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It is claimed that a young American soldier managed to pull off one of the greatest security breaches in history while mouthing the words of songs by Lady Gaga. If it's true, intelligence agencies can save millions of dollars on high-tech security devices by simply teaching all their operatives to look out for any suspicious person singing Lady Gaga's Poker Face.
More importantly, though, US army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning is entitled to a presumption of innocence. It's a fundamental right – one that has not been afforded to
For the past 10 days it has been a classic case of shooting the messenger. The most incendiary commentary against Assange has come from the United States, but not enough has been done by the Australian government to assist him.
No doubt there is a legitimate debate about the decision to publish such a large volume of confidential documents, even though many simply crib from newspaper articles. But that is a debate about journalistic responsibility to broader matters of national interest, rather than principles of law. The case has again raised the question of whether national security concerns have overwhelmed interests in the rule of law. It is an ongoing tension lying at the heart of Attorney-General
Ironically, it took
"Mr Assange is not himself responsible for the unauthorised release of 250,000 documents," he said. "The Americans are responsible for that."
But it took too long for that simple point to be made. Instead, Prime Minister
The day after the first leaks came out, McClelland gave a press conference to announce local law enforcement agencies were examining whether Australian laws had been breached. Asked whether Assange's passport would be cancelled, he confirmed the government was awaiting advice "as to appropriate course of actions".
"Australia will support any law enforcement action that may be taken," he said. "From Australia's point of view, we think there are potentially a number of criminal laws that could have been breached by the release of this information."
The following day, despite confirming it was likely that any crimes committed would have occurred in the United States, McClelland went further in his public commentary.
"The publication of this material is very, very serious. It has the possibility of literally affecting the safety, prejudicing the safety, of people referred to in the documentation . . . the action is grossly irresponsible and can't be justified in any way, shape or form, so you would like a dose of reality, common sense, if not the absence of recklessness, to come into this fellow's mind."
The presumption of innocence was never mentioned. Not even when Swedish charges against Assange were raised in interviews.
It took a further five days for McClelland to make the following statement: "The Australian government, should it become necessary, would make representations to ensure that he receives due process and procedural fairness."
There are some very real parallels between the cases of former Guantanamo detainee
Today's meeting of the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General will be the first meeting in eight years without the forceful interventions of former Victorian attorney-general Rob Hulls, but his comment in 2007 about Hicks will have some ongoing resonance: "Having shut him out of the Australian legal process, senior government ministers then proceeded to have their merry way with the presumption of innocence, labelling Hicks a terrorist well before charges had been laid. Attorney-general
This week, 185 prominent Australians signed a letter to Gillard raising concerns about violent commentary against Assange in the United States and saying the federal government needed to show him more support. Signatories included well-known lawyers such as
Similarly, Law Council of Australia president Glenn Ferguson also pointedly told The Australian Financial Review "any person accused of a crime is entitled to the presumption of innocence and a fair trial in relation to the matters for which he or she is brought before a court, irrespective of whether that is within Australia or overseas."
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April 3, 2014
NEVADA AT SAN JOSÉ STATE FOR THREE BEFORE HOSTING SANTA CLARA: The University of Nevada (13-13, 6-6 MW) returns to Mountain West play this weekend at San José State (8-21, 4-8 MW). The Wolf Pack won two of the three games played at Peccole Park earlier this season. Friday's game is set for 6 p.m. with Saturday and Sunday's games scheduled for a 1 p.m. first pitch.
On Tuesday Nevada welcomes Santa Clara to Peccole Park for a 6 p.m. contest. The Pack and Broncos split the two games in Santa Clara, Calif. the first weekend of the season.
The Last Meeting
March 2, 2014
Reno, Nev.
The Last Meeting
February 16, 2014
Santa Clara, Calif.
Fri., Apr. 4 - at San José State - San Jose, Calif. - Municipal Stadium (5,200) - 6:00 p.m. PT
Sat, Apr. 5 - at San José State - San Jose, Calif. - Municipal Stadium (5,200) - 1:00 p.m. PT
Sun., Apr. 6 - at San José State - San Jose, Calif. - Municipal Stadium (5,200) - 1:00 p.m. PT
Tue., Apr. 8 - vs. Santa Clara - Reno, Nev. - Peccole Park (3,000) - 6:00 p.m. PT
Record: 13-13 MW: 6-6
Head Coach: Jay Johnson (Point Loma Nazarene, 2001)
at Nevada: 13-13 (First season)
Career Record: 50-29 (Second season)
Record: 8-21 MW: 4-8
Head Coach: Dave Nakama (Willamette, 1984)
at SJSU: 25-62 (Second season)
Career Record: 80-170 (Fifth season)
Series: SJSU leads 78-66
Last Games: Nevada won two of the three games played in Reno earlier this season.
In Reno - Feb. 28-Mar. 2, 2014: Pack 6-4, SJSU 7-4 (10), Pack 8-3
In San Jose - May 20-22, 2011: Pack 11-4, SJSU 11-10, Pack 7-6, Pack 8-5
Record: 11-17 WCC: 2-4
Head Coach: Dan O'Brien (UC San Diego, 1995)
at SC: 51-84 (Third season)
Career Record: 505-367-1 (17th season)
Upcoming games: Portland, Apr. 4-6
Series: SCU leads 64-54-2
Last Games: The two schools split the two games in Santa Clara earlier this year.
In Reno - May 8, 2007: Pack 9-8
In Santa Clara - Feb. 14 & Feb. 16, 2014: Pack 4-1, SC 4-3 (10)
Nevada hosts San Diego State Apr. 11-13. The Aztecs won two of the three games in San Diego, Mar. 7-9.
NEVADA ON RADIO: Nevada baseball can be heard on 1060 AM with Don Marchand calling all the action. Pregame is 15 minutes prior to first pitch.
INTERNET BROADCAST: All three games of the SJSU series and the game with Santa Clara may be viewed at NevadaWolfPack.TV
FREE AUDIO: Free audio can be heard at http://www.nevadawolfpack.com/audio
LIVE STATS: http://www.nevadawolfpack.com/sports/m-basebl/sched/unv-m-basebl-sched.html
PACK TIED FOR FOURTH: Nevada is tied for fourth in the MW standings with Fresno State at 6-6. The Bulldogs swept the Pack earlier this year in Fresno and travel to Reno on Apr. 17-19.
UNLV is atop the standings at 9-3 followed by New Mexico (8-4) and San Diego State (7-5). SJSU (4-8) is sixth and Air Force (2-10) seventh.
JOHNSON WINS 50TH GAME: First-year head coach Jay Johnson won his 50th game as a head coach when the Pack defeated Grand Canyon 3-2 on Tuesday. Johnson took over for Gary Powers who retired after 31 seasons leading the Wolf Pack. Powers won 937 games leading the Wolf Pack. Johnson came to Nevada after spending the last eight seasons as associate head coach at the University of San Diego.
