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Same like our warm-up article, we start with a little history first before we delve into the 2017 edition. If you already read our warm-up article, click here to jump to our write up on Space Safari 2017.
While it was only the second edition of Space Safari, they've been running parties and festivals for years before they found these grounds. Most of the crew are actually from Belgium and more specifically: Ghent. If you haven't been to Belgium or Ghent before, I highly recommend a visit to this great city and enjoy the food, beers, scenery and generally lovely people.
Lost Theory Festival
I had been to the Lost Theory parties they throw at their Chinastraat location before, where as of recently they still host parties and have a workshop to be able to work on decoration. Even before they hosted their first outdoor parties, they already started a record label called Lost Theory Records. Their first outdoor party in 2010 was a big success and people clearly wanted more.
But because Belgium is far from the ideal place to organise these kind of festivals, they opted instead to organise it in the (back then recently joined EU) Croatia. At it's peak, the festival hosted around 8000 people. But because the festival wanted a permanent location and was being troubled by the (corrupt) Croatia, they moved to Spain and found a perfect location nearby Salamanca. About a two hour drive from Boom Festival, here they did find a local government willing to work with them. This year there's no Lost Theory Festival, but there will be again in 2018.
Space Safari 2016
Because the organisation wanted to do something close by home, they tried it in their own country. But as mentioned earlier, Belgium simply isn't the place to be for these festivals.
Luckily they found the Beekse Bergen willing to host Space Safari, which had it's first edition last year in 2016. Familiar with big festivals like Decibel and Best Kept Secret (50.000 visitors), they were actually pleased with Space Safari and it's kind visitors that didn't cause nuisances like the bigger festivals. It was only small, unlike it's bigger brother Lost Theory, but showed a promising future.
The location is perfect, in part because the license grants you permission to play music all night long. Which is actually very difficult to get in the Netherlands, as you could've read in my Psy-Fi festival 2016 report.
Space Safari 2017
Because we were blessed by a visit the day before the festival would start, everything went smooth sailing when we arrived around 5pm at the festival grounds.
It makes such a big difference if you're going to a festival with what I'd call a family that looks after each other, eats together, but also lets you loose when you want to break free
The festival was already open since 2pm which resulted in a queue if you arrived early, but for us it only took about 15 minutes. Festival visitors could stay in the car and received a simple paper with instructions on where to go and the request to stay in the car until you had gone through the checkpoint.
We found our friends at the camping area and put up the tents, which after everything was said and done, we were able to start on our deliciously prepared Lamb Curry heated up in our friends camper van. From this moment on I knew things would be much easier than other festivals. Besides from Space Safari 2017 being a 'home match' for us (only 30 minutes drive), it makes such a big difference if you're going to a festival with what I'd call a family that looks after each other, eats together, but also lets you loose when you want to break free.
Space Safari 2017: Friday
But while I had done some walking around on the festival grounds, when we made it to the festival area through the tunnel and security point, I still managed to make a wrong (early) left turn. This lead to some 100-200 people including the security to be lead the wrong way. Hilarity ensued of course and because it was already dark, we made it straight to the main stage.
(…) I lead some 100-200 people including the security to be lead the wrong way, hilarity ensued
As expected and recommended, from the first day I remember Whrikk's set as incredibly trippy at that point.
I hadn't seen the main stage at night either, which had blacklight all around the dance floor. This obviously worked very well with the trippy clothes people wear. Same with the Grassroots hat I picked up earlier this year. If someone did want to find me, they could. And then there was the laser projection on the main stage, while the roof above you was trippy as fuck.
And then there was the laser projection on the main stage, while the roof above you was trippy as fuck
Whrikk was continued by Derango ft. Purosurpo until 4 at night and continued the trippy, beating vibes. After that, music on the main stage stopped and we made it to the Space Stage to see if there was any music going on. There was, but not very loud. So we made it back to the camping and continued our own party and those who needed it, slept a bit to get some energy for what would be the craziest day of the weekend.
Space Safari 2017: Saturday
Waking up to a a lovely sunny day, not too cold not too hot, we fixed ourselves up with a shower and toilet visit (which weren't your usual Dixies, but proper toilets that functioned all weekend). Having had breakfast, we ate some more of the excellent Lamb Curry, smoked some and took our drops before we would find ourselves back on the dance floor at the mainstage.
I think when we finally made it, Atmos was already playing by then. Overjoyed by the people around me and possibly the mix of substances by then buzzing, I was for a while convinced I saw a girlfriend of mine which after a closer inspection of course wasn't so. The next day I met her again and we laughed about it…
Dancing away the happy, primitive people dance as I like to call it. Why don't we always dance like this?
I spend most of my time around the main stage dance floor, getting a taste of the great pizza and where we had a couple chillums while dancing away. The happy, primitive people dance as I like to call it. Why don't we always dance like this?
When the mainstage was done for the day around 4 again, we regrouped at the Space Stage and had a Chai Tea before we would find ourselves back at the camping for a dabbing session for the after hours. It was already daytime for a couple hours until I gave in and went horizontal for a couple hours for the final day.
Space Safari 2017: Sunday
This day was spent mostly at the main stage again, where I bought a trippy t-shirt from psychedelic artist Neil Gibson that I hoped would come in handy for the night. However, the after party was cancelled due to noise complaints and Hashashin finished the weekend at the space stage at (sadly enough) minimum volume.
This day was spent mostly at the main stage again, where I bought a trippy t-shirt from psychedelic artist Neil Gibson
I had made some new friends by then and was formally adopted by a new family. Together we had a session and made it to the camping grounds, where with the darkness, light rain started to fall.
I figured it was time to say goodbye and go back to my family for The Stoned Society After Hours session.
After the sun had come up, it was time to get our act together and pack everything before 2pm when everyone was urged to leave. Luckily I got some help with my '2 second' tent and cleaned up our area before we got home.
Space Safari 2017 was an adventure never to forget.
Sending out smoke signals, we shared love, peace, unity and respect
For me, it didn't require more visitors, but there'd still fit a couple more. Still, I saw people from all over the world, including Native American looking people which can confuse the fuck out of you if you're tripping. Sending out smoke signals, we shared love, peace, unity and respect.
As such, I would like to thank the Space Safari organisation for a wonderful job, my family and extended family for a mission into space that was summed up by a friend as the Space Safarian Stoned Project. I wholeheartedly agree.


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It was a dark and stormy night and Brian Lam (no relation to the C-SPAN anchor of the same name) and Maurice Alvarado set this show up. In accordance with the dictates of fashion, I arrived late and consequently missed performances by PC D.C.'s own Deathrats (Lam's band) and the Daylight Robbery.
After exchanging pleasantries with David Combs, I entered the basement to the scruffy sounds of Canadian Rifle, from Chicago. This trio is on the indie, poppy side of punk and had some noise-jam action going on. I thought it was good. B.
Nitad, from Sweden, played mostly straight-ahead hardcore punk with occasional rock flourishes, reminding me of Dead Kennedys, '80s hardcore punk generally and Sick of it All at various points during their set; and, yes, I know such references largely serve to reveal my woeful lack of knowledge and creativity.
'Tad's vocalist solely screamed and was reasonably entertaining; Nitad's bassist is a definite highlight, making tuneful, hyperactive use the fretboard. Every time the hardcore assault became too uniform of a choice for me they switched it up as if on cue, adding some fresh flavors to a tried and true stew. It's a great genre. A.
Fine Lines played last, ending their set around midnight for a crowd that had severely dwindled. I think half of this quartet played in Black Powder Fuzzbox, including singer / guitarist Alex Attas, who has managed to reproduce.
