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Yamaha, the developer of the Vocaloid vocal song synthesis software engine, has developed a keyboard that can perform Vocaloid songs live, in realtime. The user simply plays notes using a traditional piano-like keyboard with the right hand. Meanwhile, the user can spell out Japanese syllables for the lyrics by simultaneously pressing the keys for consonants and vowels with the left hand.
Shota Kagami of Yamaha's Software Design Group noted that until now, Vocaloid song creators had use a personal computer to compose music, and then spell out the lyrics separately. Also, previous "live" performances of Vocaloid songs were actually mapped out in advance; a technical problem in this month's "Miku no Hi Dai-Kanshasai" ("Many 39s Giving Day") concerts left the virtual idol Hatsune Miku speechless during part of one song, even as she kept dancing to pre-programmed moves.
With the new keyboard, a Vocaloid song creator can perform and change songs on the fly, based on audience feedback and the creator's own mood at the moment.
In addition to the consonant and vowel buttons, the keyboard has two diacritical mark buttons. The Japanese language uses diacritical marks that differentiate between unvoiced and voiced consonant sounds, such as "ha" versus "ba" or "pa." The keyboard also has three parameters knobs for adjusting the sound, although it cannot necessarily duplicate the finessing and polishing that users can add to a song with the full Vocaloid desktop music software.
Yamaha does not plan to release the keyboard commercially, but it will offer the technology to interested companies.
Source: DigiInfo News (Japanese)


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Psychologist ~ Professional boundaries ~ Standard of
care ~ Failure to communicate with colleagues ~ Failure to document
care ~ Rights 4(1), 4(2)
A principal psychologist complained about a breach of boundaries
by a psychologist working in his service. The psychologist provided
services to a client who was nearing the end of a prison sentence.
When they developed feelings towards each other, the psychologist
went to the principal psychologist, her manager, to discuss these
feelings. It was agreed that she should no longer work with the
man, and his care was transferred. In addition, the manager asked
the psychologist to produce a management plan, which was to help
her to deal with her feelings. However, soon after this meeting,
contact recommenced, unknown to the psychologist's colleagues or
her manager. The psychologist stated that she assisted the man with
managing his suicidal thoughts, but she failed to mention this
support, or to document her interactions.
As the psychologist had failed to produce a management plan, had
failed to turn up to work, and had not been in contact after one
supervision session, her contract was terminated.
Some time later, the man was rearrested at the psychologist's
home for breach of his parole conditions. Both the psychologist and
the man told the man's parole officer that they had been living
together for two months. The psychologist stated that there was no
sexual relationship, but admitted that the relationship was
inappropriate and unethical. The man stated that the relationship
was sexual, and that he and the psychologist were in a serious
It was held that, by failing to document the man's suicidal
ideation and communicate her concerns about his condition to his
psychologist, the psychologist failed to provide services with
appropriate care and skill, and breached Right 4(1).
In addition, by failing to maintain appropriate boundaries and
for falling below the standard required in the core competencies
for psychologists relating to critical and constructive
self-reflection and external review of her practice through
adequate supervision, the psychologist breached Right 4(2).
The Director of Proceedings issued a charge before the Health
Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal. At a hearing on 4 August 2008
the psychologist admitted the charge, and the Tribunal cancelled
her registration, lifted her name suppression and ordered her to
pay a contribution to the cost of the investigation, prosecution
and hearing.
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Audi is forging a link with its 5-cylinder tradition with the Audi TT RS Roadster and TT RS Coupé. Customers will begin taking delivery of the sports car this summer. The 2.5-liter engine with turbocharging and direct fuel injection generates 340 hp (250 kW) and accelerates the sports car from 0 to 100 km/h (62.14 mph) in 4.7 seconds – with average fuel consumption of just 9.5 liters (24.76 mpg). The permanent all-wheel drive quattro, a suspension fine-tuned to match the powerful engine, and high-performance brakes make the car a star in its class. With its light Audi Space Frame (ASF) car body, constructed primarily from aluminum, the TT RS is a road machine through and through.
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By Craig Volland, Air Quality Chair
The CertainTeed Case. The Clean Air Act regulations require that every eight years the EPA must review the air emission rules for the numerous industries in the U.S. One of these is the Wool Fiberglass Manufacturing industry. Kansas City, Kansas is unusual in that it hosts two major fiberglass insulation plants within a mile of each other just north of the central business district in the Missouri River bottoms. One is owned by Owens Corning, Inc., and the other by CertainTeed Corp.
The existing rules allow operators to measure particles as a surrogate for heavy metal emissions. Measuring particles exiting the stack is much easier than testing individually for a number of toxic heavy metals like cadmium, lead, mercury and hexavalent chromium. The regulatory review is necessary because manufacturing technologies change over time. Indeed in the past decade, the fiberglass industry has been switching to a new "oxyfuel" process where the glass melting furnace is hyped up by feeding in pure oxygen and running at a very high temperature. The high temperatures require that the furnaces be lined with a special chromium refractory brick. As part of this review EPA put out a call for new emissions data.
In 2010 tests at one of CertainTeed's furnaces in KCK showed alarmingly high levels of hexavalent chromium, which is not effectively removed by the facility's particle controls. Hex Chromium is a highly toxic and a known carcinogen. EPA Region 7 properly reacted by installing a special monitor on the bluffs that lie at about the same elevation as the top of the CertainTeed stack. This would give a good reading for possible impacts on nearby residential areas.
The first sample was taken on December 8, 2011, and monitoring was scheduled to last six months. On January 30, 2012, EPA met with residents near the plant and presented the first month's results, stating that they "do not indicate a health concern." EPA failed to mention that CertainTeed had shut the offending furnace on December 12 because of poor market conditions.
I immediately complained that this would greatly compromise the study, and monitoring was discontinued after just three months. EPA Region 7 continues, however, to maintain that there is no health concern, though they now cite the furnace closure on their web page.
We disagree and commented to the national EPA that a renewed monitoring program is essential after all the furnaces of both companies are back in operation. I would have left it at that, but EPA Region 7 seems to have slipped up again.