HITTING: Kyle Hunt `s six-game hit streak is the longest active streak on the team and he is batting .400 (8-for-20) with four runs scored, a double and two RBI during the streak ... Hunt's six-game hitting streak is tied for the longest of his career that also occurred last season ... The longest hit streaks this season have been seven games by Kewby Meyer, Brad Gerig and Jordan Devencenzi. ... Meyer hit .387, Gerig batted .267 and Devencenzi .379 during their hit streaks ... Scott Kaplan is batting .312 (5-for-16) with a double and an RBI during his current five-game hit streak ... Austin Byler reached base in a team season-high 15 consecutive games until the streak was snapped in the final game of the Air Force series as he did not reach base in four plate appearances ... Brad Gerig and Devencenzi had streaks of reaching base in 10 consecutive games earlier this season ... Hunt (6), Kaplan (5) Ryan Teel (5) and Justin Bridgman (4) have the longest active streaks of reaching base ... Meyer (LF) and Byler (1B) are the only two players to start ever game and at the same position ... Hunt is the only other player to appear in every game and has started 23 all at shortstop ... Meyer's 11 doubles is third in the MW and is tied for seventh with 49 total bases ... Meyer is 10th in MW play with a .327 batting average ... Meyer tops the team with 11 multiple hit games that is tied for fifth in the MW ... Meyer's nine runs scored in MW action is tied for sixth ... Byler ranks fourth in the MW with a .495 slugging percentage and Meyer is ninth at .454 ... Byler's .512 slugging percentage in MW play ranks seventh and his nine RBI is tied for seventh ... In MW action Byler is tied for sixth with 22 total bases and Hunt's 21 is tied for ninth ... Byler's three triples is tied for first in the MW and Jay Anderson has two that is tied for third ... In MW play Byler and Anderson have hit two triples that is tied for first on the conference ... Hunt is sixth overall in the conference with a .425 on base percentage and tied for 15th in MW play with a .392 OB% ... Hunt and Brooks both have four doubles in conference play that is tied for fourth in the MW ... Freshman infielder Justin Bridgman's four RBI at Pacific is the high by a Pack player this season ... Bridgman's six stolen bases is tied for sixth in the MW and three in conference play is third ... Byler leads the Pack with 18 RBI, three triples and three home runs ... Byler's three home runs is tied for fifth in the conference and two in MW play is tied for second ... Trenton Brooks and Kyle Hunt hit home runs in the same game at SDSU ... Three of the Pack's seven home runs came in the three-game series at SDSU ... Four home runs have been hit on 1-1 counts and two have been leadoff homers ... Devencenzi has been hit by pitch a MW high nine times and Hunt is tied for third being hit six times ... Devencenzi is fourth in the MW having caught eight base stealers.
PITCHING: Three Pack pitchers rank in the top 20 in ERA in the MW with Michael Fain sixth at 2.28, Jason Deitrich is 11th at 2.97 and Barry Timko is 16th at 4.02 ... In conference play Fain ranks second with a 1.73 ERA, Timko is 12th at 4.38 and Deitrich 14th at 4.61 ... The three also rank in the top 20 in opponent batting averages; Fain (.217,4th), Deitrich (.246,12th) and Timko (.269,17th) ... Nevada is 5-2 in Fain's seven starts, 4-2 when Wells starts, 3-2 when Timko starts and 0-4 when Deitrich makes the start ... Fain's .185 opponent batting average is first in MW play, Deitrich is ninth at .278, Mark Nowaczewski ranks 11th at 2.93 and Timko is 20th at .319 ... Fain's 19 strikeouts in MW play is fifth, seven looking is third and three wins is tied for first ... Adam Whitt and Fain are tied for fifth in the MW with 11 strikeouts looking ... Fain and Whitt's three wins is tied for sixth in the conference ... Whitt's five saves is third in the MW, 12 games finished is second, 15 appearances is tied for second as are his 15 relief appearances ... Whitt finished four MW games which is tied for second in the conference ... In MW action Whitt's three saves is second ... Colby Blueberg's 16 appearances and 16 relief appearances is first in the MW while his seven appearances and seven games in relief is tied for first in MW play ... Deitrich and Blueberg have each hit seven batters which is tied for first in the MW ... Mark Nowaczewski and Deitrich are tied for first in MW play having hit four batters each while Blueberg is tied for fourth having plunked three ... Fain is the only Pack pitcher to make a start each weekend ... Fain and Wells have each pitched complete games for the Pack ... Wells earned his first win of the season in his outing vs. Air Force allowing one run in seven innings ... Six different pitchers have earned a win this season.
TEAM NOTES: Nevada is 7-2 at home, 0-3 in extra innings and 0-3 in shutouts ... All three of Nevada's extra inning losses came in 10 innings ... Nevada is fifth in hitting (.252), fourth in pitching (3.76 ERA) and fifth in fielding (.967) in the MW ... In MW play the Pack is fifth in batting (.265), fifth in ERA (4.41) and second in fielding (.978) ... Nevada's two hits allowed at Hawai`i in the 1-0 loss on Mar. 17 is tied for the fewest allowed by a MW team this season ... The Pack's 24 stolen bases is fourth in the MW and nine in conference play is tied for second ... Three times this season the Pack has won a season-high three games in a row ... Five of Nevada's seven home runs have come in MW play ... The five home runs in MW play is tied for first with UNLV ... Nevada ranks second in the MW having hit 33 batters and 21 in MW play is tops in the league ... Nevada snapped a six-game losing skid with a 6-4 win vs. SJSU ... The Pack's two home runs at San Diego State on Mar. 8 is tied for the most in a game by a MW team ... The Pack's five stolen bases vs. San José State (Mar. 2) is the most in a MW game.
FAIN TOSSES FIRST COMPLETE GAME: Sophomore Michael Fain pitched the first game complete game of his career in the Pack's 5-1 victory over Air Force. Nevada's closer last year Fain moved into the rotation this season and is now 3-2 with a 2.28 ERA.
Fain allowed just one run on four hits to the Falcons and struck out four. He tossed four shutout innings before AF scored a run in the fifth then did not allow another run. The final 13 batters of the game were retired by the right-hander. Three of the Falcons four hits came in the fifth inning.
WELLS SOLID IN BACK-TO-BACK OUTINGS: Junior lefty Tyler Wells was outstanding in back-to-back outings that came within the same week. At Hawai`i on Mar. 17 he was tagged with the loss in the 1-0 setback. Wells allowed just two hits and struck out eight, pitching the first complete game of his career. The eight strikeouts are one short of his career-high of nine. At one point he retired 18 consecutive batters.
In his Mar. 23 start versus Air Force he earned his first win of the season allowing one run on six hits in seven innings on the mound as the Pack won 7-1. He recorded four strikeouts while throwing 102 pitches.
In the two combined starts he was 1-1, struck out 12, walked just three and posted a 1.20 ERA. Opponents collected just eight hits in 15 innings.
