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CONDITION: Fine
Will Save: 1d20+10=27
That would most likely have succeeded the DC. Now for the Perception: 1d20+8=17;
Not sure what I will see, but I prefer the Perception being lower than the Will. So, what does the Doctor notice?
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Will Save: 1d20+10=27
That would most likely have succeeded the DC. Now for the Perception: 1d20+8=17;
Not sure what I will see, but I prefer the Perception being lower than the Will. So, what does the Doctor notice?
Along with what Zorra sees, you see this.
Alright, not sure how high up the window the 'dark figure' went into is, but I'd like to get up there if possible.
First off, standard action = Recover to remove that fatigue
Leaping 4 (120'), if it's higher than that maybe there's something else she could jump on top of first?
Or Athletics (1d20+8=15) to try to jump further?
While I'm at it, Perception (1d20+10=26) with Xray vision to figure out what's going on up there while she heads up.
Assuming I'm in range, please feel free to post my ascent/arrival.
Attack: 1D20+10 = [10]+10 = 20 DC 25 if that hits
Plasmakatana Attack (1d20+13=20) If that hits: Damage DC22 + Multiattack and Fort DC17 or -1 Toughness
Cyborg can shoot the Queen of Hearts from this point, or she can take a move action to reach the floor Shutterbug is on and use a melee attack.
White Rabbit is using extra effort to dash for Pyramid Plaza. He's run 60 of the 90 feet needed to reach the entrance. If you don't stop him, he'll reach the door next turn.
Free Action Atheletics (Run) (1d20+11=15) beats the DC15 to increase her speed by +1 rank, so she can also move 60 feet this turn.
Move Action keeps pace with Bun-Bun
Standard Action Trip Trip with Plasmakatana (1d20+13-2=30) If that hits, White Rabbit has to beat Acrobatics for Trip (1d20+18=23) with the better of his Athletics or Acrobatics.
All out attack 2 (1d20+10=23)
DC 27 toughness save.
Technology: 1D20+12 = [14]+12 = 26 to render fully inoperative.
badpenny wrote:"Something I said?!" Shutterbug hollers after the Queen. Once gone, Shutterbug returns his attention to the explosives.
dreamking89 wrote:The Queen of Hearts crashes through the window of Pyramid Plaza, looking like she'd fall to the ground. Instead, she flies upward. With an angry scream, she uppercuts Shutterbug. The hero's able to leap back, and it's a good thing too. The force of the Queen's punch crashes through the floor, windowframe and a chunk of the ceiling.
I took this to mean she crashed through the wall and fled and that's why you were able to shoot at her from outside.
I meant that she broke an outside chunk of the tower. As of this exact moment, she's still floating outside.
I'll let the action stand as he'd want to make sure those explosives don't go off
Zorra's going to need to make a Dodge roll to beat a DC of 20
Dodge (1d20+11=16) Forgot to add +2 for Evasion, but she's still getting the full effect of whatever the hat's going to do.
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Roosevelt High School, Brandon Valley High School Collide in Early Class 11AAA Action
Sometimes it's better to save the best for last, but to start the 2014 season in 11AAA football, that's not the case. Roosevelt and Brandon Valley are on a collision course to meet tonight at Howard Wood Field.
The Riders and Lynx are two of the top teams in the state going into the season and playing each other early gives themselves a sense of urgency.
"It just makes our offseason that much more important. The players know that we have to be ready for the first snap. We can't start slow. That's really going to be a big deal to us and we have really emphasized that for the last month or two. We are getting ready to play one of the best teams in the state and have to be really ready. We can't just think. We got to know that it's time for a ballgame," Roosevelt head football coach Kim Nelson says.
"I think it's good. A lot of times it's good when you can get them early and you kind of compare them or your team can compare themselves to what you are. I mean last year, we thought we were right there with them (in the opener), but they beat us 30-0. In turn, I think our kids worked harder throughout the season and got better as the year went on," adds Brandon Valley head football coach Chad Garrow.
Roosevelt is coming off a loss in the state title game to Lincoln. The Riders return seven starters on offense and two starters on defense. The Lynx return seven starters on offense and five on defense. Last year when these two teams met, Roosevelt beat Brandon Valley in the opener, and in the playoffs.
The Riders think their offense is better and are becoming a lot more comfortable in their roles with many returners from last year's title game. They are hoping to lean on that senior leadership and the speed and depth of their receivers to help Christion in the pocket. At wideout, Jett Thune is surprising, Chase Vinatieri is bigger and faster than he was a season ago, and Tyler Van Voorst, and Ryan Benson are stepping up behind them. Up front, the offensive line with three returning starters are possibly the best group Nelson has had since taking over at Roosevelt. And they will be the key to everything the Riders do on the gridiron this year.
"It's great. Grant (Schmidt) is a solid guy and the other four that are up there, I know are going to have my back at all times. And I'm going to have theirs," says Christion.
The biggest question for the Riders remains on the defense and developing their depth. Roosevelt is playing a lot of two-way starters and with only two coming back, the must develop chemistry quick.
"It's hard right now. We are trying to find out who is going to play. And we are rotating a lot of guys and that means they are not getting enough repetition or share of repetitions. Hopefully, the first game will tell us more and we will know who we can count on and who the best players are," responds Nelson.
To prepare for the season opener against the Riders, Brandon Valley is doing a lot of conditioning. The front seven on defense, led by defensive lineman Peter Choudek is showing the most improvement. The secondary though, still needs to get better, and Roosevelt's Taryn Christion will be a good test for that unit tomorrow. The offense is hoping to play faster and score a lot of points. Comeaux returns as the quarterback and will have some familiar faces to throw to at receiver. Drew Reinschmidt will catch the ball a lot and Brandon Valley hopes he can help fill the void left by Lynx standout and USF recruit A.J. Garrow. Helping Reinschmidt will be Alex Wilde. Garrow moved Riley Frantzen to the backfield and he has looked good in practice. With their experience on offense and up front on the defense, Garrow thinks Brandon Valley has what it takes to compete in Class 11AAA.
"I think we are right there towards the top. I would place us somewhere in the top four. Hopefully, we are by the end of the season barring injuries."
Brandon Valley is capable of hanging with Roosevelt and by the time kickoff comes on Friday night at Howard Wood, it will be more about containing Christion than slowing him down.
"Keep him in the pocket and don't let him scramble. He likes to scramble out to his right, and then throw. So, you really have to keep him contained in the pocket and work on their rush lanes," adds Garrow.
The Lynx figured out Christion two years ago when he was sophomore, but last year the Riders senior quarterback made it difficult for Brandon Valley to beat him.
"He (Christion) tried to rush the ball and we did a great job of shutting him down (two years ago). Last year he ran the ball pretty effectively and we played too soft on their passing game. We let them make a lot of catches on the outside," Garrow says.
That's what makes Christion so dangerous. He can make you make you pay on the ground and through the air.
"He can run and throw the ball. He's got some good weapons to throw it to and I think that's the key this year. Our receivers have really been doing a nice job in practice and I think that makes a quarterback more dangerous," responds Nelson.
Christion isn't alone, though. Comeaux is in his second-year as Brandon Valley's signal caller and he can make defenses pay with his arm and legs.
"They throw the ball really well. I think they are probably going to run it better and their quarterback (Comeaux) is going to run the ball more, too," adds Nelson.
Like most clichés, limiting turnovers and penalties will be key tomorrow night.
"Early season games, when you go back to last year in our first game with them, they had two scores from punt muffs, and actually in the playoffs, they blocked a punt also. Special teams are huge. I told the kids earlier this week, you lose a game early in the year by special teams, turnovers, and mental mistakes or penalties," explains Garrow.
For Roosevelt's case, getting after Comeaux in the pocket and forcing him to make bad throws will let the Riders offense stay on the field longer.
"Keeping the ball away from them and we need to keep the ball to put some drives together and get some first downs. They are always dangerous. We need to get pressure on the quarterback and sometimes you pay for that if you blitz too many people and there is openings. They are pretty good about throwing to five different people. They get blitzed a lot during the season, so they prepare for it. We have to kind of pick our spots and it would be great if we can get pressure with four guys and not have to blitz too much. We'll have to do that for a little bit and disguise some things if we can, and if we confuse the quarterback, I think we have a chance," adds Nelson.
At the end of the day, both teams will be ready to face each other.
