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Board of Education to Consider Facilities Options
Cañon City Middle School is a historically significant building in our community. However, the main structure, built in 1925, is difficult o maintain and no longer fully meets modern instructional needs.
The Cañon City School District board of education is seriously considering 5 proposals to address much needed facilities upgrades.
Because of age (four of the district 's eight school buildings were constructed at least 65 years ago), the need to address pressing structural issues, worn roofing, and outdated water delivery systems, we have engaged the community about how we might best address the challenges we face in improving our facilities.
One of our hopes is to secure significant grant dollars through Colorado's Building Excellent Schools Today program to minimize the financial impact a comprehensive facilities solution would have on taxpayers. This could allow us to address many outstanding issues for as little as 35 cents on the dollar. However, competing for such a grant will require us to reduce our total building capacity because BEST will not pay for the improvement of facilities that are not being fully utilized by a school district.
Based on our facilities master plan, updated in January of 2016, we have identified needs for health and safety improvements totaling 14 million dollars. The breakouts of these costs by building are as follows:
Lincoln School of Science and Technology: Replacing exterior doors, windows and sidelights, replacing the water distribution system, refurbishing restrooms, and increasing the safety of the entry for approximately $680,000.
McKinley Elementary: Replacing exterior doors, and windows, replacing the water distribution system, installing a new intercom system, refurbishing restrooms, and increasing the safety of the entry for approximately $1,000,000.
Cañon Exploratory School: Installing a new fire alarm and intercom system, removing an asbestos-laden modular, and increasing the safety of the entry for approximately $425,000.
Cañon City High School: Replacing exterior doors and windows in older sections, upgrading HVAC systems, repairing roofs, replacing the water distribution system, refurbishing restrooms, conducting general ADA upgrades, and increasing the safety of the entry for approximately $4,700,000.
Harrison K-8: Increasing the safety of the main entry and installing a panic alarm system for approximately $350,000.
Washington Elementary School: Replacing exterior doors and windows, repairing structural deficiencies, replacing the water distribution system, removing an asbestos laden portable structure, and increasing the safety of the entry for approximately $3,200,000.
Cañon City Middle School: Adding cooling to the auditorium, installing ADA required upgrades, replacing heating and steam lines, replacing asbestos flooring and ceilings, repairing roofing, and increasing the safety of the entry at Cañon City Middle School for approximately $2,500,000.
ACCESS Center (which houses our Early Childhood Center, Cañon Online Academy, and Choice Points Alternative School): Replacing exterior doors and windows, upgrading the HVAC system, repairing roofs, replacing the water distribution system, and increasing the safety of the entry for approximately $950,000.
Community members know Washington Elementary School has been a focus of discussion. This is because structural issues were identified in the building last spring that would cost roughly 3.5 million dollars to fully address. Because of this we have identified two potential courses of action, one in which we keep the Washington learning community where it is, and one in which we move that learning community to a different site within the district.
Two Options Being Considered to Maintain the Washington Learning Community
Washington Elementary has been a focus of discussion because of structural issues identified last spring.
Option A calls for identifying facility space throughout the district that could be eliminated in an effort to get our total square footage in line with the requirements needed to qualify for a BEST grant, and to then apply for a number of grants that would allow the district to address the 14 million dollars in health and safety upgrades needed. The total cost for this option would be just under 17 million dollars. This would include dollars designated for demolishing the old vocational facility at CCMS, as well as funds to make improvements to other parts of the CCMS building to absorb programs that currently utilize the old vocational facility. We estimate the total cost to district taxpayers for these projects outlined to be just under 6 million dollars if we can secure a BEST grant. The end result of this effort would be accomplishing the basic health and safety upgrades needed for all our current buildings, keeping the Washington learning community intact where it is currently located, while also reducing the square footage the district must maintain and operate on a yearly basis.
Option B also calls for identifying facility space throughout the district that could be eliminated in an effort to get our total square footage in line with the requirements needed to qualify for a BEST grant, and to then apply for a number of grants that would allow the district to address 12 million dollars in health and safety upgrades needed to buildings (this would be less because we would eliminate costs related to upgrading the current Washington building), while also providing for the construction of a brand new elementary school on the current Washington campus. The total cost of this option would be just under 27 million dollars. This would include dollars designated for a brand new 15 million dollar elementary school, demolishing the old vocational facility at CCMS, and for making improvements to other parts of the current CCMS building to absorb programs that currently utilize the old vocational facility. We estimate the total cost of this plan to CCSD taxpayers would be just under 9.5 million dollars if a BEST grant could be secured to help fund it. The end result of this effort would be providing the basic health and safety upgrades needed for all current buildings and constructing a brand new Washington school where it is currently located, while also reducing the square footage the district must maintain and operate on a yearly basis.
The three options we are considering that would result in moving the Washington learning community to a different site are as follows:
Three of Our Options Would Relocate the Washington Learning Community
One consideration toward removing excess square footage in the district to increase chances of qualifying for a grant is demolishing the old vocational structure at CCMS and moving programs located in this building to the main CCMS structure.
Option C calls for moving the Washington school community over to the Harrison facility, moving current Harrison grade 6-8 students to the CCMS campus, demolishing the old Washington school and turning that property into field space to be utilized by high school soccer and softball programs, upgrading the current CCMS building to effectively house more than 700 middle school students, and providing other needed health and safety upgrades to all other remaining facilities. The total cost of this option would be a little over 22 million dollars. This would include funds designated for CCMS upgrades, demolishing the Washington facility, and improving that property. We estimate the total cost of this plan to CCSD taxpayers would be just under 8 million dollars if a BEST grant could be secured to help fund it. The end result of this effort would be the creation of a large elementary school community on the Harrison campus, the establishment of a large middle school community on the CCMS campus, accomplishing the basic health and safety upgrades needed for all other buildings, while also significantly reducing the square footage the district must maintain and operate on a yearly basis.
Option D also calls for moving the Washington school community over to the Harrison facility, moving current Harrison grade 6-8 students to the CCMS campus, demolishing the old Washington school and turning that property into field space to be utilized by high school soccer and softball programs, and demolishing or repurposing the current CCMS building while constructing a new grade 6-8 facility to effectively serve more than 700 middle school students. This would also provide needed health and safety upgrades to all other remaining facilities. The total cost of this option would be a little over 40 million dollars. This would include funds designated for a brand new CCMS building, and demolishing the Washington facility and improving that property. We estimate the final cost of this plan to CCSD taxpayers to be just over 14 million dollars if a BEST grant could be secured to help fund it. The end result of this effort would be the creation of a large elementary school community on the Harrison campus, the establishment of a large middle school community in a brand new facility on the CCMS campus, accomplishing the basic health and safety upgrades needed for all other buildings, while significantly reducing the square footage the district must operate on a yearly basis by eliminating two of its oldest and most expensive to maintain facilities.
Option E calls for moving the CCMS school community over to the Harrison facility, then moving some current Harrison grade K-5 students to McKinley, while also building a brand new 500 student Washington Elementary building on the CCMS grounds. This would also result in the demolition of the old Washington school and turning that property into field space to be utilized by high school soccer and softball programs. This option would also provide needed health and safety upgrades to all other remaining facilities. The total cost of this option would be a little over 30 million dollars and would include funds designated for a brand new Washington building and demolition of parts, or all, of the current CCMS facility. We estimate the total cost of this plan to CCSD taxpayers would be just over 10.5 million dollars if a BEST grant could be secured to help fund it. The end result of this effort would be the creation of a large elementary school community on the CCMS campus, the establishment of a large middle school community in the Harrison facility, more efficient utilization of the McKinley campus, accomplishing the basic health and safety upgrades needed for all other buildings, while significantly reducing the square footage the district must maintain and operate on a yearly basis by eliminating 2 of its oldest and most expensive to maintain facilities.