The Ash Grove Cement Kiln case. The Ash Grove Cement Company has been burning large quantities of hazardous waste in Chanute Kansas since the 1980s. Some residents in the city have been concerned about health impacts for years while others are concerned about safekeeping their jobs at the town's major employer. To address this situation, EPA Region 7 and KDHE devised an environmental screening study focused on the city of Chanute.
This included soil tests, sampling in nearby Village Creek and monitoring for air emissions. I participated in a public planning meeting in June, 2011, at EPA Region 7 offices attended mostly by the concerned citizens of Chanute and Ash Grove workers and management. In November of 2011, NPR ran a story on this controversy. See our analysis in the Dec. '11 – Jan.'12 issue of Planet Kansas.
So from December 1, 2011, to August 15, 2012, EPA and KDHE collected particulate matter (PM) data at several monitors located in Chanute. In a report dated September 12, 2012, EPA noted that there were no results that would violate the ambient air quality standard, implying there was no cause for concern. But during a routine review of the Ash Grove permit file, I found a letter dated April 16, 2012, wherein Ash Grove notified KDHE that their furnace had been down in January and February of 2012. This was not mentioned in EPA's report.
The Ash Grove Cement kiln is located on the north edge of town. All the monitors were located to the south. Wind directional data in the EPA report showed that (as one would expect) January and February were the months when northerly winds were most likely to carry particles to the monitors. From March 1 to August 1, the bulk of the study period, the winds were remarkably consistent from the south and would have carried Ash Grove's emissions away from the monitors.
EPA and KDHE have tried to indicate that the study was not just about the Ash Grove facility. However, in terms of PM monitoring, the cement kiln is easily the largest potential source of emissions in the immediate area, and no conclusions are valid when the operation is shut at a time when emissions are most likely to be detected by the monitors.
It's not EPA's fault that the plants were shut after monitoring had begun, but they should have immediately informed the public about it. The purpose of this article is merely to notify the public that EPA Region 7 has not shown by their studies that the CertainTeed fiberglass plant and the Ash Grove cement kiln are harmless. Additional study is warranted.
EPA's web page for the Chanute study can be accessed at the link below. EPA's Sept 12, 2012, report has not been posted on this page (as of June 18, 2013). However, it can be obtained from the second link provided. We have recently written to EPA Region 7 requesting that they notify the public about the problem with their Chanute report.
National EPA Settlement with Ash Grove Cement Co. On a brighter note, in June, 2013, USEPA entered into a consent decree with Ash Grove covering all their cement kilns in the U.S. At Chanute, Ash Grove will install a system to inject ammonia into flue gas to reduce oxides of nitrogen which is a component of ozone smog and haze. They must also meet tighter standards for sulfur dioxide and particulate matter. Until I see the permit application it's not clear if these new limits will require any additions of control equipment or reduce the fine particle component. The settlement does not appear to directly deal with mercury emissions. More info is available at


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The Republican candidate lifted conservative morale with a strong, forceful performance against a passive, lacklustre Obama at the first US presidential debate
Economy and Tax
Romney: I'd like to clear up the record and go through it piece by piece. First of all, I don't have a $5 trillion tax cut. I don't have a tax cut of a scale that you're talking about. My view is that we ought to provide tax relief to people in the middle class. But I'm not going to reduce the share of taxes paid by high-income people. High-income people are doing just fine in this economy. They'll do fine whether you're president or I am. The people who are having the hard time right now are middle-income Americans. Under the president's policies, middle-income Americans have been buried. They're just being crushed. Middle-income Americans have seen their income come down by $4,300. This is a — this is a tax in and of itself. I'll call it the economy tax. It's been crushing.
Obama: Jim, I — you may want to move on to another topic, but I would just say this to the American people. If you believe that we can cut taxes by $5 trillion and add $2 trillion in additional spending that the military is not asking for — $7 trillion, just to give you a sense, over 10 years that's more than our entire defence budget — and you think that by closing loopholes and deductions for the well-to-do, somehow you will not end up picking up the tab, then Governor Romney's plan may work for you.But I think math, common sense and our history shows us that's not a recipe for job growth.
When you look at ObamaCare, the Congressional Budget Office has said it will cost $2,500 a year more than traditional insurance. So it's adding to cost. And as a matter of fact, when the president ran for office, he said that by this year he would have brought down the cost of insurance for each family by $2,500 a family. Instead, it's gone up by that amount. So it's expensive. Expensive things hurt families. So that's one reason I don't want it.
Let me tell you exactly what ObamaCare did. Number one, if you've got health insurance it doesn't mean a government take over. You keep your own insurance. You keep your own doctor. But it does say insurance companies can't jerk you around. They can't impose arbitrary lifetime limits. They have to let you keep your kid on their insurance — your insurance plan till you're 26 years old. And it also says that they're — you're going to have to get rebates if insurance companies are spending more on administrative costs and profits than they are on actual care.
Role of government
The role of government is to promote and protect the principles of those documents. First, life and liberty. We have a responsibility to protect the lives and liberties of our people, and that means the military, second to none. I do not believe in cutting our military.
The first role of the federal government is to keep the American people safe. That's is its most basic function. And as commander in chief, that is something that I've worked on and thought about every single day that I've been in the Oval Office.
Offensive Tweet on grandma
A staffer who was manning the Twitter account for appliance company Kitchen Aid mistakenly tweeted an offensive jab at US President Obama's dead grandmother. Following a comment made by the president about how his grandmother passed away three days before he was elected, a member of the KitchenAid press team tweeted: 'Obamas gma even knew it was going 2 b bad! 'She died 3 days b4 he became president.???' Wow! #nbcpolitics'.
Obama wishes Michelle 'Happy Anniversary'
US President Barack Obama started the first presidential debate Thursday by greeting his wife on their 20th marriage anniversary. "There are a lot of points that I want to make tonight, but the most important one is that 20 years ago I became the luckiest man on earth because Michelle Obama agreed to marry me," Obama said as he was asked by moderator Jim Lehrer to start the debate with his point of view on jobs. "I just want to wish you, Sweetie, happy anniversary and let you know that a year from now, we will not be celebrating it in front of 40 million people," Obama said.