In Tuesday's start he pitched a couple of innings against Grand Canyon and allowed 2 runs on four hits while striking out three. He did not factor in the decision.
WHITT ONE SAVE FROM TOP 10: Sophomore Adam Whitt has five saves this season and six in his career at Nevada. Whitt is one save from moving into a tie for the ninth best season in school history. Two more saves would put him into a tie for 10th on Nevada's career list.
HUNT HITS WALK-OFF: Junior shortstop Kyle Hunt delivered a walk-off hit on Tuesday as the Pack defeated Grand Canyon 3-2. With two out in the ninth inning Hunt hit the ball over the center fielder's head to score pinch hitter Trenton Brooks who started the inning with a walk. In the game Hunt was 2-for-2 with three walks, a run scored, a double and delivered the game winning RBI.
Hunt has appeared in all 26 games and made 23 starts all at shortstop. He is second on the team with a .302 batting average and tops the squad with a .425 on base percentage that is sixth best in the MW. His current six-game hit streak is the longest on the team and he is batting .400 (8-for-20) with four runs scored, a double and two RBI during the streak. The six-game hit streak is tied for the longest of his career with the first occurring last season. In 16 of the 23 starts he has batted leadoff.
Six times in his career he has collected three hits in game with three of those coming this season. In back-to-back games of the SJSU series on Mar. 1 and 2 he had three hits.


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In Reply to: RE: Why use Mercury? posted by dave slagle on March 30, 2017 at 16:41:33
Series wired pairs of 1200 PIV Schottky diodes, with voltage equalizing resistors, will get the job done. No HAZMAT and no "hash" with the Schottkys. :>D
Eli D.
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Hash is never heard at our listening frequencies, Eli.
The superior sound is why I use them, however if I am using mainstream efficient speakers 85-90 DB speakers, one cannot hear the superior detail and subtle nuance in the bass region.
At least I am unable to through my Proac tabletts nor the Infinity reference 4's I had.
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I suspect the absence of "sag" compared with vacuum rectifiers is what you like when Hg vapor is employed.
No sag with Schottkys too and they are "dead" quiet. The time delays you use with Hg vapor will work without change, in combination with high PIV Schottkys. Give 'em a try, if you have not already done so.
Eli D.
about 20 years ago I made up a "mercury vapor fredifier" which consisted of a dead 71A busted open and a pair of hexfreds soldered in place and a couple of blue LED's. A bit of matte spray on the inside of the envelope opbsured the innards enough to make a pretty convincing 83 replacement. At the time I was using a Loesch type linestage and could sub between different rectifiers very quickly. The swap du jour of that timefram was between three different "mercury" type tubes, 83's 287a's and the fredifier. Nobody had a clue that one of them was a sand device and at the time the hexfred was to be the sure death of any future use of tube diodes. Long story short, the difference in sound was easily heard with several people mentioning the "hash" they heard from the fredifier.
I guess it has been 20 years and I currently have a phono stage that can take dampers or mercury and I use those particular schottlys in my quad HV supplies so I guess I'll report back.
The blue Leds and the matte spray.......
Their sonic effects were.......
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FREDs make a small amount of switching noise, but that which they do produce can be highly obnoxious. My preferences in SS diodes are Schottkys and UFnnnn (in that order).
Jim McShane has a "love affair" with the GI856. Sadly, that part has been discontinued. The GI856 does sound good. Both the amount and nature of switching noise seem to matter. Obviously, no noise Schottkys rate high.
Eli D.
Vishay refers to the GI856 only as a fast switching rectifier. Do you have a "go-to" HV Schottky besides the Cree? That tab is a PITA.
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My affection for that part is based on the excellent diode testing article done for Audio Amateur a number of years back. Rick Miller (who has excellent credentials but I can't recall them off hand) showed clearly the near total lack of PN burst noise in the GI diodes even when compared to "fast" diodes. He pointed out that speed was not the only criteria for a high performance diode - "soft" turn off was another critical element.
He also pointed out that the diode performed just as well or better without snubbers.
Finally both he (IIRC) and John "Buddha" Camille (for sure, it was published in Sound Practices) pointed out how certain diode turn off characteristics could excite noise in the secondary of the power trafo. John recommended a couple snubber designs, but NOT the common cap bypass of the diode iteself. I highly recommend his article - it's probably on line somewhere.
Thanks for that info Jim. I located a General Semiconductor PDF on this topic that refers to Rick's article (Audio Amateur - Jan '94), but not the article itself. I get the gist of this though. Your experience speaks for itself; I'll take this approach for future builds.
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Except for surface mount variants, all high PIV Schottky diodes are TO220 or TO247 cased. :> (
What you can do is buy higher forward current rated parts and saw the tabs off.
I too wish the high PIV Schottkys came with axial leads, but SMPS and the like are the targeted market. We get to go along for the ride.
Eli D.
I think we might have discussed this before. Sorry, it just came back to me. The diodes Jim likes are still available from at least one supplier on Amazon, and they're not too expensive. They have a Trr of 200nS, much faster than the typical 30uS seen with diodes like the 1N4007. Suppression caps are probably still required though.
I guess we should count ourselves lucky that the Crees are still available in through-hole. Someday, they'll probably all be SMT only.
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IIRC, the UF5408 is somewhat faster than the GI856. Mere speed is not the only puzzle piece. AFAIK, FREDs are the fastest PN junction diodes, but not necessarily the best sounding. The character of the reverse recovery spike and the ease of suppression also matter.
Jim uses series wired GI856 pairs and a single film snubber cap. in the PSU of a H/K Cit. 2. The result is excellent. Of course, the low DCR choke after the doubler stack definitely contributes. A "hash" filter, made from "RF" parts, located between the doubler stack and the main filter choke yields an additional slight improvement in background "blackness". The "hash" filter kills crud from 3 potential sources: AC mains "hitchhikers", SS diode switching noise, and ripple overtone energy associated with the large valued doubler stack capacitors.
Eli D.
Would that filter be part of Jim's "Level II Plus" upgrade? I'd be interested to see the component values, but maybe Jim considers this proprietary info. In any event, I've been thinking along the same lines for my own HK doubler rebuilds (A500 & A700 types). Installing larger value doubler caps and higher current rectifiers is a given, but I'm on the fence about the post-filter treatment. I have a stash of small 500mH / 30 ohm chokes, but I'm not sure yet whether they're optimal for this application (I bought them for use in non-doubler supplies). Anyway, I suspect the limited space in the Cit II would dictate something around 10mH or less, which would also better fit your description of "RF" components. Do the series diodes have equalizing resistors in Jim's design?
I've also been wondering whether it might be effective to configure the doubler filter as a CLC. In other words, the doubler caps would be followed by a small choke, than another filter bank. The second bank would be smaller, just enough to provide isolation from the DCR of the choke for short-term peaks and to ensure that the supply performs as a voltage source at higher frequencies. Luckily, all my rebuilds will be on a new chassis, so space constraints will be only what I make them. :)
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I think it's fair to say that the "hash" filter idea is in the public domain. L_RD knows that I've suggested it on numerous occasions.
