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|11th May 2004, 08:42 PM
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Cambridge Audio CD2
Hi there!
I just got a CD2 from someone, and it has a faulty laser (probably). Do you guys think it`s worth the effort to put in a replacement laser?
I know it has the CDM2 mechanism, and 4 * TDA1541 DACs, but that`s about it...
Kind regards,
|11th May 2004, 08:51 PM
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Are you sure it has a CDM2 transport. I have 2 dead Cambridge CD2 players and they both have CDM4/19.
Nice sounding player... no service manual available
Mine have a heavy buzz on the output and the CD tray door opens and closes randomly. Display gets funky too flashing etc.
|11th May 2004, 08:52 PM
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Nice cdplayer if you can live with its peculiarities. I recently wrecked a unrepairable CD3 which is very similar ( less wiring, nicer pcb ) but I kept some parts/boards/remote. I also have a spare laser for it ( CD3 had CDM 1 however ).
The display problems and tray with its own character are standard, after all it is british I would not put too much time and/or money in it.
It's only audio. Member of the non modular PCB design committee
|11th May 2004, 09:13 PM
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Are these the peculiarities you mean? Is the sound good? I now have a Rotel rcd975, which probably sounds better, or...?
|11th May 2004, 09:22 PM
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Stick with the Rotel, it is OK and listens to the boss. The CD2/CD3 players are a bit like girlfriends. When you want to play a disk CD2 does not want that. After a few futile attempts it'll accept your command and it will start playing but with unreadable response on the display.
They do sound good ( their single quality ) but they are stubborn disobedient machines. Casing is even worse than the plastic Philips boxes.
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|25th May 2004, 06:43 PM
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Right, well, I`m trying to find a laser mechanism now, but I don`t know where to find it.
I need a CDM2/29, does anyone know where I should look? I think the CD650 from Philips has one...
|26th May 2004, 02:31 PM
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CDM2 mechanism - are you sure?
Just to reiterate Jean Paul's point - are you absolutely sure yours has a CDM2 mechanism?
My dead-'ish' CD2 has a CDM4 and I happen to know that the player was specifically designed around it. Maybe it was replaced - If it was, hunt around for a CDM4 - It will read just about anything.
I managed to get a complete service manual from Cambridge, as a result of a connection I used to have with the company. Its like no other, with a long, rambling explanation (from the unit's designer, Stan Curtis) of the rationale behind the design, etc, etc. It (along with my CD2) is at the other end of the country, where a friend has been playing around with it. I'll get hold of it and post it here.
The service manual also explains what the various fault codes that appear on the display from time mean (and how to clear them).
Jean Paul, you sound like you know my girlfriend...
|26th May 2004, 02:42 PM
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It has a cdm2/29, it says so on the mechanism.
And wonderous things still happen...
I opened the player up to look at it. Then I closed it up again. It seems to play fine!
The right LED display however is blinking all the time, apparently switching between displaying time and something else. The left hand display (track etc.) is working fine. Also the Disc Error light blinks now and then, although I can`t hear anything going wrong over the speakers. And one LED light seems to be out (horizontal bar in the middle of one 8)
Additionally, the player cracks (over the speakers) when I open and close the drawer.
Could it be a grounding problem?
I've just started to look at it properly now. More errors may appear!
And I would love to see the manual! Thanks!
|29th May 2004, 06:18 AM
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A very interesting design, rather different... I'd like to read the notes on the design idea. The display problems that they ALL seem to get should be easy to fix.. There are a LOT of area's that can be improved on in this model, power supplies, buffering or reclocking the digital lines from the main board to the outboard DAC/line out section, better clock, improved I/V, etc. It's rather an econo job for what was about an $1800 player back when they were new... but 4 TDA1541's summed together make for a very respectable player, even stock...
I'll see if I can check them for which drives the two he has has...
|30th May 2004, 02:03 PM
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Cambridge CD2
I spent a lot of time upgrading my original CD2 but it is now also dead and in need of repair. If there is a service manual available I would be interested in getting hold of a copy as I would like to resurect it one day.
The CD2 runs the DACs hotter than usual by using over 6 volts on the supply instead of the standatd 5, without the heatsinks and good ventilation they do cook over time. I removed the TDA1541 DACs from the daughter boards on mine added IC sockets and modified the PCB so that they accept TDA1541A chips. I got 4 of the S1 variety and it sounded superb for a few years till it cooked and killed them.
The main area to get improvements is the power supply decoupling (lots of polypropylene and silver mica capacitors work wonders) as well as reworking the ground routing. The transformer was converted to a torroidal and moved to a seperate box.
Other enhancements were to fit IC sockets and upgrade the 5534 Op amps to AD845 and also replace the standard 1% resistors with holco 0.1% for the current to voltage converters. I installed an additional Op Amp stage to get rid of the two output capacitors which was tuned to remove the DC offset and produce a fully DC coupled output stage.
Obviously the display died long ago but the player worked well for years without it. I eventually bought a Cambrigde CD5 but that couldn't even compare to the standard CD2 so I upgraded again to an Audiolab 8000CD/8000DAX which is very respectable. I'd still like to hear it next to my old CD2 though.