Let's Review These Options
A quick review of the cost of these options to the community, if a BEST grant can be secured, is as follows:
Option A: Remove square footage and provide basic upgrades: 5.93 Million
Option B: Remove space and replace current Washington school on current site: 9.44 Million
Option C: Demolish Washington for field space, create a large elementary at Harrison and large middle school at CCMS, provide basic upgrades to all other buildings: 7.73 Million
Option D: Demolish Washington for field space, create a large elementary at Harrison and build a new large middle school at CCMS property, provide basic upgrades to all other buildings: 14.01 Million
Option E: Demolish Washington for field space, all middle school students move to Harrison, and a new larger Washington is built on current CCMS site. 10.51 Million
Our board of education plans to consider these options at its work session on Monday, September 26th, and to whittle them down to two finalists for consideration. The board will then hold a public hearing on those final options on Monday, October 10th, with the idea of deciding on a final course of action at its October 26th meeting. This would allow the district's administration team the time needed to submit a competitive BEST grant with highly accurate cost projections by the end of February, 2017.
We will find out if our grant has been awarded by June 1st, 2017 and if so, the board would then need to place a bond question on the November 2017 ballot to provide matching funds needed to execute the grant. If the match is approved by the community, construction would take place from January 2018 through July 2019, with all schools operating as they currently are until the first day of school in August of 2019.
If you would like to let our board members know which two of the current five options being considered you would most support, please feel free to contact them by email at the following addresses:
Larry Oddo: oddol@canoncityschools.org
Lloyd Harwood: harwoodl@canoncityschools.org
Mary-Kay Evans: evansm@canoncityschools.org
Shad Johnson: johnsos@canoncityschools.org
Kristyn Econome: economk@canoncityschools.org
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UCAS and the RAAF's future
Posted By Malcolm Davis on August 8, 2016 @ 14:30
A common refrain when discussing the future of airpower is that 'the F-35 is the last manned fighter [1]' and the future belongs to unmanned systems. The expanding use of unmanned air systems (UAS) such as Reapers [2] and Predators [3] against international terrorist networks implies a future of remote, push-button warfare. That entails minimal risk (on one side) for maximum tactical precision effect. The panorama of future battle is captured in targeting footage presented on evening news, and has become the centrepiece of movies—for instance, the excellent Eye in the Sky [4].
The 2016 Defence White Paper [5] highlights Australia's acquisition of an armed reconnaissance UAS for Army in the early 2020s (para 4.55), and seven unarmed MQ-4C Triton [6] Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Air Force (4.38). Army already makes extensive use of tactical surveillance UAS such as the RQ-7B Shadow 200 [7], while RAN has completed experimentation with the ScanEagle UAVS, and may employ Northrop Grumman MQ-8C Firescout [8] on the Future Frigates and the Canberra-class LHDs.
There's huge potential for transformation associated with higher performance Unmanned Combat Air Systems [9] (UCAS), epitomised by prototypes such as the Northrop Grumman X-47B [10], the BAE Systems Taranis [11], and the French Dassault nEUROn [12] projects. Those systems dispense with time-consuming processes and costs to ensure certification for manned flight, and X-47B and nEUROn are autonomous rather than remotely piloted. The effectiveness of the X-47B's autonomy has been highly visible with a perfect record for landing trials [13] (and here [14]) aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush in July 2013. The same precision was shown in airborne refuelling [15] trials (and here [16]) in 2015. In both instances, the X-47B was in charge—not a human.
UCAS operational costs are dramatically reduced as training for operators can be done largely in simulation, with the UCAS flying only when necessary. A recent [17]analysis [17] of UCAS vs manned aircraft for the USN by the Centre for New American Security (CNAS) suggested savings for UCAS over manned fighters of US$42.5 billion for 362 UCAS over 30 years, or potentially as much as US$131.5 billion over the same period for 191 UCAS compared to 463 manned platforms. So in an Australian context, money saved on life cycle costs could be reinvested back into further capability acquisition to allow a larger and more powerful future RAAF.
Future UCAS can be optimised for Australia's specific requirements and can be scaled up or down, in terms of size, payload, operational range and endurance. Already the X-47B has superior range over manned aircraft, with Northrop Grumman quoting a range [10] greater than 2,100nm—considerably more than the F-35A's 1,187nm. That long range allows airborne refueller aircraft to stand further back from a threat, increasing their survivability, while not affecting the ability of the UCAS to enjoy persistence over a battlespace of hours rather than minutes with a manned platform. Operating from RAAF bases, UCAS could deploy deep into maritime Southeast Asia or the Indian Ocean to carry out a broad range of roles and tasks. UCAS can act as unmanned wingmen to manned fighters, carrying extra weapons or sensors, and operate forward in more contested environments. In the traditional air-to-air role, the F-35 may control a number of UCAS that act as missile trucks for beyond-visual range (BVR) engagements, or they could undertake a broad range of strike and ISR roles.
So is UCAS the future and the F-35 the last manned fighter? We aren't seeing the end of manned fighters but witnessing an evolving concept for air warfare in which 'systems of systems' replace individual platforms, and a mix of manned and unmanned systems work together. As noted previously, low-end [9] UCAS which exploit swarming and numbers for tactical advantage over more sophisticated platforms may also be a feature. Absent true AI, and current political and legal constraints imposed by rules of engagement will constrain UCAS autonomy and promote manned fighters. Important debates over the ethics of lethal autonomous weapons, and the undeniable cultural influence of fighter pilots within the leadership of air forces, also mean that manned fighters won't disappear from that mix any time soon.
Australia should collaborate with the US, as well as the UK, to help develop UCAS capabilities. That could involve early practical steps with key partners, including for example, opening up Australian defence facilities for further operational testing of existing prototypes such as the Northrop Grumman X-47B (noting the precedent with the UK's Taranis [18] already having flown from Woomera). There needs to be a degree of 'pull' from states that can benefit from development of UCAS that can match the 'push' from corporate actors who are developing systems, to help bring those systems from prototype to operational deployment, and in particular to gain acceptance within an air force led by fighter pilots. With the requirement to replace the F/A-18F next decade, Australia has a golden opportunity to help drive transformation in air combat capabilities in the 21st century.
Malcolm Davis is a senior analyst at ASPI.
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URL to article: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/ucas-raafs-future/
[1] the last manned fighter: https://news.usni.org/2015/04/15/mabus-f-35c-will-be-last-manned-strike-fighter-the-navy-marines-will-ever-buy-or-fly
[2] Reapers: http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/FactSheets/Display/tabid/224/Article/104470/mq-9-reaper.aspx
[3] Predators: http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/predator-uav/
[4] Eye in the Sky: https://theintercept.com/2016/03/19/drone-warfares-ethical-dilemmas-are-focus-of-film-eye-in-the-sky/
[5] 2016 Defence White Paper: http://www.defence.gov.au/WhitePaper/
[6] MQ-4C Triton: http://www.airforce.gov.au/Technology/Aircraft/MQ-4C-Triton-Unmanned-Aircraft-System/?RAAF-BYjCaU6eHptQ3E2EiHw9jKOLJvauES8Y
[7] RQ-7B Shadow 200: http://www.army.gov.au/Our-work/Equipment-and-clothing/Surveillance/UAV
[8] Firescout: http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/inventions/unmanned-helicopters-to-revolutionise-australias-naval-aviation/news-story/e88ec37beda26dfd48a73b3c6734668a
[9] Unmanned Combat Air Systems: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/robots-wing-raaf-unmanned-future/
[10] X-47B: http://www.northropgrumman.com/Capabilities/X47BUCAS/Documents/UCAS-D_Data_Sheet.pdf
[11] Taranis: http://www.baesystems.com/en/product/taranis
[12] nEUROn: http://www.dassault-aviation.com/en/defense/neuron/introduction/
[13] landing trials: http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=75298
[14] here: http://www.navair.navy.mil/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.NAVAIRNewsStory&id=5435
[15] refuelling: http://www.navair.navy.mil/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.NAVAIRNewsStory&id=5880
[16] here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOU9iJZuoFc
[17] A recent : http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CNAS-Report_UAV-Lifecycle-Costs_FINAL_080715.pdf
[18] Taranis: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-06/taranis-drone-uk-mod-bae-systems-woomera-south-australia/5242636
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Education Minister, Himachal Pradesh Shri Suresh Bhardwaj has requested the Centre Government for liberal allocation of funds under Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) especially for hill states like Himachal Pradesh keeping in view the tough topographical conditions. He was speaking in the 65th meeting of Central Advisory Board of Education at New Delhi. The meeting was chaired by Union H R D Minister Shri Prakash Javadekar.
Shri Bhardwaj also urged the centre for releasing funds under RUSA for those colleges which were opened in the state by the previous government without making proper budgetary provisions. He said that there are many tough and remote areas in the state where educational institutions were needed and in order to expand educational facilities up to remotest corners, funds were needed to manage the colleges.


