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If you own an iPhone or an iPod Touch and happen to be a guitar player chances are you have already heard of either GuitarBud by PRS or of iRig by Amplitube.
Both products allow you to connect your guitar to your iPhone or iPod Touch and use it as a practice amplifier via their own apps or any others that can do the same. Isn't technology fun and useful? It's also expensive and hard to find especially in Portugal.
Inspired by these products I decided to do my own version, only much cheaper and not as nice looking. On the next steps I will try to explain how to make your own cable.
If you don't understand anything feel free to contact me or ask in the comments I will try to make it clearer.
Step 1: Things you need
- 1/4 inch female mono jack socket. This will be used as the input for your guitar.
- 1/4 inch male stereo jack socket or a 3.5mm stereo female jack socket. This will be the output, headphones go in here. I used the 1/4 inch because I had it laying around along with a 1/4inch to 3.5mm adapter, if you prefer you can use the 3.5mm and spare yourself the adapter.
- 3.5 mm stereo video cable. The most important part.
In the last picture you can see three cables the white one came with my iPod Touch and has a built in microphone, the black one are my headphones that lack the built in mic, and the grey one is the one we'll be making.
This is why we need the 3.5mm stereo video cable, it has the same lugs as the white one. One for the mic (in this case the guitar input), and two for the headphones (in stereo were available).
Any sugestions
But I have no axe!
Eu preciso de uns como esse para uns monitores de carro, audio e video no mesmo cabo =)
Active balanced signal.
Don't think I do, but the again I'm getting old and senile.
Is/are he/her/they on instructables?
Yep, I'm clueless.
Every month, there's a giveaway for an invention. Last month, the winner made the same thing and won 1000€!
Basically, you are over-simplifying the electrical circuit.
Here's how to fix it (there are a few other ways that might sound better, though... but this is, essentially, what they are using in most of the commercial products):
Use a 2.2kohm resistor >1/8W and a 0.01uf capacitor >10V (not an electrolytic) wired in parallel with each other, wired in-line on the guitar input signal wire.
This should correct the impedance mismatch, if i've got my figures right. Someone else did the figuring, too, and came up with the same numbers, so i'm fairly sure they'll work. Should be a pretty easy fix, too... and, it should significantly help the tone and volume issues most of you have had. i'm thinking you may even be able to wire the components into one of the jacks, essentially making it appear like a basic cable. The 1/8" TRRS jacks are actually available from a number of parts suppliers for just a few bucks, and you could use higher quality wire for a very professional-looking cable.
The best option with regards to fidelity might be to use a small transformer for the task, but that's still going to require some electrical tweaking, would be bulky, and it might be hard to find the right transformer. i'd recommend getting quality caps and resistors... i know Parts Express carries some quality ones at great prices. No, i don't work for them! My company sells them, too, but i'm opting to not give a shameless plug for a 50-cent part. That said, if anyone wants my custom cable company to custom build you one of these cables to spec, check out the Facebook page for Gestalt Audio, and message me. i'm putting this in my list of "Projects i'll Eventually Get Around To" since i've already got all the components in my cable shop. Now just to find some free time for a personal project! If i wind up making one (personal or professional project), i'll consider making an Instructable on it.
Good luck. Let me know if it worked correctly for you.
One big point of interference is the pots in the guitar, they are microphonic and can cause some interesting behavior on the phone using this circuit. (turning my volume pot all the way down activates Voice Control on the iPhone). I believe this is because the simple RC circuits doesn't provide any DC isolation.
Waiting on an order with some appropriate JFET's to test the circuit above. If it works out well I'll post an instructable.
iphone/ipod phones use very fine stranded, coated wire that is a real headache to deal with. Better off using an old AV cable. I had a cheap USB connector for an ipod shuffle (just a TRRS plug to usb, no dock like the apple branded ones), the higher gauge wires were alot easier to manage.
I'm doing a build this week, I'll try the resistor/cap method described in the first post, also this schem looks promising and allows an adjustable input to find that tone "sweet spot"


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Title: Why can't evil robots from the future just get along with everyone?
Date: November 25, 2005
Summary: Beaver and Steve are hiding from killer robots, being revealed by Steve (who has his own secret to reveal).
Cast: Beaver, Steve, Unit R51787, Unit R45899
Onomatopoeias used: "EAT!", "PEEL!"
"Fin" style: Spelled with letter shaped robots.
Number of panels: 7
Panel 1
Robot 1: "Come out puny organic life forms, so that we can pulverize you into a fine paste."
Robot 1: "It is for your own benefit."
Beaver: "This is just terrible - hiding from evil robots from the future behind our own sofa!"
Steve: "It's not all bad - I just found the remote!"
Robot 2: "Look! I have found some of their 'clothing' that they use to conceal their grotesque carbon-based bodies. They must be close!"
Panel 2
Robot 2: "Look at me! I am a puny organic life form! Watch me use my primitive digestive system to derive energy from food! Num num!"
Robot 1: "Ha ha! My humour subroutine is consuming 90% of my CPU!"
Beaver: "What are we going to do?"
Steve: "Wait! I've got it!"
Robot 2: "I am also secreting mucus from a number of bodily locations!"
Panel 3
Steve: "He's down here!"
Beaver: "What the? Steve! What are you doing??"
Robot 1: "Your cooperation is commended. Your greasy organs will serve as a rich source of hinge lubrication."
Panel 4
Beaver: "I don't understand Steve - why did you do it?"
Steve: "You mean you haven't worked it out?"
Panel 5
Steve: "I've been a robot all along!"
Steve: "Behold my gleaming robotic skeleton ... !"
Panel 6
Panel 7
Steve: "Oops, sorry, my mistake."
