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Low Doses of Radiation Increase the Latency of Spontaneous Lymphomas and Spinal Osteosarcomas in Cancer-Prone, Radiation-Sensitive Trp53 Heterozygous Mice
R. E. J. Mitchel, J. S. Jackson, D. P. Morrison and S. M. Carlisle
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Mice heterozygous for Trp53 are radiation-sensitive and cancer-prone, spontaneously developing a variety of cancer types. Osteosarcomas in the spine lead to paralysis, while lymphomas lead rapidly to death, distinct events that provide objective measures of latency. The effects of a single low-dose (10 or 100 mGy), low-dose-rate (0.5 mGy/min) 60 Co γ irradiation on lymphoma or spinal osteosarcoma frequency and latency, defined as time of death or of onset of paralysis, respectively, were examined. Compared to spontaneous lymphomas or to spinal osteosarcomas leading to paralysis in unexposed mice, an exposure of 7-8-week-old $Trp\mathit{53}^{+/-}$ mice to 10 or 100 mGy had no significant effect on tumor frequency, indicating no effect on tumor initiation. All tumors are therefore assumed to be of spontaneous origin. However, a 10-mGy exposure reduced the risk of both lymphomas and spinal osteosarcomas by significantly increasing tumor latency, indicating that the main in vivo effect of a low-dose exposure is a reduction in the rate at which spontaneously initiated cells progress to malignancy. The effect of this adaptive response persisted for the entire life span of all the animals that developed these tumors. Exposure to 100 mGy delayed lymphoma latency longer than the 10-mGy exposure. However, the 100-mGy dose increased spinal osteosarcoma risk by decreasing overall latency compared to unexposed control mice. That result suggested that this higher dose was in a transition zone between reduced and increased risk, but that the dose at which the transition occurs varies with the tumor type.
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A Happy New Year from the GPs and menagerie. We've waved Ms GP off on her journey back across The Pond, Mstr GP is sleeping off last night's junketings and Mr GP is upstairs on his exercise bike. No stats or year reviews from me this year; I'm too busy trying to toilet train GP dog II, now a dead ringer for a Christmas angel after her beauty treatment the other day. Doesn't she look adorable! Do pop over to Archdruid Eileen's blog though - to see the weird and wonderful search terms which have brought bemused cyber travellers to the Moot House door. (Churches could do well to take note). I don't have such complex analytical packages myself; the only stats I'm able to access and which I won't be making public, having to do with tape measures, bathroom scales and post-menopausal pimples caused by overmuch festive chocolate chomping.
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Bobby Godsell, the chief executive of AngloGold, was in Australia earlier this month, trying to sew up his $1.6bn (£1.1bn) bid for the country's Normandy Mining.
The deal, announced in September, would see AngloGold, part of the giant Anglo American empire, break out of its South African base and pull well clear of rival Barrick as the world's biggest gold producer.
But AngloGold never managed to get the Normandy board on side. Just as Mr Godsell was trying to convince Normandy shareholders that their future lay with AngloGold's all-paper deal, Newmont, a US challenger, stepped forward with a better offer, which even included a cash element.
Robert Champion de Crespigny, Normandy's founder and chief executive, was not offered a large post-deal job by Anglo. Cynics suggested this led him to seek another offer. Sure enough, Newmont came in and its proposition offered Mr de Crespigny a seat on the merged company's board. Normandy declared Newmont's bid was worth more and offered a better fit.
Furthermore, Newmont had already got a big Normandy shareholder on board – Franco-Nevada, of Canada, which holds a 19.9 per cent stake. In a complex $8bn tie-up, Newmont was proposing to buy both Normandy and Franco-Nevada, which also came, helpfully, with a nice $700m cash pile.
AngloGold's nose has been distinctly put out of joint. Its offer was already considered a fairly full price by analysts and the company expected to have it in the bag by the end of this year.
Martin Potts, an analyst at Williams de Broe, said: "AngloGold have been outgunned and outsmarted. They look to be rather sore about it."
Whichever company succeeds, it would be the world's number one gold player. It is a defining moment in the history of the gold industry. The winner will have an annual output of more than 8 million ounces a year. Gold is still a relatively fragmented mining sector, with more than 200 operators. Analysts agree consolidation is needed at the top and the bottom of the industry.
