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The preset Picture Modes are Dynamic, Standard and Cinema. Surprisingly, even Dynamic isn't the eyesore it is on most displays. In addition, for each source input there are memories for three User settings, any of which can be directly recalled with a single button push on the remote. There are also three customizable Color Temperature memories that can be recalled within any other memory presets. There is, in short, more than enough flexibility here for any conceivable setup.
Also in the Picture menu, aside from the typical picture settings, are Black Level Adj. (which I left Off), Color Temp, and Gamma Correction. The latter can be set to Off or to Gammas 1-3.
Let's deal with Color Temp first, which has Low, Middle, and High settings as well as Custom 1-3. The Middle setting on my unit was very good, hovering within a couple hundred degrees on either side of 7000K. It was also off in the blue direction, which as I've stated previously is more subjectively benign than either a red, or worse, a green tint. As you'll read in the "Measurements" sidebar, the Pearl tracked an exceptionally tight, accurate grayscale when calibrated, but was capable of an excellent picture out of the box.
After experimenting extensively with the Gamma Correction settings I preferred the Gamma3 curve, which had a better foundation of black and produced, for me, an image with the best subjective contrast, especially on movies. Sony provides virtually no information on these different curves, other than noting in the manual (I kid you not) that compared to Off, Gamma1 makes a scene "a little brighter," Gamma2 makes a scene "brighter," and Gamma3 makes a scene "darker."
Moving to the Advanced Picture Menu there is a range of adjustments under the RCP (Real Color Processing) sub-menu and a Color Space adjustment that allows settings of Normal and Wide. RCP is one of those newfangled features that allow adjustments of each individual primary and secondary color. Like the other features of its kind it does not appear to allow even a user with proper instrumentation to adjust the color points for better accuracy. On top of that, the user manual doesn't explain the individual adjustments within RCP at all, and the graphics displayed while the "Position" and "Range" adjustments are made are not intuitive and downright intimidating. Once an adjustment is made that you don't like, panic can set in, as the graphic makes it impossible for you tell where the default setting is (or was).
Here's a handy tip for here or anywhere else in the menu system: Sony has put in a "no place like home" button that can reset any individual adjustment back to its default position. While I initially thought someone at Sony had gone mad in placing a Reset button on the remote control, it's not the self-destruct button I thought it was. If the menu system isn't displayed, this button does nothing other than flash a "not applicable" error message on-screen. When the menu is on-screen, pressing this button will reset only the individual parameter that's being adjusted. It's very handy for the RCP's graphics, which make it impossible to figure out the default position once changes are made.
Getting back to the RCP, I was never comfortable enough with the Range or Position adjustments to use them. However, the RCP adjustment for each color marked "RCP Color" appears to function rather like a color intensity control and could prove helpful in conjunction with the Color Space setting.
The Color Space's Wide setting can make flesh tones too orange and accentuate the slightly yellow greens I saw from this projector, but the Normal setting simply makes all the colors look drab in comparison. While TJN's measurements of these two Color Space settings (to follow later in a Take 2) might smack me around some, I just have to admit that for good or for ill I preferred the Wide setting with the RCP Color adjustments for Red and Green knocked down some. This seemed like a good compromise to me, so look to those upcoming measurements to see if I'm on crack or not (or am I dating myself, should I say ice?). In any case I left the rest of the colors alone, and suggest that you tread lightly in the RCP menu, if at all, and remember the no place like home button tip from above.
The Screen menu includes one of the most important and easiest to overlook adjustments on the Pearl, which I referenced above as the biggest potential pitfall in the otherwise terrific menus. The Over Scan function is said to "hide the outlines of the picture," which can be desirable on those occasions when dots, lines, or other junk broadcasters didn't intend you to see intrude anyway. I always flip off adjustments like this by habit and did so before using the Pearl. But a former colleague and Pearl owner, Bill Cushman of Widescreen Review, called to chat about the Pearl's performance and he noted that the Over Scan adjustment has a serious impact on the Pearl's resolution. So, I put up a 1080i pixel burst with my Accupel signal generator and looked at the single pixel width, 37.1MHz area of the pattern and switched the Over Scan back on. Wow! The single-pixel lines in the burst nearly disappeared completely. Turning Over Scan back to Off brought back the Pearl's excellent, if slightly attenuated resolution.
In short, with this projector, you're not seeing all the resolution there is with 1080i or 1080p sources if the Over Scan is set to On. I've read at least one competitor's review of the Pearl that criticized it for being severely rolled off at these frequencies and I can't help but wonder if the Over Scan was inadvertently left On during testing. In any case, as you'll read in the "Measurements Sidebar," with Over Scan Off the Pearl does indeed have excellent resolution at 37.1MHz with 1080i luma bursts.
The remote backlights all the buttons, and is generally easy to use. My only gripe is that while many features are accessed directly with a single button push, they aren't always the ones I'd prefer. For example, everyone wants direct access to source inputs, which is not provided. But the remote does have direct access to RCP, which is of limited value most of the time.
While the Pearl was in house, I was working on a number of reviews of next-gen HD discs players, in addition to watching HD DVD from my Toshiba HD-XA1 , and broadcast HD from my DirecTV HD TiVo. Also in during this period were Sony's PlayStation3, Samsung's firmware-correct BD-P1000, and most recently Sony's own BDP-S1 standalone BD player. That's a lotta HD!
Those of you who read the site regularly will notice that this review began life as a Short Take written just several days after the Pearl came in. My first impressions were extremely positive, especially for the silky-smooth and natural images and the exceptional contrast ratio. I'll end any suspense here by saying that my appreciation for this projector has actually grown after spending weeks with it. How you ask? But let me count the ways!
I swear that mentioning CRTs will end some day, but there is good reason for these three letters showing up in so many projector reviews. Those of us who saw or lived with a good CRT front projection setup (as I did for years) simply haven't been able to forget because as good as digital projection has gotten there are things that the mighty CRT did better, and not just blacks and contrast. In many significant ways the Pearl goes farther toward synergizing the things the CRT did well with what digital projection does well than any projector I've seen.


