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We are just back from Wildwood Crest with our 2 children (7 and 9). We enjoyed the beach and most importantly the yummy seafood (since we live inland we crave it). We rented a condo so we usually went out for a lunch or dinner only.
First off, sad to say that Sharky's Feeding Frenzy (which had been highly rated on CH) has closed. :( We did try 3 other casual seafood "shacks". The best was Hooked Up Seafood in Wildwood. Best clam chowder of my life. The fish tacos and grilled tuna sandwich were delish as were the crispy onion rings and sweet Jersey corn. My girls liked sitting on the dock and watching the boats come in. Two other places we tried were Junior's (near Cape May Court House after a visit to the zoo) and H&H seafood. Good crab cakes and flounder at Junior's. I liked the steamed clams and blue and snow crab at H&H.
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There seemed to be a lot of Italian-American restaurants in WW but we get a lot of that back home so we didn't try them. We had planned to try Mad Batter for lunch but our kayaking tour ran late.
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Just in time for Canada Day and Independence Day celebrations! While this is first and foremost a personal finance and investing site, you might already know by now I enjoy beer. Why not a post about discount beers? I know, what the hell took me so long? Without further ado here are the best made beers in Canada that won't break your wallet.
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|6th August 2012, 07:52 PM
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Inv. Futterman with gain stages between PI and O/P?
As above, --
But, the question is, would one still invert the drive from the PI to the two Common-Cathode gain-stages between the PI and the O/P stage...?
The CC stages of course, Invert anyway, and being a little 'brain-dead' tonight, cant get my head around it......
I plan to experiment with a Screen-Drive Futterman and need much more drive volts than I can easily get from a normal concertina PI....
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|6th August 2012, 10:42 PM
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For PP you usually need two versions of the signal: normal and inverted. Put these through inverting stages and you get inverted and normal - just as good for PP.
|6th August 2012, 11:08 PM
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Yes--Its a PP amp. The 'Inverted-Futterman' uses the upper PI signal connected to the Lower O/P tube and vice-versa, while the PI ground is returned to the O/P--If you see what I mean!
But--As I have inverting amplifiers between the PI and the O/P stage, --do I still connect the PI in this way or do I connect 'straight' to the drivers and let the drivers do the 'inversion'...?
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|7th August 2012, 12:39 AM
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better question is why build a Futterman at all?
it's really not a particularly good circuit, you can keep the output stage, but the rest is marginal, imo...
http://www.bearlabs.com -- Btw, I don't actually know anything, FYI -- every once in a while I say something that makes sense... ]
|7th August 2012, 06:10 AM
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What would you benefit from screen drive in an OTL? They are not lowZ as I understand it, haven´t tried them as CFs though. I can be wrong as I have not seen your circuit. If you want to go tetrodes you could go boosted triode instead, ie a lower Ua and an added Ua on top of the anode to Sg. An EL509 can then run at Ua 70V with an added 100V on top to the Sg. And you bring drive voltage down instead!
Secondly why should the concept with two gainstages inside the feedback loop be a good idea? Let the input stage be outside the loop instead.
If you compare an inverted (concertina) Futterman with a noninverted, the inverted already has 10dB NFB around the OP-stage and concertina.
A LTP does not seem to give the intended results when inverted.
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|7th August 2012, 08:41 AM
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Should be: added Ug on top...
Something like this:
|7th August 2012, 06:35 PM
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Well--To be honest, I wasn't looking for views and Opinions on the Futterman scheme its merits or drawbacks.....
It was merely a simple question!
Adding a set of stages (basically one in each phase) between the PI and O/P ....
Do I Invert Or Not....?
Simple question!
I dunno! Guess I'll have to build it and find out myself failing any helpful replies!
For reference, PL509, screen-driven as C-F's, Drive up to 350V P-P, 200V Plate and OTL in format.
--Little to be gained in MO dropping the supplies to the O/P stage to only 70V.....
NFB whether global or local isn't the great enemy if done carefully and sparingly.....
It is known, that Screen Driven 'sweep-tubes' are extremely linear in their operation......
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Thought you liked low Ua as you ran 6C33C with cathode bias at 100V.
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Basically what revintage said... but I suspect your idea is to make the output tubes behave like followers WRT the phase splitter stage, not WRT their own drive (I guess you are looking at screen drive here). In this case, you would need to preserve the phase relationship between the output and the phase splitter, in order to provide the bootstrap feedback that makes the inverted futterman what it is. In other words, if your additional gain stage inverts, then the inputs to this gain stage, must be inverted in phase WRT phase splitter to preserve correct phase relationship. The bottom of the concertina still has to be referenced to the output, so the outputs of the concertina must be exchanged going to your inverting drivers, driver for the bottom tube must be from the bottom side of the concertina, not the top, to take care of the inversion in the driver.
