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So who exactly saw this coming?
Because these weren't the same Cleveland Cavaliers from Saturday night, when they rested LeBron James and Kyrie Irving in their 28-point loss at AmericanAirlines Arena.
And it wasn't even the same Miami Heat, with Tyler Johnson and James Johnson held out with nagging injuries.
And yet perhaps the Heat's 106-98 victory Monday night at Quicken Loans Arena made total sense.
Because the Heat have now won 19 of their last 23 games. And that can't be by accident. So perhaps this, indeed, is who the Heat are.
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Die Another Day Becomes Pierce Brosnan's Last Day as James BondFor those who have followed the James Bond film posters in progression on this blog, from first ("Dr. No") to last, the odd film posters for "Die Another Day" will come as no great surprise. The subtle changes made in the first few Pierce Brosnan films (beginning with "Goldeneye") are now confirmed and even extended. The Bond Girls have moved from their supportive position behind James Bond to front and center. Indeed, they are actually standing beside him and firing with him, just as capably as he is firing. It is a complete turnabout from the Sean Connery days of James Bond, when the spy would roughly seduce a woman and then callously hold her as she got shot in the back ("Thunderball"), or the Roger Moore days, when he would vigorously throw his young lovely behind himself and step forward to take shots at the bad guys ("The Spy Who Loved Me"). It almost seemed, from the film posters for "Die Another Day," that the Pierce Brosnan version of James Bond needed all the fighting help he could get from the Bond girls around him. The subtle implication was that it was he, the pretty boy, who needed protection, not the Bond Girls.
I want to be clear that I'm not coming down on Pierce Brosnan. He wasn't responsible for marketing, and I'm sure he wanted to be as manly in the role as anyone. Clearly, others didn't want him to be. And I'm not necessarily the biggest fan of Daniel Craig's over-the-top portrayal of James Bond as some kind of superhero. My taste lies in between, more like the balanced Sean Connery and Roger Moore characterizations, heroics mixed with knowing banter, which are only looking better as time passes.
Needless to say, the weak portrayal of James Bond as a kind of girly man was not what many die-hard fans were expecting from the series. What exactly is the point of a James Bond spy who isn't in control? Sean Connery might have been in jeopardy from dominant females now and then ("Goldfinger"), but his movie posters didn't have the women taking shots to protect him. Having brought this "Bond as damsel in distress" theme as far as they could - what was next, the Bond girls standing in the front and Pierce in the background? Actually, look below, they already were actually going there - the Eon producers belatedly realized a change was in order. This explains why they made the abrupt transition back to the Sean Connery mold of a manly spy rather than a sort of "group hug" sleuth. Daniel Craig was waiting in the wings, and he would turn the entire James Bond dynamic around.

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Mattresses, microenvironments, and multivariate analysesBMJ 2002; 325 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.325.7371.981 (Published 02 November 2002) Cite this as: BMJ 2002;325:981
No reason to change current practices for reducing risk of sudden infant death
- Peter J Fleming, professor of infant health and developmental physiology,
- Peter S Blair, medical statistician
- Division of Child Health, University of Bristol, Bristol BS1 2LY
- Department of Paediatrics, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand
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Despite the success of "Back to Sleep" campaigns in many countries, sudden infant death syndrome remains responsible for the largest group of deaths in infants between one month and one year of age.1 The importance of sleeping in the prone position as a contributory factor has led to studies of the pathophysiological effects of the prone position on the infant and to studies of microenvironmental factors that might contribute to this risk. 2 3 The carefully conducted study by Tappin and colleagues in this issue (p 1007) is set in Scotland and emphasises the potential importance of the infant's microenvironment during sleep as a contributory factor to the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, but as emphasised by the authors, caution must be exercised in the interpretation of these results.4
Tappin and colleagues have shown an apparently increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome for infants sleeping on a mattress previously used by another infant (54% cases, 28% controls), confirming the observation by the same group in an earlier study.5 The previous Scottish study was criticised because infants sharing beds with adults were included with infants sleeping on mattresses used by …
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Mariah Carey, Born Again?
Mariah Carey recently revealed to the U.K.'s Mirror that she and husband Nick Cannon didn't have sex until they were married. I'm not really surprised that Mariah didn't give up the goods until she sealed the deal with Nick. Mariah's always been a bit of a tease. Check out most of her music videos in which she writhes around on a bed or floor in lingerie. She knows how to work her sex appeal for professional purposes, but thankfully keeps her private life out of the street. I guess I'm being a little sexist in assuming the decision was all Mariah's because supposedly Nick had the same beliefs. But since they only dated for two months before getting married, he didn't have to wait that long. And we all know Nick wasn't after Mariah's body. I suspect he was after her cash and the accolades of being Mr. Mariah Carey. Selita Ebanks, who? And on another note, Nick, you don't have enough facial hair for a beard. Please shave those pubes off your chin. [Perez Hilton]


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From National Security Affairs
Jan. 11, 2013
The U.S. Naval War College National Security Affairs department hosted Peter Baker, White House correspondent for the New York Times, Friday, for the first practitioner lecture of the 2012-2013 winter trimester.
In a 90-minute question and answer session with faculty and senior students in the National Security Decision Making Course, moderated by professor Tom Fedyszyn, Baker lectured on the "role of the media" and the interaction of the Fourth Estate with the country's national security apparatus.