"Really a lot of the pass game because you know they can throw the ball. They have a really good quarterback coming back in Jake Comeaux and we know they are going to have some good receivers as they did last year. It's going to be a fun game, and I think they probably want to put up some more points because we hung 65 on them last year. We know that's coming and they are going us they're best shot and we are going to give them ours," tells Christion.
Brandon Valley is confident they can do just that.
"This year is a lot different from last year. We are trying to go fast-paced a lot. High intensity. Everyone is really focused for this first game. Obviously we lost twice last year against Roosevelt. We really want to redeem ourselves and get our first win this year," says quarterback Jake Comeaux.
Brandon Valley and Roosevelt play at 8 p.m. at Howard Wood Field. Listeners can hear the game right here on ESPN 99.1.

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Cher Lloyd Gets Sassy With 'Want U Back' on 'The Tonight Show'
Cher Lloyd packed the release week of 'Sticks & Stones' with plenty of TV performances, the best of which was her sassy rendition of 'Want U Back' on 'The Tonight Show' on Oct. 1.
First, let us say, we're loving the petite British singer's brown waves and more mature outfits. She had a loud, colorful style a la Katy Perry when we first met her, and she's toned it down quite a bit. Lloyd has been showing off a more refined and pretty image as she continues to mount her American takeover. It's earned two enthusiastic thumbs up from us.
Lloyd wore a tie dyed jumper paired with black ankle strap heels and statement accessories, including her spiked microphone, all of which allowed her to keep her edge. But then again, Lloyd could be a circle and she'd still have edge. Nothing can dull or blunt this girl.
Her 'Tonight Show' perf was markedly better than her 'Ellen' gig earlier in the day, during which she seemed a bit too reserved and even a bit nervous. For Jay Leno's audience, she was poised, confident and utterly adorbs. In fact, the lovely Lloyd performed as though she were in a room full of her beloved Brats. The sass factor was in full effect, and she sounded nearly flawless. Her vocals were on key and in time, and the overall perf was infectious.
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MACON, Ga. – The Atlantic Sun Conference announced its 2012 preseason all-conference softball teams and rankings, Wednesday. Lipscomb placed two on the all-conference team and was picked to finish second by the coaches.
Seniors Whitney Kiihnl and Caroline Mason were named to the preseason all-conference team, giving Lipscomb multiple preseason honorees for the fourth season in a row.
"Both of these girls are incredibly deserving of this honor," said Lipscomb head coach Kristin Ryman. "They were both all-conference selections at the end of last season, and we feel very confident in their abilities to lead us back to the top of the A-Sun again this year."
Kiihnl is a preseason honoree for the second year in a row. The 2010 A-Sun Pitcher of the Year and NFCA third-team All-American was second-team all-conference last season after posting a 20-11 record, 1.69 ERA, 328 strikeouts and held opponents to a .170 batting average in 211.1 innings pitched. She was second in the conference in strikeouts and opponent batting average, fourth in wins and sixth in ERA.
In fan voting, Kiihnl was named the Preseason Pitcher of the Year, besting Jacksonville's Sarah Sigrest by more than 40 votes on the A-Sun's Facebook page.
"Whitney is one of the most exciting pitchers to watch in the A-Sun," Ryman said. "She knows she is not a secret anymore, and because of that, she is aware that she may have to work to win games differently than she has in the past.
"She is just a piece of the puzzle for our team this year. We don't need her to be a hero...we just need her to do what she does and let the rest take care of itself...one pitch at a time. She is a great teammate, always puts the team first, and naturally helps people smile and laugh. We expect her to have a lot of fun this year."
Mason earned her first preseason recognition after being named to the A-Sun first-team in 2011. She led the Lady Bison with a .307 average, nine home runs (eighth in the league), 10 doubles and a .586 slugging percentage, adding 25 runs batted in for good measure.
"Caroline is another big piece of our puzzle," Ryman said. "She is a competitor and really had a breakout season last year. She has found her consistency as both a hitter and outfielder, and her game continues to get better and better. She will again play a key role in the middle of our order, and has a great presence in the box.
"Caroline wants to win as much as anyone we have, and she has found ways to respond to those on-the-field challenges. We have a tremendous amount of confidence in the role she will play on our team this year."
As a team, Lipscomb was picked to finish as runner-up to defending champion Jacksonville. The Lady Bison picked up one first-place vote and 90 total points on the ballot, compared to nine first-place nods and 99 points for Jacksonville.
"Over the past three years, this program has done some amazing things, and it is no coincidence that these two girls have been right in the middle of it," Ryman said. "Ultimately, we have a team full of girls who are talented and fun to watch, and we can't wait to challenge them with a tough schedule again this season. We believe in this group as much as any we have ever had."
The regular-season begins Feb. 10 in Mobile, Ala. in the Mardi Gras Tournament. Lipscomb will face Jacksonville State, Mississippi State, second-ranked Alabama and host South Alabama in the three-day tournament.
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MIAMI (AP) – The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a final missing person after a 24-foot motorboat believed to be carrying 12 migrants capsized off the southeastern coast of Florida, killing at least four people.
The U.S. Coast Guard reports that the search ended Friday evening after crews searched 806 square miles of ocean.
The boat flipped Thursday about 75 miles northeast of West Palm Beach. The Royal Netherlands Navy first came upon the boat around noon. Sailors rescued seven survivors from atop the upside-down hull and recovered three bodies from under the boat. Naval officials contacted the Coast Guard, which later found a fourth body during its search.
Capt. Brendan McPherson said in a news release that the boat appeared to be part of a human smuggling operation. Officials weren't immediately naming suspects or saying where the passengers were from.
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From The Files Of August 5, 1993
The hot, dry weather, although not yet at drought stage, is causing area farmers some concern for their crops. Estimates of crop losses, to date, are about 35 percent for pasture and hayland. This is a critical time for grain crops and some immediate, soaking rains are needed.
The end of summer in the mountains of Fulton County celebrates a harvest of crops, livestock, baked goods, showmanship and adventurous entertainment, all at the Fulton County Fair August 22-28. The 72-year-old county tradition brings together agricultural contests through the beef, lamb and dairy shows and daring exhibitions such as a Hollywood stunt show, 4x4 truck pull and Frank Plessinger's demolition derby.
The Burnt Cabins Presbyterian Church bell tower is being replaced but, if all goes according to plan, it will be difficult to distinguish the old from the new. The tower, which has fallen into a state of disrepair, will be taken down and replaced with a new replica of the old one. The tower being taken down is the original tower for the church built in 1851.
Last Thursday morning's early hour storm collapsed a barn on the property formerly owned by the late George Morton and deposited it several feet off its stone foundation. The old barn, not in use but a familiar sight along Lions Park Road, seemed no worse for the wear after the major storms but apparently could not withstand the high winds and driving rains from the ferocious but short-lived storm last week. Some local folks measured nearly two inches of rain in 20 minutes.
Wayne and Mary Ruth Schwartz recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on July 17 with family and friends at Hustontown Firehall.
Birth at the Medical Center: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Revercomb of Shade Gap on July 28.
Clinton J. and Clara L. Shore, McConnellsburg, celebrated their 40th anniversary July 18 at a party at Mc- Connellsburg Firehall.
Ryan and Lisa (Miller) DeShong of Harrisonville announce the birth of their first child, a daughter, Emily Louise, July 25, at Chambersburg Hospital.
Deaths: Russell K. Alleman Sr., Loysville; Zachary Fritts, Leesburg, Va.; Bryson Zook, Fayetteville.
30 Years Ago
From The Files Of August 18, 1983
For the second time in three years, a steer raised by Craig Knepper of McConnellsburg was named grand champion of the 4-H FFA beef show at the fair on Monday night. For Rita Shives, this year's show was reminiscent of last year's as her entry was named reserve champion for the second consecutive year.
The summer's heat wave continues with only scattered showers to relieve the parched ground. Saturday's temperatures reached highs of between 102 to 104 degrees and kept many people at home, out of the heat. Cowans Gap State Park reported only half the capacity crowd, the sandy beach being too hot for comfort, and some of those who braved the heat for a round of golf at Great Cove had to leave the course after playing only a few holes.
Nancy Gress of McConnellsburg is the latest countian having to take rabies shots, as a precautionary measure, after she shot a raccoon outside her home and then carried her dog, which had tangled with it, to the house. The coon proved to be rabid and the dog had to be put down.
