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This book was wonderful with the story and characters and the voices for the characters. This is far and away the best audiobook I have ever listened to (and I have been listening for a long time) and I highly recommend it. The story never becomes slow or boring and the different voices for the characters keep it engaging.

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Shruti Bhatnagar, Extension and Field Service Committee Chair
There's always something new and exciting at Maryland PTA. Lots of energy, lots of excitement, many new ideas and many new PTA's. Yes, we are growing! In July2014 Maryland PTA helped install two new PTA's in Maryland - Wilson Wims and Monarch Global Academy. It's great to see the energy and enthusiasm of volunteers who step up in leadership roles and the amazing turnout of members who show up to join the PTA to show their support. It is heart-warming to witness the collaboration of school, parents and community organizations who embrace diversity & inclusion and join hands to make these initiatives a success.
Greetings, My name is Shruti Bhatnagar and I was appointed in July 2014 on the Maryland PTA BOD as the Chair of Extension and Field Service Committee with a subcommittee on Diversity Inclusion. This committee will work actively to assist locals and Councils in establishing, re-establishing and work with challenged local and Council units across the state. Members on this committee will also encourage the active engagement of parents and families in the school community and will work collaboratively with members of subcommittee on Diversity and Inclusion to increase participants' cultural awareness and knowledge, increase the inclusion of different identity groups and promote better teamwork within Maryland at all levels.
What could be a better time than "Back to School" for PTA leaders to strengthen their PTA Units and Councils by embracing diversity and making everyone feel welcome by being inclusive?
Maryland PTA held its first successful annual "Emerging Minority Leaders Conference" in July 2014, with a purpose to reinforce its commitment to strengthen diversity and leadership. At this conference new PTA and school leaders and community leaders in the diverse population were offered training to effectively advocate for their students by engaging ethnically diverse families and underserved school populations through various workshops and bridge-building techniques. Many local and Council PTA leaders from across the state of Maryland attended this conference. Guest speakers were invited and we collaboratively discussed "Diversity and Inclusion" What it means and the things we need to consider to make sure we are encouraging diversity in our PTA's and being inclusive as PTA leaders. I share some of those thoughts & ideas with you to help you ensure that every member of your community feels included in representing the need of every child in your community.
How diverse is your community? How inclusive are you as a PTA leader? Even more important what does "Diversity & Inclusion" mean to you? It's important to understand these terms so you can make sure that all members of your community feel welcome and engaged in your PTA. We as PTA leaders must remember that our members are the essence and strength of our PTA. By Embracing diversity and being inclusive, we can not only grow our membership, we will have stronger PTA's and better represent the needs of every child in our community. Diversity can mean a lot of different things. Broadly defined, diversity means respect for and appreciation of differences in ethnicity, gender, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, education, generations, political philosophy, socioeconomic background, religion , skills, abilities and all the other unique differences that make each of us who we are.
Embracing diversity and ensuring that everyone feels welcome, appreciated, respected, valued for his or her distinctive skills, experiences and perspectives and has an opportunity to fully participate in the goals of the PTA is critical to the success of the PTA. I encourage you as PTA leaders to put in your best effort to create a diverse workforce of volunteers that truly represents the diversity in your community and create an inclusive environment with opportunity for the talents of all community members.
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System on which Head-Fi doesn't work with Chrome (but works in Firefox): Lubuntu (Ubuntu) 14.04LTS 64-bit on Intel Core 2 duo, Google Chrome Version 35.0.1916.153.
System on which Chrome works fine: Elementary Luna OS (based on Ubuntu 12.04LTS) 32-bit on Intel Atom N270, Google Chrome Version 35.0.1916.153 (same version)
I even tried removing and re-installing Chrome from scratch on the misbehaving system but to no avail. Any ideas? Only real difference is OS versions (I doubt different hardware should matter) - either the difference between Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 and/or difference between 32- and 64-bit.
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On the performance of an e-beam pumped KrF laser
Witteman, W.J. and Oomen, G.L. (1980) On the performance of an e-beam pumped KrF laser. Optics Communications, 32 (3). pp. 467-472. ISSN 0030-4018
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Did you perhaps misread the title of my post?
No, you didn't.
And it isn't me who is giving you this advice.
It is your government.
And what does this have to do with chickens? Read on.
Basically, for a long time, but seemingly at a much more feverish pace over the past few weeks, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been in the news for
- threatening companies that sell natural products
- seizing natural products from manufacturers and
- threatening natural care practitioners with seizure, injunction, and financial penalties.
And at the same time, this same FDA is encouraging us to continue eating arsenic-laced chicken.
Yes, you heard right.
I could write a whole bunch about all of this, but I am going to try to just give you a summary and a link to the sources so you can go read them for yourself. Hang on through the whole post. It's quite a ride!
What the FDA Says is Unsafe
1. Elderberry Juice – The FDA seized elderberry juice from Wyldewood Cellars in Peck, Kansas since they claim that the company markets the product as being able to cure or treat disease. And why is elderberry juice so dangerous?:
Products with unapproved disease claims are dangerous because they may cause consumers to delay or avoid legitimate treatments," said Dara A. Corrigan, the FDA's associate commissioner for regulatory affairs.