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Tracey from MAFS talks about how she's coping with online bullying
Dom, Meg and Randell caught up with Tracey from Married at First Sight. It's looking like her and Dean are still together...! Meg asked her how she's coping with being judged online since the show aired. Tracey said she was prepared for feedback about the show but she wasn't prepared to be judged on her looks and lips. She says she's open "about having a bit of botox and my boobs done and I own that. But it's to the point of bullying, really and I wasn't prepared for that. No one deserves that."


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Chillicothe Local Sports Stories
Swayne Runs Roughshod on Williamsburg in 57-7 Win
By Dave Hilliard
Hillsboro Junior quarterback Mason Swayne rushed for 285 yards and 4 touchdowns in the first half to help lead the Hillsboro Indians to a 57-7 victory over Williamsburg at Richards Memorial Field in Hillsboro.
Swayne scored on runs of 66, 42, 67 and a final run of 98 yards on the last play of the first half.
The Hillsboro rushing attack accounted for 422 yards in the first half alone and a total of 588 yards for the night to lead the Indians to a 3-1 record after four games.
Williamsburg (1-3) moved the ball in spurts against the Indians, accumulating 301 yards of total offense, but had trouble getting the ball into the end zone.
Hillsboro travels to Clermont Northeastern next Friday night before opening Frontier Athletic Conference play on September 29th at Chillicothe.


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Map Location of Brad Garrett's Las Vegas Comedy Club
Defending the Caveman
Brad Garrett's Comedy Club in Las Vegas
Brad Garrett has gained become a household name over the years as we've grown familiar with his face from seeing him in different rolls on television including one of his most popular rolls, "Everybody Loves Raymond." His dry comedy and hilarious facial expressions has given him a boost in his career and is now recognized as one of the funniest comedians of his generation.
Now the funny man has fulfilled his long time dream by opening a comedy club in Las Vegas. "I've had the good fortune of performing in Las Vegas for more than 25 years, and it has always been a dream of mine to own my own comedy club in the entertainment capital of the worldbut Dubai won't have me. I am humbled to be able to bring my stand-up friends and colleagues to what I believe will be the best comedy room in Las Vegas" Says Garrett about his new venture. If you're lucky, you may even catch Brad Garrett at his Las Vegas comedy club greeting guests at the door, or even climb on-stage to give you a dose of Brad Garrett hilarity. Comedians that are both known and starting off has graced Garrett's comedy club stage. This is the only place you'll be able to see Brad Garrett perform in Las Vegas for the next two years.
Brad Garrett's Las Vegas Comedy Club Information
Show Location:
Brad Garrett Comedy Club at the Tropicana
Show Times:
Monday: 8:00pm
Tuesday: 8:00pm
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BUSINESS NAME Brad Garrett's Las Vegas Comedy Club
ADDRESS 3801 S. Las Vegas Blvd.
WEBSITE http://www.bradgarrettcomedy.com/


reinitializes the grids' DataMatrix and Header.
All other values and settings are kept. This makes it easier and faster to populate an existing JBGrid when your data updates or the underlying datasource changes a lot.
You don't have to overwrite all existing fields of the DataMatrix anymore.
True/False string values are being recognized, displayed and edited with a CheckBox.
When you set them both the same color all cells are the same, obviously!
It is worth putting this in the framework, since every cell is being painted here anyway.
If you need single cells to have a different BackColor use e.g.
The .CellForeColor ( and JBGrid1.CellBackColor(row, col) )is now also visible when the cell or row is selected.
If JBGrid1.FlatHeader = True is set at the same time no gradient paint is used; you will get a minimalistic header!
The standard JBGrid.Header is being used.
I have changed the internals a bit. The renderer is not using a new Jlabel anymore but rather modifies the existing Jtables' header by painting on it.
Since the JBGrid uses its own DataModel (HashMap) Javas' Jtable.setAutoCreateRowSorter(True) does not really work. The rowsorter usually provides a sortarrow in the columns' header that we don't have.
I implemented a custom drawn SortIndicator to the JBHeaderRenderer. It does not look as smooth as the original thing (Java uses an icon) but I wanted something fast. Suggestions are very wellcome!
This does not sort anything. It is a visual indicator! All sorting has to be done while populating the JBGrid.
Is being set by clicking on the JBGrid.ColumnHeader or in code regardless JBGrid1.ShowSortIndicator = True or False!
When the user clicks on the same Column a second time the SortIndicatorIndex reverses/togles. It changes to -1 when an emty part of the header is being clicked (JBGRid1.ColHeaderIndex = -1).
Resizing a column no longer triggers a click event!
I also fixed some other bugs where click events where not fired accordingly.
Have a look at the following samplecode for demonstration.
I did some testing on Win7 (different LAFs) and MacOS Snowleopard -> looks good to me.
There are allready so many features to the JBGrid, it is hard to test them all.
Using this new version you will HAVE TO CHANAGE EXISTING PROJECTS.
At least the .BackColorCellsAlternating value has to be set.
Jabaco does not know what standard values to use for new properties of a controll. So using those new features you will find the initial settings a bit anoying. e.g. .BackColorCellsAlternating will be black!!
You can change that by editing the Jabaco.xml file of you Jabaco installation path.
'      JBGrid1.Header(y) = "Header " & y & ""
'      JBGrid1.Header(y) = "Header
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If x = 4 Then JBGrid1.DataMatrix(x, y) = ""
'JBCellEditor button's dimension is too small so "..." shows; it is not the caption of the button!
In your example, the colored cells changes not the color, if they are selected.
So I tried something out.
With this change, the selected cells have the selection-color with a little bit of the color of the background of the cell. That gives the feeling, the selection is a little bit transparent.
I am dealing with financial programms so I need back- and forecolors on selected rows to represent certain values.
Funny I have been playing around with that too!
Also I wanted to get the sortindicator a lighter shade of the gridcolor.
I used the HSB colorspace because of the RGB problems shading zero value bases colors!!
The above only shows a step of getting there.
I like the effect of your sample a lot. It 'feels' right.
Colors could shine through a bit brighter for my taste.
I am just allways worried about stuffing too manny Calls into those Renderers.
My computer is 10 years old !!
But I never got a multiline text there except for when I use html code
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It would be a nice feature to get that to work for the header and the JBGrid cells.
Standard JLabel has no linebreak ability!
Since it is in the VBA tree of the framework I thought you might want to look into it.
And do you need a complete VBA.Financial class?
Ok, then I think about, to load it the next time up to svn.
I also think, that it is better, to have a small framework. But most improvements are extending it, to make it bigger.
Hmmm.. currently I haven't looked special at it, too. I think, at first I will try to use it in little Java-examples.
But I have looked at the history of it.
There is only one change by OlimilO, which formattes the documentation text a little bit.
" Based on Zafir Anjum example."
And Google says, that Zafir Anjum is one of the founder of [ CodeGuru ].
He have also written some posts with examples in the Java-Area of CodeGuru.com.
It comes with an example, how to use it.
As you can see, I have now a lot of edited this post, because I find everytime a little bit more out.
With this MultiLineLabelUI, you can exactly the same like with HTML in the label. The only difference is, with HTML you use "
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I see, that Java itself have a class called MultiLabelUI, but which is different implemented.
The UI-classes in Java are for creating the own LookAndFeel.
In this package are a lot of "Multi"-things.
But the implementation of Jabaco seems really to implement a UI for multiple lines in a JLabel.
with an other BSD-licensed implementation of MultiLineLabelUI and with sample to it an so on.
This approach has two drawbacks. First, it will bloat your code or resource strings since you'll need to add the HTML tags somewhere. Second, you'll loose control of how text is being drawn once HTML mode is set. When you use HTML in a Swing component, it will be rendered as a View (see javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicHTML for implementation details).
So, you can only choose between a Label, JBGrid, etc.
Both together seems not to be possible.
I tried invoking MultiLines with some elder versions of the framework but it did not work.
I wonder if it did for Manuel!?
I will look at the source again later. Maybe I am missing the correct 'keywords' to invoke linebreaks.
You got a lot of information on this one but I think it is all much to involved.
I've searched the web a while in order to find a proper nicely written multiline cell renderer for a JTable, but all the solutions which I have found so far somehow does not meet my requirements, or they are just clumsy written.
The first example I found was this http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/Swing-Components/MultiLineCellExample.htm, but somehow it does not meet the requirements which i have.
The renderer should be able to render individual row with different heights. And they should be able to resize etc. when manipulating the table.
By combining the above example with my own code, i came to the solution below, which is nice and clean and does not rely on anything outside the renderer.
* Multiline Table Cell Renderer.
* Calculate the new preferred height for a given row, and sets the height on the table.
//order to make room for the text.
The thing to not about the code above, it the setSize() call to the textarea. The height is not important, by the width is. getPreferredSize() is used to calculate the proper height of the cell, but getPreferredSize() only works if the width of the textarea has been set. If the width has not been set, getPreferredSize() thinks that it can lay out the text in the area in one line. By setting the width with setSize() we force getPreferredSize() to calculate a height for the text where the text cannot be wider then the width we've set using setSize().
As the renderer used an double arraylist to contain the preferred height of each cell, the same instance of the renderer must be used on all columns. The example belov just uses String in all column, but one might have domain specific object which are to be renderer. A trick to overcome this could be to make a domain specific renderer (MyDomainRenderer), which extends the MultiLineRenderer and encodes domain specific information into a String which is then passed to the MultiLineRenderer.
And that kind of that... Now you have a proper multi line cell renderer, which can be reused over and over again since it has not been poluted with domain specific code.
It is the same like the MultiLineLabelUI in Jabaco.
So, to begin a new line you have to write "\n".
Where is the difference to the HTML-solution? Where is it better to write "\n" instead of "
" ?
I don't know, if this is part of the VisualBasic Finacial class.
if there is something usefull in it.
Still, if you try to use that for the tableheader with previous rev. of the framework?
It seems like it ignores ' \n '; html works fine. Thats why I outcommented the Call... in the source code.
I think you got me wrong, the chart is part of my programm so I got all the functions I needed. I just wanted to demonstrate what I was looking for. I put together a little Module so I can easily plot to different controls.
So, are you going to upload the ttransparent rowselector? Should there be a variable for transparency?
If I remember right, I don't have Jabaco available right now, there are a couple places in the framework where you can allready set a value for transparency. But none seem to work! Right?
Maybe some other parts of the framework can benefit from your solution. You might want to put together a function for Global.
Just a thought, I will have a look later.
As I mentioned before, there is another BUG with the JBGrid on MacOS when you have the ComboBox as CellEditor the ComboBox does not fill the whole Cell. It centers to the middle of the Cell. When the CellHeight / CellWidth gets bigger the ComboBox does not size to those values. So the Cell is much bigger than the Component. The CellButton stretches to the Cell! This issue might be LAF dependent, I don't know. But it looks very ugly.
I will post a picture later.
It seems like it ignores ' \n '; html works fine.
So, are you going to upload the ttransparent rowselector?
And if anybody other want to compile and upload the latest binary, he can also put it than in there.
Should there be a variable for transparency?
Currently it have not. Do you think, that it will be an good idea to have one?
Also I am currently not sure, how to use it then. The property would be in JBGrid. The changes are in JBCellRenderer.
Transparency is often a problem, because it needs to know both colors: The color which comes over something and the color of the part, where it comes over. It isn't not that easy to find everytime both.
This is written for that part. The solution to mix the foreground and background is old. If you have a picture and write there a transparent text over it, then pixel for pixel is mixed the color of the font with the color of the background.
Ok. I wait for the picture.
And it is not because of the colors?
On Linux existing a lot of problems with the "system-colors". I am often thinking, if it would be a good idea to integrate a non-color.
And with "non-color" I mean, that no color is set. So for every control is the default color of the LookAndFeel be used.
Because only on Windows with the WindowsLookAndFeel is the default color and the colors used in Jabaco, the same.
One of the reasons, why I have decided against it was, that it needed later a modified Jabaco.xml. But this is now already modified. So there isn't much, which speaks against it, to implement the non-color.
Oh, and btw: I have added Jabaco.xml to svn.
something we have been waiting for for a long time!
It is probably allright the way it is now. We have to be carefull with too many properties here. But it would be no problem to read the mygrid.RowColorSelTransparency Property from within the Renderer!
Apple is very restrictive with style as we know.
So the ComboBox simply can not be set to the required height of the JBGrid Cell!
It works, I have tested it; but the ComboBox button is a little too big on the Mac.
And of course dependig on the LAF used on a System this might not suit everybody.
It is probably not a solution.
I have now seen, that it already work, when you use the HTML-tags.
Then
 breaks the line always. If the word ends on the line or not.
But without
 it breaks, after the line ends, and continues in the next line. That what you want.
I hae seen it, on the attached program, where I have used JBGrid.
I got last update for JBGrid. When I try to change font (i.e. JBGrid1.fontname = "Tahoma" ), header texts font will change, not text font in each single cell. Do you know a workaround?
Are you using the latest Jabaco.jar?