Engagement: Mary C. Lininger of McConnellsburg is pleased to announce the engagement of her daughter, Lisa Ann, to Vincent Paul Hughes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hughes of Needmore.
Specials at the IGA: honeydews, $1.69 each; Downy, $2.99, 96 ozs.; sirloin tip steaks, $1.99 lb.; Italian bread, 59 cents; Scot towels, big rolls, 3 for $2.
Now playing at the Fulton Theatre: "Stroker Ace." Playing at the Reality Theatre in Robertsdale: "Still Smoking."
Births at the Medical Center: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Scott Coble of Berkeley Springs on August 12; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Terry Detwiler of Rockhill Furnace on August 12; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Fox of Hancock on August 12; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Harr of Warfordsburg on August 14; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Keith Clugston of McConnellsburg on August 16; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Roger Beck of Mercersburg on August 18.
Deaths: Dorothy Duffey, McConnellsburg; Sherman Jaymes, Springfield, Ohio; Floyd Appleby, Neelyton; Oscar W. Deshong, Hancock.
Marriage licenses: Allen Martz, Hustontown, and Rosemary Carriero, Hustontown; Mark Sollenberger, Carlisle, and Angela Kerlin, McConnellsburg.
40 Years Ago
From The Files Of August 16, 1973
Seven girls will seek the title of 1973 Fulton County Environmental Queen on August 20 at the Fulton County Fair. Competing for the crown will be Debbie Martz, Susan Martz and Lucinda Corman of Hustontown; Connie Foreman of Waterfall; Althea Hill of Needmore; Inez Ramsey of Harrisonville; and Lynn MacDonald of McConnellsburg.
The 52nd annual Fulton County Fair will feature grandstand spectaculars every night beginning Sunday, August 19.
Seven 4-H Club members form Fulton County took part in Pennsylvania State 4-H Days held last week on the Pennsylvania State University campus. Awards to Fulton County 4-Hers were announced. Placing first in the state poultry foods demonstration was Diana Purnell of Wells Tannery. Members of the consumers' team, consisting of Brenda Whitehouse of Burnt Cabins, Debbie Kesselring of Hustontown and Cathy Anderson of Needmore, were awarded red ribbons. Winning a blue-ribbon award in the physical fitness program was Doug Mellott of Needmore. The meat judging team consisted of Susan Martz of Hustontown and Debbie Mellott of McConnellsburg.
Marriage licenses: Woodrow Keefer Jr. and Deborah Mentzer, both of Burnt Cabins; Larry Williams of Big Cove Tannery and Cindy Chaplan of Pittsburgh; Robert Mellott of Needmore and Cathy Hann of McConnellsburg; James McKeever and Catherine Hendershot, both of Warfordsburg; Michael Murphy of Reading and Melissa Cornelius of Mohnton.
Gloria Jean Mellott and Steve Eugene Robinson were united in marriage Saturday, July 28, at St. Paul Lutheran Church. Parents of the couple ar Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mellott and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Robinson, all of McConnellsburg.
The Everett Church of the Brethren was the setting for the wedding of Miss Ahron Ann Colledge and Ronald Chamberlain on June 16. Parents of the couple are Mr. and Mrs. Paul Colledge of Wells Tannery and Mr. and Mrs. H.P. Chamberlain of Clearville.
A 17-year-old Three Springs youth was killed and another young man was critically injured last Wednesday night when their motorcycle collided almost head-on on a narrow, rural road, one-half mile north of Maddensville. Killed in the crash was Roger Lee Rosenberry, 17, of Three Springs, who was pronounced dead on arrival at Hagerstown Hos- pital. Critically injured in the crash was the operator of the other cycle, Theodore H. Ramsey, 21, of Orbisonia, who is a patient in Chambersburg Hospital for treatment of a compound fracture of the left lower leg, a compound fracture of the left forearm and massive abrasions of the face and body.
Deaths: Rodney Jan Deshong, Greencastle; Faye Bingham, Tampa, Fla.; John A. Sipe, Baltimore; Jennie V. Emery, Clearville; Jennifer Ann Fraker, Shade Gap.
Central Fulton School District will open its doors to nearly 1,250 students on Tuesday, August 28.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Gary Houdersheldt Sr. of Warfordsburg on August 4; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. Peck of McConnellsburg on August 6; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. David H. Gunter of Shade Gap on August 6; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Franklin DeShong of Greencastle on August 7; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Chamberlain of Six Mile Run on August 7; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hartwick of Berkeley Spring on August 8; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Troy Crouse of Big Cove Tannery on August 10.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Leese of Needmore were the guests of honor at a surprise 25th wedding anniversary celebration held on Sunday, July 29, at their home. The couple observed their silver anniversary on July 28.
Specials at the IGA: semi-boneless hams, $1.39 lb.; Pepperidge
Farm layer cakes, 79 cents; watermelons, $1.29; Nabisco Oreos, 59 cents.
50 Years Ago
From The Files Of August 22, 1963
Damage estimated at "thousands of dollars" resulted form a fire which broke out at the Clyde
Bivens farm on Laurel Ridge Road at about noon Monday. The fire was believed to have started from a stray spark from a welder that had been used to repair a piece of machinery.
Larry Remsburg, 16, of McConnellsburg, escaped injury Friday when his car struck a row of guardrails along Route 16, about six miles west of Mercersburg. The 1956 model car, valued at $450, was demolished.
A diabetes detection program will be offered for the first time at the Fulton County Fair this year.
Mrs. Jennie Wible of Lincoln Way East, McConnellsburg, was the fourth winner of McConnellsburg's $100 jackpot.
A marriage license was issued from the local courthouse to Alva Bennett Gordon of Hancock and Evelyn Demioise of Johnstown.
In another 60 to 90 days, McConnellsburg will have a new modern supermarket when Foster Cisney begins rebuilding at his present location. The building will have a 60-foot front and will be 45 feet in depth.
Fulton County is one of the few places in the nation that still has a grist mill operated by water power. The mill is located on Route 522 at Websters Mill and has been owned by the Kendall family for the past 26 years.
Bounty payments on foxes and great horned owls cost Pennsylvania hunters $93,895 during the last fiscal year.
Births: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Orlyn Hess of Needmore on August 13; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Shope, Saltillo, on August 13; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Sheffield of Fort Littleton on August 14; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Appleby of Hustontown on August 16; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Robinson of Clear Spring on August 17.
G.C. Murphy offers boys' dungarees for $1.17 pair; girls' dresses, $3.90; 2 for $7, and teen's tennis oxfords, $1.67.
Deaths: Clyde H. Deshong Jr. of Harrisonville; Osborne M. Lynch of Lewistown.
60 Years Ago
From The Files Of August 20, 1953
Tiny Wright and his orchestra will play for dancing at the local American Legion home on Saturday night.
Returning home Wednesday after hospitalization, Mrs. Donald Martin is now in a plaster cast for a back injury .
Visitors in the home of Tom and Ellie Jenkins last week were her niece, Mr. and Mrs. Junior Batterton, and son Richard of Opava, Ill.
The Woman's Club will hold its flower show on September 11 in the social room of the Methodist Church.
The annual American Legion picnic wil be held this Sunday at the Narrows Rod and Gun Club.
A big weekend is planned at Buck Valley Park: a festival and square dance on Friday, the Hendershot reunion and a festival on Saturday and the Deneen reunion on Sunday.
Birth at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Watson Nelson of Mc- Connellsburg on August 10; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bivens of McConnellsburg on August 10; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Swope of Wells Tannery on August 10; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Downin of Maddensville on August 12; a son to Mr. and Mrs. John W. Martz of McConnellsburg on August 14.
Malcolm E. Mellott of Lansdowne, Pa., has been awarded a Doctor of Education degree from Temple Univeristy. Dr. Mellott is the son of the late Gilbert C. and Queen Lake Mellott. He is presently editor-in-chief of the John C. Winston Co. of Philadelphia.
Bond sales in Fulton County during the month of July totalled $8,343, compared to $7,718 for July of 1952.
Dale and Ralph Fisher, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Webster Fisher of Brush Creek Township and pupils at Warfordsburg High School, won grand champion and reserve grand champion with their Hampshire barrows at the sixth Future Farmer Fat Hog Show and Sale at Martinsburg on Monday.