Baker discussed the impact of 24-hour news coverage and new social media technologies like Twitter in accelerating the spread of information and providing for instantaneous reaction – in some cases with the reaction occurring before an event is already over.
He noted the challenge for media outlets in balancing the need to be "first" in reporting a story versus getting it right in such an environment, ensuring that information is accurate, that it has been vetted, and that the desire to be "first" not undermine the overall credibility of the news organization.
Baker touched on the inherent tension between openness and security, the presses skepticism of government claims, and that the press seeks further confirmation or opposing views in its coverage.
He stated that while the media has a duty to prevent leakage of sensitive operational details, especially if it puts specific individuals at risk, it is not obligated to spare the government or its official's embarrassment.
Asking about how to improve the relationship between the military and the press, Baker argued that further exposure is the best course, stating that the relationship is improved when military officers and reporters have more encounters to learn and understand each other's perspectives.
He noted that credibility of officers and officials is enhanced when they acknowledge setbacks and how things might be improved, pointing out that admitting when things go wrong gains someone more credibility than when things go right.
In light of recent developments where it appeared that military officers suffered as a result of their candidness being reported in the press, Baker expressed the hope that future senior leaders would avoid seeing things in a binary light, where "openness to the media" is equated with "risking one's career."
In response to a number of student questions, Baker discussed how most media outlets engage in serious and substantive review of the information they receive, including weighing possible security risks and engaging with the government to discuss possible harm that might result from publication. He emphasized that the publication of stories involving national security issues is not done lightly or casually.
Baker also fielded questions about media bias, noting that papers like The New York Times work to separate the editorial page from news coverage. He said that while journalists strive to write stories in a way that the reader has no sense of their own personal opinions, he acknowledged that the perception of bias can occur if writers and editors are not careful. Baker pointed out that one way journalists often correct for this is to ensure that in any story information and commentary is solicited from a wide range of sources.
Baker concluded his lecture by offering the audience his impressions of the three presidents – Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama – that he has covered, his experiences covering the U.S. military overseas, commentary on a variety of international issues, including developments in the Middle East and the trajectory of U.S.-Russia relations, and the possible impact of fiscal constraints and domestic pressures on U.S. foreign policy.
Baker is the White House correspondent for The New York Times and contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. Prior to the New York Times, Baker was the Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, served as an embedded reporter with the Marines during the 2003 Iraq campaign, and was the first American reporter to begin coverage in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks.


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I greatly appreciate it when our readers take the time to poke holes in things we say here. As a skeptic, I want to make it abundantly clear that I love being proven wrong about things; it is only when I find out I was wrong that I have the opportunity to really grow in my knowledge and understanding of the world. So, with that in mind, I want to specifically thank my friend Christian Huls for his response to my post yesterday.
In kind, I want to take some time to respond to his comments point-by-point. Here we go:
Dave, you continually make bold claims and statements as if they are authoritative undisputed fact, site nothing, and stand against ancient testimony that was much closer to the events than you. Your history is more fraudulent than that of Dan Brown's…
When I'm blogging, I admit that I make less of an effort to cite all my sources for every detail – especially if it interrupts the flow of the post, or if I'm making a humorous point – the way I would in an academic paper. Depending on the subject matter, I often hotlink to sources, and I appreciate you calling me out on this. I will attempt to be more thorough in future posts, and for future reference, if you would ever like to know my source for something I said on here (assuming it's not original research), please feel free to ask in the comments and I'll dig it up for you!
You write:
Matthew was not anonymous, nor was it written by someone ignorant of Hebrew. What is your evidence of this? There is good evidence that Matthew's gospel was originally written in Hebrew or Aramaic and later translated into Greek.
I would like to see this good evidence. To my knowledge, the only evidence that favors the idea that Matthew's gospel was originally written in Hebrew or Aramaic, and later translated to Greek (as opposed to being composed in Greek), is that Papias, as quoted by Eusebius, made an extremely ambiguous reference to this, which modern scholars by and large reject as either a misunderstanding, or an outright error on his part.
According to the beautiful, highly-regarded 4-volume International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, (chief ed. Geoffrey Bromiley, a church historian and historical theologian who sadly died two years ago this past August, a Professor of Church History at Fuller Theological Seminary, ordained in the Church of England, with an MA from Cambridge and a PhD, DD, and post-doctoral D.Litt from the University of Edinburgh), to which I am very grateful to have free access anytime I want here at Mizzou's Ellis Library (considering it's about $240 on Amazon), the book we now call "The Gospel according to Matthew" was indeed anonymously written, and the modern scholarly view is that it lacks the characteristic linguistic features one would expect to find in a Greek rendering of a work originally composed in Hebrew. I'm quoting: "The gospel itself says nothing about its sources" and "[Matthew's Greek] reveals none of the telltale marks of a translation" (Vol iii p. 281). On page 280: "Early in the 2nd century, Papias referred to Matthew as the collector of "oracles" [sayings] of Jesus; shortly thereafter the Gospel as a whole was attributed to Matthew. Later traditions about Matthew are mixed and unreliable."
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Papias (60-130), as quoted by Eusebius, makes the following obscure statement about the origin of the gospel testifying to both the author and the language (H.E. 3. 39. 16): "Matthew composed the sayings in the Hebrew language and everyone interpreted as he was able."