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WASHINGTON, March 24 (JTA) — The ongoing search for missing Holocaust-era assets has yielded key breakthroughs in recent months that could bring billions of dollars in additional compensation to Holocaust survivors around the globe. While the $1.25 billion settlement reached last year with Swiss banks stands as the signal achievement on the long, tortuous path to justice, significant progress has also been made on several other fronts: * A U.S. presidential commission has begun to probe the fate of Holocaust assets in the United States. * Jewish officials are close to finalizing a deal with German companies that could establish a multibillion- dollar fund for Holocaust victims. * A leading Austrian bank is working out an agreement to pay into a humanitarian fund and release important historical records. * French banks have put forth an initiative to return unclaimed accounts. The most recent development is the French initiative, which has the support of French Jews but so far has failed to satisfy international Jewish groups involved in Holocaust restitution issues. French banks announced Wednesday "comprehensive measures" to compensate Holocaust survivors for lost assets. The World Jewish Congress, however, has rejected the banks" proposal not only as grossly insufficient, but as a "betrayal of the memory of the victims of the Holocaust." Elan Steinberg, executive director of the WJC, criticized the plan because it does not call for an independent audit, provides no guarantees that a list of bank accounts would be made public and would create a foundation for heirless assets over which the Jewish community and Holocaust survivors have no control. The plan calls for returning bank accounts seized from Holocaust victims to their rightful heirs and using heirless assets to create a memorial fund. In a statement, the banks acknowledged they "were among the cogs in the terrible machine of confiscation of Jewish assets in France," and "therefore bear the duty of reparation towards the victims of these [anti-Jewish] laws." The banks said $55.5 million in assets was confiscated and frozen by French banks, but that most was returned after the war. They did not specify how much they still held. The banks had been negotiating a secretive agreement with French Jewish leaders to settle Holocaust-era claims, but the deal foundered after the WJC and a French government panel probing Holocaust looting and restitution caught wind of it. The WJC blasted French Jewish leaders, accusing CRIF, the umbrella group of secular French Jewish organizations, of trying to provide an easy way out for the French banks and attempting to negotiate on behalf of non-French victims of the Holocaust. "This is a universal Jewish issue deriving from the fact that the majority of the victims of the Holocaust in France were non-French Jews," Steinberg said. The French government"s Matteoli Commission, for its part, threatened to resign if the deal went through, complaining that its work would be made redundant. But the banks went ahead and announced their compensation plan anyway, albeit without the participation of the French Jewish community. CRIF on Wednesday saluted the French banks for acknowledging their wartime collaboration with the Vichy regime and its responsibility to provide compensation, saying, "Even if this declaration comes late, we must praise it." French Jewish officials, who remain divided themselves over how to handle the issue, agree on at least one thing: They want the WJC kept out of negotiations with the banks. "The WJC is mistaken if it thinks the question of Holocaust compensation in France can be handled the same way it did with Switzerland," Henri Hajdenberg, president of the CRIF, was quoted as saying recently, referring to the pressure tactics and public relations campaign that led to the settlement with Swiss banks last August. The WJC indicated it may well take a page from its Swiss playbook by recommending that a planned merger between French banks be held up until outstanding claims are resolved. That issue is likely to be addressed next month when a monitoring panel of U.S. public finance officers, whose threat last year of a boycott of Swiss banks helped persuade them to reach a settlement, meets to examine the French banks" handling of Holocaust claims. As it stands now, Steinberg said the WJC is prepared to tell the panel that the French banks are "non-cooperative, are seeking to circumvent the representatives of the Holocaust survivors and frankly, have demonstrated a callous attitude to the victims." In Germany, meanwhile, the government is coordinating a fund established by banks and industrial companies to compensate slave laborers, those who were forced to sell property in Germany at bargain prices during the Nazi era and other Jews who lost assets during the Holocaust. More than a dozen companies have pledged some $2 billion, and Jewish representatives, led by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, are working with German officials to set parameters for the fund and a plan for distribution. Although the two sides have so far only agreed to a basic framework, Jewish officials said that if the process remains on track, payments to Holocaust survivors could begin by Sept. 1. One outstanding issue, though, is whether class-action lawsuits filed in the United States against the companies would be folded into the process, and whether attorneys would be able to collect fees. That latter issue continues to be a source of contention between Jewish groups and lawyers representing Holocaust survivors. The WJC flatly opposes the idea of lawyers collecting fees, saying that no one should be profiting from the Holocaust. Although many of the lawyers involved in the restitution battles initially offered their services pro bono, most said the strain on their law firms proved too much, and for that reason, are now seeking fees for their work. U.S. Holocaust survivors, for their part, last week passed a resolution protesting the fees and accusing the lawyers of tarnishing the memory of the Holocaust. Roman Kent, chairman of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors, said the awarding of legal fees "is simply incomprehensible since it comes from the very assets stolen from us." He added that "for lawyers to become multimillionaires by doing this, it is just not moral, not ethical." The gathering is considering urging its 125,000 members to mail postcards expressing their concerns to all judges who are handling the Holocaust suits. In Austria, Jewish representatives are in the process of working out an agreement with Bank Austria to release Holocaust-era documents, establish a process for resolving claims against the bank and create a humanitarian fund that some sources said could amount to $40 million. Holocaust survivors have sued Bank Austria and its subsidiary Creditanstalt. They have also sued several German banks and industrial companies, accusing them all of profiting from the Holocaust and aiding the Nazi war effort by buying and selling Jewish assets at steep discounts. Unlike the "global settlement" reached last year with Swiss banks and the framework agreed to in Germany, the talks in Austria only involve Bank Austria and would not release other institutions or the Austrian government from additional claims, Jewish organizational officials said. The documents Jewish officials are seeking from the bank are expected to shed further light on economic crimes committed by other Austrian and German institutions. In Britain, the government this week started issuing claims forms to Holocaust survivors or their heirs whose assets were seized — and never returned — by the British Custodian of Enemy Property at the beginning of World War II. The government is also launching a worldwide publicity campaign to alert survivors and heirs to the possibility of reclaiming their assets, which had been deposited in Britain, ostensibly for safekeeping, just before the outbreak of the war. The government added 5,000 names to the 25,000 it listed on the Internet (www.enemyproperty.gov.uk) last year of people whose prewar assets in Britain were never recovered. In December, Britain announced it was establishing a $25 million fund to offer immediate, interim assistance to survivors who had previously been unable to reclaim their prewar assets. Meanwhile, Lord Janner of Braunstone, chairman of the Holocaust Educational Trust, which has spearheaded the campaign for restitution, has persuaded New York attorney Edward Fagan to delay legal action against British financial institutions. In his appeal to Fagan, Janner said his organization was negotiating directly with the British government and British financial institutions to resolve outstanding issues without going to court. And the United States, after years of criticizing European countries for their handling of Holocaust-era assets, has launched its own search into the fate of Holocaust assets that made their way to American shores. A 20-member presidential commission, chaired by WJC President Edgar Bronfman, has approved a research plan to search for gold, art, cultural property and other assets that were turned over to state governments following World War II. The commission, which convened for the first time last week, intends to seek cooperation from state agencies in locating what could be millions of dollars, Jewish officials said. The task will involve sifting through some 40 million documents in the U.S. National Archives, many of which have not yet been declassified. "Our mission is to achieve the truth — to find out how, and when, the gold, artwork, bank accounts and other assets of the Holocaust victims came into the possession or control of the United States government and to review what others have learned about assets that came into the possession of non-federal entities,"" Bronfman said last week. Meanwhile, some 60,000 needy Holocaust survivors in the United States have begun receiving about $500 each from a humanitarian fund set up by Switzerland, bringing the worldwide number of beneficiaries of the Swiss fund to 110,000. The nearly $200 million fund, set up by Swiss banks and other companies in 1997, is separate from the $1.25 billion settlement that leading Swiss banks reached last year to end Holocaust-era claims against them. A distribution plan for that settlement will not be finalized until later this year, and a federal judge will decide whether attorneys fees should be awarded to lawyers involved in the Swiss settlement. (JTA correspondent Douglas Davis in London contributed to this report.)