I don't know about you, but just because someone tells me that elderberry juice might help me with an ailment doesn't mean that I won't seek out another treatment if I feel that I should. What is the FDA going to do next? Make me take medicine that I don't want? You can read more about the situation on this ABC affiliate's website.
2. Probiotics – U.S. Marshals went into the UAS Laboratories' (manufacturer of probiotics) plant and seized probiotics and labels. I spoke to UAS' owner's wife (Mrs. S.K. Dash) directly and she told me that there was no advance warning, no phone call, no letter. Just a warrant and the seizure. And why are probiotics so dangerous? According to Natural Products Insider:
While an initial statement from FDA did not give the exact claims it takes issue with, FDA said the products claim to treat or prevent colds, flu, respiratory infections, urinary tract infections (UTIs), yeast infections, ulcers and high cholesterol.
3. Thermography – I am not a total Dr. Mercola fan, but this makes me mad. The FDA is threatening all sorts of things against Mercola, who is arguably one of the most successful alternative health practitioners in the U.S. The FDA explains the reason for these threats as being essentially the same as in the above case. Mercola states on his website that thermography is a good way to detect medical problems and may be better than traditional methods. (See the FDA's warning letter.)
The article in Gaia-Health is informative and discusses what might be the Fed's motivation in all of this.
What the FDA Says is Safe
Arsenic in Chickens, Arsenic in You and Arsenic-Laced Chicken Poop Being Fed to Cows - OK. I am so done with letting my family eat conventional meat now. I was being a bit lenient with it at potlucks until now, but no more.
The basics are that for years the FDA has known that arsenic-laced feed was being given to chickens. The argument was that the arsenic would all come out in their poop. Now they have discovered that it is not so.
The FDA and the National Chicken Council also say that the arsenic present in the tainted chicken is in such a small amount that it is safe to eat even though it is a carcinogen. Ugh.
To their credit, the company who manufactures the feed has agreed to pull the feed off the market, but there is no telling how much of it is left (still being fed to chickens on a farm near you??). In addition, according to the AP,:
Scott Brown of Pfizer Animal Health's Veterinary Medicine Research and Development division said the company also sells the ingredient in about a dozen other countries. He said Pfizer is reaching out to regulatory authorities in those countries and will decide whether to sell it on an individual basis." (http://www.usatoday.com/money/indus…)
Not good enough for us, but maybe good enough for others??
Here are a few more interesting (and troubling) facts:
Uh, I don't know if you agree with me or not, but I think it's possible that some natural things that God has provided us with in nature might actually cure and treat illness. And I would prefer that the government not tell me what I can and cannot take.
Check out my post on How Our Family Avoided Antibiotics to see one example of natural products and how they helped us.
Now, to be clear, all of this does not mean that I am:
- anti-pharmaceuticals or
- anti-government
I am, however, advocating that both should be held accountable for their actions. And we are the ones to do it.
Pharmaceuticals shouldn't be dosed out willy-nilly to people. People need to change their lifestyles to impact their health; not depend on a drug to clean up a mess while they continue making the mess. For example, you can't just eat tons of sugar and take diabetes drugs and call it even.
Seems to me that Pfizer and the FDA have their priorities mixed up. Arsenic in chicken feed is OK | Probiotics are not. Go figure.
Worse than that, the FDA is paid by you and me in the form of taxes. That being so, they work for us. So…
What can you do about it?
Here are some action points, recommended by Gaia-Health:
- Phone: 1-888-463-6332 (their main number)
- Direct Phone to FDA Director, Margaret Hamburg: 301-796-5000. The phone is answered by staff members, so you can tell her exactly what you think.
- Mail: Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002
- E-mail: The FDA does not provide an e-mail address for contact.
- E-mail the Director: However, Gaia-Health has tracked down an AOL e-mail for her and it appears to be live. You might try contacting her at email@example.com.
- You can also send comments to local and national newspapers or other news media.
For more on the government and our rights, check out my posts on
- Mothers in Jail | Parental Rights, the Government and Medicine
- FDA Poised to Ban Supplements in the US
- Mother Threatened with Jail for Planting Vegetables
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.
Please spread the word. If we do nothing, then we deserve the government that we get.
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The name pretty much says all. What exactly can Access do? I'm aware of teleportation, but what else, if anything, can he do?
What's the extent of his powers?
He had the ability to combined the two universe into one and travel between them, as well as bring objects and people from one universe to the other.
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On May 22, a massive F-5 tornado ripped through Joplin.
Since then, volunteers, emergency responders and residents have been cleaning up the mess and trying to regain a sense of normalcy. Three months after the destruction, here are a few statistics you might not know:
- More than 150 people died as a result of the tornado.
- More than 500 businesses were destroyed or damaged.
About 400 businesses reopened, relocated or are in the process of reopening.
5,000 employees in Joplin were left without a place to work, according to the Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce.
1,200 people sought unemployment benefits.
- According to the City of Joplin Public Information Office, 82,622 registered volunteers gave 408,526 hours of service as of Tuesday.