Irenaeus (130-200) (Adv. Haer. 3.1.1; also quoted by Eusebius, H.E. 5.8.2): "Now Matthew brought forth among the Hebrews a written gospel in their language, while Peter and Paul were preaching in Rome and founding the church."
Origen (185-254) (as quoted by Eusebius, H.E. 6. 25.3-4) asserts, "Among the four Gospels, which are the only indisputable ones in the Church of God under heaven, I have learned by tradition that the first was written by Matthew, who was once a tax collector, but afterwards an apostle of Jesus Christ, and it was prepared for the converts from Judaism, and published in the Hebrew [or Aramaic] language."
Eusebius wrote of Pantaenos (died c. 190), associated with the church in Alexandria (H.E. 5.10.1-4): "One of these was Pantaenos, and it is said that he went to the Indians, and the tradition is that he found there among some of those there who had known Christ the Gospel of Matthew had preceded his coming; for Bartholomew, one of the apostles, had preached to them and had left the writing of Matthew in Hebrew letters, which was preserved until the time mentioned" (see H.E. 3.24.5-6). According to Jerome, Pantaenos brought back a copy of this Hebrew version of Matthew to Alexandria (De vir. ill. 36).
Eusebius (H.E. 3.24.6): "For Matthew, who had at first preached to the Hebrews, when he was about to go to other peoples, committed his Gospel to writing in his native tongue, and thus compensated those whom he was obliged to leave for the loss of his presence."
Jerome (342-420) stated several times that Matthew wrote his Gospel in Hebrew, and even said that the original Hebrew Gospel was in the library at Caesarea in his day (De vir. ill. 3; see Ad Damas. 20; Ad Hedib. 4).
Epiphanius (315-403) wrote concerning the Nazarenes, "They have the Gospel according to Matthew quite complete in Hebrew, for this Gospel is certainly still preserved among them as it was first written, in Hebrew letters" (Panarion 29.9.4).
My response:
Quoting again from the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Vol iii, p. 282:
The arguments for the priority of Mark and Matthew's dependence upon Mark are too strong to be overthrown by the testimony of Papias, which as we have seen is difficult to interpret.
Quoting further still:
Almost all scholars agree that our Gospel of Matthew was originally written in Greek and is not a translated document"… "Our Greek Gospel of Matthew is not the translation of a Hebrew or Aramaic original." "Matthew's OT quotations are derived from the LXX [Septuagint] rather than the Hebrew text… the Aramaic Gospel supposedly referred to by Papias can at best be a Proto-Matthew… the majority of NT scholars remain convinced that Markan priority is a superior hypothesis. In the face of these problems it must be concluded that either Papias was wrong in what he said or, giving him the benefit of the doubt, that he has been misunderstood, perhaps by the early church fathers (e.g. Irenaeus, Pantauenus, Origen…)
You wrote:
Perhaps there is some evidence that the Greek translator was not fluent in certain Hebrew/Aramaic idioms. For example, the infamous camel through the eye of a needle phrase – in Aramaic, the word for camel and rope are the same. An interesting article on this http://healing2thenations.net/papers/hebrewmt.htm
Consider also the Aramaic words found in Matthew: Emmanuel, raka, and mammon.
My response:
As I stated above, the scholarly view is that Matthew was composed in Greek. This is the majority view, among both believing-Christian and secular scholars, for reasons available in much greater detail here. As stated, it's possible that some of the sayings of Jesus came to the author of "Matthew" via Aramaic, which seems to be what Papias was talking about when he says that the author collected tá lógia – it really does all depend on the interpretation of that word. But even then, this goes against Markan priority + Q, for which there is much more solid evidential footing, and which is accepted by the majority of modern NT scholars (see Christopher Tuckett's "The Current State of the Synoptic Problem,"delivered at the 2008 Oxford Conference in the Synoptic Problem).
I think the best we can say is that it's inconclusive. Quoting the above encyclopedia yet again (p 281), "Although the evidence allows only speculation, it may well be that what Papias referred to was a collection of sayings of Jesus in Aramaic that ultimately, in Greek, became the core of Matthew's gospel, and that the whole then took the name of the part – 'the oracles of the Lord.' Papias was misunderstood not only because of the ambiguity of the word lógia but also because several Jewish Christian Gospels existed in the 2nd cent. (e.g. the Gospel of the Nazarenes, the Ebionites, and of the Hebrews), and it was easy enough to suppose that one or all of them originated in the lógia referred to by Papias. Even the great Jerome first identified one of these Gospels, which he examined in Syria, with the work of Matthew, only later to withdraw this conclusion."
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There is also external evidence for the authorship and early existence of the Gospel of Matthew as well.
Clement of Rome (c. 90) used sections of the Gospel of Matthew (Matt. 5:7; 6:14-15; 7:1-2, 12; with Luke 6:31, 36-38) (1Clem. 13:1-2).
Ignatius used the Gospel of Matthew (c. 100) quoting the phrase "to fulfill all righteousness" (Matt 3:15) in discussing Jesus' baptism (Smyr. 1).
The author of the Didache (c. 110) quoted from Matthew's version of the Lord's prayer (Did. 8:1-3).
Justin Martyr (c. 100-165), whose works I just finished reading in their entirety a few weeks back, frequently quotes from a harmony that he apparently put together of the synoptic gospels. He says that there are only FOUR gospels.