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Pawan Kalyan has met CM Chandrababu today at his camp office in Vijayawada and YSRCP leader Ambati Rambabu slammed Pawan Kalyan in the press meet. Ambati stated that Pawan Kalyan spoke like Government representative rather then questioning on issues and expressed that this meet is a drama by Chandrababu to curb the after effects of Harirama Jogaiah revelations in his autobiography. Listen to Ambati . . . .


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This is one of those albums that has to be listened to all at once. I've listened to it a few hundred times, and I still don't know the individual trackings - there are a total of 22 tracks, which vary in length from 7 minutes to about 30 seconds. Everything here has its place, from the little piano pieces, to the spoken word parts, to the long guitar segments.
Highlights - well, if I really gotta break it down into individual songs. "Agony and Shame" has a really cool middle part, with a melodic break that has the same general tune as "Sword of the Gods" from Invictus. It's kinda cool, I mean if you're going to recycle riffs, you may as well be completely and totally overt about it. It gives a sense of continuity, as that basic melody has appeared on about 4 Virgin Steele albums.
Also, "Great Sword of Flame" is nice speed metal. "Gate of Kings" and "Child of Desolation" are awesome ballads, some of the best ever written. David DeFeis definitely figured out how to write ballads since around Noble Savage. "Through the Ring of Fire" has some really cool layered vocals. Etc etc, there are highlights everywhere, but this album isn't about the individual pieces, it's about everything coming together for 71 minutes of musical perfection.


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Premier founding partner Bell has been on-site at Vancouver Whitecaps FC matches at Empire Field. Fans have the opportunity to participate in Bell activities at the Bell Box, while also entering the 'Score the First Goal' contest, where one lucky fan will have the opportunity to score the first goal in the opponent's net on Bell Pitch downtown at BC Place on Sunday, October 2.
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First Nations Communities at Risk And in Crisis: Justice and Security
This paper argues that colonialism is far too often overlooked or dismissed in designing security and justice remedies in First Nation communities. Yet, as a process of domination, colonialism has proven destructive to the peoples of the world who have suffered colonization. For First Nations peoples in Canada, the colonial regime has applied pressure against their cultures, practices and traditions. In naming colonialism as a major and central source of harms, models for the future must address systemic structures of colonialism. A decolonizing approach is highly challenging both for the individuals who take these steps and for the communities who undertake collective transformations. Healing means setting out on un-walked paths to decolonization. The paper's framework starts with examining the current stressors for First Nation communities at risk or in crisis. Reviewing the currently published findings on justice and security related stressors, this research paper looks closely at: on-research health, education, poverty reduction and social assistance, child welfare, youth gang issues, policing services, crime rates, and safety of health workers. The research finds that Aboriginal traditions and approaches to health, healing, knowing, and doing can exist within other institutions and frameworks, to help alleviate community stressors. The authors of this study outline five decolonizing recommendations for ways to move forward in building models for the future; then, provides practical advice on how to build preventive and proactive community plans, support community capacity and infrastructure, build relationships, and model positive development.
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a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Mar 21, 2014 at 5:51 pm
How about using it for private shuttles.
What about a high speed bus service once an hour for SFO and SJC, it would be much easier dropping someone off here rather than driving them to the airport, or picking them up from here.
What about some high speed luxury buses for other smaller companies up and down the Peninsula.
What about some innovation in public transport.
a resident of Mountain View
on Mar 21, 2014 at 8:03 pm
The problem with using the Palo Alto transit site for private shuttles is that there are few places for the shuttles to go. Facebook moved to Menlo Park, Google & Intuit are in Mountain View. As it stands now, the Palo Alto transit site probably has enough capacity for existing private shuttle needs.
The vast majority of Palo Alto's high tech startups are downtown, within walking distance and more quickly accessible by foot than by vehicular shuttle.
Also, the Palo Alto transit hub has no quick access to US-101, a key requirement for quickly reaching SFO or SJC, San Francisco or San Jose.
Mountain View is different as buses can get off US-101 at Shoreline and navigate to the downtown transit hub rather quickly, or head to the North Bayshore area (Googleplex, Intuit, etc.). That's why the private Google coaches from SF work.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Mar 21, 2014 at 11:11 pm
Smart move. Cutting out the "Palo Alto Way" from the management and development of this transit will shave years off any project.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Mar 22, 2014 at 7:17 am
I predict "Measure D, Part II" will quickly surface if the PA CC, ARB or Planning comes remotely close to giving any height waivers for 27 University Ave.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Mar 22, 2014 at 10:45 am
If PA eventually gets boxed out of the lease for the depot does that mean that our ABAG requirements are mute?
a resident of Menlo Park
on Mar 22, 2014 at 6:08 pm
That's "moot." Mute is what ABAG should be.
a resident of Downtown North
on Mar 22, 2014 at 9:36 pm
This site really needs to be zoned for some housing, particularly affordable housing. Our comprehensive plan calls out the transportation centers as the place for higher density developments and affordable housing needs resources, like Caltrain. Currently we have very little housing in our housing element in downtown. Let's meet our ABAG requirements and zone this area for some affordable housing
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Mar 22, 2014 at 9:59 pm
From what I am reading the train station is not going anywhere - they are just arranging a better way of financing it.
Also - I see a lot of housing in the north PA section around the train station. I tried to park there one time for Caltrain ride to the city and got a real appreciation for the number of apartments that are directly in that area. Also the lack of parking on the street for all of the apartments. When people say there is no housing I do not understand why they say that. The place is wall to wall apartments in that area.
a resident of Fairmeadow
on Mar 23, 2014 at 4:08 pm
The issue of security needs to be brought into this discussion. For the most part, the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office is supposed to have jurisdiction on the Caltrain property, but the local police departments seem to respond to 911 calls. If the City is not being charging Caltrain, then it would seem that the PA taxpayers will get stuck with the cost of policing, or at least providing emergency response services, to this site without any direct compensation.
While the number of 911 calls generally are not very great at this site, they do happen, from time-to-time. There needs to be someway for Palo Alto to charge either Stanford, or Caltrain, for police activities if the City were to be removed from having any financial interests in the site.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Mar 23, 2014 at 4:47 pm
"This site really needs to be zoned for some housing, particularly affordable housing."
Maybe stupid question, but is there tax revenue from affordable housing?
How does that work out for the city? Do people buy or rent affordable housing in Palo Alto, and once a unit is built, it's a gift to that resident? understand there is a feel good effect about housing a few people for a price which could help erradicate hunger in a few underdeveloped countries, but anything else?
Instead, I would think it would be preferable to have a golden goose of sorts, like in Monopoly with Park Place. Have really expensive housing turnover on premium real estate (across the Stanford Shopping Center). That would provide revenue for schools and so forth. This could then maybe actually provide money to support the affordable housing which currently nobody can afford anyway.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Mar 23, 2014 at 4:51 pm
Actually, if Stanford owns the site, maybe there is no revenue from it anyway?