The filter is simply a LC section made from what would ordinarily be regarded as RF parts: a 1000 pF. cap. either in mica or NP0/C0G ceramic combined with a high current RF choke. Use the choke with the largest inductance that does not saturate under the PSU's load demand.
Mouser carries suitable Bourns/J.W. Miller and Vishay parts. Look into the 5900 series parts on the linked catalog page.
No diode voltage equalizing resistors are in a "McShaned Deuce".
Eli D.
I modeled this last night, and the PRV in each leg never exceeds the rating of a single diode. It's approximately the same as the output voltage (2.8 X RMS). I guess that's why equalizing resistors aren't strictly necessary when two are used in the Cit II. The A500 used single 500V diodes to produce +370V, and the A700 used single 600V diodes for an output of +410V. Today's higher line voltages squeeze those windows somewhat, so I will probably use two diodes in each leg of the A700 rebuild. The A500 can use 600V singles.
The general values you're describing for the hash filter - e.g. 0.001uF and 1mH - produce a huge output Z spike between 100kHz and 200kHz. The supply effectively turns into a current source at that frequency. I don't know whether this could have an impact on the power amp or other stages, but a 10uF electrolytic across the 0.001uF will flatten it.
Good discussion, my rebuild path is becoming clearer!
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Just wanted to add this image so you can see that the ultrasonic spike isn't only a small anomaly. If the goal of the hash filter is RF suppression, this doesn't do the job! Granted, it's well out of the audible spectrum, but any energy on the B+ line at that frequency could cause the PS voltage to swing like crazy. 10uF across the .001uF resolves this completely.
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Go for it! My objective was to block noisy crud, regardless of source, from sneaking into the reservoir capacitor. There is always room for variations on a theme.
FWIW, I'd still like to see a simulation with a LC reservoir section located after the "hash" filter. Superior designs, like the "Deuce", some McIntosh models, and some Marantz models, include the LC reservoir section following the doubler stack. The choke is not particularly large valued. When big caps., ala McShane, are used at the I/P of a PSU filter, the ripple waveform is highly "triangular". Applying Fourier's Theorem to that "sharp" waveform led me to call for "hash" filtration immediately following the I/P capacitance. Energy well up into RF "territory" is present that can get past the principal choke, via its real world winding capacitance. Kill the garbage before it gets to the "back door".
Eli D.
Here's the model of the factory CIT II filter. I had to guesstimate the DCR of the choke and ESR of the caps. I'll be glad to change any of the values or insert a hash filter using your components. Output Z of this design isn't particularly good, probably swings quite a bit when a 30Hz note is present. Then again, it was only $160 in kit form. :(
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I've snipped from Jim's site the minimum level of Cit. 2 PSU overhaul he offers. Jim offers stuff beyond this.
For the Citation II Power Supply
1. (2) 820 uf 250 volt 105 degree Celsius very low ESR clamp mount caps that increase the capacitance from
100 uf total in the doubler to 410 uf. (2) clamps are included.
2. (4) General Instruments fast/soft recovery diodes that replace the existing top hat diodes. They fit nicely in the
fuse holder right where the old top hats are now. The GI diodes are very good, and quite reasonably priced too.
If you increase the capacitance, you really need to replace those diodes. And the DO-41 packaging is ideal for replacement.
3. (1) JJ 100/100 dual section 500 volt clamp mount cap, and...
3a. (1) Nichicon 220 uf/500 volt clamp mount cap. The Nichicon replaces the 40 uf 525 volt original twistlock,
and the JJ replaces the dual 50/50 V1/V4 decoupling cap. (2) clamps are included.
Note: This amp responds very well to improved decoupling of the input 12BY7A tubes!
4. (1) .01uf high voltage film cap to replace the existing ceramic unit.
5. (1) Gen'l Instruments fast/soft recovery diode to replace the bias selenium rectifier
6. (1 ea.) 220uf and 100 uf radial electrolytics, a new 1.8K ohm resistor, and a terminal strip for the bias circuitry.
Two new 4.7K ohm resistors to increase the range of bias adjustment.
7. A copy of the schematic, and kit installation notes and diagrams.
You end up with 630 uf (vs. 140 uf stock) of high quality capacitance for the B+, and twice the decoupling
Eli D.
Yes, Jim's basic mods to the doubler create a much better supply. I modeled it yesterday, based on the info on his Website. It's not likely I'll ever own a Cit II, but the concepts Jim is using would be applicable to any supply of this type. Below is the model of the modified doubler. It's scaled the same as the factory PS I posted earlier. Quite a difference!
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Hi TK,
Thanks for running the model! I know you didn't have all the best info to run it with either - so your effort was greatly appreciated.
Just FYI - the DCR of the Cit II choke is 11 Ohms at room temperature - it may be a bit higher when under the hood of a Deuce which does get warm underneath.
Also the ESR of the doubler caps is .187 Ohms each - so even stacked in the doubler the total ESR is under .4 Ohms.
Finally (again just FYI) there is 220 uf of high quality capacitance after the hash filter so the spike you saw isn't there.
One last time - THANKS!!
NO need to thank me, it was a necessary exercise for my own work. I was glad to see such a remarkable improvement from your upgrade design (not that I expected anything else). I have a number of HK amps and receivers to rebuild using the transformer sets on new chassis designs. Most will probably be sold off, but One of these, the A500, will be for my own use. I just picked up a spare power transformer for this amp, so now I'm thinking about re-configuring as two isolated channels or maybe monoblocks. Anyway, I'll probably be looking to you for the filter caps in some or all of these. The extremely low ESR of the components you're selling has really caught my attention. Send me a PM if you ever have any pending designs you'd like to see modeled in SPICE off the forum.
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I just want to add something to my post above regarding the CLC concept. Even when it consists of only a small choke after the main filter, then a snubber, the effect on the PS can be severe. Below is a SPICE simulation of such a design. Note how the output Z of the supply spikes up at about 3.3kHz. The difficulty in dealing with this is one of the reasons I'm undecided regarding this approach.
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Run a simulation with C I/P - LC hash filter - LC reservoir topology. Use plenty of capacitance in the I/P and reservoir positions.
The "hash" filter kills crud that might sneak into the reservoir cap., via the principal choke's winding capacitance. The big caps. crush the ripple fundamental. The other stuff deals with the inevitable ripple overtones and other noise.
Eli D.
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"Run a simulation with CI/P - LChash filter - LCreservoir topology."
Well, yes, if a large amount of reservoir capacitance is added at the output, it attenuates almost everything. Is that the technique we're discussing? I thought you were talking about adding a RF hash filter to the existing doubler in the Cit II. Do Jim's mods include a hash filter plus another large bank of capacitance? That certainly makes the task easier. I just assumed there wouldn't be space for all that.