Nine Fulton County 4-H Club members attended 4- H Club Week at State College last week. They were Julie Johnston, Lee Ann Crist, Phyllis Spade, Charlotte Edwards, Lowell Morton, Glenn Knepper, Benny Truax, Edwin Layton and William Mosebey.
On July 30, Game Protector David H. Franklin of Mc- Connellsburg was honored by sportsmen, Game Commission officials and other friends for 29 years of devoted, unselfish service along the line of wildlife conservation at a banquet at Mont Alto. He retired on August 1. At the banquet he was presented with a diamond-studded Masonic emblem.
Tomatoes grown for the canning industry brought in $70,585 income for Fulton County farmers in 1952.
Gerald Gress, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Gress and a member of Hustontown FFA, topped all competitors in the baby beef contest at Bedford Fair with "Jake," his Hereford steer. With 56 animals in competition, Jake walked away with the championship rosette.
Jay T. Strait, 26, son of James Strait of Harrisonville, has completed his basic training at Fort Knox, Ky.
Alfred W. Deneen, gunner's mate, seaman, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Deneen of Amaranth, is serving aboard the destroyer USS Miller.
70 Years Ago
From The Files Of August 19, 1943
On August 5 Walter H. Kendall, son of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Kendall of Ayr Township, completed his training at the Air Force School in Midland, Texas, and received his silver bombardier wings.
Death: Ritner David Riley of Everett.
William Dalbey Stitt and Ruth Iona Randolph were married July 12.
Buford C. Wible and Erma M. Snyder were wed on July 31.
Lt. Francis Allison is now stationed at Newport News, Va.
George Bard Sr. of Knobsville is a patient in Hagerstown Hospital.
Mrs. W.H. Greathead and Mrs. Wilson Nace are spending a vacation at Berkeley Springs Hotel.
The State Historical Commission has announced that Pennsylvania has twice as many men in service now as during World War I.
B. Chubb assumed his duties on Monday as teacher of vocational agriculture in the local high school.
Bobbie Reeder celebrated his seventh birthday on Tuesday.
Paul Hamil has been promoted to the rank of corporal at Camp Polk.
The first scout troop in Fulton County was formed at Fort Littleton on Friday.
80 Years Ago
Deaths: Peter B.
Cutshall of
Phoenixville; Mrs. Martha Jane Nelson Kendall of McConnellsburg; Mrs. Clara Kieffer Quawn of Mercersburg.
One could have heard a pin drop, so quiet and eager were the crowds at Crystal Spring camp meeting to hear the message of the world-famous evangelist Gypsy Smith.
Fred W. Shearer and C. Gail Walker were married on August 12.
Marvin B. Johnston and Lucy E. Peck were married on August 12.
James B. Smith and Hazel G. Helman were wed last week.
A wedding dinner was served last week in the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Glunt in honor of their daughter, Miss Alma, who was married recently to Paul Wilds, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Wilds of Fort Littleton.
The Fulton Theatre will reopen this week after extensive remodelling by the owner, W.M. Lodge. The first picture scheduled is "White Sister," starting Helen Hayes and Clark Gable.
A check for $300 has been delivered to Albert E. Colledge of McConnellsburg from Chambersburg Motor Club to cover a disability period of 30 weeks. Mr. Colledge suffered a broken leg and other injuries while working on a bridge project for Department of Highways.
Frank Peck, son of Watson Peck of Needmore, has been disabled the past two weeks with a fractured leg.
Mr. and Ms. Charles Kauffman of Burnt Cabins are the proud parents of a new baby girl who arrived last Wednesday.
John, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Clair Brown of Clear Ridge, is very ill with diphtheria.
William Cromer and Dorothy Baker were married recently.
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Heat edge Bulls to advance to East Finals
Miami, FL – The Miami Heat finished off the undermanned Chicago Bulls in five games despite blowing an early 18-point lead Wednesday.
Dwyane Wade played through a knee injury and scored six of his 18 points down the stretch as the Heat held on for a 94-91 win to reach their third straight Eastern Conference final.
LeBron James paced Miami with 23 points, eight assists and seven rebounds as the defending champions took the final four games of the series after losing the opener at American Airlines Arena.
Chicago, short on bodies but not in effort, squandered an eight-point lead entering the fourth quarter and had two chances in the final seconds to tie it, but Nate Robinson and Jimmy Butler both missed 3-pointers.
Robinson scored 21, Butler had 19 and Carlos Boozer finished with game-highs of 26 points and 14 rebounds for the Bulls, who played the entire series without Derrick Rose, Luol Deng and Kirk Hinrich.
The previous three meetings were decided by an average of 23.3 points, and Miami was poised for a smooth closeout victory with a 22-4 start to Game 5.
Chicago had other plans.
"There was no quit in them," Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau said of his bunch. "They came out and hit us hard. You knew we were going to have to withstand the early surge. I knew we'd fight back."
The Bulls chipped away at the huge deficit, led by six at the break and stayed in front the entire third quarter, which ended with them holding a 77-69 lead.
Shane Battier hit two 3-pointers in Miami's 13-4 run to open the fourth, with Norris Cole sinking a left-wing jumper for an 82-81 Heat lead.
Wade, who left the game momentarily in the second half to have his knee examined, showed no signs of the injury shortly thereafter. He drained consecutive jumpers to keep the Heat in front, then timed his jump perfectly from the baseline to throw down a putback slam off a miss, putting Miami ahead by a 93-86 margin with 3:02 remaining.
"He finds a way to make big time plays," Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra said of Wade. "It's great to see him respond like that."
Boozer scored off the offensive glass and Robinson got a contested 3-pointer to fall around James' 1-for-2 effort at the stripe, pulling Chicago within 94-91.
Boozer drew iron on an attempt at the elbow with just over a minute to go, then had a loose ball knocked off his leg by Wade at the other end.
Wade committed a foul going after a James miss with 27.4 seconds on the clock, giving the Bulls one last chance to get even. Boozer controlled the offensive rebound on Robinson's miss, and Butler's tentative attempt missed everything but the backboard as the buzzer sounded on Chicago's season.
Miami made its first seven shots and jumped out to a seemingly comfortable 22-4 lead 6:35 into the game. James added a monster alley-oop to momentarily halt a 6-0 Bulls run, then hit an 18-footer just before the buzzer for a 30-21 Heat advantage.
Chicago shook off the early cobwebs and scored 17 of the first 23 points in the second quarter to take its first lead. Butler hit two from long range during the seven-plus minute string, including one that gave the Bulls a 38-36 lead they didn't relinquish until Cole's basket early in the fourth.
Robinson ended his 11-point quarter with a buzzer-beating 3-pointer that extended the Bulls' cushion to 53-47 at the break.
Chicago exceeded its Game 4 point total midway through the third when Boozer scored inside for a 67-60 lead, which ballooned to as many as 11 in the frame.
Game Notes
The Heat's previous eight playoff wins were all by double digits ... Chris Bosh and Udonis Haslem chipped in 12 and 10 points, respectively, for Miami, which scored 27 points off 16 turnovers ... Chicago got 15 points from Richard Hamilton and held a 40-32 edge on the glass.


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Body Language
By Mike Woitalla
A few years ago I arrived at soccer practice in a bad mood for reasons I don't recall. The giggly girls hardly hit a decent pass during the warm-up and I started barking.
That didn't work so I figured, OK, let them goof around for a couple minutes while I calm down and set up stuff. I looked around the four-field park at which about 10 teams were practicing. About 40 yards away I noticed Coach T with his U-10s boys, and something struck me: He's really enjoying himself -- and the boys looked sharp and like they were having fun during their exercise.
How did I know Coach T was in a good mood? Did I detect a smile from that far away? I'm not sure, but there must have been something -- and I got to thinking a lot about body language and its influence on others.
At my daughter's elementary school, the morning started when the bell rang and each class lined up at markers on the vast blacktop. The teachers would come out to meet their classes and lead them inside. Many of them came out with a smile, but I recall one who nearly always approached her students with a sour look. It's hard to imagine the children wouldn't infer that she didn't look forward to a day in the classroom with them. Surely that would affect the attitude in which they approached learning?
It reminded me of advice I once got from a coach (I wish I remember who it was) who said that when the players arrive at practice or a game, greet them like you're happy to see them. It sets the right tone.
