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I started using shampoo bars over a year ago when I found out about all the chemicals in my "regular" shampoo. Between that and all the plastic packaging (which could only be downcycled at best), I decided to give up the liquid shampoo and move onto something that had no packaging and no synthetic chemicals.
Unfortunately, finding shampoo bars is a little difficult. They differ from regular soap in that they contain oils that are more gentle on your hair and help condition it. Oils like castor and jojoba. Since I had made my own cold-processed soap in the past, I decided to try to make my own shampoo bars.
However, trying to come up with a decent shampoo bar recipe was almost as difficult as finding the shampoo bars themselves. There were a couple recipes that I found online, but they just didn't contain the ingredients I wanted to put in my homemade bars. After extensive research and going through my soap making stock, I settled on my own recipe. Below is the basic recipe, I'll tell you how to customize it for your hair color at the end.One more thing - this is a cold process soap. Please follow all the basics for making this type of soap. In other words, be careful with the lye - if you are not experienced in making your own soap, please do some research. If you don't have the right fats, feel free to switch them out (use an online lye calculator to adjust the lye!), just make sure to leave in the castor and jojoba oils. They are what makes this a shampoo bar and not a body soap.
Basic Shampoo Bar Recipe4 ounces castor oil2 ounces jojoba oil4 ounces sunflower oil3 ounces palm oil1 ounce cocoa butter8 ounces coconut oil8 ounces distilled water3 ounces lye1/2 to 1 ounce essential oils at trace Cut into bars when solid. This recipe takes about 4 days to reach a solid state, but check frequently. Once cut, let the bars cure, covered by a towel, for 4 weeks. Lemon Chamomile Shampoo Bar (for blonde hair)I like to call this one, California Sunshine Shampoo Bar. Follow the above recipe except, instead of the distilled water, steep a half cup or so of chamomile tea herbs in 12 ounces of boiling distilled water and strain well. Measure out 8 ounces and use this for your water.At trace, add in 1 ounce of lemon essential oil or use a mix of citrus essential oils. I used a combination of lemon, orange, lemongrass and bergamot.Rosemary Mint Shampoo Bar (for dark hair)Follow the above recipe except, instead of the distilled water, steep a half cup or so of chopped rosemary in 12 ounces of boiling distilled water and strain well. Measure out 8 ounces and use this for your water.At trace, add in rosemary and mint essential oils.
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Myrtle Beach Christmas Shows
Celebrate the holidays in Myrtle Beach by seeing an unforgettable Christmas show. All of our holiday shows are sure to get you in the Christmas spirit. Make sure to plan your Myrtle Beach Christmas vacation early as these popular show tickets will sell fast!
Christmas Wonderland
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One of the most delightful and enchanting Christmas Shows Ever! Our wonderful Christmas Celebration features glittering costumes, gorgeous Christmas Songs and the highest kicking chorus girls this side of the North Pole! The Magic of Christmas unfolds as Santa and his special Elves take you on a journey of must see Christmas Cheer!
Be amazed as the worlds largest floating ice pond is lowered to the Palace Theatre stage direct from Santa's Workshop. Marvel at the beauty and grace as 2 championship ice skaters perform a spectacular routine before your very eyes! Songs Include 'White Christmas', 'Winter Wonderland', 'Jingle Bells', 'Deck The Halls', 'Rocking Around The Christmas Tree' and many many more! It is perfect for the entire family and will be a magical, colorful Winter Wonderland like no other!
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The Carolina Opry Christmas Special
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The Carolina Opry Christmas Special is the "Top attraction in Myrtle Beach" according to CNBC. A holiday tradition for over 30 years, The Carolina Opry Christmas Special brings the spirit of Christmas to life with music, comedy and dance. Referred to as "The Holiday Show of the South," this show is at the top of every Myrtle Beach Holiday itinerary.
Award winning producer, director and performer Calvin Gilmore said recently, "Right now, families and groups need light-hearted entertainment more than ever before. We are pulling out all the stops to make this the most amazing, funny, warm and wonderful show ever."
The 2015 season brings exciting new changes blended with your favorite traditions; new talent mingled with your favorite rotating artists – including All That, Rocky Fretz and new voice, Nathan Herron! All That, clogging stars of NBC's America's Got Talent, return with all new material for 2015. A member of the original Carolina Opry cast in 1986, Rocky Fretz has been dazzling our audiences for over 25 years. An incredible vocal talent and star of American Idol, Nathan is quickly becoming a crowd favorite. Expect to see some new material carefully blended with your traditional favorites.