His pupil Tatian (120-180) produced a harmony of the four gospels called the Diatessaron which was the standard text in the Syriac churches until the fifth century. The harmony does not include Jesus' encounter with the adulteress (John 7:53- 8:11), and no significant text was added. In all, only 56 verses in the canonical Gospels do not have a counterpart in the Diatessaron, mostly the genealogies and the Pericope Adulterae.
Not centuries later. A century later it was in circulation enough that someone had put together a harmony of three of them. They were well known enough even by the critics. And it was common knowledge that there were four, and that they were written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in that order.
Did I say that Matthew was composed centuries ex post facto? I believe I said (or at least, I meant to say) decades, not centuries. If so, that was an error on my part. The consensus scholarly view for the date range of "Matthew's" gospel is about 15 years after Mark, i.e. circa 85 CE. Aune's "Blackwell's Companion to the New Testament," page 298, specifies the terminus a quo of Matthew's gospel as "sometime after 70 CE." He goes on to say:
The range of possibility is 70 to 110 CE. Most scholars prefer a date for Matthew midway between, about 80-90 CE, allowing some years after Mark. This time period is strongly supported by an internal analysis of Matthew and other known historical events.
You wrote:
The earliest fragments of Matthew are dated to the middle or latter half of the first century.
Source? The earliest fragment of Matthew of which I am aware is 104, over at the Sackler Library at Oxford (aka P.Oxy.LXIV 4404), which dates to the late 2nd century. Here's a lay source chart indicating that it's the earliest known fragment. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri database also lists it as "late second century."
You wrote:
Just because a modern skeptical "scholar," who doesn't believe in God and presupposes that miracles are impossible, postulates that these were written in different order, assembled, etc. does prove it to be so.
Couldn't agree with you more 😉
You wrote:
These were not merely voted upon out of hundreds of gospels centuries later, but the councils merely affirmed what was already accepted by the churches, as evident by the lists of scriptures by earlier writers.
I don't see how a council affirming what was "accepted" by tradition lends any credibility to the tradition per se. Lists of scriptures by earlier writers only means that those scriptures, in some form or another, were in existence at that time. We have no way of knowing what they contained or how much they were altered or edited in between. If a Muslim council were to get together today and "affirm" that Muhammad was a true prophet of God, on the basis of earlier writers of the Qur'an and the Hadith, would that be convincing to you? As good scholars (and good scholars and by nature skeptical!), we'd also want to see solid independent, unbiased, external evidence, preferably evidence that comes from undisputed eyewitnesses, etc.
You wrote:
Regarding riding on the colt and the foal of the donkey, this is easily reconciled if the two animals are tied together and if Messiah is riding side saddle on the adult with His feet on the foal. Though this is not even necessarily so either. It could have simply been that the foal remained tied to the other and no one was riding on it.
It's possible, sure. It's not parsimonious, and it doesn't explain why "Luke," "John," and "Mark" all specify one animal, as does the alleged prophecy in Zechariah.
You wrote:
Furthermore, early hostile eyewitnesses could have easily disputed this and none did.
You're right; in fact it's even worse than that: Early hostile eyewitnesses didn't mention any of these events at all – almost as if these events never happened and were made up by the gospel writers decades later!
I also want to point out one more thing. You (rightly) called me out for making bold assertions without citing my sources. I hope that I have corrected this to your satisfaction. However, I noticed something in reading over what you wrote…
– "Matthew was not anonymous, nor was it written by someone ignorant of Hebrew…"
– "There is good evidence that Matthew's gospel was originally written in Hebrew or Aramaic and later translated into Greek…"
– "Papias (60-130), as quoted by Eusebius, makes the following obscure statement about the origin of the gospel…"
The first two things, I would like to ask you, in turn, to provide citations for. But it was this last bit that caught my eye in particular, when you said "makes the following obscure statement…"
I realized I'd read that exact line before. After a quick Google search, I realized you had simply copied & pasted pretty much the entirety of your post from a webinar workbook provided to students of Barry Smith's Religious Studies 2033 class, "The New Testament and its Context," at Crandall University in New Brunswick, Canada, a tiny, private Baptist school operated by the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches and founded in 1949 as the "United Baptist Bible Training School," before they changed the name to something that sounded a little less backwater.
By bizarre coincidence, I happen to be familiar with Smith's research; he went to McMaster Divinity School and also got his PhD from McMaster University in Ontario, where an old friend & colleague of mine happens to teach anthropology (my friend got her undergraduate degree in anthropology here at Mizzou, where I also study anthropology).
If we're talking about citing sources, I'm not so sure Dr. Smith would be so happy to hear about this, haha. I also want to point out, as I spelled out above, that this interpretation directly opposes the majority view of NT scholars. Not that Dr. Smith isn't entitled to his professional opinion, but I don't think it makes sense, if we're truly trying to unravel this mystery, to draw from 1 uncredited source that contradicts the majority view, without providing overwhelming evidence in favor of this view (re: the assertion that Matthew was not anonymous, the "good evidence" that it was translated into Greek, etc). Am I to understand that the "good evidence" you refer to is simply Papias' third-hand say-so (4th-century Eusebius, quoting 2nd-century Papias, writing about the as-yet-untitled 1st-century gospel of "Matthew")?
Thanks again for your feedback, Christian!
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|23rd August 2013, 09:27 AM
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An original VMS30 stylus is a nude fine line extended contact
tip and can last a very long time tracking at about 1.25g.