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Thank you for making the SLO Marathon + Half your Spring destination! We have four incredible races to choose from—Marathon, Half Marathon, 5K and Kids Races—along with a finish line party highlighting the best of the Central Coast to celebrate each and every one of you.
We're also proud to provide great on-course support and safety for everyone's enjoyment and well being. You will enjoy—Aid Stations every 2-3 miles that include water, sports drink, race fuel foods and medical supplies; on-call medical care; clean sanitary stations at Start, On-course and at Finish Line; Police, Sheriff, Highway Patrol and Course Marshals; 800 enthusiastic volunteers cheering your every step!
Our beautiful course is a scenic tour of San Luis Obispo starting and finishing near the Madonna Inn. Runners will enjoy by heading out toward the beautiful Irish Hills Natural Preserve and then loop toward historic downtown San Luis Obispo. You'll enjoy the Fremont Theatre, Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, a Frank Lloyd Wright designed building. Runners will also experience the Railroad District, Islay's Streets charming bungalows and Victorians and, finally, a scenic downhill finish line at the Madonna Inn where the SLO Life Festival will be in full swing to celebrate your finish! Expect ideal running weather with coastal fog and an average starting temperature of 54 degrees. High temperatures usually hover between 66-69 degrees. Course subject to change!
With registration, Marathon participants receive:
- A Collectible Finishers Medal – A Unique SLO Design Each Year
- A unisex technical Shirt with unique RACE SLO design.
- Chip-on-Bib Timing System
- Fully supported course with AID Stations every two miles, FLUID Sports Drink a CLIF Bar/CLIF Shots ENERGY ZONE and Culligan Water
- Pace Groups to help you qualify for Boston
- 7-hour closed course
- Finish Line Recovery Food sponsored by DIGNITY HEALTH
- Reusable Sweats Bag
- Access to the Recovery Tent for ice, massage and stretching
- Age Group Awards
NOTE - You must be an Official Finisher to be guaranteed a medal or race result
Pace GroupsPace groups will be available for Marathon and Half Marathon registrants. Pace Group Leaders are all volunteers who are highly experienced runners from all over the state. Many of them are extremely familiar with the course and have paced the SLO Marathon and Half in previous years.
The pace groups will be separated by 15-minute finish goals. The leaders will do their best to stay on target. However, if finishing in an exact time is critical to you then we suggest you manage your own pace and race solo. Each Pace Group will be lead by two Leaders. These volunteer leaders will be holding up signs at the race start with their goal time on it, near the same time corrals and will meet you there.
If you are interested in pacing for the marathon or half marathon, please contact Nicole Hagobian at firstname.lastname@example.com. Priority will be given to returning pacers. In your email you must include the following:
- 1. Three pace groups (Specify full or half) that you are capable of and willing to pace
- 2. Your half and full PR's within the last 2 years
- 3. Your pacing experience within the last 2 years
- 4. Your unisex t-shirt size
- 5. Your cell phone number
Full marathon pace groups starting line up 6:00am (look for hand held signs)
In order to qualify as an Official Finisher, you must finish within the 7-hour course limit. Runners/Walkers must maintain a 16:00 minute per mile pace as the course will be closed on a mile-by-mile rolling basis. If you are unable to run/walk within the allotted time, you will either be picked up and driven to the finish area or asked to move onto the sidewalk. Once you are on the sidewalk, you must follow all traffic laws deemed by the City and County of San Luis Obispo. The course will be re-opened to traffic and aid stations may be closed. Sag Wagons will be provided should you be unable to complete the race. Minimum age to compete in the Marathon is 15 years of age.


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Center Ring at the Republican Circus — The hottest competition in Washington this week is among House Republicans vying for a seat on the Benghazi kangaroo court, also known as the Select House Committee to Inflate a Tragedy Into a Scandal. Half the House has asked to "serve" on the committee …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The Huffington Post, Hot Air, Althouse, The PJ Tatler, Daily Kos, Washington Post, The Mahablog, KGW-TV, NBC News, ThinkProgress, BuzzFeed and Politico
Dorian De Wind / The Moderate Voice: The GOP Circus Is Coming to Town, Again.
Igor Bobic / The Huffington Post: GOP's Benghazi Investigator Has 3 New Questions ... That Have Already Been Answered
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Ann Althouse / Althouse: The "Benghazi is a circus" meme.
Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler: The New York Times Doesn't Have Answers on Benghazi or the IRS Scandal, and Doesn't Want You to Have Answers Too
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GOP Faces Big Dilemma As Its Obamacare War Fizzles: What Next? — The tables have turned in the GOP war on Obamacare and now the party finds itself with no good fallback position. — For five years they profited politically from waging an all-out assault on Democrats' push to cover the uninsured.
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The Benghazi deniers
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Progressive Bloggers Are Doing the White House's Job — This administration enjoys an advantage afforded no other: a partisan media that has its back, minute-by-minute. — Off the record: The Obama administration has a complicated relationship with traditional media. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
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Republicans Move on Benghazi — If the committee produces new, important evidence, it will be impossible to ignore. — The Democrats are portraying the not-yet-even-constituted House Select Committee on Benghazi as nothing but a partisan exercise. They are even considering boycotting the hearings to delegitimize them.
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It May Already Be Too Late to Confirm a Replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg — With the Supreme Court's term speeding toward an end, court-watchers are deep into the annual spring rite of offering unsolicited retirement advice to aging justices. Constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky spoke …
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you never heard about all the freeloaders from suck-cal that came here with no intentions of going to the game but came here with bad intentions and after the game caused a riot in the MGM restaurants, stifing payments, turning over tables, attacking the staffs?
Gues what color these individuals are?
of all the years i lived in vegas, and all the stuff that goes down in this town......the nba all star weekend was the worst! I, at the time worked at ballys and made the mistake of getting on LV blvd on my way home Sat nite. it was total chaos. People walking all over between the cars, lying in the street, cars disreguarding lanes. it was a free for all. total lack of respect by most. The other mistake i made was going to the Palms. Maloof was hosting most of the NBA players......i shoulda known better, but i needed to cash in a winning ticket. There were people just lying on the floor between each bank of slot machines, using the sports book as a place to make there camps. They had no intention of ever buying a room for the nite. Security just gave up.
