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4x1 HDMI Switch with Analog, Digital Coaxial, and Digital Optical Audio Outputs
If you're looking to expand the input capabilities of an A/V receiver that doesn't support HDMI®, then this 4x1 HDMI Switch from Monoprice may be the perfect solution for you!
This 4-way HDMI switch features S/PDIF (Toslink) Digital Optical Audio, Digital Coaxial Audio, and analog 3.5mm stereo audio output ports, allowing you to connect to the audio inputs of any AV receiver or amplifier. A built-in DAC allows simultaneous audio for HDMI as well as the three audio only outputs.
The switch supports the full High Speed HDMI resolution (1080p@60Hz), supports all HDMI 3D modes, Deep Color up to 36-bit total, and high definition multichannel audio, including Dolby TrueHD™ and DTS-HD Master Audio™. One HDMI input is on the front panel of the switch, making it easy to connect the HDMI output from mobile devices, such as your Android phone.
- 4x HDMI audio/video inputs with one front-panel input for convenient connection to portable devices
- 1x HDMI audio/video output
- 1x S/PDIF Optical (Toslink) audio output
- 1x Digital Coax audio output
- 1x Analog 3.5mm stereo audio output
- Integrated audio converter for simultaneous digital and analog audio output on all audio output channels
- Selectable 2-channel (stereo) and 5.1-channel audio output for digital channels (5.1-channel output requires 5.1-channel input and output)
- Audio sampling rate of 44.1 to 192 kHz
- Supports uncompressed LPCM audio
- Supports compressed DTS® Digital, Dolby® Digital, DTS-HD Master Audio, and Dolby TrueHD audio
- Support for 1080p and 3D video output
- Supports 225 MHz/2.25 Gbps per channel (6.75 Gbps total) bandwidth
- Supports 12-bit per channel (36-bit total) Deep Color
- Full HDCP support
- FCC, CE, and RoHS compliant
Package Contents:
- HDMI Switch
- AC Adapter
- Infrared Remote Control
- User Manual
Support Files:
- User's Manual (Mar 28, 2013)
HDMI®, the HDMI Logo, and High-Definition Multimedia Interface are trademarks or registered trademarks of HDMI Licensing LLC in the United States and other countries.
DTS® is a registered trademark and the DTS logos, Symbol, DTS-HD™, DTS Digital™ and DTS-HD Master Audio™ are trademarks of DTS, Inc.
Dolby® and the double-D symbol are registered trademarks of Dolby Laboratories. Dolby Digital™ and Dolby TrueHD™ are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories.
Full Specs
|Audio/Video Inputs
|3x HDMI® on rear panel, 1x HDMI on front panel
|Audio/Video Outputs
|1x HDMI on rear panel
|Digital Audio Outputs
|1x S/PDIF Optical (Toslink)* and 1x Digital Coax*
|Analog Audio Outputs
|1x 3.5mm (1/8") stereo
|Supports High-Speed 1080p HDMI
|Supported Video Resolutions
|480i, 480p, 576i, 576p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
|Supports 3D Video
|Fully HDCP Compliant
|Supports Deep Color (x.v.Color) at 12-bits per channel (36-bit total)
|Uncompressed Audio Support
|Compressed Audio Support
|DTS Digital™, Dolby Digital™, DTS-HD Master Audio™, Dolby True HD™
|Audio Sample Rate
|44.1 ~ 192 kHz
|6.0" x 2.8" x 1.0"
*The S/PDIF Optical (Toslink) and Digital Coax audio output formats are based on the HDMI audio output. If any of the sync devices (e.g., HDTV, Projector, etc.) connected to the output can only support stereo audio, then the S/PDIF Optical (Toslink) and Digital Coaxial outputs will be limited to PCM stereo audio.
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I am using this to extract audio from the HDMI output of an AppleTV and passing the video signal via HDMI to a projector and passing the audio signal vis Toslink to an old A/V receiver that does not have HDMI..
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For 4K video, ensure any device (switch, TV, AVR, etc) supports HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2. Technically, HDMI 1.4 supports 4K video, but equipment such as UHD Blu ray players require HDMI 2.0/HDCP 2.2.
From product description: Supported Video Resolutions are 480i, 480p, 576i, 576p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p.
From product manual, video output is HDMI 1.3b. HDMI 1.3b DOES NOT support 4K video.
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I bought a 5.1 Vizio surround system thinking that I could run all of my devices into my TV, and then toslink from the TV into the 5.1 system. It didn't work that way. My TV down-mixed everything into 2 channel stereo and then sent that to the system. No good. After some searching I found this switch and thought it could work. It does! So now I have all of my HDMI devices (cable box, ps4, wii u) plugged into the switch and toslink from the switch to the surround system. Everything works as planned and I get high quality video and audio. Perfect solution.
CONS: Front LEDs are WAY too bright!
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When watching a DVD or Blu-Ray on my Playstation 3 I wouldn't get center channel audio. Netflix or any other source from the PS3 was fine. Turns out there is a setting in the Video section that handles DVD and Blu-Ray audio that needed to be changed to bitrate in order to get 5.1 audio to pass correctly through this switch. I only found this out after reading every single review on this site and finding another customer that had the same issue. It would have been nice if Monoprice's tech support had been able to resolve this issue.
PROS: Optical out
CONS: Piercingly bright LEDs
Lack of recommended device settings for some extremely common devices
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PROS: Concept is great and it allows me to run my playstation 3, apple tv, and comcast cable to my TV which only has one HDMI input port
CONS: Screen often goes black and I have to unplug the switcher and do a hard power cycle to get the picture to work - I think this is a wattage issue
When I now try to watch movies using my ps3 I cannot hear dialogue. I can hear back ground music and special effects but no dialogue
I contacted Technical support and they couldn't help
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Since I installed it and configured my HT remote for it I have had only one glitch. At one point a couple months ago the digital audio from the switch stopped. At the suggestion from Monoprice support to power cycle the switch (unplug it), that was cleared up.
