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MIDDLEBURY — The Mount Abraham and Middlebury union high school wrestling teams finished second and third, respectively, last week at the Tigers' 45th annual Hubie Wager Invitational Tournament. Three Eagles — sophomores Roman Mayer and Gary Conant and senior Ben Murray — and one Tiger — junior Dustin Davio — earned individual championships.
VERGENNES — Vergennes aldermen last week discussed how future city audits should be conducted, but not because the one on the table in front of them was unfavorable.
"The audit is a good audit," said Alderman Renny Perry at the De. 20 Vergennes City Council meeting. "We're in good financial condition, and everything is being handled appropriately."
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VERGENNES — Vergennes aldermen on Dec. 20 agreed to apply for a $50,000 grant to help map the city's aging sewer and stormwater system, a task that City Manager Mel Hawley said is important to help the city fix the system's overflow problems.
Vergennes has been operating for years under "Combined Sewer Overflow" (or CSO) orders from Vermont Agency of Natural Resources to stop its sewer system from overflowing into Otter Creek.
BRISTOL — As Mount Abraham Union High School senior forward Jackson Counter passed the ball out of the left corner to his junior teammate Dustin Whitcomb, the Eagle fans were just beginning to chant down the final seconds of Tuesday's home game vs. Randolph.
Five, four, three…
After 10 lead changes in the previous eight minutes, the score was knotted at 47-47. Counter had scored 10 of his 14 points in those eight minutes, twice giving the Eagles the lead with driving three-point plays.
ADDISON COUNTY — Middlebury edged Otter Valley to highlight recent local high school girls' basketball play, which also included two big wins for Vergennes and a big night for an Eagle junior forward.
On Dec. 23, the Tiger girls' outlasted host Otter Valley, 48-42, as Payton Buxton tossed in 19 points, including five three-pointers. The Tigers led after one period, 11-9. OV tied the score on a Sophie Markowski hoop, but one of Buxton's threes gave the Tigers the lead for good.
BRIDPORT — Tri-Town Water District officials on Friday morning lifted the boil-water order that had been in effect since Monday afternoon.
That action was taken after Tri-Town water passed qualtiy tests on Tuesday and Wednesday. State officials, who ordered the boil order on Monday and reviewed the tests on Thursday, gave Tri-Town the go-ahead to end the boil order on Friday.
The boil order, which followed two water main breaks, had applied to Tri-Town customers' drinking and cooking water in Addison, Bridport and Shoreham.
ADDISON — After a series of incidents between this past Thursday and Monday that included two water main breaks and a power outage at the Tri-Town Water District plant, district officials on Monday afternoon asked their customers in Addison, Bridport and Shoreham to begin boiling drinking and cooking water.
The disruption in service Friday affected around 1,600 customers, and some residents reported discolored water coming into their homes during the events.
FERRISBURGH — The proposed in-town move of Ferrisburgh trucking firm J.A. DeVos and Sons Inc. to Tuppers Crossing drew fire at a Dec. 7 Board of Zoning Adjustment hearing from some area residents, who said it was a poor fit for the neighborhood.
J.A. DeVos and Sons Inc., owned in part by former Ferrisburgh Selectman John DeVos Jr., is planning to move from the north end of town to a 9-acre parcel on Tuppers Crossing, a half-mile road that runs west from Route 7 to Botsford Road about a half-mile north of Vergennes.
VERGENNES — Residents of Addison, Ferrisburgh, Panton, Vergennes and Waltham can get their initial look on this coming Wednesday at what will be first-ever unified Addison Northwest School District (ANWSD) budget to include spending for all four local schools and their central office.
A draft budget for the 2017-2018 school year of the soon-to-be-unified district, formerly known as Addison Northwest Supervisory Union, will be unveiled in the Vergennes Union High School library at 6 p.m. on Wednesday.
MIDDLEBURY — With 3:10 gone in the third quarter of Tuesday's home game against Otter Valley, junior Middlebury Union High School guard Cody Pomainville fed senior forward Spencer Carpenter on the break to give the Tiger boys a 36-31 lead. Chances looked good for the Tigers' first win in three tries.
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Playing the cuckold has never been easy. Just ask Josh Morrison, who played one such loser in Stages Repertory Theatre's production of Craig Wright's Orange Flower Water this past spring. Hard as it may be, Morrison was somehow able to make the ordinary meathead named Brad into the most memorable male character on any stage this past season. Morrison's Brad was not the sort of man any self-respecting wife would want. He ogled other women and bad-mouthed his bride, and everywhere he went, gloom seemed to follow. He absolutely deserved it when his wife shacked up with another man. But still, when Brad found out what his wife was up to, the forbiddingly muscular Morrison filled up the stage with an animal rage that felt so painfully real, it was hard not to weep for the bastard. Morrison paced around the bedroom looking at his faithless wife, howling out his broken heart in a scream of profanity that felt so primal, it shook the very ground he stood on.
Bar hoppers and pub crawlers alike still reminisce about the talent the Ale House's kitchen had for sating the drunken munchies. We find the Stag's Head does more than come close to matching the old classic's mad skillz. It tops them. No need for a late-night Taco Cabana run when the Stag's Head makes stuffed jalapenos, fajita nachos, burgers and Jamaican jerk chicken tenders. Not only that, the pub serves up fresh pizza from a wood-burning oven. And if you still feel something Britter is better, there's also fish 'n' chips, cottage pie, and bangers and mash with Heinz baked beans on the side. We dare you to get Britter than that.
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Friday nights at Zake are the place to be for raw fish consumption. That's when Elaina "Lushus" Brown, a staple in the local sushi nightlife scene -- yes, there is such a thing -- hits the restaurant's DJ booth to provide musical accompaniment to your evening of Japanese cuisine. We're not giving Brown a shout-out just because she's a gorgeous dame who makes the atmosphere of this swank Montrose sushi spot that much more beautiful. We also think that listening to sweet house grooves while chomping down on uncooked fish is the most exotic way to spend a Friday night.