- The tornado damaged or destroyed 7,500 housing units.
- The Federal Emergency Management Agency approved $17 million for the Individual Assistance Program that helps with housing and other unmet needs in Jasper and Newton counties.
- According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the agency removed 1.5 million cubic yards of debris.
- More than 400 law enforcement and fire department agencies responded.
- 1,308 pets were rescued and brought to animal shelters. Of those, 528 pets were reunited with their owners and 745 were adopted.
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About Leslie Benjamin
Leslie Gordon (Les) Benjamin (April 29, 1925 in Medicine Hat, Alberta - June 16, 2003 in Regina, Saskatchewan) was a Canadian Member of Parliament. Benjamin was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1968 as a New Democratic Party MP from Saskatchewan. In parliament, as the NDP's Transport critic, he often clashed with Otto Lang over the Crow Rate that allowed subsidized rail transport for prairie farmers and was an opponent of deregulation. He retired from parliament in 1993. When Ronald Reagan addressed the Parliament of Canada in 1987, Benjamin heckled him by crying "he's mad!"1 Benjamin was of Welsh heritage with his father's family coming to Canada from the Rumney Valley. Prior to entering politics, Benjamin worked variously as a railway station agent, telegrapher and secretary. Sources: Appreciation of Les Benjamin by Bill Blaikie, Les Benjamin - Parliament of Canada biography, Parliament of Canada Preceded by, The electoral district was created in 1966. Member of Parliament for Regina--Lake Centre, 1968-1979 Succeeded by, The electoral district was abolished in 1976. Preceded by, The electoral district was created in 1976. Member of Parliament for Regina West, 1979-1988 Succeeded by, The electoral district was abolished in 1987. Preceded by, The electoral district was created in 1987. Member of Parliament for Regina--Lumsden, 1988-1993 Succeeded by, John Solomon Authority control VIAF: 104209570, Persondata Name Benjamin, Les Alternative names Short description Canadian politician Date of birth April 29, 1925 Place of birth Medicine Hat, Alberta Date of death June 16, 2003 Place of death Regina, Saskatchewan
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"As a member of Mu Alpha Theta, I agree to accept the challenge of this organization. I agree to strive to demonstrate the qualities of initiative and industry as I pursue a deeper interest in mathematics and share this knowledge with others."
Mu Alpha Theta is an international high school and junior college mathematics honor society chartered in 1989. The principal purpose of the society is to stimulate a deeper and more effective interest in mathematics. There are currently over 1,000 chapters throughout the world.
Juniors and Seniors who have a 3.5 cumulative average in mathematics may apply for membership.
At the time of their induction, members receive a Mu Alpha Theta pin depicting the insignia of the society. The blue background represents truth as unlimited as the sky. Gold shines as a symbol that mathematics is indeed a valuable treasure. The insignia is the famous geometric proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. It represents a high point in the history of the world, an important relationship in mathematics that combines the mystery, the challenge, and the beauty of numbers with a simple geometric figure.
ARTICLE I Purpose
Section 1. The purpose of this organization is to promote scholarship in, and enjoyment and understanding of, mathematics among Tampa Catholic High School students.
ARTICLE II. Name
Section 1. The name of this chapter shall be the Tampa Catholic High School Chapter of Mu Alpha Theta in Tampa, Florida.
ARTICLE III. Sponsor
Section 1. The sponsor must be a faculty member.
Section 2. The national Secretary—Treasurer must be kept Informed of the current sponsor's name and address.
ARTICLE IV. Membership
Section 1. Members shall demonstrate the ability to work with others and display qualities of industry, initiative, and reliability, as well as a personal interest in mathematics
Sections 2. Members must have completed four semesters of college preparatory mathematics and in addition, have completed, or are enrolled in, a fifth semester of mathematics.
Section 3. Membership status requires a minimum of a 3.0 in mathematics. This requirement must be maintained throughout a students' membership in Tampa Catholic's Mu Alpha Theta.
(This section was amended April 18, 1996. See the amendment below.)
Section 4. Selection of new members shall be done by applications. The executive board will review all applications and select the candidates who are eligible for membership.
Section 5. Members must attend all scheduled meetings. Each member is allowed two unexcused absences. The third unexcused absence will be subject to review by the executive board.
ARTICLE V. Meetings
Section 1. The chapter shall meet at least once a month at a specified time that is agreeable to both the executive board and the school administration.
Section 2. Meetings are open to members and to guests by invitation of the executive board.
Section 3. Program agendas will be left to the discretion of the officers and/or sponsor.
ARTICLE VI. Officers
Section 1. The chapter officers shall be the following: president, vice-president, secretary, and the treasurer.
Section 2. Election of officers shaIl take place during the final regular Spring meeting.
Section 3. The term of office is one school year.
Section 4. The president of Mu Alpha Theta cannot hold a presidential office in another school organization during the same term as he/she is holding the office of president in the Tampa Catholic High School Chapter of Mu Alpha Theta.