Those LEDs!!! Initially I put a piece of electrical tape over the lot of them, but I found I sometimes needed to know the state of the switch as it doesnt always pick up the IR from the HT remote (my experience with this is that such occurrences seem to be inversely proportional to the items price) and I need to switch it to the correct input. So I poked a pinhole in the tape in from of each. That worked for the most part...reducing the LEDs to a less annoying level but allowing me to see their state. But it was not very elegant looking. I should point out that the channel and 2/5.1 LEDs are fairly narrow beam non-diffuse body types so the appear way brighter anywhere directly in from of the switch than well off to the side. The PowerOn/Standy dual LED is a diffuse body type that prsents a more unifor - but too bright intensity on and off axis.
So after living with it covered with tape for over a year I decided to open it up and see what I could do about the problem. All the LEDs except the PowerOn/Standby dual LED use a 681 Ohm SMT current limiting resistor. I found that by increasing these resistors to 5000 Ohms (4.99K) these LEDs light output became acceptable. They could still be reduced more and remain visible, but I stopped there. That is about a factor of 7 reduction in current thru the LEDs. For the dual power LED I used a 2000 Ohm for the red and 1500 Ohm for the blue in place of the resistors originally there. This brought the red output down to something more suitable to a "Standby" mode brightness and the blue LED output close to matching the other blue LEDS. In the process I think I put a marginal blue channel LED into a failure mode but I found a 3mm NTE clear blue LED at my local electronics parts store that seems to match the other blue LED outputs with the came current limiting resistor. If yours is out of warranty, like mine and you arent afraid of desoldering and soldering tiny SMT resistors, this is a good solution to the excess light problem.
PROS: HDMI = Digital audio
Front panel HDMI input
CONS: LEDs WAY too bright for a darkened room
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While the product does seem to work just fine (technically speaking) it turns out that unfortunately it's not the right as-is solution for me :(
My hope was to buy something that would allow me to use my PS3 as a media player and connect the output directly to my TV (via an additional HDMI switcher box, available at monoprice and which works great btw) and to my AVR/Amplifier via the TOS link. While this setup does work (basically) the PS3 and this splitter box seem to honor the HDCP restrictions too harshly/literally at least IMO, please see my investigations/elaborations below...
The problem is (at least how I perceive it) related to the fact that my TV does not support HD multichannel audio i.e. 5.1/DTS etc… (I suspect most TV's are like this, that's kind of the point for most of you I'd say, 'cos if it did and you had a s/pdif pass-through you wouldn't need this splitter anyway as you could just use your TV to split off the audio).
Anyway as a result this splitter box determines (correctly so, technically speaking) that the best "allowable" audio quality is only 2 channel prologic (because that's what the TV says via HDCP). The PS3 then respects this limitation and down-mixes my full multichannel audio source into just 2 channels :( Even though my amplifier supports literally all input audio types I'm scuppered by this limitation! Basically the signal limitations for both audio and video are defined by the HDMI device. A better implementation of this device would be to only honor the video constraints of the HDMI (because HDCP rules need to be respected) and override the audio limitations with full-spec audio for want of a better way of saying it (assuming that's allowed by the HDCP rules, who knows).
So I have (at least as l believe) proven this to be the my issue because if I connect my splitter to a target HDMI device that does support multichannel HD then the PS3 is becomes decidedly happy with that and lifts the down-mix restriction and allows full multichannel HD audio to flow through both the HDMI and TOS link interfaces, yay (sort of).
I therefore feel this device will not perform as many of you expect/hope, specifically if your target HDMI device (TV or whatever) doesn't support HD multichannel audio, this made me sad because my TV doesn't...
That all said there is a solution (at least for me) but that solution is only possible if you can leverage an HDMI device that supports full HD multichannel audio which clearly isn't my TV in my case. I achieved this by using my AVR as a target HDMI device (it has HDMI inputs but doesn't support 1.3 spec, that why I'm in this predicament in the first place). What I did (and may sound a little messy) is use a an additional HDMI splitter (a separate additional piece of h/w available at monoprice) to split the output of this device (the HDMI/TOS link thingy) into two HDMI outputs, one connected directly to the TV (for video, obviously) and the other connected to the amplifier to authorize full quality audio, messy I know but it works. By doing this I got the PS3 to output full multichannel HD audio via the TOS link!
For the rest of you I hope you have the same option as me, if not maybe you can use some other device as your second HDMI target to achieve the same result (for me the HDMI switch works too, think about that for mo :)). It might be good for someone to make an HDCP fully qualified null-dongle for this purpose (i.e. in confunction with a splitter). Or maybe it's just better to improve this splitter in a future rev :)
BTW for those of you who are one step ahead of me on this you might ask why didn't I just use the HDMI splitter to split the signal and be done (i.e. audio via HDMI, I tried that earlier this year). The reason it didn't work is because my amplifier won't receive audio unless it's connected to a TV or some sort of legitimate HDMI target device and unfortunately because of various other complexities (related to my amp not being 1.3 HDMI spec) I couldn't get it to work, the PS3 refused the split. Basically the PS3 is very fussy!
FYI in closing my DirectTV box doesn't really care about any of this, you get full HD audio regardless, if all I wanted was a solution for DirectTV is works great the simple way, as you would expect/hope, go figure...
Anyway that ends my assessment of this thing.
Best of luck to you all...
Monoprice is awesome btw, that's why I bothered to write all this down for the monoprice community benefit and all that good stuff. I'm very happy with almost everything I've ever bought from this place!
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In steps this little device. This allows me to split full digital hdmi to full digital hdmi and good ol fashioned rca for the patio speakers. My initial concern was that it would introduce a bit of a delay but they are absolutely dead-on in sync. I couldn't be happier and would recommend this to anyone with similar issues.