Regarding lowering the supply to the output tubes - hardly little to be gained as the peak dissipation drops signifficantly. I actually like revintage's approach with an 'enhanced triode mode' strapped pentode - how much higher you can strap G2 depends on how much lower the plate can go relative to G2 before you get excessive current through G2, but there is quite a lot of space to play around with this in sweep tubes, since they were designed for that sort of thing.
I have discussed screen drive for OTLs in the other OTL thread. The problem with it is that it's almost too linear - the crossover region for class AB operation shrinks a lot (in classic OPT amps the plate standing current for optimal results can be as much as 10x lower for screen drive), and so does the alowable error in setting it, read: tubes must be well matched or separate AC and DC balancing must be provided, and this still leaves you with problems in adjustment as the tubes age, and worse - for sweep tubes - heat up. Of course, almost all of this can be circumvented by class A operation, but this would be unlikely in an OTL.
Which brings me to another problem with screen drive linearity - OTLs can exploit non-linearity of the transfer characteristic of the tube to operate in something like a geometric mean class A - this mode of operation does not require that the standing current is half of the maximum as is common in class A PP stages (rather much less instead), yet does not drive either half of the PP into cut-off, hence the standing power dissipation can be much lower than in conventional class A, yet there is no crossover region (one could say the whole operating range of currents and voltages for the amp is the crossover region). This is MUCH more difficult with screen drive precisely due to it's linearity.
Finally, totem-pole outputs (Futterman variations being of this kind) are not the most suited for any kind of drive where you have current driven into any control grid and out the cathode, because this current is passed through the load for top half of the output stage, and as far as the load is concerned, lost for the bottom half. In other words, you get a built-n asymmetry. This may or may not be significant depending on your tube choice.
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Ah--Thanks Ilimzn....
Thats exactly the answers Ive been hoping for!
I think its worth playing round with a bread-board just for fun, and see the differences that are apparent with different bias-levels, and to a more conventional Futterman.
I concur about the asymetry of the O/P stage due to the 'lost' screen-current for the lower tube, Be interesting to see the effect of this in the real-world. A way of limiting the screen drive current may be needed--We see.....
My rough idea was the gain stages were to drive either CF's or MOSFETS to the g2 and use those to set the bias of the O/P pairs....
We see what happens anyway! This was just one of those 'mad-Monday' ideas,--You know the sort!
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The major Hollywood studios have received a slap over their collective wrists over the way they present – or, rather, don't – gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender characters. Not, we hasten to add, that there isn't anything wrong with that.
The second annual survey of "LGBT images" conducted by GLAAD (the US lobby group formed in 1985 as the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) gave fails to Paramount and Warner Bros, a mark of "adequate" to 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate, Universal and Disney, and its first ever "good" score to Sony.
The GLAAD survey of releases from the majors found that only 17 of the 102 films released by the seven studios included characters identified as gay, lesbian or bisexual; most of these were cameos or minor characters; and many of the characterisations were "outright defamatory".
"The lack of substantial LGBT characters in mainstream film, in addition to the outdated humour and stereotypes, suggests large Hollywood studios may be doing more harm than good when it comes to worldwide understanding of the LGBT community," said GLAAD chief Sarah Kate Ellis in a statement issued by the organisation.
"These studios have the eyes and ears of millions of audience members, and should reflect the true fabric of our society rather than feed into the hatred and prejudice against LGBT people too often seen around the globe."
The GLAAD survey found only 25 LGBT characters across those 102 films, and claimed that the vast majority were white, male and in a comedy. Genre films – defined by GLAAD as action, sci-fi and fantasy – accounted for about 40 per cent of all studio releases but only four of them could find room for an LGBT character.
Sony's fantasy flick The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones was singled out for rare praise, the report saying it was "notable for perhaps being the most inclusive mainstream film release of 2013, and a high-budget genre film at that".
Unsurprisingly, there were no LGBT characters in any family-oriented films.
Sadly, the survey did not cast judgment on the Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy This Is The End, which was arguably both the gayest and the most homophobic film of 2013.
Though distributed by Sony, the movie was produced independently and thus fell outside the terms of "major studio releases".