It's been said that the family that shoots stick together stays together. Of course, Ted Nugent said the same thing about hunting elk, but that's neither here nor there. We suggest visiting Slick Willie's "Family" Pool Hall during the waking hours, before the downtowners get too knackered and the place gets all smoky. The joint has tons of games, both on the table and off: 14 eight-foot pool tables (with one on the outside balcony for nonsmokers), tons of video games (from the classic Galaga to Golden Tee), air hockey and darts. There are even a few TVs for those who prefer to remain spectators. This is no dingy dive full of sharks and hawkers, but it does have a certain authenticity. Patrons down cold buckets of beer, stiff bar drinks and your typical bar fare -- pizza, fried cheese, popcorn, etc. Mosey on over for a few games, but remember: Watch out for the hustlers.
Readers' choice: Slick Willie's Family Pool Hall
Every summer dozens of graff kids hit the streets, wielding cans with skills so lame their scribbles wouldn't look out of place knifed on a park bench. Someone even tagged the Art League Houston's Inversion house, messing up a highly original work. Whoever that hack is, he should take a lesson from YAR!, who's been plastering the Montrose with dope shit all year long. It's YAR! who's been painting all those pictographic faces on walls and Dumpsters, and it's YAR! who's been putting up those bad-ass black-and-white posters on fences and metal boxes. While other graffers seem resigned to crappy scribbles -- hell, even the GRAVEYARD crew is guilty of that, especially around West Gray -- YAR! has taken it to the next level.
"Hip-hop" club Coco Loco's main audience has always been a progressive, young Latin crowd whose collective ear stays planted firmly to the street. From the beginning, the club has featured Latin nights mixed in with more urban fare, but in recent months, Coco Loco has begun to lean more toward the new sounds coming from across Latin America, mainly reggaeton, the salsafied version of reggae that started breaking stateside during the past couple of years. The club's sound system is top-notch, built to rattle your ears and make your chest palpitate. There's plenty of space for VIPs above the main dance floor, not to mention a special second room for getting freaky. (Or so they say.) The whole place is filled with good folks getting down to the latest Latin sounds mixed with hip-hop, much of which comes from our own barrios. This ain't your grandma's cantina -- this is one of Houston's hottest places to party.
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I always enjoy stories in which a character has a certain saying or proverb I've never heard before. Maybe the character is Italian or Catholic, has been in prison, or reads the urban dictionary at breakfast. These characters, with their special language and slang, are more real to me and a lot of fun to read. In my books I've tried to add this type of element to certain characters to fully engage the reader as well.
My mother is a Southern Belle. Let me add, she's a Baptist Southern Belle. One of her favorite sayings is, "Lord, have mercy". It's like her version of "oh, my god" and she uses it freely in any situation. For example…
Me: Mom, I'm having twins.
Mom (hand flying to her chest): Lord, have mercy!
Me: Mom, the beans are burning on the stove.
Mom (hand flying to her chest): Lord, have mercy!
In some of my stories, I've thrown in proverbs and sayings from family and friends. I haven't found the right character to use that one, but my mother has another saying that drove me up the wall in my youth and works great for my bad witch Amy in the Witches Anonymous series.
Me: I want a pair of Calvin Kline's like all my friends have.
Mom (rolling her eyes): And people in hell want ice water.
Translation: Good luck with that. We don't always get what we want.
During college, I once worked a summer job at a chemical factory in the packaging department. One of my friend's fathers also worked there. He looked at life differently than I did, but his favorite saying, which was a also a piece of advice, has stayed with me until today. I say it to my kids all the time (which they probably hate) and am looking for the right character to use it in a future story.
Me: This job sucks. The rims won't fit on the cans, the boss keeps pairing me with Mike (eww!) and it's 104 degrees in here!
Him (shrugging and smiling): You'll have that sometimes.
Translation: Shit happens, deal with it.
My friend Nana and I were discussing this last week. Her mother (who is Ghanian) always says, "Mark it on the wall!" when someone accomplishes something or something good happens. Except, she says it with a heavy accent, so it sounds like, "mahk eet on dee wahl!"
That got me thinking about the sayings my Russian heroine would have heard from her grandmother growing up while I was writing the fourth super agent book. The proverb, "trust, but verify" came into common American speech during Ronald Reagan's stint in the White House, but Anya's grandmother, an old Cold War spy, changes it in my story to, "Don't trust. Verify." Anya hears her grandmother's advice in her head several times during the story.
And when I was writing the violent climax scene, all I heard in my head was, "Lord, have mercy!"
Readers: do you have a favorite saying or proverb? Have you passed down any from your parents or grandparents to your kids?


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That's a great deal! If I had the time to go looking through racks, I'd be posting about all my great finds too! :)
Major score! I am in need of new jeans and was reading that Old Navy Diva Skinny jeans (cheap, but not as cheap as your designer jean score!!) and Skinny jeans.com jeans (expensive) are both recommended as flattering for most body types..
Shopping is so much fun although less fun in this economy and when you've already got a crapload of clothes (me). For those who still need some great additions to their wardrobe, the current economy is full of clothing values :) Sounds fun and enjoy!
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Score!!! I friggin LUV LUV LUV Macy's, because they use to be Lazarus here and I LUVED them too. Why?? Because it don't matter what kind of clothes you buy, every time you go to that register, its marked down even more. It's been that way forever too.
I'm totally loyal to Macy's!!! Thankfully they are not shutting down the one here. I'd have to go into mourning!
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Hot-spot policing, in which officers increase patrols in areas identified as having a disproportionate amount of crime is used by law enforcement agencies to proactively protect communities. But use of the technique has triggered questions about whether it eliminates crime or simply pushes criminals into other areas.
Now researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a computer simulation model that answers those questions -- and it could help police departments target their crime-fighting resources more effectively.
"It's been known for decades, probably at least since the 1930s, that crime shows very strong spatial and temporal patterning, meaning it forms hot spots," said Jeffrey Brantingham, an associate professor of anthropology at UCLA. "Beginning in about the 1970s, criminologists and law enforcement officials started to say, 'Well, since crime patterns in this way, wouldn't it be reasonable to put extra policing and crime-prevention strategies and direct them right at those hot spots?'"
Many assumed hot spot policing would just cause the criminals to relocate. However, Brantingham said there actually are only a few instances where crime displacement has been observed.
About four years ago, UCLA researchers created a mathematical computer simulation model of crime pattern formation. The model led them to identify two types of crime hot spots that react differently to increased policing - one that relocates and another that dissolves.