The Carolina Opry Christmas Special is the original Christmas show in Myrtle Beach and has been a perennial vote leader as Best Holiday Show in Myrtle Beach. Shows run November 2 through January 2, 2016, with regular evening performances and selectively scheduled matinees.
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Celebrate the holidays in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina with the Alabama Theatre's award winning production, The South's Grandest Christmas Show. This year's Christmas extravaganza brings an incredible combination of talent, scenery and special effects to the Grand Strand to produce a spectacular new holiday musical experience sure to put you in the season's spirit.
The South's Grandest Christmas Show will instill the true meaning of Christmas in your family with its combination of traditional Christmas classics and contemporary holiday favorites. The South's Grandest Christmas Show is a southern family tradition on the Grand Strand with visitors and locals returning year after year.
Also featured in this year's show will be comedian Ricky Mokel who always puts a new twist on the Christmas season. So, if you want to celebrate Christmas with an evening filled with song, dance and laughter, the Alabama Theatre is the place you want to be with your family and friends.
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I really wanted the dvd's cause you can't get them anywhere! So i placed the order again using another card, i'm still not sure why the first transaction was denied. However this time the payment was accepted. I was e-mailed to say it was being prossesed.
6th September I was emailed and told my order had been shipped, due to arrive by the 12th however as i was an international client i should allow a further four days. By the 23rd i began to get annoyed and e-mailed the company a few times. No answer. I logged back on to the site to find the site no longer recognised Party of Five, when i searched for it.
The site has a section for contacting staff with questions supposidly with a fast response. I e-mailed twice and i'm now in october still waiting a reply. As i said i'm an intenational client from scotland I never had the option to track my order.
So next I googled these words, tvboxet and Party of five, only for a report from another girl to pop up on a site about being ripped off. alas i was indeed ripped off. $98 for my dvd's and the really annoying part they actually charged me a further $30 for delivery on something that never existed so never needed delivered. for the love of god.
For the record dvddonkey must be run by the same people as this is a new site advertising Party of Five all six seasons for purchase, as it specialises in "hard to find dvd's" these dvd's arn't hard to find they don't bloody exist.
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So I got this error:
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when I activated the Gravity Forms plugin. Tried it with a few other plugins, too, same problem.
I've already checked functions.php, pluggable.php, and wp-config.php for leading/trailing whitespace. The error only comes up when I try to activate a new plugin. Any ideas?
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Original Title: High Society
Year of Poster: 1950s
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Actor/Artist/Director: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, dir. Charles Walters
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Country of Film: American
Size: 41 x 27 inches = 104 x 69 cm
Condition: Excellent
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In June 2013, Nat Geo Wild presenter Ben Britton will guide a lucky group of travellers deep into the wilds of Botswana with the aim of tracking, darting and attaching a tracking collar to one of the 'Big Cats' at the Northern Tuli Predator Project. At the end of the trip, travelers will be given a website and an access code which will allow them to monitor the animals progress across Africa for the next 2 years.
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How do I remove the bullet points from the plugin "List Category Posts"? There is no CSS file.
Thank you!
How do I remove the bullet points from the plugin "List Category Posts"? There is no CSS file.
Thank you!
It takes a lot of time writing and maintaining the plugin's documentation. Please take the time to read it:
Just add a 'lcp_catlist' class to your css and add "list-style-type: none;" to it.
Sorry, but I was confused by the documentation which is why I asked here.
Anyway, thank you.
Thanks for making the plugin. However, I could not find anything in the documentation that refers directly to making a class to remove the bullet points. I might be being a novice but I can not get it to work :)
I've added the class to my customer css .cp_catlist ul {list-style-type:none;}
and added it to the short code [catlist id=25 content=no numberposts=2 class=cp_catlist]
Can anyone see where I'm going wrong here?
its lcp_catlist
not working for me either... I posted the same css code as the author told me to.. inside my style.css it says:
#lcp_catlist {
ul {list-style-type:none;
okay so I added this to my css .lcp_catlist {list-style-type:none;} and I use this for my short code [catlist ID=1259 class=lcp_catlist orderby=date order=DESC numberposts=1 content=yes] but the bullet will not go away any idea what I need to fix here? I just need to get the bullet to disappear
Found a solution worked for my may not work for everyone but this is what I used in my style sheet and it removed the bullet
#content ul.lcp_catlist li {list-style-type:none;}
Hi. To make a web page consisting of thumbnails of posts (products) which show the detail only by being clicked, I tried to hide all the features of the posts except for their thumbnails. For this reason I made a CSS class in Style Sheet: .lcp_class {display:none} for title and then I used it in shortcode scheme [catlist id=10 title_class="lcp_class"]. There was no change on the title appearance. The strange point is, no way appeared to me to hide the content of the posts as well.