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Mondays- Book Clubs
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Word of the day – wintle
I came across the word wintle ['winəl / 'wintəl] in Louis de Bernières' novel Notwithstanding, which I just finished reading. From the context – she walks carefully so as not to wintle on the rimy Bargate stones of the path – I guessed that it meant to slip or something similar. According the Merriam-Webster Online […]
The Audio Archive
I came across the Audio Archive yesterday while searching for information about the pronunciation of English dialects. The archive is part of an newsgroup about English and contains recordings by English speakers from around the world of a number of different texts. Other collections of English dialect recordings including the British Library's Sounds Familiar? and […]
A History of the World in 100 Objects
There's an very interesting series of programmes on BBC Radio 4 at the moment called "A History of the World in 100 Objects". The objects come from the British Museum and one of recent programmes discussed an ancient Mesopotamian writing tablet, like the one on the right, from about 3,000 BC. They talk about the […]
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Surprisingly spacious
I've been thinking about buying a house for a while and this week I finally got round to looking at a few places. The estate agent's descriptions and photos of the properties are designed make them sound and look attractive to potential buyers and need some interpreting as they don't always quite match the reality. […]
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Language exchange trips have been popular for many years, but usually involve spending only a few weeks in a foreign country. For example, I took part in a language exchange with a French lad while at school which involved me spending three weeks with his family in France, and him spending three weeks in the […]
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Dear Ken: How many TV series did Andy Griffith star in besides The Andy Griffith Show?
After leaving Sheriff Taylor and Mayberry behind, Griffith starred in Headmaster, The New Andy Griffith Show, Adams of Eagle Lake, Salvage 1, The Yeagers and Matlock. He was also in the miniseries Washington: Behind Closed Doors and Centennial.
Dear Ken: What happened to the actress who played Chevy Chases wife in the National Lampoon movies?
That was Beverly DAngelo, who played Ellen Griswold, mate to goofus Clark Griswald in four feature films. The native of Columbus, Ohio, 60, has continued to work in film and TV. She had the recurring role of Rebecca Balthus in Law & Order: SVU from 2003 to 2008 and most recently starred as Barbara Miller on Entourage. She has three movies coming down the pike: I Heart Shakey, A White Trash Christmas and Popcorn Ceiling. DAngelo was in a relationship with Al Pacino from 1996 to 2003, which produced twins in 2001.
By ANGEL KANE
Wilson Living Magazine
If you were to look in Websters Dictionary for the definition of the word despondent you would find the following:
Des-pon-dent (adjective) - a feeling or showing of extreme discouragement, dejection or depression.
If you were to look even closer, under the word, you would also find a picture of Brody.
It started innocently on Monday morning when we were all rushing out the door to work and school. And we heard him call out,Has anybody seen my phone?
Joe Lynch rocket fired ball at 105 mph
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The Wilson Post
WATERTOWN -- Joe Lynch lives a quiet life of retirement on a quiet street in the quiet community of Watertown, but five decades ago he was making a big noise for himself in the world of fast-pitch softball.
A sportswriter once described the Nashville native as the bear that walks like a man. At 6-foot-3 and 240 pounds in his prime, Lynch won 576 games and lost 94 in a career that spanned 1959 to 1981. Sixty-one of those contests on the diamond were either perfect games or no-hitters. And in four games, the Amateur Softball Association of Americas National Hall of Famer struck out every batter he faced.
The five-time All-American hurler won 53 consecutive games, and in 1965 had an unblemished record of 34 wins and no losses.
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Wilson County Fair time is here and if things keep going like this past Saturday night, it could be another record breaker. I did get a booth this year and found out about it Friday night through an e-mail from Zack Owensby. Talk about cutting it close, it was more like a shave, as to getting things set up in time for yesterday's crowd to come through. If you have the time, come by and talk to me at The Wilson Post booth located in tent #1and I will put your picture in our award-winning newspaper.
My first birdfriend at the fair was W.T. Nolen who was working the Immanuel Baptist Church booth. W.T was telling me about his Bob-white Quail covey that came out of his garden in his back yard. Bob-whites are getting pushed farther and farther out with all the people moving out into the country. Old farms are being bought where they are being made into subdivisions that take the wild factor out of the area. Mr. Nolen is also an avid beekeeper with several hives at his home place and also mentoring several students at the Wilson Central High School in the field of beekeeping.
Wilson County Fair is making additional improvements to the parking lots to handle anticipated crowds for the final weekend of the 2012 Wilson County Fair.
Shown here is an additional entrance being constructed from Peyton Road into the Fair parking lots.Fair officials said they believe this will greatly improve traffic flow.{phocagallery view=category|categoryid=75|imageid=533|displayname=0|float=left}
The Fair will also be opening satellite parking at the old Lebanon High School and running six buses including a special needs bus from that location to the fairgrounds from 4 to 11 p.m. on Saturday only.
By JENNIFER HORTON
The Wilson Post
If Mother Nature continues to cooperate, the planets remain lined up properly and so on, the 2012 edition of the Wilson County Fair may break the 600,000 mark in attendance by the end of its run on Saturday night, Aug. 25.
If it happens, it would, of course, set a new record.