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Mar 25, 2014 at 8:44 pm
All housing on Stanford property is reserved for either students or employees of Stanford. Stanford is doing a great job on adding housing - all new on Stanford Avenue and Sand Hill Road. They are doing well on their ABAG requirements.
Given what I have seen in North PA along the transit route (Caltrain) there is no available space. You cannot take down the existing apartment houses in that area. Driving around that area I see "for rent" and "for lease" signs. "We Need Housing" needs to go down to the El Camino / Park quadrant which has many older apartment houses with "for rent signs". PA is not going to tear down buildings they do not own when there is available space within the city.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Mar 26, 2014 at 2:22 pm
What I have found out is the rules for renters vs owners have been changed. In the case of low cost housing if you have an older couple sign up as the renter - they get sick, and children come in to help - if the children are there for a specific period then they become the official renters though their name is not on the original lease. A family could hand down the apartment through attrition of family members.
I think this is what would have happened in the Maybell property for older people.
This happened to my cousin who has some rental properties.
So the next one that is built - low income, older people, there needs to be a clause in the contract that precludes family members assuming ownership of the apartment from the original family tenents.
I have not said this well as I am unclear on the specifics - I just know that my cousin was stuck in a bad situation with bad children occupying a property - a lot of legal action involved.
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The Marketing Ideas For Halloween Sweepstakes was held in 2013.
It was fun to see all the different marketing efforts in the Facebook event and to read the comments of what others are doing in the article on how to market your business on Halloween.
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This can be modified for any DS company. "A Treat for Mummy" with your contact info on the note.
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What I am doing for my Simply Said business is attaching a sample decal with a note saying "go to my website www.mysimplysaiddesigns.com/suegrom to view the easy YouTube application videos!"
This was actually my favorite as well! Great idea, Sue!
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|Dark Protein Synthesis: Physiological Response to Nutrient Limitation of a Natural Phytoplankton Population
|Taguchi, Satoru
Laws, Edward A.
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|Jan 2001
|University of Hawai'i Press
|Taguchi S, Laws EA. 2001. Dark protein synthesis: physiological response to nutrient limitation of a natural phytoplankton population. Pac Sci 55(1): 1-15.
|Dark 14CO2 incorporation into protein was determined from 24-hr
incubations using size-fractionated natural phytoplankton populations from
Kane'ohe Bay, Hawai'i, enriched with either ammonium or ammonium plus
phosphorus. Response to ammonium addition was maximum at an ammonium
concentration of 3-4 μM. Dark 14C02 assimilation was suppressed by addition
of both ammonium and phosphorus, but percentage incorporation into protein
was not significantly different from addition of ammonium alone. About
75 ± 1% of the 14C taken up by the cells was incorporated into either protein or
low-molecular-weight intermediate compounds. Cells smaller than 10 μm
showed little response to nutrient additions. However, cells in the 10- to 35-μm
size fraction incorporated significantly more 14C into protein when nutrients
were added. C:N ratios calculated from the percentage of 14C incorporated into
protein were most variable temporally in the 10- to 35-μm size group and least
variable in the picoplankton (0.2-2.0 μm). Nutrient limitation indices (NUs)
calculated from the quotient of C:N ratios in control and nutrient-enriched
cultures were not significantly different for the picoplankton and 2- to 10-μm
size fraction. The NLI for the 10- to 35-μm size fraction was significantly lower
and implied a modest degree of nutrient limitation. The results suggest that cells
smaller than 10 μm are growing at close to nutrient-saturated rates much of the
time in Kane'ohe Bay. However, larger cells appear to experience a significant
degree of nutrient limitation at some times, particularly when chlorophyll a
concentrations are less than about 1 mg m-3
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Looking for the positives
Liverpool's most revered manager Bill Shankly once said: "If you are second you are nothing." He may find those sentiments echoed around Old Trafford now, but there are reasons to disagree. The current Liverpool team provide plenty.
Second may equate to second best for some, but by winning nine and drawing one of their last 10 games Liverpool threatened something special, delivered some magical performances and achieved some marvellous results. Whereas they once frustrated in the costly stalemates at Anfield, they have captivated and enchanted in their magnificent, desperate pursuit of Manchester United.
That they extended their participation in the title race into May is one measure of a marked improvement. Defeating the champions at home and away is another, while a series of scintillating demolition jobs provide a third.
Savouring their reinvention as adventurous attackers and liberated by life in the last-chance saloon, they discovered time was called a day before they kicked off at The Hawthorns. Nonetheless, they maintained their winning habit, courtesy of Steven Gerrard and Dirk Kuyt and, in the process, sealed the inevitable for West Brom: relegation.
Albion's wonderful support turned what could have been a wake into an end-of-season carnival.
Rafa Benitez found himself with plenty to enjoy in his analysis of the campaign. He said: "I think it has been very positive in terms of the performances of the team, especially at the end; 83 points is massive. Without playing Torres and Gerrard together for a long time, it has to be very positive."
The phrase "what if?" can be invoked. What if Gerrard and Fernando Torres had started 37 games together, rather than 13? While football is full of hypotheticals, such is their impact that it is a legitimate question. Gerrard's strike took their combined haul to 17 from the minority of matches when they have been paired.
It came in a moment that was sadly typical for Albion. Shelton Martis was robbed by Gerrard, both thinking and moving quicker than the Albion defender. The diving Dean Kiely was then defeated by the lowest of chips from the Liverpool captain, rolling into the net. "It epitomises us this year," said Tony Mowbray. Never overflowing with joie de vivre, he looked particularly downcast after the latest error. "But Shelton Martis cost £50,000. He didn't cost £15m."
After Kiely tipped a Torres header on to the bar, a high-class second goal secured victory. Gerrard bisected the Albion midfield with an angled pass to find Kuyt, who followed a winding solo run with a drilled finish.
Together with a fine defensive header to prevent Juan Carlos Menseguez from scoring, it was a reminder of the Dutchman's importance at both ends of the pitch. Once maligned, his reputation has been enhanced this season. Yet the sight of Ryan Babel and David Ngog arriving as replacements hinted at Liverpool's shortcomings as Benitez tacitly admitted when asked where Manchester United won the title.
He added: "They have quality, especially on the bench. Against Arsenal, they had [Paul] Scholes, [Ryan] Giggs and [Dimitar] Berbatov on the bench. These are the players that make a difference. We have less of these players." As the Spaniard accepted, such footballers can be expensive. While Liverpool can no longer be deemed a two-man team, they are not, in the way United are, a 25-man squad.
In terms of proven Premier League footballers, Albion certainly aren't. A frantic pursuit of a consolation goal was, like their season, ultimately unsuccessful. Luke Moore hit the post and Marc-Antoine Fortune had a goal chalked off but their attacks were ultimately memorable for an altercation between Jamie Carragher and Alvaro Arbeloa, the team-mates pushing each other.