I'm a optimistic person by nature, but humanity took a big step backwards that weekend.
Its not the color of skin that made these people douchebags, Its the fact they were NBA fans that made them Douchebags.
NBA fans are douchebags in general, the fact that the majority are black is not the point.


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The National Immigrant Youth Alliance (NIYA) Statement in Support of Wal-Mart "Black Friday" Walk-outs
Wal-Mart: You Can't Deport Workers' Rights!
Wal-Mart workers are fighting back and need our help! In one of the biggest labor fights this giant corporation has ever seen, we all play a role. Walmart is the largest private employer in the world with over 2.4 million employees. Unfortunately, many of the work-force made up of working families, immigrants, and women face increasing exploitation. A company continually raking in astronomical profits can afford to treat its employees with dignity and respect.
Over the years we have seen Wal-Mart constantly abuse workers, documented and undocumented – people who deserve better working conditions. This corporation has never used its power to improve the lives of many of these workers. This corporation has never used its power to improve the lives of many of these workers. Instead of being decent Wal-Mart has time and time again had to pay millions in settlements for mistreating its workers. Anyone with the nerve to challenge Wal-Mart has faced harsh consequences from reduced hours or threats to income.
As The National Immigrant Youth Alliance we stand in solidarity with the Wal-Mart workers walking out, and we ask that you join us by avoiding shopping at Wal-Mart this "Black Friday"!
The Walmart Board of Directors has been approached by workers for the past year to look for better wages, work hours, and workplace safety. Wal-Mart can make the right decision and begin reforming its exploitative practices or face a walkout this "Black Friday". It's crucial that we stand with workers on "Black Friday" and make the decision to support workers' rights. It's up to us to stand with these workers who are making history to change not only Wal-Mart, but the whole retail industry for the betterment of all.


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Narita City Collaborates With 7 Major Airlines To Launch The "Fly to Narita Campaign"
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Oct 24, 2013, 15:17 ET from Narita City
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- As Tokyo prepares for their long-awaited dream, the 2020 Summer Olympics, other cities around Japan are not going to sit and watch it on television. At least not Narita City.
Narita City, famous for the Narita International Airport, serves as a gateway for millions of visitors to Japan every year. Most of these visitors are headed for Tokyo, Japan's capital of pop culture, or Kyoto, the historical city filled with beautiful architectures and sightseeing spots. Yet, Japan is a country full of diversity in itself—at least culturally, that is—and much is still to be discovered by the world.
Narita City, with the support of the Japanese Government, have launched a global PR project. At the event held at Official Residence of Japanese Consul General on October 17th, 2013 in Los Angeles, Vice Mayor of Narita City Reiko Fujita, along with Consul General of Japan in Los Angeles Jun Niimi, the Executive Director of Japan National Tourism Organization in Los Angeles Daisuke Tonai and delegation of Narita City, spoke to a group of executives in the Air and Travel Industry of the cultural and culinary beauty Narita City has to offer. Vice Mayor also spoke of various projects to create a foreigner-friendly environment, as well as projects to increase Narita's exposure through Hollywood.
Narita City has collaborated with 7 major Airlines to launch the "Fly to Narita Campaign," where 7 winners from the United States will be invited to Japan and Narita City with a free round-trip ticket and hotel stay at Narita's finest hotels. For more information, please visit: http://www.nrtk.jp/fly/.
Narita International Airport Corporation also offers complimentary taxi tours of local tourism spots and other services as Hospitality Program for Non-Japanese Transit Passengers until December 31st, 2013. For more information please visit: http://www.naa.jp/en/index.html.
Narita City is located within 40 minutes from Tokyo, and only 20 minute drive from Narita International Airport. With one of Japan's oldest and most worshiped temple during the New Year's, Naritasan Shinshoji Temple, historical Omotesando Street conserving ancient Japanese scenery, traditional sake breweries and other various cultural sightseeing spots where you can receive free hands-on experience of the Japanese arts, as well as top-rated restaurants to taste authentic Japanese cuisine, they are confident that Narita City will be a convenient and memorable destination for foreign visitors.
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Spider-Man Game Review
If you have not already appreciated this fun filled game then absolutely you will be searching for the evaluation of the Amazing Spiderman. The video game was released a little before the motion picture and many fans were rather surprised at why this happened. But as it ended up it was a very good tactical move.
The plot of the game starts from where the movie ends so in a way the game takes the excitement of the movie forward. Anyone who returns from the cinema feeling low on why the movie ended should grab his game and pretend to be spider man for as long as he wants.
And for anyone who has not seen the motion picture yet, don't play the video game, it will give away many main points of the theme plus tell you who lives and who dies.
The game begins with Curt Connors becoming a lizard because of a virus in a laboratory and Gwen and many other experts get affected too. Spider man 2 had a real web swinging component but the Amazing Spiderman gives a web rush attribute and also "neat "is the word that can best sum it up.
You can zip around from one point to another in fluid motion in whatever path your cursor is pointing. Just ensure that there is something in that direction to keep, since if your spidey can fall if you are not cautious and zip through without ensuring that where you are going.
You can web rush feature in battles to kick the enemy's ass, or to start a combat. Many think that The Amazing Spiderman is much more enjoyable than Batman considering that spider man can set back any place and amaze the adversaries while Batman has to look for gargoyles to perch from.
There are greater than 20 missions in the video game that involve Rhino and Iguana. Along with the main purposes spidey can also combat the criminal bad guys and help the authorities like ceasing a mugging or a break-in
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Dr. Paul Russell received the 2013 Zoetis Excellence in Research Award at a faculty reception on Oct. 30th. He was recognized for innovative study aimed at understanding mechanisms underlying glaucoma, a clinically prevalent eye disease in both humans and companion animals.