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It all fits. :> D He uses 820 μF. caps in the doubler stack. The principal filter choke is the excellent OEM part. Jim gains space on the cap. bracket by moving the bias supply off of it. Capacitance galore in the doubler, reservoir, and decoupling positions. Something in excess of 130 WPC pulse is available. That PSU has brass monkey cojones. The "hash" filter is a small refinement of his already very nice work.
The linked cap. bracket photo is somewhat dated, in that parts brands have changed over time. The pair of isolated gray caps. are the doubler stack.
Eli D.
According to my sim, the original Cit II PS has a significant impedance bump around 25-30 Hz. That's due to the factory values for the choke and reservoir cap. Making the reservoir larger mitigates that issue. Anyway, this is very different than what I thought you were describing when you mentioned adding a hash filter. The model I posted is valid for that, but it doesn't include a large smoothing capacitor (reservoir) afterwards. I might have to bite the bullet and take the same approach in my rebuilds. The 500mH chokes will work if I do that, it's just a matter of adding enough output capacitance to push the resonance bump to a lower frequency. Good discussion, thanks!
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This section of the website describes how we approach complaints involving disputes about "structured products".
A "structured product" is an investment that combines elements of investing in a bond with investing in more complicated financial instruments – often known as "options" or "derivatives". A structured product offers income, capital growth or a combination of both, and usually has an investment term of one to ten years. Investment professionals usually consider structured products to be "complex investments".
what are the features of a structured product?
Typically, a structured product will have the following characteristics.
Most structured products can be held in an Individual Savings Account (ISA) wrapper.
This note will focus on structured capital at risk products (SCARPs) – a type of structured product.
SCARPs generally aim to return the money invested at the end of the term if the underlying asset has not fallen below a predetermined level. But they do not guarantee to do so – hence the "capital at risk" part of the name.
They are also known as "precipice bonds". This is to reflect that, if the underlying asset performed poorly over the term of the bond, the product would "fall over the precipice" and return significantly less capital than was invested, or potentially no capital at all. The reduction in the initial capital repaid may be geared – for example, a 1% fall in the underlying asset's value might lead to a 2% reduction in capital returned (also known as "downside gearing").
The investor may not benefit from the full extent of any growth associated with good market performance. In general the level of growth or income generated by the SCARP is set at the outset. So, if the market performs particularly well, although the consumer will receive back their initial capital and the agreed level of growth or income, their return will not reflect the full extent of the rise in the underlying asset. As a result, it may be argued that the SCARP was not suitable for a consumer with a higher risk profile. However, when we look into these cases, we will always take into account the particular circumstances involved.
Most SCARPs must be held for the full term of the investment. But an early redemption plan (or "kick-out" plan) can mature earlier than the full term (usually on any anniversary of the plan start date) if certain criteria are met.
We usually find that consumers have invested in a SCARP on the advice of an independent financial adviser (IFA). Although we occasionally see that they have responded to a mailshot offer directly from a product provider.
Although a SCARP might involve an offshore company, we will usually still be able to consider the complaint, as long as the financial business concerned is regulated by the FCA.
Non-regulated guaranteed bonds (also known as guaranteed equity bonds or guaranteed capital bonds), are not the same as SCARPs.
Non-regulated guaranteed bonds have some similarities to SCARPs because their returns are linked to the performance of a stock market index or certain other assets over a specified period of time.
But there are key differences between non-regulated guaranteed bonds and SCARPs:
Because of the features involved – and the fact that they are essentially deposit accounts – complaints involving non-regulated guaranteed bonds will generally be considered by our banking area. However, that will largely depend on whether a consumer was given advice to invest in the guaranteed bond. If they were, and the complaint is about that advice, it is likely that the complaint will be considered by our investment area.
The complaints we see usually involve
Most SCARPs contain an element of risk. The risk is that the full capital the consumer has invested will not be returned to them at the end of the product term. This could be because of a counterparty failure, or because the underlying asset's value falls below a certain level.
We generally consider SCARPs to be unsuitable for investors who do not want to take any risk with their capital, or for investors who are not in a position to sustain a financial loss.
Most of the things we take into account are the same as in any investment complaint, including:
More detail about how we assess the suitability of investments can be found in our online technical resource.
We used to see complaints about "conventional" SCARPs from consumers who had lost capital, and who said they were not aware of the risk to their capital, or how much it would be affected by gearing when they entered the plan.
However, we now see fewer of these complaints, which suggests that consumers are being made more aware of the risks involved.
Now we tend to see more complaints about a different type of SCARP – which carries a degree of security that the capital will be returned. The "guarantee" is based on the capital protection element issued by the counterparty (referred to earlier in the note).
The capital invested in the SCARP will be returned to the consumer at maturity, as long as the counterparty is able to honour the agreement to pay out on the "IOU". If the counterparty goes into liquidation, it is unlikely to be able to honour the agreement and the consumer is at risk of losing some or all of their original investment. Consumers have referred complaints to us where the counterparty was a bank which has now gone into liquidation – for example, Lehman Brothers.
Following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, SCARPs with Lehman Brothers as the counterparty were unable to repay capital to investors. In October 2009, the financial services regulator at the time, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) published reports on both the collapse of Lehman-backed SCARPs, and more generally on what it expected advisers and product providers to explain about counterparty risk at the point of sale. For more information on this please see the additional resources section below – which also includes a more recent FSA review of structured products.
In the reports, the FSA said:
A firm's communications with customers – including its suitability reports – should communicate the risks of investing in structured investment products in a way that is fair, clear and not misleading, including setting out any possible disadvantages for the customer. This includes, but is not limited to, explaining to the customer the nature of counterparty risk and the possibility that, if a counterparty failed, their capital could be lost.
We sometimes see complaints from investors that the risk of counterparty insolvency was not made clear to them – or even that the existence of a counterparty was not explained to them.
Where a complaint like this is made against an adviser, we will consider whether the adviser explained the counterparty's role at all, and if so, how they did it.
For a complaint directly against the product provider, we will assess how the product brochures described counterparty risk. We will consider whether
In its October 2009 reports on structured investment products, the FSA stated that for all sales:
we consider that advisers should have had regard to the financial strength of the underlying counterparties and whether this was appropriate given the customer's attitude to risk.
But it distinguishes between the duties of an adviser before Lehman's insolvency in September 2008, and their duties after that date:
"However, we consider the due diligence it was reasonable for advisers to apply on the financial strength of the counterparty changed after Lehman's collapse:
1. We have not applied the benefit of hindsight to the period before Lehman's insolvency (in September 2008). Where a customer was willing to take counterparty risk we believe that it was not reasonable to expect advisers to distinguish between the financial strength of different counterparties that were rated A or above in this period.
2. However, from September 2008, given the failure of an investment grade counterparty, we expect advisers to have undertaken a higher degree of due diligence when recommending products with counterparty risk, and to consider more carefully how this may relate to each customer's attitude to risk.