Fine Lines are similar to Black Powder, but lack BP's vocal hooks and underlying pop sensibility, which is not to say that FL isn't melodic – parts of their set were melodic, on a cosmic scale – but as we all know all too well, that ain't the same thing as a pop song. Fine Lines is extremely loud and scream-oriented, at times sounding something like Hum, at times sounding something like Fugazi, and generally offering a take on progressive hardcore that strikes me as reasonably fresh (shows what I know). I'm a fan of this genre and don't see it too often at punk shows, particularly at the Corpse Fortress, so: A.
Was Pat Vogel at this show? Yes.
Did Pat Vogel have a fresh haircut? Yes
Seen on the Scene: David Combs (the Max Levine Ensemble), Alex Martin (Pentagon), Simon Cohen (The Coits), Justin Malone (Time to Escape)
Crowd size: On the smaller size; the basement was about half full. I'd guess that about 30 people who weren't in bands that played showed up.
Was Loren drunk? Yes.
Overall show grade: Excellent bands, interminable intermissions between them. B+


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I have finally finished this bookmark. The pattern was from the internet, Leonora English. It was not too difficult, but I'm afraid the tatting is a bit sloppy and doesn't do the pattern justice. I did quite a lot of tatting while I was in Lourdes. There were only five nurses for 98 patients, so it was lucky I was able to go. Obviously we had to provide 24 hour coverage, which meant each of us doing a shift each day, and one doing nights. one night each. As I was the only one used to the variety of insulines and blood sugar monitors I was also allocated that duty, three times a day. It was lucky, too, that I didn't want to go to any of the services, but I did join the pilgrimage to the village where Bernadette grew up. The photo shows me outside the bergerie where she looked after her sheep. While on night duty, I taught my colleague Annie to tat, my first ever successful teaching! I have to say though, Annie is extremely determined, and has walked to St Jaques de Compostelle three times, and then to Rome! alone and at the age of 62. She slept rough, and asked for food along the way, and I think she's extremely brave.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
2 comments:
- Tattycat said...
Hi Snowy, I think your bookmark is lovely and the tatting not at all sloppy. Lenore's patterns are very pretty. I started this bookmark, but for some reason haven't finished it. I think the colors I used are too boring! Your trip sounds wonderful.
- 1:07 am
- snowy said...
Laura, you are always so kind! Actually I wasn't all that pleased with the choice of colours...
Do you want some hand dyed threads? My friend did them for me, and they are lovely colours, but rather thicker than I would normally use...if you would, e-mail me at snowydavid at gmail.com with your postal address, and I'll send them along. (Probably about size 20 or so.)
- 8:27 am
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Why Softbank Is Buying Sprint: It's A Man Thing!
Masayoshi Son, the CEO of Softbank (SFTBY) is Japanese, but has the heart and soul of a true blue American go-getter. He's known already as a bit of a maverick, prone to making candid comments, but his recent interview with CNBC's Jim Cramer has sealed this rep for good.
Why Softbank is buying Sprint
Son told Cramer that one of the reasons that his company bought out Sprint (S) for $20 billion is his Y-chromosome. That's some influential bit of DNA, then: "I am a man, and every man wants to be number one, not number two or number three." OK, then. Now we know.
On Monday, Softbank announced officially that it would be parting with just over $20 billion for a 70% stake in Sprint. Sprint has been stalling at Son's dreaded third place in the US' wireless network race.
So once this acquisition is over, that just leaves AT&T as fully US-owned of the top 4 major US carriers. T-Mobile is part German, Verizon is part British and soon Sprint will be part Japanese.


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WhyCon: low-cost, high-performance and precise external localization system
WhyCon consists mainly of a very efficient method of detecting circular patterns. After detection, its 3D position is derived from knowing the real dimensions of the pattern. The detection is robust to perspective views. The system has accuracy in the order of a few centimeters and processes images at rates of hundreds of frames per second. This means they it is possible to localize multiple patterns simultaneously without introducing significant delays in processing.
WhyCon is open source, supports ROS (Robot Operating System) and has been widely used in various works to obtain ground-truth information while conducting experiments with mobile robots.
URL: https://github.com/lrse/whycon


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State Elections in India and its influence on the USD/INR Pair
The results of the mid-term state elections in India were released today to the chagrin of economic analysts around the world. With the next national elections in India slated for some time in 2014, these state elections (as in the US midterm elections) were a prime time to show either a welling of support for the ruling party (The Congress) or a tide change towards the opposition.
Bobbys Corner-Open Market-May.3.2011
Good Morning:
Commodities dropped for the 2nd day, equity markets are lower, and the USD rallied a bit overnight.
1 year US Treasury yields fell to a record low-and US Futures are lower at this time.
After yesterday's early knee jerk reaction to the death of Osama bin Laden, the markets are settling back in as they assess the impact of the May 1 death.
India's central bank rose interest rates .5%, which is higher than expected, as they look to tame inflation.
Japan was closed overnight for a public holiday.


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The LGBTQ community at Harvard Law School has been a tremendous resource for me as a gay law student. One of the most gratifying things about serving on the Executive Board of Lambda (one of HLS's LGBTQ interest student organizations) has been getting to work closely with fellow students and school administrators on issues of campus policy. It has been a particularly exciting time to focus on these issues as movements like Reclaim HLS work to bring attention to the experiences of marginalized populations on our campus and in other legal contexts. As I prepare to graduate, I want to pause and reflect on some of the ways in which the administration has responded positively to the tireless advocacy efforts of my queer, trans, and allied classmates, as well as some of the particularly LGBTQ-related areas for improvement on which I hope campus leaders will continue to focus going forward.
The decentralized nature and sheer size of the HLS administration can sometimes make it difficult for well-meaning officials to understand the problems affecting LGBTQ students, let alone solve them. I'm collecting these seemingly unconnected pieces into a single manifesto with the hope that this will help students and administrators identify opportunities for comprehensive, collaborative initiatives and continue to make our school environment more hospitable and productive.
Starting with the class of 2018, applicants to Harvard Law School have been able to provide significantly more information about their gender identities than was allowed by the old M and F answer choices. The application includes more gender options, allows prospective students to check more than one, and even includes a short write-in section. Making the gender question more flexible serves an important signaling function, letting transgender and gender-non-conforming applicants know that HLS administrators have at least some familiarity with the idea of gender diversity.
Since the school began collecting data about gender identity so recently, it's hard to say with any certainty, but I get the sense that trans people are underrepresented at HLS. To the extent I'm right, I suspect it has a lot to do with the applicant pool. Trans people face discrimination and life-altering hardships at wildly disproportionate rates well before they ever encounter an institution like HLS. These hardships undoubtedly keep the average trans person from amassing as many of the credentials that make applying to places like this feasible, and diminish their faith in the law as a tool of social transformation. But these disadvantages are exactly why we need to go out of our way to give new trans professionals the keys to success, and to equip a new generation of trans advocates with the tools to change law and society for the better.
To that end, I call on HLS, and on the Admissions Office in particular, to invest in innovative recruiting tools that would encourage trans and gender-non-conforming students to pursue careers in the law, while helping them overcome the disadvantages that currently steer a disproportionate number off of the elite law school track.
I know what you're thinking: identifying significant numbers of trans youth and making a meaningful difference in their educational prospects would take a good bit of money. What you may not know is that Harvard currently gets hundreds of millions of dollars a year by discriminating against trans people! In 2005, HLS decided to comply with a federal funding requirement known as the Solomon Amendment and allow representatives of the U.S. Armed Forces to recruit on campus, even though they openly violated a University policy against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. To this day, the Law School's non-discrimination policy officially includes one "exception" for transgender people, who remain categorically excluded from military service. Harvard takes in over $600 million in federal funding annually, meaning that its anomalous and degrading decision not to protect trans people from discrimination for the past decade has allowed it to receive literally billions and billions of government dollars. I feel quite comfortable asking HLS to set some of that money aside for trans people's benefit.