If you watch the U.S. national team, you'll surely notice Jurgen Klinsmann's positive body language. TV shots before Tuesday's big win over Mexico showed him walking around the team warming up with a big smile. I was at his practice at Azteca Stadium the day before the tie in March in Mexico. They kept the media at least 60 yards away from the training, but even at that distance one got the sense that this was a confident coach who enjoyed his job -- and even, I would say, that he had genuine affection for his players. This is also noticeable in the way he greets them when they depart the field after a substitution.
Noteworthy too are the sideline shots of Klinsmann when things aren't going well for his team. For sure, he may grimace about a ref's decision off and on, but his look of confidence generally remains steady even when the team is struggling. That has to be reassuring to his players if they glance toward the sideline.
Pia Sundhage guided the USA to two Olympic gold medals during her 2008-12 stint as head coach and provided a marvelous example of body language that I'm sure contributed to the team's success. During dramatic comeback wins over Canada and France, when the USA looked endanger of elimination, sidelines shots always showed an unfazed Sundhage. Indeed, she always looked like she was enjoying herself at the field.
When I asked her about it, she said, "I'm really happy to hear that when you watch the women's team play you think I'm calm, because that's what I want my players to believe -- because I have faith in the way we play and in our players. I emphasize the good things. I'm looking for good things, instead of doing the opposite and try constantly to adjust mistakes."
I'm not sure how much time is spent during coaches courses on body language -- or even how teachable a concept it is. But it seems that if coaches are enjoying themselves they're most likely to send the messages to players that bring out the best in them.
"Even at the highest level, it should be fun," Sundhage says. "Soccer is the best sport in the world and if it's not fun it's not worthwhile to coach."
(Mike Woitalla, the executive editor of Soccer America, is co-author, with Tim Mulqueen, of The Complete Soccer Goalkeeperand co-author with Claudio Reyna of More Than Goals: The Journey from Backyard Games to World Cup Competition.Woitalla's youth soccer articles are archived at YouthSoccerFun.com.)
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Catholic Bishop Argues US Should Not Cut Aid to Palestinian Territories
A bishop from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has sent a letter to Congress warning against cutting aid to the Palestinian Territories.
Bishop Richard E. Pates, chairman of the USCCB's Committee on International Justice and Peace, sent the letter on Monday in response to consideration from Congress to cut aid after the U.N. vote.
"The Palestinian Authority and President Abbas' Fatah party have renounced violence and committed themselves, as has Israel, to a two-state solution," wrote Pates. "We ask you to resist efforts to cut off needed humanitarian and development assistance to Palestinians as they build capacity for a future state."
Pates' letter came in response to a growing effort in Congress to eliminate nearly $1 billion in aid that the United States would give to the Palestinian Authority in 2012 and 2013.
Since the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to grant the Palestinian Territories an elevated status in the global body, three bills have been introduced to cut aid to the PA.
Another bill, sponsored by Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, would cut the funds the U.S. sends to the U.N. as a "punishment" for holding the vote.
"If the U.N. wants to give more power to Palestine and weaken the chances of a two-party peace deal, then the Obama administration needs to stand up for Israel, our close friend and ally," said Hatch in a statement.
"This is the type of action we've come to expect from the U.N., so it's entirely appropriate to cut off funding."
Pates argued as others have that cutting aid to the PA would do great harm to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
"Assistance to Palestinians, already heavily conditioned, is essential for humanitarian purposes and for building capacity for a future Palestinian state," wrote Pates. "Cutting aid will only harm the peace process. This is not in the interests of either Israelis or Palestinians who long for peace."
On Thursday, Nov. 29, the U.N. General Assembly voted to give Palestine the status of "nonmember observer state" in the international body, which gives the PA power to take part in debates and possibly join entities like the International Criminal Court.
The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of the move, as 138 countries voted for the elevated status, 9 including the United States voted against it, and 41 member states abstained.


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A school for everyone
A new take on private schools in developing countries, which sees them not as money-making machines exploiting the poor, but as a much needed asset that can help fulfil the goal of a decent education for all
Elementary education: Kerala tops, Bihar lags, Muslim enrolment poor
One of the significant findings of a new report commissioned by the Ministry of Human Resource Development is that Muslim enrolment both at the primary and upper primary levels of education, recorded for the first time ever, is poor. This is so even in states that have performed well in school education
Bihar fails India's elementary education test, but its kids are bright
According to the latest 'Annual Status of Education Report', while elementary school enrolment levels in India's villages are high across the country, there is a lot of scope for improvement in school facilities. Most urgent is that attention needs to be paid to the learning component at government schools
Meeting the MDG of gender parity in basic education
The United Nations acknowledges that without success in achieving education goals there is little prospect of achieving the other perhaps most important Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015. A Global Campaign for Education report has some answers
65 million girl-children worldwide are out of school: Unicef report
Investing in girls' education will help ensure the right of all children to a quality education, and the attainment of development goals. 'The State of the World's Children 2004: Girls, Education and Development' commends India for its Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (Education For All) campaign
Girl, Illiterate
Unesco's Education For All Global Monitoring Report 2003 states that gender parity in education remains a distant prospect in 54 countries, including Pakistan and India. India scores a low 0.83 in the Gender Parity Index at the primary level
Mid-day meals responsible for leap in female enrolments in primary schools
A new study by the Centre for Equity Studies in Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Karnataka underlines the positive impact of the mid-day meal scheme
Cooked midday meals in only 12% of Maharashtra's surveyed villages
Even where cooked meals are provided, they do not meet the nutritional requirements stipulated by the Supreme Court, according to a survey of food security schemes in Maharashtra conducted by the Anna Adhikar Abhiyan Maharashtra
Food and education: Background considerations for policy and programming
Food helps children concentrate and improves their attendance and overall performance in schools. This report looks at the use of Food and Education (FAE) initiatives -- designed to take place before, during and/or after the period of food assistance -- that offer direct benefits towards bringing about both short and long-term changes in school students.


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Alternatives to 5.1 for Multichannel Music
"Resolved: That the speaker-based 5.1-Channel ITU Standard is fine for movie surround sound but inappropriate for SSfM [Surround Sound for Music]. A better alternative would be ________"
[Editors intro: I requested a cross-section of opinions from experts in SSfM who participate in the generally highly technical sursounders' mailing list <email@example.com> about the controversy touched on by many of us relating to better approaches existing for the reproduction of multichannel music than the same 5.1 channel system of Dolby Digital and DTS used for home theater. Many of the members work with and support the more sophisticated Ambisonics multichannel format. I asked them for their ideas about possible alternatives and to explain in simple language. Note that some of them are direct exchanges between two members.]
First some definitions:
B-format Ambisonics = Four audio channels provide all the information required to recreate a soundfield in three dimensions: one is left minus right (Y component), one front minus back (X), one up minus down (Z), - all using closely spaced figure-eight mics. The fourth or (W) channel is the mono pickup from an omnidirectional mic which is the overall sound pressure at the same point. An Ambisonics decoder translates these signals to feed any number of loudspeakers from four up. Ambisonics is therefore not speaker-based.
UHJ = The compatible stereo matrixed mixdown of multichannel B-format Ambisonic recordings. The entire Nimbus catalog is UHJ as well as some other UK labels.
Ambiophonics = Attempts to place the listener into the same space as the performers on standard stereo recordings of stage music - by accommodating to individual external ear and head characteristics, minimizing interaural correlation, abandoning the traditional stereo loudspeaker equilateral triangle, recreating early reflections and reverberant fields via DSP, eliminating all front-loudspeaker crosstalk, and reducing the home music theater wideband reverberation time to less than .2 seconds.
Binaural = Recordings made with a human head replica with accurate outer ears and an omni mic in each ear. Designed for headphone-only playback, and when successful can give listeners a you are there soundfield impression beyond any speaker-based surround system.
TriField = An unmixing algorithm which provides balanced left, center and right speaker feeds from any stereo recording.
I think the basic problem with 5.1 is that it favors one direction over others. It assumes that there is a "front" and "rear", and that you should be sitting looking at a stage or screen. That is far too limiting for contemporary music and audio. Ambisonics has the advantage that it treats all directions as equal in importance and needing equal sound quality. The number of channels is not the same as the number of speakers.
-- Don Cox
I believe B+ ambisonics plus a stereo channel is the delivery medium of choice. A single media can be produced and this can be delivered to any number of speakers. A record manufacturer and studio only have to make one mix and one media. This can then be played in stereo, 5.1 or ambisonically and even ambiphonically.
