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|2nd April 2008, 10:02 AM
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He has also a version with a adjustable bias option. The diodes can be replaced by resistors also as he stated.
With full power the amp gives 180W rms into 8 ohms and 250 rms into 4 ohms. The 380W is music power and it is strictly determined by the capability of your power supply. You can find this in his website, and usually 100W rms is quite enough even for large rooms, if you have appropriate speakers.
I have a friend who is quite experienced in high-end systems. He is replacing his Vincent high-end amp with RAS250 using in total 100,000uF capacitors, 35 amp rectifiers and 1 KVA transformer. Gods must be crazy, so he is
I am not a defender or the lawyer of Nico Ras, but I suggest his amps to the musicians especially, not to the technical design gurus. Mozart's music may not be technically very good, but when it is played it is the sound of God, as his opponent Salieri says
Anyway, any technical critics is wellcome, however, please keep in mind that there some people very happy about his designs, there are many amps built around world. If you don't like him or his designs, just leave it.
|2nd April 2008, 07:32 PM
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You make some interesting comments. The things you say I do not claim.
The introduction to this particular amp on my web is:
"The circuit diagram shows a single channel of my simple MOSFET power amplifier. For stereo applications two identical units would be required." In other words this simple joke, should be easy for you to follow.
Yes the design is based on data provided by Hitachi from around the nineties if I remember correctly.
There are few new unique topologies in amplifier design, maybe you could share a few of yours.
I do have an input capacitor, it is called C1 it is typically 10 uF.
If you you measure the quescient current through the output devices it is around 200 mA, maybe you should verify this before speculating. Class B is zero bias, not AB. The diodes used are fine here and provides stable bias.
If you look at the 2SK1058 and 2SJ162 you will notice that these devices have gate protection zeners included in the die, you actually don't need to add it.
BD139/140 has a particularly nice sound to me, the Vceo is adequite for the 100 watt amplifier as shown on my web-page (see the safe operating area of this particular transistor (dc conditions) then you will realize that they are up to the job.
It is not necessary to run high current through the VAS since you need to overcome gate capacitance of the MOSFETS. You may also notice that at low current these transistors are particularly linear.
In the higher power version I use of two pairs of lateral mosfets and also use MJE340/350 and in place of MPSA56 I recommend using MPSA92 or 2SA970.
My four amps are permanently powered and they have been operating for the past 17 years non stop without failing once, this is not a too shabby MTBF. I am aware of literally hundred that has been built over the past 15 or so years.
Even for such a bad joke it sounds pretty nice to most people who have heard it and many who built it and thanked me for sharing it.
Furthermore nobody is forced in any way to build this amp, it is freely available to anyone, I will assist anyone who wants to construct it, I ask nothing in return.
Kind regards to you all
|2nd April 2008, 07:52 PM
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nice to see
you here mr ras
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|2nd April 2008, 08:11 PM
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Hello Sakis nice to hear from you, Greeting from Durban. Have you completed your special project - how did it go?
|2nd April 2008, 09:29 PM
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I cannot I agree with you. Even looking at the original Hitachi circuit you attached. The VAS is running at about 8mA in this circuit. If you leave the 1K pot as 1K then the quescient current of the mosfets are about 3 Amps and you are running them in class A because the gates are sitting at about 4.6V and -3.1V respectively.
Adjusting the bias for about 250 mA means this resistor must be trimmed to about 70 ohms. So using the two diodes will provide a much more stable bias at varying supply voltage than the resistor would.
Since the gate capacitance is only 500 pF, I see no reason running the VAS at 8 mA what is the purpose. If I use the diodes as bias I can run the VAS at a less than 500 uA and the mosfets will remain biased properly at about 250 mA quescient current.
Running the VAS at 8 mA decreases linearity and increases harmonic content by an order of magnitude over running at 300 uA also the linearity improves.
My circuit basically replaces the current source with a current mirror, sets the VAS current to 350uA reduces the harmonic content by a further 6dB while retaining a quescient current of 250 mA, I cannot see how you could miss this. This amplifier is definitely biased class AB and with the values I show measures the lowest harmonic content.
The response is ruler flat beyond 100kHz Open loop gain is 100 dB. What is bad about this design. Why would this amp be slow, it is not. Full power at 100 kHz, calculate the slew, it is quite adequate.
|2nd April 2008, 10:22 PM
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you are wrong in the statement that using diodes is a lottery. Could you consider that the voltage developed across a forward biased diode will be pretty stable?
The designer made more than one prototype, in fact there has been several built that I know of and I know of four that has been running flawlessly for about +10 years continually. I do not believe in a power switch.
Kindly explain what in your opinion would would cause >80V from developing across the BDs.
Also explain why resistor bias is a must for these devices, where do you get your information from kindly explain these facts.
