KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, January 28, 1982
Vol. 92, No. 84 USPS 650-640
Federal. state leaders react to Reagan speech
WASHINGTON - President Reagan's plan for federal-state swap drew quick applause from Republican leaders and harsh criticism from other groups. It is also a departure from key other players to signal a tough fight.
Governors and some congressmen said they wanted to wait for specimens before backing Reagan's plan to transfer $47 billion in federal programs to states.
Vermont Gov. Richard Snellling, chairman of the National Governors Association, said yesterday that governors were unlikely to accept the president's plan unless they were given the authority to correct governors also wanted a formula to correct financial "injustices" among various states.
The president's proposed program came under
sharp fire yesterday from the Black Leadership
black civil rights groups of leaders of nearly all
black civil rights groups
Reagan's message "demonstrated a shocking insensitivity to the needs and aspirations of black people, other minorities and the poor," the Rev. Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, said on behalf of the group.
Republican leadership was more optimistic about Reagan's proposal.
"I think it's worth the gamble," Howard Baker, Senate Republican leader, said on NBC. "I think it's the only way you can make a basic difference and reverse this trend of everything that has happened."
Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kansas, interviewed on CBS.
was more cautious than other leading Republicans. "We ought to wait and look at the specifics," he said.
"We don't have the details. We have the concent. It sounds good."
Dole urged federal protection for food stamp recipients because some states "might reduce the program and deny some poor people their food."
Johannes Witteween, the former president of the International Monetary Fund, called Reagan's State of the Union address a disapproval of the former Reagan's plans could prolong the recession by a year.
Wittevene said the president's "refusal to consider any increase in indirect taxes" meant the entire anti-inflation battle would be to be fought by the Federal Reserve.
Democratic and Republican leaders agreed that the prospect for tax increases this year would not deter them.
The White house said public opinion was running Hengqi's campaign favor, with more than a quarter of the voters saying so.
House Speaker Thomas O'Nell said that early public reaction to Reagan's program—about 100 ieigramss and mailigrams—was about 2-1 against the president, in contrast to the huge favorable response Reagan received when he outlined his economic program a year ago.
Former Vice President Walter Mondale, former Vice President CBS, said he was angry about the attack on the White House.
Mondale said the deficit was not decreasing, as Reagan claimed, but was increasing.
Sen. Russell Long, D-LA., said the president "did not come to grips" with the problems of high unemployment, high interest rates and high budget deficits.
Illinois Republican Gov. James Thompson, echoing Shelling's concerns over money, endorsed a
"It's time to give us our money back. It' s time to give us our power and authority back and it' s time to let the governors and the mavers of this country have control over the people in their states." Thorpeon told CBS.
City budget future uncertain
Vice President George Bush was expected enthusiastic about Reagan's proconials.
BvSTEPHEN BLAIR
Appealing to American values of family, hard work, rugged individualism and cooperation, Bush said critics of Reagan's proposal "don't believe that the power belongs to the people."
Staff Reporter
City officials may have to make budget decisions without knowing how much money the city has as a result of President Reagan's "new federalism," Lawrence Mayor Marcel Francisco,
The state of Kansas could handle the extra responsibilities the president wants to give states without major turnover, Robert Harder, director of Social Rehabilitation Services, said yesterday.
We set our budget as a city a year ahead so if
Harder said he was hungry for more details of the plan, but thought that the state government would be able to do so.
In the president's plan, the federal government would take over the Medicare program and
director, said. "The public would end up paying
the day care or welfare, I guess day care
would be better."
But no one was sure which programs might be cut. Francisco said, "You're talking about a 10-year program and I'm not sure how much the megan will have to wear. All he'd done is talked."
Francisco said that the problems and the wealth of the nation could be better shared on a
January/February, 1982
are inaudible with 100 dB of amplification. In other words the best turntable, like any piece of high-fidelity equipment, is one you cannot hear.
The test for gross failure in an older phonograph is listening for obvious sounds that, like the ticking of a watch, will be heard even when you may soon get out of hand. Merely turn off the rest of your stereo and listen carefully to the spinning turmany. Any nose besides a faint harm from the motor — grinding, rushing or clicking.
Such noises indicate something is malaudient or wearing out, like bear cubs or a snout. You can mechanical noise easily find its way through your amplifier to pollute the environment.
Although a good cleaning and lubrication can usually relieve such a problem, it is worth noting that shop may total $25 to $40, probably more than your little mechanical enclosure.
Essentially rumble is a minor earthquake, vertical movement of the record surface, arising from assorted sources.
The test is to listen through your complete system for the shortcomings of all record spinning devices, turmails and changers alike. These can be classified as either rumble, wow and flutter, or svede variations.
An easy test can be conducted by switching your receiver to "mono" while listening to a good quality record pressing. When you flick the switch you cancel all vertical information and pick up, picking in, including most rumble.
Not only will you hear the stereo image collapse, but you may bear a passive shout (should you use a mono record, if you can find one, the disappearance of rumble won't be confused by the change in stereo perspective.)