Thsnk you for helping me.
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MXM: Wrong color, 3
The wrong color changes everything.
Advertising Agency: RGA Comunicacão, Recife, Brazil
Creative Director: Daniel Zago
Art Director: Marcelo Maciel
Copywriter: Leonardo Parnes
Published:October 2009
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Just CopyNov 18, 2009 - 12:33
Good campaign but should´ve used other things, not only soccer logos. And a few weeks earlier I was a campaign also about paints and the line said "the colour matters" with a different execution that was far better. I think it was from lowe bull of south africa but not so sure.


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An embodiment of the invention relates to noise cancellation techniques that improve headset-based audio communications using a portable host device. Other embodiments are also described.
For two-way, real-time audio communications, referred to here generically as voice or video telephony, a user can wear a headset that includes a single earphone (also referred to as a headphone or a speaker) and a microphone, or a pair of stereo earphones and a microphone, that are connected to a host communications device such as a smart phone. The headset, which is said to integrate the earphones with a microphone, may be connected to the host device through a 4-conductor electrical interface typically referred to as a headset plug and jack matching pair. The 4-conductors are used as follows: a pair of them is used for the left and right earphone signals, respectively; one of them connects the microphone signal; and the last one is a reference or power return, conventionally taken as the audio circuit reference potential. The plug that is at the end of the headset cable fits into a mating 4-conductor jack that is integrated in the housing of the host device. Connections are made within the host device from the contacts of the headset jack to various audio processing electronic components of the host device.
The packaging restrictions in certain types of host devices such as a smart phone or a cellular phone create difficult challenges for routing the signal and power lines. For example, the headset jack is often located distant from the main logic board on which the audio processing components are installed, so that the headset signal needs to be routed through a flexible circuit and one or more board-to-board connectors. The multiple connections to in effect what is a distributed ground plane, as well as the manner in which the connections are made namely through narrow or thin metal traces, and can lead to the creation of audio noise during operation of the host device. In addition, with the shared nature of the headset's reference or ground contact (shared by the microphone and the earphones of the headset), further noise current is produced at the output of a microphone signal amplifier. This amplifier (also referred to as a microphone preamplifier) provides an initial boost to the relatively weak microphone signal that is received from the headset. The practical effect of such audio noise at the output of the microphone preamplifier may be that the listener at the far end of a telephone conversation hears an echo of her own voice, and/or a reduction in the quality of the sound heard by the far end listener (also referred to as degraded signal to noise ratio).
Attempts to reduce (or, as generically referred to here, "cancel") the noise at the output of the microphone pre-amplifier have been made. In one case, the concept of differentially sensing the microphone signal is used. For this purpose, a differential amplifier (in contrast with a single-ended one) is used to only amplify the difference between the voltage at a sense point for the headset ground contact and the voltage at a sense point for the microphone signal contact. Using such a configuration, any alternating current (AC) voltages that may appear as noise between a local ground (local to the microphone preamp integrated circuit) and the ground that is near the headset jack or socket are largely rejected (that is, not significantly amplified), while the AC signal on the microphone signal contact is amplified.
The generally irregular routing of the microphone and speaker signals and their common return in the host device leads to a common mode imbalance that can cause undesired common mode noise to be coupled into either a microphone signal loop or a speaker signal loop. In practice the microphone signal loop is more prone to contamination by offensive audio band noise. In addition, the irregular routing of the audio signals represents a finite impedance that can act as a victim impedance for near-by sources of noise within the host device, whether of low frequency similar to the audio base bandwidth, frequencies subject to heterodyning or fold over by sampled data converters, or non-linear impedances capable of demodulating local radio frequency energy.