"Once we noticed these large-scale patterns forming in the simulation model, we started working on a theory to explain them," said Andrea Bertozzi, a professor of mathematics and director of applied mathematics at UCLA. The researchers published their analysis in February.
Using the mathematical analysis, the researchers can predict how a crime hot spot will respond to increased policing. "It provides that mechanistic model that says these are exactly the conditions under which you should get hot spots forming," Brantingham said. "So it provides boundaries on what sorts of conditions produce hot spots."
That's how the researchers arrived at a "surprising conclusion," he said. The model suggested that there were at least two different types of hot spots - known as super-critical and subcritical - that form under different circumstances. Small spikes in crime form super-critical hot spots. "Little crime events that individually don't seem to be all that significant or all that big, nucleate into a hot spot," Brantingham said. The second type, subcritical, forms during a large, significant spike in crime. The two may appear similar to the public's eye, but they respond differently to intensified policing.
Using 10 years of data from the Los Angeles and Long Beach police departments, the researchers tested the model with information from burglaries. "We did the mathematical equivalent of experiments to test what would happen if you went in and tried to suppress these different types of hot spots," he said. "And lo and behold, you get the two characteristic behaviors that we observed in real experiments of hot spot policing."
The model revealed that when given additional policing, super-critical hot spots displace and form in adjacent regions because they're developed from small crime spikes. "You can't just go and suppress all those small spikes in crime; you're going to suppress the big hot spot," Brantingham said. "The small spikes in crime that are out there in the environment are ready to nucleate into a new one." However, the larger, subcritical hot spots do not re-emerge after increased policing.
Although researchers used burglary data to test the simulation, Bertozzi said the model can apply to other crimes like gang violence or improvised explosive devices in the Middle East.
"Ideally from the technological and crime-prevention strategy perspective, we're pointing in the direction of saying, 'OK, we need to be aware of the different types of hot spots out there,


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Off to Highbury: 1911-1916
Foiled in his plan to merge Fulham with Arsenal, Sir Henry Norris Norris set about rejuvenating the ailing Woolwich Arsenal. It was a painful, painful process. The team finished 18th and 10th respectively in 1910 and 1911.
The primitive facilities at the Manor Ground were also becoming more evident. After a game against Spurs, a local newspaper described the ground as: 'a perfect quagmire, as water lay in a pool along the touchline'.
On that day, the weather was so appalling, that factions of the crowd refused to pay the schilling entrance fee, preferring to stand on the sewer pipe and watch the game from there instead. On two occasions that season, the opposition team failed to reach the ground on time, due to heavy traffic and poor accessibility.
These embarrassments reflected poorly on Norris, and he wasn't one to suffer fools gladly. The club was relegated in 1913 with the (at that time) worst ever record in Division One: P38 W3 D12 L23. For Norris, there was only one option.
In early 1913, Kentish Independent readers read the following front page headline: 'ARSENAL TO MOVE TO THE OTHER SIDE OF LONDON'. In an official statement, Norris pointed out the benefits to the club of moving to a district which had a population of 500,000. The relocated club could tap into the huge reservoir of supporters in Finsbury, Hackney, Islington and Holborn.
Through his contacts in the church, he found that six acres of land at St John's College of Divinity at Highbury were available. Where better to move than a spot which was only ten minutes away by tube from London's West End? There was a strong reaction from Woolwich Arsenal's hard core supporters.
Norris mentioned the 'push' factor from Woolwich; that people from the region simply did not turn up at games in large enough numbers. Mr Walter Bailey's letter, published in the Kentish Independent, stated: 'There is, and has been, sufficient support to run the team on a business basis….. Many clubs in different parts of the country would be glad of such support. Woolwich has been found guilty of apathy….. because it cannot furnish the huge gates that Tottenham and Chelsea get. The most distant part of London to which they intend moving will effectively prevent those who helped to make the club, and can morally claim it as their birthright, from having anything further to do with it. Is this right?'
The local press ran a series of cartoons, one of which, in the Woolwich Gazette, claimed Norris was kidnapping Kent's 'only son'. He countered, and further fanned the flames, by claiming that he'd always regarded Woolwich as part of London anyway, not Kent, and that it was about time the club enjoyed the capital's spoils. In London, representatives from Orient, Spurs and Chelsea were quick to protest, 'in the strongest possible terms', about Norris's proposal to move Woolwich Arsenal to Highbury.
They were worried that another London club could erode their traditional fan bases. An FA enquiry was set up to investigate the whole affair. Norris furnished them with some useful facts. Birmingham, with a population of 400,000, and Sheffield with 250,000 housed two top flight teams each. Why couldn't an ever-expanding London – population two million – house four? The committee ruled that the opposition had 'no right to interfere'. The Tottenham Herald placed an advertisement begging its fans: '…….not to go and support Norris's Woolwich interlopers. They have no right to be here'.
A formidable group of Highbury residents, quivering with righteous indignation about 'undesirable elements of professional football' and 'a vulgar project' on their doorstep also had to be won over. Mr A. Bailey of Avenell Road wrote: 'There will be considerable annoyance and inconvenience suffered by the residents in Avenell Road as a result of the erection of lofty stands by the Woolwich Arsenal Football Club. Can the council please help us on this matter'.
Norris launched a charm offensive on locals, assuring them that 30,000 plus fans in the district every other Saturday would be excellent for local business. This was enough to convince several members of the opposition, many of whom stood to gain from the construction process. Norris also won over the Ecclesiastical Committee, after promising them that no games would be played at Highbury on holy days, and no 'intoxicating liquor' sold at the stadium.
By 1913, Norris's Arsenal (the Woolwich was now dropped - permanently) had indeed completed the move to their home for the next century or so.
According to the Daily Gazette, Woolwich Arsenal secured "the area South of the London College of Divinity bounded by Avenell Road, Highbury Hill and Gillespie Road" on February 20th 1913. The Athletic News, on the other hand, reckoned it happened at some point in March. The month's difference is largely irrelevant.
The facts were that Norris had roughly six months to galvanise assorted local tradesmen, and commission an architect in order that the new stadium would be ready for the opening game of the 1913/1914 season. Norris took the scheme to the very top.
In the early part of last century, Archibald Leitch, an engineer and architect, moved his practice from Glasgow to Manchester. Leitch had been behind the construction of Manchester United's Old Trafford ground, one of the few stadia constructed inside a symmetrical perimeter wall.