Not only will
Any recording with an extended single note, such as the last sustained note in a chord, can be flipped out flutter test. Pitch should be unwarmer. Should you hear a tqaur of vibration, you should listen to it.
Wow and flutter are short term speed variations that are most apparent as changes in musical pitch or vibration on assigned notes.
Of course the spinning platter is only part of the record playing system. Old tone arm not only impair fidelity, an inferior arm can also slowly run records. Typical aging tone arm may catch from tight bearings, mechanical issues to trigger a刮器 or just massive, battlefield-style construction.
Wow and long term speed variations, which sound similar to an off center record, can be determined by the same test.
The grossest problems can be lo
cased by merely guiding the arm with your finger across the arc it would trace on a record. Any resistance, particularly noiness, is too much.
arm geometry and mass problems can be found by ear. Since all tone deficiencies create tracking difficulties, they show up first as distortion on low frequency partitions or cartridges. If you don't know what to listen for, reduce tracking force below that which your cartridge's manufacturer recommends and play an unworn record. You should hear obvious mistracking sounds from the cartridge. Gram steps increase stylus pressure. As you do the problem should reduce. If it does not go away completely by the time you've reached the upper extent of the recommended tracking force, your cartridge/arm combination is far
The best strategy is to replace the arm or arm/umbrella combination be aiding add a lower compliance case be taking a big step forward.
Judging the adequacy of a cartridge done is a tricky business because there is no good home standard of comparison.
peak shopping hour (say 10 a.m.)
you may be able to get a friendly salesman to mount your cartridge
to use as the reference standard
Next, compaction shop for a car
ridge with sound that please you. Try
a different carriage in the same
model cartridge that you want to
replace as the bass of the comparison
carriage.
My recommended procedure begins by first checking your stilwear for using the microscope most local litchi-emporia reserve for that purpose.
Then you can be absolutely sure of your comparison
Although sorting a live performance from a tape may be an easy task, you might find it difficult. Manglone and Ella Fitzgerald, most better cassette records in top form make copies that are indistinguishable from the originals. They press at normal listening levels.
My listening test for tape units, be they open reel or cassette, is the simple A-B or source to-tape comparison. If you hear any difference between a source and a recording of this source your machine is simply not state of be art.
Make sure that your recorder is set up properly for the brand and type of device you need. Use "bias" and "equalization" (or combined, all in one "tape") selector controls.
Probably, though, an older machine is devoid of that high fidelity necessity, the ubiquitous Dolby (or other noise-cancelling equipment) of the A-B comparison the need for Dolby becomes obvious because hiss is the primary pollution cassettes add to your sound. If you have with Dolby on, you shouldn't hear any hailing tape issue — should be as far or farer in the background as the recording you expect from phonograph records.
If you have too attached to deep-sea your vintage recorder, you might boost its quality near acceptability by using "ferric" (low bias, 200 micra) tape.
Next in the comparison, concentrate on the sibilant in voices or cymbal crashes. In the original of what is being recorded, they will probably
have a sharp edge. If the copy sounds
notably duller and distorted by a splashy, tearing sound, the tape is be saturated. Reduce the record level until the phenomenon goes
Now focus on the high end again.
Note any change in its character beween tape and original. There should be any.
Although open reel tape machines should easily pass the same no-difference A B test that top-netch cassette recorders do, judge the durability of their Webcorer records. Webcorer records I've encountered recently, most are unlikely to do so.
The big trouble with replacing your laptop with a disjointed keyboard is the quality of breakup. Do not mistake that of hi-fi gear (although there are a few superstations that justify having the same model).
While technology has improved so that now the average FM station can transmit tents of a percent of distortion out of the halves and full
points they did in years ago, that same technology has also put in the other direction. *E Stations can now broadcast with less latency than ever before; they can distort frequency perspective with multiband processors so that every point is captured.
the same sound, and they can simply clip the hell out of the high end to squeeze the most and loudest signal between 512 microsecond preamble mass
Some improvements in receiver design can help, though, if you live in less than an optimum reception area. You can glom a larger chunk of the airwaves and find more listenable slate surfaces on your system to selectivity of newer receivers. You can sort through multipath better with this lower capture rates. But don't expect miracles. The improvements on the order of a dB or so may not be audible to you. In many cases a better antenna will be more useful for receiving reverberation.
About the biggest advantage of a new receiver's radio section is imminent. A high-resolution crystal control, and phase-locked loop circuit will eliminate distortion in the reception.
The effects of the improves amplifier sections in new receivers i
also a feat of stubility. Most people will find that increased power (within reach of the door) is necessary. But don’t expect to blow down apartment walls with increased loudness. Twice the volume will take ten speakers and twice the amount of speakers even able to handle it.
1 when considering the replacement of their speakers is listening to advice rather than the speakers. Every design variant will choose the choice becomes an exteral one, sorting between differences realien tions.
The biggest mistake most au-
The acoustic suspension speaker put high fidelity in a reasonable-sized box decades ago. Now mathematical for mute make what once was a mixture of art, black magic and luck into an ennoble, admirable allure that could have shrunk. In fact we now expect the finest boxes to give big bass.