It's been a few years now and I can't exactly remember whats wrong with the old CD2 but if I can get hold of a manual I'll dig out my oscilloscope and have a probe around it.
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Have a new (to me) '02 TJ - CT Jeep so it has some rust and couldn't wait to clean out the frame and body underside. I was surprised a Jeep as new as this still suffers from rust and frame rot from the inside out. Why doesn't Jeep change the frame design? With all those holes in the frame it is just prone to rust, unless you live in dry climate. I reached my fingers into the larger holes by the rear wheels and it was just filled with dirt and scaling rust.
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I was really surprised that i found such huge chunks of rusty flakes inside my frame. Looking at the pictures, is this repairable? Or should i be looking for a new frame?
Wow your frame is nasty. I guess I'm lucky haha. Because the frame of the wrangler is exposed its prone to rust but it's a good frame if you take care of it.
Dude. That frame is bad. Mines got some light stuff but not that bad
I power wash the undercarriage and frame, axles and back side of rims after any off road trip, along with a hand wash. Bought the 05 rubi new in 04 and it still looks damn good on the bottom end and I wax it once a year, (helps on brush marks) and the flame red still looks new.
Shush before Chrysler goes unibody on the next model wrangler. The frame is fine as it is. It just needs to be maintained especially in the salt belt of the northeast. I'm going to get that Eastwood frame stuff after this winter. Mine is only showing rust at the TC skid but I don't want the elements to do to mine what I've seen on others.
bring it to a shop and see if they can weld a patch
those flakes in the pic are by far the biggest i've found - but i can find little flakes in just about every factory hole in the frame... maybe i should start looking for a deal on a frame?
i had scaling pieces but not thick chunks like that. What year is your tj? Have to consider all costs...
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So, I've been away from my Jango for a while and want to get back to work. However, one of the things that has always discouraged me is this piece of the costume because it is so ridiculously hard to find. MR's seem to have dropped off the face of the earth (unsurprisingly).
Has anything else come along lately?
Cruzer used to have a fantastic set but I think he said his molds were shot. Anyone else making these now? In kit form or otherwise?
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I have a I37ms and a friend of mine had a I36 so I am fairly familiar fairly with both. They are extremely different boats in many ways other then the 36 point something LOA. Although both are decent low cost boats. I am partial to the 37, but I would go anywhere in a I36. Just depends on what you like.
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I forgot to mention the standard I37 has the prop above and aft of the rudder which makes it very hard to maneuver tight spots in forward or reverse. The I37ms and the I36 have the prop on a strut forward of the rudder.
The Islander 36 would be a much better choice
all around. Nearly all of King's designs are 'under
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The Gurney designed 36 is among the best
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The 36 (designed by Alan Gurney, not Bruce King, btw) is a much newer design built into the late 70s, the 37 (indeed designed by King) seems to have been replaced by the 36, so the 37s will be older.
The 37 appears to have a spade rudder, while the 36 is skeg-hung, pros and cons for both of course, depends on your preference. My observations are that the 36 does not back up well under power, but she's certainly not alone in that category. Most 36 owners seem very happy with them - they are a timelessly attractive boat.
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I've been leading Forrester's efforts in sustainable computing and green IT for the past three years, with a particular focus on the role of IT professionals and assets in furthering corporate sustainability initiatives. We work with many clients — both supplier and buyer organizations — to improve the adoption, governance, and communications of their green IT and overall sustainability programs and policies.
One of the centerpieces of Forrester's ongoing research in this area is our survey of IT practitioners at enterprises and SMBs worldwide. We have done the survey twice each year since 2007, and it provides a fascinating window into the motivations, depth, and breadth of corporate commitments to greener IT processes and into IT's role in broader corporate sustainability efforts. I want to share two results from our latest survey (conducted in April 2010) and briefly discuss the implications of those findings.
At first look, the data in Figure 1 (click image for a larger version) is not-so-good news for those of us evangelizing and implementing green IT. Simply put, sustainability and energy efficiency rank low (No. 10 out of 11) on IT's priority list. But let's look a little closer at some of the other priorities our survey respondents identified.
"Improve the efficiency of IT" ranks No. 1. That should be directly related to green characteristics of assets and processes, particularly in terms of energy usage. And look at No. 5 on the list, "Define strategy for risk and compliance." This also directly relates to green IT initiatives for e-waste disposal, carbon reporting, and the like.
The point here is that the selling points of green IT and the metrics used to judge its effectiveness, should not be about "green" — they should be about mainstream business and operational metrics that practitioners are using to measure and improve their effectiveness.
Which leads to our second set of data in Figure 2 (click image for a larger version) about the motivations that companies report are driving their green IT initiatives. The quick summary: Cost and cost, with brand perception coming up into third place.
Again, the environmental characteristics of IT products, services, or processes are only important as the relate to, and move the needle on, mainstream business metrics (cost, revenue, customer satisfaction, and the like). Note the decline in the percentage of respondents citing "Do the right thing" as a motivator, from 50% to under 30% over the lifetime of our survey.
