery, but income generated from the sale of pipehorses is likely to be minimal relative to sales from the valuable primary target.
Research by Martin-Smith and Vincent (in prep) also points to the fact that illegal or un-reported exports may misrepresent true trade volumes, and hence do not accurately reflect potential threats. Comparison between Australian export data and import data for pipehorses into Hong Kong and Taiwan indicates large discrepancies (up to five-fold) (Martin-Smith and Vincent in prep). This suggests that Australian exports may be significantly under-reported, where pipehorses are likely to have been recorded as seahorses through some combination of misidentification, translation and errors in data coding. Support for this view is provided by trade estimates derived from interviews with pipefish processors in Australia: these match well with import figures from Hong Kong and Taiwan (Connolly et al. 2001).
No life history information presently exists for this species, where its inherent biology (reproductive rate, brood size, growth rate, etc.) may confer poor resilience to exploitation. This is thought to be the case for some other species of syngnathids (Foster and Vincent 2004).
|Conservation Actions:
Precis (from Pogonoski et al. 2002):
1. All syngnathids are subject to the export controls of the Commonwealth Wildlife Protection (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1982 from 1 January 1998.
2. All syngnathids and solenostomids are listed as marine species under s248 of the EPBC Act 1999.
3. Australian Society for Fish Biology: Data Deficient.
More information (from Martin Smith et al., 2003):
All Australian pipehorses have been protected in Australian Commonwealth (federal) waters (greater than three nautical miles from the coast) since the beginning of 1998. As most pipehorses are caught in Commonwealth waters they are protected under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 wherein they are 'listed marine species'. It is an offence to take, trade, injure or kill listed marine species except under permits issued by the Minister of the Environment. Such permits for exports of syngnathids are issued subject to a management plan, which must be approved by the executive agency, Environment Australia (within the Department of Environment and Heritage). Legal protection is variable for pipehorses caught in Australian State waters (less than three nautical miles from the coast), ranging from full to no protection. In other range nations such as Indonesia and the Philippines, pipehorses are subject to the provisions of fisheries legislation but receive no specific protection.
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Bensky, D. and Gamble, A. 1993. Herbs that tonify the Yang. In: Chinese Herbal Medicine - Materia Medica. Revised Edition. pp. 354–356. Eastland Press, Inc. Seattle, Washington, USA
Bowles, D.R.J. 2001. The nature of the bycatch fishery of Solegnathus spp. (Pipehorses) in NSW demersal trawl fisheries. Report to NSW Fisheries Scientific Committee.
Connolly, R.M., Cronin, E.R. and Thomas, B.E. 2001. Trawl bycatch of syngnathids in Queensland: catch rates, distribution and population biology of Solegnathus pipehorses (seadragons). School of Environmental and Applied Sciences, Griffith University, Gold Coast.
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Russell, B.C. 1983. Annotated Checklist of the Coral Reef Fishes in the Capricorn-Bunker Group, Great Barrier Reef. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville. 184pp.
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|Morgan, S.K., Pogonoski, J.J., Pollard, D.A. & Paxton, J.R. 2006. Solegnathus hardwickii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2006: e.T20315A9185088. . Downloaded on 18 August 2017.
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Established in 1996, La Porte des Indes, literally translated, means Gateway to India. Housed in a former Edwardian ballroom, the restaurant is a versatile space spanning two floors adorned with antique Indian artifacts and boasting a stunning, white marble staircase, a 40 ft Moghul waterfall, the Jungle Bar, and private rooms. Exotic plants and flowers fill the light and airy interior with their alluring scent and provide a visually stunning display.
The mainstay of the menu are the Gallic-influenced dishes representative of Pondicherry, a former French colony in India dating back to the nineteenth century. Mehernosh Mody (Executive Chef at La Porte) and his wife, Sherin, spent several months in Pondicherry researching the traditional cuisine of the French-Creole communities and persuaded them to part with some of their closely guarded family recipes. These grand dames of Pondicherry gave them a unique set of original recipes; some very French, some Tamil, and some typically Creole. The resulting menu gave birth to a unique culinary experience – a taste of the traditional cuisine of the Indian sub-continent and the specialities of Pondicherry.


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(CBS News) BEIJING - Pollsters and pundits are not the only ones trying to anticipate the outcome of Tuesday's election.
The presidential campaign has also captured the attention of people in countries around the globe.
Young people crowded into a cafe for a very popular event: The last U.S. presidential debate. And the cafe is in Beijing.
Millions of young Chinese like university student Wang Hanyi are engrossed with the American presidential election.
Romney and Obama moving fast as the end nears
On cusp of election, polls still tight
Complete coverage: The Election Battlegrounds
"We'd just like to know what's happening on the other side of the world. We are living in a social media era and it's much easier to get such information," Wang said.
CBS News spoke with Wang and two other self-proclaimed political junkies: Zhan Wu, a student, and Liu Jinyang, a journalist.
Liu called the American election "open, energetic."
That is unlike Chinese politics. Two days after the U.S. picks a president, China picks new rulers by a Communist Party process that's secretive and byzantine. The American process is wide open and accessible - even here in China - on the internet.
Guan Xin, a 29-year-old English teacher, is like an internet political pied piper. From his apartment in northern China he downloads and translates American campaign speeches and debates to feed a growing online community of followers. He got tens-of-millions of hits during the conventions.
"They want to look with their own eyes, listen with their own ears and make their own judgment," Guan said.
They don't like that China comes in for so much criticism, like when Mitt Romney said he'll "label China a currency manipulator on day one," and when President Obama said "we're going to insist that china play by the same rules as everybody else."
Student Zhan Wu said: "The U.S. is always the fastest in the world and they suddenly find, 'Oh China is behind me, and he's catching up and running faster and faster.'"
But they do like that Americans get to challenge and choose their leaders.
"They can openly question and discuss political problems," Liu said.
"People are all watching it. It's like a party for the whole nation," said Wang, adding that "it's gonna take some time," before similar openness happens in China.
But this type of conversation couldn't have happened a generation ago, and that is what these young people call progress.


