Need a laugh? Try this from a recent product announcement from Korean electronics manufacturer LG: LG’S NEW HX906TX CINEMA 3D SOUND HTS BOASTS TRUE 360-DEGREE SOUND

SEOUL–(Korea Newswire) Aug 29, 2011 — LG Electronics (LG) will be stirring IFA 2011 with the HX906TX, the all-new CINEMA 3D Sound HTS whose 9.1 speaker complement creates the closest thing to the audio energy of film theatres or live concerts. Thanks to the innovative latest receptive to advice configuration, the HX906TX delivers indeed 360-degree receptive to advice which envelopes viewers in audio – both horizontally as well as plumb – similar to never before.

“LG is pioneering the margin of 3D receptive to advice with the 9.1 orator complement upon the HX906TX,” pronounced Havis Kwon, President as well as CEO of LG Electronics Home Entertainment Company. “Along with the groundbreaking CINEMA 3D TV, the HX906TX sets latest standards in immersive entertainment, with the receptive to advice so abounding as well as textured, it’s tough to hold it’s not real.”

The pass underline in formulating the HX906TX’s receptive to advice is the 9.1 orator system, which adds 4 Upright 3D Speakers to the required 5.1 channels upon the home party system. With 10 speakers in sum delivering an optimized, multi-directional audio, the HX906TX creates an immersive receptive to advice which is additionally absolute sufficient to constraint the ethereal credentials sounds of bland life.

By sitting upon tip of the Tallboy orator units, the Upright 3D Speakers serve heighten the audio by pumping receptive to advice upward, ensuring which the straight space is utterly filled with sound. In addition, the 360-degree Reflector inside any of the Upright 3D Speakers reflects receptive to advice in all directions, formulating acoustics as abounding as those in the unison hall.

By requesting LG’s singular 3D outcome DSP algorithm, Sound Field Expansion technology serve expands the plane receptive to advice field, as well as functions in peace with the Upright 3D Speakers to emanate the indeed immersive, 360-degree receptive to advice experience. Sound Field Expansion extends the audio “sweet spot” so viewers regularly feel as if they have been right in the center of the sound, even when they’re collected together in incomparable groups. Moreover, the 3D Sound Analyzer analyzes formidable layers of strange sound, adding receptive to advice report to any dull space. The outcome is some-more minute as well as picturesque 3D Sound audio.

Among the form of alternative top-notch features, the HX906TX boasts 3D Blu-ray™ Playback which delivers overwhelming 3D images in full, 1,080p HD. Producing transparent 3D images with 12-bit, 4,096-step gradation, the HX906TX’s 3D Blu-ray™ Playback is the undiluted visible outcome to the immersive sound.

The HX906TX’s cubic, slim-line pattern combines the lead china hairline with the silken hardness to emanate the section which complements any vital room or lounge.

For the most appropriate in party options, the HX906TX comes with LG’s superb Smart TV functions. Premium Content provides the far-reaching form of VOD services for the total family, whilst LG Apps broach tip peculiarity lifestyle, tutorial as well as interactive applications tailor-made for TVs. And users usually need to download an app to spin their Android or iPhone smartphone in to the extensive remote carry out for the HX906TX.

Ensuring viewers will never be reduced of things to attend to or watch, the HX906TX’s Wi-Fi Direct™ enables elementary record pity but the need for the wireless hotspot. The HX906TX can additionally entrance as well as share any calm upon DLNA-certified digital inclination – such as mobile phones, tablets as well as PCs – whilst the singular HDMI tie equates to viewers can send or embrace top-quality audio interpretation around the singular HDMI cable. In addition, multi-playback lets the HX906TX await the far-reaching operation of media formats, together with MKV as well as DivX HD.

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Found this in a cross-post on my F'book account. Nice take on the Debate That Should Not Be. It stretches the meaning of irony that so many otherwise nice people have made greed and penury into Christian virtues. Keep the faith; this, too, shall pass.

I often wonder how one could miss the fact that the 18th Century European socialist writers were all Christians or Jews, decrying with their fellows in other cultures the social ills endemic at the time and throughout previous history. So-called "class war" arises only when "the respeckable people" refuse to acknowledge their obligations to their neighbors. To paraphrase Marie Antoinette, "let them take placebos!"

Each year every (R) I know roots for Cratchit, not for Scrooge, yet when it comes time to cast off their own lengthening chains, somehow they cannot make the connection.

Regarding recent events: What might be the causes? For example: Hurricane Irene: Well understood principles of atmospheric disturbances, or perturbations of the heavens by spirit beings opposed to gays in the US military?