It suits a Dual very well.
The VMS20E is nude elliptical, FF15E bushed elliptical.
"Upgrading" will be an expensive business for the same sort of stylus quality.
A replacement genuine VMS20E stylus is 140 Euros from William Thakkar.
rgds, sreten.
|23rd August 2013, 10:11 AM
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I just looked on eBay . OM 10 was an optimum cartridge for a 505 . I feel is won swings and roundabouts in a Dual over a VMS 20 E II . I dare say the Dual was the first time I saw it as a standard fit cartridge . Ortofon would be mad not to optimize it for the market leader . Memory says the 505 and VMS 20E were friends but not lovers . Might just be VTA as OM is taller ? VMS 20E was great in either Rega type ( Rega - Acos Lustre or Rega's own ) . Suits any SME or Hadcock . SME 3 is excellent with it .
At the prices I saw for new OM 10 is great .
M20FL seems to be a VMS30 . To my ears not , M20FL is superb . I slightly prefer VMS 20 and FF 15E to VMS 30 ( VTA no doubt ) . F15 E was not my cup of tea . VMS 5 was fun and very OK .
Some typo's in previous as time was running out .
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|23rd August 2013, 07:27 PM
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The OM10 did and still does suit the original budget 505.
But it is not optimal for later more expensive versions,
and there is no point changing the VMS30 if it works.
rgds, sreten.
|24th August 2013, 08:58 AM
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My major criticism of OM 10 was a slight blandness which I attribute to the range , VMS30 also alas ( VTA ? ) . To be frank I felt 20 outperformed 30 for most typical turntables . This was often true in hi fi that a quirk of design makes a cheaper thing better . As far as I know no Dual arm of any generation was ever bettered by typical cartridges , mass being the only question . Certainly the looks of the latter were more in tune with " opinion " . The 12 series idler driven Dual are nice machines . Their arms are excellent . 30 better than OM10 ? It is . I will say one thing . Technics SP 10 , SME 3 , OM10 , you would have no idea . Like your family car was winning a Grand Prix . Thing is I doubt SME 3 is much better than the Dual arm .
The best example of this was cartridge fixing . People would go to any lengths to do it up tight . Two Australian brothers insisted this was wrong and used Blutak . Whilst having fears for it sticking permanently I think it is better .Their PU's were some of the best of the day ( Garrot ) .The screws must be non magnetic . Alignment . People show me fancy alignment gauges . I use them and find they were 0.5 mm out . No good having a tool you can not use . I still think 2 zero's at 63.5 and 119 mm is best ( Percy Wilson of 1920's ) . I have made these out of paper and done 90 degrees by eye ( we are almost like perfect pitch for doing that ) . Used a schools ruler and got it 100 % right as far as our eyes can tell ( eyes being the problem ) . Having it correct get bias or anti skating right . If in doubt set it 0.25 g below what the turntable says . VTA , if in doubt have the arm slightly lower at the back ( 2 degrees perhaps ) . Not a great solution but better than nothing . Goldring needs slight backwards slope ( 1042 , nice device ) . They used a slightly odd cantilever length to get better overall performance . As people do VTA they thought it will get checked . Mr Van den Hull says he agrees with non of that . Like me he listens to classical and might have different priorities . VTA varies as the 15 degree ideal for cutting moved to 20 that is 5 was added , 15 is an approximation to requirements , spring back etc , etc . Hence V15 , VMS 20 . What one should do is set for good 1970 pressings . Then tweak playing weight for ones that seem edgy ( splitty ) .
The arm of the Dual is unusual ( later , cheaper ones perhaps not ) . It would offer the same playing down force on the Moon or Earth . An SME would be 1/6 th . You can set the dial weight to zero then add weight as you would an SME . This changes the arm mathematics a bit and sound . Try if you like . You will need a stylus balance to set it ( Shure is excellent and easy to use ) . This quirk allow the arm to ride warps better and at a great angle off of horizontal . The weight is set by a spring if as Dual intend ( like a watch spring ) . Rega also if the RB 300 ( not 250 ) . The spring works the other way on Rega to lift the arm up . Fully on ( 3 g ) is zero spring force . Not the same thing and not the same reasoning . Some say both are better without springs .
I sold more 505 in my life than most people ( 1000 + at a guess ) . I was involved with Dual in Farnell days . I think I might have been the one who suggested 505 in about 1977 ? I bought at a remarkable price a CS510 for my father which he still has . I sold a pile of them at £100 inc M95ED ( £50 off ) . When they ran out I said what a shame and said if only they could do some without all the fancy machining . Tom Harding ( ? ) said it wasn't such a daft idea see what German says . Farnell were rewarded by loosing distribution . Peter Johnson took over ( lovely guy , looked like a Viking ) , who also did Empire . I was rewarded by a trip to the factory which my boss took . He spoke German was the excuse . I was delighted as he loved every minute . When in his last days my brother put him up a satellite dish to get German TV . 1930's films that I would have thought censored often played . He spoke 21 languages and 7 fluently . Not so sure as an engineer I ever saw him finish anything . He called my job technical rep . Mostly I fixed stuff and did a bit of Video . He did the translation work FOC for Zeta becomes JET . He had sufficient understanding and the language skills . Surprisingly he felt the Germans did not understand substitutes of English and assumed the UK far behind with Zeta if looking at the US version . If not I suspect JET might not have existed at Harwell . It now has moved on to France . At the time I was bored to tears by JET . We sold them some very high speed video gear , that started it . Why I loved Dual was simply a love of engineering . Made down to a price . Perpetum Ebner was said to be a dispute between the brothers of Dual . PE was the more EMT style product . Wish I had sold PE .