Alumni Relations
In some ways the legal profession is at an important turning point, in that prestigious institutions are actively competing for gay and lesbian lawyers. Elite law firms have caught onto the fact that presenting themselves as gay-friendly and working through our affinity groups can help them attract students from elite schools. At the same time, this remains a tradition-bound business in many ways. Old fashioned, highly gender-specific professional dress norms can be difficult for queer students to navigate comfortably, for instance, and Lambda members report getting strange looks and inappropriate comments in interviews when they should be able to focus on their abilities and experiences like everyone else. The Office of Career Services is making efforts to improve its guidance on this issue, including by adding a footnote to its page on professional attire that encourages gender-non-conforming students to come in for extra advice, and by conducting internal trainings on gender and sexual diversity. But, understandably, career advisors' instinct tends to be to treat nonconformity as a career liability (or at best something that should be taken into account in determining whether a potential employer is a good "fit"), instead of identifying opportunities to use our school's unique market position and educate all employers about how to avoid unnecessary discrimination and make their recruits more comfortable.
In this climate, having access to a robust network of people who have already ventured out into the industry, can share their experiences, and are looking for ways to support each other would seem indispensable. Yet our GLBT Alumni Network organization faces unique constraints when it comes to facilitating student access to our graduates' collective wisdom.
The Admissions Office has declined to include a sexual orientation question on the HLS application, preferring instead to note in applicants' files when they go out of their way to mention either their sexual orientation or an interest in LGBT issues. Since some people experience their orientations as entirely incidental to their legal interests, and will not think to mention them without prompting, this somewhat diminishes HLS's opportunities to build robust records regarding our population. But even if the school starts soliciting affirmative declarations regarding sexual orientation at the moment of application immediately, we will still be at a disadvantage. LGBTQ students don't always come out, even to themselves, until after leaving law school. Even among those who have long been out to their friends and loved ones, many of our older graduates came through HLS at a time when social disfavor toward LGBTQ identities was so strong that it would never occur to them to disclose their affinity to a traditional institution like HLS. And of course an entire generation of our elders has been substantially reduced in number by the scourge of HIV/AIDS. All these factors are outside the control of the GLBT Alumni Network and HLS's Alumni Office, but they do point to a need for distinctive responses.
I call on HLS, especially the Alumni Office, to engage in a two-year campaign of sustained outreach to identify as many LGBTQ graduates of Harvard Law School as are willing to be identified and to cultivate a greater sense of intergenerational community. This would include relaxing their general policy against allowing student groups to put on programming at reunions or advertise our own events through official Alumni Office materials. The campaign should culminate in another Harvard-sponsored LGBTQ reunion in 2018, the 40th anniversary of the founding of Lambda's predecessor club.
While the Alumni Office and OCS have been working on a mentorship program that will connect current students and graduates of various affinities who share similar interests, my proposed initiative should not just be for people who are willing to develop relationships with individual current students. Having access to a robust community of fellow senior practitioners, people who share at least some common concerns and can look out for each other, stands to benefit even the most experienced and busy LGBTQ lawyers.
When the JD class of 2016 arrived at HLS, every single toilet on campus was designated for either men or women. This was a problem. Today, thanks to sustained attention from the Dean of Students Office, the Facilities Office, and concerned students, our shared spaces are in much better shape. In most major classroom buildings and dorms, both single-gender and all-gender restrooms are a short trip away.
This is not to say the landscape of gendered spaces at HLS is perfect, though. In a few academic buildings, the only restrooms are single-gender multi-user facilities that might require some substantial physical alterations for greater ease of mind, rather than just new signs on the doors, if they are to become gender-neutral. In addition, Hemenway Gymnasium has only a men's locker room and a women's locker room. It probably will not be possible to address either of these issues without both investing considerable design work and lobbying the governments of Cambridge and Massachusetts to alter the gender-specific toilet quotas in their plumbing codes.
I call on HLS, in conjunction with Harvard's Office of the General Counsel, to work with the relevant authorities to clear away any legal obstacles that stand between us and a truly welcoming campus. Students can be involved in this work–this is a law school, after all, and students would benefit from learning about ways in which municipal laws can dramatically affect the lived realities of vulnerable populations–but ultimately the University has a moral responsibility to pursue this work of its own accord. To spare everyone another years-long cleanup effort, HLS must also establish a policy that appropriately welcoming facilities will be designed into any new buildings or major renovations.
Gender in the Classroom
As currently used in socratic classrooms, familiar honorifics like "Ms." and "Mr." have some serious shortcomings. For some people (including some intersex and genderqueer people), these binary markers are simply inaccurate; using neologistic terms like "Mx." or avoiding honorifics entirely might be more appropriate for them. Other students are open to binary gender terms, but frequently get called by the wrong title in ways that can be distracting or even distressing. These students include transgender men and women who get mistaken for women and men, respectively, as well as gender-non-conforming but non-transgender people (such as butch or dapper women) who get mistaken for a different sex. The existence of these people makes it clearly inappropriate for law professors to look out into the classroom, make a snap judgment about how someone identifies, and call on that person by saying "What do you think, Mr. . . . ?" Yet this is what happens all too often.
I personally tend to think that diminishing the prevalence of gender in professional settings is desirable and that all professors should switch to calling students by their first names, but different professors and students feel differently. As some colleagues and I plan to argue in a separate oped, there are a number of other ways to try and fix this dynamic, but all of them require professors to have ready access to clear information about how individual students actually identify, and to consult that information consistently instead of guessing. The HLS Registrar's Office and Dean of Students Office have worked hard to collect the necessary information from hundreds of current students. But, thanks in part to constraints on available information systems, these offices lack the ability to then distribute this information to professors in a useful format.
I call on HLS and on Harvard University Information Technology to invest in repairs to their outmoded systems of gender data storage, in order to make University databases capable of reflecting how students actually identify (with fields for gender marker of record, pronouns, honorifics, and the like). Students have a role to play as well: we can make our classrooms and study groups more hospitable by familiarizing ourselves with gender diversity basics and by normalizing the practice of indicating preferred pronouns when we introduce ourselves. I am excited that Dean of Students Marcia Sells has committed to overhauling first-year orientation, and I believe that information on these topics must be part of the new programming.
LGBTQ issues come up in passing in some foundational courses at HLS, which is appropriate. Everyone who goes through law school should have a chance to think about how law shapes experiences of gender and sexuality. Professors whose classes I've taken, including Dean of the Law School Martha Minow, have largely done a nice job addressing these issues in sensitive and nuanced ways when they come up.
Unfortunately, opportunities to pursue sustained classroom exploration of LGBTQ legal issues in their own right are sorely lacking. Our permanent faculty includes influential thinkers whose work has touched on LGBTQ people in the past (including Glenn Cohen's attention to intersex youth, Janet Halley's elaborations on queer theory, and Bill Rubenstein's founding of the Williams Institute), but none who currently devote consistent attention to LGBTQ rights work as such. We have no LGBTQ law clinic and only a smattering of periodic course offerings, mostly taught as one-off classes by short-term visiting instructors. We hear from time to time that LGBTQ concerns shouldn't be presented as standalone offerings, out of a fear that other professors will cease to emphasize the role of these issues in other areas of law. Frankly, I find this unlikely. We don't forbid teaching of Trusts & Estates just because we want to make sure it gets some attention in 1L Property; there's no reason LGBTQ issues couldn't be the subject of both focused academic inquiry and incidental attention in other areas.