This is not a bad thing! It means that IT practitioners are aligning environmental responsibility with their core metrics and management goals, rather than pursuing it because they want to. Similarly, regulation is not driving behavior amongst this sample. Again, this is a good sign for green IT because it's internally motivated by business requirements, not by external forces like regulators.
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PORT ALLEN - An unexpected name made the list of deliquent taxpayers in West Baton Rouge Parish recently.
Port Allen City Attorney Victor Woods Jr. owes more than $430 for a property located on West Main Street in Brusly, according to tax collector Mike Wiemer. The property is nestled behind trees on a quiet street there.
"I've been doing this for 26 years, and it's basically the same people every year," said Mike Weimer, tax collector and chief civil deputy.
News 2 has learned only 192 property owners were deliquent in paying their taxes from last year in West Baton Rouge Parish. The tax collector said 9,968 tax bills were sent out across the parish. Weimer said it makes his job unnecessarily difficult when he has to chase down people who won't pay.
"I would like to have everyone pay to make our jobs easier, unfortunately, it just doesn't work that way." Weimer said.
The property in question lists Victor Woods Jr. "etals" as the owner of the property. According to the tax collector, "etals" refers to heirs or siblings. However, Woods Jr. is responsible since his name appears on the property, according to Weimer.
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Reddick notes that he was leaning heavily to Georgia Tech until the coaching change took place last month. That opened it up," he says.
"With all of the coaching changes, Auburn is my number one," he says. "I still plan to play the recruiting game and take the rest of my visits. I have got a visit to Georgia Tech next weekend and then Florida right after that. I will probably make my decision right after my final visit." He also took an official visit to Clemson last weekend and says he enjoyed that trip.
Offensive lineman Monreko Crittenden was Reddick's player host. "I had a lot of fun," Reddick says about the weekend.
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"It's an interesting puzzle. The "cool cities", the ones that are supposedly doing the best, the ones with the hottest downtowns, the biggest buzz, leading-edge new companies, smart shops, swank restaurants and hip hotels – the ones that are supposed to be magnets for talent – are often among those with the highest levels of net domestic outmigration. New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Miami and Chicago – all were big losers in the 2000s. Seattle, Denver, and Minneapolis more or less broke even. Portland is the only proverbially cool city with a regional population over two million that gained any significant number of migrants."
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The Tennessee basketball team is traveling to Italy for a four-game exhibition tour Aug. 5-15, 2012. Destinations on the trip are Rome, The Vatican City, Florence, Pisa, the Republic of San Marino, Lake Como and Milan.
"This trip is going to be great for our team and also great for our fans," Vols head coach Cuonzo Martin said. "For our team, it provides a chance to gain valuable time together on and off the court. For our fans, it's a chance to combine a European vacation with the opportunity to cheer for their Vols while also traveling with the team. They'll feel like their part of the program - which is how it should be - because they are an important part of everything we do."
Basketball Travelers, Inc., is offering travel packages that allow fans to accompany the team throughout its tour of Italy. For complete package details, click HERE.
Package prices include round-trip coach airfare, charter bus for all ground transportation, first-class hotel accommodations for nine nights, tickets to all of UT's exhibition games, sightseeing tours as listed in the team itinerary, a tour escort from Basketball Travelers, Inc., and breakfast at the hotel each morning.
Please note that the Tennessee team itinerary is tentative (excluding the dates) and is subject to change. All package purchasers will be notified in advance of any major changes to the itinerary.
The deadline to purchase the travel package is May 1, 2012. To purchase, please contact Becky at Basketball Travelers, Inc., by calling 425-776-2775 or by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
Basketball Travelers, Inc. seeks to provide the highest quality product available - a travel experience that is unrivaled in service, value and attention to detail. Rome and Florence were both recently listed on U.S. News & World Report's list of the "Best European Vacations."
The Vols will play against club and professional teams during the Italian tour. All of Tennessee's returning student-athletes, as well as incoming players (with the exception of Division I transfers) are eligible to make the trip to Italy and participate in the exhibition games.
This summer tour gives the Vols a head start on most other schools, which will have to wait until October before they can practice together as a team. Tennessee's last European tour took place in August 2007 and included stops in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria. The Vols posted a 4-1 record on that tour.
Greeneville, Tenn., residents Jerry and Nancy Fortner accompanied the Vols on their 2007 European tour.
"We've taken trips all over the world, and that was far and away the best vacation we've had," Jerry Fortner said. "We had an absolutely great time. We traveled with the team, and the coaches and players were great to be around - and I know this current group is the same way. Getting to know the players and socialize with them makes for a great time. Everyone that made the trip felt the same way we did.
"Basketball Travelers is a class act, and they do a great job."
Italy is a familiar setting for Martin, as he played professional basketball for the Felize Scandone franchise in Avellino, Italy, following his time in the NBA. Former Vol Ron Slay (2000-03) now plays for the same franchise.


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Evidence for Policy Design delivered a three-day training course to Asian policymakers on "Impact Evaluation for Public Policy Improvement." The course, organized in partnership with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), Citi Foundation, and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), took place in Bangkok August 27-29 and was held in conjunction with the "Impact and Policy Conference: Evidence in Governance, Financial Inclusion, and Entrepreneurship" hosted by the ADB, IPA and J-PAL.
