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This is the design of the earpieces on the headphones. Some headphones go inside the ear, while others rest on the outside of the ear. This helps you know exactly what type of headphones you will be receiving.
In-Ear: The ear buds go into the ear. Most often, the right and left ear buds are two separate pieces.
Enclosed-Ear: Usually are found on the larger headphones. They rest on top of the ear and have padding for comfort, as well as enclosing the ear to the speaker. This type of headphone helps to filter out surrounding noise.
On-Ear: This type of headphone involves the speaker sitting gently on the ear without going in the ear or sealing it off.
Headphone type refers to the construction of the headphones.
Around the Ear means that the headphones wrap around the ear to provide a secure fit. This is most often seen in active and sports headphones.
Around the Neck means that the headphones wrap around the neck. This is also seen in active and sports headphones.
Earbuds means that the right and left sides of the headphones are separated and will fit securely into the ear. These are small, compact, and user friendly.
Over the Head headphones mean that the right and left speakers are connected with a support that goes over the head and rests on top. This is the typical headphone type.
This is the application that the headphones are designed for. Each application has unique features that make it perfect for particular uses.
DJ: These headphones are durable, loud, and will often allow for one ear listening.
Gaming Delivers explosive sound and allows you to communicate with others.
Home Hi-Fi: These audiophile headphones are engineered to produce high fidelity and accurate audio.
Home/Office: These headphones are designed to produce rich, brilliant sounds that the artists would appreciate.
Sports: Designed for active use. These headphones are made to stay in (or on) the ear during workouts.
Kids: Feature noise limiting technology so that your little ones don't damage their ears listening to music too loud.
On-the-Go: On-the-go headphones are lightweight and often fold up for easy storage and portability.
Student: Compact and rugged enough to survive life in a backpack; inexpensive enough to not hurt the wallet of a student.
Studio: Reproduce music perfectly without any coloration. Look here for reference quality studio monitoring headphones.
Traveler/Airplane: These headphones are compact, lightweight, and have a portable design.
The basic design of the headphones. There are 3 different types:
Open: Have ports that allow air through the back of the diaphragms, enabling the headphones to sound like the music is coming from an outside source.
Closed: Completely sealed and have no air passing through the diaphragms. Sounds like you are in a closed off room.
Semi-open: Have slots or ports in the back of the cup and are partially open. This allows for a mixed sound between an open and closed headphone.
Corded means that the headphones use a cord to transfer the audio signal.
Bluetooth means that the audio signal is transmitted from your device to the headphones via a Bluetooth connection.
Corded or Bluetooth means that the headphones can be used as corded headphones or as Bluetooth headphones. They have an input in one or both earcups for use as a corded headphone while they also have a built-in battery for use as Bluetooth wireless headphones.
Wireless means that the audio signal is transmitted wirelessly to the headphones.
The Jack Angle refers to the angle of the input jack on the headphone cable.
Straight Jack: Straight plug with no angle.
Angled Jack: Angled plug, usually a 90 degree angle.
Swivel Jack: A swivel jack is able to swivel between a straight plug and an angled plug.
The physical design of the driver in the headphones.
Balanced Armature:
A balanced armature driver uses a coil wrapped around an armature which is held in between two magnets until it is stimulated by an electrical current. When stimulated, this armature is magnetized which causes it to rotate one way or the other around a pivot point which moves the diaphragm to create sound. Balanced armature driver headphones are generally earbuds and can have multiple drivers in each earbud.
Dynamic drivers are the most common driver type. They feature a permanent magnet, usually neodymium, a voice coil and a conical diaphragm to drive your music. A dynamic headphone driver looks pretty much identical to any typical home theater speaker.
Electrostatic drivers are made up of an extremely thin membrane, usually a coated PET film, stretched between two metal plates. An electrical signal is applied to the metal plates to create an electrical field which, depending on its polarity, draws the speaker diaphragm toward one of the plates which forces air through the perforations in the diaphragm which generates the sound wave.
Planar Magnetic:
A planar magnetic driver is made up of a large membrane suspended between two sets of oppositely aligned magnets. An electric charge is applied to the membrane to induce movement and produce sound waves.
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Comments Wild ginger provides an extensive ground cover for large areas. It can be too rampant for smaller sites.
Exposure Preference Shade.