Robot 1: "Did you bring the organ hammer, Unit R51787?"
Robot 2: "Yes Unit R45899, the big one ..."
Fun Facts
Steve's skeletal structure reveals he has no opposable thumb. This further proves the theory that Steve is, in fact, the ancient ancestor of Vin Diesel.
Steve peeling his arm away to prove he is a robot is a direct reference to Terminator 2, in which Arnold Schwarzenegger does exactly the same thing.
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It should be illegal to sell shares within 3 years of buying them
Once upon a time, shares were invented as a way for companies to generate capital for investment. The investor provided the capital to benefit from the profits that were generated on the basis of this investment. Turning investment into profit takes time.
Today, shares are bought and sold in microsecond transactions that purely aim to cash in on the largely random fluctuations that are generated by the trading system itself. Investors (and traders) earn money not through what their capital enables, but by their ability to second guess these self induced fluctuations. Immense amounts of money are tapped out of the system in this way without performing any service to society or industry.
As if that weren't bad enough, we now have a financial market flooded with derivatives and other constructions that are even further removed from any relation with investment and productivity.
Because society still needs money as a tool in the real economy, it has become enslaved to the financial markets, rather than the financial markets servicing society.
It's time to put and end to this parasitism, and the solution is simple. Make it illegal to sell shares within 3 years of buying them. This would ensure that investors provide capital on the basis of reasoned confidence in the future of their investment, and profit only from this return.
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Sep 27 2013: Lets make it clear - 90% of all stock trades, including options - the money does not go to the company. Only the initial sale money of the stock goes to company. What the trading does do is, hopefully, increase the value of the stock so if a company sells another offering of the stock, they will get a good price.
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The company also uses stock options as a reward for employees and as an incentive for employees to stay with the company until the options are vested. Higher stock prices make these options more valuable.
If you want to affect the trading, one suggestion that has been floated is raise the tax on short term capital gains and increasing the holding period for long term capital gains. The holding period is 1 year and the effective tax on long term capital gains is from 0 to 20% depending on your bracket. Currently, short term capital gains are taxed as normal income.
Sep 27 2013: An interesting and very relevant addition - that all this trading, which forms the foundation of the current economy, largely passes the companies by that they supposedly relate to (and are really supposed to be financing). Kinda crazy.
Joshua Bond
Sep 27 2013: Hello Daniel,
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Your debate is nicely put, thank you. Behind your suggestion of a "3-year rule" though is a deeper question about regulating free-market capitalism. Underlying that is an even deeper issue, a conflict of interest, which is:
The people who work in a company don't own it, and those who own it don't work in it.
Until this issue is tackled, short-term gambling-profiteering will continue and ways will be found to dance around your 3-year rule.
I suggest business ownership structures need to change, and I recommend the John Lewis Partnership as a good example in this respect.
Sep 27 2013: Even for me completely shutting down the stock markets is going a bit far ;-)
Given that there is capital available to invest, I don't see anything wrong with shareholding, as long as it is that, and not share juggling.
Joshua Bond
Sep 27 2013: I agree that stock markets are here to stay; I was thinking there ARE viable alternatives to the standard share-owner model.
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Another suggestion sparked by your 3-year idea...., why not have a variable tax on gains in proportion to the time the shares are held? HFT trades where shares held for a few seconds or minutes can be taxed at 99.9%, and then a sliding scale to say 3+ years where profit on the sale of shares can be taxed at 5%, thereby discouraging short-term casino share-trading.Sep 27 2013: Much easier solution:
Make all public offerings from a company tax-exempt transactions. Exempt such "first sale" shares from the "capital gains" tax. Tax profits made from all other sales of stocks just like gambling winnings. It is, after all, what that such profits are. This will provide an incentive for investors to actually invest instead of playing the market.
Sep 27 2013: Sounds like an interesting alternative. Though I think the tax rate would have to be pretty steep to make much of a dent.
Sep 27 2013: Actually, it wouldn't. What would matter would be the differential. Zero taxes on offerings, normal taxes on resales. Of course, there would also be no sales tax on an offering. If the deal needs to be sweeter, exempt dividends on non-resold shares from taxation. It would be prudent to put a time limit on that exemption, though, so as to not create a hereditary "stock nobility".
Sep 27 2013: Already happening, people who bought Warren Buffet's stock and held it are now billionaires. 8>)). But i like the idea because it makes ipo's more attractive.Sep 27 2013: in short, we should make illegal all the things that we don't understand.
does that apply to modern physics?
Sep 27 2013: That was cruel.
But cruel.
I suppress laughter while trying to look disapproving.Sep 27 2013: A curious response, particularly the reference to modern physics, which we actually understand fairly well and is not subject to human laws, so it would be pretty pointless.
I assume that you're trying to imply that my objection to the way the stock exchanges work is based on ignorance. Certainly I'm no expert. But I don't think you need to be to see that financial markets have become self serving. Apparently you disagree?
Sep 27 2013: you again say "we understand". some people do, others don't. most don't. few do. why would we ban things based on that? people risk their own money. so even if it makes no sense, you have no right to interfere. but in fact the stock exchange, among a huge quantity of noise, do useful things. it prices stocks according to the traders' anticipation on the company's worth. and we should assume that in the long run, there is a correlation between traders' anticipation and reality.Sep 27 2013: Please elaborate in short sentences and clear words what in your view is wrong in Daniels statement and what makes you think, that your understanding is superior.
Don't use any external references, links, books or such alike.
If you can't do that within 2000 characters, your claim is insignificant and noticed as 'trolling'.
And what got physics to do with economics? If you like to explain this as well, open another reply in case you need all of the 2000 characters for the first part.
Sep 27 2013: any other rules?
