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Exhibition: Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center
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Cornerstones, whether they are of a different fabric from your sashing or the same, amke it a lot easier to get the rows lined up. beautiful quilt
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Cornerstones, whether they are of a different fabric from your sashing or the same, amke it a lot easier to get the rows lined up. beautiful quilt
I think the solid black would be very effective, but I, personally, would do better with cornerstones (especially on such a large quilt). Cornerstones could all be of the same fabric of choice (perhaps a solid white or off-white).
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Wow! That's going to beautiful whichever way you do it.
I think you have a lot going on and the plain black strips would just set it off. But if you really want to do the cornerstone to help line it up, I would only use like 3 main colors. It's usually best for the eye to use an odd amount.
Blessed are the quilters, for they are the piecemakers.
Beautiful start! I personally would use cornerstones but would make them like the center of your squares and have black as the last edge so it would be like a mini one of your blocks. I'm sure you have some leftover bits. Use them UP!!!!
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WOW! It's beautiful!!! Can't wait to see the finished quilt. Thanks for sharing
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Really neat quilt. Great use of striped fabrics. I'm thinking along the lines of the others who said cornerstones might be the better choice here. Either way - it's beautiful.
I love your quilt! I agree with all the ladies regarding keeping things aligned. Cornerstones will help but I wonder if it would distract from the geometric beauty of the top if it were in a different colour? Perhaps cornerstones in the same black fabric would suit better? I will be interested to see your finished quilt! It is going to look gorgeous regardless of how you finish it. You need to go with the look you want to achieve. Personally I think plain black, black corner stones or without, would look good. Thank you for sharing and allowing us the opportunity to offer you our thoughts and suggestions.
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I vote for cornerstones with some of your bright fabric!

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A radio station banned the new version of Do They Know It's Christmas today after being inundated by listeners claiming it was "rubbish".
Minutes after the updated Band Aid classic was broadcast for the first time the station switchboard was jammed with listeners calling for it to be axed.
Bosses at Pembrokeshire Radio, based in Narbeth, quickly bowed to listener-power and pulled the plug on the new festive single.
They pledged to continue backing the single's charitable aim and are advising listeners to buy it anyway - even if it is never played.
The new version mirrors the 20-year-old original with a line-up of current top recording stars including Rachel Stevens, Jamelia and Daniel Bedingfield.
While the original was a 3.5 million single-selling-phenomenon, the new version is raising passions for all the wrong reasons.
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The issue Digital Web Magazine will publish late tonight marks the final edition copy edited by Jennie Robinson, a.k.a "Copy NinJennie", as she's affectionately referred to in these parts. One of the unsung heroes, Jennie has worked behind the scenes for the past couple years here at DWM with a keen eye for detail and an unfailing dedication to helping authors communicate clearly. Her talent and skill makes her work often unnoticeable, even to the author of the piece. For this, we all owe her a debt of thanks. Best of luck Jennie. Thank you for everything you've done to help us bring great quality content to the Web.
Jennie would undoubtedly say, that's "Best of luck comma Jennie." I'm sorry; I started proofing years ago, and I can't turn it off. Onward and upward, Jennie, your comrades salute you.
We're going to miss you Jennie. Thank you for all of your hard work over the years. Keep kicking butt at Bento Box.
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Cedarburg scored just enough to tighten its grip on the North Shore lead.
The Bulldogs pulled out a 23-20 victory over Whitefish Bay on the road and now lead second-place Bay two games in the conference standings. Kylee Marks led Cedarburg with nine points.
No. 2 Sussex Hamilton jumped out to a 21-2 lead after one quarter and beat West Allis Central, 57-12.
Taylor Drost had a game-high 16 points to lead No. 3 Divine Savior Holy Angels' 58-13 victory over West Allis Hale.
Fourth-ranked Milwaukee Riverside's Alona Johnson finished with a game-high 27 points in an 89-53 victory over Milwaukee Washington.
Jenny Tuttle scored 13 for No. 5 Mukwonago, which survived a two-point fourth quarter to beat Muskego, 40-37.
Sixth-ranked Milwaukee Pius allowed nine points or fewer in a 59-21 victory over Cudahy.
No. 7 New Berlin Eisenhower got 19 points from Jenny Weiland and 16 from Chelsea Brachman in an 88-26 win over St. Francis.
Lizzy Connors had 18 points for No. 8 Waukesha West, which led Kettle Moraine by 20 after one quarter and won, 59-47.
Lydia Rohde made 15 of 16 free throws for Brookfield Central, which dominated the fourth quarter of a 54-48 victory over Menomonee Falls.
Haley Orlowski scored 26 for Grafton, which rallied from an eight-point deficit after a quarter to beat Germantown, 70-68.
Milwaukee Languages, which got 24 points from Kayla Brewer, stayed undefeated with a 59-15 victory over Milwaukee Bay View.
Tori Smith had 15 points for Arrowhead, which led Catholic Memorial by 26 at the half and won, 67-53.
Abby Gerrits had 14 points for Pewaukee, which set the tone for its 62-32 victory over Greenfield with a 21-4 first-quarter run.
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Beth Ver Haagh, Ali Boldt and Lizzie Kuhl scored in double figures for New Berlin West, a 46-39 winner over Shorewood.
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Glass plate negative portrait of Robert and Alice Edington Harvie (nee Marshall) standing in a garden.
The date range of the photograph is most likely between 1910 and 1914, considering a similar photograph of Robert and their daughter, Ellison Harvie. See MM 043224. There are a number of photographs in the collection of the Harvie family in gardens, presumably at the family's various residential addresses.