Earthquake in Virginia: Well understood principles of Appalachian geology, or godly revulsion at rising marginal tax rates?

Tsunami in Sendai: Well understood principles of sea-floor movement and wave motion, or fairies dancing on the waves to express opposition to US population's disinclination to hate foreigners?

You make the call.

PS: Structural analysis based on related academic publications as compared to the opinions of leading Republican presidential candidates and their so-called Christian supporters.

I've always been happy to have been a graduate student at Penn State University's geography department in 1969-72. Being somewhat slow by comparison with some of my fellow students I was lucky to have been tutored by some of geography's finest. It's easy for me to identify the skills both personal and professional that I gained there. All told, one of my best way stops. My doctoral committee was headed by Ron Abler, who overcame that possible embarrassment by continuous progress through a distinguished career. The following is his biography, found at the International Geographical Union, which only scratches the surface.

"Ronald F. Abler has been active in the International Geographical Union (IGU) since 1976. He was a charter member of the IGU Study Group and the IGU Commission on the Geography of Communications and Telecommunications from 1984 to 1992. Following his 1996-2000 term as Vice President, he was elected IGU Secretary General and Treasurer in 2000 and served in that capacity through 2006, when he again became an IGU Vice President.

Continues...

Back in the olden days human foibles were funny. And then came MADD.

I'm a former Colgate University faculty member in geography, 1975-80. My former colleague Ted Herman passed away recently at nearly 100 years of age. I had hoped to be at the memorial May 13 in Hamilton, but the demands of my business and the distance between us make that impossible.

My association with Ted Herman began at my job interview in spring of 1975. I was pleased to join the faculty, and my five years in Hamilton were good ones.

Others will praise Ted's professional accomplishments and gentle demeanor. One of my most salient memories of Ted comes from the college athletic fields. During my first two, possibly three, years on campus, we fielded a faculty team in the fall intramural soccer season. While most of the players were in their late 20s and 30s, Ted at 63-65 was our senior defensive tiger. I can still recall the faces of the students who, thinking they had encountered an easy mark in "the old man" had their expectations dashed, when Ted would retreat and retreat and then cobra-like take the ball away from them and send it back toward the opposite goal. As one whose age has now advanced to the same age range, I can only imagine still being able to do as well on the field of play.

Ted was also pleased to tease me mercilessly but with good humor when I discovered the prettiest girl I ever saw was a geography major who was at once very bright and very easy to look at and very much out of bounds. He was ever prepared with a glass of verbal cold water to fling over me.

Dinners at the Hermans' with mixtures of cooking styles and often-exotic vegetables direct from the garden were a highlight of my times with Ted and Evelyn. Their lives reflected the the trials and transcendence of their times.

Ted's ability to help one find the answers to difficult questions within oneself have over the years let me be prepared for the occasional slings and arrows and occasionally to pass those perspectives on to others.

My best wishes to attendees; thanks for letting me share from beyond the years and the miles. And to Ted, well done.

Sincerely,
A. Rees Clark, Ph.D.

Son Andy reports...

"I am sleeping at the airport (was headed to SFO for a meeting). About 5000 people stranded here. The lounge is open, so I have some relative comfort of two chairs put together.

All flights cancelled. No trains, no freeways, phones still down. No damage in Tokyo. Apartment is a mess.

H and R are fine. Have not been able to speak with them but a few mails get through, they are safe and sound. Apartment structure is sound.

I was in the lounge when it hit, and I would not wish that fear on anyone. It was the strongest and longest shaking I have ever felt. For a few seconds I thought things were over and the building was coming down.

I cant imagine what its like for the folks up north. I may try to go up there and help, but we will see. The difference with a tsunami is that its not like there are people trapped under buildings. They are all buried under tons of debris. Looks like a ship with 100 people on board was swept away. No word on what happened yet.

Aftershocks every 10 – 15 min. don't think I will sleep well tonight……"

The people of South Bend, IN, must be very proud of their schools. I wonder how long it took for a visiting stranger to call them on their spelling. Given that every person at some time or another has intentionally mixed these terms as a joke, one would think any person would catch this. Ah, well, thanks, SB!

After 67 years there appears to be another Clark in the bloodline. The evidence is pretty solid that one Douglas Clark of North Carolina is my half-brother. We're debating which of many less than flattering terms we should apply to our father.

Doug is a retired contract administrator and naval officer.

Another voyage of discovery. Let us hope for a pleasant journey.