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tonewood? why? Jan 31, 2016 4:51:07 GMT -5
Post by monkey hotel on Jan 31, 2016 4:51:07 GMT -5
...just to prove that wood really doesn't matter:
Cardboard Strat
strat80hm
tonewood? why? Jan 31, 2016 14:39:39 GMT -5
Post by strat80hm on Jan 31, 2016 14:39:39 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing - the concept is not new but this one is very well made!
The war in the comments below the videos is predictable yet hilarious - guitarists can be SO conservative...
Again a blatant proof (as we needed one) that one hears with their eyes a lot - always good to be reminded reality: many roads lead to Roma haha
Post by sumgai on Jan 31, 2016 19:23:09 GMT -5
paging Runewalker, paging Runewalker... opinion needed in Aisle 5 please.
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
tonewood? why? Feb 1, 2016 1:15:09 GMT -5
Post by cynical1 on Feb 1, 2016 1:15:09 GMT -5
That was very cool. I'd love to know what they used as a binder in the cardboard.
I was impressed at how well the neck performed.
Just goes to show how the tone wood game changes when the pickups go in...
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tonewood? why? Feb 1, 2016 12:25:06 GMT -5
Post by pyrros on Feb 1, 2016 12:25:06 GMT -5
Being of the modern "internet" digital generation, I'd love to agree, but unfortunately materials (e.g. wood/cardboard/carbon fibre/<insert your favorite material here/>etc...) matters as has been shown multiple times, the videos' sound provided are youtube-type quality anyway.
So yes, the thing sounds like a guitar, but no, not all 25.5 S/S/S strats with the same pups sound the same. Their necks/bodies vibrate at (and absorb) different frequencies of the harmonic composition, thus pronouncing the rest of them. The resulting harmonics are all sensed by the pups.
Post by monkey hotel on Feb 1, 2016 12:41:30 GMT -5
Feb 1, 2016 12:25:06 GMT -5 @pyrros said:
Their necks/bodies vibrate at (and absorb) different frequencies of the harmonic composition, thus pronouncing the rest of them. The resulting harmonics are all sensed by the pups.
I demand complete graphs of frequency response considering player's density variance depending on actual pole shift, anamorphic flux of corresponding star constellations and humidity!
Feb 1, 2016 12:41:30 GMT -5 monkey hotel said:
man, I told you I wanted to agree, but just couldn't. In the meantime I guess the time when someone brings the exact identical waveforms for same geometry/pups but essentially different woods won't come any time soon
I know, greekdude, i know.
I wasn't too serious about my initial statement.
(...before i start posting things like "the lego guitar", the "Wangcaster" or even edible guitars, this should probably go to a different section.)
Last Edit: Feb 1, 2016 14:22:58 GMT -5 by monkey hotel
Post by blademaster2 on Feb 1, 2016 16:27:56 GMT -5
I also agree with greekdude, of course. No instrumentation can show the differences that human hearing can distinguish. If I look at the waveform or spectral response of a piano compared to a guitar I could never point out the differences or even recognize which is which, and yet I can hear the difference any time.
Post by cynical1 on Feb 1, 2016 22:36:58 GMT -5
Yeah, but the real question is what's it gonna sound like after you sweat on it for a half hour...
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Post by JFrankParnell on Feb 2, 2016 10:22:46 GMT -5
Ok, as long as we're talking tonewood...
I just saw, touched, played one of these:
Sandblasted finish. They look *so* cool. I love the texture of them, too. They make it in strats, teles, precisions, maybe jazzes, not sure. However, GuitarStoreGuy was telling me about the 'thin, nitro' finish and how that affected the sustain, at least... he may have stopped short of saying the tone was better, but as soon as he launched into it, I started racking my brain to remember what the Gnutz boys thought about finishes. Thoughts?
I remember every little thing...as if it happened only yesterday.
I was barely seventeen, and I once killed a boy with a Fender guitar.
I don't remember if it was a telecaster or a stratocaster,
But I do remember that it had a heart of chrome and a voice like a horny angel.
OK, once and for all...the reason Gibson and Fender used nitrocellulose lacquer back in the 50's was because it was the cheapest finish they could get away with. No voodoo, no feldergarb and certainly no mystic tone genie involved.
In the early 60's Fender began to use a filler\base coating trade named Fullerplast. It's a real thick plastic coating that removed the need for grain filling in a production environment. Again, a step to control costs, this time by removing a labor cost from the process.
They still coated them with nitro, but again, only because it's cheap.
Don't get me wrong, I like lacquer. It's easy to apply, super easy on repairs and you can get a shine you can shave with...and did I mention that it's cheap?
Does the thin nitro coating have an effect on the tone? Sure. So does the length of your guitar cable. If I blind-folded you and made you pick which guitar had a nitro finish I'd bet the farm you couldn't do it. I'll go so far as to say no one can do it.
So, the next time someone trots out the nitrocellulose Holy Grail nonsense, just smile and thank some hopefully long dead a hole in Marketing somewhere for starting that urban legend.
Last Edit: Feb 4, 2016 14:07:08 GMT -5 by cynical1
Post by strat80hm on Feb 7, 2016 15:34:58 GMT -5
Feb 1, 2016 16:27:56 GMT -5 blademaster2 said:
Furthermore, from my own experience, when listening to waveforms (attack, decay, sustain, release) right after the "attack" phase, it is not easy to tell a piano from a guitar or a cello:
To me, the attack (and peak) is the main differentiating factor between instruments.
Feb 2, 2016 18:01:19 GMT -5 cynical1 said:
What!?! How about brass nut, mojo banjo, grigri guitar, voodoo drums, Mississippi crossroad, black cats, blue LEDs, brown m&ms, pink elephants, point-to-point soldering and clothe-sleeved wire???
Legends too since you re at it???
Last Edit: Feb 7, 2016 15:59:59 GMT -5 by strat80hm
Well, the way I see it, and I really have wasted a ton of time doing research on this stuff, is that the factor that a guitarist can actually perceive is weight. A heavier guitar has more sustain and less resonance. A lighter guitar has less sustain and more resonance. Supposedly this is because the additional resonance of a guitar reduces sustain when waves bounce back from the body into the strings destructively. Whatever the reason, you can find an example of this here:
How that resonance affects the actual sustained note is another story. The way I see it, the phase cancellation of fundamental, and all harmonics, is going to be even enough that you'll always have the same proportion of fundamental to harmonics as if you took the guitar body out of the equation. If you're talking about a single string. But I do think resonance has a huge impact on chords.
When you play an open string, and you neglect to mute the other strings, you'll notice they ring out a little. This is the effect of resonance. You can quickly notice this effect is greater in an acoustic guitar then say, a heavy les paul. But does that just affect muting, or does it affect timbre?
I believe this affects the timbre. First of all, let me say it's the overall weight, and not the species of wood or the finish, that changes resonance. Some woods are heavier than others, but to my understanding a well secured lead weight on an alder body will have the same overall resonance as a mahogany body. But I digress. The resonance can affect the timbre of chords through the reinforcement of constructive wavelengths and weakening of destructive wavelengths. Whereas before(discussing a single string), the frequencies resonating in the body were exactly the same as the ones in the string, when you've got 6 strings all resonating differently, and all sending waves into the body, the relationships between the strings becomes complicated.
Be warned, the next part of my argument is partly informed by my own ears. I don't know, but I highly doubt, that it is possible to measure this.
I believe that when an instrument resonates a chord, the most powerful overtones(lower order harmonics) are more likely to survive and reinforce, while the weaker overtones(higher order harmonics) are more likely to be destroyed and die. Also, I believe that the mathematical relationship between two notes means that a 2 note chord will sustain longest if the notes are a 5th apart. That's because the notes will have more harmonics in common. Common overtones will have less destructive interaction than uncommon overtones. How does this effect timbre? Well, a more resonant instrument will have the chaotic higher order harmonics destroyed sooner during the sustain if a chord, leaving the more mathematically related, and musically harmonious overtones ringing out.
I feel it's worth mentioning at this point before anyone gets too excited and goes and builds a paper maché guitar that the gauge and tension of the strings has a huge impact on the way the strings interact, as well resonance and sustain. It's very difficult to say what's noticeable and what isn't, what has a greater impact and what can be ignored.
By now you're probably thinking I've driven the topic completely into the ground. But wait, there's more! This is the most controversial (in my mind) area of the debate. For that reason, I think it's particularly important to be careful of what words I choose. This is also the area of the debate where some will come to the conclusion(which I cannot hope to refute) that the species of wood effects the timbre. That area of the debate is known as peak resonant frequencies, dead spots, or wolf tones.
I prefer to call these wolf tones. Why? Because it's not what guitarists call them! We're all aware of the pseudo-science that many guitar companies have put out over the years, so I like to use the same term we've been using for this since the time of Bach. Wolf tones are notes that ring louder acoustically on an instrument than the other notes, because the whole instrument resonates at the same frequency. More energy is lost into the air, so the sustain is shorter. Hence, they're called dead spots on electric guitars because the acoustic volume doesn't matter, and they sound quiet and short through the amp.