If 505 would be truly exciting it would have VTA . 704 did , so it was in the parts bin . Get this . VTA whilst playing ! Sorry USA you were not first . If doing archive work it would be practical to do it for each . What a shame no 78 on 704 . There was a better 704 ( 721 ? ) , one day on eBay perhaps ? Politically you couldn't sell direct drives then . Shame as the Dual DD was good .
|16th September 2013, 11:57 AM
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Had the styli checked over at Audio Origami. Got some nice photos as well. The 30 has plenty of life left in it and the 20E looks brand new. This is good news as I wanted to use the 20E, as it appears to give a better LTA in the Dual arm when bolted directly to the headshell. Way ahead sorted.
|16th September 2013, 03:05 PM
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Sorry, I meant VTA, not LTA. Must have been thinking about tennis!
|16th September 2013, 11:35 PM
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FWIW the OM10 (a later version of the FF15E) bushed tipped elliptical
suited the budget versions of the Dual 505 well. The VMS20E and
OM20 (nude tipped ellipticals) are less cost effective in budget
505's, but better cartridges, and suit more expensive Duals well.
The VMS20E does not match the original Rega R200 arm well at all.
The nude FL (fine line) versions (VMS30 and OM30) suffered (and still do)
from a simple problem, new they sound no better than the new nude elliptical.
(Often slightly worse for various reasons in a new versus new comparison.)
However the tips last much longer and maintain better performance
over the effective life of the stylus, and are more cost effective.
rgds, sreten.
The Ortofon 510, 520 and 530 are my favourite versions.
My Ortofon MC15 Super Mk II with a FL stylus is still going strong
after many years bought for the princely sum of £86 exchange
many moons ago, a replacement would be £300+.
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|17th September 2013, 08:20 AM
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I might have sold 500 x RB200 VMS 20 combo's ( 1000 more likely ) . On paper it doesn't work . In real life it is excellent .
Rega ( Roy Gandy ) said the supposed resonant frequency of an arm is set too high in common theory . If above 6 Hz and preferably 8Hz all is well . 12 Hz as pontificated is too high .
The original Shure V 15 required an arm of -5 g mass to work to accepted mathematical models . Like the bumble bee it couldn't work . The formula is Fo = 1/ 2Pi root ( MC ) . The Shure sold in many 1000's and did fly very well .
Conversely I was given a Schroeder carbon-fibre arm to try . I strongly disliked it . It brought my anti carbon-fibre prejudice into my thinking . The Schroeder has such a reputation as to make me unwilling to leave it there . I simply added mass to the arm ( 6 g at a guess ) . The sound was transformed , it had bass . I have a Schroeder wooden arm as a result . I know in my heart the mass is what I have over the carbon fibre . Naturally with suspended decks an ideal resonance might hit the spring frequency . This brings into question spring suspensions . Garrard users do it with squash balls .
|17th September 2013, 08:45 AM
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VMS 30 was a sad case . Then M20Fl was streets better . If adding alinement problems of a fine-line it should be worth it in the final sound . To my ears VMS 20 E 2 was simply better . Ortofon played with the design a number of times . Why they didn't uses M20FL instead I will never know . If you have an M20FL you have one of the best . FF 15 E was better than VMS 30 in things I tried . I must admit an early set back doesn't inspire one to try . Linn Basik LVII arm had VTA adjust . Maybe that would work better . It will involve a day of adjustments . Ortofon had a test record to do it . House of the rising Sun was favourite with voice and guitar . Adjust to have nice sibilance on voice with good bass on the guitar to put it simply . +/- 5 degrees off of level is common . Ellipticals are less fussy . Old records need 5 degrees less VTA ( V15 refers to that , VMS 20 to the revised standard , vinyl spring-back is the technical term , 20 refers to + 5 degrees cutting angle , said to reduce IM distortion I think ) . All my now cartridges are FL so it is possible to live with this . VTA is a necessity of FL .
|17th September 2013, 12:01 PM
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It depends on what deck you mount a cartridge with a compliance
nominally too high for the arm mass as to the result you will get.
Solid plinth designs can handle it better than suspended subchassis.
Both don't like wobbly furniture stands, wall mounting is good for
both if a solid floor is not available.
YMMV using a high compliance cartridge in a heavy arm. It works
but handling is a bit sqiffy compared to a lower compliance.
rgds, sreten.
Many PL12D's were sold with the ubquitous Shure M75ED
and ended up with the arm frequency too near the base
spring frequency, compromising the handling quite a lot.
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- Who is the lil love of your life?
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I've been a lurker on the hair loss forums for a while now and really appreciate Spencer's work with the Bald Truth. One of the topics that has interested me for the last year or so is the debate surrounding Dr. Gho and his Hair Stem Cell Transplantation (HST) procedure.
Dr. Gho makes two very interesting claims about HST:
1. Donor regeneration between 80%-95%
2. Minimal to no scarring
It is well known that the two biggest drawbacks of traditional hair transplant surgery are the limited donor supply and scarring so the significance of these claims should be very apparent.
