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Anyware Instruments Tinysizer
The Tinysizer by Anyware Instruments is probably one of the smallest modular syntheiszers in the world. It can be placed upright like a PC monitor with the integrated stand. 340 (!) patchpoints are integrated in the form of high-quality multipoint connectors which are patched by jump wires. 30 of those "micro patchcords" are included, further ones can be purchased in local electronic shops.Detailsformer retail price €1,084.03 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Audio Damage - Boomtschak
Boomtschak - one of the most powerful entirely analog drum voices in Eurorack. As sound sources it uses an oscillator with waveshaper, a filtered noise or the mix of both. Not less than three flexible envelope generators are included, for pitch bending and the amplifiers. The resonant multi-mode filter can be fed with external audio signals instead the noise generator. The module's frequency range is huge, thus allowing for using it as a synthesizer voice.Detailsformer retail price €478.15 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Audio Damage - Dimensions
This digital module is specialized in one effect only: thick, juicy and fantastic chorus, thanks to automatic routing ieven in true stereo. It offers internal modulation, feedback and has two different chorus modes whose slightly different sound you might already know from the Audio Damage plug-ins Fluid and Dimensions.Details
The module's DSP works with proper 24Bit and 48kHz and also the mechanical quality is rock-solid.former retail price €276.47 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Audio Damage - DubJr Mk2
Dub Junior's Mk2 version also is based in the delay algorithms used in the Audio Damage Plug In Dubstation and the old DubJr module but it has been clearly enhanced and improved regarding as well the features as the mechanical quality. It is a delay module with clock synchronization and tap-tempo, 24Bit/48kHz quality, two modes, two timpbres and external feedback loop. A worthy successor to the best-selling, venerable DubJr.Detailsformer retail price €276.47 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Audio Damage - Proton
Although the Proton makes for a pretty nice delay its main focus of attention is a type of physical modeling called Karplus-Strong synthesis. It creates percussive sounds which resemple a plucked nylon strong but Proton is able to twist them in a strong way by filtering and by adding noise impulses.Detailsformer retail price €335.29 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Audio Damage - Shapes
Besides true stereo wave shaping the digital Shapes module offers the possiblity to scan one of 16 interpolated wavetables using audio and CV inputs. To do this you can induct any input signal, from a sine oscillator to an entire stereo sum, whereupon the grade of erosion or destruction rises with the complexity of the audio material.Detailsformer retail price €276.47 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Brandon Smith´s Piston Honda ROMs
Brandon Smith's set of 4 EPROMS with sound banks for the Piston Honda.Details
You can exchange the pre-installed ROM chips with other ones to get new sounds and wavetables. To install all four Eeproms simultaneously you need a Harvestman ROM expander for the Piston Honda which will give you the possiblitly to have six eeproms installed in your module.former retail price €33.61 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Cwejman MMF-1 multi-mode filter
The MMF-1 is one of Cwejman´s best developments. It is a very clean and precise multimode filter partly featuring new filter types like a dual bandpass mode with adjustable spacing of filter peaks and also other filter types.Detailsformer retail price €442.86 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Cwejman RM-2S Stereo-Ringmodulator
Module is not in production anymore
High-end stereo ring modulator with integrated phase shifted carrier oscillators. You can use it as a stereo device or as two mono ring modulators.Detailsformer retail price €377.31 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Cwejman S1 Rackmount EarsSpare 19" rack ears for your Cwejman S1Mk2 synth. In case you painted, drilled or lost your original ones. Detailsformer retail price €31.93 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Cylonix Cyclebox
New Cycleboxes will be abvailable early May 2012!
The Cyclebox by Cylonix is a digital wavetable VCO. To be exact it is a dual oscillator with additional sub-oscillator and an extreme frequency range off 22 octaves (!). Besides that there are quadrature outputs, voltage controllable wavesahping and much more. Milions of sounds in one module!Detailsformer retail price €462.19 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Cylonix Cyclebox v2 Expander by Intellijel
This small expander module for the Cyclebox V2 by Cylonix is manufactured by Intellijel and gives you direct access to some hidden extra functions integrated in the Cyclebox V2. Eight switches allow you for activating different modes like the LFO mode or Mega-Mode-Spread etc.Detailsformer retail price €67.23 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Elektron Analog Four
Not in our portfolio anymore
The name already indicates it: the Analog Four by Elekron continas four independent monophonic synthesizers in one unit. Besides the entirely analog voice circuitry with two oscillators and two filters per synth and plenty of modulation possibilities the Analog Four has FX and also a step sequencer that can output CV/gate signals as well.Detailsformer retail price €1,041.18 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Kilpatrick Audio K1600 Midi/CV Interface
Kilpatrick´s K1600 is a duophonic MIDI/CV converter module. It converts your MIDI signals into control voltages, gates, triggers, gatesDetailsformer retail price €369.75 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Kilpatrick Audio K2579 sequencer
The K2579 module by Kilpatrick audio is a very complex two-part step sequencer which can be controlled simultaneously by control voltages and MIDI data. It has a non-volatile memory for sequences and songs and allows for polyphonic or multitimbral use. Many parameters like playback direction gate length, step lenght etc can be controlled and enable rhythically interesting sequences.Detailsformer retail price €368.91 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Knas - The Ekdahl Polygamist
You can expect the first synthesizer from Knas to be different and that is what it is: not your typical clean synth. The subrtactive architecture may look very familiar but the 2 VCOs (one is a subharmonic oscillator), the filter and the envelope have a certein twist. The synth has a duophonic ribbon controller, a semi-modular layout, a quantizer, pre-amp, a MIDI/CV interface and even USB.Detailsformer retail price €1,218.49 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Manhattan Analog MTX - Morphing Terrarium expander
Expansion module for the E350 Morphing terrarium by Synthesis Technology. It adds two functions that otherwise are only accessible via jupers on the backside of the E350 and has an attenuator in addition.Detailsformer retail price €74.79 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Manhattan Analog Mutinator
Out of production.
This module is a so-called OR-combiner i.e. a circuitry that mixes trigger and gate signals. The mutinator contains four, partially normalized channels with each two inputs that can be manually routed or muted. It works great in combination with drum modules and several trigger sources like sequencers etc.Detailsformer retail price €142.86 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Mungo Enterprises - w0 Arbitrary Oscillator
Digital oscillator with a huge frequency range and the possibility to read your own waveforms in .wav format from a SD card in addition to the internal wave forms. Ultra-stable tracking due to it's digital core make it perfect for FM sounds. Phase and symmetry of the waveforms can be voltage controlled.Detailsformer retail price €503.36 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Mungo Enterprises - Zoom module
All modules from Mungo's Zero series offer a Zoom function to operate all potentiometers (parameter controls and attenuators) with coarse, normal or fine resolution. This is especially super useful for oscillator frequencies and delay times. The Zoom module enables this function.Detailsformer retail price €27.73 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
ProModular - Insert
Expansion module for the ProModular MIIIIX - it upgrades it by four send/returns with voltage controlled dry/wet-mix and bypass. The expander can be used as four additional mixer inputs as well.Detailsformer retail price €239.50 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
ProModular - MIIIIX (the only alternative to Cwejman's MX-4S)
Four-channel voltage controlled mixer with saturation, voltage control of panorama and level. Furthermore with an individual output, mute- and solo-buttons per channel. An infinite number of MIIIIX modules can be chained.