The training is part of EPoD's ongoing commitment to bridging the gap between research and policy. The use of rigorous impact evaluation methods for assessing development programs is increasing, but policymakers require deeper knowledge of these tools if they are to be critical consumers of evidence and apply evaluation findings effectively in their work.
Over 60 policymakers and practitioners from two dozen Asian countries participated in the training, which covered the role of impact evaluation in the policy design process, the strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation methods including randomization, guidelines for assessing evaluations, and frameworks for applying evaluation findings to cost-effectiveness analysis and policy agenda-setting.
Lecturers included EPoD faculty Rema Hanna and David Yanagizawa-Drott, EPoD Associate Director Deanna Ford, as well as Sharon Barnhardt of the Institute for Financial Management and Research, Annie Duflo and Aishwarya Ratan of IPA, and Shawn Powers of J-PAL. Participants discussed the role of evidence in their work and collaborated to complete group case studies.
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On Monday, December 24, 2012, Fairview Township Police Department was dispatched to the US Army Depot in New Cumberland. Upon arrival, officers were advised the driver of a Nissan Sentra attempted to drive onto the base without stopping as directed by the on duty guard.
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BALTIMORE - Loyola held Penn State to two second half goals and only one shot in the fourth quarter, defeating the Nittany Lions, 7-4, in the teams' ECAC Lacrosse Conference opener in front of 745 wind-blown fans at Diane Geppi Aikens Field on Saturday afternoon.
"We played solid on defense, and we came up with some big stops when we needed them," Loyola Head Coach Charley Toomey said. "We did not play very well on offense, and I was disappointed with our performance in the midfield, but I thought that we were good at the (faceoff) `X,' and we did what we needed to on defense."
The Greyhounds (2-1 overall, 1-0 ECAC) took a 3-2 halftime lead as Jake Wilcox scored the only goal of the second quarter with 6:51 remainig before the break. He took a feed from Chris Basler and beat Penn State goalie Drew Adams.
The Nittany Lions (1-2, 0-1), however, evened the game less than four minutes into the second half. Rob Forster found Chris Hogan in front of the goal, and Hogan knotted the game at 3-3 with 11:41 left in the third quarter.
After several minutes of scoreless play, Shane Koppens put Loyola ahead for good with an unassisted tally 6:25 before the end of the third quarter.
Koppens' goal started a 4-0 Loyola run, as Matt Langan and Cooper MacDonnell each scored to give the Greyhounds a 6-3 advantage heading into the final quarter.
Joe Landry dodged right and beat Adams for Loyola's final goal with 4:28 remaining in the game.
Forster scored, unassisted, with eight seconds for Penn State to provide the final margin.
Loyola outshot Penn State, 31-19, but the Greyhounds had an 18-8 advantage in shots after halftime. Adams made 15 saves for Penn State, but Jake Hagelin had seven stops in goal for the Greyhounds.
The Greyhounds got on the board first, as MacDonnell took a Koppens pass and put it into the cage 1:03 into the contest.
Chris Mulqueen's goal with 11:57 to go in the first quarter evened the game, and Matt Loy gave Penn State it's only lead of the game with 8:38 left in the first quarter on an extra-man goal.
Loyola tied the score at 2-2 with 28 ticks left in the first quarter as Koppens fed Basler for an extra-man goal.
The Greyhounds had 33 ground balls in the game, led by P.T. Ricci's game-high 10. Paul Richards picked up seven ground balls. Ricci led all players with eight caused turnovers.
Loyola won nine of 15 faceoffs in the game. Tim McDermott was 7-of-12 at the faceoff `X,' and John Schiavone and Michael Atkinson each won one.
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It would be great if dinner started a little bit earlier next year. I was starvin by 7
I think the panel would be great! Hopefully they wouldn't stick us in the latenight slot again.
It would be great if dinner started a little bit earlier next year. I was starvin by 7
I think the panel would be great! Hopefully they wouldn't stick us in the latenight slot again.
Yes, please! I may actually be going to this one!!!
(I got invited to the one in 05, but I could've cared less about going, and I've recently run back into the buddy who invited me. So, maybe!!! Depends on how funds hold out, but atleast someone else will be going with me...should make the parental units happy...)
Hmmmm...moving out goal set for end of summer. Dragon Con set for summer. I may be putting my armor on hold (, that's okay, I haven't started) until I've gone to Dragon Con. Plus, I'll have more space to work, and no parents questioning my judgement. Hey, you put all your money into your respective Camero and Mustang, I'll put my money into this!
Well, it would only be one panel if we did it. And we would definitely need folks that would be willing to demonstrations. We would also like to be able to possibly have some give aways as well as before. Just trying to get a feel for whether or not this is wanted.
As for when, we would want either Friday afternoon or Sunday afternoon. We definitely won't do it Sat night.
Sorry, the threads get purged from the Pit approx every 4 weeks. There is no way to bring them back.
Well, more than likely I am hiring a moving truck to ship my outfits, cuz there are a few that will need a big truck to haul them, so I figure I can get one or 2 or my vacctables and all we will have to do is plug them in and have the plastic.