ARTICLE VIl. Duties of Officers
Section 1. The President shall be the chief executive officer of the chapter He or she shaIl preside at all business sessions, and it shall be the duty of the President to direct the activities of the organization.
Section 2. The Vice-President shall perform the duties of the President at times when the President is absent.
Section 3. The Secretary shall keep an accurate record of all proceedings. He or she shall, with the approval of the sponsor, certify the names of new members, forwarding these (together with initiation fees) to the national office before the initiation.
Section 4. The Treasurer shall handle all money belonging to the Chapter and shall maintain an accurate record of financial transactions.
Section 5. The officers shall comprise the executive board. The sponsor and the executive board have authority to transact all routine business and to select new members of the Chapter.
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Section 1. Each member of this chapter shall pay the annual dues set by the executive board.
Section 2. Dues are to be paid by the end of the first quarter.
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Section 1. Each member of this chapter shall be entitled to wear the Mu Alpha Theta insignia.
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Section 1. Concurrence of the majority of the members shaIl be required to ratify this constitution.
Section 2. Any amendment to this constitution must be presented by a chapter member or by the sponsor to the executive board. After approval of the executive board, it will be presented to the members at the following meeting at which time it will become effective if and only if it is passed by a majority vote of the members.
DATE: April 18, 1996
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Section 3. Membership status requires a minimum of a 3.5 cumulative average m college prep mathematics. This requirement must be maintained throughout a student's membership in Tampa Catholic's Mu Alpha Theta.
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6. Despite its repeal by Schedule 27 to the 2010 Act, section 28JA of the 1995 Act(1) continues to have effect but the references in that section to proceedings under Chapter 1 of Part IV of the 1995 Act are to be read as references to proceedings under Chapter 1 of Part 6 of the 2010 Act and section 116 of, and Schedule 17 to, that Act.
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What a fun engagement session we had down at the Des Moines Marina. When I got down to the Marina, I was beginning to look at shooting a lot of their session under awnings and inside whatever buildings that I could find because of the rain, but when we were about to start, we were blessed with no rain and a few sun rays in the two hour window that we were photographing in. Special thanks to my buddy Brian for second shooting and a bunch of the photos you see below.
Evan + Elise + Chloe | Des Moines Marina Engagement + 1
awesome photos, I'm happy & proud of you!
Jerome, I've always loved your work, but these are absolutely stunning!!! The one with the little girl pick flowers and the couple kissing in the background and the one of their reflection on the water with the pebbles- gorgeous! Nice work!


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LOS ANGELES -- A former city manager accused of masterminding a scam to bilk the blue-collar Los Angeles suburb of Bell of more than $6.5 million was ordered Thursday to stand trial on more than 50 counts of fraud.
Superior Court Judge Henry J. Hall said the evidence presented during a three-week preliminary hearing showed Robert Rizzo paid himself an unauthorized and exorbitant annual salary and compensation package of nearly $1.5 million a year, and falsified city payroll records to hide his pay and benefits from a suspicious public.
Rizzo's base salary alone was so high, Hall said, that he made more money in a week than the average Bell resident does in a year.
Rizzo's former assistant, Angela Spaccia, now-recalled Mayor Oscar Hernandez and former City Councilman Luis Artiga were also ordered to trial on fraud counts. The four, all free on bail, were told to return to court March 24 for an arraignment.
Hall's ruling came two days after angry Bell residents went to the polls and voted in an entirely new City Council.
Rizzo, dressed in a blue sports coat and grey slacks, quietly walked out of court without comment. Spaccia managed a weak smile but declined to comment.
"She'll get to tell her story later. You've only heard one side of the story so far," said her attorney, Gregory J. Patterson.
Rizzo was charged with 54 total counts, Spaccia with four, Artiga with two and Hernandez with one.
Rizzo is accused of illegally creating his own salary and loan contracts and falsifying public documents when a Bell resident demanded to know how much he was paid.
In all, prosecutors say, he misued $6.7 million of taxpayers' money, including more than $3 million he directed to himself.
The counts against Spaccia involve her salary, which prosecutors say was not approved by the City Council, and three loans totaling more than $300,000 that she was granted.
Hernandez was charged with taking one illegal loan for $20,000, and Artiga with taking two for $20,000 each.
Prosecutors claim Rizzo, 57, and others stole millions from Bell by illegally inflating their salaries. They also said Rizzo doled out nearly $2 million in unauthorized loans of public money to himself and dozens of others, and that he hid his salary and those of others by falsifying public records.
Rizzo was fired last summer, shortly after the Los Angeles Times reported the compensation package he received to run the modest city of 40,000 residents where one in six people live in poverty.
Rizzo, Spaccia, Artiga, Hernandez and four other past and present Bell officials were arrested in September. The others were ordered to stand trial following a similar hearing last month involving separate charges.
Judge Hall concluded that Rizzo and Spaccia set their salary contracts without City Council approval, paying themselves salaries far out of line with what other city officials make.
He noted that San Jose, a city of 1.7 million people, only pays its city manager $273,000 a year.
Hall also concluded that Rizzo used the loans to essentially run Bell, buying off anybody who might complain.
