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I won't be able to make it this year. Can't afford to go. Wife has been out of work for two months now with no end in sight.Probably won't make it to Indy either. [] JM

Go back to your post office and pick up some of the flat rate boxes. I use those all the time. JM

I too have found taking my children to the gun range and hunting with me helps them appreciate what a gun can do. Feeling the recoil and seeing the damage first hand is an excelent life lesson. Shooting at game is way different than target shooting also. My kids have no problems shooting targets, but my son has yet to shoot a deer. Last year my daughter went out with me. We sat in a two person side by side ladder stand. She just could not take a shot. After giving a lot of advice about always being ready etc.... I said.... Just watch me next time. The next doe came by, it was probably 15-20 seconds from when we saw her trot into our area till I got a clean chest shot and dropped her. That comes from experiance you can not get at a gun range. JM

I probably would use it more if I did not have a dedicated HT. I do run Pandora on my PC as I work. Love it for finding new music. I am addicted to Netflix streaming on my Samsung. I also use it on the Xbox360 in the kids play room. I fill up my instant queue with kids shows, TV series and those interesting History and Discovery channel shows. JM

My son AL has been active on his schools robotics team since his Freshman year. He is now a Junior.Most of you have met Al at the last few pilgimages. http://www.team537.com/ It is really cool to see what some of the teams designs. In Lunacy you need to deposit moon balls in your oponents trailer. A local high school sponsored by John Deere had a chute that looked like a farm implement painted green. The best design IMO was a team who's chuted shot streight down and deposited all 7 balls in a second. It was easy to line up and never missed. Al works on the wiring and pnumatics which is great. I've been having him work on the wiring harnesses on my airplanes. He also re wired my upgraded Heresys in the Malokty Home Theater this winter. When they were in Kansas City a few weekends ago, most of the team died there hair RED. Man, what a blast. If only we had this when I was in high school. JM

Its the DVD mix. Take a look at your processor settings. Most have a vocal enhance feature which can give your vocals a few db gain. That may be faverable over kicking up your overall center volume. On my center, I run an ALK network. I run my center channel sqwaker 2 db hotter than my mains leaving the rest flat. JM

I would not follow that THX room layout either. I can't see putting both rears next to each other on the back wall. I would suggest you follow the DTS layout having your sides 90 and your rears on 45. http://www.dts.com/Support/~/media/CFD1137CD6174A3F959CF16C5DB3F924.ashx JM

The THX specs for wide is ONLY a band aid for systems that need to work in adverse conditions. If you have a rectangular room or can have all 4 rears in the same relitive proportions it is always better to go direct. JM

I would rather pay full price someplace else than give $6 to that POS company. JM

Guys, My oldest son Al and I will be there for sure. Can you send me the best hotel options close to the house of klipsch? Thanks, JM

JohnnyHoliday and boom3's post are timely. In thinking back on life, I probably could have been diagnosed with ADHD too. My therepy during my high school and young adult years was rocking out playing guitar and drums. In grade school the only reason I did not get picked on by my teachers was becasue another boy was much more disruptive. Anytime anything went wrong the teacher imediately went to him. Todd hung himself in his parents garage at the age of 16. He was robbed of the chance to ever fall in love and learn what life could be. Remembering Todd also was my motivation to get some help for my son. I was scared that he may fall into the pit of depression or worse. JM

Forum gave me two replies.... JM

mark1101: I have a question. What was the secret? What treatment was done at the Drs. Office that "cured" the problem? I don't mean to pry but it is almost a miracle and I just wondered what the actual treatment was that cured him. Mark, good question. The secret or magic is really the Dr himself. He has devoted his life to helping ADHD children. Since each child is different they have there own unique issues. Basically his noodle is full of knowledge of what has worked for children like my son in the past. Every trick my son tried to escape his discomfort of the moment the Dr was 3 steps ahead of his thought process. It was not an easy 3 days. It was very hard to watch my son breakdown as the Dr dug into what was going on in his head. There were times I just wanted to give my son a hug….but that would have undone his progress. The short version with my son is he found non productive ways to deal with his boredom. At school for example when he was bored he would disappear into his dream world. Daydreaming was much more interesting than the boring topic at hand. That is the very tip of the surface. When the teacher would see him daydream they would call him out to get his attention, or when I yelled at him to finish his homework or to not bother other people at church etc. etc. Basically my son lost self esteem over the last few years and convinced himself that he was not as smart as the other kids. To him, the negative attention he got was better than the boredom and he was in control of the negative attention. He really liked that. The other magic in the Dr’s tool belt is the CAER machines he developed and patented. The machine uses pre programmed music and eye movement in ways that I do not understand. I got to spend a few hours in the machine and I was amazed at how clear I could think about things while under its influence. It’s hard to describe but under its influence the emotions involved in the thoughts are lessened. For example if you think about someone cutting you off and flipping you the bird, the anger you feel is lessened as you think about the incident. The anger is still there, you know you are angry but the anger does not take over your thoughts. You know how when you are angry, the anger can buld and your thought process moves from angry thought to angry thought? The anger taking over just does not happen. Maybe a way to relate is this…. How many times have you noticed your mood change while listening to relaxing music? Or your emotions intensify when you listen to intense music? So with the kids in the machine, I assume my son got to think out his thoughts without the anger and frustration completely taking over his thought process. In the machine he would not loose control like he had in the past. One important thing to remember is that the Dr only works with families, not just the kids in order to get this to work. He works with the kids to figure out what is going on and teaching them how to relearn how to cope without the anger and frustration. With the parents, he teaches us what is going on so that we can relate to him when he does have issues. So now, I am empowered on how to relate and talk to him when he does start to slip. Obviously this is not a quick fix. One thing we need to do every night is to talk to him about how his day went and help him through the emotions with the new tools we as parents have. He still needs to deal with teachers who do not understand him as well as bullies and the other pressures of growing up. If we do not keep working with him he will re develop ways to escape the pressure. The Dr asks us to keep in touch with him so he can keep helping us as his needs evolve. Plus I hope having us help him over time will create a stronger bond between us. JM