I can bring molds, or hell, maybe if Mr. Tim Allen, would finish some certain molds, we could do a few pulls of them, and give THOSE away as prizes/giveaways
I would totally be down with a TDH forum. I was bummed that I wasnt able to meet all the THD'ers at this past D Con ,and this would be another great opportunity to do such, along with the dinner! I would be in full swing with my PrePro II project at that time so a forum would be awesome! Count me in, and I will be more than happy to assist on any volunteer level.
Well K-bomb... as the old saying goes... if you build it, they will come. Reserve a spot... and we will take care of it.
Hopefully I will be able to go to D*CON in 07, but I'm planning on going to C4 soo... yeah Maybe I'll try to drive down to save some cash
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Velázquez's 'Portrait of Duke Francesco I d'Este' Masterpiece on View at the Met, 4/16
Velázquez's Portrait of Duke Francesco I d'Este, one of the great portraits of the 17th century from one of the most prestigious regional museums in Italy, will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 16 through July 14. This special loan, which has never before traveled to the United States, will also coincide with and celebrate the May opening of the Metropolitan Museum's renovated New European Paintings Galleries, 1250-1800. The painting is temporarily leaving its home during the closure of the Galleria Estense in Modena due to damages sustained during the severe earthquake in the Emilia Romagna region in May 2012.
The exhibition, Velázquez's Portrait of Duke Francesco I d'Este: A Masterpiece from the Galleria Estense, Modena, is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in collaboration with the Soprintendenza per i Beni Storici, Artistici ed Etnoantropologici di Modena e Reggio Emilia and the Galleria Estense.
Support is provided by the Consulate General of Italy in New York and Ferrero USA Inc. as part of the 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the United States, an initiative held under the auspices of the President of the Italian Republic, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of Italy in Washington with the support of the Corporate Ambassadors Eni and Intesa Sanpaolo.
Diego Velázquez's depiction of Francesco I d'Este (1610-58), the Duke of Modena, is one of the artist's most distinctive portraits. Authoritative and sophisticated, the Duke of Modena appears in Velázquez's portrait as the quintessential 17th-century ruler and aristocrat. Painted while the duke was visiting Madrid in 1638 to secure the support of King Philip IV, the work conveys the duke's air of arrogance and sensuality, and is a high watermark in the history of baroque portraiture, while also illustrating the importance of Velázquez's portraits to Spanish diplomacy.
Francesco I d'Este became Duke of Modena and Reggio Emilia in 1629 and his rule was shaped by the Thirty Years' War (1618-48). Caught between France and Spain and those countries' interests in the Italian peninsula, he tried to steer his small state effectively through the perilous waters of international politics. In the fall of 1638, Francesco traveled to Spain, trying to forge a stronger alliance with King Philip IV and to garner financial support for Modena. Philip IV was keen to please and impress his Italian ally, and upon his arrival in Madrid, Francesco was given quarters in the new royal residence of the Buen Retiro, where he could admire some of the king's extraordinary art collections. Philip appointed him Viceroy of Catalonia, Admiral of the Fleet, and a member of the Council of State. The king then bestowed on Francesco the most prestigious honor in Spain, the order of the Golden Fleece.
While the duke was in Spain, the king's court artist, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599-1660), painted his portrait. Originally from Seville, Velázquez had moved to Madrid in 1622 and worked for the royal court. Over the years, he produced magnificent portraits of the king and members of the royal family. Philip commissioned an equestrian portrait of the duke and, while the large portrait was never finished, Velázquez must have completed the head of the duke soon after he was given the Golden Fleece-which Francesco sports in the painting. The portrait, therefore, must date between October 24 and November 4, 1638, when the duke left to return to Italy. This work may have been preparatory for the equestrian portrait and could have been brought back to Italy by Francesco. In 1843 the painting was acquired by the Galleria Estense in Modena, Italy.


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Prime Minister John Howard has denied the free trade agreement would increase prescription drug prices in Australia, saying the deal could deliver patients even more cheap, subsidised drugs.
In the face of criticism that the deal would erode Australia's ability to contain drug prices, Mr Howard said the Government had staunchly defended the $5 billion-a-year Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
"It might lead to even, possibly, some more drugs being made available to the public," Mr Howard said. "Now, I wouldn't have thought the Australian public would object to that.
"We have really protected this because it is very important to us... I made it very clear to Mr Bush... that the PBS is one of those parts of the social welfare structure of this country that has proved very successful."
Opposition parties and other critics argue that by allowing drug companies to appeal against government decisions about how new drugs are listed on the PBS, the agreement could give the companies leverage to increase prices.
Opposition trade spokesman Stephen Conroy said Labor opposed any trade pact that would undermine the PBS and would vote against any such moves in the Senate.
Australian Consumers Association health spokesman Martyn Goddard said allowing companies to appeal against PBS listing decisions would increase drug prices in Australia, "perhaps dramatically".
At present, expert panels, called the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Pricing Authority, advise the Government on whether new drugs should be subsidised and how much they should cost.
The Government then negotiates a price with the drug's manufacturer. But an appeals process would erode the Government's bargaining power, Mr Goddard said.
"Every decision a company does not like will go off to an appeal with lawyers," he said.