I call on HLS, especially the faculty, to attract and hire professors with practical experience in LGBTQ legal topics, professors who are ready to help students sharpen themselves into experts and advance everyone's understanding of the legal status of sexual and gender minorities. Current faculty must consistently involve students in this selection process, in order to maintain the appropriate level of attention to their academic needs as future practitioners and scholars.
I recognize the urgent need for our faculty to address other understudied important topics as well, and I know that finding professors takes time and money. So, while these efforts continue, it's critically important that student programming, which ends up providing the bulk of our education on these issues, remains robust. The University must maintain or increase funding to groups like Lambda, HLS Queer and Trans People of Color, and the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender. But in the long run even these groups can not serve everyone; the faculty has an obligation to facilitate the development of this crucially important area of law.
I am heartened by what students and administrators have achieved together recently, and I am so excited to see what they can accomplish next. Plenty of other important efforts are already underway, including student campaigns to extend additional LIPP funding to couples who require expensive assisted reproduction or adoption to expand their families, honor the victims of the 1920 Secret Court with a permanent commemorative marker on campus, and ensure that critical reflection on the gendered aspects of "professionalism" in oral argument is part of the first-year Legal Research and Writing curriculum, to name just a few. It will take humane vision, sustained energy, and an awareness of how the efforts of our school's different administrative units support each other to see all these projects through to completion, but I am optimistic that our shared community can rise to the occasion.
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There are 12 students from Faculty of Economic of Universitas Negeri Semarang (FE UNNES) will join transfer credit program in Malaysia and Taiwan.
By those number, 10 students will follow transfer credit to Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) for about one semester. And the other two students will follow transfer credit to Cheng Sui University Taiwan for one year.
The dean of Faculty of Economy Dr Wahyono explained that the students will depart on February 12, 2018 and they will start the course from March 20, 2018.
"This Program is part of our effort to prepare the students to have a global knowledge," said Dr Wahyono, Thursday(8/2).
Rector of UNNES Prof Dr Fathur Rokhman Appreciate all of the students who pass the selection process. He encourage the students to make use of these chance as tools to develop their potency.
"It is important to have a brave to face the problems. And you all have it," said the Professor of Sociolinguistic Sciences.
He hope that the student will get an inspiration so that they can adopt the good things from the country they would visit and apply it in Indonesia.


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If you prefer cheese and wine to chocolate eggs, then the Sunshine Coast is the place to be this Easter. The region will play host to the Kenilworth Cheese, Wine and Food Festival on Easter Saturday - a free event which kicks off with a cheese rolling competition, followed by gourmet cooking ... more
Comprehensive new visitor guide launched for the Sunshine Coast
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Pleurisy is frequently associated with the accumulation of extra fluid in the space between the two layers of pleura. This fluid is referred to as a pleural effusion. Pleurisy is also referred to as pleuritis.
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In the commodity futures market there are three main types of activities which take place.
- hedging
- speculation
- arbitrage.
Hedging accounts for the majority of traded volume, followed closely by speculation, whilst arbitrage accounts for only a small percentage of trading activity.
Most large organisations buying particular commodities know that they will need a regular supply of the products over a long period of time. These organisations may need to replenish supplies on a regular basis with cover for three, six or nine months. Of course, in three, six or nine months time, the price of that commodity may have substantially increased due to, for example, a harvest failure or a natural disaster in a key supplier country. In order to take some of the risk out of future purchases, it is possible to hedge.
Hedging involves matching the sale or purchase of commodities with an opposite transaction (i.e. the purchase or sale of a similar quantity of the same product) on the futures market. Here is a very simple example:
A company contracts to sell potatoes in six months time at the current spot price, being the price currently obtainable. However, the company is concerned that when the time comes to honour the contract, the price of potatoes will have risen. As a result, the company will lose money, either because it could have sold its potatoes at the higher price or because it will itself have to buy potatoes at the higher price to honour its contract. To protect itself against that possible loss, the company contracts to buy a similar amount of potatoes at the price that the market thinks will be obtainable in six months time (in other words, it buys a six months 'future' in potatoes). So, whether the price of potatoes rises or falls, the company will not lose money (nor, of course, will it make money if the price rises - other than the profit built into the original contract).
'Perfect hedging' assumes that the futures price is the same as the future 'spot price'. Usually there is a slight variation but occasionally, due to some unforeseeable event, the variation can be considerable. Hedging of course is only possible because many dealers (particularly speculators) are willing to take an 'uncovered' risk, agreeing to a contract without themselves setting up an identical and opposite contract.
Most commodity futures contracts take the cost of warehousing, transporting and financing a product into account and therefore will have a slightly higher price than a product purchased on the spot market. Oil, for example, may have a price of $20 per barrel on spot but may cost, say, $20.50 traded on a future to accommodate the above differences.
Speculators are a key feature of many modern markets. Speculators try to make a profit by predicting future changes in prices. Speculators play a major part in international currency and financial futures markets as well as in commodity trading. A speculator is not concerned with the physical delivery of anything - they would not want 10,000 tonnes of potatoes! Instead, the speculator is more concerned about buying / selling on the contracts that they make in international exchanges at a considerable gain. A speculator fits into the category of the 'risk lover'. They seek to make a quick profit through successful futures transactions.
The third type of activity carried out in the futures market is called arbitrage. It involves the simultaneous purchase of an instrument in one market against the sale of the same or similar commodity in another market to exploit pricing differentials.


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Feel like you've crossed all the usual suspect European city breaks off your list? Then Cologne makes a fab weekend trip. The birthplace of that perfume is an easy one hour flight from London, and the HQ of German TV media types – making it a great mix of trad sights and edgier clubs and boutiques.
Where to eat?
There's plenty of hearty rustic fair (and oompah music) on offer in Cologne's many beer halls, but if bratwurst, creamed spinach and fried potatoes aren't your style, you'll be pleased to hear Cologne has a very cool café culture scene too.
Linked to a theatre, Café Bauturm (Aachener Strasse 24) is the perfect brunch destination. Its revolving roster of art exhibitions and chilled-out vibe make it an arty hipster magnet. You can easily lose two hours people watching inside. Can't get into Bautrum? Try luxe boho Salon Schmitz (Aachener Strasse 28 ) next door, all exposed brick walls and chandeliers. Their afternoon cakes are famous for good reason. We also loved Hallmackenreuther (Brüsseler Platz 9) – a vintage inspired café. We can't pronounce its name (go on, try it), but we can tell you that they serve awesome chilli and the surroundings make you feel like you're sat in a 1950s Pan Am ad.
Where to sightsee:
Cologne is easy to 'do' on foot. First off, check out the impressive Kölner Dom, a gigantic gothic cathedral. Once you've Instagrammed the hell out of Germany's most visited landmark, check out Museum Ludwig – a modern art fan's dream (we loved the Pop Art exhibition) and the pretty old town. Locals call the Hohenzollern Bridge the 'Locking Bridge' as thousands of couples have attached padlocks to it to show their love. Buy one, lock it on and get involved. Also worth a visit is the chocolate museum, schokoladenmuseum.de/start. We didn't spot one Oompa-Loompa, but you do get to see how Lindt is made, then design your own chocolate to take away (FYI: jelly babies, pistachio and chilli does not go. Lesson learned).
Where's the party?
Nightlife-wise, Cologne is very much a city of two halves. If you want traditional beer hall action, head to the cobbled streets of the Alter Markt. Most pubs only (and proudly) stock the local beer, Kollsch. It's served in tiny glasses. But be careful – if you don't put your beer mat on top of the glass when you're finished, a waiter will automatically being you another.