The club placed an advert in assorted local newspapers, inviting locals to write in, and suggest names for the new stadium. Mr W Dykes of Camden Town thought that Avesbury Park – a combination of Avenell Road and Highbury – would be a suitable choice, but the club decided to simply name the ground "Highbury Stadium." After several months of frantic construction work, the ground was somehow (just about) ready for business for the opening game of the 1913/1914 season.
The match against Leicester Fosse kicked off at 2.30pm on September 6, 1913. Due to the novelty factor of "the interlopers" finally completing the move from Woolwich to London, a crowd of 20,000 turned up. Goals from George Jobey and Archie Devine (pen) saw Arsenal win 2-1, but despite their more upmarket London environs, by May 1915, the club remained mired in Division Two.
Promotion back to Division One had seemed a possibility, but a dreadful run of results saw the crowds fall away. Just 10,000 turned up to see Arsenal crush Nottingham Forest 7-0 in the final game that season. Although the diehards could never have predicted it, they'd just witnessed a piece of history. This was to be Arsenal's last ever match outside English football's top flight.
1. During the first ever Highbury match, Arsenal trainer George Hardy was forced to commandeer a milk float to take scorer Jobey back to his lodgings to treat his injury.
2. The Tottenham Herald published a cartoon in 1913 portraying Norris's Arsenal as a ravenous hound, poised to wolf down its rivals' food.
3. When Highbury opened for business on September 6th 1913, workmen left the exit gates open, and it would have been easy for hundreds to stampede in, and avoid paying an entrance fee. "It says much for the sportsmanlike atmosphere of the day that fans still queued patiently," recalled construction worker David Yates.
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I have a question that has confused me for sometime now, so I thought I would present it here. My 3-way home speaker system had a passive crossover with two capacitors and two inductors, and I had used it that way for about 10 years. The drivers are philips India make, of reasonably good quality. Then I chanced upon the tri-amping idea. So I removed the passive crossover, and made a 4th order L-R active crossover. The amps used were P3As (of Rod Elliott's design). With great expectation I connected the things together (preamp-crossover-power amps-drivers), but the sound was nothing exciting..it was in fact worse, and lost some detail. The bass lost all its quality In particular and the midrange was muddy (despite making frequency response measurments and gain adjustments using an excellent signal generator and digital storage oscilloscope).
While I was wondering what might have happened, I happened to hear a good-sounding pair of 2-way speakers, and the owner told me that his crossover is just a a 10 microfarad capacitor in series with the tweeter, and nothing else. I came back home, removed the active crossover and triamping from the circuit, connected a 10 microfarad electrolytic (it had polarity in fact) in series with the tweeter..removed the midrange too..and the entire dynamism of the music came back! It was better than my passive 3-way configuration and the active configuration.
Now I am puzzled. I had taken all precautions given in Rod Elliott's article on biamping, but still, the lowly single capacitor sounds better than the other two configurations.
Why is this so? Is it possible that the poor transient response of the 4th order L-R alignment is the culprit? But I thought group delays were not audible..Or should I blame it on the suspicious (possibly) quality of the opamps used in the active crossover? I used TLO 72 opamps, available for an equivalent of about 40 cents in india..
Has any of you ever faced such a thing before? Any thoughts from you guys will be a great help to me!
|20th February 2007, 01:33 AM
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I made the same mistake. I read all kinds of talk about how I could just add active 4th order LR crossovers at the crossover points, and all would be great. It's BS.... It's not really any easier to design an active crossover than a passive. You still have to worry about BSC, and acoustic slopes vs passive slopes. Active operation is not an off-the-shelf solution.
|20th February 2007, 01:49 AM
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A two way with just one capacitor on the tweeter is possible but probably hard to get correct in practice.
First the mid-woofer should roll off on its own at hf to match the tweeter response with the capacitor. The tweeter should be able to handle some lower frequencies as the roll off of a capacitor will be only 6db per octave. If it works well at low volume it might have problems at high volume depending on it's capability.
Some high end speakers do have single capacitors on the tweeter and an inductor on the woofer. The drive units will generally be very expensive !
On the other end of the scale you will also find cheap speakers with just one capacitor on the tweeter. While the sound could be attractive to some people it might not measure up to the performance of a good speaker system.
It's like the loudness control. Use loudness for several minutes and then turn it off and the sound appears to go 'flat' . That's just the way our hearing works .
Carefully implemented active systems sound very good . A passive implementation will not be able to match it for several reasons. Building an accurate active system however is not easy.
|20th February 2007, 02:48 AM
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I have a 4 way that I have played with, but it was designed to have a flat responce with different caps on low mid, high mid, and tweeter, and it sounds best the way it was designed. They are rated 120WRMS, but sound very much sweeter at not more than 50 or 60W. Not every house amp can drive them being 4 Ohms.
All the trouble I've ever been in started out as fun......
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|20th February 2007, 12:19 PM
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It looks as if your speakers used first-order filters originally anyway in the first place.
If you want to copy this as a first-order active filter then put the passive x-over back into place and measure the frequency responses of the drive-voltages on each driver's terminals. Then derive the active circuits that will give the same transfer functions.
|20th February 2007, 12:20 PM
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Hi philipreji
I use a 5" mid range directly connected to the power amplifier. This is assisted in the treble frequencies by a treble unit with a capacitor/inductor filter on the treble unit and is assisted in the base frequencies by a base unit with an inductor/capacitor filter on a base unit. I think very similar to your prefered set up.
Using complex filters may provide the speaker with a smooth frequency responce curve and may help to smooth the speaker impedance curve but filters do add extra components. A direct connected mid range offers a cleaner more detailed and smoother sound that a complex filter system system.
You may conclude that I have used poorly designed filters and/or poor quality components. However I have tried 1, 2 and 3 way filters and used high quality components. I still find that I prefer the clean sound from a mid range unit with no filters and minimum filters on the treble and base units.
I think your ears are telling you the same.
|20th February 2007, 08:40 PM
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Hi all,
Thanks a lot for your comments..they have been very helpful to me in forming the following conclusion: it should be possible to implement an excellent active crossover, but close results can be obtained from very simple passive crossovers, when you consider both electrical and acoustic aspects into the whole chain of sound reproduction.