At the moment we consider it to be the only alternative to Cwejman's MX-4S!Detailsformer retail price €546.22 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Sound Study Modular - MIDI 2 CV
As a clone of the open source project CV PAL by Mutable Instruments the Midi 2 CV is in first line fast as lightning, at least with certain computer operating systems. It offers various modes of operation, a range of four octaves and a resolution of less than 2 mV. It connects and is supplied with power via USB only.Detailsformer retail price €75.63 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Synthesis Technology - E340 Cloud Generator
The E340 simultaneously generates eight digital oscillators that can be detuned in relation to each other. The result ranges from soft beatings over supersaw-ish rave pads to organ-like sounds.Detailsformer retail price €315.13 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Synthesis Technology - E350 Morphing Terrarium
Unique wavetable VCO with 2 independent waveform outputs. What sets the E350 apart from previous wavetable oscillators is the voltage-controlled two-dimensional morphing. Sound is really good and clear.Detailsformer retail price €335.29 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Synthrotek - DLY (Delay)
Just like his small brother, the Echo, also the DLY is built around the same semi-digital bucket-brigade IC (PT2399) and thus has a similar character. But it has been improved in a few points, is more useful as a delay and has a dry/wet function now.Details
Doesn't cost much, sounds metalllic and really good, unless you reach the IC's extreme ranges where interesting artifacts happen. :)former retail price €113.45 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Synthrotek - Echo
Compact, voltage controlled and affordable effect module for creating echos, delays and reverbs. A must for your system, especially regarding the price!Detailsformer retail price €92.44 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Synthrotek - MIDI to CV
This MIDI interface definitely stands out because monophonic conversion of MIDI notes (from MIDI In or USB) into CV and gate as well as MIDI Clock to analog clock is one function only. As the USB port in this module can send data too, you might as well convert MIDI data from the DIN socket to USB MIDI (or the other way round) and convert analog clock into MIDI Clock.Details
Let's read the sentence one again: use your modular system for generating a MIDI master Clock and synchronise for instance your computer to your modular!!!former retail price €158.82 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Synthrotek - Noise Filtering Distribution Board
This passive bus board's main feature are the noise filtering capacitors located at three locations of the board. They reduce noise and bleedthru between modules and provide for clean signals. 17 connectors for modules are more than competitors' busboards offer.Detailsformer retail price €46.22 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
The Harvestman - Black Locust
Black Locust, the improved successor of the old Stilton Adaptor is a four-channel guitar effects pedal adaptor for your synth, using each channel as a FX send/return for one pedal. It offers gain adjustment and a dry/wet control per channel. Alternatively you can use each channel as a guitar pre-amplifier.Details
With no external input signals, the four pedals can operate in a closed feedback loop, self-generating audio signals that are impossible to directly control - only influence.former retail price €268.91 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
The Harvestman - Double Andore MkII
The Double Andore's Mk2-version is also a dual digital envelope, featuring a cycle mode, digital waveshaping, integrated VCAs and cross modulations betweeen channels.Details
In comparison to the Mk1 the new version is much more reliable and stable but has been improved in a number of ways and the face plate layout is more comprehendible.former retail price €399.16 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
The Harvestman - Hertz Donut MkII
The Hertz Donut is a dual digital oscillator. It consists of a main oscillator and a modulation oscillator. Due to internal connections FM and AM between the two oscillators is done very easily. Pushbuttons allow for different routing and tracking options and wave selection.Details
Besides linear FM there is also possibility of true thru-zero FM which will expand sonic capabilities even more!former retail price €407.56 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
The Harvestman - Polivoks VCG
Harvestman´s second part of the cooperation with Mr. Vladimir Kuzmin, the inventor of the soviet vintage Polivoks synthesizer, is a sawtooth-based VCO from this machine in the Eurorack form factor.Detailsformer retail price €222.69 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
The Harvestman - Zorlon Cannon MkII
Dual voltage controlled random generator for pulse signals and pitched digital noise. The design of the module is inspired by the unique sound engine of vintage Atari computers. The MkII version of the Zorlon Cannon is an entirely new circuit and each sub-unit has four individual outputs, a mix output and editable settings per outputDetailsformer retail price €377.31 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
The Harvestman Double Andore
Not in production anymore; replaced by Mk2 version.
Another module in the nowadays popolar manner of dual modules. Here a envelope generator with digital waveshaping and a VCA are offered per "channel". The envelope generator has a number of of wavetables for changing it´s shape and probably you will have the possibility to expand the number of wavetables in future, similar to the Piston Honda´s ROMS.Details
The VCAs can operate in LIN or EXP mode. Crossmodulation between them is possible as well.former retail price €415.97 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
The Harvestman Quotile Ultimatum
Quotile Ultimatum is a quad polarizer mixer module with master offset and a LED-bargraph for displaying 1V steps.
The module has been developed for using it together with the Zorlon Cannon but it will also work for itself with any other signal inserted.Detailsformer retail price €147.06 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
The Harvestman Stillson Hammer
Not in production anymore
Burst generator with six outputs. A manual button press (or external gate input) will start a "burst" of repeated gate events coming out of a selected range of outputs.Detailsformer retail price €256.30 (VAT excl.) No longer available!


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Omitted for brevity's sake: Daddy Warcrimes, Boom Boom, Spoonbones, Splash Damage, As If Dust, and Songhai Princess.
44 thoughts on "Chapter 5: Lit, page 104."
HMM indeed. Doth our favorite little glasses-wearing author have a fan?
Ben needs a less obvious pseudonym.
I don't think he published those. I mean I think they're his, but I don't think he published 'em.
He may not have published it, but I seem to remember Mesmer going through his computer and reading them. It's possible he decided to take it upon himself to publish them for Ben, considering he had no problem going through his private things.
Either Mesmer published them without telling him or Mesmer figured out the "BJK" of copybook fame is their very own Ben.
Well, there's stuff Ben writes under his own name for the Crusade; romance/porn he writes under a pseudonym to pay the bills; and other stuff he writes and publishes, or is planning to publish, as copybooks, for his own fulfillment. I'd say this is #3, not #2.
Maybe that's not his pseudonym? As in, it's Ben, but the stuff he keeps secret from Reagan is published under a different title.
Has Ben been in town long enough to publish a copy book long enough to get a following listing it in their pull lists? I don't think so.
If he did he wouldn't be Ben.
So Valentine is like a human RSS feed.
Leedskalnin, as in Ed of Coral Castle fame? I'd put that on my pull list based on the name alone. (The Coral Castle is about a half hour from my house.)
I guess she works as a sort of superintendent? Except for an abandoned building, to ward off squatters? I love how dense this world is
Or that a tiny rent gets taken out of her pay so that the building is legally inhabited so Reclamation can't claim it as an abandoned building.
That's what I was thinking. It took me a bit, but I gather that she's a Scarecrow in the sense that she makes the building look lived in. Flushing toilets, gathering mail, flicking lights off and on at certain hours.
Hell, I would imagine that the building owner has a deal with the city dump to get a few bags of trash just for the purpose of having her dump it down the chute so it looks like folks are throwing stuff out.
I wonder how many showers she has to take to make it look like normal water consumption.
Does she ever have to order 15 pizzas…or puppies (considering the cuisine in Templar)?
Flushing unused toilets does serve a purpose other than run up the water bill. All that standing water is prime breeding grounds for mosquitoes. A daily flush would prevent a skeeter population explosion.
I get the feeling she's employed (at not great pay!) to basically exist in the building to scare off Reclamation, who we know to be very …..active and aggressive, but they don't want to loose money on it so they can't sleep in the actual units or use the heat or anything, so they're basically camping out and making the building look more occupied then it is.
I love that they are called scarecrows.
Also, she's a good bridge for the characters of Reclamation, Doves, Ben, etc.
I think it's more that if someone is living in the building, then Rec can't legally file for the Squatter's Permit, or whatever it's called that gives them legal title to the building.
Also, you else hears her sarcastic teenage drawl with a hint of Hispanic-valley-girl? Just me?
I was actually thinking more Aztec, but I really don't know why…
Probably just me.
with a name like hypatia I'm thinking she's second generation Nile
She doesn't look hispanic to me at all!
100% with you. Middle/high-pitch valley-girl drawl, accentuated when she's harassing the customer, less so when talking to people she can stand. Makes everything she says funnier.