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text: NEW YORK (AP) ¿ Volt Information Sciences Inc. on Wednesday said it will delay the release of is fiscal third-quarter results and its related regulatory filing while it reviews its revenue accounting from past years. The company, which provides information technology outsourcing services, said it is re-examining its accounting for a total of about $12 million of revenue reported in fiscal 2007 and fiscal 2008. In each of those years, Volt reported revenue of $2.4 billion. "The company is assessing whether certain of these revenues and related costs should have been recorded in later periods," it said in a statement. The timing relates to two technical accounting issues. Volt's third-quarter release and investor conference call were originally scheduled for Thursday. The company said it will also delay filing its required quarterly report on Form 10-Q with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is due Friday. In afternoon trading, Volt shares added 3 cents to $10.25. The stock has changed hands between $4.07 and $12.36 in the past year.


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Andrea Bianco was an Italian sailor and cartographer of the 15th century. His Atlante Nautico of 1436 comprises ten leaves of vellum, measuring 26 × 38 cm., and was in an 18th-century binding. This has now been removed and the pages separated by the holders of the charts, Biblioteca Marciana, Venice Italy. The first leaf or tavola 1 is a diagrammatic description of the Raxon or Toleta of Marteloio, which allows seamen to calculate a return to the desired course having been blown aside by winds. There is also the "Tondo e Quadro" ("circle and square") for drawing out the invalid and true courses, thus enabling the visual return course to be seen and measured. The two main tables are actually one and the same with a smaller table giving a one tenth distance measure of the two larger tables. The three other diagrams are actually no more than the wind colouration examples with a beautifully drawn Wind Rose, but drawn at 90 degrees to the Tondo e Quadro format.In the top left corner is a text which instructs the use and purpose of the Tondo e Quadro and the tables. Quite fascinating though is the addition of a Flag containing the text, "Andreas Biancho de Veneciis me fecit M cccc xxx vj", thus confirming the authorship and date. The next eight leaves contain seven local and one Europe wide Portolan Charts (navigation charts). The ninth leaf contains a circular world map measuring 24 cm in circumference and is the same dimension as the wind rose circles on the preceding 8 charts. Thus Andreas Biancho has used the same size vellum and dimensions to construct the Atlante Nautico. The final leaf illustrates a Ptolemaic world map which appears to be based upon Ptolemy's first projection. with graduation of the latitudes, but by Klima zone not degrees. The map also has two texts which give differing measurements for the world sphere. Andreas Biancho also collaborated with Fra Mauro on the Fra Mauro world map of 1459.
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"Andreas. biancho. de venciis.me fecit. M.cccc.xxx.vj".(1436) a cura di Piero Falchetta, Arsenale Editrice srl, Venezia. ISBN 88-7743-135-0 This book is an Edizione speciale per il Banco San Marco and was a limited edition of 1500 exemplars. The Biblioteca Marciana has made the text and 10 tavola's available at; http://geoweb.venezia.sbn.it as ARCHIweb-Risultati Ricerca::Family 029110.