As a researcher in the Department of Surgical and Radiological Sciences at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Russell focuses on determining how biophysical cues of topography and substrate stiffness contribute to the disease process. His seminal findings have revealed how extracellular matrix influences ocular outflow pathways essential for drainage of the eye. He has cleverly fabricated synthetic matrices that model the stiffness of the normal and glaucomic extracellular matrices, which are valuable for identifying new therapies. Dr. Russell's work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health and he has published more than 150 articles.
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This is Why Data Startups Are Disrupting Financial Analysis
Opening Up the Estimates Business
Many of the new founders have worked in finance where they pinpointed a gap or weakness in the technology or workflow of financial analysis. Drogen previously was a trader for hedge fund Geller Capital, and then worked at StockTwits, before he set out to build a crowdsourced model for earnings estimates that would be more accurate than traditional sell-side analysts. Today Estimize covers 900 stocks per quarter and is more accurate than sell side analysts 69.7 percent of the time.
While Estimize concentrated on gaining the buy side and independent analysts to contribute estimates, it's bringing on sell-side estimates as well. Now the firm is adding earnings estimates from Needham, Suntrust, Oppenheimer and Susquehanna. "We're basically going to capture the whole data set as well so we'll own that too.
Drogen says he founded the company to transform "the general ecosystem around data and estimates." Launched in December of 2011, Estimize has grown into a community of 4,000 contributing analysts and 28,000 registered members, up from 3,000 contributing analysts and 16,000 registered users last September.
One characteristic of the startups is that they grow fast and are constantly adding new types of data. In line with this trend, Estimize plans are to roll out macroeconomics data, such as GDP, CPI, jobs numbers, oil inventories, retail sales and other data. It's also getting attention from investor relations departments who typically call the sell-side analysts to get color on their companies.
While anyone can join Estimize and contribute estimates for free, Estimize is adding premium services on top of the public data. It charges the hedge funds that want to receive the estimates into their models.
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Recently, Kensho sparked media coverage for developing "Warren" a market assistant named "Warren" that can answer complex financial questions posed in English about global asset prices. While "Warren" uses advanced natural language processing, New York-based Eidosearch has brought a content search engine to query the world's time series data throughout history. "The whole idea is that people sit on a mountain of time series data, and there's fascinating relationships they would like to uncover," says David Kedmey, president and co-founder of EidoSearch. "But unless you give people a natural way to query for that information those relationships remain untapped," says Kedmey.
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Johan Santana has started two games this spring, Sunday against Miami and Tuesday against St. Louis. During these starts he has pitched 4 2/3 innings, allowing 3 hits, walking 2, striking out 2, and allowing 1 unearned run.
So what do we take from this?
These were his first two starts since the 2010 season, and to me Johan looks like he's already getting settled in and well on his way to returning to his regular form.
Although his velocity is not all the way back yet, the rest of his arsenal was in full display yesterday.
His changeup went down a bit Tuesday to compensate for the high-80s fastball, which worked well.
According to Mets.com, if it rained, he wasn't even going to start today. That shows that they are doing everything possible to protect him and avoid any setbacks – good to see.
Of course, the big question is will Santana be ready and back to his regular self by Opening Day?
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The ACC Sues Maryland over Exit Fee
filed a lawsuit in North Carolina state court on Tuesday seeking to enforce a $52,266,342 exit fee against the University of Maryland, following the recent news that the school was leaving the league to join the Big 10. The exit fee represents a sum three times the conference's annual operating budget for the 2012-13 school year, and was approved by the ACC membership in September, with both Maryland and Florida State University voting against the measure.
The Washington Post has obtained a copy of the ACC's complaint, available here. In the lawsuit, the conference alleges that Maryland president Wallace Loh -- a former dean of the University of Washington Law School -- has "refused to provide assurance" that the school would honor the exit fee. The complaint also points to statements made by Loh back in September, in which he contended that the ACC's exit fee could be legally unenforceable.
Indeed, Maryland can argue that the ACC's fee is an unlawful penalty under traditional contract law principles. Specifically, courts will generally refuse to enforce liquidated damages provisions (like the ACC's exit fee) when the clause goes beyond simply compensating the non-breaching party for its anticipated financial injury and instead unfair penalizes the breaching party (I have summarized the law regarding the enforceability of liquidated damages provisions in the related context of college football scheduling agreements and coaching contracts in a law review article available here on pages 21-23).
Maryland can thus plausibly argue that the ACC's exit fee -- set to three times the entire conference's annual operating budget -- goes beyond mere compensation and rises to the level of an unlawful penalty. The school can also point to the fact that the ACC's fee appears to be significantly larger than that imposed by any other conference in the country (the SEC notably has no exit fee). Meanwhile, expect the ACC to argue that the total damage inflicted on the conference by a defecting university is so significant, and yet hard to precisely calculate, that a $52 million fee is within the realm of being reasonable.
I anticipate that Maryland and the ACC will ultimately settle the case out of court, likely for less than the full amount owed (as Missouri, Texas A&M, Syracuse, and Pitt each did following their recent defections to new conferences). In fact, I suspect the ACC likely opted to file its suit on Tuesday in a favorable forum in hopes of obtaining some leverage in the ensuing negotiations, thereby preempting a potential suit by Maryland in a local state court. You may recall that West Virginia University and the Big East conference both filed dueling lawsuits against one another in 2011 after the school announced it was departing for the Big XII, lawsuits that were ultimately settled earlier this year. On the other hand, it is also possible that the ACC may refuse to settle for anything less than the entire $52 million in order to try to prevent other schools from leaving the league.
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Maryland may also have a corporate law defense to the complaint. The exit fee was increased from $20 million this spring by a resolution Maryland voted against. Depending on the state in which the ACC is incorporated, Maryland may have a right to walk away from the contract as a dissenting shareholder.
The ACC will undoubtedly challenge Maryland on the $52 million fee until the bitter end. The end result all of this conference realignment is to get four "mega-conferences" in football. That being said, the SEC, Big 10, Big 12 and PAC-12 are set up to be those four conferences. The Big East is done as a major conference leaving only the ACC to pick from as these "mega-conferences" expand to 16 teams.