Want some hipper bars? Aachener Strasse has plenty. Cafe Storch is the kind of candle-lit joint where men in black polo necks write poetry. Herr Pimock has a lovely lively feel. And Sixpack is, rightly, continually rammed – this super-popular late night bar is full of red lights and cute barmen. There's no sign – just a picture of a, well, sixpack above the door. Still standing? Arty Farty (Maastrichter Strasse 49) turns from gallery to club after hours and is a great place to finish up your night.
Where to stay:
Stern am Rathaus is a friendly boutique hotel in the heart of the old town – on a pretty, historic street minutes from the cathedral. The modern rooms look like something from a design magazine, but it's the attention to detail that makes it a total gem. Think: a 24/7 honesty bar, freshly baked bread and homemade jams at breakfast, and a daily leaflet which gives you local-level knowledge of the events, markets and exhibitions on that day. They even tell you the weather forecast!
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Going shopping. Neumarkt, Hohe Strasse and Schildergasse are the stuff of bank manager's nightmares – you'll find all the usual favourites (H&M, Zara, Mango, American Apparel), has-it-all department store Kaufhof, as well as designer shops and boutiques on these pedestrianised streets.
Our tip? Go vintage hunting on Ehrenstrasse. Then take a well-earned rest with some kaffee und kuchen in Yo! (Neue Maastrichter Strasse 2) – a quirky café-bar where the ceiling lights are old Apple Macs and beardy boys in beanie hats play on their iPads.
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Cologne's Carnival, in February, sees more than a million people hit the streets in costumes to watch the epic parade. There's also a majorly festive Christmas market from late November. Standard doubles at the Stern am Rathaus start at £91 a night with prices rising during carnival. For more information, visit stern-am-rathaus.com.


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Melancholia is a 2011 movie by Lars von Trier about a dysfunctional family facing what may be the end of the world. A rogue planet is passing through our solar system. Most scientists believe that it will slide harmlessly past Earth giving everyone a spectacular celestial show. However, there are doom predictors on the internet warning there will be a collision which will end all life.
This is not really a science fiction movie. Like the movie Another Earth, Melancholia is a psychological drama. Most "end of the world" movies have huge crowd scenes with thousands of fleeing, panicking people. Melancholia portrays a much more intimate and philosophical mood. No one is panicking or screaming. Instead they are introspective and depressed, trying to come to some sort of inner peace.
Kirsten Dunst is Justine, a young bride who has struggled with depression her whole life, and who is convinced the world will end. Charlotte Gainsbourg is her sister Claire, who has suffered with the burden of caring for Justine and wants nothing more than a perfect wedding for Justine. Claire is married to John (Kiefer Sutherland) who is a wealthy man with little patience for his crazy in-laws.
Melancholia is a spectacularly filmed movie with gorgeous scenes that are meant to show the beauty of life on Earth. There are shots of the two sisters riding horses through the woods in the early morning when the Sun is just lifting the fog. Kirsten Dunst has an artistically stunning nude scene lying down by a clear cold stream. These are all reminders that no matter what happens with the rogue planet, Life is short and should be cherished for the miracle it is.
Unfortunately, when Melancholia was presented at the Cannes Film Festival it was somewhat overshadowed by what was considered a pro-Hitler statement by the director Lars von Trier. In an interview, he mentioned that he had been brought up Jewish, only to discover later in life that his real father was German. Lars von Trier then went on to say that maybe that was why he had always been sympathetic towards Hitler.
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Stop me if you've heard this one.
One engineer records in stereo while the other one records in Mid/Side format. "But I never monitor BOTH the Mid and Side channels during playback. I throw away the Mid and only listen to the Side mix," he says.
"You're kidding?" says the first engineer.
"No really. In fact I only listen to everything inSide."
"Why's that?"
"Because its too damn cold out Side."
And if you are new to the miracles of M/S, the internet is full of great resources to get you started. Heres one to begin with: Front and Center by Brian Heller from Electronic Musician magazine
Mid/Side doesnt have a lot to do with the topic of this article (envelopes), and M/S processing may start you down a path of enlightenment that could take a lifetime to master. Unlike advanced envelopes, which you should be able to get a handle on in a single evening (see how we bring it around?).
This article is your Online Graduate Degree in Envelope Sciences. Like any advanced degree, it doesnt just give you a punch-list of empirical definitions. You can find those in the manual.
Unlike the manual, this article has the editorial freedom to discuss the broader role of envelopes and other modulators in shaping your sound. This article is not simply intended to explain parameter details: it encourages an expanded frame of reference for thinking about how envelopes fit into sound design. This article also discusses some advanced applications for constructing the most responsive envelopes possible.
Please note that some of these extended envelope parameters (such as reverb) are available only on the SQ80.
The ESQ/SQ80 manual is great possibly one of the best Ive ever read. But if the correspondence to the old Transoniq Hacker are any indication, people were hoping for something more. The problem, as I see it, is that the manual was DEscriptive, instead of PREscriptive. The manual explained envelopes (and everything else) in suitable detail with a breezy style. But it did not make recommendations.
The manual told you what the parameters mean, but it did not tell you how to make a flute patch
much less what collection of methods to use to perform general classes of sound design. This is understandable. It was (and is) an excellent hardware users manual not an introduction to synthesis techniques or the philosophy of sound design.
But in THIS article, I have taken every opportunity to be PREscriptive as well as DEscriptive. I dont just tell you what something is, but WHY youd want to do it, HOW to do it, and WHEN would be a better time to just make a cup of coffee and think about your place in the universe.
In the previous article you learned techniques to decimate the simple ADSR envelopes on todays soft synths, just by using simple time and level parameters. Isnt that enough?
Nope. Too much is never enough. This article will teach you how to design and use envelopes that respond dynamically based on your performance. This will also illustrate how envelopes arent just for volume control (as if you didnt know already).
So Level/Time parameters are everything you need to control an envelope, right?
Well, that's good enough for an ADSR MiniMoog, Prophet 5 or even the DADSR of an Oberheim Xpander, but I want more.
I want envelopes that control more than volume. I want to be able to control filter amount and pitch with the same envelope at the same time(!). I also need envelopes that hit crazy values that an amp envelope never could.
I also want the envelope to be SMART. I want it to behave differently and dynamically based on my performance. Like a computer is controlling it, sending different instructions based on different circumstances. I want "if/then" envelopes!
Finally, I want my envelopes to be flexible. I want them to easily simulate reverb and ambiance. But just because they behave like a computer is controlling them, I dont want them to sound that way! I want them to organically swoop up and down in graceful, natural-sounding curves, not just rocket from stage to stage in mechanical straight-line ramps.
It seems like the synthesizer media is obsessed with filters and waveforms. But the world of subtractive synthesis only opened up to me once I understood envelopes and LFOs. Specifically, how they are similar, how they are different, and how they commonly affect a sound.
One way to think about the different elements of synthesis (not only LFOs and envelopes) is to compare them to your computers office suite. Many of the applications perform similar tasks, even if theyre not specifically designed for themYou could type a business letter in PowerPoint or Excel and it would kinda work! I bet your mom is probably doing something like this right now.
Likewise, Microsoft Word and the Access database can perform mathematical calculations, just like a spreadsheet. But if you use the wrong tool for the wrong job, youre not playing to the strength of the suite, and youre missing features designed to simplify specific jobs.
Similarly, many synthesizer modules can be tricked into behaving like other modules. A filter can become a final volume envelope (try this instead of ENV4 sometime), damping or increasing the amplitude by carving or boosting harmonic content.
A LFO is like a very simple envelope that keeps repeating and repeating and repeating (
). Conversely, an envelope could be compared to a super-complex LFO that only triggers one time per keystroke.