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Source: Santa Barbara Police Department
The Santa Barbara Police Department will be conducting DUI Checkpoints in the City of Santa Barbara on
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Friday December 14, 2012: 6 pm to 2 am
Saturday December 15, 2012: 6 pm to 2 am
The Santa Barbara Police Department encourages everyone to drink responsibly, pre-arrange for a ride
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Funding for this program was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through
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By Brad Locke/NEMS Daily Journal
Recapping MSU's 8-2 win over Samford at Dudy Noble Field on Saturday.
• The buzz: MSU gained some revenge against the team that eliminated it from last year's Tallahassee NCAA Regional. The Bulldogs (7-0) jumped 0ut to a 6-0 lead after two innings, and Samford (4-3) couldn't generate much offense at all, managing just four hits against two MSU pitchers.
• Big inning: MSU started it off with a three-run first inning. Adam Frazier hit a leadoff triple and scored on C.T. Bradford's single. Later in the inning, Alex Detz and Brett Pirtle hit back-to-back two-out RBI singles.
• Key stats: MSU was 5 of 16 with runners in scoring position. … Samford was 1 of 5 with runners in scoring position. … Samford pitchers issued four walks and two hit-by-pitches.
• MSU at the plate: Frazier had three of MSU's 13 hits, and 10 other Bulldogs had one hit apiece. … Hunter Renfroe's solo home run, his second of the season, made it 7-1 in the fourth inning. He had two RBIs and scored two runs. … Renfroe and Bradford have both reached safely in all seven games this season. … Frazier has five multiple-hit games this year.
• Samford at the plate: Samford had four hits, its first one not coming until Tommy Corbin's leadoff single in the fifth inning. … Zeth Stone and Sam Few had one RBI apiece.
• MSU on the mound: Starter Evan Mitchell tossed three innings, allowing one run on no hits with a strikeout and two walks. He threw 56 pitches. … Ross Mitchell (2-0) pitched the last six frames, allowing one run on four hits with four strikeouts and no walks. He threw 76 pitches.
• Samford on the mound: Starter C.K. Irby (1-1) lasted just two innings, giving up six runs on seven hits with two strikeouts and two walks. … Parker Curry allowed one run on four hits in four innings, while Mark Donham gave up one run on two hits in two innings. … Each of Samford's pitchers had two strikeouts.
• Bottom line: The MSU pitching has been dynamic this year, and it hasn't allowed more than two runs in a game yet. The offense showed life early, and when that happens, it's gonna be hard for anyone to rally against this staff.
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After prolonged discord over who would participate in the Geneva II peace talks on Syria, negotiators from Bashar al-Assad's government and the political opposition in exile have convened along with world powers in the Swiss town of Montreux. The June 2012 communiqué that formed the basis for these talks calls for "a transitional governing body with full executive powers" formed with the consent of both the regime and opposition, but analysts say the most likely outcome is not a negotiated settlement but humanitarian relief for civilians. The following background and analysis offers a guide to the talks, which resumed in Geneva on Friday amid uncertainty over whether the parties would meet face to face.
Dim Prospects for a Settlement in Switzerland
NYT: An Invitation to Geneva II
New York Times reporters annotate the UN secretary-general's letter to Geneva II invitees.
Statements Before High-Level Meeting in Montreux
The UN compiled statements at the Geneva II conference's opening session.
New Republic: America Must Stand Firm on Syria at the Geneva II Conference
Former ambassador Frederic Hof writes that with Iran and Russia doubling down in support of the Assad regime, the United States must be unequivocal in its demands for a political transition in Damascus.
Washington Post: Ending Syrians' Suffering
David Miliband, the president of the International Rescue Committee says even if a negotiated settlement is out of reach, the parties should work to ease the humanitarian crisis facing Syrians.
Foreign Policy: Could Discussing Humanitarian Issues Lead to Disaster at the Geneva II Talks?
The recent push to shift attention from a political transition to "palliative agreements" on humanitarian issues at Geneva will make prospects for the conflict's resolution more remote, argues Steven Heydemann, a Syria expert at the U.S. Institute for Peace.
Al-Jazeera America: Why Syria's Assad Enters Geneva Talks in a Position of Strength
Scholar Joshua Landis writes that as Assad's delegation goes to Geneva with the upper hand, he is unlikely to compromise, and Syria will remain effectively partitioned.
CFR Interview: Small Steps to Syrian Transition?
Former U.S. ambassador to Syria Edward P. Djerejian says that talks focused on limited cease-fires, prisoner exchanges, and aid corridors now may lay the groundwork for future negotiations toward a political transition.
Al-Jazeera: Great Expectations?
