One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Sunday, 29 August 2004

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Thousands Rally for Mexico Presidential Favorite

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Some 160,000 Mexicans marched on Sunday to support the presidential hopes of the capital's leftist mayor who faces government-backed legal challenges that could knock him out of the 2006 race. [Reuters: World]

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The final athletic event of the Athens Olympics took a bizarre and tragic turn when a spectator grabbed the marathon race leader with just five kilometres left on Sunday. FULL STORY [CBC News]

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Opponents of President Bush take to the streets of New York to protest ahead of the Republican convention. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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New York City faces a week of extraordinary security as the Republicans open a convention to nominate George W. Bush for a second run at the U.S. presidency. FULL STORY [CBC News]

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The 2004 Summer Games ended with a vibrant two-hour extravaganza at Athens' Olympic Stadium on Sunday. FULL STORY [CBC News]

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ONLY A FEW years ago, it seemed the slightest suggestion of malfea- sance by a presidential administration -- allegations of tampering with a minor administrative office, say, or indications that a cabinet secretary might have understated the amount of money given to a former girlfriend -- could trigger a formidable response from the other two branches of government: grand juries, special prosecutors, endless congressional hearings, even impeachment proceedings. Some of that auditing, especially during the Clinton administration, went too far. Yet now the country faces a frightening inversion of the problem. Though there is strong evidence of faulty and even criminal behavior by senior military commanders and members of President Bush's cabinet in the handling of foreign detainees, neither Congress nor the justice system is taking adequate steps to hold those officials accountable. [Daypop Top 40]

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This isn't new information, but it's good information: how to fix the dreaded problem of a corrupted project file.... [iMovie Visual QuickStart Guide]

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Apple keeps talking about playing 5.1-channel audio files to home theater systems via the AirPort Express. But how can that be, if iTunes won't support it? [Editors' Notes Weblog]

It does. You need to import encoded files and make sure you don't use any compression or otherwise change the data while doing so.

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Although home theater wireless surround speakers are highly desirable by many consumers, the application of wireless speaker technology in this arena has been very limited so far. However, this may change, as KSC has come forth with an new technical... [About Home Theater]

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U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has cancelled plans to attend this weekend's closing ceremony at the Athens Olympics. FULL STORY [CBC News]

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Kayakers Adam van Koeverden and Caroline Brunet and sailors Ross Macdonald and Mike Wolfs captured three more medals for Canada Saturday at the 2004 Athens Olympics. FULL STORY [CBC News]

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Reuters - Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj and Briton Kelly Holmes gave the Athens Games two of its greatest moments Saturday by surging to victory on the athletics track and claim historic Olympic doubles. [Yahoo! News - World]

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US election: Kerry leads in key states as Republicans mass for convention. Paul Harris reports. [Guardian Unlimited]

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After centuries of guesswork, architects have a high-tech way to hear the acoustics of buildings they haven't yet built. [New York Times: Technology] 'For a demonstration recently, Neill Woodger, a principal at Arup Acoustics who led the development of the SoundLab, projected a slide of the Concertgebouw, the famed Amsterdam hall, on a screen. At a prearranged signal to his assistant, Alban Bassuet, a recording of Handel's "Water Music" came over the speakers. The music had been recorded in an anechoic chamber, a "dry" room free of sound reflections. Then, through a mathematical process called convolution, the computers in the SoundLab combined the music with the "acoustic signature" of the Concertgebouw, derived from a three-dimensional computer model that had been calibrated with recordings made in the actual hall with a special four-track microphone.

For a visitor sitting at the center of the room, it felt like entering a palpable sphere of sound. The acoustical "halo" of the Concertgebouw was distinct, as if this little soundproof room itself had radically shifted dimension. A few bars of Handel later, the slide on the screen changed to the Musikvereinsaal in Vienna. The acoustics followed, forming an otherwise impossible duet of two of the world's greatest concert halls. The room felt as if it had opened up, as if the ceiling had lifted.'