I agree with Ashok that mathematically, a two way with just one capacitor on the tweeter is hard to get correct in practice on needs great drivers indeed. But just hear such an alignment on decent drivers (that dont cost a fortune by the way): the sound is forthright, pleasant, and carries the punch. At least thats what I felt. In comparison my 4th order active filter lost most of the bass, and the midrange was veiled. I am not getting confused between sonic quality and loudness. The flatness of the music I felt with the 4th order filter was definitely not a lack of loudness it was as if the whole life was drained from the music.
The crossover points for my active filter were decided from a careful measurement of the frequency response of the three drivers. After construction, the HF, LF and MF outputs of the crossover also were measured. The total frequency response was neatly summing to a flat line, and I didnt observe any anomalies. The amplifier gains also were adjusted, considering the dispersion of the sound energy across the audio spectrum.
Everything else being identical for the comparison test, I am trying to explain my unexpected results on the basis of two factors: (1) poor transient response of the 4th order filter, and (2) lack of BSC in the active configuration.
I have read time and again that transient response shortcomings are not audible. This is something I havent digested yet, and as long as I cannot find another reason, I will be inclined to believe that the muddiness in the midrange was caused by this factor. What remains is the lack of punch at low frequencies. This can be related to the BSC issue, as Audiobomber says. It is true that since the drivers are impedance loads, the frequency response with simple passive crossovers doesn't look flat. Is the BSC taken care of this way, as suggested by SY, in at least some passive crossovers? Then that would be a real advantage.
For me, in the 1st order passive configuration the hearing experience was pleasant, which means that the anomalies that are expected to arise from intermodulation distortion, and limited bandwidth of the drivers, were inaudible, even when the amplifier was operating close to clipping. So one of my next experiments will be to connect a mid-range or full-range directly to the amp (as Don does), and connect the bass and treble drivers from there through minimalistic crossovers. Another direction of work would be as suggested by Charles: to calculate an active crossover with a similar transfer function as the passive, and implement the same.
Thank you all for your help, and more comments are welcome. And happy listening from your systems, CBS240 and x-pro!
Best regards,
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PRINCETON, N.J. -- Ivy League football returns to VERSUS Oct. 15 with its only matinee game, a 3:30 p.m. start for Penn at Columbia, in its first of back-to-back Saturday appearances on the network.
The Penn-Columbia game from Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium in New York is the Lions' homcoming and the League's second of five games on VERSUS this season. The remaining games have two-time defending champion Quakers welcoming Yale to Franklin Field next Saturday, Oct. 22 at Noon. Three weeks after, Penn travels to Harvard on Saturday, Nov. 12, for another Noon kickoff. The 128th edition of "The Game," Harvard at Yale, close out the schedule, also set for a Noon start on Saturday, Nov. 19.
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In addition, Kentucky seemed to be able to get little going in their transition game. Against a team such as the Jackrabbits, Kentucky wants to get the action moving, use their depth and wear down the opponent towards the end of the second half. However as Tubby Smith noted in his press conference, the full-court press yielded no results and the Cats missed so many open layups that they looked like a team full of men wearing jerseys with the name "Prickett" on the back.
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Almost every individual with an e-mail account has fallen victim to 'phishing' attack at one time or another. This time the targets were the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and its online banking customers. The bank has issued an alert about a phishing e-mail that attempts attacks on customers subscribed to Australia's largest three banks - ANZ, Westpac and the Commonwealth Banks.
The RBA and the Australian Bankers' Association (ABA) jointly released a warning in the media asking online banking users to be skeptical about e-mails coming from unknown people, and directing recipients to any link.
The hoax e-mail says that the Reserve Bank of Australia, alternatively known as Central Bank of Australia was presently on the job of ensuring safeguard of all banks in Australia. The bank was also working on convenient banking transactions with ANZ Bank, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Westpac Bank.
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The Reserve Bank of Australia informed the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT), which responded by tracking and shutting down three unauthorized websites, which sent the hoax e-mails. These websites were based in France, Germany and the United States, respectively. AusCERT had also identified a fourth website, which would also be shut down without the owner ever knowing that somebody made an intrusion to his site. It could possibly be a home connection where if the software is installed it becomes a web server.
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The Need for a Multi-Party System
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Written by Dr Wong Wee Nam
04 December 2008
It has been broached in the past. Now Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said it again. A multi-party system is not good for Singapore. For someone who had, during the 2006 General Elections, said that the government would have to waste time fixing the opposition if too many are elected into Parliament, such a view should not come as a surprise.
The reason he gave for not having more than one dominant party other than the PAP is that Singapore is too small and does not have enough talents to have a multi-party system. Israel is a small country, perpetually at war and yet they have a parliament of diverse views. Hongkong, New Zealand and Denmark do not have a population much bigger than ours. So was ancient Athens, the cradle of democracy. Even Singapore in the early years, when its population was less 2 million, had many dominant parties. Thus this reason cannot be valid.
It is not that we do not have enough good people. After all, with only 84 seats to contest, surely our country, with such a well-educated population would be able to find 168 candidates or more to make our elections a meaningful exercise and give our voters a decent choice.
Reasons for the poor State of Affairs
Why then is there a dearth of candidates to make a multi-party system possible? This is because the PAP government has, over the years, not only discouraged the evolution towards a multi-party system, it has in fact strangled and stunted it almost to the point of extinction. Before it came into power in 1959, Singapore had a healthy multi-party system.
Subsequently, political opponents were arrested, unions and other interest groups that did not support it were closed, the media was subdued and the climate of fear that resulted from all these prevented any possible growth of political activities.
Furthermore, it also made election of opposition candidates more difficult by monopolising the State media and the State's grassroot machinery to raise their candidates' profiles and also introducing the Group Representative Constituencies, where the boundaries of constituencies are so ridiculously elastic that they can be stretched north, south, east or west like a rubber band.
GRCs were introduced because the PAP argued that without them, minorities could not get elected. Yet before the PAP came into power and before they meddled with the electoral system, minority candidates were contesting in single wards and many of them had won comfortably against candidates from the racial majority. Let us not forget that those were times when people were speaking dialects, less educated and were more racially-conscious. Yet at that time we even had a Prime Minister of Jewish origin. Who says Singapore is not ready for a minority Prime Minister and a minority candidate cannot win an election on his or her own merit? Remember Anson and JBJ?