Interesting thought, William. Based on the ACC's complaint, though, it appears that the conference is organized as an unincorporated nonprofit association under North Carolina law. I'll admit I'm not sure whether or not Maryland would have a similar potential argument in light of that structure.
I think Maryland will have a very good argument that $52 Million+ is a Penalty meant to punish leavers instead of representing damage incurred by the league, especially since it's 3X their 2012-2013 operating budget.
I think the ACC will have a hard time arguing 52 million is a reasonable number for damages when it has already added Louisville to replace Maryland.
It's fair to say that the ACC, or any conference, has a legitimate reason for implementing a barrier to schools that breach a contract and leave the conference prematurely. An exit fee of $52 million, though, is excessive in my opinion and I suspect the ACC will have quite the uphill battle to add legitimacy to the number.
I saw a tweet this week that said (paraphrasing) that the ACC would spend $50 million to make $50 Million. The underlying reasoning is, as the comments above reflect, that if the ACC lets Maryland go for a reduced fee, it will lose other schools to greener (see: color of money) pastures.
By replacing Maryland with Louisville as quickly as it did, the ACC may have hurt its argument about the significance of university defecting. However, the only argument it weakened is the difficult the league may have in replacing Maryland. The real purpose of the fee is to prevent the ACC from becoming the next Big East. For that reason, I think the ACC still has a better argument than many may think. Having said that, I would expect this to still settle but at a lower amount than what it would have been before the ACC's addition of Louisville.
Maryland's argument is strengthened by the fact that the exit fee was only raised to its present level in the middle of this latest round of realignment, which gives the impression that the ACC was only trying to circle the wagons and make it prohibitively painful for any school to breach.
I think that the ACC will have to fight this to the end because they do not trust Louisville. If the Big East did not raise their exit fees and notice period following the departure of West Virginia and TCU I think Boise State would have bolted by now. The Big 12 will eventually follow suit and expand and if the fees are not astronomically high (52 million) I think Louisville will leave once Clemson and Florida State begin to test the waters.
Pittsburgh and Syracuse were actually subject to a $5 million exit fee and a 27-month notice to leave the Big East Conference. They negotiated an exit fee of $7.5 million (GREATER than the agreed upon fee) to leave before the 27-month notice.
I do not think there is a legitimate claim that $52 million simply represents the damage that will be incurred by the league, given the facts.


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A group of consumers claimed that Harbour Center Port Terminal Inc. was allegedly storing rice at its warehouses, without permits from the National Food Authority.
National Coalition of Filipino Consumers spokesman BenCy Ellorin said his group received information that warehouses of HCPTI were keeping tons of NFA rice without accreditation from the NFA.
"The National Food Authority should immediately conduct a probe because this is a clear violation of government rules. Under the government regulations, only NFA-accredited warehouses are allowed to store NFA rice," Ellorin said.
HCPTI has yet to issue an statement about the allegation.
Ellorin said hoarding of NFA rice was a violation of the Republic Act No. 7581 or the Price Act Law and was punishable by five to 15 years of imprisonment.
The consumer group also alleged that HCPTI was being used by groups to manipulate the price of the staple.
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Heart Rhythm Society Kicks Off ?Cardiac Arrhythmia Awareness Month? in Massachusetts
Campaign to Raise Public Awareness about Serious Heart Rhythm Disorders, including Atrial Fibrillation and Sudden Cardiac Arrest
BOSTON & WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 30, 2012 - Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has proclaimed May to be Cardiac Arrhythmia Awareness Month, calling attention to the need for greater public awareness throughout the Commonwealth about two serious heart rhythm conditions, atrial fibrillation (also known as AF or AFib) and sudden cardiac arrest (also known as SCA). To support consumer education about these potentially life-threatening disease states, the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) has launched a Boston Citywide Awareness Campaign to increase knowledge about symptoms, warning signs and available treatment options. As part of its initiative, HRS will host a mobile education event at Boston City Hall Plaza on May 9, which is designated Cardiac Arrhythmia Awareness Day in the city of Boston.
|The Heart Rhythm
Society—a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing
science, education and advocacy for cardiac arrhythmia
professionals and patients—is sponsoring a free patient
education event in partnership with leading local physicians and
allied health professionals.
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board a mobile education unit to learn about the signs, symptoms
and treatment options for AFib, which affects more than two million
people, and SCA, which claims more than 250,000 deaths each year.
This one-of-a-kind event will offer attendees an opportunity to
learn more about the heart rhythm disorders, AFib and SCA, and sit
down, one-on-one, with medical professionals for free
cardiovascular risk assessments. In addition, the event will arm
visitors with information—including simple ways to monitor
their heart rhythm at home—that can close the gap between
early detection and the life-threatening consequences that ensue if
these conditions are left untreated.
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|More deaths occur each year as a result of SCA than breast cancer, lung cancer or AIDS. However, according to a recent HRS survey, more than 65 percent of Americans not only underestimate the seriousness of SCA, but also believe SCA is a type of heart attack. In addition, despite affecting more than two million people in the United States, only 50 percent of Americans recognize AFib as a type of heart rhythm disorder. These findings point to a critical need for increased consumer education and awareness of these serious heart rhythm conditions.
"Heart rhythm conditions affect millions of Americans every day and awareness is the first, and most important, step in ensuring that patients receive the treatment they need to lead long and healthy lives," said John Smith, M.D. Ph.D., senior vice president for Clinical Development and Medical Affairs, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. "We are proud to support HRS in its efforts to empower Bostonians during Cardiac Arrhythmia Awareness Month."
The HRS Boston Citywide Awareness Campaign is made possible by contributions from partners including: Janssen Pharmaceuticals, ZOLL Medical Corporation, eCardio Diagnostics, GE, Medtronic and Boehringer Ingelheim.
The Heart Rhythm Society's 33rd Annual Scientific Sessions, which will be held May 9-12 in Boston, Mass., will showcase the latest science, discovery and innovation essential to delivering quality care for patients.