Heres how I think about LFOs vs. envelopes: A LFO is like a robot turning a crank in an LFO Factory. The LFO can be a relatively simple cycle, or it can have enhanced capabilities, like the ESQ/SQ80 delays, modulation routings, cycle restart modes and more. But generally the LFO factory is a highly automated set it and forget it operation.
The LFO robots do not have a good benefits package and the guy that programs the LFOs is not invited to the really important meetings. Sometimes the robots will walk off the job, live on my sisters couch, and work at Taco Bell for beer money.
The Envelope Factory, on the other hand is a more specialized operation. Each envelope is stamped separately by a template machine and launches a complex laundry list of sequential instructions after every key press. Constructing the best envelope templates is more complex than setting an LFO. There is room for customization for each stamp. Furthermore, the envelopes must have flexible capabilities to allow them to work for filters, amplitude and pitch.
Other low-tech operations (e.g. other synthesizers) have limited bench-top mini-envelopes dedicated to single filters or volume only. They are one-trick ponies.
But you have access to the world-class ESQ/SQ80 envelope factory that can not only generate a flexible envelope for anything; it can also be patched across multiple modules at the same time.
Youll be glad to know that the envelope factory robots (1) behave according to Isaac Asimovs 3 laws of robotics. You are unlikely to be horrifically slaughtered while using them. They (2) also have a nice corporate matching plan for their Robot Retirement Accounts, and (3) the guy that programs the envelopes is under constant threat of being poached by corporate headhunters, which sounds scary, but its actually a good thing.
Lets bring this robot factory metaphor back to the ESQ/SQ80. If youre coming from an older analog perspectiveor the world of soft synthsone of your first questions was probably how do I get the envelopes to (fill in the blank)?
What you quickly learned was, in the semi-modular ESQ/SQ80 world, AN ENVELOPE IS AN ENVELOPE IS AN ENVELOPE. There is very little hard wiring. You are free to route any envelope (or LFO, for that matter) to any module. You can use all of the envelopes. Or only one.
This brings us to Envelope revelation number 1. Youve figured this out already, but:
Many old synths had dedicated envelopes at certain stages of their signal path. If the manufacturer hard-wired a particular stage without an envelope, you were stuck. Youd need to invent a trick to achieve the effect you wanted. Eventually, this sort of limitation began to seem like the natural order of things.
I remember magazine reviews of the ESQ-1 where grown men actually published comments like "I don't get it. Wheres the pitch envelope?" (mind you, this was in a favorable review!). They were fooled by the flexibility of the architecture. In fact, ALL of the envelopes were pitch envelopes. Or, it would be equally true to say (as we pointed out), that the magazine reviewer was right: The ESQ doesnt have ANY pitch envelopes... The decision is left up to YOU, not some draughtsman in Malvern Pennsylvania. The ESQ/SQ80 overcomes the limitations of synthesizers with hardwired signal chains by allowing you to insert a universal envelope anywhere the routing can be sensibly modulated.
This flexibility is the reason we call the ESQ/SQ80 architecture Semi-Modular. It resembles rack-mounted modular synthesizers where specialized modules can be connected at any point of the signal chain with patch cords.
I call this method of flexibly patching envelopes and other modules Lego Synthesis. With all the flexibility of Lego blocks, you can construct almost any signal path you desire. The ESQ/SQ80 is not as open as a true modular synthesizer, but you get much of the power of a modular in a compact, polyphonic package.
In the same way that a lot of older synths had hardwired envelopes, another common feature was the envelope polarity switch. Polarity allowed you (for example) to make the pitch RISE-and-fall (switch up) or fall-and-RISE (switch down). Envelope polarity is essentially an electrical engineering trick that helped limited envelopes become a bit more flexible. The ESQ/SQ80 is flexible enough that it doesnt need polarity settings: It fully supports both positive and negative envelope values (where they are technically valid), so you dont need the envelope polarity kludge. This explains why the envelope diagram on the front panel shows negative. Negative values: Useless for volume-vital for pitch and filter effects!
Providing a universal envelope that is usable everywhere adds another advantage: You only have to learn how to use a single envelope screen. There are no specialized, limited or expanded envelopes with different parameters for you to learn. No parameters that result in nasty surprises when you patch the wrong envelope to the wrong module. In the ESQ/SQ80 world, there is only one kind of envelope, and it works for everything.
For you people who only skim articles, Im going to specifically present the three common applications of envelopes. Weve been dancing around them long enough. Get used to them, because we will be revisiting each of them as we power through the extended parameters (foreshadowing!).
Id also like to throw in a little trick that the architecture allows us to perform. Ive named it after myself, in a pique of jealousy over the Rainer Buchty Ratio and the Slinkard Maneuver.
Using an envelope to control volume is *the* standard trick. The entire first article in this series was based on that case. The manual covers this topic pretty well. Most Internet resources also seem geared to explain this application. And on the ESQ/SQ80, we can even add multiple amplitude envelopes (or any other two modulators) at the same time on the DCA page to exaggerate the effect of the envelope generators. I call this technique The Wynkoop Gemini Effect, named after me, Mark Wynkoop, even though I didnt make it possible and dont claim to be the first person to use it. See, I really am like your college professor.
The Wynkoop Effect: Duplicate redundant modulation results in exaggerated (but not geometric) augmentation of the effect.
Modulating the Filter Cutoff Frequency is the second area of envelope usefulness, and it is a very significant topic. Weve already discussed how a filter itself can kind of act like an amplitude envelope. Here, we cut out the middle man and allow the envelope to directly sculpt the behavior of the filter. We can design any crazy envelope landscape we desire. And, just like the DCA, we can even add multiple envelopes at the same time. On pages such as DCA and Filter, where two simultaneous modulation sources are allowed, look at the capability to duplicate the same envelope as a special-effects trick, not something youd want to try every time. Try an A-B comparison of the double modulator trick (I mean, the Wynkoop Effect) on a filter, and see if you like the result. Its not the first technique youll reach for, but its a good extension of the capabilities that can add surprising flavor to the filter when used judiciously.
Heres a technique that doesnt get a lot of love in the manual, but becomes more useful the more you experiment. Its not news to synth old timers out there, but if your just getting started with envelopes, the power of pitch envelopes will become one of the best professional tools in your automated modulation toolkit.
By modulating and oscillator with an envelope, you can cause the pitch to do everything from a subtle dip to a grand swoop like the famous THX Deep Note. Exercising a little more restraint, you can imitate the behavior of many real world instruments. And Id be remiss if I didnt point out that there are two modulator sockets in the OSC pages as well, to allow you to double up the ahem-effect.
Wait a minute! I set my volume level manually with DCAs! [example DCA screen mockup] How is volume affected if I have an envelope assigned to a DCA as well as a manual level?
The Manual Level can be thought of as a Volume Floor.
Try it this way
Or do this instead!
Set a DCA volume level with no additional Modulator.
That level (e.g. LEVEL=20) will be the only volume youll get.
Add and envelope to the previous example (with a depth other than Zero), and the envelopes effect will be added to the Manual Level (or subtracted, depending in the values you provide).
But here is a cool and useful special application:
If the Manual Level is set to Zero, and an envelope (or any modulator, really) is used, the depth of the Modulator alone will determine the volume of the Oscillator.
Try it this way
Or do this instead!
Set a DCA volume level with no additional Modulator.
That level (e.g. LEVEL=20) will be the only volume youll get.
Add and envelope to the previous example (with a depth other than Zero), and the envelopes effect will be added to the Manual Level (or subtracted, depending in the values you provide).