The first thing to understand about wolf tones is that many exist on your guitar at once. People often refer to guitars as having a single peak resonance frequency. When they do so, they are simply referring to the largest wolf tone. That is to say, the wolf tone of the greatest part of the body and neck combined. This is an important one because nearly all the other wolf tones go completely unnoticed. The way to measure the other wolf tones is to subject an instrument to sound waves from a frequency generator and see what parts vibrate. You can find an example here: (I couldn't find the video, I'll add it later) Edit: Here it is. The person who made the video is very opinionated to say the least. Please just consider the experiment on its own merit as an illustration. The comments given about the nut and the bridge do have value, though.
Now, the wolf tone not only affects the fundamental, but it also affects overtones. What's important to notice, is that it effects different order harmonics for every note. Say the wolf tone is at a D. Generally wolf tones aren't at exact notes, but let's say it is. It would affect the D note most, and the G note second most. The G note would have a diminished lower order harmonic, which might make the upper harmonics more emphasized by comparison. It will certainly make the fundamental sound more forward. But it will have little effect on a G#, only affecting very high order harmonics.
What's important to get from all that is that a wood won't be warmer or brighter based on resonant frequency. What might be useful to know is that heavier guitars have higher peak resonant frequencies, and lighter guitars have lower peak resonant frequencies. Though, I believe taking the peak resonant frequency into account is foolish, since the interaction of the wolf tones changes for every note. Nobody buys a guitar with specific notes in mind. Now, in general a musical wolf tone is a bad thing for an electric guitar. It'll result in a dead spot. But it's basically impossible to avoid this when building a guitar. You can't predict the resonant frequency when the guitar is assembled. It can be remedied by adding or removing weight to certain parts of the guitar. For example, people often have added weights to the headstock of bass guitars to remedy dead spots. They move the wolf tone to a different note, and hopefully it is a less musical one.
So, in conclusion, does wood species matter? No. Does wood matter? Yes. The combination of weight and shape dictates the wolf tone of an instrument, which can be an annoyance! However, it doesn't change the timbre of the instrument. Overall weight, on the other hand, does change the timbre of the instrument! As far as what players prefer, it sure varies. There's no right answer to timbre. The weight doesn't, however, affect the overall frequency response of the guitar. It won't make a guitar darker or brighter.
If you're a millionaire musician who can afford to buy a guitar for every song, feel free to use the knowledge of wolf tones to blow a whole bunch of dough. You might want that one note to have slightly more fundamental than the others! For the rest of us, I'd say the most we ought to worry about is the weight. Even that, compared to the many other factors that effect timbre, is small.
I dunno about all that. It's an electric guitar, after all, and the whole point of 'ol Les and Leo developing the solid-body guitar was to take acoustics, resonances, etc. out of the equation. Particularly the resonances, which in a hollow-bodied design meant, essentially, feedback.
Does wood have an effect? As Cyn1 said, prove it in a double-blind test against several sets of ears. To my mind (and ears), the pickups' contribution vastly outweighs everything else. Second in line is the neck joint and the construction of the bridge, those things do affect tone, subtly but perhaps measurably. But, add in effects pedals, amp gain, etc, and good luck finding any component of your tone that can be reliably traced to anything we would call "tonewood".
But the search for the Magic Mojo™ will forever continue . . .
I have to agree with newey here on most fronts. Tonewood has no impact on the sound of the instrument. I'd even say the neck joint has no impact on the tone of the instrument. As I said before I don't think peak resonant frequencies change the tone of the instrument. I also happen to think the only thing a neck joint could impact is those peak resonant frequencies. I don't see how a neck joint could have much way of interacting with the strings.
I do think the weight of the guitar changes at the very least the sustain of a guitar. I dunno of you can really call that tone, but there you have it. I do think that a lighter guitar will have more interaction between the strings.
What that interaction actually does, other than impact the sustain, is somewhat beyond me. All that theory guesswork about fundamentals and overtones is pretty much just an idea. I think it could be so, at least it seems likely to me. But I'll bet there's someone out there with a much better understanding of physics who could set me straight.
I guess I want to emphasize that my post is all about that I don't believe in tonewood. As far as I see it, you could go ahead and strap some weights to an alder guitar and get the same result as swapping the whole body to mahogany.
Man you brought some very interesting points above. The only thing I would substitute is "weight" for "stiffness". Maybe the same effect with stiffness is achieved via inertia through weight but this is certainly the longest path. Take a look at the modern chambered Les Pauls. Do they sustain less than the "old" 50's monsters? I think not.
On the last one, about strapping weights to the alder guitar, go grab some cheapo strat with lousy sustain and do the test. You will only get a cheapo heavier strat with lousy sustain.
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tonewood? why? Jun 7, 2016 14:14:13 GMT -5 via the ProBoards App
Post by b4nj0 on Jun 7, 2016 14:14:13 GMT -5
Deliberately giving subjective things the swerve, I'd just offer the observation that in my opinion, active pickups notwithstanding, pickups are passive devices that do not exhibit any gain.
e&oe...
"Gain" for a transducer such as a pickup is still the term that is commonly used, passive or not.
Strictly speaking it perhaps should really be termed "response" or "sensitivity", which would be the relationship between the mechanical energy of the string versus the resulting electrical output (in this case, voltage) generated by the pickup in response to that. "Gain" is really the ratio of output to input where the units are the same (i.e. voltage), which is dimensionless, whereas the pickup performs a conversion.
Post by cynical1 on Jun 7, 2016 16:36:48 GMT -5
Cheap -
I read your original post a couple of times, and have to admit, you make some very interesting and well reasoned points. I agree with most of them.
One point never brought up in these discussions is the age of the wood in question. About 20 years ago I started experimenting with salvage lumber. Back then, architectural salvage was not the cash cow it is now. I've found 100+ year old beams that I cut down, at great expense to my tooling, and built into basses and guitars. I actually found that these instruments were brighter than instruments I had used younger wood on.
I must respectfully disagree with your point on newer Les Pauls sustaining as long as ones built in the 50's. All mechanical points being equal, the 50-60 year old piece of wood is is going to hold a note much better than a piece of kiln dried 2 year old wood. At 5 decades the wood is as hard and stable as it's ever going to be and moisture is at it's absolute minimum. The graining was also superior on salvage lumber than on newer lumber simply because all the trees that the wood was taken from in the 50's was old growth. The graining is almost always superior on the older lumber. Nowadays they use quick growing softer woods...and sometimes I think their definition of curing the wood consists of just running a hair dryer on it after chopping it down. Pick any species and your results will be the same.
I have never been one to lock step with the "tonewood" gurus. Read any of my posts and you will see that. I will back up a bit and say that the species of wood will have an effect on the overall tone of the instrument. How noticeable it is certainly is a matter of debate.
From my experience, the tightness of your tolerances and the alignment of all components contacting the string will have more effect on the overall tone and performance of an instrument than the wood used.
Thanks for making me think for a change.
Cynical One
As a point of order(whatever that means), I guess I should say, while you can't measure the character of an instrument, there are things you can measure. When I talk about an instrument's resonance, I'm not talking about the character of the resonance, just how much there is. In other words, how much the thing shakes! That's one of those things you can measure. As far as how resonance affects character or timbre, that's a whole different can of worms. Well, I think it's natural to want to get straight to the heart of the matter, but you sure can't debate on it in very concrete terms.
That said these sort of almost-scientific points I'm making are pretty useless, but I don't think I can manage to address too much at once. Something like sustain is also subject to interpretation. When does the note we hear really stop? Well, it's definitely some time before the string stops measurably moving. Heck, you can even see the thing moving and not be able to hear it!
Measuring these two factors, particulaly sustain which is affected to a greater extent by electronics, is more out of a morbid curiosity than out of an attempt to improve or select an instrument or tone. One should definitely follow one's ears, but I don't need to tell you veterans of tone that! As a newbie I lose sight of that too often, but the subject still piques my interest.