Ah…Reclamation has been taking advantage of the notion of Adverse Possession. It's a legal concept where a person may take possession of land so long as they maintain open, constant and notorious use of that property for a certain length of time (depending on the state – usually a period of a few years). Basically, all Reclamation needs to do when they want to take over an abandoned building is to take up residence in it and stay there, constantly and obviously using it, then file the correct paperwork when they have lasted the amount of time required to obtain official adverse possession. At that point, even if the building is owned by someone else, the original owners lose their interest in the property (without compensation, even!)
It appears that what Hypatia has been hired to do is stay in an abandoned building and "use" it so that the owner of that building can officially assert their "use" of the property (if Rec tries to move in, they will be trespassing on the land and the owner can prosecute them and have them removed.) If Rec moves in, the owner has maintained their OWN use of the property, so Rec won't be able to assert a claim. It's actually a really clever way of holding onto property that you're not using when there's a band of legally savvy folks out there looking to take over your land…
I wonder if Spike has any legal background…that's a pretty awesome reference for the legal geeks out here!
I direct you to this page in the archives.
For the curious, this is a thing that actually exist : letting people live in innocupied building to prevent squatters to move in.
In Amsterdam, there are "anti-squat agencies" who rent places to students for a very low rent : See last paragraph in this article : http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/555-squatting-in-amsterdam and in this one : http://www.amsterdam.info/students/housing/
They don't pay people to live there, though. They just charge very low rent. And you might have to move out on very short notice.
As a side note, I'm guessing Hypatia is Nile (or at least Egyptian in some way) since the ancient Hypatia was a mathematician and philosopher from Alexandria, Egypt…I don't know if she was Greek and just living there or actually Egyptian, but she was regarded as Egyptian in my old classics class, so I would imagine that would be a name a Nile family would give their daughter (especially since I'm guessing the Thoth copy shop would be a Nile establishment…)
I love the little nuggets of awesome Spike throws in!
She was a Greek philosopher/mathemetician who was murdered by a Christian mob in the early 5th cent. For more details go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia
Also her murder (or rather the prevention of it) was the key event in an alternate history series by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint and some other guy whose name eludes me.
Well, the Nile folks probably see the Greeks in Egypt, even way back in Ptolemaic times, as vile interlopers on the Pharaonic order, just like they do Christians and Muslims. It's not a modern Egyptian name, either. Not impossible it might be a modern Greek name, but most likely just chosen as a nifty name by Americans.
Ah! She WAS Greek! Thanks! Still, she DID live in Alexandria, Egypt…she or her father are regarded as the last librarians of the great library there. She also was regarded as a "pagan" so it's possible she worshiped the Egyptian deities, so maybe she is Nile…or maybe she's some new, glorious subculture Spike conceived of…
For what it's worth, Cleopatra was also Greek, as were the rest of the Ptolemies, though they adopted Egyptian religion and culture and were accepted as Egyptian by their subjects and the rest of the world. So maybe during the Hellenist and Roman periods being "Egyptian" was a matter of culture more than ethnic origin (sort of like how the U.S. is _supposed_ to be). Or a matter of political leanings, i.e. Not Roman, much like the Hun Empire was later (only with libraries and learning).
And so Hypatia might very well be a name considered Egyptian Enough to give to a bookish Nile girl in Templar.
Spike's getting creepily meta here. There was a zinester in Arizona back in the day called Daddy Warcrimes (but in Tucson, not Templar), a mostly far left political crustie punk deal.
"Spoonbones" also strikes me as really familiar, but I can't quite figure out why. Just me?
It reminds me of Spoonman by Soundgarden, but that's probably projecting.
I love the way she says, "The Trade".
Hypatia looks Native American to me.
That was my impression, too. Especially her profile in the first panel.
This being Templar, it could simply be how she dresses. We've seen neo-ægyptians, pasttimes, wickerheads, jakeskins, sincerists, whatever-the-heck-reagan-is (she's a subculture unto herself) and so on and on and on. Why not pseudo-natives?
Or she could be one of the heretofore unseen '40s.
I love 'Things I should have said'. I can really believe somebody'd make a copybook of staircase wit.
That smacks of Joey Comeau, really. I wouldn't put it past him(I totally would).
I'll take my Yawning Angel boiled, please.
I chuckled when I saw "Ucalegon" because I once saw it claimed as one of the most obscure words in the English language–OED defines it as something like: "A next-door neighbor whose house is currently on fire." It's actually the name of an Elder of Troy from the Iliad/Aeneid who's mentioned in the former and the latter makes reference to the destruction of his house (by fire, doy).
It also apparently literally translates as "Doesn't worry." Could just be a really laid back dude…whose house is on fire.
Heh. Patti likes Amber. Of Amber's Confessions?
I swear i read somewhere that Nile would never use Greek names.. old/middle kingdom FTW.. but i can't find the reference now. maybe spike said it sometimes. maybe i dreamt it.


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Lusaka – Capital of Zambia
The road development isn't quite keeping up so peak hour traffic is finally becoming like other cities, but it has an optimistic air of a town on the rise. For many, this is the perfect example of what economic liberalisation has done for the country. And viewed from the villages, Lusaka is the glittering capital which still persuades rural Zambians to migrate to the city in search of jobs and dreams. Well over 60% of its 2 million inhabitants are unemployed, but there are surprisingly few beggars. Although petty theft occurs, most people try to make an honest living selling their wares or services, always with a friendly smile.
The markets are a hive of activity as the thousands of stalls are set up, upgraded and cleared away every day. A myriad of motor spares dealers, restaurants, hairdressers, fishmongers, fruitsellers and rows and rows of "salaula" – stalls of discarded clothing from the West sold to Africa by the bale. The capital covers an area of over 70km2 and is one of the fastest-growing cities in central Africa. It's population almost trebled in the immediate post-independence era and continues to grow daily. There has been no influx control and the city is bursting at the seams. Grossly inadequate municipal facilities are hard-pressed to cope with the ever-increasing demand. It is a sprawling, metropolis with many multi-storey buildings, high-walled suburbs and busy shanty towns. Development has brought together people of many nationalities, making it a bustling centre for economic, political and cultural activities. The city lies at the junction of the main highways to the north, east, south and west, and at an altitude of 1300 metres above sea level. There are air links to most of the major tourist destinations in Zambia from Lusaka International Airport.
For maps of the city, try the Zambian National Tourist Board, the craft shop at the Pamodzi Hotel or the Map Centre, Mulungushi House, opposite the US embassy. There is a local magazine called the Lusaka Lowdown which is a mine of information on what's happening in town and full of useful adverts for local services and products. Famous faces from Lusaka include the eminent Dambisa Moyo, who is an international economist and the author of the New York Times Bestsellers Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How there is a Better Way for Africa, and How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead."
Getting around
There are no scheduled bus services – the blue taxis range from 12 seater minibuses, to dilapidated cars, to good dial-up cabs, to chauffeur-driven vehicles for hire.
Restaurants and Nightlife
There are upmarket clubs and restaurants in the suburbs but many roadside shebeens offer a closer experience of how Zambians "get in the groove" and dance the night away to the sounds of rhumba, kwela, hip hob, or R&B
There are many good restaurants in Lusaka including coffee shops, take aways, night clubs, pubs as well as their phone numbers.


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It won't replace seismographs, but the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre has come up with a quick and dirty method for determining the impact of earthquakes — by tracking the geographic locations of visitors to its Web site.
Traditional seismological procedures can take as long as several hours to register and measure the impact of an earthquake, but the center's Web-generated maps can provide information on the impact of an occurrence in less than 10 minutes.
The data from Web hits won't help scientists determine the magnitude of an earthquake or its geological nature, but it promises to deliver a quicker heads-up to policy-makers and first responders.
"This approach focuses on the reaction of the population rather than the physical seismological data from the earthquake itself," said Rémy Bossu, the center's secretary general. "Measuring the extent of an earthquake as quickly as possible is critical to determining the impact to surrounding population centers and their infrastructures."