For AngloGold, the deal would not only aid its diversification – many of its South African mines are high cost – but help it escape the political risk that comes with its home territory.
Hayden Bierstow, an analyst with Commerzbank, said: "AngloGold had always stated that it wants more non-South African assets.
"The falling value of the rand against the dollar meant that it is not feasible to buy in the US. So Australia is the next best thing and Normandy is the last of the good assets there."
The jewel in Normandy's crown is its 50 per cent stake in the Kalgoorlie Operations, 350 miles east of Perth, which includes the so-called Super Pit – Australia's largest gold mine.
Although Mr de Crespigny built Normandy into Australia's biggest gold miner, critics have suggested the Super Pit has not been exploited to its fullest potential. Management of this resource is expected to improve under either bidder.
Normandy has gone for Newmont's offer despite the fact that, as AngloGold protested, the subsequent fall in Newmont's share price meant the two offers were worth about the same.
AngloGold has now resorted to a series of legal moves, complaining to Australia's Takeover Panel, first about misleading statements in the Newmont documentation. Then, on Monday, in a strongly worded statement, AngloGold asked the Takeover Panel to rule the Newmont offer as contrary to Australian law. Its challenge included the charge that Newmont is treating Franco-Nevada shareholders on better terms than Normandy shareholders.
Newmont claims these are just stalling and blames these moves for the fact it has not been able to put its offer to Normandy shareholders formally.
But the differences between the two parties are much more fundamental. AngloGold and Newmont run their operations in very different ways. Whereas AngloGold takes out forward hedging positions on much of its production, Newmont and Franco-Nevada do not believe in this.
While hedging insures against falls in the gold price, it clearly limits the upside, making it a safer but much less exciting proposition.
Newmont has stated that, should it triumph in the bid battle, it will adopt the same policy at Normandy and unwind its hedge book.
Doug Hock, a spokesman for Newmont, said: "This deal offers investors a stark choice. The new Newmont will be highly leverage to the gold price. People who invest in gold believe in its long-term potential."
Newmont is betting that the gold price will rise appreciably – having been depressed for years – and running a bigger unhedged operator will help that process along. Forward hedging, in effect, increases the global supply of gold and so brings down the price.
Mr Potts said this made the Newmont deal more popular. He said: "Putting together one pro-hedge company [AngloGold] with another [Normandy] would not be good for unwinding the global hedge position.
"If Anglo wins it will be spectacularly large but also spectacularly boring. Hedging means that a company stops being a gold mining investment and instead becomes a yield investment."
Many expect AngloGold to now try to clinch the deal by raising its offer. An independent study has concluded that both bids undervalue Normandy.
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For those of you who are looking at scrogging for the first time like me, I found a nice and informative video on youtube that helps explain the process better than a written essay on the subject
For those of you who are looking at scrogging for the first time like me, I found a nice and informative video on youtube that helps explain the process better than a written essay on the subject
cannamancan (20-02-11), CockRoach (19-02-11), conman (04-04-11), Dam High (08-04-11), hunter thompson (07-09-11), KaneAir (20-03-11), smokie-dokie (19-02-11), swinekid (22-04-11), taylor (14-03-11), thedib (20-02-11)
Well there's 10 minutes I won't get back lol , he really doesn't like hovering over his plants with scissors does he lol , looks a mess at the start but start forming near the end , I'm on my iPhone so the pictures not big but did it look like a sativa that ge was scrogging? Dunno really what I'm talking about with scroggs but indica would be best would it not ?
If you grow/use medical marijuana you are a criminal , to be classed as a patient you need to buy drugs from the goverment. Cannamancan.
That's one of the worse videos I have seen on scrogging + he doesn't show alot of love when he handling his plant's.
Yeah it looks like Sativa, really thin branches and stem for being that size either that or he have done a piss poor job of growing an Indica hehe
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has given me more basic info than reading about it in the forums, if you seen a better vid then please post it fella i'd be most grateful
i dont get why people make it out to be some complicated process......shit grows through screen - pull it back under and spread it out - do this til screen is 70% full and then flip 12/12.
all the bits in between like underskirt trims /topping/fimming is all really just common sense and a lil bit of personal preference.
Why dont ya throw the vid in the screen of green team vid bit if it aint there already - tbh as a noob all you would gain from that vid is how to pull back under - which is just common sense and not hard to understand at all from the guides and advice given on thct.
