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After getting the “scoop” Jeff Eats visited the Boca site-which is on the ground floor of an office building/booths & tables are actually in the lobby…real cool configuration-but I’m not so sure this “setup” is gonna work in Boca Raton-time will tell! One other thing- nothing for nothing, based on what Jeff Eats saw- there is no way that this “construction site” will be ready in two weeks… But then again, Jeff Eats thought that McGovern was going to trounce Nixon. is opening a second location in Boca Raton at 980 North Federal Highway. ![]() This afternoon, Jeff Eats learned from his buddies at BurgerBeast that- in a couple of weeks, M.E.A.T. ![]() Just so we are straight, Jeff Eats has never been to– nor eaten in M.E.A.T.–but I will tell you, it’s an absolute pain in the ass to type M.E.A.T. Choose: White, Wheat or Rye Bread (plain or toasted) Choose 1 or 2 meat: Ham, Turkey or Bacon Choose 1 cheese: American, Swiss. The raves–great burgers, fries, beer, bbq. 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And as a result, the study that you had mentioned earlier that the military wants to do was kind of getting in the way.ĬONAN: The study - President Obama mentioned that at the State of the Union Message, where he said it was just the right thing to do to repeal it. If that's the case, they think this is sort of the last opportunity for them to try to get this repealed. They sort of anticipate the kind of losses that people have been talking about for the Democratic Party, both in the House and the Senate. There are, of course, elections coming up in November, and the concern among many of the advocates is that the House and the Senate are not going to look as favorable to a repeal of this after November, as it perhaps does now. SHEAR: Well, you know, there's a lot of urgency now that the Democrats -the advocates of repealing don't ask, don't tell - feel. Glad to be here.ĬONAN: And how did Democrats on the Hill strike this deal with the White House? MICHAEL SHEAR (Reporter, Washington Post): Sure. ![]() We begin with Washington Post reporter Michael Shear, who joins us from the studios at the newspaper. But first: the future of don't ask, don't tell. Later in the program, Dudus Coke: benefactor, political heavyweight, alleged gang chief drug lord and now Jamaica's most-wanted man. Go to npr.org, and click on TALK OF THE NATION. Email us: You can also join the conversation on our website. I'd like hear from the generals in the field, in the field, the people that actually work with these soldiers, to make sure that, you know, the social change is not going to disrupt our ability to finish the job and complete the wars.ĬONAN: So if you've served in the military, is it time to allow openly gay people to serve? 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For example, the larger the bowl’s diameter, the deeper the pitch will be. There are a few general rules when it comes to guessing a singing bowl’s frequency when it comes to the previously mentioned factors. The frequency of a singing bowl can be influenced by several factors which include: the bowl’s diameter, density, shape, what it is made of and the thickness of its sides. A bowl that has faster vibration cycles will have a higher frequency/pitch. For example, a bowl that creates slow vibrations will have a low frequency/pitch. However, there are a few general guides when it comes to identifying a singing bowl’s frequency. Furthermore, the physical environment can also complicate a frequency reading because extreme temperatures can affect the reading.īecause of these circumstances, assigning a singing bowl a completely accurate static frequency is pretty difficult. Playing the lip of the singing bowl will create different vibrations than playing the side of the bowl. A tap high on the side wall will create different waves than a low tap on the side wall. The areas of the singing bowl that are being played also change the measured frequency. Generally, Hz readings for singing bowls are approximate due to the complexity of their sounds and changing frequencies as they switch between different tones and octaves. Singing bowls have a frequency range anywhere between 110 Hz and 660 Hz but can reach up to the 800s or even 900s. For a little perspective, the range of human hearing is from about 20 to 20,000 Hz according to Scientific American. Frequency is typically expressed in the unit Hertz (Hz). Sometimes, frequency is referred to as “pitch.” To determine the frequency of a singing bowl, you must measure the vibration of the bowl while it is being played. ‘Frequency’ is the number of cycles, or “speed”, of vibrations undergone during one unit of time. Singing bowls can produce several different frequencies. The sounds produced by singing bowls can contain multiple harmonics or dominant tones, which we will discuss below.įor a more detailed discussion explaining how singing bowls create sound, see our blog post on the science of singing bowls. We can both hear, and feel, these vibrations. As you strike the bowl or rub the rim with a mallet, the friction that results is what creates the vibrations. An idiophone is an instrument that “produces sound primarily by physical vibrations of the actual instrument.” In other words, the vibration of the bowl as it is being played is what produces sound. According to, singing bowls are idiophones. How can you measure the sound of your singing bowl?Īll musical instruments, including Tibetan singing bowls, rely on friction and vibration to create the sound we hear.Why would you want to know the frequency or tone of your singing bowl?.How do different frequencies affect us?.How do singing bowl frequencies differ between crystal and metal singing bowls?.Can singing bowls produce different notes?.Can singing bowls produce different octaves?.What is singing bowl resonance and harmony?. ![]() This guide includes answers to the following questions: Antique singing bowls, newly manufactured metal bowls and crystal bowls all possess different frequencies and tones due to their size, weight and composition. Singing bowl sounds can be categorized in several different ways and can be measured and sorted by their frequencies, notes and octaves. 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Hopefully Before the Flood will encourage citizens to demand more attention and action from our leaders and politicians.