PROS: - much smaller than i expected
- audio plays in sync through all outputs simultaneously
- no sound/video noise
CONS: - LED's are too bright (hello electrical tape)
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That was when I discovered that they will not pass Amazon's 5.1 Dolby to their optical output. Neither the TiVo Roamio nor my Roku 3 have Dolby sound when processed through this switcher.
The 'normal' HD channels coming off the TiVo (such as HBO) work fine for Dolby from the optical jack, but Amazon programs result in no output unless I change the switcher to 2.1 sound, which is unacceptable.
If I run an optical cable directly from the TiVo to my audio setup, Amazon Dolby works just fine, so it's definitely something in the switcher.
Be aware of this if you have a similar setup. I don't know if Monoprice has a switcher that does route Amazon Prime Dolby from HDMI to the optical output, but this one most definitely does not. Between the two switchers, I kind of feel like I wasted about $100.
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Thank you for your review on PID 5557. I am sorry to hear about the issues experienced with surround sound after adding the TiVo Roamio and Roku 3. Unfortunately, it is possible that Amazon Prime Instant is outputting surround sound in Dolby Digital Plus (like Netflix currently does). I recommend checking with Amazon just to verify for sure as I was unable to find this information in their FAQ. If this is the case, this switch would not be capable of supporting that as it does not support DD+, sorry to say. This switch is only compatible with LPCM, DTS Digital, Dolby Digital, DTS-HD Master Audio, and Dolby True HD. Please let me know if you are able to verify the audio format and I will be happy to further assist you if needed. I truly apologize for the trouble and I hope this helps.
Gabby V.
Tech Support Associate
In the room I am using this in, My Display only has 1 DVI input and my AV Receiver does not support HDMI and only has 2 Toslink Optical inputs. So this switch has taken HDMI from 2 Dish network receivers, 1 Blu Ray player, and a PS3, and switches it all. It even converts the HDMI audio to a Single Toslink, so I was able to remove the spiderweb of Toslinks and my 3 to 1 Toslink switch.
It does the job well.
In fact there are only two annoyances that caused me not to rate this product at a 10. The first is the 4th HDMI input is located on the front panel. Not optimal in my opinion. The second reason, an most trivial... who the heck spec'ed out those LEDs? They are too bright and I have had to filter them with paper tape.
Otherwise, a great product.
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1. Since the LEDs are ridiculously bright, I took a piece of black duct tape and used a hole puncher to make little round disks to cover them. Now they are at a "normal" brightness.
2. I have a Comcast HD DVR STB attached to the switch and originally it only outputted stereo PCM audio via coax/optical. To fix this, I had to change the HDMI audio setting on the STB from "Auto" to "Pass through". To get to the HDMI settings, I powered off the STB and then pressed "menu" on the Comcast remote. From there you should see the menu.
3. The HDMI audio options on my Sony DVD player is either "Auto" or "PCM". Since my HDTV does not do 5.1 audio, my DVD player will only send PCM stereo audio via HDMI. To workaround that, I hooked up the digital coax directly from my DVD player to my audio receiver. My audio receiver will accept either optical or coax for the same source. The coax signal will take precedence over the optical signal so I never have to change my the source on my audio receiver.
4. To workaround the problem of having to power cycle the HDMI switch whenever the video signal refuses to sync, as suggested by another reviewer, connect the power cord of the HDMI switch to a switched outlet on your audio receiver. That way when you turn off your audio receiver, the HDMI switch gets powered down as well. It'll save you from having to get up to manually power cycle it.
Due to the video sync issue, non 5.1 audio and super bright LED, I can only give this product a 9 out of 10. The audio issue might not be an issue with the HDMI switch, but maybe Monoprice can work around it. If this were a more expensive switch, the rating would be lower.
Hope the tips provided will help others.
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Contrary to what is stated in RED in the description, even when HDMI output device - my TV - only handles two-channel stereo, as long as input HDMI device attempts multichannel and 5.1 CH is selected on remote, I receive Dolby Digital, DTS-HD Master Audio, and Dolby True HD audio at my receiver. Awesome! Very pleased with Monoprice's support and pricing as well.
PROS: Seamlessly provides digital audio streams from up to four HDMI devices to a non-HDMI receiver.
CONS: Virtually none.
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affects your emotions. Scientists have discovered there is a
kind of "hot line" running from the part of the mind that
imagines to the part of the mind that controls your emotions.
This explains why you can imagine yourself in a frightening situation
and actually get emotionally upset. It is simply because your
imagination is sending pictures directly to your emotional control
center which, in turn, affects the feelings and functions of the body.
Fact No. 2: Your imagination is
more apt to act destructively rather than constructively unless
managed by you. All of your problems in living are rooted in
your imagination. It is the imagination acting negatively that becomes
congested by fear, doubt, worry, and makes you feel inferior, unhappy,
and depressed. It even keeps you from getting along with others
and is the breeding place for jealousy, envy, suspicion and
hate. Letting your imagination run wild can be one of the most
destructive forces in your life.
Fact No. 3: The untapped
power of your imagination is almost unlimited. Psychologists say that,
at the very most, people use only 10% to 20% of their mental potential.
They must certainly be referring to the imagination. Your
imagination is a rich source of ideas, mental pictures, and dormant
forces that yu can use to develo9p0 your life into abundance and
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online games. If you want to take that exploration into the real
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What is so fascinating about
bubbles? The precise spherical shape, the incredibly fragile nature of
the microscopically thin soap film, the beautiful colors that swirl
and shimmer, or most likely, a combination of all these phenomena? Why
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Carmen San
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Optical Illusions:
pages demonstrate visual phenomena, and optical or visual
illusions. The latter is more appropriate, because most effects have
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Back to Blogging
I can't believe that I left you people unattended for an entire month.
What's worse, the blog stalled-out with the lingering image an opossum's butt. Sacrebleu!