While "political negotiations are the only game in town," the state of Syria's political opposition complicates the prospects of a peace agreement, writes Middle East Institute scholar Randa Slim.
Who's Not at the Table?
Carnegie Endowment: The Politics of the Islamic Front
The Islamic Front, a group of opposition factions that oppose both the Western-backed Free Syrian Army and the more radical Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria, rejects the Geneva process.
Al-Monitor: Syrian Kurds Feel Left Out of Geneva II
Syria's Kurds, who have carved out an enclave in the country's northeast largely insulated from the civil war, were denied a delegation of their own.
Reuters: The UN Invitation That Nearly Undid Syria Peace Talks
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon invited Iran to participate in Geneva II—which might have caused the Syrian opposition to pull out—and then promptly withdrew the invitation under U.S. pressure.
If Not Geneva, Then What?
Project Syndicate: Stopping the Syria Contagion
Peace brokers must change the parties' incentives to prioritize the protection of civilians, and the Obama administration must hold out the credible threat of force to bolster the moderate opposition vis-à-vis al-Qaeda-linked groups and the Assad regime, writes Anne-Marie Slaughter, president of the New America Foundation.
Foreign Affairs: Winning the Peace by Failing in Geneva
Former State Department officials Jeremy Shapiro and Samuel Charap argue that if Assad blocks a settlement at Geneva II, Russia may move toward greater cooperation with the United States, and together they can facilitate a political resolution among regional supporters of the regime and opposition.
Foreign Affairs: Hope Springs in Syria?
Local efforts to end the siege laid to opposition-held areas have led to many small-scale cease-fires. They are "the best chance for peace in the short term," writes journalist Hassan Hassan, who says the Geneva talks should lay the groundwork to enact them nationwide.
On the Ground in Syria
Washington Institute: Assad's Indispensable Foreign Legions
The Assad regime's attempt to frame the civil war as a battle against "foreign terrorists" obscures the fact that there are at least as many foreigners fighting for the regime as against it, writes Washington Institute defense fellow Jeffrey White.
European Council on Foreign Relations: Syria's Uprising Within an Uprising
Journalist Rania Abouzeid describes the battlefield setbacks to the al-Qaeda-linked ISIS by more moderate opposition groups in rebel-held territory.
Guardian: Document Trove Shows Evidence of 'Industrial Scale' Killing of Detainees
Photographs smuggled out of Syria by a regime defector and released on the eve of the Geneva II talks could, if confirmed, be evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity, demonstrating the regime's systematic torture and execution of its opponents.
Human Rights Watch: World Report 2014
The Syrian government "indiscriminately attacked civilians in areas held by the armed opposition," writes Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth. "The fear of doing anything that might dissuade Damascus from participating in Geneva II has become the latest excuse for not putting real pressure on Syria."
Buzzfeed: The Speech That Changed Syria
Middle East correspondent Mike Giglio recounts how decisions made by Assad in 2011 transformed peaceful demonstrations into the largely sectarian civil war it is today.


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My post had nothing to do with the manipulation of the running order...read it again ed...you been around a loooong time and know EXACTLY what I mean...
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My post had nothing to do with the manipulation of the running order...read it again ed...you been around a loooong time and know EXACTLY what I mean...
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People will always find ways to game the system. They use loopholes in the rules or count on the fact nobody will report them. Running order can be manipulated but frankly that's a crap shoot to say its beneficial.
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I haven't been on this forum much (more active on the CBR forum), so don't know if the tone of the replies to this post are typical, but here's a point of view from a newbie, that some of the previous posters to this thread may want to consider. (Or maybe you'll all tell me to stick it...)
I'm a new handler, with my first dog, who competed in my first derby today. Over the last 16 months, to learn about the sport, I joined 2 local clubs and volunteered to marshal at about 8 events, field trials and hunt tests. I am VERY happy that no one I came across ever tried to tell me that things were fixed or that cheating was common, or that newbies didn't stand a chance. I likely would have walked away before I ever started.
Maybe it's different in other parts of the country, but where I've been, I have heard a lot of folks talking about how they need to get new and younger people interested in the sport so it doesn't die out. Making new folks think they don't stand a chance sure isn't a way to get them interested!
From my personal perspective only, I've got to say, that my experience has been nothing but postive from the folks I've come across so far. I know there are bad eggs in every game, but I have to say that at my first trial this weekend, to a person, including other handlers, pros and amateurs alike, and judges, people could not have been more encouraging, helpful and supportive.