"I don't like it but I am trying to find the positive side," added Benitez. "Arbeloa was going forward and then we had some problems in defence. Now I think we have 20 clean sheets and [Edwin] van der Sar has 21 so we want another one." The statistics, ever an issue for Benitez, reinforce his view that progress has been made. The same could not be said for their hosts, though the crowd afforded a generous reception to their band of skilful passers and error-prone defenders. There are regrets and recriminations elsewhere, but Albion were applauded off and afforded a lap of honour by supporters singing Mowbray's name. The Boing Boing Baggies have bounced back into the Championship - their third relegation in seven seasons - to cement their status as the foremost yo-yo club in the top two divisions.
Shankly's definition of 20th best would have been entertaining, if perhaps unfair on Albion. Second, in the manner of their challenge and given the quality of side assembled, amounts to Liverpool's best effort in the league for almost two decades. "Nothing," to quote Shankly, has rarely had this kind of futile glory.
• MAN OF THE MATCH: Jamie Carragher - His fractured relationship with Arbeloa was eye-catching, but his entire afternoon said more about Carragher. His is a brand of defiant defending, even when the majority of his colleagues seemed far more intent on scoring a third goal rather than keeping a clean sheet.
• WEST BROM VERDICT: Mowbray believes that, unlike most relegated clubs, West Brom do not need to sell. Changes, however, are likely. Albion have not abandoned hope of signing Fortune, who has managed five goals in his brief loan spell. If the only bids from Premier League clubs are likely to be for midfielders such as Chris Brunt, James Morrison and Greening, Mowbray could benefit from finally recruiting more dependable defenders. Striker Roman Bednar, suspended amid allegations of drug taking, has an uncertain future.
L• IVERPOOL VERDICT: While Xabi Alonso faces a second summer of speculation, the case for keeping the Spaniard has grown over the course of the season. More quality is required, but sacrificing one of their outstanding performers would be a strange way to secure it.
• MOWBRAY'S WAY: Most managers never miss an opportunity to claim they should have had a penalty. Not Mowbray; invited to suggest Albion had a good claim, he replied: "Probably not, because I can't remember it."
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CLEARWATER — Two of the city government's top projects — a beach parking garage and a downtown marina — may be undergoing some changes.
City leaders very much want to put a public parking garage on south Clearwater Beach. But they'll soon have to figure out whether they can really strike a deal for their preferred location along BeachWalk, or if they will have to go to a backup plan.
As for the 126 boat slips that Clearwater will soon build on its downtown waterfront, the City Council will consider reducing the rental fees for those slips in order to generate more interest from boaters.
Council members took up both issues at a work session Monday. They'll discuss the beach garage again at their meeting Thursday night. In two weeks, they'll revisit the subject of dock rental rates — for the downtown slips and the beach marina as well.
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Looking for a spot for a garage, the city has been negotiating with the owners of a Gulfview Boulevard property just south of the Hyatt Aqualea condo-hotel.
Surf Style Retail Management proposes building a six-floor, 500-space garage there. The city can't buy all 500 spaces immediately because of a noncompetition agreement with the Hyatt next door, whose parking garage will have 400 public spaces.
The plan was for the city to buy 300 spaces in the Surf Style garage's bottom four floors for nearly $13 million, then buy the remaining 200 spaces for $5 million in 2014.
But because of two new appraisals of the property and the way the financial numbers are shaking out, that deal would have to be restructured.
If the city and Surf Style can't reach an agreement, Clearwater would start negotiations with the owners of an acre a couple of blocks from the beach on Fifth Street between Hamden and Coronado drives.
"If they're not the ones, then we need to move on to the next one," council member John Doran said of Surf Style. "I think we need to move forward. The public wants a parking garage at the beach."
Downtown boat slips
As of Monday, 10 boaters had put down $500 deposits to rent one of the 126 boat slips to be built near Coachman Park.
The slips will range from 30 to 55 feet long, and rents are slated to be $15.50 per foot per month. To drum up more business, council member Paul Gibson suggested knocking those rates down to about $9 a foot, similar to what the city is charging boaters at the beach marina.
"It's better economically to have the marina full," Gibson said. "A downtown marina with lots of boats is better for downtown development than an empty marina."
A few weeks ago, Gibson had unsuccessfully argued to cancel or delay the $12.8 million project. But other council members decided to forge ahead because they see it as an important step in rejuvenating downtown, and think boaters will be more likely to put down money once they see construction on the floating docks start this spring.
If the city hadn't already spent money to start work on the boat slips, Mayor Frank Hibbard may have been willing to wait a couple of years.
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Mixed Song using Ardour 2.7
Here's a song from my band that I mixed/mastered in Ardour 2.7. Guitars prob. need some more work, but I got my bass drum sounding pretty sweet (sounds like it was triggered).
Please leave comments and suggestions!!
I love the song dude...I usually don't comment often, but I thought you guys sound excellent. My only suggestion is that in some parts the bass sounds weak but that can be easily fixed with more mixing, but all in all I love it. I hope that will help you!!!
Thanks!! Got any suggestions as far as EQ? I have 'enveloped' the bass track so it seems even by itself (mostly), but I think it gets lost in some of the high-end guitar parts (bass is high notes too so kinda hard to pull that out more).
What kind of effects do you use on the bass? Maybe be using a little bit of effects on the bass on certain parts if you can isolate parts with effects use...I hope this isn't vague? I am new to ardour but I have done live mixing on boards.
I really just used a bit of EQ in the mid range and the SC4 mono compressor.
Changing subjects: Do you have any good tips for recording guitar. This topic seems to be subjective on the web. I've read there's like 3 different methods:
1. Mic right up against the speaker cabinet screen
2. Mic about a foot away (to get room ambiance)
3. Mic about 6" away, with a bedsheet covering the amp/mic setup.
My basement is essentially concrete walls with carpet on the floor. It's dead! I don't have a Sure m57 like the pros suggest, just a Samsun (I think that's the brand) mic w/ the typical silver screen ball on a black mount. The track I posted in this thread was using the "about a foot away" method. But is sounds a little flat to me. Given the info about my basement, should I have put the mic right up against the speaker?
I've recently started miking guitar cabs front and back with two SM-57s, inverting the polarity on the rear one, and am loving the results. The front mic captures the definition, and the rear mic gets extra low-end that the front mic misses. It gives you two tracks you can use to "dial-in" the tone you're looking for. There's still plenty of room for experimentation with mic placement though.
I know this guitar sound is typical of the genre, but I really don't like it. It has totally no depth, wich is essential in metal. What kind of amps do you use ? maybe that's the problem (and then, it cannot be solved easily). The common error is to have a typical 'V' eq on the amp. The low end get lost in the bass drum, which result in high end noisy sound (the bee sound that can be heard on all early 80's black and thrash production - remember the two first bathory, endless pain by kreator and other kick ass stuff like these with the low-fi production ?). If you have a high gain amp at hand (recitfier, 5150, engl, krank, whatever) don't put to much gain. Last time I recorded guitars with my death metal band on an engl fireball, gain was at 4-5, and it was nearly too much. the eq was the following : not too much bass (around 4-5 I guess), little mid (around 3), more high (around 6). Extreme eqs make the guitars sound less within the mix.