Well, I'm back in action…
Today's photos have no relevance. So what? Who doesn't like puppies? They are far more pleasant than rat-tailed marsupials.
On Sunday, the kids played with the hunt's young, ebullient crew. After two hours, the pups were pooped. In the top shot, Hadley is singing them to sleep.
It worked.
They dozed off, oblivious to the fact that the fun is just beginning.


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An average suburban kid must save the videogame world from a tyrannical but childish evil sorcerer.
Called "the best videogame movie ever made," this geektastic parody features three-dimensional characters, two-dimensional physics, and one demented villain. There's also a homicidal ninja "hero," a space heroine with a vendetta, and a naive young adventurer with gravity-defying hair. Watch them clear the map, meet Mortal Kombat's Raiden and Johnny Cage, and finally give that duck-hunting dog what's coming to him.
Featuring a score by videogame composer Jake Kaufman (Double Dragon Neon)!
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NATO needs a permanent military presence in the Baltic to counter the risk posed by Russia, a House of Commons committee has said, as it warns the alliance has been "too complacent" about the "significant" threat from Moscow.
In a hard-hitting report – the first since Conservative MP Rory Stewart took over as chairman – the defence select committee said the annexation of Crimea and support of rebels in eastern Ukraine by Vladimir Putin's Russia was "a wake-up call", and that the UK was under-prepared to deal with such a threat. It follows the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, with the loss of 298 lives, by what the West says were Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine. The report also came as the United Nations asked the two sides to cease fighting in eastern Ukraine to allow investigators to examine the crash site.
Despite international condemnation, rebels yesterday again prevented investigators reaching the wreckage.
The attacks on Ukraine's territory by Russian-backed rebels have led to concerns Nato members in former Soviet republics such as Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia could be under threat.
In its report, the committee also said more large-scale military exercises need to take place in the region.
Labour has called for Prime Minister David Cameron to use a Nato conference in Wales in September to reinforce Nato's position as a military power, as one leading defence analyst said Britain may need more tanks, fighter jets and other hardware to respond to the threat.
The British Army is undergoing a 20 per cent reduction in regular troop numbers, from 102,000 in 2010 to 82,000 in 2020. Britain is also winding up its bases in Germany after almost 70 years.
MPs also called for improvements to Nato's rapid response capabilities and a new standing reserve force. And they stated the UK needs to upgrade its Russian expertise again, after a period in which the priority was other threats elsewhere.
Mr Stewart, a Hong Kong-born former Black Watch officer raised in Scotland, said: "The risk of attack by Russia on a Nato member state, whilst still small,, is significant.
"We are not convinced that Nato is ready for this threat.
"Nato has been too complacent about the threat from Russia, and it is not well prepared."
Mr Stewart, who served in Iraq, added: "Even worse, the nature of Russian tactics is changing fast – including cyber attacks, information warfare and the backing of irregular 'separatist groups', combining armed civilians with Russian special forces operating without insignia.
"We have already seen how these tactics have been deployed by Russia and its proxies in Ukraine to destabilise a Nato partner state, annex part of its territory, and paralyse its ability to respond."
Defence analyst Tim Ripley said the committee correctly identified that the last strategic defence and security review – which recommended troop reductions and said the UK would never again face a conventional threat – was entirely wrong.
He said: "Events of this summer have shown it is a dead premise and now the government is desperately playing catch-up. All the UK's focus has been on Afghanistan and dealing with counter-insurgency and humanitarian efforts [there] and the Middle East, to the detriment of our European allies."
He said the UK was only now heeding warnings from the Baltic states. "[They] have been concerned over the threat from Russia since the Georgian crisis six years ago. Now the UK has woken up to the problem but found itself a long way behind."
The UK, he said, may have to invest in new equipment "such as tanks, fighter jets and so on – which we have been reducing our capabilities in".
Vernon Coaker, Labour's shadow defence secretary, said: "As the committee makes clear, the government must demonstrate UK leadership on the international stage at the Wales summit. Recalibrating Nato as a military and political alliance to deter future threats must be a priority for this government, who have failed under David Cameron to think strategically about future UK defence capabilities."
But the Ministry of Defence insisted it and Nato allies were reacting appropriately to the threat from Russia already. A spokesman said: "As this report recognises, a direct attack by Russia on a Nato state is unlikely, but Russian aggression against Ukraine cannot be ignored."
The report was published shortly after the Ukrainian army claimed it had seized the key town of Avdiivka near the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, as fighting continued to rage in the east.
Meanwhile, Russia claimed new European Union sanctions were "destructive and short-sighted" and would lead to higher energy prices.


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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
MANILA — Two party-list lawmakers seek to double the compensation for teachers who will serve as board of election inspectors (BEIs) in the May 2013 midterm polls.
Party-list Representatives Antonio Tinio (ACT Teachers) and Luzviminda Ilagan (Gabriela Women's Party) sought a P6,000 pay, from last year's P3,000, for public school teachers rendering poll-related duties.
"The compensation should be at least P6,000 considering the higher workload of teachers due to the clustering of precincts. This means that they have to process up to five times more voters on elections day," Tinio pointed out.
Precincts were clustered in the 2010 polls, when the Commission on Elections first implemented the use of precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines.
Voters per clustered precinct reached up to 1,000 individuals. A team of three BEIs was assigned per clustered precinct.
Ilagan, meanwhile, cited threats on the lives of teachers performing poll duties.
"I agree they should be given bigger honorarium. It is a difficult and dangerous task. They are even blamed when things go wrong for the candidates," she said.
"But I also think poll service should be optional," the party-list lawmaker added. (Kathrina Alvarez/Sunnex)


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A group of students at their graduation.
The definition of graduation is when you receive an academic diploma after completing your education, or is the event at which the diploma is granted, or is a line or mark that shows the next level.