Democrat health spokeswoman Lyn Allison said appeals could overwhelm the health bureaucracy and create backlogs.
"Big US companies with large profits at stake will see great advantages in appealing should a drug not be accepted for subsidy at a price they want," she said.But Kieran Schneemann, chief executive of industry group Medicines Australia, said appeals would make the PBS more transparent.
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BANGKOK – A 6-year-old girl died early Monday from wounds sustained during a grenade attack on a busy Bangkok shopping area, hospital officials said, taking the number of children killed in political violence that hit Thailand over the weekend to three.
The attacks, which appear to mark an escalation of unrest in nearly four months of political crisis, earned condemnation from U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon while Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra labeled them "terrorist acts."
The girl's 4-year-old brother also died after the grenade struck Sunday afternoon as shoppers mingled with anti-government protesters at a rally in one of Bangkok's main commercial areas.
A woman was the third victim of the grenade, which police believe was fired from an M79 shoulder-held launcher into the crowd, near bustling street stalls, several hotels and one of the capital's biggest shopping malls.
"A 6-year-old girl has died, she underwent surgery but died today (Monday)," the Ramathibodi Hospital said in a statement, adding that the boy was 4 rather than 12 as previously reported.
"They were siblings," a hospital official said.
A 5-year-old girl was gunned down in a drive-by shooting at an anti-government rally in eastern Trat province late Saturday.
Thailand has seen months of anti-government rallies aimed at ousting Yingluck's administration and curbing the influence of her brother Thaksin, a former prime minister who lives in exile to avoid a prison term for corruption.
The protests have been met with sporadic gun and grenade attacks — mainly in Bangkok — by unknown attackers, but fears of wider unrest are mounting after the death toll nearly doubled last week.
Twenty people have now died and more than 700 people have been wounded in violence linked to demonstrations.
It is the worst unrest since the Thaksin-allied "Red Shirt" protests against a Democrat-led government in 2010 sparked clashes and a bloody military crackdown that left more than 90 people dead.
In a posting on her official Facebook page late Sunday, Yingluck denounced the weekend's attacks as "terrorist acts for political gain," stating the children's deaths "were particularly saddening and disturbing."
A spokesman for the U.N. secretary-general said Ban condemned the escalation of violence in Thailand over the past week, in particular armed attacks against protesters and children, and called for an end to violence "from any quarter."
Last Tuesday a daylight gunbattle in Bangkok's historic heart, close to the main tourist district, left five people dead — including a policeman — as security forces tried to clear a protest site.
Both sides of the political divide blame each other for the violence.
Protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban, who as deputy premier at the time oversaw the 2010 crackdown on the Red Shirts, said the government carried responsibility for the weekend violence.
They were "the actions of followers of Thaksin's regime," Suthep told a rally late Sunday, urging protesters to hold new rallies Monday at Shinawatra-linked businesses in Bangkok.
The kingdom has been bitterly split since a military coup ousted Thaksin as prime minister in 2006.


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On Monday, in this column, I ridiculed soccer's attempt to make vital decisions based on supposedly accurate measurement of infinitesimally small distances. On Tuesday, a mere 20 hours later,
my strictures were vindicated in the most emphatic way when Euro 2012 came up with an absolutely perfect illustration of the nonsense I was railing against.
This time it was the Ukraine, co-host of the tournament and playing against England, that got right royally screwed. In a brief "set-piece" (a favorite phrase among our TV brethren these days) -- it lasted all of two seconds -- Marko Devic's shot spun up off the England goalkeeper Joe Hart and headed towards the empty net. Defender John Terry arrived to kick the ball "off the line" -- but the replays (never mind one's own impression) make it clear that ball was already over the line.
But it wasn't a goal.
What makes this particular incident the perfect example of just how fatuous these decisions can get is that it occurred under what are supposed to be the ideal circumstances for preventing such calamities.
The tournament is being played with two extra officials, the additional assistant referees (AARs), one positioned on each goal line. And the main reason why those extra officials are there, the very impetus for creating them in the first place, is to be in the perfect position to make instant decisions on whether the ball enters, or does not enter, the goal. They owe their existence to UEFA president Michel Platini who -- along with many others -- does not like the idea of using goal-line technology (GLT), and thinks that these AARs can do the job equally well. Well this one, a Hungarian, maybe the first ever AAR to be put in the spotlight with a chance to show just how helpful they can be, and he made a dreadful hash of things.
There he is, ideally positioned, just 10 yards away from the ball, staring intently at the action, straight down the goal line, yet he can't see that the ball is over the line. But surely, he can see that a huge proportion of the ball is over the line -- he must be able to see that. So he's telling us that while the ball might have been 99 percent over the line, he was able to judge, instantly, that 1 percent of the ball was overhanging the goal line. So, no goal.
This is just breath-taking silliness. The AAR's failure would be much more forgivable if the replays and the stills were not so telling. The ball is over the line. One can only assume that this AAR has been completely taken in by all the nonsense that he will have grown up with, listening to that constant refrain of "all the ball must be over all the line."