Sep 27 2013: so it was trolling?Sep 27 2013: good to know, as it makes further comments on yours way more easier, if claiming is all what it takes to exchange minds with you ... ;o)Sep 27 2013: ah, I forgot to mention that your claim is wrong, because I say so ... lolSep 27 2013: good to fix the rules beforehand
Sep 27 2013: fixation on minor matters is avoiding answers
25:00 min left, anything of substance to come?Sep 27 2013: minor matter? the rules of the game? for the guy that changes it midgame, perhaps. for us, honest players though...
Sep 27 2013: Thank you Krisztián for clarifying again the true nature of your claims and comments.
In fact, precisely as expected by zero substantial information gained.
No further questions ... :o)Sep 27 2013: you are here to provide insight. i just have to goof around, and pretend i'm funny.Sep 27 2013: What a shame I dodn't post this debate for longer - it was just getting interesting!!
Thanks everyone for your lively contributions ;-)Sep 27 2013: Are you thinking, then, that companies should largely be finding other ways of financing their operations, as fewer people would be willing to invest in them by buying shares?
Sep 27 2013: No. This is clearly the way for companies to finance their operations, but as Wayne points out, only a small percentage of what is going on ever gets anywhere near the companies, My proposal is exactly to set the stock market back to its primary function and purpose of financing companies. And why would fewer people invest? It would still be the best way of getting a return.
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Sep 27 2013: The limit on how soon you can sell shifts more risk to the potential investor, which could be expected to influence his investment strategy away from the more risky investment toward the alternatives.Sep 26 2013: Why would you want to stop people making money, if you agree with a Capitalist economy?
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Sep 27 2013: Therefore, you believe that prostitution, heroin trade, methamphetamine, etc., should be legal, since outlawing these things prevents people from making money.
Sep 27 2013: The incentive is just the same, making money, they just happen to be of differing values on the moral scale.
I understand where you are coming from, making things a little better, no more than, maybe walking onto the battlefield with a box of plasters. It's not going to tackle the real problem, knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Sep 27 2013: Go talk to Cambodia and see what your kind of "solution" ended up doing. You want to simply make it illegal to turn a profit. China tried that. It failed. They backed off. Cambodia tried that, and the phrase "killing fields" was coined to describe what the Cambodian government did in the attempt to do so.Sep 27 2013: Cambodia under Pol Pot outlawed making money.Sep 27 2013: i, for one, believe that yes, all of the mentioned should be legal. but for different reason.Sep 27 2013: Bryan, prostitution is legal in many countries and it just happened not to be in most states of yours.
Heroin was officially traded as painkiller for many years and before its destructive character as well as its misuse was discovered. Other drugs, such as Marijuana, are legal in some countries as well.
Methamphetamine is in use for treating ADHD and also available in other medical products.
So for many of these services and products exist non-criminal and well accepted markets in which trade is done and money earned. But I think it is the 'misuse' of those you were referring to?Sep 27 2013: This thread is completely off track. I've got nothing against money or earning money. I just think that earning money should involve creating or providing something of value. I don't see what financial trading contributes to society that justified the amount of money that it 'earns'. Perhaps I am missing something here though. I'm open to suggestion if anyone can come up with a justification.


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[This essay, on the beginnings of the Jose Padilla case, originally appeared in the Hartford Courant on June 20, 2002. Over the next several days I will be republishing some op-eds and pieces I wrote in the first year after 9/11 on civil liberties issues.
"Five years later, Padilla is still in prison without ever having been convicted of any crime"
Since the second day after his transfer to military custody, his case has been in continuous litigation before the courts. So what is the point? That POWs should be released unless they are also criminals? That Padilla should have been given bail? That the US courts are intolerably slow?
"if reports are to believed, has become unhinged"
If reports are to believed, Padilla was a soldier in the armed forces associated with Al Qaeda who volunteered to come to the US and kill thousands of people. He was captured while on a mission to blow up apartment buildings. Abu Zubaida considered him the crazy American Al Qaeda who wanted to blow up a dirty bomb. So based on reports, he started out unhinged and has not improved during his imprisonment. The other Al Qaeda US operative was Zacarias Moussaui, and everyone agrees he was crazy long before the FBI arrested him.
Of course, you have to be a bit unhinged yourself to believe anything that the defense or prosecution says to the public about a case.
"If reports are to believed, Padilla was a soldier in the armed forces associated with Al Qaeda who volunteered to come to the US and kill thousands of people. He was captured while on a mission to blow up apartment buildings. Abu Zubaida considered him the crazy American Al Qaeda who wanted to blow up a dirty bomb. So based on reports, he started out unhinged and has not improved during his imprisonment. The other Al Qaeda US operative was Zacarias Moussaui, and everyone agrees he was crazy long before the FBI arrested him."
As you know the governement stopped arguing this. It didn't include one reference to this whole story in it's criminal prosecution.
You ask about the point? The point is the administration has not ruled out detaining Padilla again if he would be acquited. The administration's intent is not to try him, but to keep him. His 5 years in prison can be considered as one, for the administration does.
"It didn't include one reference to this whole story in it's criminal prosecution."
He is being prosecuted for activity prior to his enlistment in Al Qaeda. Obviously, something that happened later in a different country cannot be introduced to prove guilt of a crime. "He robbed a bank in Cleveland three years later, therefore he is more likely to be guilty of stealing a car in Detroit three years earlier." Just because the government is not introducing irrelevant and prejudicial evidence in the current case doesn't mean the facts have changed.
Since the second day after his transfer to military custody, his case has been in continuous litigation before the courts. So what is the point? That POWs should be released unless they are also criminals? That Padilla should have been given bail? That the US courts are intolerably slow?