The center uses Digital Element's IP Intelligence software to identify the geographic locations of site visitors down to the city level and then automatically map the locations that show significant increases in visitors. The application also infers and maps areas that might have been hard hit based on a significant lack of visitors because of damaged infrastructure.
Of course, that method would be most effective in regions in which users are likely to turn to a single Web site for information in the event of an earthquake. In regions in which Internet users are inclined to check multiple news sources, it might be more effective to apply the software analysis to search engine queries, though such an effort could raise privacy concerns.
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Season 2018 Episode 13 | 54m 18s
For the past year, FRONTLINE and ProPublica have been investigating how the violent and infamous rally in Charlottesville last year became a watershed moment for the white supremacist movement. Correspondent A.C. Thompson shows how some of those behind the racist violence went unpunished and shines a light on the rise of new white supremacist groups in America.
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Workspaces and Environments : Richard Devine
Hello from both Justin and I. We've scrambled for the past couple weeks trying to find artists that were interested in sharing their workspace and insight into how they work. We were both surprised at the amount of enthusiasm and interests that the artists responded with. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank them!! We have over 40 interested artists lined up so far. We will release two or three articles weekly. To officially start off the Workspace and Environment series at trash_audio, we tricked one of our friends into it: Richard Devine.
Richard Devine:
I have been working on music for almost fifteen years now. I started when I was 16 just recording tons of strange sounds and things to tape, then I eventually moved to working with digital samplers in the early 90's. From there I progressed to working with computers and digital signal processing. I have always considered my self more of a sound collage artist. Dealing more with sound design, and creating an unusual space or experience for the listener.
Regarding Hardware
I have so many favorites its ridiculous. I have really been digging the new Roland V-synth GT. Some may think that sounds a bit odd, but I have been getting some unreal sounds with it. It is using totally new AP (Articulate Phrase) Synthesis technology models the performance behavior and nuance of musical instruments. Playing a sound of a recorded whale or bird and playing it like a violin or guitar. It's interesting to see how you can apply acoustic instrumentation simulation to totally unusual sound sources and textures. It allows you to shape and manipulate the sound in new ways I haven't yet explored. The Elastic Audio Synthesizer engine is amazing as you can spectral blur and mesh the frequencies of samples with the Chaos controller or D-Beam controller. It's really interesting when you mix two different samples and layer them then mesh the frequencies and mess with the time trip function, which warps and beaks apart the sounds. I have been getting some really spooky vocal effects and surreal textured pads. Its an amazing piece of new technology and I have so much more to explore.
Regarding Software
Well, I love Native Instruments Kontakt 3 that was just released. I have been a long time fan of the NI software, and the new update to there virtual sampler is amazing. I have literally hundreds of plug-ins that I use on a day-to-day basis, and it would be nearly impossible for me to list all of my favorites. I really like Composer's Desktop Project for Spectral FFT processing and sound coloration. I also really dig the Kyma System by Symbolic Sound. I have gotten some really amazing sounds over the years using that system. Some of my favorite plugs are VirSyn Cube and Terra, Reaktor 5, Max/MSP, pluggo, GRM tools, and Battery 3.
Regarding Workspace and Environment
I have been working lately in my kitchen a lot. I know that sounds funny, but I have been really experimenting with trying to isolate myself with just the bare essentials and try to force myself to get new sounds with just the plug-ins and my software. I have a crazy studio of hundreds of keyboards and hardware modular systems, but it all gets bounced down and manipulated in the computer in the end, so my studio usually just gets used as a recording room, with my desk and processing equipment. I will do my mix downs in there, but all the song writing and programming is now done in my kitchen. I think I can be more creative if I have fewer distractions and fancy lights to deter my attention.
Additional Projects
Oh man! That has been what I have mainly focusing on lately, working primarily doing boutique sound design for commercial companies. I have done music and sound design for video games/websites/TV spots/Film Scores/Audio Content for other audio companies. It's been so successful that I decided to start my own company this year called DevineSound. Me and my fellow mate Josh Kay (formerly of Schematic Records) plan to launch the site and company next year 2008. Opening our doors to other ad agencies and companies who want really cutting edge sound design and music.
First Hardware
One of the first synthesizers I got my hands on was the Arp 2600 modular. It was the old battle ship gray model v1.0 with the 3604P keyboard. It was the first piece of equipment that I bought that really opened my ears to a whole new world. I was completely blown away with it. It was the basis for my first explorations as a sound designer. I learned so many things by patching the 2600 in different configurations. I learned about frequency modulation and control voltage feedback. I love all the various combinations and routings you could make. No rules, and no right or wrong way to go about, just how music should be.
Wish List
I have so many things that I would love to have. First off would be a full-blown Buchla 200e modular. I would get the Multi-Dimensional Kinesthetic Input Port, the Source of Uncertainty, and Arbitrary function Generator. I would go all out, and build the most bizarre system ever. Just for making the most unusual sounds on the planet. I would also like to expand on my current Doepfer modular setup. I would like to get more of Peter Gerenader Plan B modules. I am currently building a crazy system for really odd ends and bits. I should be done by the end of 2008. I also love Mike Brown's stuff (LiveWire). I am greatly anticipating his new VCO which I want to get 3 of, and incorporate into my setup now. As for other gear, I am looking forward to the new Yamaha "Tenori" Controller, and Max/MSP 5 from cycling74. So much cool new stuff I could talk to days.
Mobile Workstation
My mobile setup is pretty simple. I have two laptops one Sony Viao and Macbook pro. I have a RME Fireface400 soundcard, and M-audio Oxygen-8v2 keyboard that I use. I also use the Ultimate Ears UE-10's in ear monitors to mix to when I am on the go. I must say that these in ear's are one of the best investments I have made in my musical career. I also usually travel with a hand full of portable recording gear, like the Sound Devices MixPre, and M-audio microtrack 24 recorders. I always bring a bunch of microphones with me to do any on the spot field recording. My favorites are the Rode NT4, Sony ECM-5, Beyer Dynamic 930's, and next for me will be the Sennheiser's MKH-418S-P48, and DPA 4017 shotgun microphones. I am getting more into field and foley recording lately, so I have been investing more and more into proper microphones and mic pre's.
I keep my live setup pretty simple these days. One Mac book Pro, and my Sony Viao, running Nuendo and Logic Studio. I have two controllers that I like to use for my live performances. The Xession, and the UC-33e. I sometimes bring out my Allen & Heath Xone 3D when I DJ. It usua
lly depends on the gig.
I have only had my studio in two locations. First was at my parents place, then I moved out and setup a new studio here at my new house. Nothing has really changed other then the fact that I have this horrible addiction to getting more gear. It never stops, my quest for new sounds will never end.
Richard Devine was born in St. Louis, Missouri and now lives in Atlanta, Georgia. His work can be found on Schematic Records, Sublight and Warp records.
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The smell of sound and the sound of music.
Sound is like smell. When it's new you smell it all the time, but after a while you take the smell, like the sound, with you, and they disappear into your clothing and the sheets of your bed. This is how I became aware that I was assimilating the sounds of this city. When I go back to silent Amsterdam, I'll need a shower to wash the dust from my body. But it will take much longer to get rid of the constant honking in the background and the metal tapping of the gas sellers, and the voices in the street that cry out things I don't understand.


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Tokarski, Mihalik Named to Admirals All-Time 2nd Team
The Norfolk Admiral fanbase have selected their All-Time AHL 1st and 2nd teams as part of a 10th Anniversary team celebration at norfolkadmirals.com.
Current Bolt prospect defenseman Vladimir Mihalik and goaltender Dustin Tokarski were voted on the 10th Anniversary 2nd Team. Joining Mihalik and Tokarski on the 2nd team is former Lightning prospect forward Justin Keller. Former Tampa forward Brandon Bochenski was voted on 10th Anniversary 1st Team.