The truth is that Singaporeans have long been brain-washed not to accept a multi-party system. They are often led to believe that having opposition spells trouble. Countries like Taiwan, Phillipines, Thailand, South Korea have been held up as examples of troubled systems. Why use such countries which had just come out of an autocratic system into an infant democratic system as examples? Why not mention countries with a more mature democratic system and more exemplary healthy checks and balances like US, UK, Western Europe, Australia, Japan, Canada and New Zealand, where educational and economic levels are much closer to Singapore?
Governing is not easy
Yes, having a multi-party system would make governing difficult. Since when has governing a country been easy? Unless we are a country of robots, it is inevitable that there will be disagreements and conflicts in society. People will always be divided by social situations and points of view, dissatisfied with their lot, and they will demand their fair share of wealth and wish to see justice. People differ in educational backgrounds, values, cultural upbringings, racial origins and religious beliefs. It is this diversity that will make governing difficult. Even with prosperity, divergences will not disappear. In fact, the more highly-developed a society, the more diverse will be the interests.
Governing will only be easy when a people is so apathetic that there is no desire for change and also when a people is so cowed that desire for change cannot be expressed.
Sure, it would be easier and faster to ram policies down peoples' throat to solve problems than to listen to everyone and adjust policies to try and suit everybody. But history has shown that a government who does not listen to people will have to continually use force, threats and intimidation to put down conflicts. However, such methods cannot hold forever. There will come a time when the tension in society can no longer hold and violence erupts.
It is for this reason that we must continue to work for a multi-party system. A multi-party system will allow conflicts, when they surface, to be resolved in a democratic way. It lessens the severity of conflicts because it makes government more transparent, resulting in fewer mistakes and less pain for the citizens. Moreover, it allows citizens to participate in the process of government, giving the citizens a sense of pride and community and a spirit of sacrifice and cohesion. There will be more give and take. Society is stable only when individual citizens with conflicting interests are allowed to have their voices heard and their needs addressed.
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Why is there the need for a strong alternative party? With only one dominant party, there will be inbreeding. We have seen how a dominant party can result in a monopoly of ideas and a narrow perspective of problems and solutions. Professor John Miller said, "A one-party state is vulnerable to be the operations of interests within the government and the party itself."
The greater the participation from citizens, the richer will be the pool of alternative ideas. This means more accurate feedback for the government and a more equitable implementation of policies.
If there is another strong alternative party, the ruling party will have to listen more closely to the people or stand the risk of losing more seats to a better group of people. This means that policies will more likely to benefit a wider cross-section of the population and hardships for the voiceless low income group avoided.
When there is a free marketplace of ideas, people will feel that they are being listened to and hence will be more likely to participate in peaceful exchanges rather than become apathetic or vent their frustration in a destructive way like corruption, passive resistance and civil unrest.
What Needs To Be Done?
The Prime Minister is right when he said that it is not the job of the PAP to create a strong alternative party. I agree with him because I believe only our citizens can create a strong alternative party. They must decide whether they want to have a free marketplace of ideas to flourish in our country. Only they can work towards a more vibrant political culture. They must ask themselves whether they want to remain apathetic or to be constructive participants in our country's affairs and be prepared to come forward and contribute and help. They must see resolving conflicting interests in society as a duty of citizenship.
The question each and every one of us must ask is: What is my role as a Singaporean? Is this my country, or is this a hotel where I sleep, a working place where I earn my living, a shopping place where I spend what I earn, or a country club where I can just give up my membership when it no longer provides me the fun?
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LHL comment that Sinpapore is too small is correct. Singaporeans are too small between their eyes! And they also are too small in their guts to vote opposition! Your examples of HK, Denmark, NZ are irrelevant as they are ALL developed economies, a status a communist state can NEVER attain! Your paragraphs after "Reasons for the poor State of Affairs" seems to describe pariah states in Latin America, Africa and Singapore! So you are asking for a strong alternative party to provide check-and-balance? Do Pinochet, Mugabe, Suharto want checks-and-balance? They are all dictators and looting their country in broad daylight!
It is a lousy excuse by the prime minister. The people must have choices in choosing the ruling party. Just like instant noodles, you have maggie mee, cintan, myojo, so many brands to choose from. All are equally good in taste. It is up to the consumers / voters to select which one they like, you can't say we prefer a single party, because that is not the wishes of the majority of Singaporeans.
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at the end of the day, whose party?
yours, his or her party?
please, don't have a "party"( and a well paying one with out of this world perks ) at the people's expense.
Perhaps, instead of the GRC, another way to ensure minority representation is to have certain constituencies contested by minority candidates only based on the percentage in the populace. The breakdown for the 84 wards should look something like this; Chinese candidates (63), Malay candidates (13), Indian candidates (6) and others (2). Just my 2 cents worth.
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Mr David Marshall, of Jewish origin, was Singapore's first Chief Minister. Singapore's first Prime Minister is Mr Lee Kuan Yew.
GRC system – to help minorities represented? I belong to a minority group. My stance is, we do not need to be represented just because we have to. If the Government thinks meritocracy is the way to go, then why a need for minority group to be represented. MPs should be represented/elected by their own merits. If what they say that they can pool high profile candidates (based on merits) for every election, then why the GRC? This is contradicting to their own philosphy.
Temasek Review just copied your article wholesale LOL
i think the proportion of the races should not be on the constituencies. Rather it should be imposed on the political parties. Every political party should have a minimum number of minority race members in them and during election time, should produce such candidates in the constituencies which they deem to have the best chances of winning.
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I own a 1999 TJ Sport 6 Banger...and I was just wondering the $$ amount to either replace just my muffler/and or exhaust system. It's getting quite a bit louder which I do not like, unless it's supposed to be. What exhaust systems would everyone recommend. I don't need/want high end, but I would like middle of the road. I wouldn't mind a nice "Growl."" Anyhoo...Thanks for you input in advance...:punk:
I went with FLO PRO V Force muffler..sounds nice! Try googling exhaust for 4.0 and should give you different threads to listen too. I did V force and got a few. even search on here there is a few threads to listen to. I only paid 240 for muffler and tailpipe installed.
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Oh it rocks! Told the shop wanted a little rumble nothing major and got it. If your in the house you can hear me pull up now! Sounds great at idle, think it sounds a little tinny in throttle but wife and kids think it sounds great.