J420 you think hes rough lol youd have kittens at a tucking session at mine lol
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never said it was a complicated subject or anything just haven't done it so i dont know, but seeing someone do it like in the vid i linked too has shown me the basics and has covered any questions I had before ,links cannamancan has put are basically just video diaries of ppls scroggs, and are in no way informative, might as well just be pictures!!! If you gonna say its a crap video and there are better ones out there then please post em for us scroggin noobs.
i never said you said it was complicated subject! lol
theres a few vids in the screen of green team group anyway - ive never watched em cos it made sense to me when i read up about it.
you must just be thick skunky lol
cannamancan (20-02-11), skunkmunky (19-02-11)
yeh appears this vid is in the scrog team section anyway, I read up on loads of different things but i don't always sponge up information so in that sense yeh i must be pretty fuckin retarded, I saw that vid an it showed me what to do and I posted thinkin it'd be helpful to others, sry my bad ^^
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ahh dont get all "excuse me for speaking" now lol the vids valid and we thank you for sharing.
someone give him a badge quick! lol
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can it be a blue peter one?
cannamancan (20-02-11), CockRoach (19-02-11)
i rckon if you follow i guides too closely you miss out on finding the best way for YOU,i defo don't do my scrog the way that guy does,he doesn't fasten it to the screen in the pukka light zone ,hence he has one stretchy assed plant,defeating the point of scrogging in the first place lol.
cannamancan (20-02-11), CockRoach (14-03-11)
and what he said about not threading the branches in and out....? I do that and my plants are hench lol.
Current grow. Trifle f3 in converted refrigerator.
cockroach, i seen this video on screen of green discussion group.
J420, indeed he is handling plant very brutally, i'm too very gentle with plants, but i have seen when people just bend their plants in 90 angle at the bottom (almost snapping them) and they grow like mad.. some call it "training"
CockRoach (20-02-11)
Yeah I'm not totally lost, I do know a thing or two about it, also called super cropping etc which I have had to do a few times before because the plants grew to big for my space but that's a whole different thing to what he is doing in my eyes, he risk at snapping the whole top off by doing what he does and also scraping up the stem perticularly with a thin stemmed branch like that, its not even thicker then a toothpick.
Super cropping doesn't damage the plant/stem per se you just soften it up and then bend it, there is no risk of the plant dying or getting permanent damaged, not like him that seem to bitch slap it like it was some out of control street hooker.
no i sold them all to pay for cannamans crack debts.
you mean the one skunky posted? youve seen it b4 in the almighty and all powerful screen of green group? (should be called "screen of green army" now its so phat lol) oh please say its so!!! cos that would make him and this thread even more pants lol
top banana.!!!
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oh.. i messed up things, i thought you mean spliffy, just written wrong (skunky) but actually i mixed-up them..
so yes, it was posted in screen of green team video vault by spliffy.
i should have read this thread more carefully, because what i wanted to say was already said..
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Ahhhh, dear readers, be glad I did not say 77 New Things for My 77th Year.
Hummmmm, but that might be next.
For now.....
1. I'm writing my first post from my iPad. Had it for 8 months; just now courage to finger type.
2. Tonight, I made a mason-jar piggy bank for First Daughter. Had to re-work it so that quarters would fit, but got it done.
3. For this new year, I am swearing off watching "Friends" to go back to Frazier. I need a breather from Monica. Watching the younger version of myself is finally too much. Of course, Monica DOES know the easiest, fastest, best way to do just about everything. Hey, I said MONICA, not LIZ.
4. Began today giving thanks for the brand new What-a-Burger coming to Fritztown. Instead of just complaining that is is in my front yard instead of my neighbor's.
5. When I heard the weather report on the 6 pm news, I made a last-minute run to WalMart. Usually, I just do without.
6. Decided to forego instant gratification of NOT rushing out in exchange for the luxury to stay at home during the next 3 days of predicted bone chilling weather.
7. I felt a sudden and deep sense of sadness as I drove our familiar neighborhood and found so many houses dark. Christmas virtually disappeared in one day. The day before Epiphany. Sad.
8. Decided firmly, on that grocery run, to leave our Christmas lights glowing and our Nativity lit at least another week.
9. I will even vote to keep our single strand of multi-color Christmas lights shining below the white year-round ones on our gate for, oh, another month!