Try different eq, but remember that what you hear is not what will be heard after the mix. Sometimes you think that guitars are less punchy at the recording, but after the mix they are really powerfull and aggressive. Sometimes it's the opposite : you think the guitars are a killing machine, but after the mix they are drown in the other instruments and the final result is totally flat.
btw, you want something aggressive, right ? So put the mic right against the cab, that the way it sound the most brutal. the farther, the smoother.
otherwise that sounded great! It's cool to have metal done with ardour. the song is great and well done (lot of cool melodies, great vox), I like it :)
keep it evil !
Great Comment!! I too think the guitars are a bit flat which is why I posed the question about mic placement. To answer your questions directly, one guitar is played through a Johnson amp/Cabinet, the other through a Laney Head (old English tube) w/ Krank cabinet. I was thinking about buying a Shure SM57 mic before I get too carried away with recording, but don't want to spend the money if there's no real reason other than popularity. The other option was to isolate the amps more and put the mic right up against the cabinet (which you suggested will add more brutal-ness to it (and who doesn't want that?)). I'm the drummer, so I know what I want.. ya know? Its hard for me to "hear" the other instruments in the same way a pair of well-tuned ears hear them.
I recorded the guitars peaking at or around -10 to -11 decibels. Should I have gone closer to -5, -6? And lastly, should I have normalized the tracks once they're layed out in Ardour? On this recording, I mostly relied on enveloping, tube warmth, and satan maximizer to create volume/loudness; there's very little EQ cause I didn't want to stray too far away from their "natural" sound.
Really Good, You guys are tight! Ever tried a Line6 Pod for guitars? Sometimes when I can't get the mic'd sound I want I use a Pod, they don't cost a whole lot more than a couple of SM57's. Just a thought. I'm not much of a metal guitar expert, just a thought.
I'm in another band that uses a line6 pod... I like it for the sake of ease. But I'm no professional studio, so if it ain't drum equipment, I ain't buying it!!! I think the guitarists should be responsible for that stuff (hahahah)! At the same time, some online articles seem to imply that you can't capture the true sound/crunch without mic'ing. So, I guess that whole subject is subjective! Thanks for the props! As far as "tight," live performances are a different story!
UPDATE: I found a dude on eBay selling 15 Shure SM57 mics (NIB) for $49 ea. w/ free shipping. So, I bought one! There's another ebay dealer selling a mic stand, a 15' XLR cable, and the SM57 mic for $112, which seems like a good deal too (for any interested buyers out there).
I took your advice, cbreeze34, and bought a Shure SM57 off of ebay (NIB). It is likely we will be re-recording all of our songs now since I have new mics (and the more recently purchased M-Audio Bx5a Deluxe Monitors).
What sort of audio interface are you using? If it has a Hi-Z input (or if you have a DI laying around), try recording the guitars directly and messing about with Guitar Rig 3 (free demo downloadable at native instruments, works flawlessly with fst/jack). What I usually do is set up my recording like so (for hard-rock guitar sounds, should work for metal as well):
1. Guitar in an amp with SM57 pointed directly at the cone of the speaker, about 5cm (two inches) away. I just dial my live sound in this.
2. Split the guitar signal before the amp, plug it directly in my Motu's Hi-Z input and dial in a different, but similarly hard/distorted sound (usually a Marshall JCM-800 based sound with extra distortion :) ) in Guitar Rig 3.
3. Record the live signal, the GR3 signal and the dry signal in Ardour (gives me 3 tracks)
4. Pan the live sound 80% to the left, the GR3 sound 80% to the right. If I'm not happy with the live sound, I take the dry signal and set up a second GR3 sound to replace it.
This is pretty easy to set up, and gives me the most flexibility afterwards. In a lot of situations, I just don't bother with the amp anymore, you loose some feel when playing, but the resulting sound is just as good and it's easier to record and make it sound right :).
I'll post a song as soon as I have recorded the vocals and replaced the hydrogen drums with some real drums :).
I don't have any direct input devices for guitars..... I just mic the amp and have it pass through my Maya1010 breakout box (Delta1010 spin off). I was experimenting with two mics (front of cab/back of cab) but I didn't hear/feel the real advantage of doing this since the "back" mic just picked up a bunch of bloated bass that sounded horrible by itself. I also have two guitarists; I pan each guitar 30% L and R, respectively. I'm going to post a new version of the song here in the next couple of days. Stay Tuned!!
I thought hippies did big djembe circles. :)
A couple quick observations:
*snare drum; the "boing" sounds like a metal shell, yes? as a rule, I don't use tape on drums with the exception of the snare where I use it to control that boing note that's in your snare. A 4" x 2" strip of gaff tape with a couple squares of toilet paper rolled under it, taped to the drum rim, partially onto the head and directly under its microphone will dampen that invasive note/sound.
*high hat; I like the loud hats but too much of the low frequencies are EQd out. They're on the verge of whistling. High Pass cymbals just enough to lose %80ish of drums then stop. That will get rid of enough bleed and still sound natural.
Panning the kit; kick noon, snare 1:00, hat 1:30/2:00, rackR 3:00, rackL 9:00, floor 8:00, overR/L hard left and right. We fill the stereo field from hard L to hard R with drums. Look at the kit and see that what I suggest will pretty much line up with the layout of a typical right handed drummer.
With the snare at 1:00 and the hat at 2:00 there's a guitar whole at 11:00. Especially appropriate if 11:00 is where the guitarist stands on stage.
Guitar Production
On the black metal album I'm producing now, I spent a full day running around town listening to guitar amps with an obsessed guitar fiend. We listened to many amps and none of them impressed me until the jcm 800. What a kick ass amp.
I did the typical front/back dual mic configuration. The jcm 800 was noisey as hell in the studio. We couldn't figure it out until half the service panel in the building lost power. The wire coming into the building broke neutral which explains the noise and then it broke one of two positives. I kept some guitar tracks with the noise and did A/B comparisons to the new tracks with proper ground. Nite and day. Even if you can't hear the noise during full on playing it's compromising the tone to an incredible degree. Suck!
Despite songs with up to 13 tempo and signature changes, we were lucky to have someone that took the time to program the tempo maps. Because of the maps, we could mult both guitarists to produce eight tracks without softening the guitar mix-think of a photographic picture thats out of focus, aka soft. Suck!
I'm mixing now and it seems that panning guitarist #1 and his four tracks hard left with #2 hard right is the biggest and most distinct sound. The only time it's uncomfortable is when one of the guitarists suspends to mute. Several solutions come to mind, I'll probably send the guitars into a stereo reverb to give each a more natural in the room presence. If I don't like that, I'll auto pan one of the two mults from it's hard left or right position to 12:00 and then return back when the other guitar comes back in.
Anyway, I think you've done a fine job and maybe I've shared a couple tangible strategies that you can experiment with.