This due diligence includes: consideration of the number of counterparties underlying a single structured investment product; the location of the counterparties (eg UK-based, offshore, US etc); and the relative financial strength of counterparties."
The regulator points out that counterparties with stronger credit and financial indicators might be more appropriate for consumers looking for a lower-risk investment, while less strong counterparties could be more appropriate for consumers looking for a higher-risk investment.
It goes on to explain what a product provider should state in its financial promotion literature about counterparties:
"Financial promotions for structured investment products must:
The regulator has stated that terms that imply security should only be used where they are accurate descriptions of the risk to capital within the product. Examples of these types of words are secure/safe/protected/guaranteed. The regulator says that literature needs to be clear, fair and not misleading, and that it expects
"promotions to name the counterparty in order to be able to describe the counterparty risk fairly. So, it would not be sufficient to simply state that the counterparty is a 'major financial institution'. In addition, any description of the counterparty must be fair, clear and not misleading."
The regulator distinguishes between sales that took place before and after September 2008 for due diligence purposes. We will look at each case individually and make an assessment based on its own individual circumstances.
We may also need to take the following factors into account when we investigate a complaint about SCARPs:
If we decide that the SCARP was not suitable for a consumer, we will need to consider carefully what the consumer would have done if they had not invested in the SCARP. The starting point is to put the consumer in the position they would have been in if they had not received unsuitable advice.
Calculating compensation is done in two stages:
Stage 1 – alternative return
If we are satisfied that a consumer would have invested in a different scheme, and we know what that that scheme would have been, we can calculate what the return would have been.
If we are satisfied the consumer would have invested elsewhere for the opportunity of a reasonable return, but we cannot be sure where they would have invested, we are likely to use a fair benchmark to calculate an award. This may be based on a return linked to the Bank of England (BOE) base rate (traditionally BOE +1%). However, a lot will depend on the individual circumstances involved – and we might tell the business to pay compensation based on a different approach.
If we conclude that the consumer would have left their money in a deposit account, we will apply a reasonable rate of interest to the capital amount – which in some instances will be reflected by the Bank of England base rate. But again, some circumstances may require us to take a different approach.
Stage 2 – reduction in value
Once we have calculated the amount of alternative return that the consumer would have received, we need to deduct the benefit that the consumer has already received from the SCARP. This will be the maturity/surrender value of the SCARP, along with any withdrawals that have been made.
We might see a situation where the SCARP has no value at all – for example, if the counterparty is in liquidation.
We will often consider whether an award for distress and inconvenience is appropriate. This could happen where, for example, an elderly consumer has taken out a SCARP to increase their retirement income, and something has gone wrong with the SCARP.
We may also make an award if a financial business has handled a consumer's complaint poorly. You can find more information about our approach to awarding compensation for distress, inconvenience and other non-financial loss in our online technical resource.
ISA allowances – our approach to compensation where a consumer misses their annual ISA allowance because of a business error.
Structured Product Review – Carried out by FSA and published March 2012.
Treating customers fairly – structure investment products – published by the FSA in October 2009.
Quality of advice on structured investment products – findings of a review of advice given to consumer to invest in structured investment products backed by Lehman Brothers from November 2007 to August 2008. Published by the FSA in October 2009.
contact our technical advice desk on 020 7964 1400
This is part of our online technical resource which sets out our general approach to complaints about a wide range of financial products and issues. We would like your feedback on how helpful you found it. Please also use the feedback form below to tell us about anything you think we could clarify or explain better.


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DeWitt (Garden Grove, CA/Pacifica) picked up two victories on the week as she became WSU's all-time strikeout leader in the process. After striking out six in four innings at #11 Kentucky on April 8, she tied a career high by fanning 11 in pitching a six-hit shutout victory at Detroit on April 12. DeWitt then closed out the week with three strikeouts in four innings of relief to earn the win at Detroit on April 13.
In striking out 20 for the week, DeWitt passed Kristin Bultinck (2000-03, 581 strikeouts) for the top spot on Wright State's all-time list and now has 587 for her career. Two weeks ago, she went ahead of Bultinck to become the career win leader for the Raiders and currently has 50 altogether.
Wright State (10-25, 6-4 Horizon) has a busy week ahead, hosting Ohio State for a single game on Tuesday at 5:00 and Marshall for a doubleheader on Wednesday at 3:00 before traveling to Youngstown State for a three-game Horizon League series that starts with a 3:00 twinbill on Friday.


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Locals agree
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Cumbernauld, which is in North Lanarkshire, was described as Scotland's answer to Kabul, the war-hit Afghan city.
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Summit Review , May 2, 2010
Destination: Bermuda
Embarkation: Bayonne (Cape Liberty)
Loved our aft balcony (C1 -8172). If you can get one of these on a M-Class ship - do it! Balcony was about the same size as the room. We had a party for ten people and there was room for more.
Thought the Summit was in pretty good shape overall all, but ready for some refurbishing. Nothing that affected our enjoyment of the cruise (except for loose tiles on the shower floor - ick).
MDR food was okay - not as good as our previous cruises. As mentioned elsewhere - steak in the MDR is somewhat tough, some food is too salty. Food is very subjective, so some will disagree. Several table-mates returned meals to be reheated.
We did Select Dining - liked the flexibility and meeting different people and then planning to meet up with some of them again. Service at Select was not as good as when we did Traditional. Missed More getting to know the waiters.
The food at the Aqua Spa Cafe was excellent! Ate lunch there every day. They will make you things not on the buffet. And yes - anyone can eat there (breakfast and lunch).
The Normandie was AMAZING - ate there twice. Phenomenal service. Fabulous food. More than worth the extra cost. While the steaks in the MDR were iffy and tough, here they cut like butter - no steak knives! One of us tried the wine pairing each time. Also well worth it! An amazing way to try some really good wines. Kudos to Marko, Elvis, Rosebud, and Mutlou!
We did not really eat in the buffet area except for ice cream (lemon sherbet - mmmmmmmmmmm) and sushi. Took some trail mix and dried fruit up to our room in coffee cups - made a nice snack.
Loved the T-pool and whirlpools. The T-pool temp changed everyday, but it was still good.
Main deck pool area: Pool butler did a good job of keeping things clean. Chair hogging was not a noticeable problem - but it was cooler than expected. On the cooler days they had heavy plaid blankets as well as deck towels.
One afternoon we noticed a lot of security. Turned out a couple who had too much to drink were arguing and the wife also got nasty with a woman who just happened to be sitting nearby (the drunk wife not not like the way the drunk husband was looking at the pretty young woman who was just trying to read her book!) Security removed them from the deck. Not sure what happened after that but did hear that their ability to buy alcohol was revoked, and they might have been confined for a while. Thank you, Celebrity, for not putting up with that!
Had two spa treatments that I bought at auction. They were both excellent. HOWEVER - they tell you the regular price before bidding, but what you get is a shorter service. So per minute - not really a great deal. Something I will comment on to Celebrity. Again, the treatment were GREAT, but the "sale" price was misleading.