The differential sensing approach described above in the Background section for ameliorating microphone preamp noise falls short, when the following practical considerations are taken into account. First, there are several different types of microphone-speaker combinations in the marketplace, each of which may have a different type of microphone circuit. Moreover, there are manufacturing variations in the microphone circuit, even for the same make and model of microphone-speaker combination. Finally, manufacturing as well as temperature variations will affect the electrical characteristics of a flexible circuit or board-to-board connector that is used to connect with the microphone-speaker combination interface within the host device. Any successful attempt to cancel the microphone preamp noise, by differentially sensing the microphone signal, will require knowledge of the precise electrical characteristics of the relevant circuitry, in each instance of the manufactured host device and microphone-speaker combination. This however is not practically possible due to the variations just discussed.
An embodiment of the invention is an improved circuit for reducing microphone preamp noise in a two-way audio communications host device. The circuit provides a more robust solution in that it is able to perform good noise reduction for at least two different types or brands of headsets, whose microphone circuits have different impedances.
A switched attenuator circuit is coupled between a first input of a difference amplifier and a sense point for the reference or ground contact of the electrical interface used by the microphone-speaker combination. The second input of the amplifier is coupled to a sense point for the microphone contact. The attenuator circuit has at least two selectable states. In its first state, the attenuator circuit couples the reference sense point to the first input, e.g. through a resistor ladder network or a voltage divider; in the second state, the first input is isolated from the reference sense point. This enables the difference amplifier to operate in two modes, namely, a differential sensing mode when the attenuator circuit is in the first state, and a single ended mode when the attenuator circuit is in the second state.
In the differential sensing mode, the output of the difference amplifier is proportional to a difference between the voltage at the microphone sense point and an attenuated version of the voltage at the reference sense point. The amount of attenuation may be empirically determined during testing or development of the host device, to be the one that yields best noise reduction for those types of microphone-speaker combinations that are deemed to have a high impedance microphone circuit.
In the single ended mode, the output of the difference amplifier is proportional to the voltage of the microphone sense point; this mode performs better noise cancellation for microphone-speaker combinations that have a low impedance microphone circuit. The impedance ranges that define the low and high impedance microphone circuits may be determined experimentally. For example, a low impedance circuit may be one that exhibits less than 5,000 Ohms in the audio frequency range; a high impedance circuit may be one that exhibits more than 20,000 Ohms. The amount of attenuation that is available in the attenuator circuit depends upon the expected impedance range of the microphone circuits.
A controller may be provided, to set the attenuator circuit into a given state depending upon the type of microphone-speaker combination to which the host device is connected. For example, if the microphone-speaker combination type is one that exhibits low impedance (as seen looking out of the host device and into the microphone of the microphone-speaker combination electrical interface), then single ended mode is selected. The controller achieves this by setting the attenuator circuit into its second state; the amplifier input is thus isolated from the reference sense point. If, however, the microphone impedance is high, then differential mode is selected, by setting the attenuator circuit into its first state where the amplifier input is coupled to the reference sense point.
The above summary does not include an exhaustive list of all aspects of the present invention. It is contemplated that the invention includes all systems and methods that can be practiced from all suitable combinations of the various aspects summarized above, as well as those disclosed in the Detailed Description below and particularly pointed out in the claims filed with the application. Such combinations have particular advantages not specifically recited in the above summary.
The embodiments of the invention are illustrated by way of example and not by way of limitation in the figures of the accompanying drawings in which like references indicate similar elements. It should be noted that references to "an" or "one" embodiment of the invention in this disclosure are not necessarily to the same embodiment, and they mean at least one.
Several embodiments of the invention with reference to the appended drawings are now explained. While numerous details are set forth, it is understood that some embodiments of the invention may be practiced without these details. In other instances, well-known circuits, structures, and techniques have not been shown in detail so as not to obscure the understanding of this description.
The host 10 may be coupled to one or more microphone-speaker combinations 11, through its headset electrical interface 12. Several different types of microphone-speaker combinations 11 that can be used are shown, including two different types of headsets (one in which a pair of earphones or headphones are in loose form
Referring now to
In a typical case, all four of the contacts shown in
Note that in
With the microphone-speaker combination 11 connected to the host, its user can hear the far end user talking during a telephone call and can speak to the far end user at the same time, via the speakers 18 and microphone circuit 20, respectively. The voice of the far end user originates in a downlink communications signal that arrives into the host 10 over a communications network. A downlink audio signal may be in digital form when it is processed by a communications signal processor (not shown) with several stages that may include various digital signal processing stages, including a mixer that allows the addition of sidetone. The downlink audio signal with the sidetone is then converted into analog form using a digital to analog converter (DAC), before being applied to the headset electrical interface 12 by a speaker amplifier. At the same time, the near end user may speak into the microphone circuit 20, which picks up the voice as an uplink audio signal that passes through the headset interface 12 (in particular the microphone contacts 16, 16′). The uplink audio signal is then boosted by the microphone amplifier (preamplifier) and may then be converted into digital form by an analog to digital converter (ADC). This allows the generation of a digital sidetone signal (which is fed back to the speaker 18 as explained above). In addition, the uplink audio signal may be subjected to further digital signal processing before being transmitted to a remote device (e.g., the far end user's host device) over the communications network as an uplink communications signal.