Robert William Harvie was a professional photographer who, with his business partner Albert Sutcliffe, owned a photography studio named Harvie & Sutcliffe between 1898 and 1908, located in the Cromwell Buildings, 366a Bourke Street, corner of Bourke and Elizabeth Streets, Melbourne.
The Harvie Collection includes examples of Robert Harvie's private and professional photographic practice. A number of the photographs depict the family life of four generations of the Harvie family, including the Lang family.
The Harvie and Lang families had social significance in Melbourne through their active involvement in early Australian vegetarian movements, early moving film, photography and architecture, as well as various other cultural societies and clubs in Melbourne.
Description of Content
A woman and man standing in a garden in front of a wall of ivy. The woman is wearing a white, long sleeved blouse and black skirt and the man is wearing a darkly coloured suit and has a mustache.
Physical Description
Glass plate negative, black and white, portrait format.
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Collecting Areas
Images & Image Making, Clothing & Textiles, Home & Community
Place & Date Depicted
Greater Victoria, Victoria, Australia, circa 1910 -1914
Image possibly depicts the backyard of one of three residences the family lived at in Malvern during the period of 1910 - 1916, however it is unclear at which address this photograph was taken. The family lived at 4 The Terrace, Malvern, from 1908 to 1911; 4 Inverness Ave, Malvern, from 1911 to 1913; and 27 Chanak Street, East Malvern, from 1913 onwards. Originally the image was assigned an estimated date range circa 1920s-1940s, however, further research and a similar photograph of Robert and his daughter, Ellison Harvie, see MM 043224, places the date range of the photograph is most likely between 1910 and 1914.
Person Depicted
Person Depicted
Individuals Identified
Harvie, Robert; Harvie, Alice Edington
Glass Negative, Black & White
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61 mm (Width), 87 mm (Height)


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Scott Pioli and Thomas Dimitroff talk Patriots on Big Show, Pioli denies bugging Chiefs rooms
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Former Patriots executives Scott Pioli and Thomas Dimitroff, now general managers of the Chiefs and Falcons, respectively, joined The Big Show in Indianapolis Thursday. The two discussed their days with the Patriots and what they hope to achieve with their current franchises.
Bill Belichick has been more friendly with the media since arriving in Indianapolis for the Super Bowl, to the surprise of many. Neither Pioli nor Dimitroff are surprised to see this side of him.
"Bill and I worked together for 16 years, and I've known him since 1987," Pioli said. "That's the Bill I know. Maybe it's not shown that often publicly."
Dimitroff said that neither he nor the city of Atlanta are strangers to Belichick's perky persona.
"What I know of Bill is last year he came on one of our local radio stations and was waxing poetic about the Grateful Dead and Bon Jovi, and we had a half-hour talk," Dimitroff said. "It's not that new for me I guess."
Said Pioli to Dimitroff: "Maybe getting rid of you and me is lighting him up a little bit. With the two of us not being around, we don't wear him out as much."
Pioli said he isn't surprised to find Belichick still making it to Super Bowls, as he feels the Patriots organization, from Robert Kraft down, has set a standard from which they haven't strayed.
"A large part is consistency," Pioli said of what makes the Patriots such a good franchise. "It's stability and consistency. It starts with Robert, Jonathan [Kraft] and Bill quite honestly. '¦ It's a matter of consistency and being the same people every day. Everyoone knows what to expect. When you know what to expect in the work place, whether you're a player, a trainer, an equipment guy, a video guy, the entire [organization], everyone knows what to expect. The leadership, they're the same people every single day, and that just makes for a great work environment. It allows people to do their jobs more efficiently and better."
While the people and the philosophies have remained constant for the most part, Dimitroff said that one of Belichick's best qualities is the ability to constantly analyze his decisions and find others who do the same.
"I think what's very, very impressive about Bill and about Scott and I hope, hope me, when we're putting together our teams and our groups of guys, whether it's the players or the personnel or the coaches, that we're getting the people that are their harshest critics themselves," Dimitroff said. "That's what I think is very important. Bill, it seemed, never had to really go around the people and lay into people, nor did Scott. We all beat ourselves up more than I think anyone else would beat ourselves up."
Added Pioli: "And you try to surround yourself with people with that [mindset]. You don't want them to be necessarily like-minded, you want them to have similar values and similar pride, quite honestly."
The three haven't been afraid to deal with one another since Pioli and Dimitroff departed New England, as major trades, such as the Matt Cassel trade to the Chiefs in 2008 and the trade of Tony Gonzalez from the Chiefs to the Falcons in 2009, have gone down between the executives. Dimitroff and Pioli noted that they stay in close contact and talk shop, and that the trust they've built over the years pays off in the workplace.
"Before we ever get to the point of criticizing one another, with Thomas and I, what absolutely happens is Thomas will call me and say 'Scott, what do you think about this? I think I might have made a mistake,' and I do the same thing with him," Poilio said. "'¦ I don't need Thomas to criticize me, because I'm throwing it all out there. '¦ I don't mind that he sees the core of what I am and the mistakes I'm making, because I know whatever feedback I'm going to get is real."
The Chiefs fired coach Todd Haley in December, after which a Kansas City Star piece ran saying Haley believed Pioli was bugging rooms at the team facility.
"I read that," Pioli said. "[Chairman and CEO] Clark Hunt and [President] Mark Donovan said it at the time and I'll say it again: Unequivocally, completely, totally untrue."
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FORT WAYNE, Ind.—Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) will be hosting a poverty simulation with the help of Community Action of Northeast Indiana (CANI) on Dec. 12, 2013, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.,
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--(Marketwired - March 15, 2016) - inSpyr welcomes Florida's continued trail-blazing initiative for the second consecutive year, as Governor Rick Scott declares the week of March 14th, 2016, Down Syndrome Awareness Week, also known as "DSAW", guiding the way towards the 11th anniversary of World Down Syndrome Day.