Recently, there has been an analysis of BaldTruthTalk poster gc83uk's procedure with Gho that seems fairly compelling and indicates that maybe there is something behind Gho's claims (see Gho- Final Proof?). The results achieved on Dutch celebrities like Wesley Sneijder, Gerard Joling, and Dean Saunders, who have had procedures with Gho, are also interesting based on the minimal scarring and downtime, as well as the results in the recipient area.
Despite this, there is still no consensus on Gho's claims and one of two possibilities remains:
1. The hair transplant industry is ignoring a revolutionary procedure that drastically diminishes the effects of two of the most significant problems associated with hair transplants - limited donor supply and scarring.
2. Gho is misleading a growing number of people and the procedure does not produce the results that he claims.
In either case and regardless of where you stand on Gho and HST, I think it's in everybody's interests to find out if this is true or not.
Spencer is the top consumer advocate in the hair loss industry and seems like the perfect guy to investigate something like this. I do not believe it would be terribly difficult to verify Gho's claims.
What I propose is that Spencer gets in contact with Dr. Gho and/or a prospective patient and gets a 3rd party to scientifically and photographically investigate the donor regeneration and recipient yield. If it's also possible, I would love to see parts of the procedure recorded and/or have another short interview with Gho with more or our questions.
I really believe if actions similar to this are taken, it would settle the debate on Gho/HST once and for all! I really hope Spencer and the posters on this forum get behind this. I would love to hear what everybody thinks and whether you guys have any suggestions etc.
My intention is not to turn this into a debate on HST but rather what needs to be done to prove/disprove Gho's claims and settle the debate once and for all.


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@scottsigler @ARealGirl: Definitely don't let it get in the way of your writing. Still, it will be nice if you are able to come up with, or migrate to, a better solution in the future.
@tdtaylor: @ARealGirl and I aren't too crazy about the new forum setup, but we've been way too busy to work on another solution. I think it's cut into the amount of time people spend here. Hopefully we'll have time in Q3 to see what we can do to make this better.
GJ: Love the new avatar!
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An e-learning researcher from China is the first resident in a unique apartment being developed as a test bed for future home technology.
The iDorm2 is a two-bedroomed fully furnished apartment within the Computing and Electronic Systems building at the University of Essex.
For the past three months it has been home to Liping Shen, who travelled nearly 6,000 miles from China's prestigious Shanghai Jiao Tong University to collaborate with Essex. She has been researching the use of Essex's emotion detection technology to improve and personalise the delivery of e-learning services.
Liping has also been the first test subject for the iDorm2, evaluating the apartment as a living environment which can be used to test home technologies. Her stay has been supported by a BT bursary, and one of the first products she has tested for the company is a digital picture frame, which enables her to view images of her husband and two-year-old son Zhe in Shanghai, while they can share the same images with another digital picture frame at home.
She explained: 'By sharing the pictures I can imagine their lives in Shanghai and feel connected with them.' Liping speaks daily to her son using a webcam link, but initially he found this confusing. 'The first time he was very excited to see me, but he wanted to touch me and to embrace me, and asked me to do up his shoes,' she said.
In Liping's research, she has used herself as a test subject wearing Essex's X-vest, or emotion jacket, to establish links between her learning ability and her emotional state, measured using heart rate, blood volume pressure and skin resistance. She now plans to extend testing on Shanghai Jiao Tong University's (SJTU) e-Learning platform, which delivers fully interactive lectures to computers, TV screens and mobile phones for more than 15,000 part-time learners in its Network Education College.
Liping explained: 'In a traditional classroom, teachers are able to recognise the emotional status of their students and respond in ways that positively impact on learning. With remote learners, emotion information is missing.
'Our emotion-aware system would be able to collect emotional information to develop students' profiles, in order to provide both personalised learning services and to give emotional feedback to teachers so they can adjust their teaching in real-time. This extends some of the benefits of being taught in a real classroom to remote learners.'
Liping is also helping researchers from Essex's Digital Lifestyles Centre to generate the specification for high-tech equipment to be installed in the iDorm2. In further collaboration with BT, it is planned to test a range of its technology including Home Hub and BT Vision.
Jeff Patmore, BT's Head of Strategic University Research said: 'BT believes that supporting academia for the advancement of scientific research which is likely to lead to intrinsically valuable innovation in future products and services is key to its overall innovation programme.
'Our funding support for projects at the University of Essex is an example of where such research is leading towards the generation of valuable lifestyle technologies for the benefit of all, young and old.'
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|16th October 2011, 14:01
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Cambridge to London day return with travelcard
I'm asking this question as a result of an incident a couple of months ago, having just rediscovered the ticket in question whilst clearing out my ticket wallet.
I sometimes buy a Cambridge to London day return + travelcard ticket for trips to London at weekends. I've always assumed that this allows a return journey between Cambridge and a London station (i.e. Kings Cross or Liverpool Street, or one of the stations on those lines), and then unlimited on the tube and National Rail services in the zones 1-6 area. First question - is that correct?
On the day in question, I specifically wanted to travel to Liverpool Street, and then stay on the Eastern side of London (ultimately getting a SouthEastern service to from London Bridge to Charlton), so I opted for the cheaper version of the Cambridge to London ticket, that only allows travel to Liverpool Street, not Kings Cross. The ticket achieves this restriction with a "Route: NXEA trains only" addition - which makes sense, since NXEA don't run trains to Kings Cross.