This is as disingenuous as it gets. The case was in "continuous litigation" because the Administration refused to charge Padilla. He spent 5 f***ing years waiting to be charged with some crime, any crime. Then, the Administration charged him in a move so dishonest that Michael Luttig, one of the most conservative appellate judges on the bench, ripped the Administration a new one for its behavior.
And by the way, the issue here is NOT whether POWs should be released, it's whether Padilla is a POW.
He is being prosecuted for activity prior to his enlistment in Al Qaeda. Obviously, something that happened later in a different country cannot be introduced to prove guilt of a crime. "He robbed a bank in Cleveland three years later, therefore he is more likely to be guilty of stealing a car in Detroit three years earlier." Just because the government is not introducing irrelevant and prejudicial evidence in the current case doesn't mean the facts have changed.
Still disingenuous. The government has the power to charge him with the earlier behavior. It just didn't, thereby leaving us with little doubt that the earlier accusations are false or unprovable.
I agree that the Padilla situation is troublesome. I can care less what happens to non-citizens (argument for another time), but for Padilla, its a different story.
Yes, I'll say it's "troublesome." The Supreme Court has never set a precise number of days that due process permits someone may be held without charges, but surely the outside limit is no more than several days. Bush's treatment of Padilla constitutes a far worse crime than anything Padilla did (if Padilla committed any crime at all), and Bush ought to hope the next president does not subject him to the "justice" to which he has subjected Padilla.
I like humblelawstudent: unlike some others he is not afraid to have reservations about the intrusion on civil liberties. Others, like our friend Howard, just attack.
If Padilla hadn't sued, he'd still be in detention. If you recall, the only argument the administration has used all this time was that Padilla had no right to sue. So you can't use continuous litigation as a sign of civil rights.
Hamdan is set on a course like Padilla's after the DC court ruling, although so many parts of that appeal were unaddressed by the opinion issued, as if the judge sidestepped to let the titan congress revisit MCA if it has the will, while Hamdan's counsel ponders the likelihood of obtaining more explicit delineations from titan supreme court of subtopics Scotus mentioned only tersely last June, together with the vast flawed texture which Scotus might explore in MCA itself. I remain uncertain, this week, how complacent congress might attempt to remain in the aftermath of a senator's critical illness. I would expect Scotus to opine expansively, given the mood change in our societal milieu which has clarified since the government lost the Hamdan argument at the supreme court in summer.
"The question to be decided, however, is whether Jose Padilla is an enemy soldier."
It is not a crime to be an enemy soldier. A citizen who joins an enemy army might be guilty of treason, except that joining an enemy army strips you of citizenship, and a non-citizen cannot be a traitor. Enemy soldiers can be held without charge, so all the complaints that Padilla was held for 3.5 years in military custody "without charge" are redundant. POWs are always held without charge, unless they are war criminals. There has always been only one question, is Padilla an enemy soldier. If he is, then his detention was proper.
That is where the continuous litigation comes in. For the entire period the US courts argued how Padilla could challenge his detention. The last decision (which was not right just because it was last) was the 4th Circuit decision that he was an enemy combatant and was properly detained. Then he was released from military custody.
For the last year he has been held on a civilian criminal charge without bail. Well, if the defense motion is accepted, he may spend some time in a mental institution and still not be convicted. So next year we come back and argue he is six years in custody (military, civilian, mental) without trial or conviction. And all the blame will be put on the government, although it was his own council who originally filed in the wrong jurisdiction, then agreed to his transfer to civilian custody, and now moves to declare him unfit for trial.
If you are upset about the delay, blame the courts. Padilla has a right to challenge his detention. The government has a right to try and prove he was an enemy combatant (the military custody question) and that before he enlisted in Al Qaeda he supported terrorism (the criminal charges). The American judicial system was completely in charge of the schedule. If you think it takes too long to answer questions like that, blame the courts and the legal procedures.
Yes the government has argued some trash, and recently the defense has argued its own large pile of nonsense. Five years have been spent with each side arguing whatever is most advantageous. The government argues that he can't sue, and his lawyers argue that his detention was illegal even if he was Al Qaeda and planned to kill thousands of people (because of how he was captured).
You can't really blame anyone because that is how the game is played. Fox News may go on a rant because his lawyers want to release a terrorist, and this blog may go on a rant because the Government argued and lost some preliminary legal positions. That is all smoke and mirrors. We get back to the original question, "whether Jose Padilla is an enemy soldier". The answer after 5 years was tentatively yes (4th Circuit) but not definitively (no SCOTUS), and we don't care any more because there is a new criminal charge, only we can't answer that question either.
Howard Gilbert's post sets a new standard for dishonesty. Let's review the actual facts:
The government has, at every moment in time since Padilla's arrest, had the opportunity to charge Padilla with a crime. Instead of doing so, it spent 5 years refusing to charge him, while insisting (1) that he could be held indefinitely without charge as an enemy combatant, but (2) was not entitled to be treated as a POW. This was not a matter of "the courts" arguing about his status, this was a matter of the government's actions.
Then, after the 4th Circuit ruled that Padilla could be held indefinitely without charge, the government changed its mind and announced that it would charge him. The government did this for the obvious reason of preventing the Supreme Court from hearing Padilla's case -- the government argued that the issue raised was moot now moot. This staggeringly dishonest conduct infuriated even the 4th Circuit, where the court which had just ruled in its favor made it clear that the government's conduct was dishonest.
Then, the government proceeded to file charges which had nothing to do with the sensationalist claims made against Padilla in the press by the Attorney General (that Padilla planned to set off a "dirty bomb" in a US city). The indictment further made no mention whatsoever of Al Qaeda, which is pretty much essential if he is to be treated as an enemy combatant under the AUMF of September 12, 2001. Thus, the indictment undercut the entire basis of the government's insistence that it could hold Padilla indefinitely without charge.