After a less-than-stellar first outing (due to inexperienced handler more than anything), if I had been hearing things like I read in some of the comments above, I might have just thrown in the towel. Instead, I walked away from the trial this weekend with a load of determination, lots of good, helpful advice, and hopefully some new friends met along the way.
If, being new, I misread the tone of the comments (not all of them) above, my sincere apologies. If not, then you might want to think in the future when answering an honest question from a newbie, who is just looking for information and advice, to be less caustic and more straighforward in answering.
To the folks who took the time to give a thoughtful reply to this question, thanks from another newbie, even though this wasn't my question. It's nice to know there are people out there willing to give sound advice to those of us newbies out here who are willing to listen and learn!
PS- the reason I opened this post tonight was because of the title 'first time and first dog', since as a newbie I was curious to see what other newbies are asking about...
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Really hard pressed to see where you got the idea that the whole game was rigged and a first timer didn't stand a chance. Speculation that the running order might not be completely random? The OP asked if it might be possible to run later in the order so that he might observe and learn. The upshot of the conversation that I saw was that maybe the running order wasn't completely random but that in the greater scheme of things it really isn't that important. If you gleaned additional information from the posts - that is YOUR issue. Bottom line is that some poor dumbass is going to be dog #1 and that ain't all bad.
Might not be completely random but run yer dawg anyway regards
There are three classes of people: those who see...those who see when shown...and those who do not see. - Leonardo da Vinci
As for following the rules in the strictest sense. It's a Derby! It a first timer, there's a well seasoned pro running number 3. Let the pro, who needs to get over to the Open (oh yeah and to facilitate the running of the trial), run before the newbie, so he has at least two dogs to watch and at least 3 minutes to go barf behind his truck before it's his turn. Geeze o Peat.
If the rules were to be strictly adhered to in a Derby, I and 1000 other first timers would be thrown out of the first series for talking to their dog, or patting their leg between birds or having their dog take off half a second before being sent. Judges know when the person and dog are first timers and that they need some advice and lee way to keep the experience a good one. So many judges let so many first time idiots skate on errors like that for a very good reason.
Why not let Danny Farmer run his dog first and let his guy go second? I think Mr Farmer can handle it...
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I think that in addition to being allowed to run when they want to, they should be allowed a handle or two....
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By Errol Castens/NEMS Daily Journal
Bro. Earl (no relation) and I were riding back from my pine woods on his day off – a day I decided to take, too – with a pickup–and–trailer load of pine straw for our respective wives' flower beds.
We'd both read Charlie Mitchell's column last week about why it's important to teach boys, not just girls, about what constitutes rape.
"The most serious crimes under Mississippi law are murder, arson, kidnapping and rape," the professor wrote.
"Of those, only one involves human contact that in another context is welcome, even essential."
One of the most wonderful experiences in life – a literal life giver, he was saying – can be one of the worst, a literal life taker, if the context is wrong.
As we drove through five counties with our tarped mulch and sore muscles, Bro. Earl chewed on how similar principles govern other behaviors.
"It's largely about power and its proper bounds," the preacher said.
I must have looked a little quizzical.
"Sixteen–year–olds know a car is power," he said.
"That's why we teach them to be sober, vigilant, logical and law–abiding. Anything less can be costly at best, disastrous at worst."
Bro. Earl took a swig from his water jug and admired a passing stand of wheat before speaking again.
"Money is also power," he continued.
"It can accomplish much good for ourselves, our families, our communities and the world. Wrongly used – such as in feeding addictions – it can destroy us."
We passed through a stretch of swampland.
"Gotta teach folks to use words carefully as well," Bro. Earl said.
"Proverbs tells us, 'A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver,' but it also says, 'Death and life are in the power of the tongue.' Ask the victims of bullies. Ask their survivors."
Being one who assembles words for a living, I felt a bit threatened by the direction of neighbor's admonitions but was reassured by the fact that ministers also earn their keep by stringing words together.
Then Preacher Man stomped directly on my toes.
"Ask a wise wife who cooks her husband's favorite meal if food isn't power," he said.
"Ask combatants in a civil war. Or just think of Esau. Food is necessary for life, a pleasant reminder of God's provision and a means of hospitality," he said. "But if it becomes one's drug of choice, it's as destructive and powerful as any other.
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Rewind to two years ago and you might remember seeing freshman Jordan Bachynski on the basketball court at Arizona State.
You were probably thinking, "Man, that kid is big…and he looks agile. Maybe the Devils have found a diamond in the rough?"