"Families affected by Trisomy21, like ourselves, cannot begin to express how deeply our gratitude reaches to all levels of state government, as Governor Scott executed the DSAW proclamation," Kraig Beahn, VP of inSpyr, furthered, "in hopes of driving awareness, thereby encouraging collaboration of research, knowledge and experiences amongst Florida's families, healthcare and scientific communities."
Also excited to celebrate Down Syndrome Awareness Week in Florida was Senate President Andy Gardiner, who announced "the passage of House Bill 221 late last Friday, the final day of our 2016 Legislative Session. This important legislation requires health insurance contracts to cover speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and applied behavior analysis services for individuals with Down Syndrome, just as they are currently covered for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder."
"Speech, occupational and physical therapy can make a big difference in the ability of individuals with Down Syndrome to further their education and career goals, while greatly improving their quality of life. Insurance coverage will make these therapies more affordable for families across Florida who have either been struggling to pay out-of-pocket, or going without these life-changing services. I am so grateful to my colleagues in the Florida House and Senate for passing this critical legislation that will mean [so] much to families across our state who have a family member with Down Syndrome," continued Gardiner.
Collaboratively, Governor Scott, the Florida House and Senate continue to bridge the resource gap for individuals with special needs enabling them to realize their full potential both in their personal and professional lives, by and through such continuous support.
Heather Robinson, CEO of inSpyr, noted, "Scott promised Floridians jobs, and in accomplishing such goal, has and continues to build the many foundations and tools necessary to make sure that all Floridians, including those with Down syndrome, are afforded every opportunity to build upon their unique abilities, thereby paving the way to economic independence."
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Residence Inn by Marriott San Jose Escazu features an outdoor pool and a 24-hour fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant and a snack bar/deli. Guests are offered a complimentary breakfast each morning and a complimentary manager's reception is offered on select days. Wireless Internet access is complimentary.
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Peninsula Hospital Center has announced the acquisition of a computed tomography (CT) system – the Toshiba Aquilion 16 CT Scanner, the latest and very best technology available in our region.
Studies like chest exams, which used to take 20-30 minutes to perform, can now be completed in just 20 seconds at Peninsula Hospital Center. Not only is a speedy CT scan (also called a CAT scan) less taxing on patients, but it promises to greatly increase its exam capacity – which means more patients can be treated faster.
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on Sep 3, 2013 at 12:15 pm
The MINUTE I saw the first paragraph I knew that this book was inspired (and sure enough it WAS) by "Compay Segundo", the "segunda voz", and beating heart of the group Los Compadres, and later, Buena Vista Social Club. Can't wait to read this book. I'm Cuban, like Compay Segundo, of African descent, and it's such a TREAT that this fabulous musician and composer, who is like a character of fiction in real life, has managed to get into legal fiction (which I LOVE!)
a resident of Downtown North
on Sep 3, 2013 at 6:32 pm
I was in Cuba for 3 weeks in Feb. this year (bicycling around western Cuba). Got to like the Cuban music esp. jazz. There were quite a number of public performances I just happened upon. From what I could tell, blacks still suffer discrimination in Cuba as well as elsewhere outside of Africa. I look forward to reading Goldstein's book! Right now I'm reading a novel by the Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas which is somewhat critical of the original Castro regime. This author ended up leaving Cuba and going to NYC.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Sep 5, 2013 at 3:40 pm
Atticus Finch is fictional. 99% of real lawyers are not heroic.
I love Cuba, most especially the warm-hearted people, BUT separate fact from fiction, please.
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Children die because hospitals cannot get the medicines required to treat them. Factories close and unemployment soars because manufacturers cannot import the supplies and materials they need or export their finished products. Basic foodstuffs are so expensive that the average family can no longer afford to eat well. Can the imposition of sanctions against a nation under some circumstances be a war crime?
Sanctions arise in a variety of ways. Article 41 of the United Nations Charter authorizes the Security Council to decide on "measures not involving the use of armed force… to give effect to its decisions… These may include complete or partial interruption of economic relations and of rail, sea, air, postal, telegraphic, radio, and other means of communication, and the severance of diplomatic relations." International embargoes against Rhodesia, Libya, Haiti, Iraq, and Yugoslavia were enacted under this provision. Alternatively, sanctions can be ordered by a regional organization, as the European Union did in the Yugoslav case. They can also be imposed unilaterally by one country against another, as in the example of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba.
A more important distinction is whether the sanctions were imposed or enforced during wartime by one or more of the warring parties. IHL does not apply in the absence of armed conflict. This means that "nonbelligerent" sanctions, including those against Cuba, Libya, Haiti, Rhodesia, and Yugoslavia, may be opposed on moral or political terms but normally cannot be considered war crimes. Supporters of economic sanctions may even justify them as an alternative to military action.
In the case of Iraq, the United States and other countries applied sanctions before launching the 1991 Gulf War, in an effort to force the Iraqi regime to withdraw from neighboring Kuwait, which it had invaded in August 1990. But the imposing countries, including the United States, continued to enforce the sanctions in wartime, so they had to conform to IHL.
The 1977 Additional Protocols to the 1949 Geneva Conventions prohibit any wartime measure that has the effect of depriving a civilian population of objects indispensable to its survival. Article 70 of Protocol I mandates relief operations to aid a civilian population that is "not adequately provided" with supplies. Article 18 of Protocol II calls for relief operations for a civilian population that suffers "undue hardship owing to a lack of supplies essential for its survival, such as foodstuffs and medical supplies." Such provisions establish the legally permissible limit of sanctions, though their definition is subject to interpretation. The UN embargo against Iraq exempted "humanitarian" aid, but critics said the sanctions still caused excessive suffering.