In light of these facts, it is clear that:
1. The Administration is responsible for the delays, not Padilla and not the courts.
2. The Administration is NOT trying to prove that Padilla was an enemy combatant, even though that was the only possible basis to hold him without charge (and even that power is limited in ways unnecessary to treat here).
"The government did this for the obvious reason of preventing the Supreme Court from hearing Padilla's case"
The government had won its last case and had a very good argument. However, a US Attorney in Miami got an incitement against a group of people including Padilla. You advance in the DOJ by getting convictions, especially against well known defendants. Only they didn't actually have custody of the prisoner.
In our system, the DOJ was responsible for arguing in court that the military should be allowed to keep custody of a prisoner they now wanted released. They negotiated with Padilla's lawyers to transfer him to criminal court, then AG went to George and got him to sign an order releasing Padilla from military custody.
Was anyone allowed to argue against this decision? Did they even consult a JAG to ask how this should be done properly? There is no evidence they bothered, because Padilla was released without signing away his combatant immunity (from criminal prosecution for any future acts as long as the war lasts) which he now has both by Presidential declaration and by a decision of the 4th Circuit.
All I see here is bureaucratic incompetence. The DOJ maximized its own institutional advantage by proceeding with a high profile case. Padilla got to skip indefinite military confinement and go directly to a criminal trial that would have been waiting for him eventually anyway. All the American people got is an unstable terrorist who wants to kill thousands of people by blowing up buildings, and who, if found innocent or released, will be legally immune to civilian criminal prosecution from the point of his release until the end of the war.
You think that this was engineered to avoid a Supreme Court decision that the government might have won, and had they lost would simply have led to the current criminal case. It would have set a precedent, except that the only person on earth to which the precedent would have applied is al Marri, and his case may still go to SCOTUS. You give the government far too much credit by suggesting that they even thought this thing out. "Never attribute to conspiracy that which can be equally well explained by the gross incompetence of the Bush Administration."
Howard Gibert: "Never attribute to conspiracy that which can be equally well explained by the gross incompetence..."
...except where the players are spawn and co-conspirators of a former spy chief. Orwell has been writing our nation's script ever since we voted in that actor fella and his spook puppeteer.
The government had won its last case and had a very good argument.
No, it had surefire loser of an argument and was desperate to avoid the loss.
All I see here is bureaucratic incompetence.
The 4th Circuit saw it as dishonest and said so. So did everyone who's not just shilling for the Administration. It's not just the "switch in time", it's the nature of the charges finally brought (see my post above).
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Contraversial, but so true. I submit to you that over the past 8 years or so since the introduction of the illegal contact rule that defenses have been neutered to the point where it is much harder for a defensive player to make an impact on the game vs an offensive player that scores touchdowns.
There are two main reasons for this:
1. A deliberate decision by the NFL to tilt the rules towards facilitating a higher scoring games and more explosive passing plays.
2. The risk that the league is facing vs litigation from former players for Encephilitus and various head wounds and concussions risks that players face when they leave the game. Junior Seau's recent death hasn't helped matters, so these rule changes and calls to protect the NFL against litigation is only likely to increase in the future.
As a direct result of the above factors Defensive backs, linebackers, and Pass Rushers have all been effected to various degrees making them less effective than they used to be, and less important than players that score touchdowns.
-Illegal contact Rule. This has made it much easier for Receivers to get off the line of scrimmage, and much easier for the receiver to get separation and much harder to cover. Remember the old really good defenses like the old Patriots, Ravens, Steelers, etc.? Man, they used to be able to mug the receivers, and it was very likely that a good defense could stuff a really explosive passing attack because the receivers could be jammed past 5 yards, they could be crushed if they dared came over the middle, and the QBs would have to hold on to the ball longer giving the pass rush more time to get to the QB. It's not that way anymore at all. Even the very best defenses are fairly limited in their ability to truly shut down the best offenses in the league.
-Emphasis on Defenseless receiver rule and increased helmet to helmet calls with increased frequency and fine sizes has made defenses much more trepidatious with regards to how they hit receivers. The net result of this is that receivers no longer have a fear of going over the middle and are no longer intimidated, and there is an increase in personal foul penalties. Again, advantage offense.
-Pass interference is called far more frequently than it used to be. Advantage Offense.
-The horse collar tackle rule has resulted in more personal foul penalties and has effected the way players can be tackled from behind
-Roughing the passer. The NFL has put in tight controls to protect the quarterbacks which has resulted in an increased volume of roughing the passer penalties each of which is 15 yards a pop. In fact, some of the QBs have actually escaped from some potential sacks because some defensive players have been a bit more timid than they should have to be to hit these quarterbacks so they have been able to escape.
The only rule on the side of the defense that I can think of that has been introduced in the past few years to offset all of the above mentioned new rules is that now defenders can push a receiver out of bounds when he is in the air. That's not nearly enough to offset the massive advantage that all of the above rules have given the offense and the massive disadvantage that these same rules have bestowed upon the defense.
So what does it all mean? Primarily you need to build a team that takes advantages of these rules and has an explosive passing game that scores more touchdowns than field goals first, and then the second priority should be your defense simply because the rules are stacked against the impact that these players can have vs the players that can score touchdowns on the offensive side of the ball. Now before you tear me a new one and tell me I don't know what I'm talking about, you need to hear me out first.