An example of graduation is when you finish college and get your diploma at a special ceremony.
- a graduating or being graduated from a school or college
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Origin of graduationMedieval Latin graduatio from past participle of graduare: see graduate
- a. Conferral or receipt of an academic degree or diploma marking completion of studies: the rate of graduation of student athletes.b. A ceremony at which degrees or diplomas are conferred; a commencement.
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Welcome to the ENTS BBS
Welcome to the Eastern Native Tree Society Bulletin Board. Ths board was created on March 7, 2010 to be a replacement for the Google Groups list: http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en which as become unmanageable due to the growth of the number of message posted to the list.
The board is dvided into several broad catagories and subdivided into topc specific forums. Please try to post under the appropriate sub-forum. Guests can view the posts on this forum wthout registering. New members will have their initial posts moderated before they are published to help prevent spamming of the list. regular memebrs will have normal access to the list and to polls created. Posts to the ENTS science forums will be moderated for all regular members to keep the general talk out of the science discussions.
How to Find the Newest Posts
To see the newest posts on the board click on the link that says Unread Posts on the upper left of the BBS index page. This provides a single listing of all the posts, wherever they are on the BBS, that the member has not yet read. New Posts provides a listing of all of the recently active topics in a single list regardless of where they are on the BBS. So new posts are not hard to find, the poster just needs to post them in the right place If they are posted in the wrong place Bob or I can move them and maintain all of the replies intact. If people want to get every post (including junk mail), they can subscribe to an RSS feed (instructions on the site)
How to Compose a Basic Message
To compose a message start on the main index page http://www.ents-bbs.org Go down to the category (dark blue heading) that says New Users - Post here first. Click on the title of the first forum: New User Questions - Introduce Yourself. This will open a new window. On the right side below teh heading is text in RED that reads NEW TOPIC. Click on this and a window will open up for your new message. Give it a title and type whatever you want in the text box, and click the SUBMIT button at the botom below the text box.
How does this BBS work?
The biard is structures much differently than Google list, with many different forums and options. I will try to hit some of the highlights of the new BBS.
Look at the upper right corner of the index page. There is a link marked FAQ. This is a long document describing how the basic board works, the functions it has, and can answer many of your basic questions. Also in this corner is a standard and an Advanced search box. These work like search boxes found ewverywhere and can help you find informationon the board. Next to this link is a Members link. This will take you to a listing of BBS members.
On the upper left corner are several more links. The Board Index is a lin that takes you to the index page of this BBS. Below this is User Control panel - this is where you can edit your profile information and manage some of your options. Beside it is a number that shows you the number of new messages, and a link to let you view your own most recent posts. Below this in the white are another series of links that are pretty self explantory.
Forums with new messages are highlighted in index listing by a circular red colored message icon, rather than the normal blue one. I am sorry for the hideous blue color o the BBS. I can't change it, because many f teh add-on modules that are available to add functionality to the BBS are based on this particular scheme and will not work with other colors or styles.
By clicking through various links ou can figure out the basic navigation of the board itself.
There are some icons/buttons on the individual posts that are not self evident. On the right side of an individual post is a picture (or avatar) of the author of the post - if they have uploaded one - his name and some basic info. Below this avatar are several more icons/buttons. I am using Gary as an example here because he has more icons than I do. the first icon with a small image and the letters pm - are a clickable icon to send the author of the post a personal message. The second icon - an envelope will allow you to send the author an email. The next icon is a small globe and this serves as a link to the author's website. The next icon - a little walking man - is the a link for instant messaging through AIM. Yo need AIM installed to use this feature. The last icon is for Jabber. If you scroll over the buttons there is a small pop-up that tells you what they do.
The very bottom of this are are three other buttons. In some cases, like very short posts, they may be slid over to the left and not appear directly under the avatar, but they should be present. The first is marked "clone post" clicking on this button lets you make a copy or clone of the exisitng post and move it to a different topic heading to serve as the start of a new discussion thread. It can be moved so that the message appears as posted by the original author, or as a quote under your own name. The little printer icon will let you print this individual post whether it is short or long. Normal printer functions from Internet Explorer will print some facsimile of the enitre thread from the board heading at the top on down. The small up-arrow just takes you to the top of the discussion thread.
On the left side of the list of posts are big red labeld buttons that let you POSTREPLY to the existing message, or create a NEWTOPIC. Please be generaous with the New Topic button - if you start a new discussion or take the discussion in a new direction start a new topic. The topics can be split at a later time by a moderator, but that is not an easy option, and I don't want to do it more than necessary.
Also at the top of a message are either two or three buttons (maybe more if you are a moderator). The first button is Edit. This button allows you to edit your own post. You can fix typos, or other errors with this option. The next is a triangle with an exclamation point. You can click on that to report an offensive message to the moderator or adminisrator. The third button allows you to quote a particular message in your reply. There is very little reason to do so unless you want to repsond to a post many messages farther up in the list. You can also edit down the quote in your reply to only show those sections you want to quote, and you are encouraged to remove any inline photos from the quoted message as well.
When you want to post your own message or reply to one, a screen comes up that lets you type in text. Give the mesage a title if it is a new post. If it is a reply to an existing post, the title field will already be filled in, but you can alter it if you want. Below the title space is a large text box where you can type your message. Immediately above the text box are some buttons I want to mention. If you highlight some portion of the text, you can change it to bold, italic, underline, coor it, or its size. If you highlight a web adress and click on the URL button it will make that text a hyperlink. The small omega symbol on te right side of this array will pop open a window that lets you add non standard special characters to your post, including some math symbols and the like. Clicking on the Youtube button for example will create a start and end code for a youtube video. [youtube][/youtube] Just place the url (webpage link) for the video's page between the start and end code, and the video will be embedded into the message. HTML code an not be directly added to the text box, these code buttons that generate BB code must be used instead.