Other provisions of IHL similarly restrict the scope and bite of economic sanctions. Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention (on the protection of civilians in wartime), for example, prohibits "collective penalties." The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Commentary on the conventions interpreted this provision as prohibiting "penalties of any kind inflicted on persons or entire groups of persons in defiance of the most elementary principles of humanity, for acts that these persons have not committed."
Supporters of sanctions may defend the measures against this restriction by arguing that they do not constitute collective punishment because they target governments, not people, and that collateral damage to the civilian population is unintended and unfortunate. In the case of Iraq, however, that argument was undercut when U.S. officials suggested that the sanctions were intended to create hardship conditions in the country and thus encourage the popular overthrow of the government.
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For over a hundred years it was common in most parts of Europe, and in the United States, for college bound students to have the option of attending a college which did not charge tuition. New York City alone had four free colleges students could attend either as day or night time students. The Czech Republic has free colleges, but the government is proposing introducing the concept of tuition for students. As one student noted, "the introduction of university tuition would deepen the divide between real opportunities of poor and rich students." For many, the idea of securing a degree from college might cease being an option. Those in favor of tuition argue costs have risen, there are serious economic problems confronting most European nations, and college students must recognize the old days of a free ride are over.
The argument for tuition invariably returns to a sick economy and need for all to sacrifice. In the United States, Wall Street stock people sacrifice to the tune of only taking $100 million bonuses instead of $200 million ones. It is time those who have vast amounts of money take a smaller piece of the profit pie and share with those who have been screwed by financial sectors of society.


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New domestically made cars probably sold at an annual rate of 6.5 million for the last 10 selling days of June, say economists surveyed by MMS International, a division of McGraw-Hill Inc. The expected pace would put car sales at 6.5 million for the entire month. Car sales have been gathering strength, with 6.3 million new autos sold in May, up from 6 million in April. The expected June rate would be the highest since July, 1991.
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From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A typed letter from Mary Sue Gellatly of Shaw, Mississippi (Bolivar County) and presumably an employee of the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union in that same city discusses specific amounts and types of relief needed by local African Americans.
Electronic version made available through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
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The folks at the Center for Freedom and Prosperity have been on a roll in the past few months, putting out an excellent series of videos on Obama's economic policies.
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Bentonville, Ark. – Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. has lowered the same-stores sales guidance it previously released for fourth quarter 2013 due to factors including severe winter weather and reduced governmental assistance to consumers. Wal-Mart U.S. guidance for the fourth quarter previously projected same-store sales without fuel to be relatively Sam's Club same-store sales without fuel to be between flat and up 2%.
However, Wal-Mart now expects both Wal-Mart and Sam's Club same-store sales for the fourth quarter to come in slightly below previous expectations. The retailer said Wal-Mart's results were affected by the greater than anticipated impact from the reduction in SNAP (the U.S. government Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits on Nov. 1, as well as eight named winter storms that resulted in store closures that impacted traffic throughout the quarter. Sam's Club same-store sales were also affected by adverse weather.
In addition, Wal-Mart says fourth quarter earnings per share will come in at or slightly below the low end of its range of $1.60 to $1.70. For the full year, Wal-Mart expects underlying earnings per share to be at or slightly below the low end of its range of $5.11 to $5.21. The retailer cited mitigating factors including store closures in Brazil and China, the cost of registering a new company in India, and restructuring Sam's Club and closing some Sam's Club stores in the lowering of its earnings per share guidance.


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Student stabbed at South Greene High School
One student flown to the hospital, another student arrested
GREENE COUNTY, Tenn. - UPDATE: 11:15 a.m.: Greene County sheriff's deputies tell us two male students at South Greene High School were involved in an early-morning incident.
It happened in the school cafeteria while students were having breakfast. A 17-year-old male student used a knife to stab a 15-year-old male student.
The suspect was then wrestled to the ground by a female classmate.
There was a school resource officer on site; he was outside as buses were coming in for the day.
The victim was flown to the hospital. We're told he is in stable condition.
No names are being released since both students are juveniles.
Director of schools Dr. Vicki Kirk tells us the school was on a brief lockdown, but it was lifted and students were able to return to first period classes.
Some parents opted to pick up their students.
Extra counselors are on hand.
Authorities haven't yet said what the student will be charged with, but we are told the Greene County Sheriff's Department is handing the investigation.
A stabbing at South Greene High School Tuesday morning sent one student to the hospital and landed another in custody.
According to director of schools Dr. Vickie Kirk, it happened just before 8 a.m., which is before the school day started.
One student was assaulted by another student in a hallway outside of the cafeteria. The victim was flown to the hospital by Wings Air Rescue and the suspect was immediately taken into custody.
There is no word on the condition of the victim and the school system has not released the ages of those involved.
Dr. Kirk says they do not believe there is a continuing threat, and the incident was isolated to the two students involved.
South Greene High School was placed on lockdown for a short time and all students were taken to the gymnasium as a precaution. Dr. Kirk says the lockdown has since been lifted and students have been allowed to go to their classes.
The sheriff's department is continuing the investigation and extra counselors have been called into meet with students.


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Hey all, I asked some questions about parts selection in another thread, and thought I would put up my progress in my moding my Musical Fidelity X-LP phono stage. I have ordered Burr Brown OPA627 opamps to change the N5 something er nothers in it. I have also ordered new capacitors for the entire thing. I'm using Nichicon Muse and Elna Tonerex or Cerafines to replace them all, depending on the area. I'm also changing the film and polystyrene caps with either Wima or Relicap RTE, RT, or RTX's depending on the value needed. I have not ordered any replacement resistors yet, I need to figure out what values I would need, and then decide how I want to go about it.