Maybe, after years of referee training encouraging you to believe that such a distinction can accurately be made in the heat and scramble of a game, maybe after all that, when you're put in charge of making critical decisions with such an impossibly fine margin of error .. . . well, I'm quite willing to believe that you can suffer a colossal collapse of common sense and make crazy decisions like this one.
If the belief has been instilled that you actually can make such impossibly demanding judgments, then I suppose there will exist AARs who feel confident they can tell the difference in the position of a moving ball between it overlapping the goal line by one millimeter, or being one millimeter beyond the line.
Of course, they're wrong, pathetically so. But they are, sad to say, only doing what they're told to do. Normally, when intelligent people are ordered to do something that is clearly impossible (and will get pilloried if they don't get it right) you might expect them to raise loud objections. Not a word from our trusty referees. Not a word from our famous IFAB either, the rusty committee that FIFA likes to hail as "the guardians of the game."
GLT looms anyway. This Euro 2012 misadventure will presumably hasten its arrival. IFAB is going to make the decision, which is itself a huge joke. The decision should be made by a competent body, not a group of soccer politicians who meet only twice a year.
The antis, led with decreasing conviction by Sepp Blatter, have basically run out of objections. Not that there arguments were ever that great anyway. How many times have I listened to Blatter or other FIFA guys go on about the importance of "real time," that any system must show instantly whether ball was in the net, because the game cannot be stopped to look at a replay. Why not? Well, because the other team might go storming off to the other end of the field and score a goal, which you might have to call back. It was disappointing to hear Michael Ballack -- who has been eminently sensible and informative on the ESPN telecasts -- roll out that argument.
I've been watching this sport for nearly 70 years, all over the world, and I have no recollection of ever having seen a disputed goal-line call at one end followed immediately by a goal at the other. No doubt it has happened -- but it must be very, very rare.
It has also been argued that GLT should not be used as it could not possibly be afforded by about 90 percent of the soccer world and would therefore create an elite group playing by different rules. An argument that cannot be denied, but can only be countered by doing away with the pro game.
A more serious objection would arise if it could be shown that referees themselves are against GLT. A poll among first division referees from the world's top soccer countries could settle that -- but who ever heard of such a thing? Referees finding a voice? That's something else that, regrettably, I've found to be pretty rare in this sport.
GLT will be expensive, of course -- so someone is going to make money out of this. I doubt whether it will be any more accurate -- in absolute terms -- than focused human eyes. But it will -- one presumes -- be consistent in its decisions. It will not suffer a mental breakdown at the crucial moment.


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Moving Sounds Festival
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Due East's Complete Concert
The marriage of music and raw sound is so closely intertwined that it is easy to take one or the other for granted. In an effort to explore the infinite possibilities of this relationship, the Argento New Music Project, the Musical Information Center of Austria (MICA) and the Austrian Cultural Forum banded together to create the Moving Sounds Festival; this year's festival comprises of 4 concerts taking place in various New York venues.
This particular installment on September 4 at (Le) Poisson Rouge features electronic sound artist, Fennesz and the flute/percussion duo, Due East, presenting world premieres by Bernhard Lang and Brian Kane alongside pieces by David Lang, Michel Galante and Alexis Bacon.
As one might expect for its unconventional instrumentation, Due East -- comprised of flutist Erin Lesser and perucssionist Greg Beyer -- concentrates largely on performing and commissioning new works which range from extensive multimedia and technology-driven works to pieces that call for world-music instruments. This is an influence stemming from Beyer's skills on the Afro-Brazilian instrument, the berimbau. Highly active in the New York freelance scene, the duo has performed as concerto soloists with The Knights and individually has appeared with the likes of Orpheus Chamber Ensemble, So Percussion and Alarm Will Sound. In addition to her dedication to Due East, Lesser is a founding member of Argento Chamber Ensemble.
Listen to the entire concert from (Le) Poisson Rouge above or excerpts below, and don't forget to poke around the Q2 Live Concert archive for more exciting live performances at your fingertips. You can access Q2 24/7 through our pop-out audio player or iTunes.
(L)PR's Technical Director is Richie Clarke and this concert was mixed by Bill Bowen.
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Sept. 23, 2013: Presentation at The Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC
Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast interviews climate scientists Dr. Robert Carter and Dr. Willie Soon about the findings in the 1,000-page Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science at an event in the Allison Auditorium at The Heritage Foundation.
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Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast, and scientists Dr. Craig Idso, Dr. S. Fred Singer, and Dr. Willie Soon talk speak at a Heartland Institute luncheon about aspects the latest NIPCC report.
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He was a Fulbright Scholar to the Russian Academy of Sciences during the 2003-2004 academic year. He received his masters and Ph.D. degrees in atmospheric physics from Purdue University. He is a member of the American Meteorological Society, National Weather Association, and American Geophysical Union and a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. His research has appeared many times in peer-reviewed journals, including National Weather Digest, Journal of Geophysical Research, and Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
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One hundred and 22 minutes before kickoff and Don Phelps is at work in a small office behind the south end zone of McMahon Stadium.
On his desk are a series of walkie-talkies and two phones, his hotlines. Wall-mounted above him is a pair of flat-screen televisions, each showing multiple images of the stadium from its entry points to the two main parking areas, east and west.