To move on to elasticity... I think it changes the timbre through the bridge. I think I've gotta agree with you here, with the caveat that it'd only be perceptible(to anyone) if the bridge was mounted to a thin piece of wood. Rigidity is a function of thickness, after all. I think that among two archtop guitars, if you were to make the tops of each the same thickness, the rigidity of the wood would change the timbre. Archtops do dampen a wide range of frequencies. Once again, my tragic lack of experience renders me unable to comment on what the character of a less rigid top would be compared to a more rigid top.
But y'know, solid body guitars on the other hand, you've got a different matter. And I also don't think grain can be perceived. The theory behind that, I suppose, would be that a greater surface area would cause more energy to be transferred to the air? Can anyone clarify on this? Moisture, I get(it has a huge impact on weight), but I don't think that two guitars weighing the same with different cuts of wood, moisture content, etcetera, would have any effect on anything but peak resonant frequencies... And I do still think a peak resonant frequency can't be cited as a cause of a change overall frequency response, only of specific dead spots.
Once again I'm only talking about the electric guitar signal. Anyways I want to thank everyone for being nice to me about this... All I'm saying is fun for me to think about, but I know this is a delicate subject. You guys have seriously elevated this question beyond anything I've found online, which usually consists of a whole bunch of bickering.
I know I know just enough to be dangerous... That is, only enough to think I'm right and throw around terms I barely know the meaning of. That's why my position, though once again a position of debate and not musicianship, is totally open to change. In this post in particular I don't want any of you to think that I think I refuted you... I definitely failed to prove any of you wrong. But I haven't been convinced either way! Here's to a continued discussion! (Please don't feel obligated though)
I think I failed to address a important point in my last post. It's one that I can sum up pretty succinctly, though. The string sustains, the wood doesn't(through an amp). We essentially don't care about the ability of the wood to hold a tone. You will probably find a stiffer guitar(based on cynical1's testimony) able to hold its peak resonant frequency after being hit by a hammer, if held by the headstock, for a longer time. Or... something besides a hammer. Something polite.
Anyway, I don't believe that'll change timbre or sustain through an amp... Unless, you say that the rigid material will also have less phase change. That would be a result of the wave moving more quickly through the material. Hmm... Some good food for thought there. I don't know that a longitudinal wave would respond differently to stiffness, or only density. I guess I have to hit the books some more.
I shouldn't do this, but.....
First, a big welcome to cheap. Gotta love that moniker, even if just for all the possible permutations here in The NutzHouse, let alone elsewhere.
Next, I wanna aks you all a question.... how come the rest of you don't stop to wonder, why is that I, gumbo and a small handful of others here don't chip in to this discussion? Would it perhaps be because we have/use Roland VG gear, stuff that does indeed break out each factor mentioned above into a variable that can be adjusted as desired? (And a lot of other little trinkets, to boot.) We know what works, and for the most part, what doesn't - at least for us, individually.
Contrary to popular belief, what you get when you pay Roland's exorbitant prices is their awe-inspiring experience in modeling each factor into something that can be defined mathematically. Yes, it can be done, and in such a way so as to guarantee that even so-called Golden Ear listeners will not be able to tell the difference between modeled and real-meal-deal tones. cyn says he'd bet a farm that one couldn't tell the difference, given a double blindfold test. I'll go even further - I'll pay your freight to show up at my door, with you bringing your own instrument(s), and we'll have a little test. If you can guess the right answer 52% of the time, then I'll pay your way back home. If not, then I'll drive you to the bus station, and the rest is up to you.
Oh wait, that's already been done! Just whistle up asmith - he's been here and done this. Ask him his impressions. In fact, JFrank himself also heard my VG-55, as played by Ace, in his home (not mine). There's a movie clip of that somewhere around here.....
Runewalker has it right - tonewood, shmonewood. If you ignore all the other details whilst propounding one certain factoid, then you're either willfully ignorant, or you have a bright future ahead of you in Marketing.
Thanks for the welcome, sumgai. As you can imagine from my name, I'm not impartial! Then again, nobody who owns a guitar is free of a bit of bias. I thought tone wood was the most important factor of a guitar when I started playing. It's a shame, too, cuz I'd still have that cheap-o bass if I realized I could fix it up like I can now. When I first saw stuff about tonewood being a myth online, it was an instant sell... I think I was just a bit eager to believe what I wanted to. It's only after realizing the ways the strings do interact with the body that I started taking the question seriously. The difference between acoustic factors and what changes the string vibration obviously is something I'm still working out.
Honestly from a musicianship and consumer perspective I've made up my mind a while ago. I like my guitars cheap and my necks sturdy! I'll handle the rest after I get my hands on it, tone included.
...not that this one is a sturdy neck. But hey, for $20 not bad!
I have tried a modeling effect unit (not Roland, Vox if I recall correctly) and while it did provide good tones on many settings I could not use it due to the latency, which was very noticeable to me. It might have been 100ms to 150ms, but whatever it was I could not tolerate it. Have you seen that in other brands?
If I correctly understood Cyn1, he did say that the body material properties does create a noticeable difference in the tone of instruments he has built. While I have only built three myself, I still believe that the material influenced the tone of mine (mostly on the attack, or "transient response"). I believe Cyn1 and I also were in agreement that the difference due to body material alone is subtle and can be swamped by many other factors.
I will close in saying that I am not influenced by price, cork-sniffers, or by pseudo-science - only my own senses and my technical experience acquired from my day job and education. I have nothing to prove to anyone. I appreciate the tone of this discussion having been respectful and informative (your quote of "tonewood schmonewood" notwithstanding ;-) ) as I find this a fascinating and enjoyable topic. I love the guitar and enjoy conversing with others who share that.
By transient response, do you guys mean the decay?
By the way, in my opinion the only way to make a good comparison between body materials is to compare the "same guitar" and swap the body... of you can call that the same guitar. Even stuff like potentiometers tend to have enough variation that two 250k pots can sound different from eachother, much moreso caps. To that nd there is a video of a guy who did a blind test betwewn acrylic and wood(can't remember the species, but ai doubt it even weighed something similar to acrylic). Now, even if you can't tell the difference between those two, it doesn't prove anything, since it could be that even though the materials are vastly different, the factors "balance out".
I definitely wouldn't ask anyone to post results here, but it is a fun experiment, although pretty casual. It's just a bunch of sound clips of the two bodies scrambled up, and you're meant to guess which sound clip goes with which body for every clip individually. A devious person would want the people who tend to give wood more credit for tone to take the tests. They'd probably try the hardest, right? Kinda funny, but even in a blind test bias enters into it. Anyways, with 18 sound samples, you can expect some deviation. Here's the video. Grab your paper and pen!
I haven't done this video yet either. I might find that I can't tell the difference in weight as well as I think I can. I know that I'll be trying to use sustain to tell them apart. Strategy!
To be rigid about definitions, the entire guitar note is transient since it changes from attack to decay and then fades to nothing.
Within the time that the plucked note sounds, there is the very active picking and brief 'shock wave' on the string and instrument that we call the attack (and this is what I call the transient response), and then after that the note rings and has a different balance in the harmonics, and this is called the sustain (I would call this the continuous wave) followed by decay.
[In mechanical systems the "shock response spectrum" is nonlinear and difficult - likely impossible - to accurately model mathematically so if Roland has done it then it is more likely from experimentation rather than predictive math.]
I think, to be fair to those of us who honestly attribute some of the tonal qualities of a solid body guitar to the body material, I would only expect to detect the differences if it was *me* playing it. That way I would know *how* I was picking the string and what response I would normally expect from that in order to compare. To expect to hear and compare different guitars played by others in a blind test - where I do not have that sensory knowledge of what excitation the string was given when it was played - seems unrealistic.
In my case I did once play a Fender guitar before I changed out its pickups (done for a customer in a store where I worked), and I took the old pickup home and for fun fastened it beneath the strings of another guitar I had and connected it to my amplifier (an AMPEG V4, which are fairly clean and hi-fidelity). It was interesting to hear the difference - clearly some difference due to the different amplifier, but there was a definite lack of the 'plastic' tone from the Fender pickguard in the attack that I could hear as I played. Similarly when I purchased a Stratocaster pickup for a solid maple-bodied guitar that I build I found that it bore little resemblance to the sound of a Strat through the same amplifier. Same pickup (more or less), same position, but quite different tone especially on the "attack".
That is a snippet of my own experience .