The minimum number of speaker has to be set 60 degrees apart. With a distance of greater the 60 degrees we are not able to fuse phantom images between speakers and get a hole in the middle. I find it not pleasant to hear the holes that 5.1 has in reproducing the soundfield. The greater the number of speakers the better the fusion of the images, until we come to WFS which will use many speakers.
For the reproduction of music I find that the addition of height information helps to eliminate the hearing of speakers and reduces the confinement that occurs when this dimension is not present. B+ Ambisonics also allows the listener to adjust the soundfield for his/her room and to adjust the ambience to their taste.
-- Thomas Chen <email@example.com>
> Martin Leese wrote:
>My IEE Review came today. In the "Gadgets" section is >described the JVC QP-ES9AL home cinema system. It >states: "The central control centre comes with 'smart >surround setup' -- sit down, clap your hands and it will >adjust the speakers for your room and your position."
Cool. Now someone tell these guys to finally throw in a UHJdecoder, and we might actually get somewhere. Right now we have Meridian and (maybe) Cantares, both of which seem to be very nice, but both are rather out of my budget range. So I'm stuck with an Onkyo 909, which has, well, less than great AD/DA converters, or horrible jitter or whatever, but compared to an old NAD 3150 the fidelity stinks, so I have to chose between great fidelity but flat stereo, and less than great fidelity but spacious-sounding Ambisonics.
Not a choice I like to have. :-(
All these modern surround receivers have plenty of DSP power to do UHJ decoding, heck, even B-Format decoding. Are the patent licenses so high, or are the manufacturers so unenlightened; why does nobody but Meridian care to include this in their general purpose surround processors? Very frustrating.
-- Ronald C.F. Antony
First we need lots of surround SACDs and DVD-As. Then many people need to find out how terrible-sounding they are (if they are....). THEN someone will look for something better. Which may be: 1. More speakers, 2. Overhead speakers, or 3. A better (third) way. Which might be Ambisonics (hopefully not UHJ). When that day arrives it would be nice if all those DSPs could be uploaded with Ambisonics SW, maybe from Trifield's download area for all I know. A small e-fee in exchange for some code lines to travel over those unused RS232s or RJ45s of the surround controllers...
-- Rolv-Karsten Rønningstad
All fine except for two things:
a) There's a rather sizable catalog of UHJ encoded material, which sounds just fine, at least compared to stereo, when played back on a decent system such as through a Meridian surround decoder. Throwing these away just because current manufacturers can't get themselves to add a UHJ decoding mode is pretty sad.
b) The process you outline is going to last at least 15 years, if past progress has any correlation to future adoption of technology. By then I may be old enough to have hearing loss :-) So I'm all for instant gratification, and making UHJ more popular would be a good start, although certainly not the finish line...
-- Ronald C.F. Antony
True. UHJ and its SuperStereo "sister" for artificial surround from stereo sources are, if not absolutely prerequisite, nice to have in any surround setup. With today's standardized 3 front speakers Trifield Ltd's "Trifield" algorithm should also be a part of any serious surround setup for music."Vienna" Ambisonics is patented, but could not some of the groups clever SW guys try to write some old-UHJ code and try to FLASH it into some Denon receiver or whatever? Worst case you waste some time (and destroys a receiver). Best case you win the big lottery.
-- Rolv-Karsten Rønningstad
Minimally-realistic horizontal-only reproduction of 360-degree sound fields (music or otherwise) for people with heads that can turn will require at least six identical full range speakers that are equidistant from the center of the listening area, and equally-spaced from one another. Full spherical surround reproduction will require a minimum of eight identical full range speakers that are mounted on the surface of an imaginary sphere that is centered around the listening area, and are equally spaced from one another. Ambisonics provides a convenient but not exclusive way to record signals that can be optimally reproduced in these ways.
The 5.1 "movie" speaker layout can be used for music with excellent, but albeit sub-optimal, results if: 1) there is only one listener and his/her location relative to all speakers (including distance and coordinates) is exactly known; 2) electronic means, such as delays, EQ, ambisonic transcoding, and level adjustments, are used on all speakers to achieve exact phase alignment, level and EQ matching of all channels; and 3) the listener always only faces forward while listening.
-- David Kaleita
Project Studio Owner
Laser House®
Acoustic design of concert halls has shown that a "good" hall generates for the audience a sound field with three distinct facets. To create a convincing illusion in your living room, an audio system must be able to reproduce all three facets.
One facet of the sound field is the direct sound that travels from the musicians to the listener - stereo can be good at reproducing this (as long as the musicians are placed between the speakers). Another facet is the reverberation, not perceived as originating from any particular direction - 5.1 speaker-based channels can be good at reproducing this. The third facet is discrete reflections, also called lateral reflections - reproducing this facet is much more challenging.
Discrete reflections travel from the musicians to the listener via the floor, ceiling or a wall; some travel via two or three reflections. Discrete reflections can arrive at the listener from any direction. Those that arrive within about 30 ms of the direct sound are not perceived as separate sounds but, instead, provide the listener with a sense of "space". Those that arrive after about 30 ms are perceived as echos and provide the listener with a sense of "envelopment".
Because discrete reflections can arrive from any direction, to reproduce them a surround sound system must be able to reproduce sounds from every direction. Given a limited number of speakers, what separates the surround sound wheat from the chaff is the ability to reproduce sounds from between the speakers. This is not, as many think, determined by the channel separation, but by the mixing style. To date all movie sound tracks have been mixed using the pair-wise mixing style. It is not 5.1 speaker-based channels that are the problem; the culprit is this pair-wise mixing style!
To understand why pair-wise mixing is a bad idea in surround sound, please perform the following very simple experiment. Play, in stereo, a pair-wise mixed CD that has good phantom images (almost all CDs use this mixing style). Turn your chair through 90 degrees. If you still hear stable phantom images when both speakers are to one side then you are a space alien because humans cannot do this. Pair-wise mixing did not work in the quadraphonic era and it will not work now with 5.1. Such an absolute statement can be made because the way that humans localize sound has not changed.
Note that you performed this experiment with a CD. CDs have complete separation between the two channels, so clearly good separation is not sufficient for accurate imaging in surround sound. The lesson here, I would suggest, is that surround is not just stereo with more speakers. What is needed is an entirely different approach. There are several possible approaches (Ambisonics, Ambiophonics, Transaural, binaural) which each have advantages and disadvantages. Personally, I believe that Ambisonics strikes the best balance between the pros and cons.
-- Martin Leese
[Soundfield Mic]
Of course in an ideal world we'd all have something like at least 8 channels of audio, with a speaker in each corner of the room (top and bottom) for periphonic sound. But realistically speaking, the problem with 5.1 is less the speaker layout, than the way the surround sound is mixed and produced, as well as the lack of proper calibration and setup of the average system. Surround sound can be pretty darn nice even on a 5.1 system, if you're playing back something like Ambisonic G-Format on a properly calibrated system. Not perfect, but very enjoyable, and a lot better than simple stereo (all else being equal).
So the two main issues are:
a) mixing/recording
b) system calibration
At today's DSP prices, every surround receiver should come with a microphone plug where you can plug in a measuring microphone. Then the system should run a frequency-sweep impulse test out of each speaker, and do proper room and speaker phase correction for the system. If this were done in a mass market product, it could be fairly affordable. Then if the sound sources were G-Format Ambisonic mixes, we'd have made a huge step forward.
-- Ronald C.F. Antony
It's not hard to see why a great many people are of the opinion that while 5.1 may be fine for movie theaters, it is not the best solution for musicsurround. It should not be forgotten that 5.1 was developed to deal withcertain problems that beset analog movie theaters - and these problems simply are not present in a modern digital distribution chain such as is available with technologies like DVD-Audio. The Center Front was required in movie theaters because front speakers too far apart led to a hole in the middle and loss of movie dialog. The LFE was required to carry low frequency EFFECTS - such as T.Rex footfalls and asteroids crashing into the Earth - and these do not occur in music: not even in "heavy rock" (sorry, I couldn't resist). The effects channel was necessary to avoid intermodulation effects that would have occurred if sub-bass had been added to other channels. It is arguably beneficial to use the LFE in a digital distribution environment - for sub-bass movie effects only - to avoid problems with headroom, but as every channel in a DVD-Audio disc, for example, is capable of delivering the entire audible range, there should be no need for it in normal musical applications.