If all the right factors are in place, said Hale Moss, president of Wilson County Promotions, Inc., sponsor of the fair, it could happen.
Moss noted that fair officials have been working to resolve parking issues at the fairgrounds and have prepared a new entrance on Peyton Road to accommodate vehicles.He noted that parking issues this past weekend were no ones fault; really, it was that the crowd did not turn over as it has in past years. That is, people who came to the fair at 10 a.m., Saturday, stayed at the fair. They did not leave, meaning the parking lots did not clear, in large part due to the weather. In recent years, Mother Nature has dropped buckets of rain on the place or sent temperatures soaring which naturally affected attendance on certain days.
Helen Grubbs, third from left, won the Wilson County Fair's Great Give-a-Way Tuesday night and chose the 2012 Chevrolet Malibu 1LS from Wilson County Chevrolet. Grubbs had several hundred tickets and the winning ticket came from Randy's Heating and Air.
Cumberlands football team will host an open house at Nokes-Lasater Field Saturday, Aug. 25 from 9-11 a.m. where fans can tour the facility and also buy reserved seat season tickets (limited number) as well as tickets to the season-opening game in Dyersburg.
LHS tops Trousdale Co. 3-2
Lebanon High's volleyball team opened the 2012 season Tuesday with a 3-2 home victory over Trousdale County High. Game scores: 21-25, 25, 22, 25-21, 20-25 and 15-8.
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by Louis Navellier | December 5, 2012 7:14 pm
On Wednesday[1] the Dow surged over 100 points while the Nasdaq fell in the red. Why is that? Well, the Nasdaq's underperformance is largely thanks to a 5% pullback in Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL[2]), which makes up a whopping 12% of the Nasdaq Composite.
The fuss stems from speculation that the iPad could lose ground to the growing number of Android-based tablets on the market. According to IDC, Apple's market share is expected to decline from 56.3% to 53.8% in 2012, while Android tablets are expected to capture 42.7% of the market (up from 39.8%). By 2016, iPad market share is forecast to drop below 50%.
But what many sellers are forgetting is that even if Apple gets a slightly smaller slice of the tablet pie, the pie itself is growing by leaps and bounds. Analysts are calling for 122.3 million shipments in 2012 and 172.4 million in 2013—that represents a 41% jump! So even with this extra competition Apple stands to profit handsomely from the tablet boom.
And whenever we talk about Apple's growth prospects, we can't forget the iPhone. This quarter, analysts expect that 224.5 million smartphones will sell around the globe—nearly a 40% increase over last year. This is, of course, very good news for Apple, and here's why:
So now that the company's supply problems have been resolved, analysts expect 46 million iPhones to sell this quarter—a huge jump from the 26.9 million iPhones sold last quarter. Fueled by iPhone 5 sales, total sales are expected to jump 17.8% this quarter. And that number should only increase in the coming months.
To sum up, Apple is still a great buy, and I expect that it won't be long before those who sold off today rethink their decision.
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Can anyone direct me to a source of Scottish, Celtic or Irish one-liners? Or
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At the end of last season, what would you have thought if you got advanced notice that in the 15th game of the season, the starting lineup for the Pacers would be Eddie Gill, Fred Jones, James Jones, Britton Johnsen and David Harrison? 2 of those players were on the team last year, one of which was the 15th man on the team.
I think the argument could be made that ON PAPER, the 8 players that dressed yesterday for the Pacers was the worst team of players ever to dress for the team, yet they continue to play like they are supposed to win.
I made this comparison last week, but the coaching staff is the only thing keeping this team from turning into the Hornets, Hawks or any team that just mails it in. Even though they lost last night, the performances from this team is still unbelieveable.


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Uneducated or unaware end users can fall prey to cyber attacks such as phishing, when a user receives a fraudulent email that looks like it came from a legitimate company asking for financial or other personal information. Phishing can breach sensitive personal and corporate information, putting both the individual and the company at risk.
About 156 million phishing emails are sent out each day, 90 percent of which are caught by spam filters. That still leaves 16 million out there as potential threats. Of that 16 million, half are opened by unsuspecting users, according to a study performed by Canadian organization Get Cyber Safe.
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Inform end users not click suspicious links in status updates, tweets, chats, or private messages on social networks. This rule also applies to online ads and sponsored posts. Instruct users to block and report spam and phishing, and to report it to the social media site. Users should also delete social media contacts whose accounts have been hacked, and delete any old or unused accounts to decrease the likelihood of them being taken over by cyber criminals.
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Activision has released a new trailer showing some footage from Black Ops II's Zombies mode. In addition, it was also announced that gamers who pre-order the Hardened Edition or Care Package will receive an exclusive Nuketown Zombies map.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II is scheduled to launch on November 13 for 360, PC, and PS3.
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