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11. Next week I will buy ALL the birthday & anniversary cards and file them according to date due for all our kids, grands, and greats for 2014.
12. Better make a separate entry to actually MAIL, in time for timely delivery, all the cards in #11.
13. Even I won't make promises to adhere to a reasonable bedtime.
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And, since I promised ONLY 14, I'll just end with the promise I claim at the beginning of most of my mornings. If it speaks to you, too, it is found at Isaiah 40:29-31.
Do you not know, Liz?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding not even you, Liz, can fathom.
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You, Liz, will walk and not be faint.
He keeps his promises, sweet friends.
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I've saved a chair for you to join me as we pray and praise around the house and through the seasons.
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You can comfortably watch TV on this netbook, but we're still trying to figure out why you would want to. We can only surmise that it's a useful feature to have on hand if you want to record programs directly onto the netbook and then watch them while you're on the road. The MSI Wind U123T has a 160GB hard drive for this purpose and if you play back recorded shows while on the road its 3-cell battery will last for 1hr 43min (you might want to consider getting the optional 6-cell battery for when you travel).
The MSI Wind U123T weighs 1.1kg and measures 26.2x17.8x3cm (WxDxH), so it's very easy to carry. Its 10in screen has a native resolution of 1024x576 pixels (which means standard-definition shows will fit perfectly) and it has an LED backlight. Its horizontal viewing angles are adequate, but like almost all netbooks we've seen its vertical viewing angles are narrow; colours are rich and the screen is bright enough for viewing videos even while outdoors in shaded areas (but not in direct sunlight).
At the top of the screen sits a webcam that can be used to log you in to the system via face recognition. This is done through MSI's Easy Face Manager software (we had to download it from MSI's Web site). All you have to do is run Easy Face Manager, let it take 16 photos of your face, enter a password, and then enable 'Login System Status'. With the difficulty slider in the middle, face detection worked almost too quickly; log-in commenced just as the registered face entered the camera frame. When we made it difficult (by moving the slider to the left), the result was much the same. The webcam has a resolution of 1.3 megapixels; the pictures are clear and frame rates are smooth.
Even though the MSI Wind U123T is small, it isn't particularly uncomfortable to type on. Despite its keys being only 16.5mm wide, touch-typing is easy; the only problem is that the comma, period and slash keys are only 12mm wide, which can lead to a lot of typos. You don't get any fancy shortcut keys for launching applications, nor any manual switches for the WiFi and Bluetooth modules. If you want to disable the wireless radios, you have to use the Fn key along with its corresponding function key (F11 in this case); the webcam and touchpad can be disabled, too. The volume level has to be adjusted in a similar manner (using F7 and F8).
The touchpad is 5.5x4cm and responsive, but its buttons are a little hard to press; this might be something to do with our unit being a preproduction model.
We like the fact that the MSI Wind U123T has an 802.11n wireless adapter (Atheros AR928X). We were able to log on to our wireless network at the full rate of 300 megabits per second.
With its 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, integrated Intel GMA 945 graphics, 2GB of DDR2 SDRAM and a 5400rpm hard drive, the MSI Wind U123T won't break any speed records. It recorded a time of 8min 16sec in our iTunes MP3 encoding test (where we convert 53min worth of WAV files to 192Kbps MP3s), which is a little slower than the MSI Wind U120 (7min 58sec); it was on par with the Wind U120 in the hard drive test, where it recorded 20.78 megabytes per second. It has a 2.5in hard drive, but it's not easy to replace — you have to remove the keyboard first. You also need to remove the keyboard to access the DDR2 memory slot.
During prolonged usage the MSI Wind U123T doesn't get overly warm, so you can use it on your lap without feeling uncomfortable. However it is a top-heavy unit, so if you have the screen tilted all the way back the base will lift up and the whole unit may tip backwards. Its balance is still better than the MSI Wind U100's.
The MSI Wind U123T is almost identical to the U120, except that it has slightly lower resolution screen and it weighs 200g less. The addition of a digital TV tuner allows you to record programs directly onto the netbook and watch them on the road — making it the ideal netbook for the TV junkie who wants to maximise viewing time while travelling to and from work.