Our particular cabin steward was fairly mediocre, and we are not picky or demanding. Those in neighboring cabins agreed. A disappointment in Concierge Class - or any. The first time we did not tip extra.
Boarding process: Except for arriving at the busiest time(1pm),the boarding process was well organized. As Concierge class we did seem to get our luggage very quickly.
Disembarking: also went well.
Not a direct Celebrity thing: Had a bit of an issue with transportation back to NYC. Shuttle service at the pier changed the price after we got on (4 other people heard her original quote). After some arguing/ haggling ended up getting off and taking a cab. Didn't do much pre-cruise research on this (my bad), and will look more into it.
Bottom line: Yes, there are areas that need updating/refurbishing but overall a very nice ship. Overall very enjoyable. Looking forward to the Century (with a BFF) in Nov and the Eclipse (W the family) in Dec.
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With some themes, when Firefox is sent from a normal (non-maximized) window to fullscreen it will not go to full screen mode properly and instead will leave a large black area around s smaller window (please see: http://fritzfam.com/gallery/v/jeremy/ClassicCompact/ for screen captures). Of the dozen or so themes I have tried, I have been able to replicate this issue on the following themes: * Classic Compact - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classic-compact/ * Lava Fox - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lavafox-v1/ * NASA Night Launch - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nasa-night-launch/ * FXChrome - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fxchrome/ (Oddly FXChrome caused FF to start to flicker when returning from full screen to a normal window) Sometimes when going to full screen mode the browser window will disappear all together and F11 will have to be pressed again to restore the window back to normal mode, which will cause it to reappear and display normally. It seems the themes that more completely support the Aero effect are more proned to expierence problems going int full screen mode from the normal window. Apparently disabling 'Aero peek' and 'desktop composition' visual effects will make this issue go away. On the default theme I'm not seeing the black background area, but sometimes there is a bad flicker as if Firefox is hanging slightly when going into full screen mode. I tested this issue in both FF10 and FF11 and saw it in both browsers.
When I disable Aero Glass transparency the Firefox will go int full screen correctly, but there is still a momentary flicker of a black screen around the normal window area. So it seems that the transparency is the trigger that prevents Firefox from going into full screen properly.
It appears this bug is related to bug 724354. One work around to this issue seems to be for themes that support aero glass to add the following code to their browser.css file somewhere below where the main-window is made transparent to support Aero glass: ==CODE== @media all and (-moz-windows-compositor) { /* Make transition to Fullscreen mode seamlessly in Firefox 10+ */ #main-window[inFullscreen="true"] { -moz-appearance: none; background-color: -moz-dialog!important; } } ==/CODE==
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(In reply to KLB from comment #2) > It appears this bug is related to bug 724354. bug 724354 was closed invalid. so this is also invalid, correct?
I have not observed this bug for a very long time so maybe it got resolved. Closing it is okay by me.


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Those who can, do. Those who can't, become critics. Apologies to George Bernard Shaw but that's certainly the way it seems in vast sections of the British music press, where the snide, irrational dismissal and the heartless putdown - for example, a New Musical Express review accorded a recent album by Neil Finn two out of 10 and ended with these words of advice to the singer: "Red card, you c---!" - are often critical staples. You might say that empathy between artists and writers is not always a strong feature.
Over the years, some writers have gone on to be highly regarded performers: Chrissie Hynde and Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant are probably the best known. Neil McCormick, the pop critic for Britian's Daily Telegraph, travelled in the other direction, starting out as a musician and ending up as a journalist. Not that you would have heard of McCormick the pop singer, and that's the point of his memoir, I Was Bono's Doppelganger. As he passed from childhood to adolescence, McCormick became obsessed with the idea of becoming famous. Not just famous but a famous pop singer. The notion overtook McCormick's sense of himself and his perception of his fellow students at the relatively liberal Mount Temple Comprehensive school in Dublin in the mid-1970s.
The problem for McCormick, who had to strive for every little bit of progress as a musical performer, was that there were four other students at the school who formed the nucleus of a band called Feedback.
These four teenagers, Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, would go on to become U2, one of the biggest rock bands ever. McCormick was there in 1976, when Hewson, better known to the world as Bono, led the group through its first public performance, kicking off with a rousing version of Peter Frampton's Show Me The Way.
Worse for McCormick was the fact that Bono and the rest of this immensely talented group were impossible to dislike. Indeed, McCormick and Bono established a friendship back then that lasts to this day.
But success in the music business is by no means contagious. McCormick formed a series of acts between 1978 and 1989 - Frankie Corpse & the Undertakers, the Modulators, Yeah!Yeah! and Shook Up! - with underwhelming results.
Each excruciating step of that painful journey, all the pieces of bad luck and miscued meetings, is chronicled here, with U2's seemingly inexorable rise to megastar status acting as a counterpoint.
Interestingly, it was only after McCormick accepted that stardom would never be his and he tried his hand at journalism, of all things, that he started to get his life together. But he continues to insist that he had what it takes to be a genuine pop star, that one lucky break would probably have made the difference, hence the book's title: if fate's dice were rolled again, maybe it could be Paul Hewson who's the journalist and Neil McCormick who's making records and holding meetings with the Pope.
It took courage for McCormick to write this highly entertaining book, to bare the uglier, less secure side of his personality, and to provide such an unvarnished and often eye-opening view into the way personal ambition can be at first thwarted and then, with a bit of rejigging, satisfied.
One musician who insists he has no ambition is Elvis Costello, whose 28-year recording history is surveyed with great facility by music writer Graeme Thomson in the totally unauthorised biography Complicated Shadows. I say "totally" because it is impossible to imagine Costello, who is sensitive to just about any reviewer's observations, surrendering his life and work to the judgement and interpretation of anyone on a sustained basis.
In part, of course, it's that very irascibility that makes Costello such an intriguing performer, a man who has been driven virtually all his life to drill down into his emotions and share them with the world but who also wants to maintain something of himself by asserting some control over how his work is assessed.
And Thomson captures very well Costello's contrary, sometimes self-defeating, nature. He also is honest and fair in his appraisal of Costello's increasingly varied musical output, which, like the curate's egg, can always be relied upon to be good in parts.
What Thomson does less well is place Costello's considerable artistic achievements (and his missteps) in a wider context of a rapidly evolving musical marketplace. Costello's early life is explored beautifully but once he becomes a fully fledged recording artist in 1977, Thomson tends not to want to provide a backdrop of musical fashions, chart trends, the move from analog to digital delivery and corporate moves within the music industry.
It's a shame, because a good, honest book about the developments in the career of an important artist - which this is - could have been a wider examination of how a wilful artist survives and prospers in an ever-more difficult pop music market.