But coming off of a two-year Mormon mission, the layer of rust on the 7-foot-2 Canadian's game was too thick to chip away in a short amount of time. Bachynski logged a DNP (did not play) in seven games as a first-year player for a team that went just 12-19 on the season.
Midway through his sophomore season, the light bulb went on. In the words of his head coach Herb Sendek, Bachynski released his 'inner animal', averaging 10 points, six rebounds and two blocks per game over his last 13 contests.
And Saturday in Tempe, he made history. With his 13-point, 12-rebound, 12-blocked shot performance, Bachynski notched the first triple-double in school history during the Sun Devils' 87-76 win over Cal State Northridge.
"It's been a long road," Bachynski said Saturday. "From my mission and taking two years off and last year coaches being patient with me, to my freshman year not playing pretty much at all, just the development I've gone under is a testament to the great coaching staff here. They do a phenomenal job developing players."
With his school-record 12 blocks Saturday, Bachynski re-took the national lead in that category from Kansas' Jeff Withey. What may be more amazing, Bachynski accomplished the feat without committing a foul and has only 15 personal fouls in Arizona State's first nine games.
"A big part (of staying out of foul trouble) is not trying to block your man's shot. Occasionally, I'll block the big man, but most of my blocks come off help," Bachynski explained.
Another big part of it is natural instinct. Many seven-footers aren't great shot-blockers, but Bachynski has a "knack" for rejections.
"It's not something that I think is easily taught," Sendek said. "The great shot blockers that I've had a chance to be around simply have that knack. It's not something you typically show film on or try to teach someone to do. Some guys just have the knack, and some guys do not."
Having that knack helped Bachynski become just the third Division I player this season to notch a triple-double, joining Withey who scored 16 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and blocked 12 shots vs. San Jose State November 26 and Marshall guard Deandre Kane who scored 33 points, grabbed 11 boards and handed out 10 assists in a double-overtime loss to Hofstra November 18.
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TUPELO – The GumTree Festival has seen the guys in Paper Blues go from boys to men.
Mitch Presley, Justin Hughes and Ryan Culp started playing music together in the Tupelo High School band Structure, which performed at the GumTree Festival on the youth stage in years past. Now, the three have a band of their own, called Paper Blues, and the trio is playing the main stage at the festival on Sunday. In the band's short life, the guys have made a name for themselves.
"We've played the Elvis Presley Festival, the Don't Be Cruel Barbecue Duel, Verona Heritage Festival, the Amory Railroad Festival, the Neshoba County Fair," Culp, the band's bassist, said.
Some may know the band as Pay Per Blues. As audiences in the area started to know the group better, the band name morphed into Paper Blues.
"People have a lot of trouble saying three words," Culp said, laughing.
Paper Blues' sounds like a jam band playing the blues.
"Really, we're a jam band, but we add a lot of sounds to that," Presley said.
The guys' influences range from jam bands like Phish to bluesy rock bands like Led Zeppelin, as well as hill country blues artists like Junior Kimbrough.
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Paper Blues is taking its time creating a debut record, but it is mostly complete.
"We don't want to put out something we won't want to listen to in 20 years," Culp said. "We don't want to rush to get it done."
It'll be one more chapter in the growing story of Paper Blues.
Culp, 20, is a student at Mississippi State University, while Hughes and Presley, both 18, are about to graduate from Tupelo High School. They'll join Culp in Starkville this fall, where they expect to be able to play more shows and continue rocking out.
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Hassen Ghannem
Other investigators:
Jihene Maatoug; Imed Harrabi; Slim Slama; Nathalie Farpour-Lambert
Location of the project:
Sousse, Tunisia
Amount allocated:
September 1, 2012 - September 1, 2014
Tunisia is facing an epidemiological transition and the prevalence of diabetes is dramatically increasing. This epidemic is developing in association with obesity, which represents an important risk factor of type 2 diabetes. Indeed, childhood obesity constitutes now a major public health challenge in Tunisia and worldwide.
Therefore, we propose to implement and evaluate a school-based intervention to manage overweight and obesity among school adolescents in the region of Sousse, Tunisia. This will be a one-year behavioral intervention that will include nutritional, physical activity and psychological components.
Results to date
"Schools open doors to lifestyle lessons in Tunisia" Diabetes Voice, June 2014
* Project completed in September 2014
BRIDGES (Bringing Research in Diabetes to Global Environments and Systems) is a programme initiated by the International Diabetes Federation, and supported by an educational grant from Lilly Diabetes.