About Sudden Cardiac Arrest
SCA occurs when the heart stops beating, abruptly and without warning. Unlike a heart attack, which occurs when a blockage in a blood vessel interrupts the flow of blood to the heart (in short, a "plumbing problem"), SCA is the result of an "electrical system" malfunction. If the heartbeat is not restored with an electrical shock immediately, no blood gets to the brain and death follows within minutes. Death from cardiac arrest is called sudden cardiac death (SCD) and accounts for about half of all heart disease deaths in the United States. For more information about SCA, symptoms, risk factors, prevention and treatment, check out the SCA Patient Education Video or visit http://www.hrsonline.org/PatientInfo/HeartRhythmDisorders/SCA/index.cfm.
About Atrial Fibrillation
AFib is the most prevalent type of irregular heartbeat and impacts approximately 2.3 million people in the United States. AFib can also increase the risk of stroke fivefold and is estimated to be responsible for 88,000 deaths and $16 billion in additional costs to the U.S. healthcare system. The condition occurs when the electrical impulses in the atria (upper chambers of the heart) become erratic, replacing the normal rhythm. This causes the atria to quiver instead of beat, leading to poor blood flow and loss of synchrony between the chambers. AFib is characterized by a rapid and irregular heartbeat, sometimes faster than 200 times per minute, and while the condition is not in and of itself dangerous, if left untreated, the side effects potentially can be life threatening. In addition, the condition can severely depreciate an individual's quality of life, causing heart palpitations, chronic fatigue and debilitating pain. For more information about AFib, symptoms, risk factors, prevention and treatment, check out the AFib Awareness PSA or visit http://www.myAFib.org.
About the Heart Rhythm Society
The Heart Rhythm Society is the international leader in science, education and advocacy for cardiac arrhythmia professionals and patients, and the primary information resource on heart rhythm disorders. Its mission is to improve the care of patients by promoting research, education and optimal health care policies and standards. Incorporated in 1979 and based in Washington, DC, it has a membership of 5,400 heart rhythm professionals in more than 70 countries around the world.
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Energies 2014, 7(1), 402-419; doi:10.3390/en7010402
Modeling and Design Optimization of Variable-Speed Wind Turbine Systems
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AbstractAs a result of the increase in energy demand and government subsidies, the usage of wind turbine system (WTS) has increased dramatically. Due to the higher energy production of a variable-speed WTS as compared to a fixed-speed WTS, the demand for this type of WTS has increased. In this study, a new method for the calculation of the power output of variable-speed WTSs is proposed. The proposed model is developed from the S-type curve used for population growth, and is only a function of the rated power and rated (nominal) wind speed. It has the advantage of enabling the user to calculate power output without using the rotor power coefficient. Additionally, by using the developed model, a mathematical method to calculate the value of rated wind speed in terms of turbine capacity factor and the scale parameter of the Weibull distribution for a given wind site is also proposed. Design optimization studies are performed by using the particle swarm optimization (PSO) and artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithms, which are applied into this type of problem for the first time. Different sites such as Northern and Mediterranean sites of Europe have been studied. Analyses for various parameters are also presented in order to evaluate the effect of rated wind speed on the design parameters and produced energy cost. Results show that proposed models are reliable and very useful for modeling and optimization of WTSs design by taking into account the wind potential of the region. Results also show that the PSO algorithm has better performance than the ABC algorithm for this type of problem. View Full-Text
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by G.B. Oliver, Small Business Marketing Consultant
I'm always trying to stay up on the latest trends and top sellers in the online marketplace. So, here is what my research shows as currently the top selling products, for various categories, from major online retailers this fall. If you have products that match these, you may want to move them to the forefront of your website/online store.
Current Top Sellers for Fall 2013
Jewelry & Accessories: Bib necklaces continue to be top sellers but more elaborate ones with colored jewels or ones in all gold or silver; large link chain bracelets and necklaces; cuff bracelets where the ends don't meet; cat rings; stacks of rings; spike drop earrings; small purses with chain straps; bowling bag purses; skull scarves.
Kids & Baby Products: Woodland animals (particularly foxes); plaid and nautical designs; vintage art that is personalized with child's name; book jackets of literary classics on t-shirts; superheroes; the color grey for the nursery; giraffes on everything.
Pets: Everything is getting fancier, from faux fur-lined sleeping pods to nickel-plated dishes to fancy food storage containers, all with contemporary designs and patterns meant to fit in with your home's decor.
iPhone Cases: Popular designs include boho and Aztec prints; cases that look like vintage postcards; cases with a strap (wristlets); cases you can write on (to make notes).
Wedding Products: The chalkboard trend is still very popular for wedding invitations and all other types of wedding decor as well as wood effects, watercolor effects, 1920s style fonts and gold matte accents; the hot colors are blush, pale grey and pale blue.
Vintage Clothing & Goods: All types of leather items are in demand, as well as denim (especially denim vests); prairie dresses; sunglasses; 80s punk; engagement rings; vintage toys; vintage typewriters; vintage light fixtures; vintage wood sleds.
Home Decor, Art & Photography: Images of space, the moon, constellations, and zodiac signs are all hot; typography prints are still a big trend but, in particular, sayings about family, love, home and classic recipes (for kitchen or bar art); photographs of vintage looking or rundown motels, corner stores and gas stations; embossed 3D wall coverings; wooden animal head busts; elephants; and patterns of honeycomb (hexagons) and plaid.
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|19th September 2010, 10:22 PM
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Topology for Schade
I'm working on my Webcor amp that I pulled from a console and now that I've got it completely rebuilt I'm thinking about Schade feedback.
The topology is basically an input triode gain stage with global feedback to a cathode resistor, followed by a concertina phases plitter driving the output tubes (12AB5).
It seems to me that this topology is not suitable for Schade feedback, and either I need to follow the concertina splitter with cathode followers, or I need to use an LTP to allow me to feedback to the same impedance for both output tubes.