Specifics of the noise cancellation circuitry in the host 10 are now described. Still referring to
Due to practical limitations, the electrical connection between the reference contact 15′ and the MLB ground is not identically zero Ohms, particularly in the audio frequency range. This may be due to various physical structures that create parasitic or stray effects, represented in
There are different types of microphone-speaker combinations that can be used with the same host connector, each of which may have different types of microphone circuits 20. For example, there are passive microphone circuits that are essentially passive acoustic transducers that produce an analog transducer signal on the microphone contact 16. There are also non-passive or active microphone circuits 20 that drive a modulated signal on the microphone contact 16. In both cases, a dc microphone bias circuit 22 may be needed in the host device 10, coupled to the microphone contact 16′ as shown, to provide a dc bias or power supply voltage for operation of the microphone circuits 20.
An attempt to cancel or reduce the noise, which appears in the uplink audio signal and may manifest itself when the far end user hears an echo of his own voice during a telephone call, calls for differentially sensing the microphone signal. As explained above in the Summary section, however, such a technique must be performed carefully else the noise reduction attempt will be ineffective. The different types of microphone circuits 20 present different impedances (both at dc and in the audio range) on the microphone contact 16′. Moreover, there are manufacturing variations in the microphone circuits 20, even for the same make and model of microphone-speaker combination. Thus, knowledge of the precise impedance characteristics of the microphone circuit 20, in addition to a good estimate of the parasitic components that cause a substantial difference between a signal at the output terminal of the microphone circuit 20 and what should be the same signal at the input terminal of the microphone amplifier in the host device 10, are needed. Such detailed knowledge however is not available to a single entity, at the time of manufacture of the host 10 and the microphone-speaker combination 11, because a purchaser of the host device 10 may elect to use any one of a large variety of different types or brands of microphone-speaker combinations including some that may not be available during the time the audio processing functions of the host device 10 are being designed.
Still referring to
In this embodiment, the hot input of the difference amplifier is AC coupled to a sense point for the microphone contact 16′, i.e. through a DC blocking capacitor 23. The capacitor 23 may be coupled as shown, between the mic sense point and the mic bias circuit 22 on the one hand, and the hot input on the other. The cold input of the difference amplifier is coupled to a sense point 27 for the reference contact 15′. This is also an AC coupling, i.e. though a DC blocking capacitor 25. In another embodiment, the coupling between the inputs of the difference amplifier and the microphone and reference sense points may be different, while still having constant gain through the normal and common mode bands of interest.
A fixed attenuator circuit, depicted as a voltage divider having a series resistor Ras and a shunt resistor Rah to ground, serves to attenuate a reference signal from the ref sense point 27, to the cold input of the difference amplifier. Note that in this embodiment, the dc blocking capacitor 25 is coupled between the attenuator and the cold input. The fixed attenuator circuit is also coupled to a switch 24, resulting in what is referred to here as a switched attenuator. The switched attenuator can be placed into at least first and second states, depending on the position of the switch 24. In this embodiment, the switch 24 is coupled between the input of the voltage divider and the ref sense point 27. Alternatively, the switch 24 could be coupled between the output of the voltage divider and the dc blocking capacitor 25.
To switch between the microphone sensing modes, a controller 26 may be included in the host 10. In one embodiment, the controller 26 automatically detects the type of microphone-speaker combination 11 that is coupled to the host connector and based on a table look up sets the switched attenuator to the first or second state (according to what is indicated in the look up table as being the appropriate state for the given type of microphone-speaker combination). This may be done by using a circuit (not shown) that measures the impedance seen from the host device 10 out through the microphone contact 16′, for example relative to the reference contact 15′. The controller 26 would signal the first state (switch 24 closed) when the measured impedance is high, and the second state (switch 24 open) when the impedance is low. Other ways of automatically detecting the microphone-speaker combination type are possible, e.g. by reading a stored digital or analog code value through the speaker contact 14′ or the microphone contact 16′. In yet another embodiment, the controller 26 can be operated "manually, by the user": it can set the switched attenuator into the first or second state in response to receiving user input regarding microphone-speaker combination type (e.g., the user could indicate his selection from a stored list of microphone-speaker combination types that are being displayed to him on a display screen of the host device 10). The controller 26 may be implemented as a programmed processor (e.g., an applications processor in a smart phone that is executing software or firmware designed to manage the overall process of switching between the differential and single-ended sensing modes, for improved microphone preamp noise reduction).