If you have a child or know someone who has a child on ADHD medication, please read this! I finally found a cure to ADHD and have my son and family back so I need to share this with all of you. My youngest son has been diagnosed with ADHD for approximately 2 years now. I have NEVER been happy with how they keep dialing up his medication to keep him “under control”. In fact I have noticed over the last year that the drugs have been subtly squashing his creativity. Also, please remember that there are NO long term studies for the drugs they have these ADHD kids on. I take that back, there are studies but on mature mental patents. There are no long term studies on what these drugs to do developing children whose nervous system is not fully insulated or developed. I had this crushing feeling that my child may become injured for life if I kept him on this ADHD medication long term. A few months ago I took him off his meds for a few days then took him to the museum. His excitement during the trip was evident. He even talked about what he learned there weeks after the trip. You have to remember that he goes there probably two times a year with the family and on school field trips etc. This trip was definitely different and re enforced my plans to do something outside the pill popping norm. What I did: Last year a close friend of ours recommended I read Dr Weathers book on how to cure ADHD. Here is a link to learn more. http://www.adhdhelp.org/sitemap.htm The Dr was an ADHD child himself so he has a very acute insight into what our children are experiencing. I read the book last summer / fall and his examples seemed to fit my son to a tee so I started to email Dr Weathers. I sold a bunch of devalued stock and booked a trip for my family to visit the Dr at his office in Spokane WA. This trip was NOT CHEAP and was a hard call in this rough economic time but my son only has one life so I took the plunge and made the commitment to do the intensive 3 day session 1-1 between Dr Weathers and my family. My first feedback that this was going to work was a few hours into our first day. The Dr started to work with my son on his reading problems. We have been told by his teachers that he needs special reading classes since he is well behind the rest of his 3rd grade class. The Dr worked with my son for about ½ hour after which my son able to sit down and read Harry Potter with little effort. Harry Potter was written at a 6th grade level. My jaw hit the floor watching my son do this? I then knew this was going to work for us. Back at home: The first day back at school, I was interested to see what feedback I would get from his school teacher. She emailed us at the end of the day saying that she did not notice any behavior changes except that he started many pleasant conversations. My reply back to her was – If you did not notice any significant behavior changes is a great improvement since he went to school today totally un-medicated. In fact since he started conversations about topic showed me he was actually paying attention and interested in the topics being presented to him at school. This was WAY COOL. She sent him home with a pile of uncompleted homework. My son worked a few hours every night for a few days and got caught up on his own will. All this extra work was completed without all the complaining, fire and water works of the past. He can now sit through boring church services and school sessions without disrupting everyone around him. His overall mood is much happier since he can now enjoy life without the medical blinders over his senses. His aggravating annoyances seem to have been replaced with my inquiries and investigation. I finally have my son back and he again has a bright future. I am so glad I did not put this off any longer. JM

I could make either weekend. Just pick one and I will get it on my family calendar. JM

Oh boy, here we go again. The only cosmic event that happens that day is that our solar system crosses the equator of the milky way galaxy. It does not mean the end of the world. What is amazing is that the primitive Mayan callendar calculated this. Also, the Mayan callendar does not say end of the world, it is the end of the age or cycle. It clearly states the next cycle begins. Unlike our own Janurary 1st which means nothing, the Mayan is based on an actual cosmic event. JM

Life is too short to let that bother me. JM

Translation -> Dean went deaf after cranking his Jubs near field listening. JM

Westgate resorts are awesome. We always try to stay there when we take the family to Disney. Those units have more square footage than most family homes. I would consider buying if I had more free cash. Sorry [] JM

Actually... I am one of those odd people who do not own cable. I do have a HDTV recever plugged into this system. My over the air is a mix of 720P and 1080i stations. I really do not watch much TV. The receiver is used by the kids once and a while. I will be watching Blu Ray and upscaled DVD off of my HTPC. I was thinking about going 720 but since I have a huge screen ( 120" x 68" ) I went 1080. I had to cancel my original order. Idiots finally admited I was on an eternal back order list. Crappy discount sellers. Over the weekend I ordered my new projector from projectorpeople.com. UPS tracking says it will be here on Thursday. I will have a party in a few weeks once I get it dialed in if anyone wants to see this and my new custom built Heresy surround speakers. I will post pictures one of these days..... JM

Heritage HT = [] That reminds me that I need to post pictures of my newly remoded custom Heresy rears I did over the winter. JM

approx 20 feet projector lens to screen. JM

My screen is Da-lite 69" x 120" grey. I have pics on Damon's klipshcorner.com. Prices have gone down a lot. I think the list on this projector was $5K last year. There are a bunch of 1200 lumen projectors out there that have been in the under $2000 range over this last year, but that is not enough light for my big screen. It has only been the last few months since the brighter projectors have dropped into my price point. JM

The good news…. Last week I ordered my new 1080P projector. I bought a Optoma HD806 for $1795 !!!! With the size of my theater and screen I really need 2000 lumens. The bad news…… While watching a family movie Saturday night, the screen goes black! I took a look at the blinking light on the projector, looked up the blink code and my power supply went bad.[] Talk about timing! I had my Sharp PG-M20X since 2002, it was on its 3rd bulb, so I really can’t complain. JM

Here is the link to my post in the garage sale section. http://forums.klipsch.com/forums/t/115177.aspx JM