That was an excellent contribution to this thread. Now, to answer your questions (Hehehehe).
Yes, it is a metal shell 14" snare (old school). I actually placed two moon gels on it to add a bit of muffle, so I'm surprised you picked out a lot of "boing." I may have added too much reverb or gate? I'll try the toilet paper approach and compare sounds.
Hi Hats... yeah, I have a habit of taking out just about everything less than 500Hz. My guitar player said I made them too tinny too so I'll work on that when I get the new guitar tracks imported.
Drum panning: That setup is actually in the mix (but opposite). My Bass is center, Snare @ 11. Hats @ 9, Toms @ 10, 2, and 4 (respectively), and Condesers @ 30% L/R. You must have a left handed drummer!!! Sound-On-Sound articles gave me that insight some time ago. I'm not sure if you didn't hear it in the mix.... or just posted that as an FYI. Either way, great stuff for anyone reading this thread.
On guitars: You may have given me a revelation!! I have one guitar amp that's quiet and another that's noisy as hell. I wonder if it's the power strip my other guitar player is using? Cause my basement outlets are direct wired to a new fuse in the fuse panel (really short runs and like 10gauge wire). As for the panning... I tried 100% R & L, respectively, but I just have a problem with panning all the way when one guitar kicks out or when stereo playback is lost (like.. if you lose a speaker, you don't lose a guitar!). Sound-On-Sound articles seem to imply 30-30 is a good "safe" method so I went that route.
Thank you for the kind words and strategies.... look forward to hearing the mix your working on (cause Death metal RULZ!!). Now, back to my hacky-sack "Circle!".
BTW... Know how to "Reverse Polarity" on a waveform in Ardour?
UPDATE: Nvrmnd.. found it in the Mixer (click on track name).
Without listening again, the first several notes of your snare tell the story. I didn't mention it previously but either the reverb room wasn't exactly right or the tail was long and those notes are louder than any others in the song. I don't know what moon gels are but imagine they lay on top of the drum head. they won't do anything for the boing that originates in the metal rim. I should snap a picture of the dampener.
Designing Reverb for Drum Kits
Why the gated reverb? We're attempting to cut the snare sustain/length before the kick drum plays. If the snare doesn't play over the kick, it can't compete for space. Follow me? Think of it as tightening the mix. You can imagine how many opportunities to tighten exist in a song with 32 tracks.
The pan concept you learned from SOS is wrong. We don't pan for drummers and their less important counterparts; singers, guitarists and flutists. Our perspective is that of the listener. Where does the listener hear the snare? At 1:00, not 11:00. Maybe your drummer is left handed. :) I learned this many years before SOS existed. Your hat sounded like it was dead on at noon which is why I described panning--I have no explanation for that. The kick and bass sounded on at noon.
Drums are the foundation we build upon. The stereo field is what describes our spacial opportunities or limits. Panning the over heads hard Left and Right uses the full potential of the stereo field. I like to have all the space I can get when designing mixes.
I'm not sure if it's OK with my client to post their music. It might be acceptable to post partial examples like a segment of drums. And thats an interesting study because our philosophies have 180 degrees of difference.
I've enjoyed listening to your song and discussing production. When I get done decimating all misconceptions within the world of music production, I'm gonna take a hard look at the fashion industry. The problem is that I know more than anybody and am never wrong. Ever. I'm so incredible, I can't stand to talk to myself anymore.
CRAP!!! You're right!
I didn't even think about that........ that the audience would hear the instruments backwards from my own perspective. I have my guitarists panned to the wrong side too then. I panned the sound as though I was behind the stage, not in front of it/facing it. While my left ear always hears the solos (behind the kit), the audience actually hears them in their right ears. AHHH... the madness to mixing!
Is there any way you could provide a few screenshots of your mixer for the drums and guitars? It would be so helpful to understand what the panning looks like and what plugins your using. The idea is not to copy everything and hope it does magic for me... but to understand what I can be using to improve the sound quality. To be perfectly honest, the screenshot on Ardour's homepage is what got me started!!!
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I want to talk about myself one day! For now, I'll remain humble and awed by your greatness!!
there are four images that might be helpful. somewhere i have a more complete series in that style. Drew Circles, visual artist, does a fine job of interpreting my oddball directives, "comical, obsessed" and within a minute appears the disneyesque blood shot eyeballs.
i'll try to provide more visual and audible examples as time permits.
I did the typical front/back dual mic configuration. The jcm 800 was noisey as hell in the studio. We couldn't figure it out until half the service panel in the building lost power. The wire coming into the building broke neutral which explains the noise and then it broke one of two positives. I kept some guitar tracks with the noise and did A/B comparisons to the new tracks with proper ground. Nite and day. Even if you can't hear the noise during full on playing it's compromising the tone to an incredible degree. Suck!
Despite songs with up to 13 tempo and signature changes, we were lucky to have someone that took the time to program the tempo maps. Because of the maps, we could mult both guitarists to produce eight tracks without softening the guitar mix-think of a photographic picture thats out of focus, aka soft. Suck!
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Comical indeed... yet very self-descriptive. Thanks (in advance too).
ciao Hippie,
while rtp has valuable comments, consider them as suggestions. You do what sounds OK to your ears. Talking about that, your mp3 does not come out right from my studio speakers, sounds like there's a lot of room for improvement. I even hear some buzz from the guitar amp :D
yes, it sounds quite squashed and does not breathe too much. I am not really into this style of music so I cannot really judge but the sound mix reminds me of what comes out of some cheap boomblaster playing on the beach :D
Gratzie thorgal,
Yeah, this recording was my first attempt at mixing with Ardour (and I was pretty proud of it at the time.. hehehehe). Obviously, general opinions have influenced how I move forward and since starting this thread, I've purchased new M-Audio monitors, new Shure SM57 mics, and even rearranged my basement. I have new guitar tracks recorded so far.... but the singer wants to redo his vox too, so still waiting on that to get done. I hope to have a new rendition of the song posted here soon. The feedback is awesome and I want to get some opinions as to whether I'm getting better or worse at this whole thing!!!
check your spam filter, i've replied to all messages and in return got your message wondering where i've been. these com issues happen between me and women all the time; are you a female or feminine male? :)
Nice song dude.
@ Mark97 ... Thanks!!!
I've been experimenting with panning/mic placement and have a new recording available (version 2 of the same song). While it sounds more full and more "stereo," the guitars will need to be re-recorded. I'm still not satisfied!!!
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Is there any way you could provide a few screenshots of your mixer for the drums and guitars? It would be so helpful to understand what the panning looks like and what plugins your using. The idea is not to copy everything and hope it does magic for me.
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Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio.
Nice post!!Thanks a lot and keep new updates...