So far I have changed the power supply caps, which had 4-470uf caps in it, with 4-1000uf Rubycon's each bypassed by a .47uf Black Gate Nk Hi-Q or whatever they are called. I replaced the Diodes with Freds, and the Signal wire with Solid Silver 28g wire. The most signifigant difference this made was in the bass, as would be expected from the cap increase. I also think the Silver wire thinned the midrange, increased resolution, and made the top end a bit brittle. Having said that, I haven't given it all enough time to break in at all. That could be the Blackgates too for all I know.
After I have finished the rest of the parts next on my list will be the resistors. I have a large selection of Cadock's I think I might try and use. I'm hoping that between the opamps and those resistors, I can reduce the noise floor some.
Last on my list, and I dont know that I will do this, is to completely rework the power supply. There isn't room on the board for anything more, so my idea is to make a new power supply on a remote board using strip board. I would increase capacitance to something much larger, say 10 or 20,000uf's. I would bypass either all of the caps, or just have a few right on the board itself. I would use wire to connect the caps to the board and float the board above the main board. I would remove the regulators and upgrade those with something like the Burson regulator. I feel that at that point I will have taken this thing as far as is possible with such a product, at least that makes sense.
Oh yes, I am using a Musical Fidelity X-PSU upgraded power supply, whith a custom ordered Plitron transformer designed to fit in the case but increase the va value to 160. I also added ferrite beads to the leads in both the X-PSU and inside of the X-LP, and an X rated cap on the power input.
|12th December 2006, 04:51 PM
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Ok so I got some more of my parts and thought I would post an update and a picture. I don't yet have all of the parts, so the mods aren't done, but its coming along. So far I like the sound improvement, though I think the caps need to break in quite a bit more.
I replaced some of the caps with Nichicon Muse ES series caps, as you can see in the picture. These were values I couldn't get in the KZ series, so I ordered them this way. I also have some more KZ's coming, some Elna Silmics, tonorex, and cerafines coming, and some some Wima caps to replace the rest of the film and ceramic caps.
I'm not very good at following cuircits yet and could not tell for sure, but assume the ceramic caps are not in the signal path, but figured it was cheap enough to replace them, why not.
The picture will shop the increased power supply caps floating on the wire leads I made from 20 guage solid core copper, thats temporary. I do have them bypassed underneath the board with some Vishay MKP caps. You can see the green Muse ES caps, the upgraded diodes, the silver braided leads, the silver bus bar wire, and the .1uf RTE's around the opamp. Still to come are the Wima's, new opamps, and cadock resistors.
|11th March 2007, 07:35 AM
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I just took apart my X-LPS to have a look at it. I'd like to see if there is anything I can do to improve the sound. It runs off a 12VAC wall wart. They use to sell a better power supply X-PSU which just consisted of a larger transformer. All the rectifying and regulating is on board the pcb. The power supply uses a voltage doubler to produce the +/- 12V. There is 470uF before each 7812 and 7912 regulator and another 470uF after the regulator. I noticed that the new model X-LPSv3 uses 12-0-12 VAC external supply eliminating the need for the voltage doubler. There isn't much room on the existing pcb for changes. I suspect I can get some improvment from changing to a 12-0-12 VAC toroid and constructing a separate ps board with more filtering and better diodes (used 1N4007 presently) and maybe using LM317 and LM337 for regulation. The MC circuit uses transistors for amplification prior to the single opamp per channel in the MM circuit. The circuit uses active RIAA compensation in the feedback loop. The opamp is a SSMF69PH which I'm not really familiar with. There is a possibly of upgrade here. I'm not sure of the quality of this opamp. The circuit uses electrolytic capacitors for input and output coupling, 10uF at input and 100uF at output. Unfortunately there really isn't enough room to use a high quality non-electrolytic cap.
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Roundtable Review: X-Men Forever Annual #1
Caleb: Okay, so we're reading the Chris Claremont "X-Men Forever" annual, yes?
David: <David reads the Claremont annual in a panel> CAP: "David reads the Claremont annual!" DAVID (THOUGHT): "This is an exciting Claremont annual!"
Chris: Clearly, David has read a Claremont script. Do we want to do a catch-up? Because it's pretty easy to sum up. Chris Claremont wrote the X-Men for 16 years, and then left, and when he came back, it was Not Very Good, which he claims is largely because he had to deal with stuff that other writers had brought in. Thus, "X-Men Forever," which picks up where he left off in 1991, basically gives him a chance to do the franchise exactly how he always wanted.
Chris: I gotta say, if Marvel owes anybody, it's Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and Chris Claremont. Claremont (along with John Byrne, Dave Cockrum and Len Wein) not only saved the X-Men from obscurity, but he was the driving force behind making it probably the most successful property Marvel has ever had, and redefining the entire company around it. So if their retirement plan for Claremont is giving him his own personal non-continuity book to screw around with, I'm totally okay with that. That said, boy howdy, we sure do have some sexy bondage on Page 1, don't we?
Laura: Yes, totally unexpected sexy bondage from Sana Takeda, the artist who brought us "Heroes for Hire" #13.
Chris: Hey, it's not all Takeda. Read enough Claremont and you'll start to see a pattern developing that tends to include trussed-up heroines. I mean, it's not quite Byrne's fixation on barely legal redheads, but…
Laura: They're a bondage superteam made in heaven!
Caleb: When I was a kid I thought "bondage" meant actual slavery, so whenever they'd make a joke on a sitcom I'd feel sad.