Sound pretty sweet. I appreciate you time, and input...\m/ \m/ :thumb:
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text: CALGARY, Aug. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Canadian Energy Exploration Inc. (" Canadian Energy" or the " Company") (TSXV: XPL) is pleased to announce that it has set the date for the Annual and Special Meeting (the "Meeting") of its shareholders, to be held in Calgary, Alberta on Thursday, September 15, 2011. The Information Circular for the meeting, which will be mailed to shareholders on August 22, 2011, proposes a three person Board of Directors, including Lawrence B. Buzan and John C. McGilvary, both of whom are currently directors of the Company. In addition, the Company is proposing the election of Keith Chase as a director. Mr. Chase is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Chase Resources Inc. and the Chief Financial Officer of Kanduit Electric Ltd. Mr. Chase has over 30 years of petroleum industry experience. Lawrence Buzan, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, commented, "We are very pleased that Keith Chase has agreed to stand for election as a director of the Company at our upcoming Meeting. Mr. Chase has extensive experience in the oil and gas industry, and we are confident that his counsel will be significant to Canadian Energy's future development. We are also grateful to William S. Sudhaus, John D. Wright, Chris J. Bloomer and George Tsafalas, who will not be standing for re-election at the Company's upcoming Meeting, for their considerable past service to the Company. We wish them all well in their future endeavors." About Canadian Energy Exploration Inc. Canadian Energy Exploration Inc. is a junior oil and gas company engaged in the exploration for and development and production of oil and natural gas reserves in Western Canada. The Company's common shares trade on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "XPL".


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Coloring fail
I loved coloring when I was little.
I still kind of do.
But some days I just don't have the patience for it. Especially when using colored pencils. I prefer to color with crayons.
I realize that aesthetically speaking, colored pencils probably produce a prettier picture (oh hey there alliteration) but I just love crayons so much more. One, because of the smell. Have you ever smelled anything that even closely resembles a crayon? Not I. There's just something about it that makes me feel like a happy little six-year-old. Two, because it takes less effort to cover the same amount of blank page. Does that make me lazy? Maybe. I prefer to say that it allows me to be more productive, to color more pictures in less time. It's all about efficiency. This is what college has done to me.
Anyway, I tried my hand at coloring again a couple days ago. I figured, what the heck, it's spring break, I have no homework to do, maybe I don't need to be productive and efficient for once.
So I colored.
One, I figured out it's not as easy as one would think to distinguish a blue colored pencil from a purple one.
Two, I figured out my childhood memories have failed me because I clearly do not remember the correct colors of Snow White's dress.
The blue should be yellow, the yellow should be red and the red should be blue. Fail.
Three, I learned that a colored pencil should be completely sharpened before coloring lips. Especially if you intend to color Snow White's lips red and want her teeth to remain white. Snow White is now a vampire.
But you know, despite all my coloring failures, I actually kind of like the way the picture turned out.
Mixed up, not perfect, yet still pretty and colorful in its own way.
Find your own pretty today.
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Explore regional Italian recipes in Italia by Antonio Carluccio, including Chickpea Fritters (Panelle con Frittella); Giant Ravioli with Pecorino and Honey (Sebadas); and Eel Baked with Bay Leaves (Bisato sul' Ara).
Serves 4
Of the many Sardinian sweet specialties, these sweet ravioli (also known as sebadas) are something out of the ordinary. They bring together two typical and excellent regional products, fresh pecorino cheese and orange blossom honey. A good glass of Monica di Sardegna is the perfect complement.
Sweet Pasta Dough
To make the pasta dough, pile the flour into a mound on a surface and make a large well in the center. Put the egg, egg yolk, salt, and sugar in the well and beat lightly with a fork. With your hands, gradually mix in the flour, When the mixture has formed a dough, knead it well with the palms of your hands for about 10 minutes, until it is very smooth and elastic Cover and let rest for 20 minutes,
Rollout the dough on a floured surface to a 1/16 inch (2 mm) thickness and cut out 8 circles, each 6 inches (15 cm) in diameter. Put a cheese circle on each of 4 pasta circles, brush the pasta edges with water, then top with the other pasta circles, Press the edges together to seal.
Heat the olive oil in a suitable pan and deep-fry the ravioli until golden, about 7 to 8 minutes. Remove and drain well on paper towels. Serve hot, drizzled with honey.
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Nursing alums at War Memorial want your vote
Posted: October 13th, 2012
BROADWAY BOUND? – Lake Superior State University School of Nursing alums flash pink surgical gloves in hopes of winning a national breast cancer awareness video contest. They joined more than 120 others at War Memorial Hospital to produce a homespun "Pink Glove" dance submission that is going head-to-head with other hospitals, nursing homes, schools and other organizations from throughout the U.S. and Canada. The top three winners, determined by viewer votes, receive donations in their name to a breast cancer charity of their choice, such as the American Cancer Society. Go to PinkGloveDance.com and look for War Memorial Hospital to view the video and pack the ballot box. Voting ends Nov. 2. Pictured from the left are Katie Wood, Andrea Pietrangelo, Carol Wolfe, Lindsey Gregg, Danielle Postma, Gen Mackie, James Vollick, Julie Coneset, Susan Sliger, and Jane McLeod. (LSSU/John Shibley)
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Taking The Pulse Of The Texas Technology Industry
Thursday, December 20, 2012
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Investing in Health and Productivity of the Workforce: A NewPublicHealth Q&A with Andrew Webber
Jul 11, 2011, 6:53 PM, Posted by NewPublicHealth
A recent article in the journal PLoS One noted a rare downside to gainful employment—jobs requiring moderate physical activity accounted for 50 percent of the labor market in 1960, but have fallen since then to just 20 percent of the total. The article's authors say the remaining 80 percent of jobs are either sedentary ones or only require light physical activity, and that the reduced activity is a factor in the rise in obesity in the U.S. in the last five decades.
NewPublicHealth spoke with Andrew Webber, president and C.E.O. of the National Business Coalition on Health, about the study findings and opportunities to increase physical activity, and other healthy behaviors, among U.S. workers and the general population. NBCH is a national membership organization of purchaser-led health care coalitions.
NewPublicHealth: Recent research about the link between a decline in jobs requiring physical activity and weight gain in the U.S. in the last five decades seems quite dramatic. What should businesses be doing to help reverse the trend?