You see, all the way from when Jimmy Johnson to Dave Wandstadt to Nick Saban, to Bill Parcells/Morono, the emphasis on this football team has been defense. It seems like all of these guys were defensive guys and they felt like if they built the defensive side of the ball first that they could have an offense that simply didn't make many mistakes but that didn't have to necessarily have to be explosive in the passing game they could win. In fact, offensively, the emphasis on offense was actually on the running game. Now I know that some of that was because we haven't had a franchise QB here since Marino, but also, I think that in JJ and Wandstadt's era, you could win by running the football and playing superior defense. That all started to change in 2004 with the introduction of the illegal contact rule, but we didn't change the way we built our football team to reflect that in the way we drafted or signed free agents. Parcells and Saban still had this philosophy for constructing a football team that in the NFL at least had become outdated and they didn't change their model it to take advantage of the new rules changes that were steadily introduced to tilt the balance of power towards the offense.
Let's examine 4 remaining playoff teams and some of the teams that they had to beat in the last round to advance. What do they all have in common?
Patriots - Tom Brady, Wes Welker, Aaron Hernandez, Rob Gronkowski (I know he's currently hurt, but he's still a weapon), Stevan Ridley, Shane Vereen, Danny Woodhead, Brandon Lloyd, Deon Branch.
Okay, so they may have one of the greatest QBs to ever have played the game. But count how many legitimate weapons that he has to throw to, or to run the football to take some pressure off and create balance. I count 8 really solid weapons that can attack every blade of grass on the football field. What defense can actually stop them in today's NFL? Easy answer. None. You have to have an offense that can keep up with them and hope you win the turnover battle which has as much to do with luck as skill, play a perfect game, but you have to score, score, and score. And I mean Touchdowns, not Field Goals.
What about their defense? Well, they added Aqib Talib at cornerback, and he has helped with their passing defense, they have Vince Willfork in the middle who is disruptive and a load in the run game, and they have a couple of nice pieces at linebacker. The biggest contribution these players made this year is really in the turnover battle, but again, that can't be counted on. Alot of that has to do with luck and who you are playing against, but if you can get turnovers on a consistent basis it will help you, but sometimes that's more bad decisions or lack of ball security by the other team than anything that your defense does, it just has to make the play when it has the opportunity. However, I think when you evaluate the Patriots as a team it is not a difficult conclusion to make that the main reason they are so dangerous is because of their offense, not their defense which is really just a complimentary piece, but they don't necessarily need to rely on it to win. Their defense can have a bad game, but it is still likely that they will win if their offense clicks like they usually do, but the same can't necessarily be said if things are the other way around.
San Francisco 49ers Offense -
Collin Kapernick, Michael Crabtree, Randy Moss, Frank Gore, Vernon Davis, and the best offensive line in football.
To be fair, Kapernick should count as two weapons considering the ability he has displayed in the running game, but they have two really good receivers in the slot and on the outside, Crabtree can go deep as well, they have one of the best tight ends in football to use along the seams and in the red zone, and they have one of the best backs in football who can run through the tackles and huge holes that their offensive line makes for him as well as in the flat out of the back field in the passing game. Not quite as many weapons as the patriots, but they can attack every blade of grass in the passing and running game, and they have an extra element of mobility and electricity with their young QB who I wanted us to draft by the way but that's another story.
Defense -
Look, they have one of the best defenses in football. They have Patrick Willis and Justin Smith, so they can get after the passer, defend the run pretty well and are generally considered a solid unit. Does anyone think that it would be unlikely that the Patriots or Falcons will score under 30 points because of this defense? I say, not bloody likely. Look how the goal posts have moved as to what our standards once were as to what a good defense could do. Remember when the Bucaneers held the greatest show on turf to like 13 points? Or remember those old Ravens defenses the early part of last decade? Those days are gone I tell you, defense has been emasculated, castrated, and neutered.
i'm going to skip the Atlanta Falcons and the Ravens because they are both pretty much similar.
Here's what all of these teams have in common: Franchise Quarterback, Multiple receiving threats in the slot, deep threats, stud tight end, stud running back(s) who can pound it and catch it out of the back field, and solid defenses that they don't necessarily rely on as much as their offenses to win games. Now, I'm not saying that a defense can't make plays that can help determine victory or defeat. Rahim Moore from the Broncos comes to mind. But, it never should've come down to that, but that's another story entirely.
What I am saying is that you cannot compete in the NFL against the very best teams without the following:
-Franchise QB, at Least two or three wide receivers - Possession, Slot, and deep threat, at least one Stud tight end to threaten the seams and be a true red zone threat, and at least one solid back, preferably two that can protect, run between the tackles and be a threat in the passing game and you need a decent but not necessarily great offensive line.
You don't need a great defense. You need a great offense, this a fact. Green Bay could've beaten San Francisco and they don't have a great defense. But with their Quarterback and the weapons he has they ALWAYS have a decent chance.
Therefore, if you believe what your powers of observation are telling you, then I say we need to prioritize with money and draft picks the things we don't have in free agency and the draft on offense first. I think we have a good QB prospect, but I'd draft another prospect because we probably can't afford to keep Matt Moore and he probably wants to start somewhere and you should always have a stable of young developmental QB prospects that you are developing.
So, all of the above factors are why this is what I think we should do this off season:
12th pick - The absolute only picks that make sense at this position are Tight end or receiver. The reason is, they are both the absolute biggest needs for us, and are critical for Tannehill's develoment and because at this position we can probably get the top prospect at each of those positions. This means if we go Tight End, either Zack Ertz, or Tyler Eifert, whichever one of those guys the scouts think are better. Or alternatively, let's get a receiver, Keenan Alan, Terrance Williams, Justin Hunter, or whomever the scouts rate as the best fit for our system.
Personally, I am kind of leaning towards the tight end unless we sign one in free agency just because a receiver will be easier to find in the second round.