But here is a cool and useful special application:
If the Manual Level is set to Zero, and an envelope (or any modulator, really) is used, the depth of the Modulator alone will determine the volume of the Oscillator.
The original manual does a great job describing a use for this special configuration: This last combination (LEVEL=00, Envelope selected as a modulator, modulation depth greater than Zero) is the best way to "fade in" the Oscillator(s) playing the Sustain portion of a sound when a Transient Attack Wave is being played by another Oscillator. Usually we use ENV 2 for this purpose. Set the Envelope's TIME 1 to a value around 10. This will cause the volume of the Sustain Wave to fade in as the Transient Attack Wave fades out. Boom! You now have the recipe for waveform cross-fading!
Like Oscillator Volume, the Filter Cutoff Frequency depends on a cumulative value:
1) The setting of the base, or Manual FREQ Level on the FILTER Page, and
2) The effect of any Modulators applied on that Page (in our case, and Envelope).
Set the Filter Cutoff FREQ manually with all Modulators OFF, and the Filter opens up to the level specified upon keypress. Frequencies below the Cutoff point are allowed to pass. The filter automatically throttles back to Zero when the key is released.
Select an Envelope (or any other source) as a filter modulator and its effect is added to the manual FREQ Level.
Of course, since two Modulators can be selected, you could apply both of modulators to the Filter Cutoff Frequency, and their effect is added together (do you spot a useful trick here that also works in other places?).
If youve set a manual FREQ level, the sum (theres that word!) of those two modulators is added to the FREQ value.
As with Oscillator Volume, if the FREQ amount is set to 00, then the Filter Cutoff Frequency depends entirely on the depths/settings of the envelopes (or other modulators) applied on the filter page.
The manual itself gives its longest nod toward pitch envelopes by describing a specific example:
You can, for example, imitate the way Horns often "slide" into a note, rather than beginning right on pitch. By setting TIME 1 to Zero, LEVEL 1 to some negative value, and LEVEL 2 and LEVEL 3 to Zero, you now have an Envelope which, when used to modulate Oscillator Pitch, will cause the pitch to "slide" up to the proper note in the amount of time defined by TIME 2.
This could be a rather long, dramatic "slide", or an almost imperceptibly short one, depending on the value you assign to TIME 2. How much the Pitch is altered will depend on the value of LEVEL 1 and the Modulation depth.
My new example patch SPOCK takes this idea to extremes. On each non-legato keypress, this monophonic ethnic flute plays a little octave trill, like a shakuhachi ornamentation. The magic that makes this possible is locked up here in ENVELOPE 1:
And are triggered here in OSC1:
You understand the Level/Time parameters in the diagram below from reading the previous article in this series. Now lets take a look at those spooky mystery parameters. As a bonus, each little write-up includes a mnemonic device that will help you remember what the parameter does and how to use it.
If you were an American teen in the 80s, you heard Ernie Andersons voice everywhere. He was the promo announcer for Star Trek: the Next Generation and the ABC television network. He was the original horror host Ghoulardi from Shock Theater. But most of all, he was the guy that talked over TV credits to tell you what was coming up next on The Love Boat. But he didnt just say Love Boat. He said The L-o-o-o-ve Boat in a way that let you know exactly what Gofer and Julie were up to on the poop deck. In fact, heres a clip of him saying The L-o-o-o-ve Boat (among other things), easily ranking as the greatest thing on YouTube since Kirk Slinkards last demo.
Well, the LV parameter is the L-o-o-o-ve Parameter. Go ahead and say it like Ernie Anderson. LV stands for level velocity, and it allows you to sculpt the level of whateverthe envelope is modulating based on how hard you strike the key.
Let me explain this another way, and then give you three examples. The LOVE Parameter (see how that mnemonic works? Sorry non-English speakers!) makes all three Levels (L1, L2 & L3) respond to Keyboard Velocity.
Because of this, the LV parameter may work the opposite of what you expect: High LV values allow soft key strikes to decrease the L1 through L3 Levels! We are accustomed to higher parameter values having more extreme effects, but youll see that the same thing is happening here. Its just that in this case, the extreme effect is that the soft level is exaggerated. The greater the value of the LOVE Parameter, the more the L Levels are lowered as you play softer.
Because the LV parameter defines the exaggeration of soft keystrokes, the levels set by L1, L2 & L3 become maximum levels. LV simply subtracts from those maximum levels!
Since we are used to thinking of envelopes as controlling volume(amplitude), then the LV control will control the loudness of the amplifier. For example, if the envelope is set to modulate a DCA (amplifier), the LV parameter controls the volume based on how hard the key is struck.
--If you hit the key lightly the envelope will only slightly modulate the amplifier.
--If you strike the key firmly, then the DCA will receive the maximum envelope modulation.
Specific example:
(I supply a patch with only OSC 1 sounding. ENV 1 is modulating DCA1. I give it ZERO LV and strike the keys progressively harder:
[example soundcloud]
I Give it LV amount of "63" and it sounds like this as I strike the keys progressively harder.
· Keep in mind that the L1, L2 & L3 in ENV1 are now the maximum levels.
· The LV amount I have set here simply subtracts from those maximum levels!
--If the envelope is modulating a Filter, LV will control the amount of BRIGHTNESS (based on how hard the key is struck).
(I supply a patch with only OSC 1 sounding. ENV 1 is modulating FILTER. I give it ZERO LV and it sounds like this as I strike the keys progressively harder:
· L1, L2 & L3 in ENV1 are the maximum levels the filter will reach.
· The LV amount subtracts from those maximum levels.
--If the envelope is modulating a OSCILLATOR, LV will control the amount of Pitch shifting the oscillator undergoes (again, based on how hard the key is struck).
(I supply a patch with only OSC 1 sounding. ENV 1 is modulating OSC1. I give it ZERO LV and it sounds this way as I strike the keys progressively harder:
· L1, L2 & L3 in ENV1 are the maximum level the oscillator is modulated up to.
· The LV amount subtracts from the maximum levels.
If youve been playing along at the home game of the LV parameter, the more observant among you will notice that the values of LV arent simply Zero to 63. LV has two ranges: 00-L to 63-L and 00-X to 63-X. Whats up with that?
Well, computers like to jump from value to value like, well, like a machine. The robot in the LV Factory would gladly zip between levels in robotically equal increments, all angles and sharp edges.
But the real world doesnt work that way. Were accustomed to smooth curves and easily easing from place to place. These nice logarithmic slides may have complicated your high school mathematical career, but they are very comfortable, naturalistic and musical. In a word: human. Its all the same to the LOVE parameter. It can accommodate either kind of math: robotic or human.
Values between 00L and 63L cause the envelope levels to be affected by velocity in a linear fashion (like our robot). But values between 00X and 63X cause the effect of velocity to respond in a slow curve. In other words, exponentially. Lets pretend that the L stands for Linear and the X stands for Exponential, because, this is exactly what they stand for.
The LOVE parameter is great for painting with a BIG brush. It applies velocity level to the entire envelope. But what if I want some kind of specific, targeted magic vortex that applies velocity to just the attack of the envelope, not the entire thing? Such a wormhole vortex exists, so read on fellow traveler
Speedy Attack!
This vehicle is a TIV (Tornado Intercept Vehicle). It is a storm chasing camera truck that can "attack" a tornado by driving at speeds up to 62 mph (100 km/h). Thats pretty nimble for a vehicle that weighs 16,500 lb/7,500 kg!
This Parameter [highlight on ENV diagram] is T1V. That's a Numeral 1, standing for "Time 1 Velocity", but you can pronounce it "Tiv", just like the surprisingly speedy TIV.
TIV takes IMAX movies inside a tornado, and costs upwards of a million dollars.