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---+!! Upgrading the Hard Drive on a Gigabeat X60 %TOC% ---++ Buying a Replacement Hard Drive The Toshiba Gigabeat X series players uses 1.8" hard disks with a ZIF-40 connector. For more information, see [[http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/HardDriveReplacement][HardDriveReplacement]]. By default, the X60 comes with a Toshiba !MK6008GAH. If you want maximum compatibility, you may want to choose a hard drive in the same family, for example an !MK8009GAH (80GB) or !MK1011GAH (100GB). I ended up buying an !MK1011GAH. I would also highly recommend that you buy a USB enclosure case for ZIF drives, so that you can attach the drive to your PC and copy all the files currently on your Gigabeat X60 to the new drive prior to replacement. After the replacement, you can store the original drive from the Gigabeat onto this case and use it as a 60GB USB hard drive. You should be able to buy this case at the same place as wherever you are buying the 1.8" drive from. If you have problems finding a suitable USB case, plenty are available from Ebay (search for something like "USB 2.0 Enclosure Case for 1.8" ZIF LIF Hard Drive"). As for the 1.8" drives themselves, they are quite difficult to find. Good luck searching for them. They are occasionally available on Ebay. I do not recommend www.compuvest.com - I had a very bad experience with them and they ended up wasting my time and my money. I ended up buying my drive in Hong Kong on a business trip from a tiny shop in the Golden Computer Centre. ---++ Preparing the new hard drive Assuming you have bought a USB enclosure case with the drive, then hook both the Gigabeat X60 and the replacement hard drive into your PC simultaneously on two USB ports. You should see two drives in File Explorer. Using your favourite file copy utility, copy the entire directory structure from the Gigabeat X60 onto the new drive. Make sure you copy everything, including the hidden/system files in GBSYSTEM. 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This month a new bill was introduced in the New Hampshire House of Representatives aimed at promoting "fair business relations between franchisees and franchisors." According to its sponsors, HR 1215 or the "Small Business Investment Protection Act" (Act) sponsored by House Representative Patrick Abrami (Stratham District) is intended to "level the playing field" for franchisees. Among other things the Act would:
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- Prohibit the termination, cancellation, or non-renewal of a franchisee for a list of reasons including the franchisees refusal to "take part in promotional campaigns for the products or services of the franchise which are not reasonable and in good faith expected to promote the profitability of the franchisee's business;"
- Prohibit a franchisor from requiring a franchisee to sell any product or service for a price at a loss or "otherwise not reasonably acceptable to the franchisee;" and
- Prohibit franchisors from terminating, cancelling, or substantially changing the competitive circumstances of a franchise agreement except for good cause shown.
Franchise protection laws are usually proposed by good intentioned lawmakers. Many of these provisions, however, fly in the face of a franchise system's effort to create brand awareness through uniformity. What happens when a franchisee in New Hampshire doesn't have to offer a product line offered at every other franchise location because the franchisee decides the price is "not reasonably acceptable"? Can a franchise restaurant in New Hampshire really choose to shut down in late afternoon if the franchisee decides it is not profitable to be open? What does this do to the brand?
HR 1215 if enacted would have broad reaching effects on a large segment of New Hampshire's businesses. The New Hampshire Business Review reports that, according to the International Franchise Association (IFA), there are some 3,700 franchise businesses employing 39,000 people in the state.
The bill is quite lengthy and includes guidelines on franchise sales practices and a section explicitly imposing a fiduciary duty on franchisors. We encourage all franchisors with locations in New Hampshire to read the full text of the bill here. HR 1215 is currently in committee so we will keep an eye on its progress and report updates as released.


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Sunday, March 29, 2009
Safely in the frozen North
I made it in to Anchorage about fifteen minutes ahead of the ash cloud from the latest eruption of Mount Redoubt, about 100 miles South-West of the city. After connecting flights to Houston and Seattle, our flight to Anchorage was delayed for a couple of hours while the weather prophets and others tried to figure out whether we could get in safely (and, just as important for the airline, get out again!). My host tells me that volcanic ash is like powdered obsidian - fragments of glass, not stone, and very, very scratchy. Apparently, if it gets into an aircraft engine, down you go. She says that if driving with volcanic ash on the roads, she has to change her engine oil and oil and air filters, every fifty miles, or risk the destruction of her car's engine. Scary stuff!
Anyway, we finally got in at just after 4.30 p.m. As we walked off the plane, ground staff were frenziedly refilling her with fuel, and passengers were lined up ready to board and get off the ground as fast as possible. Continental didn't want their nice new 737-900 stuck on the ground in Anchorage, that's for sure! Minutes after it took off, the airport closed again, and stayed closed overnight until this afternoon.
Today we went shopping for food, and this evening I cooked supper - swordfish steaks, accompanied by a melange of onion, mushroom and artichoke heart, with fresh asparagus on the side and home-made bread (the latter two provided courtesy of Miss D., my host). We're both sitting back now, replete, our stomachs making little moaning noises of satisfaction. It's nice that both of us enjoy good food, and cooking it! Now it's her turn to come up with something tasty.
I'll be gallivanting around here for the rest of the week, discovering a little about a State that's new to me, and enjoying making new friends and meeting old ones. Ash clouds don't make for good photographic scenery, but if I get some good pictures, I'll post them.
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- Loren said...
You might see about stopping by the shop of the author of "The Whiteboard:"
which, while paintball might not be your cup of tea, is highly amusing in many ways. His site is down right now, something with the way he updates, or I'd give name and confirm that he lives somewhere around there. I'm pretty sure he's in Anchorage, but don't remember.
Judging from the comic, I'm sure he has a few stories that would amuse you.
- March 30, 2009 at 10:11 AM
- Gene said...
If the mountain decrees that you stay in Anchorage for longer than life will allow you, you might look into catching a ferry to Juneau and flying out of there.
Enjoy AK, it's one of my favorite states
- March 30, 2009 at 12:18 PM
- On a Wing and a Whim said...
Doc's down in Sterling, I thing - I know he's down by Kenai/Soldotna way. Which is very close as the plane flies - in my tiny taildragger I could be there in half an hour - but as the car drives, it's all the way around the ocean arm and through the mountains. 155 miles or so, if the road isn't closed by avalanches.
And we already had the road shut down last week by avalanches, prior to a warm spell followed with snow. Theoretically it's open, but I refuse to try in my tiny econocar. There's a reason that if it's further than eighty miles away, I fly.
- March 30, 2009 at 2:49 PM
- George said...
I have heard that volcanic eruptions make some really nice sunsets and sunrises...
- March 30, 2009 at 3:17 PM
- Old NFO said...
If you get up to Fairbanks, go to Pikes or the Pump House for dinner! Excellent places and lots of history in both!
- March 30, 2009 at 8:33 PM
- Jake said...
a great link to a story about flying into a volcanic cloud:
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The first stills from Kristen Stewart's upcoming film, "On The Road," have been released.
In the film, based on the legendary beat generation novel by Jack Kerouac, Kristen plays Marylou, a love interest of Dean Moriarity, which will be played by "Tron Legacy's" Garrett Hedlund. In the book, she's also a love interests of Sal Paradise (Sam Riley), the character based on Kerouac himself.
Kristen cuddled up to Garrett in the first of the three stills released, while in another photo she looks carefree, dancing in a hall.
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