However, the ticket barriers to enter and exit the SouthEastern train service between London Bridge and Charlton didn't accept my ticket. I didn't really think anything of this (it's just one of those things that happens occasionally), and showed the ticket to the person manning the barrier, who always let me through without question.
But thinking about this incident again has left me wondering whether the "NXEA trains only" restriction applies only to the Cambridge to London part of the ticket, or throughout the London travelcard area as well? And was I therefore allowed to do the journey I did on that ticket, or not?
Experimenting with the East Coast journey planner, entering Cambridge to Charlton via Liverpool Street, I see that it doesn't offer me the cheaper "NXEA trains only" version of the travelcard. But it does if I enter a London Zone 6 station served by NXEA (specifically Harold Wood) - which adds to my suspicion that the restriction applies to the travelcard area as well, and I wasn't allowed to do what I did. If so, is it documented anywhere what exactly I can and can't do with this NXEA only travelcard? Tube? London Overground? DLR?
|16th October 2011, 14:05
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I'm pretty sure that, presuming that the ticket bought was a Day Travelcard from Cambridge, the NXEA Trains Only restriction only applies between Cambridge and London. As I travel between Cambridge and London a few times per month, whenever I use the line to Liverpool Street and get an NXEA Trains Only ticket, I haven't experienced any problems.
|16th October 2011, 14:06
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Between Cambridge and the boundary of zone 6, to be precise. Once inside the zones a travelcard is a travelcard and is valid on everything.
|16th October 2011, 22:16
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You're even valid to board a Cambridge-bound service at Kings Cross, though you'll have to alight at Finsbury Park (almost no trains to Cambridge from Kings Cross stop at any other Z1-6 station)
|16th October 2011, 22:20
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Two fares available: Which priced ticket was it?
£22.10 NXEA Only
£28.00 Any Permitted
|16th October 2011, 22:23
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From what I've found (I've used Cambridge-London travelcards a lot) they do not work in any NR barriers except the ones at the terminal for the journey to/from Cambridge, but they do work on LU - I have no idea why, it's quite annoying.
|17th October 2011, 10:58
Join Date: 31 Oct 2010
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So the general concensus of this thread is that the "NXEA only" part doesn't apply to the travelcard area? I've done some more experiments with the East Coast journey planner and it disagrees
One case I've found that really highlights this is a journey from Cambridge to West Ruislip (reachable by either the Central Line or Chiltern Railways). Ask the journey planner for this journey, via Kings Cross, for today, and it offers me the £28 travelcard (or a £24 return fare). But ask for it via Liverpool Street, and it offers the two different routes:
Various other non-NXEA train stations in London are limited to the £28 fare via Liverpool Street as well, but West Ruislip is the only one I've found where it offers a tube-only route for the cheaper fare.
|17th October 2011, 12:18
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I think you've probably confused the system a bit. A travelcard is definitely valid on all services within the zones (after 0930 if it's off-peak) full stop. The booking engine may be having trouble because you are asking for other operators services, but as long as they are within the zones it is fine. West Ruislip is in zone 6, so no problem. You are only limited to NXEA until you cross the zone 6 boundary on the way in and from just before crossing it again on the way back out.
Confused by the Oyster system in London? Try my independent site with an alternative explanation at: www.oyster-rail.org.uk
|17th October 2011, 12:19
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A Travelcard is a Travelcard. If it were limited to a specific TOC it would not be a Travelcard. See this thread for the following quote:
|17th October 2011, 13:17
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Sounds to me as though the various booking engines, and possibly the encoding on the OP's ticket are treating the Travelcard part as tube/bus only, rather than including LO as well.
Was that not the case many years ago, before TFL/LO came into existence.
Really needs someone to look up the fare conditions for the OP's ticket.
|17th October 2011, 13:27
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The online booking engines struggle with Travelcards since they are not programmed to deal with zonal travel. For instance, if you add some via point within London in NRE, it often says that multiple tickets are required since the route involves doubling back; even to the point of suggesting a Z1-6 Travelcard plus a Z1-6 Travelcard!
Likewise I would imagine that they simply check that the operator matches any TOC restriction on the ticket. The alternative would mean that they would have to check whether the whole of the journey on the "barred" TOC is within the Zones, which would add quite a bit of complexity.
|17th October 2011, 14:09
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Thanks Lexyboy; that's this old codger updated on how things have changed!
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Assisted Living: What to Do With Paris Pictures?
CasaSugar Community member Carrothead recently asked the Assisted Living group for help on displaying some pictures.
She writes, "A few years ago I had a calendar that consisted of pictures of different places in Paris, and I cut all of the photos out to display on my wall of the dorm room I was in. (I had to fill up the ugly tan walls!) Now that I am out of the dorms (thankfully) and in my own apartment, I want a cute and clever way to display these photos. Putting them in individual frames is always an option, but I suppose I'm against it because that would be around 12 tiny (and by tiny, i mean 6 inch by 6 inch square) pictures to hang! I'm looking for ideas to display these adorable pictures, on the wall, table top, or any other place! Would anyone like to help?"
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Since the art that Carrothead is using isn't too precious, she can afford to be a little experimental. My idea? Make multiple high-quality copies of the calendar photos, and then create a grid-like pattern on a wall. A similar project was created in a room at the Portland Ace Hotel. You can learn how to create this display here.
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