From these bios on norfolkadmirals.com:
Vladimir Mihalik
Only Marty Wilford has played more games as a defenseman in AHL Admirals history than Vladimir Mihalik. The tall blueliner has appeared in 204 games with Norfolk since 2007-08, scoring five goals and 44 assists for 49 points. His +11 plus/minus rating is tied for ninth all-time among AHL Admirals defensemen and is the second-best rating of any player over the last three years. Last season, Mihalik registered career highs in games played (75), assists (16) and points (18).
Dustin Tokarski
It took Dustin Tokarski only one season to establish himself in the AHL Admirals all-time goaltending record books. In order to be ranked on the Admirals all-time goals-against average and save percentage lists, a goaltender must have played a minimum of 30 games with the Admirals. Tokarski, who played in 55 games last season in his professional debut, posted a 2.51 goals-against average and .915 save percentage to go along with a 27-25-3 record and four shutouts. That season places Tokarski fourth in career goals-against average and second in career shutouts in AHL Admirals history. He also ranks fifth in games played and wins and tied for fourth in shutouts.
Justin Keller
No player has scored more goals with the Admirals over the past three seasons than Justin Keller. In 196 games, he has recorded 50 goals and 98 points. He is tenth in games played, tied for seventh in goals, tied for 11th in points and tied for 14th in power play goals (11) in AHL Admirals history. Keller is one of only eight players to have at least 50 goals in his AHL Admirals career and joins Matt Henderson as the only left wing in that group. He is the only player that has ranked in the top five of goal scoring each of the past three seasons with the Admirals.
The candidates for each position of the AHL Admirals Tenth Anniversary Team were chosen based on (1) having played at least 80 regular season games with the AHL Admirals and (2) being the top eight point scorers in their position. Goaltenders were selected in order of career wins with the top five candidates chosen. Candidates were then presented in alphabetical order within their respective position lists.
Fans had the opportunity to vote from to June 31 to July 27, 2010 at norfolkadmirals.com. Each position list was posted for one week and fans could only vote once each week. Fans were also given the opportunity to submit write-in votes via email.
The player with the most votes in each position was named to the AHL Admirals Tenth Anniversary First Team. The player with the second-most votes in each position was named to the AHL Admirals Tenth Anniversary Second Team. The only exception was on defense, where the top two vote-getters were named to the first team and the next two were named to the second team.
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The last few weeks I've been talking about Linux memory management. There was one final topic I wanted to talk about and that's how Android uses the out-of-memory mechanism built into the kernel to manage memory.
Android is getting some play in embedded systems, but you have to remember it is primarily meant to run phones and similar devices where the user is the focal point of the system. The user's experience is the main focus of how Android manages memory.
If you recall, the kernel has the OOM killer that selects processes to kill when memory is low. Android uses a similar mechanism, but it doesn't just wait until there is no memory. Instead, it defines several different memory levels.
It is easier to explain this with a straightforward example. Suppose Android defined three different levels (it defines more, but for now let's say three for simplicity). The first level is whatever program you are using right now on your Android device. The second level is things that you are actively using in the background; for example, a running music player or software to check for e-mail are active but not visible. The third level is for programs you have been using but you've switched away from. The operating system assumes you might switch back at any moment.
The operating system will associate a free memory target with each level (and you can adjust it, if you like). So if memory drops below, say, 100K, Android might start killing the level 3 programs until there is more than 100K free. If free memory drops below 25K, it might start killing the level 2 programs. The limit for killing the foreground application would be very small, since that would be rude to the end user.
The real Android system actually uses six levels:
FOREGROUND_APP – The application you are currently using
VISIBLE_APP – An application that is visible but not in the foreground
SECONDAY_SERVER – A process providing services
HIDDEN_APP – A process that is hidden, but may be needed by a running program
CONTENT_PROVIDER – Apps that provide data to the system (for example, synchronizing with the Market)
EMPTY_APP – An application you were using, but is not currently active
You can control the memory limits by writing to /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/minfree and /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/adj. The memory size is in 4K pages, not bytes, so be careful. By understanding these limits and setting the oom_adj parameter for given processes in /proc, you can exercise great control over how the system manages memory.
Naturally, in a hard real-time system, you don't want all this thrashing around with memory. But then again, you really aren't going to use Android for an actual hard real-time system, are you?
If you are on a system with Google Market access (for example, your phone) you can download a few programs that can control the memory scheme. Search for AMM, for example, in the market. There is also a script called V6 Supercharger. It isn't as user-friendly, but since it is a script, it is easy to look inside and see what it is doing. These tools can actually help a sluggish phone or tablet, which is what most people are using them for.
So that's all about memory for a little while. Are you using Android in any projects? And are you using it fairly "stock" or do you meddle with it to suit your nefarious purposes? Leave a comment and share your thoughts.


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Things I'm Afraid to Tell You
So it started like this:
Do you happen to remember the link I posted to this article by Jess Constable last Friday? Well Friday afternoon over on twitter, all it took was one tweet from Erin followed immediately by Nichole, before suddenly a flood of bloggers raised their virtual hands to say that "Yes, they too were concerned / frustrated / flummoxed about the vast cavern between true reality and the presentation of "reality" on blogs." That twitter conversation quickly morphed into a challenge spurned on by another post of Jess' where she shared "Things I'm Afraid to Tell You." And so today, in lovely little spaces around the web, a handful of brave and authentic bloggers will be adding their voice to what I hope will become a beautiful chorus of honesty and transparency around blogland (yes, lovely readers...you are invited to be a part of this challenge too). I have shared links to their blogs here, and I hope that you will take the time to visit them today or in the coming weeks and encourage and support their openness. This type of authenticity is the sort of things that makes your knees wobble and your "publish post" finger shake. I know because if you read on, you'll get to see a few of the things I've been "afraid" to tell you. And even though I've only just begun to put words to this page, my nerves are already setting in. I'm pretty sure that by that time I reach the end, I'll be having some serious thoughts about deleting the whole thing.
Participating bloggers - Round 1:
Design for Mankind | Little Brown Pen | Beautiful Hello | Curating Style | Sweet Fine Day | The Jealous Curator | Happy Days | Sage & Berries | Really Handmade | Peck Life | Satsuma Press | Rena Tom | For the Easily Distracted | The Hemborg Wife | Vitamini Handmade | Courtney Khail Stationery and Design | Meg in Progress | Dando Photography Blog | Widdershins22 | Alison Citron | Pink Moon Daily | Just Pretty Things | From China Village | Tea with Me | The Darling Ewe | Not Your Average Ordinary | The Electric Typewriter | Elleby Design | Parsimonia {Secondhand With Style} | Life as an Artistpreneur | Hello Cupcake | Dellie | The A & B Stories | Pretty Little Things | Feistyelle | Nib & Zed | Well and Cheaply | I Ripple. I Dance. | Whitfield Awesome Blog | Foxtrot Press | Dry As Toast | The List of Now | Apple Blue | For the Love of | Four Flights of Fancy | Miss Modish | Snapshots & Secrets | Dirty Laundry | Bubby & Bean | Penelope's Press | Little Nostalgia | Vale Design | Pikaland | Fleurishing | Print Pretty | Vespa Tales | Hazel & Agnes | Amanda's Musings | Mo' Funk Designs | Ordinary Mommy | Camp 1899 | In Honor of Design | Liberty's Yarn | Love, Life & Pictures | Stacey Winters | Owl in the Rain | Living Life Creatively | Emma Elizabeth Clease | I Live in Vacouver Now | British Cream Tea | Maquette | Little Paper Trees | Change is Necessary for Growth | Practically Perfect | Lovely Indeed | Radiant Republic | Teacher Goes Back to School | Acute Designs | This Little Street | The Proper Pinwheel | Kellee Rich | Gluten Free Travelette | Benbrie House | Sierra BB | Lost in Cheeseland | Going Home to Roost | Creative Soul in Motion | Quietly Fabulous | L'elephant Rose | The Anna Delores Blog | Some the Wiser | JRebecca Style | I Saw You Dancing | Wolfie and the Sneak | Threadbare Supply Co. | Lemonwood and Honey | Lolalina | This Texan Wife | C'est ma Vie |
TIATTY - Round 2 (list found at Mimi + Meg):
Coco + Kelley / Court & Hudson / Sacramento Street / My Cup of Te / Crystal Gentilello / MIMI+MEG / The Decorista / Modern Eve / Apartment 34 / Design Blahg / Vmac & Cheese / Miles to Style / Life in a Venti Cup / The Zhush / Radiant Republic / Savvy Home / The Doctor's Closet / Design Manifest / Because It's Awesome / {extra}ordinary wonders / Sparkling Footsteps / Hitha On The Go / Note To Self / So Much To Smile About / Blogstar / The Goods Design / Style & Pepper / Small Shop Studio / Long Distance Loving / Maggie Rose Blog / The City Girl In Me / The Best Laid Plans / Concrete Jungle DC / Food Fashion Fitness / East Coast Chic
TIATTY - Round 3 (organized by Lights & Letters)
Jill at Terra Savvy | Erica at The Elbow | Jen at Taking Off the Mask | Kate at Modern Home Modern Baby | Laura at My So Called Sensory Life | Monique at Razing Mayhem | Caroline at Salsa Pie | Leslie at Life In Every Limb | Tammie at Tam.Me | Melanie at Inward Facing Girl | Amy at Old Sweet Song | Michelle at Early Mama | Jen at Jen Epting | Leslie at Lights and Letters | Sarah at SAWK Photography
But for now, I am encouraged and honored to be a part of this beautiful community of bloggers who are willing to make themselves vulnerable in an effort to make the bigger blogging community a better place. Here goes…
Things I'm Afraid to Tell You:
I like to think of myself as being transparent and genuine on my blog, but regardless, over the years I've struggled with how much of the behind the scenes nitty-gritty side of life I should share. I have walked outside of my comfort zone a few time, but the majority of the time I have always erred on the side of posting beauty and inspiration, instead of delving into the struggles or challenges I've faced for fear that negativity could quickly consume this space (not from you guys…but from me). I do have a huge propensity to get sucked down into pits of depression and because of this have made a conscious choice to focus on light-hearted subjects and beauty as a daily reminder to myself to always seek that side of life.