White, plastic, about a foot long and three inches high, the VL-Tone stuffs
The most important question is the same one you should ask yourself when making any decision in stereo. Can you hear the difference?
Most old speakers don't wear out. Some may burn out, a few dry out and fall apart, but overall an older speaker is still more popular and new. The time to change is when your taste and discernment changes and what you have begins to sound boomy, muffled, or just plain bad when comes something you've heard elsewhere.
The Big Beep BY P. GREGORY SPRINGER
Since pre-Renaissance times, the writestraw has been strapped onto arm to symbolize time, elegance and memory, and twenty years with the company. In the last half decade, modern technology has turned it into a who's-turned-who.
The watch — and particularly my watch — now has a stopwatch to tune yellow lights at the intersections, to notify me when I break jogging records, and most importantly has a misfire alarm that sends three feet in the air from the proposition every morning about 9 a.m. Other people's doves do even more unusual things, like accidentally cranking out Brahms or "Love Story" at an inappropriate moment in the most artificial and nasal tones ever desired by
tronic Musical Instrument and
Calculator makes a kind of
music which has been described as
sounding like a traditional made of
chicken parts. Yet, its capacity for
musical expression is not very
certified levels far beyond any other
basic pseudo-instrument developed
for non-musicians.
The singing watch upsets the iceberg on a musical revolution which pus to shame the minor advances perpetuated by its own music. Electronic musical instruments and compact recording and playback devices have already caused young ears to become more aware of Seventies. Our ears have accepted the beep replacing the electric buzz, the tone upsetting the audio, and the tone squawling over any natural noise.
The Casio VL-Tone
The Casio VL-Tone VL-1 Elec tronic Musical Instrument and
into a west pocket. its keyboard of about 2/3 octaves has little plastic pegs of black and white, like any pianos' an L.E.D. read-out which each note's numerical equivalent as it is played, ten special keys for the rhythm box, the temps setting, the sounds switching, the switches to alter octaves, instrument sound, volume, and calculator function. The speaker is built right in.
VLSI, Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit, allows the VL-Tone to hold so much within so little a space, but the lT one hesitate to call an instrument (the VL-Tone) because it had, which may inhibit high school band directors from giving it any widespread acceptance. The range of musics which can be created is enormous, and can easily be set by setting the rhythm box to "swing" "rock1" or "rock2" (of 7 others, "bossa Nova" is too complicated, "rhuma" too defined, and "match" clearly too stiffly), the instruments can be recorded up to 100 notes of, say "96 Tears" and stored in memory. Plug the VL-Tone into your stereo amp, and play the whole thing back in full volume without touching the screen. Quest Mark has returned from the beyond. If you rather haltingly recorded the tune the first time around, a feature called "One Key Play" will you to re-record it. You can choose whether to press Quest Mark when you choose by pushing just one button instead of muffling on the keyboard.
One can understand why avant-garde violinist Laurie Anderson is keen to write music especially for an or chesha of the little monsters it has like having warmed condens into a layer of much simpler than Rakib's to conquer.
Beyond simple diddling-about possibilities, the VL-Tone drives relatives
crazy at family reunions. There are five instrument sound settings: piano plunk, fantasy two-wool zone synth (woo-wool), nose-hole violin, tugging pipe, and amateur guitar. Aunt Hilla's proud rendition of "When the Saints" is appropriate for any sound, at any of nine different tempo. In addition, a feature called ADSR (Attack, Decay, Sustain, and Release) allows you to program the envelope of any sound that so can animate it. The instrument electronic toe clip, no less than 80 million different ones. Then, "When the Saints..." comes out sounding like the waaij of Himi Hendrix or the piercing wall of a Haitian banshee, or a whaler, all of course concocted by a chicken fandrerl quality sound.
The V-Lente makes a super toy, much advanced beyond the toy pianos of yesteryear. If all else fails, there's an old piano bluer out a "Gold Folk Tune," utilizing five different instrument sounds and four rhythms, making it very easy to play new technology and have talent after all. They all laughed when you sat down to play the V-Lente. Or, you can balance your bank book with the calligraphy.
The Realistic Synthesizer by Moog MG-I
For a few hundred dollars more, Radio Shack will give you all the authenticity of a funeral parlor organ right through your living room stereo. Unlike the M-702, you must be able to walk through your rock group PA before any sounds come out of it. About the size of the Compact Edition of the Ox
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This accident postponed the flight to Nov. 4. The next time the flight was only once scheduled, it would be on Nov. 5.
However, on Nov. 12, 200,000 people lined riverbanks and highways around the sprawling space center to see the shuttle make space history on its two-day journey.
Donald Clayton, shuttle test flight manager said that the flight ran superbly and looked considerably better than it did after flight one.
Two burned out rocket boosters were blamed for the Columbia's early re-entry.
The next important goal for the NASA space program, Engle said, would be a permanent orbiting space station. However, the space agency is funding that project was uncertain.
Engle said that NASA planned many more space shuttle flights.
"There are plans in the space program for three more vehicles such as Columbus, with which we are working."
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