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"Two years ago, the worldwide smartphone market flirted with shipping half a billion units for the first time - to double that in just two years highlights the ubiquity that smartphones have achieved," said Ramon Llamas, mobile research manager at IDC. "The smartphone has gone from being a cutting-edge communications tool to becoming an essential component in the everyday lives of billions of consumers."
In addition to shipment numbers, IDC is also predicting smartphone operating system market share for years into the future. The firm predicts that iOS market share will continue to rise slowly, reaching just shy of 18% of the smartphone market in 2017. Android, which currently dominates the smartphone sector with over three-quarters of the market, is expected to lose its share slightly as the market ages, landing at around 68% by 2017. The predicted third player in IDC's scenario is Windows Phone, which it says will more than double its current market share to over 10% by 2017.
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Happy Saturday, everyone! What do you all have going on today? I've got a few things on the agenda, but first let's talk about date night. John and I headed out to Ft. Smith last night for dinner and a movie. Of course, we had to throw in a few errands, but they were brief. We made a stop at Best Buy to look at computers. Since entering the blog world it's become glaringly obvious that a new computer is going to have to happen sooner rather than later. I'm thinking about going the iPad route. What do you guys think?
Afterwards we had to swing by Lowe's. John is a bit of a carpenter and he has some Christmas projects that he's working on today. So supplies were needed! Of course, he had to do some dreaming while we were there.
Just so you know….he called this thing "My Precious."
And then the official part of date night commenced! We had our eye on Red Lobster because John is a huge fan of Endless Shrimp. Unfortunately, there was a huge crowd waiting on the deck which would've made making the movie impossible so we opted for Chilis instead. Check out this salad. Chilis has become a new favorite since I discovered it.
We had just enough time to make it to the movie. We've both been waiting to see Lawless for a few weeks, and I was not disappointed. I really enjoyed this one. I'm a history buff so period movies always appeal to me. I have to admit I was a little bit apprehensive of this one after my sister told me how violent it was. She was not lying. There was a lot of horrific scenes, but I was on my game and turned my head in all the right places so everything was fine. I definitely recommend this movie if you can handle the violence. But, trust me, if I can, you can. All in all, date night was a success!
I got to sleep in just a tad today which is wonderful because even one month end, I still haven't gotten used to "school hours" again. I knew one thing I wanted to get done today was a really good workout, and shortly after I got up I received some inspiration. My sister ran her very first 5K this morning and placed 3rd in her age group! I'm not much of a runner, but I decided that sounded good to me today and pounded out a 5K on my own on the treadmill.
The rest of the day has just been about chores and errands. Not a whole lot of fun, but sometimes it's nice to not have much of a schedule. Now if you'll excuse me, a night of take-out and a rental movie awaits me. I think we're going to try What To Expect When You're Expecting. I've heard it's really funny.
I'll be back tomorrow with a book review! Can't wait to tell you guys all about the one I finished up last night. Wow!


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I find that the older I get, the more I value classic investment pieces in my wardrobe. They have definite purpose, but they are also a pleasure to look at as well as to wear—both well-designed and well-fitting. These two pieces above, worn by the lovely Diana Kruger are just that, and made especially chic with an easy, no-fuss updo. Do you have a favorite, classic piece, vintage or new, that you just adore?
images: Diane Kruger by Norman Jean Roy for Glamour US March 2006, link
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oh wow, prettiest looks ever, so classic and feminineReplyDelete
I love classics! A nice trench, a timeless blouse.. and I love Diane! (though she's looking way too photoshopped in that first pic :S) xReplyDelete
anything Chloe makes my day!ReplyDelete
I think this trench could be my new classic. XOReplyDelete
for me, it's a classic white blouse/shirt - to wear with anything from jeans to a suit - I love the trench and am thinking that is something I need to add as a classic staple to my wardrobeReplyDelete
I'm in love with that white blouse..gorgeous romantic details..would be able to wear to work too!ReplyDelete
Hope your week is going great Sarah :)
I have always been fond of classical, feminine looks, but I also enjoy flirting with colour.ReplyDelete
I adore a nicely tailored trousers and cashmere jumper for the colder season. For warmer wearing I tend to lean more toward the classical black dress or the french mini shirt.
these look soo good! i would wear them... funny thing, that i might just be the opposite, in my twenties i wore nice blazers (but always dressed down to some extent... i'm not a natural born classic type), but now you mostly find me in jeans and tees. i still like shirts and blazers, but don't wear them very often. i do have a nice trech, not an ivestment piece, but it's nice. and when i was young, i had a beatiful pair of YSL pants in the reddest of reds... now, that was a piece i really adored.ReplyDelete
lots of hugs, Sarah!
Beautiful pieces!! I love that blouse.ReplyDelete
I couldn't agree more. Trench coats are definitely timeless. I don't buy many expensive things, but I would put in good money to find that perfect trench. I'm hoping this summer will be the season I finally find one.ReplyDelete
You can never go wrong with a white blouse. I love white button-ups! I can totally picture you in those two pieces, stunning :)
Beautiful, Sarah!ReplyDelete
Love the blouse especially, and the trench is very classic.
That trench is stunning!! LOVE!ReplyDelete
I couldn't agree more. Classic pieces are also always a staple in my wardrobe... these photographs are gorgeous. I especially love outerwear, trenches particularly. With respect to your question, I purchased a vintage bouclé coat in black with a lovely white embroidery trim that I completely love and wear in the fall.ReplyDelete
Hope all is well, Sarah!
Take care and all the very best,
Linda, xo
Love this - especially on the effortlessly beautiful Diane Kruger.ReplyDelete
Andrea x
ThAt shirt is just gorgeous and glamorous...ReplyDelete
love it!! Thank you for your kind comment on our blog last week :)
Laura xoxo
Hi Sarah - oh these images just made me gasp! That blouse! She is so beautiful and I love that you share just the details - I find with your blog posts it's always so finely tuned! Lou xReplyDelete
wow that is an old editorial! i used the bottom image in a collage that i made years ago, i can't believe i'm seeing it again!ReplyDelete
Such gorgeous finds! I want that coat and blouse.ReplyDelete
Lou: oh, thank you so so much—one of the most kind compliments to date, I believe :)ReplyDelete
Holly Anne: how wonderful... quite classic, aren't they?


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The National Advanced Biofuels Consortium's hydrothermal liquefaction process strategy develops stable bio-oil refinery feedstocks.
Hydrothermal liquefaction entails processing biomass in liquid-phase media at temperatures of 300°–400°C and at pressures fixed by the vapor pressure of the media. In biomass hydrothermal liquefaction, water is usually the medium, and the temperature is held at or below the critical temperature of water (374°C), resulting in a pressure of 2,500–3,000 psi.
Catalysts such as alkali carbonate commonly speed the radical capping and hydrogen transfer reactions. Product oils from hydrothermal liquefaction of biomass have low water content and are lower in oxygen (ca. < 20%) than oils from fast pyrolysis, but they have other undesirable physico-chemical properties such as high viscosity.
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