However as time has gone on, and with the ever-expanding roster of blogs that are out there showcasing pretty thing after pretty thing, I've come to realize that all this beauty can actually have the opposite effect. The always-nice that we see on constant display everywhere we look (from blogs to magazines, etc) becomes frustrating because it doesn't really look like how our life looks, right? Instead of visiting a blog and feeling inspired, we quite often leave feeling less than, and like our life can never really match up to what we see. As a long-time contributor to this trend of pretty-everything I should know better, but even I get sucked up in feeling like other bloggers are more successful, have better wardrobes, perfectly behaved children, gourmet meals pre-made weeks in advance…they host fabulous parties with every last detail glittered and festooned to perfection, take lavish vacations, sign book deals in their sleep and pose for photo shoots in their immaculately clean designer-decorated homes. Please can I at least get a raised hand if you're feeling me on this.
The truth that we probably know deep down somewhere is that in nearly every instance we are only seeing a tiny groomed portrayal of life. I know this because that's what I show you on my blog too (I'm calling myself out on that front). I haven't tried to be deceptive (I doubt other bloggers have either), but I think it's human nature to want to shine the best light upon ourselves, and I confess to being afraid of showing you the mundane and ordinary sides of life (I also question how interesting a conversation on unfolded laundry can really be). Ultimately I don't think it's inherently wrong or dishonest to show that side, but it is not the full story. And now sitting here and thinking that any of you may have visited this space at some point in time, seen a pretty post or feature and because of it felt anything less than lighthearted or inspired afterwards, makes my heart heavy.
The more and more conversations I have with other bloggers and readers of blogs, the more sure I become of the fact that we are all just a little bit sick of all this perfection. So today I want to begin to shine a light on the other 80% of life. The not so pretty parts, but oh so real parts because I too am a little bit exhausted from the cloud of expectation that I often feel like I'm living under (self-imposed no doubt—but there none the less).
Before I leap out into the abyss though, I want to tell you the reason why I've been holding back from sharing any of this. This challenge is called "Things I'm Afraid to Tell You" for a reason. This is nerve-wracking stuff! Other than worrying that I'll type all this out only to realize that I've created a Wizard of Oz moment where suddenly everyone realizes with shock, that this oh-so-ordinary woman is the person behind the curtain blog, and perhaps not quite so glamorous or fabulous after all. But also because I never ever want to sound ungrateful for this space or the life that I have. I love being a blogger! It has it's challenges like anything in life, but I know that I'm blessed to get to do something that I'm passionate about every day. Not for one second would I want it to seem that I don't appreciate it beyond measure. Okay…now that we've covered that, we're good to go! Oh and P.S. You may want to grab a cup of tea or coffee and cozy up...'cause things are about to get wordy.
So the real life truth that I'd like to share today is that while I am fortunate enough to have a blog that brings in an income (again, so, so grateful), I am in no way rolling in "it" ("it" being the proverbial pile of cash that legend might have us believing that bloggers have). The nitty-gritty is that some months have been so tight that I've worried about making my rent payment or even buying groceries...a handful of times it's gotten scary enough that I've had panic attacks daily just trying to think of how I'll make it through. Just admitting that out loud is rather humiliating. Things have gotten steadily more and more stable as time has gone on (thankfully), but I would not be sitting in the position that I am as a full-time blogger if my family hadn't been willing or able to help me through some financial struggles over the years so that I could continue to work on making Creature Comforts everything that I want for it to be. They have believed in this blog as much as I have which means the world to me.
I also want to be open about the kind of lifestyle I live...to shatter any of the myths about design & style bloggers that are floating around out there (or at least any that might apply to me). Firstly, in order to pursue this blogging dream of mine I've had to choose to put aside things like regular shopping trips, I rarely get my hair colored (right now I have 3" roots), and I never splurge on mani-pedis or other such things. When I do shop for myself a couple times a year, it's for essentials—usually one or two nice-ish quality items that will last instead of 10 that will quickly fall apart, and it's usually spurned on by necessity...like when a once-in-a-lifetime trip to NYC throws me into a panicked state realizing that my two pairs of jeans and stack of t-shirts won't fit the bill. This in no way makes me a "special case" but you can see that it's not really all that glamorous...and perhaps different than what you could easily imagine my life to be in light of the content that I share in this space. Sometimes I feel like I've painted myself into a corner because all the pretty posts don't reveal any of the behind the scenes struggles. Yes, I blog about beautiful fashion and home goods all the time, but that doesn't mean that I own them…it means that I love them or feel inspired in some way by them.
Another thing that I've just got to get out there while I'm at it, is that I really have no special home decorating skills to speak of...or the budget to decorate with even if I did. My house is small, in a safe neighborhood, and I have a few nice corners inside it that don't hurt my eyes to look at them, but overall it's pretty run of the mill. I've had to politely turn down home tour requests (so embarrassing) because there's really not a whole lot to see. My one and only "big" home purchase I've made, ever, was last year for a couch from West Elm (It's one of the only new pieces of furniture I've ever owned). A lot of this frugality stems from the fact that I don't have a single credit card (just a debit card that is connected to my bank account). This means that anything that I want or need, I have to save up the money for. Even though this complicates life, I am so grateful because it also means that I don't have a mountain of debt hanging over me. The flip side of this of course, is that unexpected expenses like a broken car or health problem can really be a major stress. Attending a conference like Alt Summit nearly knocks me off my feet (the first year I had to get help to make it happen), but I do it because I know it's worth it. On top of that I feel like it's doubly challenging because there is an assumption out there that money must be no object to me as a blogger. Maybe for some bloggers it isn't…and whoever you are, I would love to know your secret, but my reality is that most months I am just grateful that I paid my bills and was able to provide a safe and relatively comfortable life for my daughter.