2nd round picks - Receiver or tight end with one depending upon what we did with the first round pick, and a offensive tackle or guard with our second pick.
3rd round picks - Offensive tackle or guard and cornerback with the other pick
Free agency - Sign a WR like Jennings or Wallace, a guard like Andy Levitre if he's available, and Derek Cox from Jacksonville
Our own Free Agents - Sign Hartline, Starks, Bush, and Long if he is affordable, otherwise let him go. I would resign Sean Smith if the price is right, those are the critical signings.
Basically, our defense is good enough to win, it's our offense that sucks and needs to be heavily invested in, the game has changed and we need to adapt to take advantage of the way the rules are tilted towards the passing game in the modern nfl era.


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Ana is featured in the September issue of ACE Tennis Magazine, Britain's biggest-selling tennis magazine, which is published this week.
The exclusive four-page interview is headlined "Turning heads" and is written by former ACE editor Dominic Bliss, who describes Ana as "the tennis icon in waiting". It includes a beautiful layout with several stunning pictures by Stephan Schacher and Misha Obradovic. It also features a special diary written by Ana. To read it, click here .
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No, not easily but I'm quite sure you'd be able to it the same way as with Xyplorer: More details at the Xyplorer wiki.
Thanks Dirhael. I haven't invested in any explorer replacement yet... But I'll try this method (carefully...) with the one I'll choose, eventually!


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Union County Genealogical Society
Union County Genealogical Society met Nov. 26 at the library in Creston. Jane Briley presided. Officers elected for 2013 are Briley, president; Roger Nurnberg, vice president; Dorothy Eyberg, secretary; and Elaine Brown, treasurer.
Brown reported 50 copies of the newly-reprinted book, "Biographical and Historical Record of Ringgold and Union Counties, Iowa, 1887," were recently received and are available for purchase at the library. Eyberg reported obituary books of 2002 and 2010, containing obits from the Creston News Advertiser and Afton Star Enterprise, are now on the reference shelf.
Nurnberg reported on the pros and cons of offering PayPal. This was tabled.
Nine members answered roll call by telling of a "find" in their genealogical research this year.
Diane Ide showed a book that she recently compiled on one branch of her family tree.
Refreshments were shared by all.
There is no December meeting.
Officers will meet Dec. 27 for planning.
The next meeting is Jan. 28 at the library.
Crest Area for Life
Crest Area for Life met Nov. 27 at Holy Spirit hall. President Betty Baker opened the meeting with the right to life prayer. Eight members were in attendance.
Terry Madison read the secretary's report from October. It was approved.
Pat Pokorny read the treasurer's report, and it was approved.
Betty Baker sent out 11 congratulatory letters and one sympathy card.
Under old business, Terry Madison will contact Hanson directory about ads in the phone book.
Rich and Terry Madison gave a report on the open house Nov. 17 at LifeCare Pregnancy Center.
Under new business, members discussed the upcoming Memorial Service 2 p.m. Jan. 20 at the Catholic cemetery. Betty Baker will send out letters to pastors.
It was decided to send donations to the Christmas basket fund and LifeCare Pregnancy Center in Stuart.
The next meeting will be 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26 at Holy Spirit hall.
Rich Madison made a motion, seconded by Meg Crawford to adjourn. It was approved.
The Book Club
The Book Club met Dec. 3 at Pat Pokorny's with a soup, salad and dessert luncheon. Ten members were present with one guest, Marcia Hundley.
The secretary report was read and approved.
Roll call was answered with "your favorite Christmas memory."
There was a book exchange for Christmas.
The members shared Christmas literature.
There will be no January meeting. The next meeting will be Feb. 4. Barb Thomsen will be hostess and Carolyn Hubatka will have the program.
The weekly Kiwanis meeting was held 12:05 p.m. Tuesday at The Windrow with 22 members and three guests. Brad Lorenzen, president, presided. Karen Norton gave the prayer, and Mike Linch was finemaster.
The program was Annette and Rick Rice who told about their trip to Patagonia, South America, and presented a slide show of the nature, architecture and people.
TOPS 1338 met 5:30 p.m. Nov. 26 at First United Methodist Church. Seven members weighed in. Best loser of the week was Alice Brown and the runner-up was an anonymous member. The best loser for the month was Shellie Sullivan and runner-up was Marisue Lewis.
Squares was won by Lola Baucom and fines went to Anna Thompson.
The Red Can Challenge is to eat leafy green vegetables.
The meeting closed with the TOPS pledge.
TOPS 1338 met Monday at the Methodist Church with nine members answering roll call. Best loser for the week was Monica Belew, and Lola Baucom was runner-up.
Diana Loomis presided over the business meeting which opened with the TOPS pledge.
Minutes were read from the previous meeting by the secretary.
Squares was won by Baucom and fines went to the treasurery.
The Red Can Challenge is to "Smile all day tomorrow. It will make people wonder what you've been up to."
Jane King read a humorous article, "Dealing with Public Restrooms."
Carol Sheldahl is to have the program for next week.
The meeting adjourned with the rectitation of the TOPS closing pledge.
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Bancroft History Assembly
Bancroft History Assembly of Creston met Monday at the D.V. Richardson Room at Greater Regional Medical Center. Twelve regular members and four lifetime members were present. The meeting was called to order by Peg Anderson. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited.
The inspirational thought was from John Wooden, "You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."
Roll call was answered by naming one's favorite Christmas carol. The secretary's report for November was read by Marisue Lewis. The treasurer's report was given by Avis Hainline. Twenty-five dollars is to be given toward the Creston Christmas Basket project.
Beth Perry read an email encouraging the club to find new members. Kay Raymond and Joan Chubick reported on attending the scholarship dinner where Elizabeth Folts was the recipient of the Federated Clubs scholarship. A letter was read thanking the clubs for the help given to her.