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Reflection: Conferencing Using Games to practice multi-digit multiplication - Section 2: Concept Development
As seen in my reflection video, this was a great opportunity for me to observe students strategies and thinking. For those students that have misconceptions, this lesson allowed for individualized attention, which can be challenging. Students were very engaged in this lesson and motivated to play, which in turn meant they were practicing a skill that is important to master to proficiency. Students were also able to use Math Practice Standard 3 in communicating their ideas and engaging in active mathematical discourse. Many students were explaining and discussing their thinking processes aloud which.
Using Games to practice multi-digit multiplication
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Objective: SWBAT demonstrate an understanding of place value for multi-digit whole numbers and an understanding of solving multi-digit multiplication problems.
Warm Up
I start this warm up by writing 24 on the board. I ask students to list all the factors of 24. This is a skill required by CCSS 4.OA.B.4. This will be a skill I revisit in future lessons to ensure my students are solid in identifying factors. Based on previous lessons and warm ups, many students need organizational methods to ensure they've found all factors. Once most students are finished, I model one organization method of starting with 1 and 24 and then moving to 2 and 12, and then to 3 etc, and proceeding until you get two numbers that are very close or next to each other on a number line, like 4 and 6. 5 is the only number between them, and 5 is not a factor of 24.
Concept Development
Students work to refine their understanding of CCSS 4.NBT.5 through a multiplication game in this lesson. Some students work to finish an assessment from a previous lesson before they begin playing.
I start this lesson by reviewing an example of 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication. Students then play a game I call Largest Product Wins!
I explain that I have placed 9 cards numbered 1-9 in a pile. (I use regular playing cards for this lesson) I model how to play the game by playing against a student. I draw lines on a personal whiteboard for two double digit factors. I record the numbers in the spaces as I draw a card for each digit. I tell students they may NOT wait until they have drawn all 4 numbers to place them into the double digit factors. When modeling the game, I do not explain my reasoning but rather allow the time for students to figure strategies out.
To Play:
Draw one card at a time with the intentions of trying to make the largest product possible. (Example: if a student draws a 9 on the very first pull, students would recognize they should place it in the tens place of a factor, the next number drawn is a 7, students might use logical thinking to place this number in the other tens place of the other factor (the likelihood of drawing an 8 is small if compared to drawing another number (0-6). This is one way students work on Math Practice Standards 7 and 8 as they look for patterns in number and place value to make the largest product)
This is a sample of what students draw on their whiteboards with their card pile at top.
During play I circulate the room to monitor students understanding. I use these kinds of questions to guide students thinking.
How does knowing how to set up a multiplication problem help you solve them?
Why is it important to know place value when solving multi-digit problems?
Where would you place your largest number? Why?
Where would you place the third largest number? Why?
Why does this arrangement of the numbers make the largest product?
What patterns in the placement of the digits in the factors do you see happening? Why does this work?
What strategies are you using? Why?
How can you tell what your outcome will be?
What number am I most likely to draw next?
As I circulate the room, I also make sure to connect with students who did not score proficient or advanced on the multiplication assessment from a previous lesson. In order to best meet their needs, I need to understand where they are making mistakes in order to re-direct and re-teach efficiently.
A great value in playing games, is to encourage students to develop strategies for winning. The strategies of placing the largest two digits in the largest place value spot and the third largest digit in the ones place with the smallest ten really requires students to think about the nature of multiplication. I try to use questioning to guide them to discover this rather than telling them and allow them to prove their thinking while encouraging them to develop strategies.
Students play with an assigned partner for most of the class period. I assign mixed ability student partner groups. I want to encourage students to learn from each other and question each other's strategies, therefore, mixed ability groups is the best pairing for this lesson. This is also an excellent way students work on Math Practice Standard 3 and communicate their mathematical ideas.
This video shows a student's thinking about where to place numbers. You can hear the types of questions I ask this student in order to progress student thinking. At one point, I ask this student how many numbers are higher than 5, and she responds with 3. I don't correct her at this point, because then I ask her how many numbers are lower than five, and she responds with 4 and very puzzled look. Later, I did go back to this student and ask her again how many numbers are higher than 5, that she could draw, and she did say 4.
Student Debrief
I led a brief class discussion by asking some of these questions. I don't expect that all students will have answers to all of these questions at this point since this was the first time playing this game. I will use this game again in future lessons as time allows.
How does knowing how to set up a multiplication problem help you solve them?