So yes, I have a simple life without many wordily fineries, but I think it's a beautiful life. I only realized just recently though that blogging has begun to make me doubt what I have, and the way I live. I mean, shouldn't I have a magazine-feature-worthy house that would make others envious, or walk around in only the latest and greatest fashion styles? I look at other blogs and think: yes…I have it all wrong, sign me up for a handful of credit cards and let's start "living right," but then I come to my senses and realize that what needs to change is this space…the only space online that is truly mine.
From here on out I want to work harder to reflect to you the person who I am beyond just the beautiful things that I love and am inspired by. I want to remember to be proud of where I am today, the way I am caring for my daughter, the hurdles I've overcome to get to where I am today, and how hard I work every day to achieve my dreams, etc.. It is so easy to forgot when you're caught up inside a whirlwind of comparison and expectation. A big part of that change starts here today with me acknowledging these things out loud. Moving forward, I am planning on incorporate more of my ordinary everyday life here on Creature Comforts. I started yesterday by moving all the post from my personal blog over here into my regular content. I came to realize that I was hiding it away in it's own space for the wrong reasons. I hope this will be a welcome change and that you will enjoy coming along on this journey with me. Of course there will still be plenty of moodboards and favorite finds, diy projects, etc…the things that inspire me will remain a big part of Creature Comforts. I will just be adding more of me into this space here along with it.
If you made it through all of that, wow! You are awesome. Thank you so much or being here today and showing your support. I appreciate it more than I can say! Please don't forget to visit the other blogs (listed above) who so bravely agreed to take on this challenge today. I hope that you'll go on an adventure around blogland today that leaves you feeling truly inspired. And finally I want to also encourage any of you who have maybe thought of writing your own "Things I'm Afraid to Tell You" post, to just do it! You will feel loads lighter after doing so, and you never know the good that will come from being brave, until you do it! xo Ez
P.S. You are more than welcome to take the button that I created for this challenge (above), and use it on your own blog (no need to credit or ask).
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Saturday, October 26, 2013
What Happened to the Guide to FamilySearch Online?
As the time dragged on for the separation, FamilySearch has kept up a steady stream of modifications to both the Family Tree program and FamilySearch.org. A year before the site was revamped, I was demoed a potential startup screen. All of these factors led me to wait "just one more month" for an update. I did not want to publish an updated book that would be out-of-date the day it reached publication.
Presently, it looks like the New.FamilySearch.org program may become separated from the Family Tree program at the end of 2013. Regardless of any remaining changes or updates to the Family Tree program, I will likely do a complete revision and a new edition of the book in 2014.
Another consideration was whether to publish the book in both paper and digital versions or only digital? I will work out all these issues as I see how FamilySearch.org progresses. As I review the book, I find that most of the changes to FamilySearch.org are either superficial of cosmetic. Most of the existing book, especially those portions of the book dealing with other websites and the basic functions of the program are valid if only slightly out of date. Granted, there have been enough substantial changes to the content to necessitate a revision.
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I would say both electronic and paper. The demographics of the people who would purchase the book would probably show that a paper copy would be welcome.ReplyDelete
I am not all that enthused about Family Search and the new "editing" ability for everyone. For instance, I was trying to merge a name, "Cordelia Hocker" and ended up deleting the one that had the most information. I wrote to Family Tree and well, I am not smart enough to be able to figure all that out. Also I am not thrilled with the being able to make changes anyway, whether I goofed or not. People have way to much wrong information due to that lack of good research documentation. "Our family says: so and so was born **** and the other person is wrong" is not my idea of correcting informaion.ReplyDelete
Also, I placed my family tree on there some years ago, I have since done more research and the tree has been added to and/or changed from what is on there. Documentation also is with the information/names. How do I go about placing this information on the site. Will the old tree be deleted and the new one will be made available or will it just be added to all the other "stuff" that people have put on there?
I am unable to go to the FHC and get this worked out as I am a stay at home person most of the time due to health issues. Therefore I cannot get help in that regard.


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People have been exploring tea's health benefits for 5,000 years. Whether we are seeking mental alertness, protection against disease, or renewal of the spirit, we enjoy tea for many reasons.
Research on tea and its health effects is underway in academic institutions and medical settings all over the world and many exciting leads have been uncovered. As more studies begin to test findings on human subjects we gain valuable information about how tea can help us in our own lives.
None of the following information should be interpreted as or substituted for medical advice. It is simply a presentation of some of the promising findings presented in recent years.
The Antioxidant Story
Each day, we may be exposed to harmful influences -- foods high in fat and sugar, chemicals in the environment, cigarette smoke, and more. In response, our bodies produce unstable molecules called oxidants or "free radicals" that can damage healthy cells. The result can be chronic illnesses, immune system damage, organ disease, and other health problems.
Antioxidants found in foods like fruits, vegetables, and tea, can help to limit the effects of free radicals. The antioxidants combine with free radicals so they can no longer harm other cells. In this way, it is believed that antioxidants may reduce the occurrence and size of some kinds of tumors and inhibit their growth.
You will see many terms associated with antioxidants and tea that might seem confusing at first. They are all closely linked.
- Antioxidants are molecules that slow or stop oxidants.
- Polyphenols found in tea have strong antioxidant qualities.
- Flavonoids are a type of polyphenol found in tea.
- Catechins are a component of flavonoids. There are four types of catechins in tea. EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate) is the one discussed most frequently with regards to tea's health benefits.
Some of the benefits to heart health that have been suggested by early studies include lowering LDL cholesterol1 and improving the ability of blood vessel lining to expand when blood flow increases2. Some believe that tea might also help lower blood pressure.
Immune system
Antioxidants may help to protect Immune System 3 the L-theanine, an amino acid present in tea, may "prime" the immune system to help it fight infection, bacteria, viruses, and fungi.4 In addition, tea is rich in vitamins and minerals including B1, B2, B6, C, folic acid, magnesium, potassium, and zinc.
Tea's amino acids may also help you gain a calmer, but more alert, mental state. The effect can last for 3 - 4 hours.5
Early research suggests that some components of tea might help to reduce cancer risk. This is one of the most active areas of research currently.
Oral Health
Tea contains a natural fluoride, encouraging healthy tooth enamel,6 and the flavonoids in tea may slow the formation of plaque by bacteria in the mouth.7
Weight Loss
Tea has no calories and helps to hydrate the body. Substituting unsweetened tea for sugary drinks like soda can be a useful tool in maintaining a healthy weight. It is also thought that tea can help to boost metabolism.4 One should not, however, believe claims that "Wulong" tea is "weight-loss tea." "Wulong" is simply another word for "oolong" and it has not shown any more, or less, impact on weight loss.
Bone Health
A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that older women who were tea drinkers had higher bone mineral density (BMD) than non-tea drinkers.8
1Davies MJ, Judd JT, Baer DJ, Clevidence BA, Paul DR, Edwards AJ, Wiseman SA, Muesing RA, Chen SC. Black tea consumption reduces total and LDL cholesterol in mildly hypercholesterolemic adults. J Nutr. 2003 Oct;133(10):3298S-3302S
2Duffy SJ, Keaney JF Jr, Holbrook M, Gokce N, Swerdloff PL, Frei B, Vita JA. Short- and long-term black tea consumption reverses endothelial dysfunction in patients with coronary artery disease. Circulation 2001;104:151-6.
3Kamath AB, Wang L, Das H, Li L, Reinhold VN, Bukowski JF. Antigens in tea-beverage prime human Vgamma 2Vdelta 2 T cells in vitro and in vivo for memory and nonmemory antibacterial cytokine responses. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2003 May 13;100(10):6009-14.
4Murase T, Haramizu S, Shimotoyodome A, Tokimitsu I. Reduction of diet-induced obesity by a combination of tea-catechin intake and regular swimming. Int J Obesity 2005 Oct:1-8.
5Foxe, J. Investigating the Role of Tea in Human Cognition: Theanine and Caffeine Alter the Neurophysiology of Attention. International Scientific Symposium on Tea & Human Health. 2007 Sept 18.