Chris: For our readers who haven't seen it or don't remember, it was… Well, I mean, there's no getting around it. It was a tentacle rape cover with Black Cat, Misty Knight, and Colleen Wing. But bondage aside — and it's nowhere near as bad here as it is on that "Heroes For Hire" cover — I actually like Takeda a lot, and she really fits the book. I mean, you could do a hell of a lot worse picking artists to draw Wolverine and Phoenix's Bikini Bondage Romp.
David: That's really true, and she's grown a lot since her early Ms. Marvel work.
Laura: I mean, it's possible she learned something from the great "Heroes for Hire" tentacle rape uproar of 2007. Jean doesn't appear to be crying openly and nothing prehensile is fondling her. So that's a plus.
Chris: I like that this issue opens with "Some time ago," which makes it impossible to figure out when in the weird 2010-but-really-1993-on-Earth-Chris-Claremont timeline this is meant to be happening. An Page 1 ends with a truly clasic 'Montism: "It's a mix of science and magic. One to subvert our MINDS… the other, our SOULS!" That… that's basically the same thing there, Jeannie.
David: Is it really, Chris, in a world with empirically provable magic? Maybe the soul IS in the heart.
Laura: I believe that Deee-Lite would disagree, David.
Chris: There's a lot of subverting going on here is what I'm saying. You've got your magic subversion, your science subversion, and — for the body — your really-friggin'-heavy-chain subversion.
Laura: I'm about to get nerdy, but… Jean's talking about The Hand when she says, "This has to be what these villains did to Betsy, months ago, when they remade her body, and tried to do the same thing with her soul." Except that Psylocke was found by the Hand AFTER her body had gone through the Siege Perilous. I guess she's partly referring to her mental conditioning by the Hand afterwards, but I think the remaking of her body was 100% Siege Perilous.
Chris: Psylocke should really get a tattoo that says that. "100% SIEGE PERILOUS." Like a tramp stamp.
Chris: See, this is why it's hard to talk about the X-Men. Because sooner or later, something ends up involving the Siege Perilous or Australia or the Shi'ar.
David: Reading Claremont's original run seems, to me, to be one gigantic Siege Perilous.
Chris: True: It will transform you… if it doesn't destroy you first.
David: In any case, what I love about the first page with Nick Fury is that it's basically spending God knows how many word balloons to establish this annual's place in continuity with titles released twenty years ago.
Laura: Also, does anyone remember why Xavier was magically paralyzed again?
Chris: No. There are so, so many things that could use footnotes, and then there actually are footnotes on the most inconsequential things. And they're vague. The footnote on Page 3 is basically "*Oh yeah, that happpened!"
Laura: Is Cyclops in charge of the X-Men here?
David: I think he's in his "leading the strike team but still taking orders from Xavier" phase.
Laura: Because he totally shuts down Nick Fury, tells Jean to psychically shut it, says they're not going to do his stupid mission, and stalks off while the call is still live like that's that. While Xavier is sitting right there.
Chris: And yet everyone just does what they were going to do anyway. The fact that the issue doesn't end there is basically everyone going "ha ha f–k you Cyclops you suck."
David: Then again, modern Cyclops would have responded by going "EAT SH-T, OLD MAN!" and optic beaming the TV. And then holding Jean's relatives hostage and threatening to shoot them if she went.
Caleb: It's nice to see he doesn't blow a hole through the wall on his way out, though.
Laura: I also like how Fury is like, "Wolverine, Jean, we need you guys to go in and scope things out." And then just in case the crack team didn't know what he meant: "Your job is RECONNAISSANCE."
Caleb: He reads like a video game mission. Like Metal Gear Solid on the NES. Or just Metal Gear.
Chris: Nick Fury is totally their DM. "Okay, you guys are in a tavern when a curious man approaches you…"
David: Thinking of this as Metal Gear just made it way more awesome. THERE'S an X-Men game. Wolverine infiltrating a place, Fury on the comlink…
Chris: I'm pretty sure that was that Woolverine game for XBox that Larry Hama wrote. Except less sneaking and more wearing your Frank Quitely jacket and stabbing dudes.
David: Please tell me it was called Woolverine, and featured a sheep Wolverine from the Spider-Ham universe.
Laura: In the last panel on page six, are Wolverine and Jean having the same thought in unison? Also, Xavier is looking at Jean kinda creepy. Like he's imagining her brain naked.
David: He's planning his revenge on Wolverine for getting to take Jean on a sexy vacation.
Chris: Laura, it has become clear that, as a woman, you do not understand romance the way Chris Claremont does. Having the same thought means they're so N'Sync. Also we have been talking about this for 35 minutes and we are on page 4.
Chris: Okay, here's where this issue goes off the rails: Jean loses her telepathy on the island and NOBODY CARES. Isn't her telepathy THE ENTIRE REASON JEAN WAS SENT TO THE ISLAND? Remember that? FROM TWO PAGES AGO?
David: Doesn't S.H.I.E.L.D. have psi-scanners? Would they not notice it was a psychic dead zone?
Laura: "The grounds are covered by surveillance galore, and the staff all wear AV 'wires.'"
David: AV "wires." Wow, "wires"! And yeah, I had to flip back and forth a few times wondering if I missed a page. The absolutely nonchalant way she announces that she's 100% powerless on this island is amazing.
Laura: Also, don't telepaths usually completely lose their sh-t when their telepathy disappears? Because Jean's response is to put flowers in her hair and go swimming.
David: Her face is "this is the greatest moment of my life", and her voice is "I could die any moment and I have no idea or defense!"
Chris: I mean, it's great that she's having a good time and she's on vacation, but she's not REALLY on vacation, is she? She's there on a top secret S.H.I.E.L.D. mission to see if something's up. So when she gets off the plane and her super-powers are gone, shouldn't she go "Yep. Something's up." Instead, she wants to have Sexy Bikini Time with Wolverine — which I can understand, look at that handsome GQ bastard frolicking in the surf — and would be fine, except that S.H.I.E.L.D. tends to deal with Fate Of The World type problems.