Why is it important to know place value when solving multi-digit problems?
Where would you place your largest number? Why?
Where would you place the third largest number? Why?
Why does this arrangement of the numbers make the largest product?
What patterns in the placement of the digits in the factors do you see happening? Why does this work?
What strategies are you using? Why?
How can you tell what your outcome will be?
What number am I most likely to pull out of the bag next?
Note: I had some students communicate to me that they knew the third largest number would go with the smallest ten because the smallest ten needs to "get bigger". (students words)
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Authorities scared the bejeezus out of L.A. with an emergency alert that went to iPhone users in the area this afternoon. L.A. County Monterey Park fire officials took credit for the blast., even though it was credited to "Monterey Park."
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The sheriff's department is also headquartered in Monterey Park.
[Added at 2:55 p.m.]: An Android user reached out to tell us she got the alert too.
[Update at 3:21 p.m.]: The sheriff's department now says it was the Monterey Park Fire Department that sent out the alert.
In a tweet to the Weekly and other outlets Capt. Mike Parker stated, "'Cell phone alert test was from Monterey Park Fire Dept."
Pena added:
We're trying to figure out how they got it out through our system.
A Monterey Park F.D. official told us it was part of the the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) and was sent out "per instruction from FEMA."
[Added at 3:49 p.m.]: Monterey Park fire officials apologized via Twitter this afternoon:
The Monterey Park Emergency Operations Center would like to apologize for Any inconvenience or cause for alarm during today's test.
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Disregard the EOC alert sent out earlier ... No alert no emergency.
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2nd December 2005, 10:08 PM | #21 |
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Hi Bazukaz,
what do you expect to improve by this kind of feedback loop ? capaciti |
3rd December 2005, 06:28 PM | #22 |
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I think it could decrease distortion , caused by transformer.
however , now i think that transformer changes phase and this type of feedback would not work correctly ... Am i correct ? Today i have built my first ESL speaker. It is 0.25x1 m in size , 1.5 mm spaces between stators and diapraghm. Diapraghm is made from cooking bags(~12 micron thick) , coated with graphite and cleaned with alcohol. Stators are stell sheets ( 1mm thick , 5mm holes , 62% open area). Output transformers are taken from old tube amp. Resonant frequency is somewhere around 50 hz. It sounds normal , but worse than my dynamic speaker system that i built few years ago.I am still not sure what is causing problems - transformers or speaker itself. |
4th December 2005, 10:28 AM | #23 |
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i think it wouldn't decrease dissortion of the stepup, since the dissortions of an appropriate stepup are about 10 times lower than those of the panel. Let me comment on your panel: 1. Your resonance is too deep if you are looking for an efficient panel. the compliance is such low, that a high voltage of about 800-1000 Volts only will pull the membran to the stator. If you can open your panel without destruction try to further support your membran by adding silicone dots distributed over its area. Lay the stator with the membran towards an even plane and squezze silicone trough the stator openings. Place the dots on the centerline (bottom to top) in distance of about 4" to each other. 2.The wholes of the stator are too wide (5mm). They should be about 2mm max. for a 1,5mm spacing, but thats just a minor improvement. 3. I guess you didn't rub the graphite really strong into the mebran and thus removed signicant portion by cleaning with alcohol. 4. tube amp stepups typically have a turn ratio of 1:40 to 1:50. Your panel could be driven up to 1:80 without compproomising high frequency response. 5. If your power supply isn't able to pull the membran to the stator it might not deliver the voltage required for full loading. if you added the supports mentioned above your panel should be stable up to 2000 Volts. 6. Your actuual frequence response should look as follows: Heavy peak at resonance (50 Hz) large dip between 60 and 250 Hz (phase cancellation) and 3db/octave level increase aboove 250 Hz. The last can be optimized by connecting a parallel network of capacitor and resistor to compensate for the increase. You need to figure it out or better to measure capaciti |
4th December 2005, 01:41 PM | #24 | |
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I want to offset the spacers so they are not in contact with the steel stators to reduce arcing & capacitance. The problem: How to get the center supports to be the same thickness as outside spacers in a single panel design. ( now solved!)... If starting fresh would silicon dots on one stator still be ok? Lucius |