Andrew Webber: First of all, we're in the middle of an obesity epidemic in this country and it's not just the working population. We're increasing in weight gain everywhere across the board. And there are a lot of reasons for that increase. A great deal of research has indicated that the conditions, both at the workplace and in the community, are not conducive to people losing weight--from lack of physical activity opportunities to individual behaviors to challenges in purchasing healthy food in many communities. There are a lot of reasons why we have this obesity epidemic and of course it is a precursor for the tsunami of chronic conditions in this country.
From an employer perspective, we have a huge interest--a business imperative--to be investing in the health and productivity of our workforce. And not just because we have a moral or social responsibility, but because the health and productivity of our workforce is a competitive asset. It's the key to our bottom line. We need healthy, productive workers who can do their work. A responsibility--a business imperative for the business community--is investing in their human capital and improving the health and productivity of their workforce as a bottom line issue.
NPH: Do you think that businesses have a social responsibility to go beyond their employees and to help make communities healthier?
Andrew Webber: The answer is yes. I think employers have a responsibility to think about the influence of community dynamics on influencing the health and productivity of their workforce. The simple fact is an employer can do a wonderful job within the four corners of their work site in terms of building a culture of health. But then often individual employees walk, after their eight hours of work, into very unhealthy communities with no safe streets, with fast food restaurants on every corner, with no investments in local parks and recreation and sidewalks. Employers need to understand that the community influence can compromise their investments in workforce health. I think the employer community needs to be thinking about their contribution to improving population health at a community level as well.
NPH: Can you point to some innovative efforts of coalitions?
Andrew Webber: Part of our agenda is to reform the health care delivery system as a purchaser of health care services--getting the delivery system itself to be focusing more upstream on prevention and health promotion. Through an effort that we have with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called Community Health Partnerships we've been trying to encourage our coalition to become participants and leaders in community population health projects. One that comes to mind is our coalition in Rockford, Illinois. They team with the local public school department and the YMCA to create an after school physical exercise program for the kids in a very distressed, inner-city school with a high minority population. And the contribution of the coalition beyond funding was to do the measurements of obesity levels and risk factors of those kids and then measure after the intervention what progress has been made. I think understanding that this is our future workforce is crucial. We're employers grounded in this community--and our businesses and our future workforce is dependent on broader population health and building a culture of health in the community where we reside and do business.
NPH: Have the County Health Rankings, developed by the University of Wisconsin and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, been a call to action for the Coalition?
Andrew Webber: The issue of population health has resonated with our coalition community well before the county health rankings. But there is no question that having detailed--and at a county level--information on population and health statistics can be a call to action. And we've been a strong believer in transparency and public reporting as a motivator for then getting stake-holders together to look at where the opportunities for improvements are, as well as to use that data to measure whether or not we're moving the needle with various intervention strategies that we then try to put in place. We have made our fifty-four coalitions around the country very much aware of the local county rankings, we've pushed the website out every year when it's released and some of our coalitions have used the county rankings together with other data that they have to measure the health and health care at their community level.
This commentary originally appeared on the RWJF New Public Health blog.


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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Sharmine Narwani on American Jews
Listen up, American Jews. You are not allowed to vote on Jewish issues like Israel, because if you do, you're not loyal Americans and British Iranians like Sharmine Narwani will accuse you of disloyalty. Just shut up and keep protesting the occupation. You don't want to be considered disloyal, do you? We all know what happened last time you were disloyal to your country...
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- NormanFMay 24, 2011 at 9:21 AM
Its a good day when Narwani and the Hebrew Palestinian editors at Haaretz both agree.ReplyDelete
Jewish support for Obama good; Jewish support for Netanyahu and Israel bad!
Go figure.
I am very much looking forward to voting AGAINST Barack Obama.ReplyDelete
I've never voted for a Republican before.
Gee, I wonder what that might feel like?
- AnonymousMay 25, 2011 at 6:50 AM
It's not 2008 anymore, you can criticise Obama.ReplyDelete
Someone should tell Obama it's 2011
In guest book, Obama writes '2008'
- AnonymousJune 1, 2011 at 1:21 PM
'ol dignity rockets took down my post calling her a bigot after a couple of days - wish I kept a copy. I know she peeks in here occasionally, so if she does Hey Shar.... they're laughing at you behind your back in the study halls!ReplyDelete
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Have a Tax Question? Ask a Tax Expert
Yes, the corporate profit is taxable to the shareholders each year. When you prepare the 1120S, you will prepare a K-1 for yourself. The K-1 tells the shareholder how much of the corporate income to report on their individual return based on ownership percentage.
The corporation does not pay taxes on its net income.
I paid 12,000 via w2, should I have paid more?
I owned 100%
There are requirements regarding personal service corporations in this area. I will have to review them and get back to you. The issue is the avoidance of payroll taxes.
ok, should I hold this chat session open?
No, I found what I was looking for. The IRS will asses self-employment tax on the earnings left in the corporation (ie. the K-1 amount).
To sum up, you will owe income tax and most likely self-employment tax on the undistributed earnings from 2008. Sorry for the bad news.
under my personal account
I file the 1120 s and then an amended 1004 personal
Yes, the income is reported on your individual tax return. First, complete the 1120S and the K-1, then prepare the 1040X.
doesn't sound like being an s corp was a benefit
Actually, the main benefit is to avoid double taxation is you had a C corp. C corp's pay tax. Then the shareholder pays tax on any dividends.
what if I filed a 1120 not as a s corp
Then you would pay corporate tax on the profit, and tax again when you pay out the cash to yourself as a dividend.
that seems like it would be more 15% on the corporate side and the normal individual rate
seems like I'm going to get hit pretty hard with interest and penalties
Corporate tax rate for a personal service corp is 35%
I'll stick with the S corp and pay what i need on my amended return
Unfortunately, yes. After you file, the IRS will send you a bill. You can request an abatement of penalties if you can convince them you had a good reason for paying late.
just "stupidity" and don't think they'll accept that
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Oh my gosh your booty looks amazing! You are definitely my wish pic lol :) I think I'm going to go with dr s even seen a lot of amazing results. Just wish I didn't have to travel but I really hope I get the same results you got.... READ COMMENT
Hey girl, can we see pics please! READ COMMENT