At the bottom of the message are some other message options. This also is where you go to add attachments. Photos can be sent as attachments or embedded into the message text. When you choose to embed them in the text, after you successfully upload them another line will appear showing the name of the photo. To embed the photo into the message, just put your cursor where you want the photo to go and click the "place inline" button. otherwise the uploaded file will be treated as an attachment.
The upload size limits are currently set a 5 MB, but I do not want to see many large files uploaded. I have the board set to use samller thumbnail photos no larger than 600 pixels in width embedded into the text. there really isn't a good reason to upload larger images than that to the BBS. The space we have available is not unlimited.
These are the basic workings of the BBS.
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XP TaskMan, 'Windows Security' Box
Before the .Net 2 beta fried my system I, at some point configured it not to show the 'Windows Security' box. That is the box that appears when you press CTRL-ALT-DELETE but instead when it was pressed taskman would automatically appear. This is kind of an odd question but does anyone know what I changed the first time to get the desired effect.
I think (and I'm really not sure) that you are referring to something sometimes known as "Require users to press Ctrl-Alt-Delete before loggin on". This can be found in the Users and Passwords control panel in Windows 2000 (Advanced Tab). But in the title you mention XP, which seems odd to me. The default is to show the task manager in XP, at least when the machine is not in a domain.
Anyway, check here or here to see if it solves your issue, or look for "require CTRL+ALT+DEL before login" in Google. Hope this help.
No.. that was not what I was talking about (and is not what I described). I am talking about when you hit CTRL-ALT-DELETE (from desktop etc) it just loads taskman.. no 'Shut Down' 'Lock Workstation' etc buttons.
If you use XP in a stand-alone or workgroup configuration and log onto the system with the Welcome screen, the three-finger-salute (CTRL-ALT-DELETE) will immediately bring up the Task Manager not the Security Box.
Windows Logo Key + L is an alternative to locking your computer as well, if thats what you're looking for.
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Is Zahia Dehar an appropriate muse for Karl Lagerfeld?
Despite her best efforts, Zahia Dehar is still best known in France as a footballer's birthday present. The 20-year-old surprise new muse and protege of the fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld was not long ago a teenage, underaged prostitute who met clients in VIP bars around Paris's Champs-Elysées while her mother apparently thought she was at sleepovers with schoolfriends, and was paid for sex by one of France's most famous football stars.
In 2009, she was flown to Munich for a night in a luxury hotel by the French international football star Franck Ribéry, allegedly as a birthday treat for himself to mark his 26th. At the time, he was a winger for Bayern Munich earning a stratospheric salary, a French national hero with a seemingly unshakable image back home as a funny, ugly Mr Wholesome, who had dragged himself up from a deprived early life on one of the poorest estates in northern France, was disfigured by a childhood carcrash, married his childhood sweetheart, was a good dad and an observant convert to Islam who symbolised the mixed identities of France. Then it emerged that Dehar had been quietly flown over to Germany to order by Ribéry when she was aged only 17. Paid-for sex is illegal below the age of 18 in France.
Birthdaygate, revealed as part of a police investigation into alleged pimping, became part of one of the biggest sex scandals ever to hit French sport, tarnishing French football and hindering the French team during its fraught South Africa World Cup in 2010. But the case is back on the front pages this week as Ribéry, and his French team-mate, the Real Madrid star striker Karim Benzema, who allegedly paid for sex with Dehar on another occasion, have been ordered to stand trial for soliciting an underage prostitute. Also in the dock will be an array of men and women, some accused of "aggravated pimping".
The case is the latest high-profile inquiry involving celebrities and the issue of paid-for sex in France. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the IMF and one-time presidential hopeful, is currently under formal investigation over complicity in a pimping operation after women linked to a suspected Lille prostitution ring were allegedly procured for orgies he attended. The inquiry has been extended to examine alleged group rape over the question of whether one sex-worker was forced. Strauss-Kahn's lawyers argue he did not know the women were paid. He denies any violence.
As for Ribéry and Benzema, the judge's order that their case should go to the criminal court has shocked France. Last November, the state prosecutor recommended charges be dropped, stating that neither man had known Dehar was under 18. The trial promises to lift the lid on a disturbing world of money, minors and paid-for sex just as the new French women's minister stresses her ambition to "abolish" prostitution from France. But the saga is also an insight into modern-day celebrity culture in France, the grim underbelly of Champs-Elysées bars, modern immigration and young people from the rundown suburbs who make it big.
Perhaps the strangest element of all is Dehar herself, who is now so famous she is known only by her first name. Since the story broke, she has been taken under the wing of Lagerfeld and other big fashion and art names, encouraged in a new career path as a luxury lingerie designer, staging elaborate catwalk shows in Paris fashion week. Her pieces are crafted by the top haute-couture artisans, and French actors have taken frontrow seats to watch models emerge from fridges and cupcakes, or ironically wrapped in ribbons as gifts, and Dehar herself emerging as a giant Barbie clone from a plastic box. She has been photographed by the artists Pierre et Gilles and David LaChapelle and held exhibitions of works inspired by her, including metal mouldings of her body. With a shock of peroxide blonde hair extensions, she has made the cover of international magazines, styled like an Algerian-born reinvention of Brigitte Bardot. She has also starred in a short film as a Frankenstein's monster-like sex-object invented by men in white coats.
Lagerfeld says she is so fascinating precisely because she is a reminder of France's 18th-century courtesans, the paid mistresses of the rich and powerful, "a purely French tradition that the whole world admired and copied".
All this poses a quandary for feminists. On the one hand, why shouldn't a former sex-worker be able to launch a fashion career and move on? But then her constant packaging as pneumatic sex-doll seems to glamorise and glorify what the trial could starkly reveal as illegal pimping and underage sex. Designers and gallery owners insist she embodies "French gallantry" and "her body is a language".