In operation 86, the host device 10 selects between differential and single-ended microphone sensing modes for a difference amplifier (in a microphone amplifier block). This occurs by configuring a switched attenuator at an input of the difference amplifier, in accordance with a type of microphone-speaker combination that is to be coupled to the difference amplifier. The output of the difference amplifier provides the uplink audio signal for the telephone call.
Switching "in" the attenuator will cause a fixed attenuation (e.g., using an analog voltage divider) to be applied to a reference sense point signal before input to the difference amplifier—this the differential sensing mode. Switching "out" the attenuator will isolate the reference sense point signal from the input to the difference amplifier—this is the single ended mode. In one embodiment, the attenuator is switched in (differential sensing mode) when the expected microphone circuit (that is coupled to another input of the difference amplifier) has relatively high impedance; the attenuator is switched out (single ended sensing mode) for relatively low impedances.
In operation 88, the telephone call is performed with the benefit of noise cancellation being obtained from the difference amplifier as configured in operation 86. Thus, the far end user of the call should be able to better hear the near end user (in the uplink signal originating at the output of the difference amplifier), with higher signal to noise ratio and/or diminished echo of his own voice.
It should be noted that the selection in operation 86 could occur either before the call is established in operation 84, or it could during the call (e.g., as soon as the conversation begins—during operation 88). The selection may be based on having automatically detected the type of microphone-speaker combination that is coupled to the difference amplifier. Alternatively, the selection may be in accordance with received input from the near end user, regarding the type of speaker-microphone combination that is to be coupled to the difference amplifier (e.g., the type of headset that is to be connected.
While certain embodiments have been described and shown in the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that such embodiments are merely illustrative of and not restrictive on the broad invention, and that the invention is not limited to the specific constructions and arrangements shown and described, since various other modifications may occur to those of ordinary skill in the art. For example, although the host device is described in several instances as being a portable device, the noise reduction circuitry could also be useful in certain non-portable host devices such as desktop personal computers that also have similar limitations regarding interior signal routing and a shared reference contact in the headset electrical interface. Also, the concept need not be limited to the described combination of one microphone and one or two speakers. The technique disclosed can be used without loss of generality or performance to m microphones and s speakers, requiring, in general between 2(m+s) to m+s+1 separate connections through the headset electrical interface. Finally, although the microphone amplifier block is shown as being implemented with a single op amp, other circuit designs are possible including those that have two or three op amps (for additional performance). The description is thus to be regarded as illustrative instead of limiting.
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The mother of a State University of Buffalo student killed aboard Pan American's Flight 103 charged the airline Thursday with being more concerned about making a dollar than protecting lives.
"I'm really upset with Pan Am," said Betty Capasso of Brooklyn, whose son was studying filmmaking in England and would have graduated from UB this spring. The plane exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, killing all 258 people aboard.
Mrs. Capasso and her husband, Salvatore, came to Buffalo Thursday to attend a memorial service at UB for their son, Gregory Capasso, 21, and to formally announce the establishment of a film scholarship in his name.
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He said an allegation similar to Mrs. Capasso's had been raised earlier this month by families of crash victims who called a press conference to demand that President Bush create an independent commission to investigate the actions of the airline and the U.S. government in the wake of the tragedy.
Loflin denied that any special half-price fare had been offered to fill up the plane.
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He had just finished a semester in London at Middlesex Polytechnic, where he was taking courses in film and English. Much of his previous year at UB was spent concentrating on the works of Shakespeare as part of a double major in English and media study.


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Luis Suarez just cannot stay away from controversy. The Uruguayan ace has cleaned up his approach a little this season, but he was up to his old tricks once again today at Norwich. The Liverpool man appeared to be 'badly hurt' in a clash as an attack broke down. Yet just a matter of seconds later when the Reds got the ball back he was fine. He sure does make it hard for people to like him.