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Ottawa: Here are us!
This crazy trip to Ottawa, CA. I don't believe that will be would in this region.
Have fun my contact com canada citizen, a five minutes to I understand then and they to understand me. If Euler don't get vista, I will be serious problems, because we will talk PGCon 2008 and my english is fantastically is bad. My luck, possibility Francisco Jr. will help with speech my talk.
I'm like Ottawa, people is very nice and the city is very, very organized, also like of the parks and Tulipa Festival.
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Steiner-Parker Synthacon
The rare Steiner-Parker Synthacon is a portable 3-VCO monophonic analog synthesizer that rivals the popular Minimoog with its fat tone, durable construction and stable, stable tuning. The Synthacon has the same circuitry as the modular SynthaSystem. Interestingly, the Synthacon's filter can self-oscillate like the Minimoog, but has an opposite polarity so it doesn't lose any volume when resonance is increased as do the Minimoog and Odyssey's filters.
Each of the Synthacon's 3 oscillators can be modulated by a variety of sources: LFO, EG1, EG2, VCF, sample-and-hold, and other oscillators. White and Pink noise make for brilliant ocean/wind sounds. The filter is a multimode resonant beast switchable between high, band and lowpass filtering. It can be used to filter each of the oscillators and the noise gens. The shape of the filtering can be controlled by EG2, sample-and-hold, VCO3 or the keyboard. The voltage-controlled amp can control the oscillators, noise and filter. And there are (2) envelope generators which can control the VCA, oscillators, noise and filter.
Earlier models of the Synthacon had silver-faced front panels. Later a duophonic upgrade, the "Two Voice Synthacon" was released. The Synthacon has been used by Earth Wind and Fire, Joe Walsh, the Doors, Frank Zappa and John Paul Jones.
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- Filter - 2-pole resonant low/band/highpass VCF
- VCA - ADSR, envelope generator, Trigger Generator
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Undergraduates to hold research symposium, March 31, April 3
Posted March 30, 2004; 04:05 p.m.
Undergraduates from across the science and engineering disciplines at Princeton will participate in a student-led research symposium on Wednesday, March 31, and Saturday, April 3.
The Undergraduate Research Symposium is intended to counter a trend toward "partitioning science and engineering students into narrow disciplines and insulating them from the larger consequences of their work," according to junior Jordan Paul Amadio, founder and current chair of symposium.
The symposium begins Wednesday with a poster session at which nearly 40 students will display their research before a panel of judges. Five winning entries will be selected for oral presentations and further judging on Saturday.
The poster session on Wednesday will be open to the public from 7 to 9:30 p.m. in the lobby of Schultz Lab. The symposium on Saturday is scheduled for 1 to 4:30 p.m. in 302 Frist Campus Center. The Saturday symposium also will feature a keynote talk by Edward Taylor, the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Organic Chemistry Emeritus, and a panel discussion on "What Can Research Do For Your Life After Princeton?"
The event is supported by Princeton University's Council on Science and Technology and the campus science and engineering departments. A total of $4,000 in prizes will be awarded to student participants.
Further details are available on the Undergraduate Research Symposium Web site .
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Mitt Romney had barely finished his concession speech last November when pundits began discussing potential Republican candidates for the 2016 presidential contest. Since Barack Obama emerged victorious, they waited a little longer to start considering the Democratic field; but now that his second and final term has begun, the speculation is going full steam ahead.
According to a lengthy Politico story, the Democrat currently showing the greatest interest in succeeding Obama is none other than Vice President Joe Biden.
Biden, according to a number of advisers and Democrats who have spoken to him in recent months, wants to run, or at least be well positioned to run, if and when he decides to pull the trigger. Biden has expressed a clear sense of urgency, convinced the Democratic field will be defined quickly — and that it might very well come down to a private chat with Hillary Clinton about who should finish what Barack Obama started.
"He's intoxicated by the idea, and it's impossible not to be intoxicated by the idea," said a Democrat close to the White House. And the intoxication is hardly new. Officials working on the Obama-Biden campaign last year were struck by how the vice president always seemed to have one eye on a run, including aggressively courting the president's donors. Obama aides at times had to actively steer Biden to places where he was needed — such as Pennsylvania — because he kept asking to be deployed to Iowa, New Hampshire, and other early states.
"He wasn't just doing fundraising the campaign assigned to him," said a campaign adviser. "He was inviting people to the mansion to hang out and have dinner." Biden was way more into the donors than Obama was. "He embraced it with a tirelessness and a gusto that even the president didn't," another campaign official said.