David: Also, why can't they contact anyone at home? Didn't they think to set up like a clandestine phone call drop or something? Like, does nobody else here use a cellphone?
Jason: No, they all use AV "wires." This is clearly established.
Chris: Also, did I miss something, or is it ever actually revealed why Jean's telepathy was completely blocked? Was that part of the Science Magic Soul-Mind Subversion machine?
David: I'm starting to think Jean's telepathy was blocked because the issue was finished and then an assistant editor asked "why doesn't Jean just use her telepathy to call for help?"
Laura: It's the equivalent of the modern horror movie schtick where they constantly have to explain why the kids don't just call 911 on their cell phones. NO SIGNAL.
David: Maybe this is totally just me, but why the hell is Wolverine so tall?
Chris: Jean's 4'9″. Read your OHOTMU sometime, Dave. Also because it's hard to have a romance with a guy who's a foot shorter than you and reeks of Molson Ice and Canadian Bacon.
Laura: Wait. Wait. Wait a minute. This is actual narration text: "The bulk of the work falls to Logan. She provides suitable eye candy for the locals and tourists, while he goes wandering."
Caleb: That's some Stephenie Meyer sh-t there. Leave the lady'n to the lady. Walking around an island looking at stuff is man's work.
Laura: I guess what we've learned here is that without her telepathy, Jean Grey's only redeeming quality as an X-Man is her slammin' bod.
Chris: Also, Jean isn't just a prop in the investigation, she's a prop for the Hand's plot! They don't want her, they just want to "transform not only him… but also the woman he loves!" She's stripped of her powers and then defined purely as a lust object on both sides.
David: "You're STARING." "I'm a GUY — it's what we DO." Sexual politics of this issue: incredibly questionable. Hell, this page alone.
Chris: Sexual politics of the past 35 years of Chris Claremont's scripts: incredibly questionable.
Jason: Oh man, I don't know if you guys are to the kiss yet, but it is the most disturbing depiction of eyeballs. Both of them look like they have lazy eyes.
Chris: When Wolverine and Jean finally kiss — because you knew from the cover that's where this was going — she looks less shocked and more like she's really bored by whatever's over his right shoulder. Like I said, I generally do like Takeda, but this is the least convincing kiss since "Attack of the Clones."
Laura: Possibly because both of their mouths disappear? Also, I think it's a huge injustice — AND some Stephenie Meyer B.S. — that they immediately fast forward from the Hand appearing to Jean and Wolverine tied up like it ain't no thing to take down Wolverine.
Chris: No joke, Laura. This is an issue where Wolverine and Jean Grey fight the Hand, and Wolverine fights a grand total of zero ninjas. Takeda does do a really great job with the crashing surf and all the ninjas and Jean looking all foxy, but seriously? What the hell comic is this where Wolverine can't fight off a hundred ninjas? That's all that dude did in the '80s. In any other comic, the next page would've been him cleaning dissolving green chunks off his claws going "We have to find out who sent these ninjas after us!"
Caleb: I've found the line of the book. The ultimate personification of Mont'n it up: "When my blades cut you, you'll bleed — and then you'll scream!" Not only is he teaching us, the readers, how blades work, but also describing the panel through dialogue.
David: Murderous Psylocke is pretty funny. Just randomly in the middle of a fight. "Wish I could totally slice these assholes open!"
Chris: And now the truly ridiculous stuff starts to come faster and faster. Like Nightcrawler punching through a stone wall. Because, you know. Also, can I just say how absolutely hilarious it was that Wolverine just straight punched out his teen girl sidekicks? Just — WHAM! Down goes Kitty. WHAM! There's one for you, Jubilee!
Laura: "Kurt, something's just happened to Kitty!" Something? You're not sure what? Because we all just watched her get clocked in the face by Wolverine's fist.
Chris: Also, I love that Kitty gets an ">oh!<" when Takeda draws him just punching the HELL out of her.
Jason: I really like that Kitty undoes the mind control by actually doing something in the actual world, but it's set up so that it looks like this big love victory on Jean's part. Like, I wonder if that's even a mistake: the emotional bond does not actually win the day. It just distracts him. But no one mentions it.
David: Sentences I never thought I'd say: Wolverine possessed by the Hand and forced to fight his friends? Mark Millar did it better.
Caleb: It's also great to see the team assembled at the end, and everyone is smiling in their bandages like Wolverine beats them regularly.
Caleb: The final bit is great too. "Want a lift home?" Nah, we want to bone down on this here beach for awhile.
Laura: Look at Kurt's smile right after that. He totally knows they want to bone.
David: Kurt's depressing life: recognizing when other people want to bone.
Chris: Exactly how are they going to make their own way home? They're on an island that, from the looks of things, was made and staffed by AV Wire-wearing waitresses just so that the Hand could recruit Wolverine and also build their machine that blocks out the Phoenix's powers — which makes absolutely no sense — and they just killed everybody. Are they going to build a boat out of ninja corpses? Is this the prelude to Tales of the Black Freighter: Wolverine and Phoenix Edition?
Laura: Also I like how the other X-Men were the only professionals involved here, and decided to actually look into it when no one could contact Jean and Wolverine, who were too busy tanning to care.
Chris: Yeah, at least somebody was worried about Jean not having her telepathy. I bet Cyclops was so worried he blasted a hole in every wall. Also, Wolverine's line "you read minds, I read bodies" — that's like half a step below "Are those space pants?" I bet if they went to an island and something was removing Wolverine's ability to read bodies, he would flip the f–k out.