As Dehar tells it, at 5pm one day in April three years ago, police officers arrived at her mother and stepfather's modest home in a grey, nondescript suburb of Paris, asking to question her. For months, the vice squad had been investigating allegations of pimping at one of the bars around the Champs-Elysées, the Zaman Cafe, when they realised one of the women on their radar, Dehar, was a minor. Prostitution is legal in France but, as in the UK, activities around it pimping, soliciting, brothels and running organised networks are not. In the case of prostitution, a young person is a minor until 18.
Police had placed men suspected of pimping under phone surveillance and told Dehar they knew details of her "activity". Her mother and stepfather apparently did not. Born in the Algerian town of Ghriss, Dehar arrived in France with her mother and one of her brothers when she was 10, speaking no French, after her parents' messy divorce. She has hinted at difficult years with nowhere to stay at first and "sad moments" at the hands of "bad, cruel" family contacts in France, once telling Libération: "If I talk too much about it, I'll come over as a depressive." In Algeria, she enjoyed primary school and wanted to be a pilot; in France, she bunked off, quit school and enrolled in a beauty course. She began going to bars off the Champs-Elysées at the age of 14. She told Paris Match her first paid-for sex was with a client celebrating his birthday; she had celebrated her 16th shortly before. She said she charged 2,000 a night or 500 for a "moment of pleasure". She said she thought of herself as "an escort girl, not a prostitute", arguing she was "never part of a network. I don't give my money to anyone. I do what I want, I have paid or unpaid sex with who I want. No one makes me and when I don't want to, it's no." She referred to men who pointed her towards "big clients" not as pimps, but friends.
She told police her first football star client was Benzema, who was born to Algerian parents and grew up on an estate in Lyon. She said they met in a Paris nightclub when he was 18. The alleged paid-for sex took place in 2008 when she was 16 and he was 20. Benzema's lawyers say he is "innocent" and would explain himself in court.
Dehar said Ribéry had first flown her to Munich, paying for flights and a hotel for his birthday night, and then met her twice again in France when, she told Paris Match: "It was hard to get him to pay me, but he did all the same." Asked by the magazine whether he had been "kind" to her, she said: "I gave him what he wanted. He wasn't particularly gallant, nor polite, nor even that nice. I came to do my work." He was "a client like any other".
Crucially, Dehar told investigators neither footballer had known her age.
Ribéry's lawyer this week said that sending the case to trial was "surprising and unfair", arguing that Ribéry did not know Dehar was underage at the time. During the investigation, Ribéry, whose image has suffered hugely and who complained his family had been hurt by the case, told the German paper Bild he wasn't scared about his future or career because: "I never knowingly did anything wrong."
When the announcement of the trial came this week, Dehar's lawyer said it was "neither good nor bad news" for her. She had moved on. Her first underwear collection the production of which was funded by an Asian investment company will go on sale in January. More exhibitions are planned. And the French actor Isabelle Adjani wants to make a documentary film about her, declaring herself firmly "in the camp of those who want to love her" and saying Dehar's path to fame had been "moving and troubling".
Her latest press release describes her as "Zahia, an artist, a stylist, a muse, and soon an icon". She is promoted as a quintessential example of the best of "made in France". Over the past few weeks, she has tweeted pictures of her body in a red bikini in southern France. Earlier this year, sitting in her plush rented Paris apartment on a sofa shaped like a pair of red lips for an interview for Libération, she came across as shy, soft-spoken and only really relaxed in the presence of her lapdogs. She and her PR consultant brushed aside questions about whether some kind of rich benefactor is funding her new life. She said her two years selling sex were firmly over. Asked why she did it, she paused and replied: "For the money". Her agent interjected: "But also for the social advancement, eh, Zahia? A way to get on in life?" The journalist asked if she was irritated by always being reduced to sex, to being a sex symbol. Dehar replied: "Me, I don't know what I am, in fact. It's other people who know " (guardian.co.uk)
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^ Actually he's kind of right. Back then courtesans were trend setters in fashion and beauty, taste makers in the arts and were generally more educated and more exposed to the world than most women, particularly in the upper classes.
Think of Madame de Pompadour or the Countess de Castiglione (later century, but same idea). Pompadour has an actual hairstyle named after the one she wore and popularized throughout Europe, and I believe she popularized some kind of porcelain as well, among other things. Castiglione, on the other hand, was one of the most photographed women at a time when photography was new.
Karl does say some crazy s***, such as comparing an underage escort to women who made seduction and charm an art form, but the man does know his history.
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^Even being a Karl fan, I have to disagree. There isn't anything in history to suggest that courtesans were a "purely French tradition that the whole world admired and copied". Courtesans were around in ancient China, ancient Greece, and ancient Rome, for example.
And I would say that Zahia Dehar's situation is a little different from Pompadour's and Castiglione's.
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^ Yeah, when I hear "courtesan" my mind goes directly to Veronica Franco in Renaissance Venice, not to France (sorry!).
She's no more of an appropriate muse for Karl than his cat or Alice Dellal, so... really. I don't really think it's that big of a deal.
Not really sure why this is such a shocking development. I mean, this is the same guy who once put a porn star on his runway (I think it was for Fendi). Besides, he's had some questionable muses for a while now.
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Karl has been very forthcoming with his belief that paid-for sex is the only good kind, so this comes as no surprise ...
Her comment about not knowing who she is ... that seems to me the crux of the problem. Rather than designing lingerie, being Karl's pet, etc., she would be well-served to answer that question first and foremost ...
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It's Karl Lagerfeld. He should basically be ignored on all issues not directly related to fashion.
Just say no to Terry Richardson.