I turn away when I see Oprah's insignia on a book. I respect her, but I'm not a fan of her show or her magazine. She's well-accomplished, gives great advice, but again I've never been mesmerized by her like others are. Nevertheless, I quickly tuned in when I saw on People.com that she's dedicating a show to battered women as a result of Chris Brown beating up Rihanna, then finding out that they are back together.
Listen up. She speaks the gospel.
While it is all so fresh in my mind, post-dating, just into my new relationship, I want to write a letter to my future daughter. I'd tell her that Oprah is right. That love doesn't hurt.
For the longest time, I've known that something was wrong with me. I grew up a dark, somber girl, constantly crying, never thinking I was good enough. I believe I inherited my mom's depression. So because I was broken, I'd have to work at every relationship. I thought all the fighting was normal. That's just the way it was. A broken girl couldn't have a happy relationship. So I persevered. The fighting continued. I broke off relationships, I got back in. I fell in love, fell out of love. It was all part of the process. I never thought I would find happiness with someone. I'd only find it after a lot of hard work, after years of therapy, after couples counseling.
But I've found it. And I would tell my daughter that if she had reservations, if she had issues early on, then it wasn't meant to be. Because when you're with someone who loves you and you love him, then there wouldn't be any questions.


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How long is the whole program?
Maximum one month class, and 7 weeks for weekends classes.
Do I have to pay the full tuition before I start the class?
No. CE Global requires a minimum deposit of $150. We have a flexible payment plan to help you balance up the remainder of the fees.
The written English exam is $85.
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We assist you in getting a job. We work with several employers in the Metroplex. We also offer free resumes training.
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A mini breakfast AND a delicious drink.
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One of the great aspects of this showdown was the ability to check out some offerings from places you may not normally experience on a slightly hung over weekend morning. McGillicutty's Pub offered a Sunday Vacation in its brunch cocktail, and set it next to a fancy palm tree. The ladies running AleFest gave the vodka the day off and added some smoked porter goodness from Warped Wing. Kohler Catering was on hand to provide a memorable experience with their super spicy version of the Bloody Mary. There was plenty of flair in and out of the glass with the World Bar-B-Que Bloody BLT. Finally, a fiery wakeup call was assembled in the Morning Glory, provided by Smart Guy In A Tie Cocktails. And what are Bloody Marys without brunch? Chef Matt Hayden and the talented crew at Scratch Event Catering provided some amazing food to sample, providing some relief from the heat of the cocktails and a meal over which discussions of who made the best Bloody Mary would happen.
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This was a showdown; only one bartender was going to come out on top. Lucky's Taproom put the Oregon District into a third place finish. Tim at McGillicutty's Pub may have been on vacation, but his Bloody Mary was doing some hard work, earning the nod at second place. First place went to a newcomer on the scene. Not the bartender; MacKenzie Manley has done her time behind the bars of a few fine Dayton establishments. She will be opening Mack's Tavern soon, and then you can enjoy more BBQ Burger Bloody Marys on gorgeous Sunday mornings.
The bigger winner was the community. ARC Ohio was able to raise not only money, but awareness about AIDS and what we can do to help stem the spread of the disease. It is a great way for us to finish off what has been an incredible first year in business. The businesses and charities we have partnered with have blended well with our culture and created results that enhanced both parties. We are excited to see what year two will bring, and what Bloody Marys we'll be able to enjoy next year!
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The brightest minds on Wall Street say companies are sitting on a ticking time bomb that could spark a rash of bankruptcies — and make the next recession even worse
A record portion of the investment-grade bond market is sitting just one step above junk status.
If the credit ratings of those companies fall at all, it would greatly increase their likelihood of default. And if a rash of firms default at once, it would put serious pressure on the market, possibly amplifying any imminent recession.
Experts at the recent Milken Institute Global Conference broke down their fears around the situation, which are hitting a fever pitch.
If you see a major corporate acquisition in the headlines today, there's a good chance it was financed by debt.
That's because we're in the middle of a period marked by some of the easiest borrowing conditions in history. Rates have been near rock-bottom levels for the past decade, and companies have been wise to take advantage.
But this seemingly unlimited spigot of capital has led to some potentially negative consequences. And the chorus of experts across Wall Street stressing caution has grown ever-louder.
The focus of their worry is firmly placed on the companies that make up theinvestment-grade section of the corporate bond market. While the debt held by those firms is considered relatively safe and at low risk of default, the group's overall quality has declined over time.
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This can be seen by the unprecedented number of bonds sitting on the lowest rung of investment grade: BBB. As of right now, they make up the roughly 50% of the investment-grade market, the biggest share in history. In fact, their presence has doubled in size over the past 10 years.
Nomura, based on BIS Quarterly Review data
Since that debt is already sitting on the precipice of being labeled high-yield — or junk — it's especially vulnerable to any shift in market conditions that would make it more difficult to service debt. Whether that change is a simple economic slowdown or a full-blown recession, risks are mounting as the current cycle pushes further into its later stages.
The potential fallout could be swift and punishing. Bonds clinging to their investment-grade status could see their ratings downgraded into junk territory. That, in turn, would make it harder for them to pay back their loans, and possibly even default. Once that happens, bankruptcy might not be too far off.
This swelling portion of bottom-tier investment-grade bonds was actually a hot topic at the recentMilken Institute Global Conference. Whether it was during panel discussions or one-on-one interviews, Wall Street's foremost market experts were clearly perturbed by the developing — and potentially catastrophic — situation.
Read more: The world's greatest investors and economists spent much of Milken dispelling 3 key misconceptions. Here's what they said to set the record straight.
Bryan Whalen, group managing director of US fixed income at the TCW Group, told a panel audience that his biggest fear right now is the debt-to-growth imbalance he sees worldwide.
He highlighted the current debt-to-global-GDP ratio of 220%. In the US, Whalen is focused on the debt-to-Ebitda ratio, which sits at a whopping 46%. According to his analysis, any time that ratio has exceeded 40% over the past 35 years, the high-yield corporate default rate spiked over 10% within 24 months.
"We see a solving of that imbalanced ratio not by growing our way out of it, but by writing down that debt," Whalen said. "Credit agreements look like Swiss cheese to us."
Meanwhile,Scott Mather— the chief investment officer of US core strategies at Pimco — had a much simpler take on the precarious situation facing the BBB class of bonds.
"When those tip into junk, it'll be a mess," he told Business Insider, lamenting the " riskiest corporate market we've ever had."
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So what could ultimately cause a mass exodus from BBB and into high yield? Answers at Milken were mixed, but one common response was some sort of major credit event.
Lori Heinel, the deputy chief investment officer of State Street Global Advisors, said the US market actually faced a huge risk recently.
"Wedodged a bullet with PG&E, because they went from investment grade straight into bankruptcy, bypassing many steps," she told Business Insider. "That kind of large issuer credit event, by definition, could be destabilizing."
She continued: "We don't believe there's any sort of systemic credit risk — there are no imminent debt cliffs — but if you get some sort of high-profile default, that could be something."
Todd Jablonski, the chief investment officer at Principal Global Investors, agreed that it will take some sort of high-profile event to fully disrupt the bond market. He noted the swelling class of "zombie" companies that levered themselves to the gills when they could, and are now "dated and under assault."
"You'll eventually get some exogenous force that could disrupt the Fed and create additional pressure," Jablonski told Business Insider. "That would lead to default coming out of the high-yield space. We're underweight high-yield."
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However, none of this directly addresses the elephant in the room: a possible recession. While recessionary cries have softened in recent weeks, it's still very much a tail-risk scenario for experts across Wall Street.
But don't expect mass credit-rating downgrades to lead to a recession. If anything, the ticking time bomb in BBB bonds will exacerbate an economic meltdown, not cause one. After all, companies' ability to pay back the debt in question won't be affected until the economy is already slowing.
"Eyes wide open, these companies made the choice to increase their leverage levels, which is a different thing than us being hopelessly to indebtedness on an ongoing basis,"Nathan Sheets, the chief economist at PGIM Fixed Income, told Business Insider.
He continued: "That BBB downward ratings migration is more likely to be an amplification mechanism of a recession, rather than a driver of one."
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Law enforcement in the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, an autonomous republic of Georgia, is the responsibility of the Adjara Regional Police, who are headquartered in the capital of Batumi in new premises opened by the President Mikheil Saakashvili. They are responsible for policing a population of around 370,000 over an area of 2,900 km².