T1V (Time 1 Velocity) on the other hand, intensifies or reduces the attack value (i.e. Time-1) ...based on how hard you strike the keys. And you get T1V for free.
This is even a better deal than you might suspect, for what T1V buys you is the power of real-world dynamic expression based on keyboard velocity.
For example, in the case of ENV4, T1V controls speed of the attack of the volume envelope you've set.
If you strike a key quickly, the attack will be quick.
If you play a key slowly, the attack will be slow.
In other words, instant Vangelis expression control!
T1V allows for great expression on pads or strings. If youve come across presets that seemed to include both punchy marcato attacks AND long, smooth legato (depending on velocity), you have discovered the value of T1V. The greater the value of T1V, the more T1 time is shorted in response to velocity.
Of course, it T1 already equals Zero then, either nothing will happen, or spacetime may loop back on itself and youll be sucked into a vortex.
Then youll need to call the guys with the actual TIV vehicle. They may not be able to get you out, but at least your reverse-aging corpse might appear in some cool IMAX footage!
Other synthesizers usually have a single brute force method to control keyboard tracking. The ESQ/SQ80 has a few, but T1V is one of the best, and least utilized.
Go ahead and call him "Tiv". Tiv is your best friend now, so he deserves a nickname!
Intellectual under-appreciated comedian Emo Philips had a terrific crowd-pleasing line: How many people here have telekinetic powers? Raise my hand.
TK stands for Track Keyboard. It also stands for Telekinesis. Why would I want to do either of those things with my synthesizer? Because "TK" also rhymes with "decay"!
Try this little experiment: With all apologies to T. Rex and The Power Station, bang a gong. No, I mean, really. Hear that gong sound? The deep, low ringing of the gong will continue to fulminate for a good long time. A lot of energy went into creating the sound, and a lot of energy is coming out, in the form of long, low frequency sound vibrations.
Now hit the upper notes of a baby xylophone (try to do it telekinetically, if possible). The miniature klang is inaudible after mere milliseconds. Not a lot of energy, and much higher frequency acoustic vibrations...Easy come, easy go.
Synths without Keyboard Decay Scaling, or key tracking (or whatever you want to call it) were powerless to replicate the effect of real-world instruments. The envelope of a bell sound would ring unnaturally, impossibly prolonged at high registers. The decay of sounds in the upper octaves need to be shortened somehow.
Back in the 70s, you might wish that you could somehow damp the effect of envelopes played higher on the keyboard, but unless you had some kind of audio telekinesis, this was impossible. (Although some say Keith Emerson was able to accomplish it once
Well, with the Keyboard Decay Scaling parameter "TK", your synth will telekinetically change the envelope--as if by magic--simply based on what part of the keyboard you play. Raising the TK value causes both TIME T2 and T3 to decrease as you play higher up the keyboard.
Stated another way, TK allows higher notes to decay faster than lower ones, thereby "modeling" real-world acoustics. With high TK values, decay time decreases as you play the upper octaves of the keyboard. Of course if the T2 and T3 values are set to zero, TK will lose its reason for living, become despondent and use its telekinetic powers for evil, like some kind of TK super villain. And you don't want to be responsible for that.
For some people, onboard synthesizer effects are a dirty word. And enough dirty words will get you an R rating [*]. In that case, youll be sorry to hear that the SQ80 is rated R for reverb. Its just another case where the ostensibly effect free architecture includes another effect. Of course you could just fiddle with release parameter to achieve a simulated reverb, but the SQ80 gives you a second release parameter. That way you can set a realistic release that you want, and still create the effect of subtle reverb without unrealistically long envelope settings. Fake reverb from envelope release is a time-honored way of simulating reverb, but the addition of a second release designed specifically for sculpting ambient effects is a great bonus. The only other comparable synth that provided a simulated release envelope is the Yamaha TX81Z. Of course you are always free to buy an old Alesis Microverb and Velcro it to the chassis. But the SQ80 gives you this parameter for free. Reverb? More like FREE-verb! (see what I did there?)
[*Rated R footnote]:
Of course, if I'd grown up in the UK I might have made a comparison between the British X Cert and the "X"-value for the LV parameters exponential curve. Of course, all the best horror movies of a certain era earned X Certificates. But I dont think the system is used anymore. The reference would probably be wasted on the kids today! With their text messages and their swing music and bobby socks! (Bobby socks are what policemen in the UK carry instead of firearms, right?)
The LV parameter spreads some extra love on your envelope by making the whole thing respond to velocity. High velocity keystrokes? you get a whole lotta envelope love. Low velocity keystrokes? Then whatever the envelope is modulating will be affected very little by the envelope. Dynamic expression: Coming up next on The L-o-o-ve Parameter!
T1V is a direct vortex to the Attack parameters. T1V allows you to control attack with velocity.
TK Tracks the keyboard, almost telekinetically! TK rhymes with "decay", and thats good, because TK shortens the decay of sounds in the upper octaves in a realistic and natural fashion.
Construction stuff:
From SQ80 manual correlate USING MODULATORS stuff from pg 45 with UNDERSTANDING THE ENVELOPES section on pg 59 and the ENV functions of the MODES PAGE starting on manual page 68.
A good explanation of how cumulative volume works is in the USING MODULATORS section.
Q:setting something to 0 is that same as turning it off.
A: not always. See additive SUMmation averaging in DCA and Filter sections.


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/ yin /
verb (used without object)
(of a sheep or goat) to bring forth young.
Nearby words
- yeadon,
- yeager,
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- yeah,
- yealing,
- yeanling,
- year,
- year in, year out,
- year of confusion,
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Origin of yean
1375–1425; late Middle English yenen, probably continuing Old English *geēanian to bring forth young, equivalent to ge- y- + ēanian to yean, akin to Latin agnus, Greek ámnos lamb
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(of a sheep or goat) to give birth to (offspring)
Word Origin for yean
Old English geēanian; related to Dutch oonen to bring forth young, Latin agnus lamb; see ewe
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Old English eanian "to bring forth" (young), especially in reference to sheep or goats, from Proto-Germanic *agwnojanan (cf. Dutch oonen), perhaps from PIE *agwhnos "lamb" (cf. Greek amnos "lamb," Latin agnus, Old Church Slavonic agne, Old Irish van, Welsh oen). Yeanling "young lamb, kid" is recorded from 1630s.
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Lecture notes for Tuesday February 22
The CD Complete and Professors example apps, and accompanying notes pages, starts our lecture today. Then, we learn how to get data from a network location (like a web service).
Prepare for today's class
Show up on time. Be alert and mentally agile. Be prepared to learn.
If you wish, you can look at some of the introductory readings in the DPS913 Virtual Textbook.
And, you can go through the digital content linked below.
Coming up in DPS913 / APD601
Fri Feb 25 – network access continued; user interface foundations for your assignment
Week of Mon Feb 28 through Fri Mar 4 – study week, no classes or labs
Tue Mar 8 – Core Graphics introduction to 2D graphics, and iOS device features
Example apps covered today
- CD Complete
- Professors
- TV via web
- Read Tweets
- MWFeedParser
Topic coverage in today's lecture
Feature-complete Core Data example app
Store a UIImage in Core Data using a value transformer
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Hey Steve ... Tom from NY here (I took the Guru-sponsored class with ISS this past June). I was one of the judge's this past weekend at the RibFest. I went looking for you folks after the judging. I was surprised by the poor quality of a lot of the entries this year (obviously didn't get to sample any ISS - your product is always GREAT!). Hope to catch up with you folks either at Westport in September (are you going?) or Sayville, L.I. in October. Best of luck at New Holland. Take it easy ...
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