Had to laugh. MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan's show today showed a promo in which a prop was a stack of books, one labeled "Arithmatic" (sorta like arithmetic, I guess).

When the segment actually aired, that book was missing from the stack. The theme of the segment was the low performance of US schools.

Spelling counts!

In Yamanashi one gets Xmas breakfast complete with a fruit tree. Highly recommended by RAKC. Yum!

I recently rescued this item from another journal site after ten years. A good memory bears repeating.

Sep 27, 1999 -- When I was in the second grade in 1949-50, my two best friends at Longden School were Suzanne Holmes and Annette Blanchard. At the end of the day, I hated to get on the school bus to go home.

Suzanne and Annette and I have gone down mostly separate roads over the past few decades, but it's been my great joy to renew our friendship since a class reunion in 1990.

In August of 1998 they invited me to go canoing on the Green River in Utah, near Annette's home. Suzanne came from Southern California, and I came from Seattle. We camped out along the river for nine days, along with Rocky Mountain friends, Dion Corkins, Alene Watson and Sandy Dickinson. Pictured at right are Suzanne, Rees and Annette on the rainy first morning of the ten day excursion. Strangely, I'm the only one with white hair.

After nine days of paddling (see pix below), we were happy to let the jet boat carry us back up the Colorado to Moab. Guess what! Again a school bus.

It turns out that I was never so smart again as I was in the second grade. All things considered, I'd rather be in the canoe. Although I'm fairly sure I was invited for my ability to fling large bundles onto the bank from the canoes, I don't mind; the company made it all worthwhile -- no, wonderful. At the end of the trip, I hated to get on the school bus to go home. Plus ça change...

Here are some photos by Suzanne.






















The moral of the story is that if Annette Blanchard Rose ever shows you a picture she drew of a flower pot, say something nice. It may take 50 years, but there's a huge reward. (I could explain, but it's a whole other story.)

Bobby Jindal's Republican response to Pres. Obama's quasi State of the Union address last night would have been totally forgettable if not for his gratuitous sop to Obama's race and a silly giveaway line about research expenditures that was emblematic of recent Republic views of science. Here's my comment from the Seattle Press.

Up yours, Bobby Jindal!

Seattle - 24 February 2009 - In his rejoinder to Pres. Barack Obama's Feb. 24 address to Congress, La. Gov. Bubba Bobby Jindal argued that the Federal budget should forego spending $140 million for "monitoring volcanoes," intoning the very words with disdain.

For the 3.5 million of us who live on and around the congealed mud flows of the largest volcanic eruptions known to North America during the last ten millennia, a few bucks for listening equipment seems like a good idea.

So, Bobby, if we're going to rebuke politicians for bad decisions, should we take the same attitude toward say, levee repairs for the 400,000 who live in a city that lies BELOW SEA LEVEL? We haven't; you shouldn't.

This is not the time to set Americans against one another for the crumbs of a shrinking pie. Let us not abandon all pretensions of generosity and shared purpose and simply have at it.

UPDATE: After searching for a calculator to confirm the arithmetic: The per capita cost of the said scandalous volcano monitoring, $0.47 (yep, 47 cents) per citizen. Not bad for the preservation of Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Everett, Hilo, Anchorage and 100 other population centers.

Keywords: Short-sighted, selfish, Republican, moron! (Our apologies to morons everywhere.)

Despite the welter of garbage on YouTube, it is technically a great service. May their tribe increase. Here's the littlest Clark practicing his customer service skills. He'll be managing our Tokyo office in a few years, just as soon as he's tall enough to reach the phone from the desk chair.

Today's news is from the genealogy front. I found a death record for my great-grandmother Belle Perry Clark, recorded in Everett, WA, following her death of cancer Jan. 24, 1903, at only 48 years of age. Perhaps it explains why my grandfather never spoke of her.

An interesting part of the record is the addition of a new great-great-grandmother, Permelia Woodin, Belle's mother, born in Connecticut. That removes a spelling quandary but not much more. Permelia PERRY is listed along with husband Ambrose and daughter Belle Perry in Berlin, WI, in the 1880 census and shown as 58 (my grandfather Perry Alexander Clark was born in Berlin in 1883 to Belle and Frank Alexander Clark). The Woodins or Woodens in CT in 1820 or 1830 censuses have only the name of the head of household. They are numerous enough that the presence of any daughters under 10 is not much of a clue. (The naming of other members of the household was still a couple of decades away.)

So if little Permelia Woodin b. 1822 is in your family tree, give me a shout.