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The Knock Sensor (KS) system enables the control module to control the ignition timing for the best possible performance while protecting the engine from potentially damaging levels of detonation. The control module uses the KS system to test for abnormal engine noise that may indicate detonation, also known as spark knock.
This KS system uses one or two flat response two-wire sensors. The sensor uses piezo-electric crystal technology that produces an AC voltage signal of varying amplitude and frequency based on the engine vibration or noise level. The amplitude and frequency are dependent upon the level of knock that the KS detects. The control module receives the KS signal through a signal circuit. The KS ground is supplied by the control module through a low reference circuit.
The control module learns a minimum noise level, or background noise, at idle from the KS and uses calibrated values for the rest of the RPM range. The control module uses the minimum noise level to calculate a noise channel. A normal KS signal will ride within the noise channel. As engine speed and load change, the noise channel upper and lower parameters will change to accommodate the normal KS signal, keeping the signal within the channel. In order to determine which cylinders are knocking, the control module only uses KS signal information when each cylinder is near top dead center (TDC) of the firing stroke. If a knock is present, the signal will range outside of the noise channel.
If the control module has determined that a knock is present, it will retard the ignition timing to attempt to eliminate the knock. The control module will always try to work back to a zero compensation level, or no spark retard. An abnormal KS signal will stay outside of the noise channel or will not be present. KS diagnostics are calibrated to detect faults with the KS circuitry inside the control module, the KS wiring, and the KS voltage output. Some diagnostics are also calibrated to detect constant noise from an outside influence such as a loose/damaged component or excessive engine mechanical noise.
Removal & Installation
- Disconnect the negative battery cable.
- Remove the starter.
- Disconnect the Knock Sensor (KS) harness connector.
- Remove the KS retaining bolt.
- Remove the KS.
To install:
- Install the KS. Tighten the KS retaining bolt to 18 ft. lbs. (25 Nm).
- Connect the KS harness connector.
Install the starter:
- Tighten starter bolts to 37 ft. lbs. (50 Nm)-2.0L engine.
- Tighten starter bolts to 30 ft. lbs. (40 Nm)-2.2L engine & 2.4L engines.
- Connect the negative battery cable.
- Inspect the KS for physical damage. A KS that is dropped or damaged may cause a DTC to set.
- Inspect the KS for proper installation. A KS that is loose or over torqued may cause a DTC to set. The KS should be free of thread sealant.
- The KS mounting surface should be free of burrs, casting flash, and foreign material.
With ignition ON, engine OFF:
- Disconnect the KS harness connector.
Measure for 2-3 volts between each of the following circuits and ground on the ECM side of the harness connector:
The KS signal circuit, terminal A
- If less than the specified range, test the circuits for a short to ground or an open/high resistance. If the circuits test normal, you may need to replace the ECM.
- If greater than the specified range, test the circuits for a short to voltage. If the circuits test normal, you may need to replace the ECM.
- If the circuits test normal, replace the KS.


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Good idea or waste of $? Dual woofer line array:
I purchased a few cases of these JBL buyout Vifas at PE a while back and made some line arrays with them: (10 woofers with a single Fountek JP-2.0 @ 2.5k 24db L/R DCX2496)
This was my first speaker project so the cabinets only came out fair. I'm thinking of gutting them and starting over and have been throwing around a few line array ideas. The most recent is a line of 9-12 woofers with a matching line next to it, accompanied by a line of 8-9 Dayton PT2B planars. I have a Behringer DCX2496 (I LOVE this thing) so I have full control over 6 channels. I was thinking, since these are only 4.5" woofers, that maybe a 3-way would work, with one line for bass, the second line for mids, and the last line for highs. Plugging in the T/S into Unibox here's what I get per driver:
0.707 Qtc [1.2L] F3 of 130hz / F10 of 75hz
0.600 Qtc [1.8L] F3 of 132hz / F10 of 69hz
0.500 Qtc [3.2L] F3 of 143hz / F10 of 63hz
0.450 Qtc [4.6L] F3 of 150hz / F10 of 61hz
As you can see, bass is not their strong point. I was considering doing the bass line up to 200-250hz, then letting the next line run from that up to 2.5k-3.0k, with a L-R 24/db slope. I can take care of baffle step within the DCX2496 so no need to worry about it here.
So, since I have a ton of these laying around (almost 60) do you think this design idea has merit? I was looking to get the best sound possible, and I'm thinking taking as much strain off these as I can would benefit them. I really enjoy the way they sound now with a line of 10 running up to 2.5k 24/db L-R, so I have no doubts doing a single line will sound fine, but hey, I have the extra so why not go all out, right? I am also considering letting the one line run full range up to the tweeters, and the lows line of woofers I can run only as bass and EQ them to flatten the bass out.
Lastly, I was wondering if I would experience any lobing or combing effects, even though I'll be crossing them low? The 200-250hz was just thrown out there; I'm flexible on those numbers.
As always, thanks for any and all input!
|3rd October 2005, 05:21 PM
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This is what I would do. Simplify.
Make a line of 8-10 PT2's and run them at 1.7khz - 2.0khz,
LR48dB/octave. The PT2 is more 'magical' in sound at 1.7khz
vs. a higher crossover point and the power handling is insane too
with the steep slope.
This makes the midwoofer choice easy. Any midwoofer
can do up to 1.7khz. So the next question is bass.
You said the bass is weak so I would port the design.
Model the midwoofers ported and see what you like.
I would make a ported box with a hump in bass response,
3-6dB to get some extra umph in the midbass region with
very little strain on the drivers. If there is too much midbass
for you, use the DCX to attenutate it. It's easier to attenuate
the boom that to boost it.
One example, four of those drivers per chamber would be
nice. Maybe 1 cubic foot tuned to 75hz with a 4" rear flared
port. You can easily mate this with a subwoofer. Those are
just rough numbers, play around to see what you like.
How much SPL do you want in the midbass? I can generate
126dB peaks [c-weighting] at listening position with the cheap
NSB array ported by using this method. Mine are +6dB boosted
by box design around 100hz, these particular midwoofers you
have can go lower and should be able to excel in performance if
you do rear ported. I would do a four chamber, four rear port
You don't need two lines of midwoofer using the same drivers,
that isn't an efficient design. Let the port resonance do the work
for you.
Make a four driver test box using cheap wood to confirm.
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