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David Pratt wrote: Note that we are now using a new list at firstname.lastname@example.com > I am not clear about how to deal with internationalize data however. > Let's use a product as an example. If it has properties (predicates) > such as a hasSKU, hasTitle, hasDescription, the title and description > properties could be in different languages. How does one deal with > internationalization in the schema. Do I have to create properties like > hasTitleEn, hasTitleFr, hasTitleEs etc. so my schema will handle > multiple languagesor is there another way. It seems this approach would > not be a very dynamic and involve much duplication in my schema which is > already large. I would appreciate pointers on what I should do. Many > thanks. Let hasTitle etc. allow for multiple values. Then have an English value, a French, and so on. When rendering for humans select the value appropriate for their language preferences. Since this is potentially bloaty in the case of a user-agent that has sent an accept-languages header tou could also restrict the values transmitted in a given transfer to only those appropriate.Received on Thursday, 8 September 2005 09:49:57 UTC
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LeBrun: State 'just can't leave gambling alone'
Published 6:38 pm, Saturday, June 7, 2014
Our enormously lucrative state lottery is nearly a half-century old.
A lot of dollars, a lot of dreaming. The state Gaming Commission, which now controls the lottery system as well as all forms of official gambling in the state, released figures last week that showed $9.2 billion was spent on all the various New York state lottery games in the last state fiscal year, translating into $3.17 billion funding for public education.
That's the best return of any state lottery. Then again, more gambling revenues are collected in New York than any other state by far, a total last year of $36 billion. It's the smell of all that money that's attracting casino interest.
The history of the state lottery, viewed in the rear-view mirror, offers insights into where we're heading by putting commercial casino gambling within a short drive of every New Yorker.
Initially, voters in 43 of the 62 counties were against a constitutional amendment for a lottery. It took New York City voters to make it happen, which arguably occurred again with the vote on casinos.
But the history of the lottery is really the story of the state's increasing desire for and reliance on lottery revenues to close state budget shortfalls. The state Legislature approved 21 major expansions of the lottery from its inception in 1967. Now, there are more than 40 instant scratch-off games alone.
In Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's eye-opening analysis of gambling in the state issued last week, which includes the checkered future casinos are apt to bring us, he concludes that ''lottery expansions over more than four decades have been driven, in part, by the imperative to balance the state budget, and have typically taken place in years when the state needed additional revenue to close projected gaps.'' I can recall a poignant news conference held by then-Gov. Mario Cuomo in the mid 1990s, virtually apologizing to the state for backing an expansion of the lottery. I believe it was over Quick Draw. Anyway, he was clearly bothered deeply by resorting to tapping the nickels and dimes of lower wage earners to balance the budget, but he felt he had no other choice. Our current leaders have no such moral compunction. They just want the money. The nut, in this case, has fallen a mile from the tree.
The takeaway from the history of the lottery is that over the years — marketing baloney aside — the persistent motivation was as crude as working out the house percentage of the take and raking it in. Which is what the lottery is all about, with the house being the state. But it was never enough. More games, more chances, more nickels and dimes were necessary and it hasn't let up until now.
The plain and uncomfortable truth that shines through the history of the lottery is that the No. 1 problem gambler in the state is the state itself. It just can't leave gambling alone. The state is now taking the gamble of its life with the fate of the state lottery and VLT parlors, another form of the lottery, by giving patrons an attractive alternative.
The DiNapoli report says that most of the money from the up to four upstate casinos on our horizon will be fueled primarily not by mesmerized tourists from outer space as the governor would have us believe, but by rank and file New Yorkers, many of whom now scratch off any number of lottery tickets.
The state expects to lose as much as a third, and perhaps even more, from lottery returns as patrons shift to casinos. So why would the state put at risk the most lucrative — to state coffers — lottery in the country? For the promise of a bigger pay-off, of course. The deal with casinos pays the state a higher rate than the law governing the lottery. Plus, the state doesn't have the bothersome requirement that the proceeds go to education.
At the same time, the Gaming Commission realizes that the state needs to reinvent the lottery in order to prevent a total meltdown in returns. A consultant has been retained for just such a reinvention, and you can bet whatever the state lottery is transformed into would have made Mario Cuomo's hair fall out.
So don't listen to the nonsense that got the casino amendment passed at the polls, about job creation and economic development. Even under the most optimistic scenario, the DiNapoli report makes clear, the jobs created will only amount to a tiny fraction of those needed for true economic development upstate while the risks and consequences of casino gambling will disproportionately fall on the localities hosting the casinos. It's boom to bust. That's the lesson from every other state that's gone the same route we're taking.
At some point, not all that far down the line, the local money just can't keep up with the gambling industry and the state's needs. So what happens then, as in New Jersey, Delaware and Nevada? Sports and on-line betting. New action, more betting options.
Like any gambling addict, when you're losing, just keep doubling the bet.
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Nancy Meyers' It's Complicated is the kind of movie I would happily have sent my late mother to see: a little bawdy (but not too bawdy), a little naughty (but not too), funny enough, with lots of moments that would make her nod and say, "That's so true." The kind of movie she would have walked out of saying, "That was soooo cute."
In other words, It's Complicated isn't really complicated at all. It's exactly the kind of middlebrow entertainment that attracts people who no longer go to movies - because it seems like the kind of movie they no longer make.
In fact, they do. It's just that most of them star someone like Matthew McConaughey or Kate Hudson or someone else the 45+ audience has no interest in seeing. Meyers' stroke of brilliance is in writing that kind of film and then casting it with "prestige" actors like Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin (with John Krasinski of The Office thrown in - you know, for the "young" people).
While it has its funny moments, It's Complicated is as overlong and slack as the rest of Meyers' oeuvre. Meyers can't seem to write a comedy that doesn't appear to draw generously from her own life - and which doesn't include the movie equivalent of either an encounter group or a therapy session (or both). And most of her films seem to trade on that old comedy dictum: There's no fool like an old fool.


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I can't for the life of me remember how to do these, I've looked through my notes and got nothing. I understand how to do PDE's but I'm not sure what a difference equation is??
Any help would be great
p.s. Is there a way of solving this in MATLAB?