Rizzo's attorney James Spertus had argued the loans to dozens of city employees were legal and were made, in many cases, to retain top employees or help people through difficult times. Hall didn't disagree but said only the City Council, not Rizzo, had the authority to make such loans.
"It doesn't matter that they were made for good motives," the judge said, noting that Rizzo used the program to repeatedly make loans to himself, "whenever the spirit moved him, seemingly."
Spertus said outside court he was disappointed with the outcome of the hearing but added the ability of the defense to present its own evidence at a preliminary hearing is limited, and the burden of proof on the prosecution much lower than a trial.
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Title: | Reconsidering the syntax of non-canonical negative inversion |
Author: | Jessica White-Sustaita |
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Abstract: | Two main hypotheses have been proposed to account for the word order of negative inversion (NI) in varieties of non-canonical English (e.g. Don't nobody else care). An auxiliary inversion analysis argues that the word order is derived via movement of the auxiliary to the left periphery, whereas an existential analysis argues that the word order is an artifact of deletion of the expletive subject, paralleling there-insertion existential constructions. After reviewing these hypotheses, I provide empirical evidence that neither of these theories adequately explains the peculiarities of NI. I advance a third hypothesis, namely that NI is the result of negative movement to the specifier of NegP, and that this movement is pragmatically motivated by an existential meaning in NI constructions. Syntactically, NI is made possible through the Neg-Criterion (Haegeman & Zanuttini 1991, 1996). This analysis explains problems encountered by prior analyses, and offers a unified analysis for variation in NI across dialects. Finally, I explain cross-dialectal differences in NI by considering the relationship between subject requirements and agreement. |
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A delicious winter salad brightened by tart lemony vinaigrette and mandarin chunks.
White chocolate peppermint cookie using almond flour - grain and gluten free.
Addictingly delicious spiced dark chocolate granola with buckwheat, seeds, and almonds. {recipe}
Can't have oats? Try using buckwheat groats instead for your morning oatmeal. {recipe not in English}
No-Baked Spiced Chocolate Macaroons
All time favourite gluten-free and paleo pancakes, good for waffles as well.
Tried of boring potatoes? Try mashed yams with goat cheese.
Try this gluten-free version of your favourite comfort food with healthy cauliflower.
Kick up your summer coleslaw with some banana or peperoncini peppers.
Try a new cocktail full of fruit and spice this weekend - Pimm's Fruit Cup!
These cookies are deliciously soft and addicting with homemade nut butter.
Julia Child's Beef Bourguignon melt in your mouth braised beef with hints of red wine.
Pho (Vietnamese Noodle Soup) is a light warming dish, perfect for rainy spring days.
Welcome spring with this floral pink cupcake!
Peppercorn Roast Beef and Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Chestnuts and Bacon
Try a new cocktail at your next dinner party - Spiced Ginger Pear Cocktail
Brown Butter Chai Shortbread, with a hint of spice. The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap.
Making your own Bailey's at home couldn't be any simpler.
Guinness Chocolate Cake with Whiskey Caramel Sauce and Cream Cheese Frosting. Enough said.
Warm up with this creamy fall squash and pumpkin soup!
A regular banana chocolate chip muffin gets kicked up a health notch by adding whole wheat and spelt flour.
Have leftovers from a Turkey feast? Create a Leftover Thanksgiving Pizza!
This earthy swiss chard/pesto combination for an omelette is incredibly delicious!
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Sun tea. A refreshing way to cool down with lemon and mint.
This refreshing Watermelon Ginger Fizz has a nice ginger kick to it that beats the summer heat.
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Addicting oven baked chips get a pop of royal purple colour, using Hawaiian Sweet Potato.
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This has been a lucky month for yours truly. First I got to review the best high- powered stereo amplifier Iíve heard, the amazing $8995 Audio Research VT-200, and now I get to review the best high-powered monoblock amplifiers Iíve heard, the amazing $18,700-a-pair Atma-Sphere MA-2 Mk. IIs.
Actually, I came to the Atma-Spheres before the ARC, right after finishing my review of the Goldmund SR-M monoblocks (still my favorite solid-state amps). At the time I was preparing a review of the Maggie 1.6QRs, which mate up so well with the Goldmunds. Just for the heck of it, I threw the Atma-Spheres in in the Goldmundís stead (well, at twenty-six tubes per block you donít ìthrowî the Atma-Spheres in anywhere), thinking that a bit of the old ultra-tubularity might make for an interesting contrast. As it turned out, it wasnít the contrast between the amps that floored me but the similarities.
By this I donít mean that the amps sounded identical. What I mean is that the qualities that I expected to lose, that one generally expects to lose switching from transistors to tubesóto wit, a certain amount of transient speed, a bit of inner detail, treble extension, control in the bassówerenít lost. If anything, the Atma-Spheres sounded even ìfasterî and more extended than the Goldmunds, every bit as detailed, and a helluva lot more beautiful in tone and timbre. What the hey was going on?