Chris: Anything else about the Mont here?
David: He's a dude who does his thing, and he's got fans who love his thing, and they're all happy together.
Chris: It's not just me though, right? Nothing makes sense in this issue?
David: No, it's pretty much a series of discrete events strung together by very thin narrative tape.
Caleb: His writing reminds me of the way I played with action figures as a kid. Like, stuff just happens.
David: You had action figures flirt on the beach for ten pages while making cryptosexist comments?
Chris: How did S.H.I.E.L.D. know that the Hand was setting this up? And if they did, why did they send the exact two people that they were setting a trap for? Why doesn't anyone from S.H.I.E.L.D. show up at the end? There's seriously no reason for them to have sent the X-Men. It's not even a "Mutant Problem." It's the Hand. And also some scientists, which I don't know that the Hand has ever worked with before. Seriously, does that sound like the problem you send Wolverine and Jean Grey to take care of, or the problem you send Elektra to take care of?
Chris: Also! They're COMPLETELY INEFFECTIVE! WOLVERINE AND PHOENIX ARE RESCUED BY JUBILEE. I just don't get this issue. It's generally well-drawn, but… why? Why is any of this happening? Why is this the genesis of Wolverine and Jean's relationship? Was this really the best story to illustrate the relationship of these two characters?
David: Especially considering Wolverine is dead in "X-Men Forever," isn't he? Like, isn't this whole issue just Jean reminiscing about a dead dude?
Laura: Yes?


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Brian and Dappy Live: Tune into BBC Radio1 today at 11.30am for a very special Live Lounge with Dappy and Brian May. They will perform 'Rockstar' and one very special cover. The two then go straight into 1Xtra at 12:15 where they will perform again.
"They say that I'm dangerous, like everything I touch falls it apart, if five outta 10 would kill me now. Well I'm a cut to the chase, because I'm living like a rockstar, I aint afraid, the good die young."
Fresh from the massive success of his No.1 debut solo single 'No Regrets', UK superstar Dappy returns with a second surefire smash hit 'Rockstar', released via AATW/Island Records.
Written and produced by Dappy with TMS, 'Rockstar' is a rousing pop-rock-urban anthem. Once again, the song fuses an eclectic mix of sounds that when combined produce a track that is unmistakably 'Dappy'.
Lyrically the track is an ode to the life of a rock star, dying young like 'The 27 Club', the group of musicians who all tragically died at the age of 27. Dappy references Amy Winehouse and Brian Jones (Rolling Stones) whilst rapping, 'Is there heaven for the forever twenty sevens, could it be three years till I'm jammin with legends.'
Dappy says: "This song is barrier breaking. The track is all about paying homage to 'The 27 Club' and amazing artists such as Amy Winehouse. It's a song about people getting to their lowest, but lyrically it talks of turning a negative into a positive."
Queen megastar Brian May also features on the track. Brian recently spoke publicly of his appreciation for 'No Regrets', so when Dappy approached Brian about appearing on 'Rockstar', he immediately said yes.
Brian says: "I don't have time for 'guesting' much any more on people's records. But when this track arrived in my inbox, I couldn't say no. Dappy's work reminds me that, although our 'genres' may be a million miles apart, there are areas where we speak the same language. He's a Rock Star!"
'Rockstar' is the second single to be taken from Dappy's debut solo album due out in 2012. Dappy's 'No Regrets' flew straight to the top of the Official UK Singles Chart, setting a new chart record, as the 11th consecutive UK artist to top the single chart in 2011, the longest run of No.1s by UK acts ever.
Dappy has achieved unprecedented success both as a solo artist and as part of N-Dubz, without question one of the most culturally significant groups in contemporary British pop music. Their albums 'Uncle B,' 'Against All Odds' and 'Love.Live.Life' have to-date sold over 1 million copies in the UK. Earlier this year, the band completed a sell out arena tour, with dates at London's huge O2 and the MEN in Manchester. With over 100 million views on YouTube, 1 million friends on Facebook and 200,000 followers on Twitter Dappy and N-Dubz are among the most powerful names in music.
December saw Dappy tour the UK as a solo artist for the first time, winning rave reviews and showcasing eagerly awaited new material to his huge fanbase.
In addition, Dappy has recently launched his own clothing brand 'MIGI Clothing', named after his sons Milo and Gino. He has big plans for extending the brand this year. Now, with a solo No.1 under his belt and debut album nearing completion, 2012 looks set to be the biggest year of the Dappy success story to date.
Rockstar is released to radio tomorrow - January 18th.
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Brian May and Denis Pellerin: Live Talk on The London Stereoscopic Company TOMORROW in London!


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I had a customer yesterday at the local farmers market psuedo complain after buying a 2 lbs jar of honey. Her psuedo complaint is how I am running my business of selling honey at the farmers market. She has a different opinion of how I should run my business at the farmers market, and if I would just be open minded about her thuoghts I certainly could vastly improve my business and make much more money than I currently make selling honey at the farmers market.
I listened to her rant and abrupt rudeness for about 5 minutes before telling her I would be happy to explore her ideas but the farmers market is NOT the forum for such discussions. She continued to rant for a few more minutes and I thanked her for her purchase.
I certainly didn't want to drive her away and in the most tactful, polite fashion told her it's my business I will run it as I see fit. Other thoughts were coming to mind, but none where productive thoughts.
Who out there has had to deal with difficult customers who really are customers?


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Member Since: January 5, 2011
Country: United States
Hi guys
I have a question. Can i use this with arduino for connecting my phone to it? I want to trigger a relay when my phone comes in the range of the bluetooth module and connects to it.
And another question, how can I wire this module, because it seems a little too small :)
Thanks in advance
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