6Yu, H., Oho, T., Xu, L. X. Effects of several tea components on acid resistance of human tooth enamel. J Dent 1995;13:101-105.
7Sarkar, S., Sett, P., Chowdhury, T., and Ganguly, D.K. Effect of black tea on teeth. J Indian Soc Pedod Prev Dent 2000;18:139-140.
8Hegarty VM, May HM, Khaw K-T. Tea drinking and bone mineral density in older women. Am J Clin Nutr 2000;71:1003-7.
9University of Michigan Health System Healthwise Knowledgebase
11National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health
12ORAC of Selected Foods, USDA 2007 and Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University


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Finding "good" cycles in graphs is a problem of great interest in graph theory as well as in locational analysis. We show that the center and median problems are NP hard in general graphs. This result holds both for the variable cardinality case (i.e. all cycles of the graph are considered) and the fixed cardinality case (i.e. only cycles with a given cardinality p are feasible). Hence it is of interest to investigate special cases where the problem is solvable in polynomial time. In grid graphs, the variable cardinality case is, for instance, trivially solvable if the shape of the cycle can be chosen freely. If the shape is fixed to be a rectangle one can analyse rectangles in grid graphs with, in sequence, fixed dimension, fixed cardinality, and variable cardinality. In all cases a com plete characterization of the optimal cycles and closed form expressions of the optimal objective values are given, yielding polynomial time algorithms for all cases of center rectangle problems. Finally, it is shown that center cycles can be chosen as rectangles for small cardinalities such that the center cycle problem in grid graphs is in these cases completely solved.


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battery mileage
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If you can tolerate reduction to 70-80% of new capacity, how many miles can you drive in 8 years? 200K?
Other than this I understand:
"lets say that most of the time you fully discharge the battery (when about 30 miles is left in the charge) before charging"
Why would you want to fully discharge before charging? Just plug it in every day.
I think he implies that is the daily commute and if almost uses all the juice
That's d*mn long commuting. 250miles at 60mph would take over four hours, two hour drive each direction. To me that would get old really fast, so I would be looking for apartment closer to whatever the reason for that long commuting is.
To calculate it, first of all we need to know the percentage that considers to be replacement point. For instance 50% left, it should be replaced and so on. Then if every year the battery looses 3%, let's give it 5%. So 10 years to be replaced. Every year an average of 25,000 miles. So we have 250,000 miles before battery replacement. It's only a guess. But tell me, how many of you drove your car 250,000 miles. I change my car every 3 years. So I think that more than 90% will sell the car and buy a new one long time before the battery is dead. That's my personal opinion. What do you think?
Some people don't have a commute. They work from their car and drive place to place all day and they don't want to beg their customer for a plug. A realtor in the country for example might easily drive 200+ miles a day.
I drive about 34,000 miles a year and sold my Euro van with 283,000 miles on it after 3 1/2 years. The more I read however the less range anxiety I have. It seems like the degradation of the battery is nowhere near what the naysayers seem to suggest. A 110 plug in at work is the worst case scenario and that can go along way. Only time will tell and it's pretty much just mental masturb.... at this point.
First let me say I'm rationalizing the MS purchase to myself as spending on the car rather than gas (with some mid-life crisis dollars thrown in). Right now I spend between $350 - $400 a month on fuel.
I have the same questions about mileage and degradation... My work commute is 125 miles a day (62 each way) I live in FL and all of my driving is on the highway. So the conditions would be something like:
95 degrees
A/C running
72 - 75 mph
125 miles a day
My office has been very receptive to the idea of putting in a Level 2 J1772 charger (220 - 30Amp). There are a couple of Volt owners @ work and I think we could work out a schedule to share. I am guessing a work recharge would take 3-4 hours a day (replenish 62 miles). Then @ home I'd have another 2 hr recharge off the 50Amp at night (replenish another 62 miles).
In theory the 45kWh should do fine... but I put 35k - 40k miles on a car each year. I'm weighing the benefits of upgrading the battery to the 60 or 85 VS purchasing a replacement 45kWh battery down the road.
The 40 (not 45) kWh would be pushing it. You'd be pretty much completely dependent on that work charge. The 60 would give you the safety margin; likely you could do the RT without trouble when necessary.
Yes, 40 not 45.
I spoke with my sales guy today....he also recommended the 60. 10K is a pretty big option to my pocketbook.....decisions, decisions
And then, of course, you'd have the option (on finalize date only) to opt for Supercharging, for a mere $2K more! |9-/
If you drive for living, then I suggest getting SC capability, no matter which battery version you finally choose. So 60kWh at min 85kWh performance at max (current max).
The general standard is 70% remaining is "end of life" for the original application of the battery. But of course an owner can use his own.
Can we expect that the battery must be replaced at 8 years even though there is ~70% charge left?
It would be about the same as a new 60 at that point, and degradation would be proceeding more slowly than at first. If that's enough mileage, I don't see why you'd need to. But you might want to.
I mean, of course, an 85 would be about the same as a new 60. Don't know about the power draw and accel.
I am told to discharge the battery as much as possible (95-98%) once a year. This will prevent the battery from losing it's overall charge of 3% a year. This falls under the heading of maintenance. Has anyone else heard this?
At 170 miles a day at least four times a week I'm probably going to be discharging my battery a lot more frequently than that! I can't imagine I'll resist the temptation to open up on the long stretches of expressway that I have during my typical commute!
Selling an MS every 3 years???
When the car is getting better through its updates and you have been taking the car from being almost perfect to a place where all the pesky annoyances are now all gone, sounds counter-intuitive, but that's me.
I really wouldn't be buying a Model S if I frequently did long range trips requiring a near full discharge and near full recharge. This would represent a full charging cycle...I think Tesla is relying on the fact that 95% of people drive less than 50 miles per day so that the vast majority of the time you are only using around 20-25% of the total capacity each day...therefore they are banking on one full cycle of the battery every 4-5 days on average. I imagine this is how they arrive at the 25% average capacity loss over 8-10 years.
I might do a long road trip three or four times a year so the first gen Model S is fine for me. If however I was someone who road-tripped every weekend I would hold off to see what the effect of frequent full cycle discharges and supercharging really has on these cars and batteries.
I love Tesla and I wish them all the best...I just wouldn't be able to afford taking a chance right now if I were a frequent road-tripper...I'm not so I'm all in...but just giving my 2 cents.
I thought the "full discharge occasionally" meme just applied to NiCad, etc, not to LiIon?? No memory effect with LiIon, e.g.
I've created a quick-reference sheet covering charge rates/times, range, etc at www.hannelconsulting.com/tesla - I've noticed quite a few people downloading it...it also covers estimated actual capacity vs. spec given your range/consumption
Brian...its not really about memory effect...its about how many charging cycles you can get out of a battery.
When a battery goes from 100% to 0% and then is recharged to 100% that is one full charging cycle.
High end lithium ion batteries might get 750-1000 full charging cycles before capacity is significantly reduced.
So by me only using 20% of my Model S capacity every day I complete a full charge cycle every 5 days...5 x 750 = 3,750/ 365 = about 10 years of driving before my range is significantly reduced (say to 25% of original capacity as Tesla states).
However if I had a much longer commute and was road tripping often with SC use it might I might be going through a full charging cycle every 2 days...2 x 750 = 1,500/ 365 = about just over 4 years of driving before my range is significantly reduced.
Battery cycle life will improve over time (perhaps much more rapidly than overall capacity) which is why I wouldn't be ready for the first gen Model S right now if I was a frequent road tripper or had a 100+ mile daily commute. Since my daily commute is less than 40 miles...I'm ready now but others who frequenetly road trip or have long commutes should take this into consideration.
Not saying Tesla isn't on top of all this already its just I couldn't afford to take a $75,000+ gamble on it just yet...I would wait until more data comes back on this for long range commuters or frequent road trippers intending to use superchargers often.


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