Since I knew that the SR-Ms were unusually wideband amplifiers, with an extremely high slew rate, I took a look at the MA-2 Mk. IIsí spec sheet, and guess what? The Atma-Spheres had a power bandwidth of, get this, DC to one megaHertz (-3 dB)! (This in a tube amplifier!) And a slew rate of 600 volts per microsecond!¹
Slewing and bandwidth like this are unprecedented coming from glass bottles. But then the Atma-Spheres are anything but ordinary glass amps. For starters, they are missing the one item most responsible for putting the brakes on tube-amp speedóan output transformer. Yup, the MA-2s are output transformerless (OTL) amps. But waitó thereís more. The Atma-Spheres arenít just OTLs; theyíre fully differential, all-triode, class A, negative-feedback-free, single-gain- stage, two-hundred-and-twenty-watt OTLs ólatter-day iterations of the Circlotron circuit marketed in the Fifties by E-V (and original patented by Cecil Hall).²
Although Jim Bongiorno used a modification of the Circlotron in his solid-state GAS amps in the Seventies, it is Atma-Sphereís designer, Ralph Karsten, who resuscitated the Circlotron as a fully differential triode-tube circuit. Karsten has been perfecting this designóand this design aloneófor almost twenty years. Although Balanced Audio Technologies has (relatively recently) joined the Circlotron sweepstakes on the tube side, I can tell you for a fact that BATís amps, lovely sounding though they are, arenít in the same league as Karstenís masterpieces.
What the MA-2s sound like are giant, inexhaustible, much lower in distortion and much more controlled-and-extended-at-the-extremes, single-ended-triode amplifiers. Which is to say they have the exquisite tonal beauty, tremendous dynamic verve, and uncanny ìdirectnessî of low-wattage S-Es, without the inevitable roll-offs in the treble and bass, the excessive second harmonic distortion, or the bump-your-head power ceiling. Moreover, unlike most OTLs (or S-Es), the Atma-Spheres will work with any load from 4 ohms up. (Iím currently using them with the Maggie 20Rsóscarcely an easy speaker to drive, given their power requirements. The MA-2s are also said to be a superb match with Dr. Roger Westís SoundLabs electrostatsóonce again, speakers that are anything but easy on the olí output stage.)
Rather than beginning with a checklist of sonic pluses and minuses, let me start by telling you about a real-life experience I had with these amps (fed by the c-j ART, driving the Maggie 20Rs). For almost thirty years nowóever since I ìborrowedî the record from my then-girlfriend, now-wife KathyóIíve been high on Artur Rubinsteinís rendition of the Chopin Ballade in G Minor on LSC-2370. In my book about RCA recordings, I said of this great performance that it seems uttered in a single breath, like one of Proustís long, languorous sentences. The sound of the disc, on the other hand, has always struck me as less than top-drawer, ìlacking just a bit of weight in the low end and overall scale and focus to qualify as one of the best RCAsîóto quote myself. One night a few months back, I had a couple of audiophile chums over to listen to the Maggies and the Atma-Spheres. One of them, a certain ìbottom-feedingî conniver who will go nameless here, made a crack about Chopinís piano music, which had heretofore left him cold. I immediately dug out the Ballades album and, without paying much attention, smacked the disc inside down on the turntableóa classic ìso, thereî move. (This is beginning to sound like a Seinfeld episode, or the prelude to one of Wayneís Fi Personalsósee back page of this issue.)
After only a few bars, my pal, the bottom-feeder, slumped back in the sweet spot. ìThis is gorgeous,î said he. ìAnd the recording! It really sounds like Rubinsteinís in the room.î
And the truth is it really did sound as if Rubinstein were in the room. Too much so, in fact. The illusion of piano and pianist was so lifelike that instead of wallowing in my triumph (like Chopin cares, right?) I was seized with the horrible feeling that Iíd put the wrong disc on the ítableóthat Iíd inadvertently misfiled a different, far better- sounding recording of the Ballade in the RCA jacket. (An event not unprecedented in the Valin household.) Even though the phrasing was unmistakably Rubinsteinís, I actually went over to the turntable to double-check. (Of course, I didnít tell anyone why I was doing this.)
Understand, this is a recording I thought I knew by heart, but the way it was transformed (and thatís the only word for it) by the Atma-Spheres proved that I didnít. Iím not talking about small differences in bass weight or image focus or dynamic scale, although all of these things were certainly changed; the Atma-Spheres worked a difference in gestalt, in the overall presence of Rubinsteinís piano and piano-playing. For a few magical minutes, the Steinway and Ruby seemed born again.
As the ARC VT-200 does (although not in quite the same way), the Atma-Sphere MA-2 Mk. IIs reproduce instrumental actionóthe way the image of that Steinway changes in response to the dynamic nuances of Rubinsteinís playing (and the register he is playing in)ówith sensational realism. Additionally, and in this regard it is arguably superior to the VT-200, there is a single-ended-like ìdirectnessî to its sound, which has something to do with a class A-triodeís way of focusing instrumental images and, in the Atma-Spheresí case, the absence of an output transformer.