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Interesting to note that not even a highly controlled economy like China is immune to what's going on in the rest of the world.
Interesting, too, that they have had a "housing bubble".Part of the issue is that the Chinese governments leaders have decided to put quality-of-life concerns ahead of maximizing economic growth when it comes to two of the countrys largest industries: housing and autos.
Premier Wen Jiabao has imposed a strict ban on purchases of second and subsequent homes, in the hope that discouraging real estate speculation will improve the affordability of homes. The ban has resulted in a steep decline in residential real estate prices, a sharp fall in housing construction and widespread job losses among construction workers.The Chinese auto industry has grown tenfold in the last decade to become the worlds largest, looking like a formidable challenger to Detroit. But now, the Chinese industry is starting to look more like Detroit in its dark days in the 1980s.Inventory levels for us now are very, very high, said Huang Yi, the chairman of Zhongsheng Group, Chinas fifth-largest dealership chain. If I hadnt done special offers in the first half of this year, my inventory would be even higher.Yet businesspeople in a wide range of industries have little doubt that the Chinese economy is in trouble.
Inventory used to flow in and out, said Mr. Wu, the faucet and sink sales manager. Now, it just sits there, and theres more of it.


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ncm writes in favour of τ against π: It's silly to memorize an absurd number of digits of pi and then be obliged to double them before they are useful.
I've no issue with having both constants about, using π or τ whichever is simplest, but I find that π feels more fundamental to me. A couple of considerations:
- The area of the unit circle is π. This seems as close to fundamental a fact of trigonometry as you can get. Perhaps trigonometry differs from folk geometry in finding the radius of a circle more fundamental than the diameter?
- Quite a lot of the Tau Manifesto is devoted to how much nicer things are if we express radians as lying between [0,τ] rather than [0,2π]. Well, radians are an equivalence class over all the whole continuum, and choosing to express radians over a positive interval to me strikes of failing to appreciate the symmetry of geometry. I find [-π,+π] more natural than [-τ/2,+τ/2], and I like having π being the opposite angle to 0. I do, I confess, view expressing right angles as τ/4 rather than π/2 more intuitive, since right angles "quarter" the plane.
I'm quite happy for people to prefer working with τ rather than π, but I would be unhappy with a calculator than had a τ key and no π key.


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Dear Hasbro,
Notice u have not come out with any 12" for EU characters. I think its time you should release a figure or two. I have a few on my mind now and hope you can give a tot to them :
1. Mara Jade
Many collectors are customising this baby and this shows that she's in popular demand. So, in a business point of view, this fig will make you money and it justify making
2. Grand Admiral Thrawn
He is the man the remnants of the Empire rely on to take back past glories. Person of his status demands a 12" fig.
3. Guri
In the book, she's said to be BEAUTIFUL!! So I want to see her 12" fig. Guys collectors will be queing for her and again in a business point of view, she's a money spinner
Pls give them serious thoughts and I assure you I'll be your first customer if these are to be made


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I've been watching Mike & Mike and Dan Patrick all morning and they haven't said anything about Egypt. What's going on in Egypt?
Same thing as three days ago.
Originally Posted by ducknwork
Same thing as three days ago.
Whew. I thought maybe the Pyramids had caught fire or something.
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By Avi Salzman
For much of this year, the public sector has been shedding jobs, as cash-strapped governments look for ways to cut costs. But in the past couple of months, the household survey has indicated that public sector jobs are on the upswing. That's puzzling to Deutsche Bank Chief U.S. Economist Joseph Lavorgna.
Employment numbers are tabulated in two different reports — the household survey and the establishment survey. The establishment survey, a poll of businesses, showed decent but somewhat unspectacular job growth of 114,000 new positions. The establishment survey was revised higher for previous months to add more government jobs.
But the household survey has painted an even more optimistic picture about the public sector in the past couple of months. The household survey indicated that employment rose by 873,000 — and of that, 575,000 jobs were "non-private," which includes government jobs, self-employed people and unpaid people. That kind of job growth hasn't been seen on the household survey since September 2000, Lavorgna noted. On a two-month basis, the household survey has shown the largest growth in government jobs — 604,000 — since the report started being tabulated in 1948, Lavorgna added. Barrons.com's Randall Forsyth wrote earlier that part-time workers accounted for much of the growth on the household survey, and those workers were not working part-time voluntarily. (here's a link to the relevant tables in the household survey)
The government uses the household survey to tabulate the unemployment rate, which fell to 7.8% from 8.1%. The large drop in the rate had some economists scratching their heads, and upset supporters of Mitt Romney who see the drop as a political win for the president. Former GE CEO Jack Welch went so far as to allege on twitter that "Chicago guys" like Obama "change numbers."