Reading lists for 2012 were submitted by the members.
The guidelines for reporting volunteer hours was reread. It was voted to accept these.
As new business, Bancroft has chosen to invite the district director to attend a meeting later in the spring. Members brought paper products to be given to the Rural Iowa Crisis Center. It was decided to bring items for baby use for the January meeting. These will be given to RICC also.
Federation news encouraged members to support GFWC volunteer programs by buying from Amazon at www.GFWC.org. Fifteen percent of purchases will be directed toward the Federation. The business session adjourned with the recitation of the club collect.
Marilyn Ralls gave a report on the life of Betsy Ross. She is credited for sewing the first official flag of the United States.
The next meeting will be Jan. 21 with Ralls as hostess.


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Through a series of dramatic twists and turns, a Waldorf man has made himself into an advocate for the greater good.
Ellery Payton, a single father and Waldorf resident, adopted his son, Caleb, now 13, when he was just 2 weeks old. Shortly thereafter, Payton learned that he was suffering from issues with his kidney related to his high blood pressure. While his son was still an infant in March 2003, Payton underwent his first kidney transplant and began dialysis.
"I was on medication because my blood pressure was really, really high," Payton said. "The medication didn't work. I guess it was out of control."
Years later, he began to develop more complications, and had to undergo more dialysis. He received a second transplant last July. For the second round of dialysis, Payton opted for home treatment.
"I just didn't want it to have to affect my son," Payton said. "I wanted to still be involved."
Since the second transplant, things have gone relatively smoothly for Payton.
"After that, I live my life month to month. It's probably less stress on my body," Payton said. "I'm just making sure I can keep everything where it's supposed to be and keep myself healthy."
The financial hardships of his situation prompted Payton to apply for a grant from the American Kidney Fund for assistance with the cost of his health insurance premiums, and ultimately become a member of the organization's advocacy program. American Kidney Fund Senior Director of Communications Tenee Hawkins said that out of the 1,400 advocates nationwide, Payton's story made him a natural fit when he was selected to travel to Capitol Hill and speak to the importance of continued Medicare and Medicaid funding, along with increased awareness for kidney health.
"We had about 40 applicants to go to the Hill. Eleven were chosen, and 10 went," Hawkins said. "Ellery just had such an amazing story. Being a dialysis patient while trying to live as a single dad really stuck out to us. With the amazing initiative he took reaching out to us to tell his story and share his interest, we knew he would resonate."
Payton's trip took place earlier this month. That day, he met with staffers from the offices of U.S. Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D) and Sens. Barbara Mikulski (D) and Ben Cardin (D).
"I was able to share my story, and the basic point I was advocating was not having the Medicare cuts," Payton said. "I shared how this has personally affected me. ... I was firsthand the kind of person that needs this coverage, and I don't want to have to go through that process a third time."
To keep himself healthy, Payton said he currently takes 24 different medications each day.
"It's becoming an additional expense for me on top of everything else I have to do," Payton said. "Overall, I think [the staffers] were very interested in my story and what I had to tell them. They were very receptive."
Hawkins said the America nKidney Fund was pleased with Payton's work on the Hill.
"We plan on keeping him very involved," Hawkins said. "His story is so great, and he tells it so well."
Payton said that through it all, his son has been his driving force to stay healthy.
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June 14, 2011 (Minneapolis) -- Men with restless legs syndrome are at higher risk for developing erectile dysfunction than men without the disorder, a large new study shows.
The study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health, followed more than 11,000 men who were free of erectile dysfunction (ED), diabetes, and arthritis when they were enrolled in 2002. The average age of study participants was 64.
Symptoms of restless legs syndrome and erectile dysfunction were assessed using questionnaires.
Over six years of follow-up, about 2,000 men in the study developed ED.
Even after ruling out the effects of factors known to increase the risk of erectile dysfunction, like age, smoking, obesity, antidepressant medications, and snoring, researchers found that men who had at least five episodes of restless legs syndrome each month were about 50% more likely to develop ED than men who had no symptoms of the problem.
Men with more frequent symptoms were at even higher risk.
Men who experienced more than 14 episodes of restless legs syndrome each month had a 66% greater risk of developing ED than men without the condition.
The study was presented at the 2011 annual meeting of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society.
A Link to Low Dopamine Levels
Restless legs syndrome is a poorly understood neurological disorder that affects up to 15% of all adults. It is characterized by unpleasant sensations like pulling or creeping that often strike at night, when muscles are relaxed. These sensations typically compel sufferers to move to relieve their discomfort.
A previous study, published in 2010 by the same team, found a strong relationship between restless legs syndrome and ED in a large sample of older men.
But because that study just looked a snapshot in time, investigators couldn't be sure which problem came first, something that could hint at how they are related.
Study researcher Xiang Gao, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard University and an associate epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, says he thinks that low dopamine levels may be to blame for both conditions.
"Restless legs syndrome is a well-known dopamine-related disease," Gao says. "Dopamine is also important to maintain normal sexual function, erectile function."
What's more, restless legs syndrome and erectile dysfunction are more common in men with Parkinson's disease, which is caused by the death of dopamine-producing cells in the brain.
If further research confirms the findings, Gao says the studies may help doctors better screen men who might be at risk.
The research may also point to other kinds of treatment for ED.
Studies show that about 12% of the men who try medications for ED don't get enough help from these kinds of drugs.
"There are some small studies using dopamine agonists to treat Parkinson's disease and their ED improves," Gao says.
This study was presented at a medical conference. The findings should be considered preliminary because they have not yet undergone the "peer review" process, in which outside experts scrutinize the data prior to publication in a medical journal.