īefore the Flood premieres on the National Geographic Channel on October 30 th and can also be streamed online from the film’s website.As part of your disaster plan, for flooding be sure that your emergency supplies are ready to take along, primary and alternate evacuations routes are identified, and alternate locations for your family and vehicles, trailers, etc. What is still missing, despite the momentum of the Paris Agreement on climate change, is sufficient political will. The film reminds us that the science is clear on climate change. Unfortunately, there have been no consequences for the irreparable harm these companies have caused. Ancient primary rainforests, once destroyed, cannot be restored to anything approaching their previous condition on a time scale meaningful for humanity. Pulp and paper producers have made similar commitments. Some major consumer goods companies and their palm oil suppliers in Indonesia have taken zero-deforestation pledges. There has been some progress in Indonesia. ![]() The 2004 tsunami, which killed 250,000 people in Aceh, brought fresh misery. Much of that “Eden,” however, was cast into Bosch’s doomscape by the turn of the millennium. I have a coffee table book from 1990 on Leuser called Indonesian Eden. Two decades after I traversed those forests, DiCaprio flies into Leuser and is dismayed by the fires and haze, and by the seemingly endless rows of oil palm trees. Sumatran tigers are one of many species that call Indonesia’s Leuser ecosystem home. And there was optimism that resources and political will were finally at hand to do the job. Leuser’s forests, tigers, elephants and rhinos faced many threats back then, but there was much left to conserve. ![]() In the mid-1990s, I researched the Leuser ecosystem of Sumatra’s Aceh province, then the focus of the largest donor-supported rainforest conservation project on Earth. In DiCaprio’s view, humanity is poised to fall from the central panel into the right – which looks remarkably like the Canadian tar sands DiCaprio flies over early on in the film.įor me, one part of the film hit closest to home:Īs a backpacker and forest researcher some 30 years ago, I roamed widely through the vast and still-pristine rainforests on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The left panel of the triptych depicts the Garden of Eden the large central panel depicts the dominion of humankind over the planet and its diverse plants and animals the right panel takes us to a doomscape of blasted earth, fire, torture and death. In fact, the film’s leitmotif is Hieronymus Bosch’s iconic painting The Garden of Earthly Delights, which opens and closes the film. The many experts DiCaprio interviews make it clear that the worst is yet to come unless humanity makes a radical U-turn in the way we produce and consume energy, food and just about everything else. It’s a reminder of the enormity and complexity of the forces driving climate change. We see the vast scale of humanity’s footprint across the globe, from smog-choked Beijing to the blackened moonscape of the tar sands in Canada the toll of rising seas from Miami to the Pacific islands the melting of the Greenland ice sheet and the destruction of great rainforests for cattle ranching in the Amazon and palm oil plantations in Indonesia. ![]() DiCaprio guides the audience on a global tour of how climate change and the forces driving it are upending human lives and fraying the biological fabric of the planet. 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The thing Ronnie did that was different from other bands was that he wanted that band to sound the same every night,” Kooper said later. Free Bird had stretched out to nine glorious minutes. By then they were a well-drilled unit, with Ronnie Van Zant cracking the whip hard. But the band revisited the song for their debut album proper, Pronounced ‘Leh-’nérd ‘Skin-’nérd, with producer Al Kooper. The Muscle Shoals album would remain unreleased until 1978. “People always ask me: ‘What’s the hardest song to learn when you rejoined the band? Is it Free Bird?’ And I go: ‘No, I knew all the licks in that song cos I was playing drums in Muscle Shoals when we cut the original version.” “I remember sitting in the Hell House, watching those guys playing it, and even then I knew it was something special,” says Medlocke. Lynyrd Skynyrd Free Bird Words: Dave Everley Skynyrd guitarist) Rickey Medlocke was their drummer at the time. Future Blackfoot frontman (and latter-day A song that Ronnie Van Zant said had too many chord changes to write lyrics for, and that both band and their label thought was too long to be a single, it became a rock classic. Then two days later his throat was all sore and he could hardly talk, and we ended up playing it ten minutes at the end, just jamming.”Ĭollins and Rossington tightened up the outro and pianist Billy Powell added a mournful intro before the band went into the fabled Muscle Shoals studio in Alabama in 1973 to record what was supposed to be their first album. So we played two minutes or three minutes. “But one night we were playing a club and Ronnie said: ‘Play that a little longer, my voice is hurting, I need a break. But Collins and Rossington gradually started to add a short guitar outro. The band would play the first half of the song, fuelled by Ronnie’s sorrowful vocals, wrapping it up after four or five minutes. That’s how Free Bird sounded for a while. They clapped us so much.”Ī demo of the song recorded in 1970 and included in the band’s 1991 box set lasts just four minutes. We ended it before the guitars came in, but everybody still got off on it. “We played that song, but just the slow part. “It was at a place called the South Side Women’s Club in Jacksonville,” he recalls. But they swiftly realised they’d hit on something special the very first time the band played it live. “We didn’t even think much of it at first,” he says. Ironically, Rossington says that the band initially saw Free Bird as just another song. He wrote the lyrics just laying on the couch.” And he started practising that, playing Allen’s chords. And finally he got a verse or a melody in his head. “One day, Ronnie went: ‘Okay, play it again.’ He made Allen play it a bunch of different times. Eventually their accidental war of attrition paid off. The famously intractable singer refused to budge, but that didn’t stop Collins and Rossington from continually practising the song. |
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