This is security central, where Phelps sees all inside and outside the 35,000-seat facility. For these two hours, he is a loutish tailgater's worst nightmare – an authority figure with high-definition TV cameras and a low tolerance for stupidity. The assistant stadium manager confidently notes that from where he is he can tell "if someone is drinking Molson or Labatt's."
Is that not more than a little intrusive? Of course. But it's also why Calgary is home to the best tailgating party in the CFL.
Here, in the northwest quadrant of the Foothills City, Stampeders fans socialize next to the stadium and set up their tents and barbecues for a U.S.-style pregame festival, come rain or snow. According to civic bylaws, people are not allowed to consume liquor in a public setting, and yet it happens. Most fans drink discreetly and act responsibly. They learned their lesson three years ago.
Before Phelps was asked to clean things up, the east-side parking lot was a frat house jungle. People were selling beer out of their vans. There were fights. Guys were rolling in for the start of the game already blitzed. One morning, Phelps was driving to work and heard on the radio there was a fire at McMahon Stadium.
He arrived to see a parking lot portable toilet had been set on fire by people who had stayed all night after a game.
These days, the regulars know how to keep their fun in check.
"The police come by here every game on their bicycles and check us out," said Mike Barrell, who has been tailgating at McMahon for 26 seasons, and has missed only a half-dozen home games in that span. "They know us now and we know them. This is a family event. It's not for a bunch of drunks."
The Stampeders' willingness to encourage tailgating while keeping a televised eye on it is not shared by all their CFL brethren.
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Edmonton Eskimos are not big on the idea. (The residents who live near Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium complained loudly when tailgaters urinated on private property.)
The Toronto Argonauts and B.C. Lions have downtown stadiums where space and parking is at a premium. In Hamilton, the stadium stands in the midst of a residential neighbourhood, so fans meet at nearby Scott Park Field or entertain driveway to driveway. (Open liquor in public isn't legal in Ontario, either, but police will turn a blind eye as long as everyone is behaving.)
Montreal, naturellement, is a party city, but Percival Molson Memorial Stadium sits on the flanks of Mount Royal and doesn't have anything that remotely qualifies as a parking lot. Still, where there's a will, there's a guy in a team jersey who understands the need for improvisation. Claude Martel, a software engineer and ardent Alouettes fan, has a mobile tailgating set-up that includes a table, canopy and barbeque he transports on his bicycle.
"Everyone's welcome," said Martel, who estimates the pregame gatherings draw 300 people on average. "We usually advertise on [Internet] chat forums, more and more people are coming out and bringing their barbeques, it's a very relaxed vibe. … We always invite the visiting fans to drop by as well, and usually a few do, but we're not that well known."
Saskatchewan Roughriders fans are nationally regaled as the CFL's liveliest. (You'd expect nothing less from people who wear hollowed-out watermelons on their heads.) And yet, the Riders don't promote parking lot get-togethers. Instead, they've created a "tailgating experience" by fencing off a portion of the team's practice field and serving food, drinks and entertainment there.
"We've talked to the province, and they don't want to make a change in the liquor laws and have tailgating at ball tournaments and hockey games," Riders president Jim Hopson said. "We're a little bit reluctant [to do tailgating]. We want to have a good family environment at our games."
While tailgating is engrained in U.S. football culture from college games to the NFL to football-themed weddings, it's taken a concerted effort to make it work and work well in Calgary. On average, 25 city police officers are on-site. (More will be brought in for Sunday's West Division semi-final when Riders fans invade McMahon Stadium and let down their watermelons.)
Some of the 30 groups that tailgate regularly at McMahon go the extra yard and hire bands. Others take donations for charitable causes.
"We're raising money for prostate cancer," said Doug Lapierre, who once tried out for the Stampeders and tailgated outside the Saddledome during the Flames' Stanley Cup run of 2004. "We collected $17,000 on our biggest day. It's like a big family barbecue."
Back at security central, Phelps has had nothing more serious to handle on this day than shooing away a group of people handing out advertising material that wasn't cleared in advance.
Phelps is relaxed. The police are happy. A good time was had by all.
"I get calls from people at other stadiums – 'How do you do this? It's so spontaneous and fun," Phelps said. "You can't make it too structured. You have to have some spontaneity. I know there are guys in the corner [of the parking lot] who are pouring beer into a Pepsi can, but the police are very good at using discretion. It's a delicate balance.
"We're happy with what we have now."
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There's no need to brown ground beef when fixing this satisfying snack. Laura Jirasek of White Lake, Michigan tops crunchy chips with warm canned chili and melted cheese, then sprinkles it all with chopped tomato and onion for fresh flavor and color.
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- 1 package (14-1/2 ounces) tortilla chips
- 2 cans (15 ounces each) chili without beans
- 1 pound process cheese (Velveeta), cubed
- 4 green onions, sliced
- 1 medium tomato, chopped
- Divide chips among six plates; set aside. In a saucepan, warm chili until heated through.
- Meanwhile, in another saucepan, heat cheese over medium-low heat until melted, stirring frequently. Spoon chili over chips; drizzle with cheese. Sprinkle with onions and tomato. Yield: 6 servings.
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