Is there any way to use Schade feedback with a concertina splitter directly driving the output tubes?
|19th September 2010, 10:56 PM
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As I understand it Schade feedback is simply a new name for the anode follower, which in turn is the valve forerunner of the inverting opamp configuration. For a P-P pair each must see a signal coming from the same source impedance. LTP phase splitter is the simplest way to provide this. If you use a pair of CF then you will need a largish build-out resistor for each so you are almost throwing away the benefit of a CF.
|19th September 2010, 11:29 PM
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One way to preserve the concertina splitter would be to connect it's plate load resistor to a P type current mirror (connected to B+). Then a matched load resistor from the mirror drain back down to Gnd. Then take the two Hi-Z outputs off the concertina plate and the mirror drain. Should be almost matched Z for the Schade feedbacks. The concertina (triode) will have some finite plate impedance, so some lowering of the mirror load resistor needed to compensate, or replace the concertina itself with an N Mosfet to get hi Zout there too.
Hmmm, on second thought, this would introduce twice the neg. feedback to one side (mirror out) as to the other (concertina plate out) since the current input to the mirror gets affected.
All you really need is to just use one Schade feedback to the INPUT of the concertina.
Last edited by smoking-amp; 19th September 2010 at 11:59 PM.
|20th September 2010, 01:40 AM
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Ooo.. Smoking amp, that is an interesting idea. I will watch with interest.
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|20th September 2010, 01:43 AM
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Schade IMHO: is the transformation of high impedance Pentode
curves to lower impedance Triode curves, by local nfeedback.
Of course, you need to make sure your nfeedback is of the sort
that helps linearize output voltage, rather than output current.
And should be of lowest phase shift, preferably direct coupled.
Its a little uncertain what is Schade and what is not in a push
pull amplifier? Cause opposing plate voltages are also coupled
by the output transformer. The nfeedback to each Pentode is
never pure like Schade's infamous "Fig35", a completely single
ended example. Then again, push-pull blended plate feedback
might still be a valid transform to triodes with similarly coupled
I don't see a problem with GNF as Schade as long as its kept
less than one pole of phase shift. Throw two or more poles at
the loop, and you got potential problems of a Williamson...
I agree with Post #2, new name for same old anode follower.
However, Schade proved and made obvious exactly why this
should be equivalent to a Triode. And strongly hinted to the
method by which Mu is formed inside a real triode.
Last edited by kenpeter; 20th September 2010 at 02:01 AM.
|20th September 2010, 08:51 AM
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I've been pondering how effective an unbypassed cathode resistor on an output tube is for local feedback (PP or SE). If the grid 1 signal was say 15VRMS and at that input level you have say 1VRMS on the (unbypassed) cathode of the output tube, are you achieving some useful local feedback? Of course to get that scenario you would need a combination of fixed bias and cathode bias, since the cathode resistor would be small. I feel this may be relevant to the topic in that it may be an alternative to Schade for amps where Schade feedback is difficult to implement, other than using GNFB. I could be totally on the wrong track too, hence the question.
|20th September 2010, 11:25 AM
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Unbypassed cathode resistor increases current linearity and plate resistance,
decreases Gm, does nothing to externally reconnect Mu broken by the screen.
Indeed, if any Mu still exists, actively fights against it having any influence.
If you stand that cathode upon a transformer output, and tolerate some very
small amount of DC: Parasitic cathode winding resistance creates exactly the
same situation given above. Plate resistance increases, no Triode, no Schade.
The small resistance here definately not helping us Schadewise.
But check voltage divider from the plate to the cathode created by inductance!
Now here we got Schade, bigtime. A positive voltage swing fed back to cathode
is exactly equivalent to a negative swing fed back to grid... Way more than the
winding resistance is fighting. With Mu effectively reconnected, Triode happens.
Plate resistance decreases dramatically. Schade used transformer voltage divider
(coupling to the grid) in his example...
Examine output of ARC ST-70-C3. The 4 ohm tap is grounded, 0 and 16 taps
abused for cathode windings. I don't know how well DC will balance into 4 or
8 ohm loads? But ought to be in very good cancellation for the full 16 out.
You gotta have an output transformer anyway, basically a freebie, take it!
This scheme is more or less direct coupled. One pole of phase shift at worst...
Unless'n you got some really weird transformer parasitics. And we ain't talkin'
like Williamson, where you add one or two more caps of shift, and magnify the
chance for problems by an entire triode worth of gain added to that long loop.
Last edited by kenpeter; 20th September 2010 at 11:53 AM.
|20th September 2010, 06:01 PM
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On the idea of keeping the Concertina in place, both Schade feedbacks (from output plates) could be implemented, I think. One S fdbk would be sent to the Concertina input (grid), and the other sent to the bottom of the Concertina cathode load resistor. Ie, that Schade feedback divider would have its low value resistor inserted under the Concertina cathode resistor to ground. The other Schade feedback (to the Concertina grid) would depend on the previous input tube's plate resistor for dividing down feedback. The Concertina plate resistor might need a little tweek to get the two Concertina output levels matched then. The Schade feedback resistors will have an apparent assymetry, due to the low resistance needed in the Concertina cathode circuit, versus the high resistance needed in the C grid circuit. But functionally, they both provide the same attenuation ratio of the two feedbacks.
This would have the advantage of using both Schade feedbacks from the output tube plates equally, no feedback having to pass through the OT then (as for the single fdbk to the Concertina grid case), so OT xfmr frequency anomalies would be kept out of the loops. Seems workable, anyone see problems?
Edit: I think I see a minor issue that can be fixed. The small value feedback divider resistor placed below the Concertina cathode load is effectively adding in additional neg. feedback to that output side due to its series connection. (beside the required neg. fdbk to the Concertina grid-cathode V diff.). This can be fixed by increasing the Schade fdbk attenuation a little (ie, raising the Schade feedback resistor value on that side) so the net neg. fdbk is equal for both Concertina outputs. Experiments probably required. (or Sim. it)
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|20th September 2010, 06:44 PM
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Seems the series Concertina cathode feedback resistor is actually REDUCING the neg. feedback for that side's output effectively, so the Schade feedback resistor needs some decreasing in value on that side. This needs some Simulation now for sure to see if this can work out for equal neg. feedback to each side. I guess if it doesn't work out, we would have another way to get SE sound from P-P.
|20th September 2010, 07:05 PM
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