The 6550-based VT-200 reproduces instrumental images with a slight haziness, forwardness, and softness of focus that actually works on behalf of the illusion of ìaction,î in the same way that a snapshot of a subject in motion taken with a 90 millimeter lens at, say, one-sixtieth of a second on 400 speed film preserves, via its slight blur, closeness, and grain, that very sense of a thing in motion. The Atma-Spheresí class A triodes do not blur instruments to this degree, and do not reproduce action in quite the same way. The slight haze, forwardness, and softness are lifted, as if the same snapshot was taken with a 60 millimeter lens at one-five-hundredth of a second on 50 speed film. Because of the triode tubeís finer grain structure, instrumental colors are more saturated; backgrounds are dead quiet; instrumental images are less ephemeral, more robustly three- dimensional; and instrumental outlines are naturally soft but more cleanly cut. Although dynamic changes via the Atma-Spheres, are, as they should be, directly tied to the height, width, and volume of instrumental images, those images arenít typically pulled forward beyond the plane of the speaker (unless they were miked that way), as they are via the VT-200ís pentodes. Rubinsteinís piano stays back a bit (although never reduced in impact or size), more accurately reflecting its distance from the microphones (which in this case were close, elevated six-to-eight feet away, but not right on top of the sounding board). Because it tends to image from the plane of the speakers back, the Atma-Spheresí presentation may not be quite as immediate as that of the more free-wheeling VT-200, but unless you enjoy a consistently up-front sound or are used to sitting on top of instruments at concerts or clubs the Atma-Spheres will seem every bit as lifelike.
When it comes to soundstaging, the Atma-Spheres take second place to none. Their superb focus means that individual instruments in, say, string, wind, and brass choirs are finely imaged front-to-back, side-to-side, floor-to-ceiling. A big, various, exciting piece like Lutoslawskiís Concerto for Orchestra (the Kletzki LP on London), which mixes large-scale antiphonal effects and grand percussive tuttis with exquisite wind-horn-or-string miniatures of astonishing harmonic subtlety, is reproduced with breathtaking scope, drive, clarity of inner line, and tonal beauty. The Atma-Spheres create wall-to-wall ístaging in the best senseóthe sense in which the ístage is not filled with tiny ranks of tiny players, reduced in height and robbed of action, but with staggered rows of life-sized musicians who actually seem to be playing their instruments instead of sitting by them. On Brian Wilsonís Imagination [Warner Bros.], not only is every vocal line (and all ninety-six tracks of íem are Brian) clearly reproduced in layered space, so are the potted-in ambient effectsóthe artificial echo, the duration and cut-off of the echoó associated with each line. Thus, when Wilson whoops it up on ìLet Him Run Wildî in classic Beach Boysí harmony, you can actually hear his fifty-five-year-old voice go a bit flat, as he strains for the high hard one, and then hear the echo of that flatted note, just before the track is abruptly potted out. Thatís how focused the Atma-Spheres are.
The MA-2 Mk. IIs donít merely bring superior focus to the soundstage. Instrumental harmonics are also in better focus. The odd-order distortions which brighten and grain-up the sonic picture via pentodes (and much solid-state) are markedly reduced. For instance, the upper register harmonics of female vocals, particularly when the singer is singing forte, are typically exaggerated by pentode and solid-state amps. You hear this not only as a tinge of brightness or, in worst cases, sibilance, but also as a concomitant defocusing of the singerís voice: the stereo image suddenly flattens out and splays upward as if the singer is singing entirely from her head, rather than projecting forward in a soft-edged, expanding sphere, as if she is singing from chest, throat, and head.(See Figures 1 & 2).
As of this writing, the Atma-Spheres are the only high-powered monoblock tube amps (and the c-j ART the only preamp) Iíve heard that doesnít odd-order-distort a female voice in this wayóthat doesnít slightly flatten, coarsen, and splay image and action.
As long as weíre talking about harmonics, let me say a word about the Atma- Sphereís tonal balance. That word is, gorgeous. This thing is as flattering to instruments as any amp Iíve heard, single-digit triodes not excepted.
Unlike the VT-200, the MA-2 Mk. IIs are rather to the darker side of dead-central neutral, in part because they are a bit more recessed in the midrange and upper midrange, and a bit fuller in the bass. In those bottom octaves, the MA-2s exceed their tube competition in control, extension, and inner detail. These things have the definition and slam of transistor amps in the critical mid-to-low bass, with the tone color and bloom of triode tubes. In addition to being as powerfully authoritative as the VT-200 in the midbass, the Atma-Spheres simply allow you to hear more of whatís going on down at the very bottomóand where itís going on. Timps, double-basses, electric bass, contrabassoon, tuba, piano have tremendous color, vitality, definition, and focusó contrabasses, for example, bloom at the mid-to-back right of the stage, rather than being pulled forward closer to the right front of the stage as they are by the VT-200. The fact that an OTL can produce such high-quality low end is really kind of amazing.