So we can say that the LFE is not required for music and could instead be used for something else more interesting - and some record companies such as Telarc, Chesky, MDG and Divox, use it for height information. We have seen that the CF is, also, not particularly necessary. Indeed many music engineers, brought up on a virtual front stage delivered by two speakers at sixty degrees, prefer the "virtual center" that this configuration provides over stuffing a signal up the center front so that it sticks out like a sorethumb - because the trouble with simply panning sounds to a CF channel is that they are no longer integrated with the front stage. A third SPEAKER - not a third CHANNEL - at center front can, however, be used to decode a stereo front stage more accurately, and in a completely integrated fashion,using a technology such as Trifield - either in the studio or in the playback system.
But all this is tap-dancing around the fundamental problem. Certainly, it must be remembered that whatever better ideas we may think we have, we are stuck with 5.1 and its descendants for the foreseeable future, and we need to learn to live with it and remain compatible with it until it goes away, which may be some time. The real problem is that we have become used to something much more insidious than mere 5.1: we have come to believe that 'one-to-one mapping' is all there is. 5.1 is an example of this, but it is only a special case.
Since the days of quad, we have been led to believe that the ultimate in surround sound involved capturing sound with n microphones, transferring their signals via n channels, and replaying them with n loudspeakers placed in something like the directions the mics were pointed in. What the world was waiting for, according to this idea, was the availability of distribution media with n high-resolution channels to do the job properly. This, I am afraid, is complete rubbish.
What we really ought to be doing is to capture and/or mix the sound in the most artistically and technologically satisfactory way possible. This might involve one mic or many, depending on the project and the intent of the production team. The resulting signals should be transmitted in the most effective and efficient way possible: this does not mean one channel per microphone, it means representing a multi-dimensional soundfield in the most efficient way. And finally at the other end, these efficient distribution channels need to be decoded to drive an appropriate number of speakers, the feed for each speaker being derived as a function of its location in the listening environment.
The most obvious and best-known method of doing this is Ambisonics, though it is no doubt not the only method of achieving this goal. However, using simple first-order Ambisonics as an example, we can see how this concept works in practise. To begin with, envisage the three-dimensional soundfield being captured by a suitable microphone array or multitrack recording with multi-channel panpots or a combination of the two.
The resulting signals are now encoded into a series of sum and difference signals, essentially similar to a three-dimensional development of the Blumlein X-Y technique: one channel carries the sum of all the dimensional signals, ie Left+Right+Front+Back+Up+Down, while other channels carry the differences: L-R, F-B, U-D. This signal set is called B-Format, and is an extremely efficient way of representing the surround-sound we hear - note that it only uses four channels to carry everything needed to recreate a full three-dimensional (with height) soundfield.
At the receiving end, the B-Format signals are decoded to suit a multi-speaker array that is practical for the listening environment. More speakers may be better; height might be nice; but essentially given some basic ground-rules, with a reasonable number of speakers in reasonable places, you can get excellent results - in an ordinary living room, or a home theater, or even in a movie theater or auditorium. The incoming B-Format signals are decoded for the speaker array, and the speakers can bemore or less where you like, within reason.
This is all very well, but what about the 5.1 compatibility I mentioned earlier? This is taken care of, thanks to the work behind a paper presented by R&D staff from Meridian Audio Ltd at the recent AES Banff conference. Built into MLP, the lossless packing system at the heart of DVD-Audio, is the ability to code hierarchical surround information (such as Ambisonic information derived from B-Format) and flag it in the metadata, such that the result can be played direct into a 5.1 loudspeaker system with no special equipment whatsoever and be completely compatible. However, with a suitable decoder, switched in automatically by a flag in the datastream if desired, the same information can be decoded for the listener's specific speaker array, using Ambisonic technology. The transmitted signal delivers a hierarchy of information, that can be decoded according to the equipment available - or simply used as standard 5.1 speaker feeds. The best of both worlds.
A simple version of this concept exists in the Trifield technology I mentioned earlier. Trifield, based on Ambisonic research by Dr Geoff Barton and Michael Gerzon, essentially decodes a 2-channel stereo mix for three loudspeakers. As in the more sophisticated system described above, the original multichannel/multimic or whatever source, mixed to stereo, is carried via two channels, but decoded to three loudspeakers that work together to generate a fully integrated stereo sound stage that is superior in imaging and image stability than either two-channel, two-speaker stereo or three-channel "panpotted mono". But Trifield is simply the beginning. Because with hierarchical coding, you can have your 5.1 cake and eat it too - right now.
--Richard Elen
[Richard Elen has contributed to leading professional and consumer audio journals. Formerly Marketing VP at Apogee Electronics, he is now head of Creative Services at Meridian Audio Ltd in the UK. This article does not necessarily represent his employers' view on the subject.]
[Ambiophonics setup]
I proclaim these psychoacoustic truths to be self evident: Human sound localization is determined in three and only three ways (not counting bone conduction)
1. Time, including phase and transient edge, differences between the ears. (ITD) Includes the precedence effect.
2. Amplitude differences between the ears. (ILD)
3. Single and double pinna direction-finding effects.
Each of these mechanisms is only effective in a specific frequency range but they overlap and the predominance of one over the other also depends on genetics, the nature of the signal, i.e. Sine wave, pink noise, music, venue, etc.
For a full range complex sound such as music experienced live, all three mechanisms are always in play and normally agree. By definition such an experience is said to be realistic. If the three mechanisms are not consistent then we often make errors in localization such as in most headphone listening where the interference with the pinna mechanism usually results in internalization even if the ILD and ITD are perfect.
Let me discuss the relative strengths of the three mechanisms listed above. Snow and Moir in their classic papers showed that localization of complex signals in the pinna range above 1000 Hz was superior by a few degrees to localization that relied solely on lower frequencies. That is, their subjects could localize at high frequencies to within one half a degree but only to one or two degrees at lower frequencies. The accuracy of localization in general, declines with frequency until at 90 Hz or so it goes to zilch. Remember this when we get to discuss crosstalk.
It is important for understanding the workings of stereophony or 5.1 that you are convinced that all three mechanisms are significant and I would suggest, with Snow and Moir, that the pinnae are first among equals. You should satisfy yourself on some of this by running water in a sink to get a nice complex high frequency source. Close your eyes to avoid bias, block one ear to reduce ILD and ITD and see if you can localize the water sound with just the one open ear. Point to the sound, open your eyes, and like most people you will be pointing correctly within a degree or so. With both ears you should be right on despite having a signal too high in frequency to have much ITD or ILD. But with your two pinnae agreeing and the zero ILD clue, the localization is easily accurate.
Again, if a system such as stereo or 5.1 cannot deliver the ITD, ILD and pinna cues intact without large errors it cannot ever deliver full localization verisimilitude for signals like music. If the cues are inconsistent localization may occur but it is fragile, it may vary with the note or instrument played, and such localization is usually accompanied by a sense that the music is canned, lacks depth, presence, etc. Mere localization is no guarantee of fidelity.
Let us now look at the stereo triangle in reproduction and the microphones used to make such recordings and see what happens to the three localization cues. Basically stereophonics is an audible illusion, like an optical illusion. In an optical illusion the artist uses two dimensional artistic tricks to stimulate the brain into seeing a third dimension, something not really there. The Blumlein stereo illusion is similar in that most brains perceive a line of sound between two isolated dots of sound. Like optical illusions, where one is always aware that they are not real, one would ever confuse the stereophonic illusion with a live binaural experience. For starters, the placement of images on the line is nonlinear as a function of ITD and ILD, and the length of the line is limited to the angle between the speakers.
I want to get to the ILD/ITD phantom imaging issue. But let us first get the pinna issue tucked away. No matter where you locate a speaker, high frequencies above 1000 Hz can be detected by the pinna and the location of the speaker will be pinpointed unless other competing cues override or confuse this mechanism. In the case of the stereo triangle the pinna and the ILD/ITD agree near the location of the speakers. Thus in 5.1 LCR triple mono also sounds fine especially for movie dialog. In stereo, for central sounds, the pinna angle impingement error is overridden by the brain because the ITD and the ILD are consistent with a centered sound illusion since they are equal at each ear. The brain also ignores the bogus head shadow since its coloration and attenuation is symmetrical for central sources and not large enough to destroy the stereo sonic illusion. Likewise, the comb-filtering due to crosstalk, in the pinna frequency region, interferes with the pinna direction finding facility thus forcing the brain to rely on the two remaining lower frequency cues. All these discrepancies are consciously or subconsciously detected by golden ears who spend time and treasure striving to eliminate them and make stereo perfect. Similarly, the urge to perfect 5.1 is now manifest.