Organization

The Adjara Regional Police is made up of a number of different task forces, including traffic police, patrol police and a Special Unit. The six districts of Adjara each have their own local police divisions:

City of Batumi
District of Keda
District of Kobuleti
District of Khelvachauri
District of Shuakhevi
District of Khulo

Adjara is only the 5th region in Georgia to be outfitted with a patrol police operator 002 to coordinate police communications, which is done from the capital Batumi.

Reform and international involvement

On June 10, 2005, the European Commission, Regional Center of Human Rights Protection, and Association ALPE unveiled a new initiative known as "Improved Law-enforcement system and rights-protected citizens" designed to improve the policing and courts systems in Adjara.  Of the Adjara Regional Police, the president stated at the opening of the new headquarters on 24 June 2006: "Two years ago when we together brought freedom to Adjara it was just unreal to believe such incredible changes. The fact is that we together have managed to form the most effective, well-equipped, and motivated police in Europe! We shall begin preparations for tourist season all over Georgia. We believe to keep peace and stability especially here, in Adjara as we expect more tourists than ever". The Adjara Regional Police are involved in a number of cross border training schemes, particularly with neighboring Turkey

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has also undertaken to set up five-day training programs in counter-terrorism for Adjara law enforcement officers as part of the OSCE Mission to Georgia. The OSCE's mission to reduce human trafficking in Georgia also involved the law enforcement agencies of Adjara in "a pilot project in the region of Ajara to strengthen co-operation between the local authorities and NGOs in identifying and referring victims of trafficking." Further reforms were promised by President Mikheil Saakashvili at the one-year anniversary of the Batumi Patrol Police: "It is not essential that you are wearing a new uniform, and driving new vehicles, and earning higher salaries, but the most important is the fact that ninety per cent of our population positively estimates the patrol police. That is a physiological and cultural revolution! We shall care and keep honoured the reputation. We will do more, rise salaries for 10 per cent, add more new vehicles, reconstruct and decorate police premises. But, it is prior that you should stand at the top". Along with 300 promotions and 1000 honourable diplomas, the police department awarded cars as gifts to four officers, including the head of the Batumi Patrol Police John Bakuridze, and two officers were each given two room flats.

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from nanopore.analyses.abstractAnalysis import AbstractAnalysis
from sonLib.bioio import system
from nanopore.analyses.utils import samToBamFile
import os
import pysam

def formatConsensusFastq(inputConsensusFastq, outputConsensusFastq):
    infile = open(inputConsensusFastq, "r")
    outfile = open(outputConsensusFastq, "w")
    fasta_id = None
    fasta_seq = {}
    qual_id = {}
    qual_scr = {}
    flag = None
    for line in infile:
        if not line == "":
            if line.startswith("@") and not flag == "qual":
                fasta_id = line.strip()
                flag = "seq"
                fasta_seq[fasta_id] = []
                continue
            elif line.startswith("+"):
                qual_id[fasta_id] = line.strip()
                flag = "qual"
                qual_scr[fasta_id] = []
                continue
            if flag == "seq":
                fasta_seq[fasta_id].append(line.upper().strip())
            elif flag == "qual":
                qual_scr[fasta_id].append(line.strip())
        else:
            #print >> sys.stderr, "Warning: End of Sequence"
            break

    for fasta_id in fasta_seq.keys():
        #if len(fasta_seq[fasta_id]) > 0:
        outfile.write(fasta_id)
        outfile.write("\n")
        outfile.write("".join(fasta_seq[fasta_id]))
        outfile.write("\n")
        outfile.write(qual_id[fasta_id])
        outfile.write("\n")
        outfile.write("".join(qual_scr[fasta_id]))
        outfile.write("\n")

    infile.close()
    outfile.close()

class Consensus(AbstractAnalysis):
    def run(self):
        AbstractAnalysis.run(self) #Call base method to do some logging
        localBamFile = os.path.join(self.getLocalTempDir(), "mapping.bam")
        localSortedBamFile = os.path.join(self.getLocalTempDir(), "mapping.sorted")

        samToBamFile(self.samFile, localBamFile)
        pysam.sort(localBamFile, localSortedBamFile)
        pysam.index(localSortedBamFile + ".bam")
        pysam.faidx(self.referenceFastaFile)

        file_header = self.readFastqFile.split(".fastq")[0].split("/")[-1] +  "_" + self.referenceFastaFile.split(".fa")[0].split("/")[-1]
        consensus_vcf = os.path.join(self.outputDir, file_header + "_Consensus.vcf")
        consensus_fastq = os.path.join(self.outputDir, file_header + "_Consensus.fastq")

        system("samtools mpileup -Q 0 -uf %s %s | bcftools view -cg - > %s" \
                % (self.referenceFastaFile, localSortedBamFile + ".bam", consensus_vcf))
        system("vcfutils.pl vcf2fq %s > %s" % (consensus_vcf, consensus_fastq))
        system("rm -rf %s" % (self.referenceFastaFile + ".fai"))

        formatted_consensus_fastq = os.path.join(self.getLocalTempDir(), "Consensus.fastq")

        formatConsensusFastq(consensus_fastq, formatted_consensus_fastq)
        system("mv %s %s" % (formatted_consensus_fastq, consensus_fastq))

        self.finish()


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