4th December 2005, 09:41 PM | #25 |
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Thanks for help. I have completely rebuilt my ESL. now it consists of 4 cells(10x45 cm each). Gap between spacers and diapraghm is ~0.75 mm. The sound is much better now as well as sensitivity. Lukas. |
10th January 2006, 08:39 PM | #26 |
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I have measured THD+N of a mains toroid trannie(250W,220/12v). Don't know if the results are accurate, i used integrated sound card. If they are , i think it is very good for a mains transformer. It shows 0.1 % THD at 1 khz and 0.06 % at 5 khz . Lowest useable frequency seems to be 100 hz. I used ~20 V input voltage. Lukas |
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Guys, this is an email I got today from a friedn of mine called Roberto Alonso. He is a Cuban imigrant here in Venezuela, he is an activist in saving my country from the Fidel Castro regime. I just want you to read this mail he sent me. MM ____ Please, Mr. Alonso: Remove my from you e-mail list. _I do not even speak Spanish._ I do not know why I got on your VIP list, since I dont even know where your country is._ Do not care about Chavez or anyone else._ The only thing I care is go fishing on week-ends, so please take me off your list._ NO SE HABLA ESPANOL, GRACIAS SENOR. Tim Glode Dear Tim, Nice to receive letter from a fellow American so far away from my country, Venezuela._ I can very much understand why you dont know where in the hell Venezuela is, since when I left Cuba, many years ago in 1961 you people asked me if I went to the US by car, not knowing Cuba is a dammed island and there is no bridge between the two countries, reason why I am not a bit surprised you have no idea where in this world Venezuela is._ For all you could care this country could be a little bit below Zimbabwe._ What gets me, however, is that we Venezuelans jump in our streets, hit pans and blow whistles for the citizens of the world to know what is going on down here and out there they dont even know where in the coo-coo we are located and what is worst, they dont care._ We are even waiting like boom-heads for a revocatory referendum so that the international community can invade Venezuela when they see we wont have any and maybe that day (Sunday February 29th, 2004) the rest of the universe will be fishing with you. On the other hand, I congratulate you for only caring about fishing on week-ends, however, I suggest you to take a Spanish or Arab book while you are out there, relaxing on your boat waiting for a fish to bite, just in case you will need to know either one of these two foreign languages or even both._ If you people keep on paying attention ONLY to your fishing and not to what in the hell is going on in this God dammed world, you would probably end up ruled by a crazy son-of-a-bitch name Chavez, Castro, Marulanda (Sharp-shot) or Lula, if not by some nut-head named Abdul Azaharaim ****istan, or some ****. I really dont know how in this world you got into my VIP list, maybe you are a CIA infiltrated of some sort, but I will erase you off right away, dont worry._ Keep my e-mail address in case you want to practice your Spanish in the future, if I am still around._ If there is another American out there, reading this note to my friend Tim, do not hesitate to ask me to unsubscribe you too, unless you want to know what is going on in the country from where you Americans get the gasoline you need to go fishing. Yours truly, Caracas (this is our capital city) 07 de octubre de 2003 ROBERT ALONSO
i wouldnt want that email anyways. its not his problem he likes fishing and doesnt care about he has to say. iJon
Re: Dear Tim I'm not sure what the problem is. People can care or not care about what they choose. I'm sure Mr. Alonso has issues that he feels is important... but not everyone should be expected to. Should we judge them for it? arn
Sure, Tim is an easy target. Doesn't care about much. But, why should your friend rip into him for wanting to get off a e-mail list? When I see a reply like that, I think, "There is someone that thinks the problem they care so deeply about is the biggest problem in the world, and everyone in the world should pay attention." When in reality, the situation in Venezuela is a mess, but in terms of the world, it is average, or even better than average. The whole continent of Africa, between AIDS and people getting their legs hacked off and 12 year olds fighting wars, is more of a mess. Far more. Your friend should be subscribing to e-mail lists about what is going on there. The world needs people with passion, but your friend is better off using that energy for what he cares about and not for venting his frustration on some schlub that just wants to go fishing. Sorry.
so wait, you mean to tell me that there isn't a bridge from cuba to the US? not even to the keys? man... so much for my spring break road trip...
Maybe you should be telling your friend, Sr. Alonzo to see a psychiatrist, since that seems to be your pattern lately. He should be focused on his cause instead of sending useless e-mails to people who don't care.