In the midrange the Atma-Spheres are just beautiful sounding. Although not as bloomy or as effervescently detailed here as is the VT-200, neither are they as bright, forward, and uncritically forgiving. (These things will tell you, more accurately than the ARC, how well a recording was mixed and mastered, although like a flattering mirror they donít insist on the flaws.) Heiftezís Guarnerius, Primroseís Strad on the Benjamin Romantic Fantasy I mentioned in the ARC review, dance with richer colors and fuller bodies than they have via the ARC, if not quite the same astounding up-front immediacy and breathy detail. In the upper midrange, the Atma-Spheres are the very essence of triode liquidity. Iíve already mentioned the unusually realistic way they handle upper octave female vocals, and this holds true for strings, brasses, and winds, as well.
In the very top octaves, the Atma-Spheres are well nigh perfect. Although they have a slight glint of added energy in the lower treble, they do not soften the metal of cymbals, bells, triangles as the ARC does (ever so slightly). Moreover, they are every bit as extened on top as the remarkable VT-200, floating that bell-tree I mentioned in the ARC review on the same plush cushion of air.
So where are the rubs? Well, Iíve mentioned the slight glint of brightness in the lower treble (which can, depending on the recording, add a bit too much sparkle and sting to certain instruments or instrumental overtones), the slight darkness of the overall balance (which subtracts a bit of the bloom and immediacy the VT-200 is so good at recreating), the bit of recession in the midband (roughly a Row G presentation), and, well, thatís about it, unless throwing the most expansive soundstage Iíve ever heard, filled with instruments of lifelike size, color, energy, and presence, counts against it. Of course, the MA-2s are very expensive, at nineteen grand the hand-made, hard-wired pair. And although I havenít experienced a problem with my little stable of speakers, theoretically they wonít work with certain very low impedance loads (unlike the imperturbable ARC amp). However, if you have a loudspeaker that is 4-ohms or up and can afford to pay for the very best, the Atma-Sphere MA-2 Mk. IIs have your name written on either chassis. (And if you donít have nineteen grand, you can ìsettleî for the VT-200. Either way, youíll be one supremely happy music lover.)
In concluding, let me note that, unlike some fly-by-night OTL and S-E manufacturers of recent memory, Ralph Karstenís been in business, hand-building these beauties, for almost two decades. God williní and the river donít rise, this is one specialty-audio manufacturer you can trust will still be there well into the next millennium. Bravississimo, Atma-Sphere!
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Fi Component In A Nutshell
Musical Fare: Superb on every kind of music,
at any dynamic level
Associated Equipment
Tube, OTL monoblock amplifiers
Atma-Sphere Music Systems
160 South Wheeler
St. Paul, MN 55105
Ph.: (651) 690-2246; Fax: (651) 699-1175
Net: www.atma-sphere.com
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Price: $18,700
Warranty: Two years (one year on tubes)
Dimensions: 28" x 17" x 10" (L, W, H)
Weight: 103 lbs. (each chassis)
Number of years in business: 20
Number of dealers: 13
Handcrafted, point-to-point wired; user-selectable
input impedance; dual AC power cords; user-
adjustable DC offset and bias (via built-in meter); XLR and RCA inputs; ìstarî
grounding; forty 6AS7 output tubes, twelve 6SN7 driver tubes
Shorting pins (for unbalanced operation), power cords
ï Power Output: 220 watts per channel into 4 or 8 ohm load ï Power Bandwidth: 2
Hz to 75 kHz -.5 dB, 1 Hz to 1 MHz -3 dB (1 watt, open loop) ï Output Rise Time: 600
Pitch Range: Outstanding
Timbre: Outstanding to State-of-the-Art
Dynamics: Outstanding
Duration: Outstanding
Staging: State of the Art
Imaging: Outstanding
Clarity: Outstanding
Value For Dollar: Excellent
Overall Rating: Outstanding
Other Components I Should Listen To: Audio
Research VT-200
Analog Front End: Clearaudio/Souther Reference
record player, Clearaudio Gold Coil Accurate cartridge,
c-j Premier 15 phono stage preamp, ARC PH-3SE
phono stage preamp, Transparent Reference phono
interconnect ï Digital Front End: Goldmund Mimesis
36 CD transport, Audio Note DAC-4 Signature, Trans-
parent Reference-XL digital interconnect ï Preamp:
conrad-johnson ART, ARC Reference One ï Speakers:
Magneplanar MG20R, Shun Mook Bella Voce Signa-
ture, Magneplanar 1.6QR, Martin-Logan reQuest
ï Speaker Cable: Transparent Reference XL, Nordost
SPM ï Interconnect: Transparent Reference XL,
Nordost Quattro Fil
Bybee conditioner, Townshend Sinks, Bright Star sandboxes, RPG Diffusor
system, ASC tube traps, Shun Mook pucks
¹ By comparison, the ARC VT-200 has a (remarkable-for-pentode) power bandwidth of 12 to 120 kHz (-3 dB) and a slew speed of 25 volts per microsecond.
² The Circlotron can be freely described as a kind of single-ended/push-pull circuit: two separate amplifiers per channel (the single-ended parts) are joined together at output, with one amplifier handling the positive half of the wave cycle and the other the negative. Current loops back and forth between the two amplifiers (the push-pull part) in a self-referential, self-balancing circle (ergo, Circlotron)óin the Atma-Sphere MA- 2, without the mediation of an output transformer.
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