Welch may have been going a bit far with his off-the-cuff statement — he was pilloried on twitter afterward. But the difference between the two reports did strike some observers as problematic. The establishment survey showed that job growth was "a little bit better than expectations," while the household survey shows a much more marked improvement, Lavorgna said. "To me it's a tale of two reports."
"It doesn't fundamentally makes sense to me," Lavorgna said in an interview. "It doesn't pass muster with respect to how the economy has been performing to this point in time. Over the past 10 years, GDP and unemployment are inversely correlated. Basically when GDP goes up, unemployment goes down. That's a very tight relationship. When [GDP] downshifts in the second quarter and then downshifts in the third quarter and unemployment is down that is unusual."
Lavorgna is puzzled by the discrepancy. "I'm not sure exactly what the statistical anomaly is in the data." It could have to do with aggressive attempts to make seasonal adjustments, or perhaps some statistical measuring issues — a mischaracterization of people working temporarily on election campaigns, for instance.
"I just think the numbers have been very volatile and something is remiss with the various statistical techniques," he said.
Karl Smith, a professor at the University of North Carolina, however, argues that the household survey may actually present a more accurate gauge of the employment situation. After accounting for revisions (like the recent one adding 386,000 jobs to the year before March 2012), the establishment survey has tended to catch up with the household survey. "This could suggest that the household series has given us a more timely read on what's happening in the data than the payroll series," he writes.


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Alternate name: Scarlet Milk-vetch
Family: Fabaceae, Pea view all from this family
Description Long, red pea flowers angle upward in loose heads above tufted, white, woolly, pinnately compound leaves.
Habit: native perennial herb; gray-green, white-hairy; clump-forming.
Height: 4-8 in (10-20 cm).
Leaf: alternate, odd-pinnate; 7-15 small leaflets, oval, pointed, to 0.6 in (15 mm) long.
Flower: bright red, 1-1.5 in (3-4 cm) long; in erect cluster of up to 10 flowerheads.
Fruit: pod, plump and heavy, to 1.5 in (4 cm) long; often bending plant to the ground; drying to fuzzy, leathery texture.
Warning All plants in the genus Astragalus are potentially toxic to humans and animals if ingested, causing a disorder called locoism. The milk from an animal that has ingested Astragalus plants may also be toxic. Sensitivity to a toxin varies with a persons age, weight, physical condition, and individual susceptibility. Children are most vulnerable because of their curiosity and small size. Toxicity can vary in a plant according to season, the plants different parts, and its stage of growth; and plants can absorb toxic substances, such as herbicides, pesticides, and pollutants from the water, air, and soil.
Flower March to June.
Habitat Open gravelly mountain sites: canyons, ridges, benches; pinyon, juniper, or sagebrush communities.
Range Native to southeastern California, southern Nevada, and western Arizona, into northern Baja California.
Discussion Also called scarlet milkvetch, freckled milkvetch. Of the several low, tufted western Astragalus species with plump, woolly pods, this is the most spectacular. The unusually long red flowers, a rare color in the genus, are positioned to be easily accessible to hummingbirds.


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Our chocolate female, Maya, had her 1 year exam this past Monday. Along with her heartworm test they did a test for Lymes disease. The test came back positive for Lyme, which apparently only shows that she has Lyme antibodies in her blood, meaning she's been in contact with the bacteria at some point. We had used Frontline on her all year, and had only picked a couple of wood ticks off of her over the previous several months time, not bad for Wisconsin. Our vet went through all of the possible symptoms of Lymes, such as loss of energy, vomiting, diarhea, stiff joints, fever, and Maya never showed any signs of any of them. This seemed to stump our vet a little. She sent us home, told us she would contact the company they get the tests from and see what they recommend.
Vet called us back the next day and wanted us to come back in for a quantitative test to see how high the levels of Lyme antibodies are in Maya's blood. Went back in and gave more blood on Friday. Got the call today and were told her levels are 115, and that they treat anything above 30.
My wife and I have done as much reading on Lyme disease in dogs as we possibly could in the past week, and it seems to us that the general consensus among most lab owners is not to treat dogs that aren't showing symptoms, so that would be the way we are leaning at this point.
Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated!!