That is the point, what about september 11th? many people ask, why this thing is hapening to us? What we are having in Venezuela is the new wave of comunism + terrorism. In the US doesn't mater if people are dying from Aids in Africa, specially when it was a disease that came from the US. But, if I tell you that Alcaeda is training troops in Venezuela and we are developing chemical weapons under the supervision of Fidel Castro and we are just 2 hours away from Miami? And it is not only Venezuela, it is happening in Brazil, everything supervized by Fidel Castro. You may say, then we are gonna send the troops. I may tell you, how the US troops are going to succed in a jungle environment if they are not succeding in a flat desert? where is Osama Bin Laden after all? We have been protesting for 2 years now, warning the worlrd what is hapening here but the Venezuelan president has oil and he is buying the US government. Just think waht you would feel if you will have to leave the US because the country is getting communist and you have a dictatorship. Imagine having Don King as a president. What would you be writting if you get to another country and the same thing happend again. The problem is not if the guy was in the wrong mailing list, the problem was his comentary about "I just do not care because I have to go fishing". When you teaste so arrogance like that is hard to say "is not fair about September 11th attacks". Actually, meny people say it was horrible but they were looking for it. This is not about Venezuela, it is about the entire continent.
Woah, woah... let's get the facts straight here. It is well known that AIDS comes from Africa, primarily the primates in West Central Africa. I would suggest you read this article. I would also suggest you stop reading those conspiracy sites. Flat desert? Eastern Afghanistan is anything but a flat desert. There are some very high mountain ranges there. You claim we're ignorant, fine... but making comments like the above just show the ignorance of others. Everyone complains when the US interfers, and then when we don't they complain that we don't. We can only do so much.
don't worry. he is always talking about venezuela and how bad it is. it's been goin on for a while. Some people care, some people don't. but personally, im with the fisherman. iJon
If Al Qaida was working on biological weapons and attacked Miami, or Orlando for that matter, would I care? No. (Guess where I live.) Our president will probably end up killing us all before anyone else gets a chance.
with all this scary talk going on, now i wish i lived in california. they have the terminator to protect them, i feel so insecure in my state now iJon
See... but where does it end? Why are you even posting on this forum? Why aren't you out doing what you can right now? arn
Hmm... I don't use gasoline in my car and I don't have a boat. As a matter of fact I pedalled to work today. I plan on building a boat for next summer but it'll be a currach with oars, so no gasoline there either. Oh, and I don't like our oil tycoon president and won't vote for him in the next election. I know where Venezuela is, I know a little about its history and feel bad about all the strife there recently. I know where Cuba is and know its history too. I sympathise because I'm afraid our leader is as fascist as yours is communist. Am I allowed to stop feeling guilty now?


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Mining output contracted in March while unemployment rose in the first quarter, reports showed last week. The National Union of Mineworkers said on May 10 it's prepared to strike against job cuts by Anglo American Platinum Ltd. While labor unrest and rising unemployment are not new from a ratings perspective, recent economic data illustrate why South Africa's outlook was affirmed in October, Konrad Reuss, head of the company's sub-Saharan African unit, said on May 10. S&P cut the nation's rating one level to BBB in October.
"On this fiscal side the outlook is still biased for deterioration due to slower-than-expected growth and, as a result, a potential rating downgrade," Carmen Nel, a Cape Town-based analyst at Rand Merchant Bank, said in e-mailed comments. "Unemployment, labor unrest and slowing growth support the negative outlook on the South African sovereign credit rating."
The rand depreciated 0.3 percent to 9.1473 per dollar at 5:29 p.m. in Johannesburg. Yields on benchmark 10.5 percent bonds due December 2026 rose two basis points, or 0.02 percentage point, to 6.7 percent. The yield has climbed 10 basis points since reaching a record low on May 9.
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Retail sales growth slowed to 2.4 percent in the year through March from 3.8 percent the previous month, a report may show on May 15, according to the median estimate of 15 economists in a Bloomberg survey. Mining output contracted 3.5 percent in March, while manufacturing declined 2.2 percent, reports showed on May 9.
Unemployment rose to 25.1 percent in the three months through March from 24.9 percent in the previous quarter. The budget deficit widened to 15.5 billion rand ($1.7 billion) in March from 9.65 billion rand a month earlier, according to figures released on April 30.
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