Why don't you show the other angle on the challenge as well? Dragged studs down the shin. Pretty sore, I reckon, but gets up to try to score – not so terrible. We'd all have done the same, we just wouldn't have got up.
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AbstractNowadays depression and suicide are two of the most important worldwide public health problems. Although their specific molecular mechanisms are still largely unknown, glycosides can play a fundamental role in their pathogenesis. These molecules act presumably through the up-regulation of plasticity-related proteins: probably they can have a presynaptic facilitatory effect, through the activation of several intracellular signaling pathways that include molecules like protein kinase A, Rap-1, cAMP, cADPR and G proteins. These proteins take part in a myriad of brain functions such as cell survival and synaptic plasticity. In depressed suicide victims, it has been found that their activity is strongly decreased, primarily in hippocampus and prefrontal cortex. These studies suggest that glycosides can regulate neuroprotection through Rap-1 and other molecules, and may play a crucial role in the pathophysiology of depression and suicide.
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On a Spring morning of cloudless blue sky off Cottesloe beach, Western Australia, a teenage boy is killed by a great white shark. Tommy's earthly business, however, is far from over – and so begins an oceanic odyssey of leviathan proportions for Tommy's ghost, now cocooned within the shark's body. Two years later, as another great white is the suspected culprit for a series of attacks along the same stretch of coastline, a local marine biologist and his assistant think they see a pattern to the carnage and hatch a crazy plan. But they'll need some help. Are you ready to enter the water? This is one of the themes swirling through the minds of Gaff and Will as they sit around, one night, quaffing home-made moonshine. Considering that one man is dead and three others are lucky to be alive they begin swapping theories as to why a giant shark is menacing Perth beach-goers...until Gaff has an epiphany that will drastically alter the shape of their future. In a cottage dwarfed by eucalypts in one of Perth's inland suburbs a weather-worn woman toils quietly making costume jewellery, which she packs and despatches to internet customers. She doesn't swim anymore but unknown to her she has a key role in the drama that is unfolding along the coast. Meanwhile, the shark, despite the strange force that is within it, has answered the ocean's call. It has travelled across the Pacific Ocean to California and back, before ending up in South Africa another year later. Sometimes it was in control and at others it was propelled by the force – which it recognised had been with it since it killed that skinny seal-thing, way back in what it and members of his 'seam' know of, as 'the great shallows of the east'. Gaff and Will have a plan, but they need to action it quickly. The people of Perth panic, conjuring up plan after plan to capture and kill the monster - and stay out of the water, but time is running out for the shark. Do you believe in life after death?...
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My Ex Husband Why can my Ex Husband get off so easy with Wayne County FOC Warren, Michigan
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We need something to change in this county to make DEADBEATS (and trust me this loser is the biggest deadbeat in the world!!!) accountable. I honestly think that they should have a work camp for these creatures!!! If they don't want to have a real job, if they want to live off their wife/husband so they don't have to pay their obligation and live like they are 5 with no responsibilities; then put them in a camp, make them work until they pay up what they owe and then send them back to their spouse. It is not fair that one person has to take care of the child/children with their pay (have to try to work two jobs) to make sure that necessities are met. Also it is not fair to the spouse of the responsible one, especially if they have children of their own.
The only ones that really get hurt from deadbeats are the kids. They are the ones that miss out on things because the responsible one has to make cuts in the budget so we can have a place to live, water in the home and heat in the winter. So they don't get to do fun things (unlike the loser in question who gets to live like the 5 year old he is) and they don't get to take trips to places to learn and see new things, they don't get to go to the movies as often with their friends and they don't get to have the cool things their friends have because a home, heat and other things need to come first.
A change is needed and I hope one day a change comes because as my kids get older, there are other ones coming into this world with loser deadbeats parents. How long will our kids have to suffer because of these irresponsible ones?
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So I sent a check for $46.00 thinking this will help my income situation, and received the package within a month. I thought all my financial problems were solved. Excited to start at once I opened the package. Skimming through the information I was extremely dissapointed to the instructions I had to follow. The letter said nothing about posting flyers. It said I would never have to leave home.
Reading the pamphlets I was extremely emotional. I thought I could buy the neccesities I needed to raise my future child with this new job, but couldn't. There is a way to get a refund back but half of the people available were unknown and unreachable and we would have to provide proof of attempts, but even that was unsuccessful. This proves the point of false advertisement.
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