Consider just the three front speakers in 5.1. Unless we are talking about three channel mono, we really have two stereo systems side by side. Remember, stereo is a rather fragile illusion. If you listen to your standard equilateral stereo system with your head facing one speaker and the other speaker moved in 30 degrees, you won't be thrilled. The ILD is affected since the head shadows are not the same with one speaker causing virtually no head shadow and the other a 30 degree one. Similarly the pinna functions are quite dissimilar. (In the LCR arrangement the comb-filtering artifacts now are at their worst in two locations at plus and minus 15-degrees instead of just around 0-degrees as in stereo) Thus for equal amplitudes (such as L&C) where a signal is centered at 15 degrees, as in our little experiment, the already freakish stereo illusion is being strained. Finally, the ITD is still okay and partly accounts for the fact that despite the center speaker there is still a sweet spot in almost all home 5.1 systems. Various and quite ingenious 5.1 recording systems try to compensate for some of these errors but the results are highly subjective and even controversial.
Surround Sound Localization
Let us consider surround sound localization. Obviously, if a mono signal is placed at 110 degrees it can be localized using pinna, ILD, and ITD even when facing forward. Between the two rear surround speakers you have effectively a stereo pair spanning 140 degrees. In such a situation, if there is a lot of high frequency energy, the pinna will localize to the speakers and it will be difficult for some individuals to hear sound directly behind or in the central rear region. (The new rear surround channel can fix this, but the LCR anomalies as above will then apply.) However, if there is a real ITD and a real ILD between the rear speakers it is theoretically possible to hear a wide stage to the rear as in the stereo illusion. However the crosstalk, and thus the comb-filtering, is extreme at this angle and it starts at a lower frequency thus interfering with the ILD at 800 Hz or lower. If there is an ITD this can help but then the speakers must be properly placed or delay adjusted. Obviously, if this was a good way to make a stereo stage, front or rear, it would have been done this way long before now.
Finally, let us see what happens when we try to image from the front side speaker to a speaker at 110 degrees on the same side while facing forward. In the case of the pinnae, the pinna facing the speakers can localize to each speaker discretely if the signals are different. If they are correlated or identical the brain will use some other cue to localize. There may be some gifted individuals who can localize high frequency phantoms between the speakers using one pinna but I can't do it. The higher frequencies also go around the head to produce a head shadow and this at least allow the brain to decide the source is at the loud side.
If there is a time difference, then the two signals from each speaker reach the exposed ear canal and add together to produce garbage and a head shadowed version of this time garbage also reaches the far ear. Basically, regardless of the recorded TD, the ITD the brain perceives is always the ITD based on one's ear spacing. However this is sufficient to localize to the louder side but makes localization between the speakers wishful thinking.
Deja vu. If there is a level difference, then the two signals from each speaker reach the exposed ear canal and add together to produce garbage and a head shadowed version of this level difference garbage also reaches the far ear. Basically regardless of the recorded LD, the ILD the brain perceives is always the ILD based on one's head shadow. However this is sufficient to localize to the louder side but makes localization between the speakers wishful thinking.
That the above scenario is more or less correct is attested to by the fact that the industry keeps adding more speakers to correct these defects. We have the rear speaker, now height speakers, and the 7.1 and 10.2 proposals, etc. There are now several psychoacoustically valid reproduction and even recording methods to avoid all the physiological problems enumerated above. Among them are Ambisonics, Wavefield Synthesis and Ambiophonics. Of these Ambiophonics is most suited to small rooms and one-couple listening and can play existing LPs, CDs, DVDs and SACDs.
-- Ralph Glasgal
It's tough for me to respond to a statement like "5.1 speaker-based channels are fine for movies but inappropriate for music-in-surround. Instead we should be employing six (or less) channels in _______ configuration." In my humble opinion, a preferable way to phrase it would go something like: Which speaker/channel configuration delivers the most realistic reproduction of an actual sonic event (if that is one's goal)?
As a music lover, recording engineer and audiophile record label owner, I disagree with your assessment of 5.1 channel surround sound. I wouldn't think of changing my production process. And not because I don't believe in any of the other formats you mention but rather because I produce recordings with a completely different set of assumptions. My recordings/releases are not meant to recreate a live event in a documentary fashion. I have deliberately chosen to use high-resolution recording technology, a multichannel recorder, lots of stereo pairs of microphones and the ITU 5.1 channel standard for delivering music to consumers because I can go so far beyond what happens during a live event.
In short, the musical experience is enhanced through technology so that the listener hears something that is hyper-real...detailed, dynamic, immersive and engaging. As you know I have done a lot of binaural and minimally-miked recording. In comparing the very open, distant, reverberant sound of that type of tracking to the close yet deep sonics that I capture on our DVD-Audio discs, I much prefer the musicality and intimacy of the later. 5.1 channel systems, when properly setup and calibrated, deliver an absolutely incredible music experience...with the right software.
-- Mark Waldrep, Ph.D.
President and Chief Engineer
AIX Records
323-655-4116 ext 102
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[Editors Closing: Several hi-res multichannel labels have been experimenting with alternatives to typical 5.1 - including using the old quadraphonic display of 4.0 channels, using either the center channel or LFE channel or both for side or height information, and the most extreme alternative of using the center and LFE to feed two front speakers directly over the present front L & R , creating an equal vertical square pattern (retaining the surrounds in their normal positions). These"2+2+2" DVD-As from MDG & Divox will be reviewed here in AUDIOPHILE AUDITION shortly.]
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Author Notes: I set out to create a cream of tomato soup, turning to two food52 recipes for inspiration. I wanted to employ Oui, Chef's technique (from his Roasted Red Pepper Soup with Corn and Cilantro) of roasting the vegetables to create the foundation for a soup. And I was looking to riff on The Weary Epicurean's Tomato Bisque. In her bisque, The Weary Epicurean has you sear halved tomatoes in a pan before lavishing them with butter and cream.
For my version, I roasted the tomatoes with a few cloves of garlic, then mashed the roasted tomato pulp with cream and cream alone. (Make sure you mash the tomatoes well, so you end up with a fine pulp, not chunks.) And then because I couldn't stop myself, I made a rosemary-and-thyme oil to sprinkle on top. —Amanda Hesser
Serves: 4
4 pounds (about 8 medium) beefsteak tomatoes, cored and quartered
4 cloves garlic
1/4 cup olive oil, plus more for the tomatoes
1 sprig rosemary
3 sprigs thyme
6 tablespoons heavy cream
Sugar, if needed
Coarsely ground black pepper
4 thick slices country bread, toasted and brushed with olive oil, for serving
- Heat the oven to 375 degrees and line a rimmed baking sheet with foil. Lay the tomatoes cut-side up. Add the garlic cloves (with skins on). Sprinkle with olive oil and season with salt. Roast until the tomatoes are soft and caramelized, about 1 hour. Remove from the oven and let cool.
- Add the ¼ cup olive oil, the rosemary and thyme to a small saucepan and place over low heat. Let warm until you begin smelling the herbs, about 10 minutes. Remove from the heat and let cool.
- Peel the tomatoes and add the pulp and juices to a soup pan. Squeeze the garlic from its skin and add it to the pan. Place the pan over medium heat, and begin mashing the tomatoes with a potato masher until it's pulpy, but not chunky (if you prefer to use a food processor, go ahead – just make sure you leave it pulpy). When the mixture is hot but not boiling, stir in the cream. Season to taste with salt. Add a pinch of sugar, if needed. Ladle into bowls and season with pepper. Sprinkle a little herb oil on top of the soup. Pass the toasts at the table.
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If you choose to drink purchased fruit instead of to eat a whole fruit what would happen to the calorie content in your diet? what would happen to thefiber content?
I'm assuming you mean drinking 100% juice instead of eating whole fruit. The calorie content of your diet will be affected by the amount of juice that you drink. A serving of juice is ½ cup, and will have a similar number of calories to a small to medium piece of the same fruit, depending on what it is. It is fine to include 100% juice as part of your total intake. Juice, however, does not have the fiber that is in the whole fruit, so it may be less filling, making it easier to consumer more. It's a good idea to get a variety of different fruits and vegetables as well as a variety of different forms every day.