Furthermore, besides yourself who claims 380 W rms, do you know what rms means. I did not make any such claim, see my web site, I am talking about 240 w into 4 ohms.
Also 8A at 55V will destroy the mosfet, it is rated at 125 watt, why would you want to do this.
The statement of a vast voltage drop across the output devices with high current, I do not understand could you explain this. Mosfets are like variable resistances when they turn on their resistance decreases to milli ohms, at 8 or whatever amps you refer time milli ohms does not constitute a vast volt drop the voltage across the source resistance would be higher than across the mosfet.
Firstly I don't think you have any idea what I claimed, secondly you have never built this amplifier so you have absolutely zero experience or any fact to base you statements on, it is purely speculative.
I think this forum is great for opinions but when you make statements then also make sure that you can back your claims. Unfortunately you cannot.
Someone asked me if he can build this amp with an output of 450 watts into 4 ohms, I told him that I have never done this but he could try by using stable rails of around +-60V and at least 8 pairs of output devices.
Kind regards
|2nd April 2008, 10:58 PM
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Hi to all,
this was an interesting exercise, unfortunately I only got time to respond very late. Thanks to you guys who contributed and those who did not, no love lost.
You did make me revisit a very old design and although there are room for improvement and make it much more complex, I am confident that it should remain unchanged as a simple to build unit.
The improvements in my later upgraded designs which has not been published does include current mirrors and CCS in first stage LTP and changed the input pair to MAT02 resulting in a notable improvement. I can recommend this to the old users of this amp and if you would like PCBs done this as usual would only be a pleasure to my friends.
Gohkan you are at the beginning of this great journey into the unknown, I would be pleased to send you the diagrams and PCBs for the new improved RAS100II we Christian it the Carma
Kindest regards
|3rd April 2008, 07:14 AM
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Thank you Nico
It is a great pleasure to work with you.
Any design, any idea, anything comes from you is wellcome..
Best regards.
|3rd April 2008, 12:39 PM
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An another comment: If you have a large voltage swing on your BD139/140 (or any other model for that matter) you will get heavily increased distortion with the voltage swing is near Vce max. Max 25-30 V peak would be advisable in your case.
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|3rd April 2008, 02:10 PM
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Thank for your valued comment. What you say here is true and for this amplifier it is valid also as soon as the you reach the point where the MOSFETs start gain compressing, there didtortion suddenly rises exponentially.
I have never used these MOSFETs and will write your practical research in my design book for future reference.
It may be silly, but I come from an old engineering background which is 1976 B/C. (before computers) and then we used to keep design books, a black folio sized book for design notes in.
Everything technical I read or heard or done I write in this book. I have black books from 31 years ago 273 in all, and useful comments like you made.
Kind regards
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Any Tips On Painting On Fondant...
Decorating By jennygirl927 Updated 22 Mar 2008 , 6:37pm by Cookies4kids
I am making a tiered cake for cousins baby shower and would love to paint flowers on mmf any suggestions or how to would be greatly appreciated!!! Thank You!!
Mix your gel colors with a little vodka, and it should be fine. I also use airbrush colors directly if you have that!
When painting on fondant with a brush or air brush does the paint stain the mouth of the person eating it?
By letting the cake sit overnight-you have a firm canvas to paint on the next day. I like the food writers and using my airbrush and stencils. The paint does not stain the mouth of the person eating it.
Happy Baking and Decorating,
Chef Angie
I love to paint on fondant although I don't always have the time to tinker with it as much as I'd like too. I use americolor gels right out of the bottle they're almost exactlly the same consistency as acrylic paints...If I want more of a water color paint then I use airbrush colors. Neither one will stain the mouths of the people eating it unless you gob it on. I'll include a couple photos where I've used it...it really is a great medium.
Oh and in case you're wondering....everything I've painted has dried in at least 10 min. and once it's dry it's not tacky to the touch whatsoever........you can run your fingers across it and it doesn't smear or feel sticky at all!
Wow, thanks for the information. Your work is beautiful.
WOW KHALSTEAD!! You are an artist!!!!! Beautiful work! I've got to try this!
Beautiful work, KHalstead ! Leaves so real looking and those lovely cookies with flowers !
Oh my... those are amazing!!!! You have lots of talent!!!
I am so happy to read this post because I was told recently that I should only use powder food colours to paint on fondant!!!
KHalstead your paintings are gorgeous!!
thanks so much for your responses...do you use stencils when painting or free hand?
I use the stencils for painting and freehand.
What consistency is the paint supposed to be? I tried painting with gel colors and it was streaking and not solid coloring, so I tried adding white gel to make it more opaque, and ended up with caked on color that has cracks and separation in it. Although the cake design is pretty, the painting technique is awful and I want to know what I am doing wrong. How do you get solid color without streaking, especially in a large painted area?
I have the very same question ruthi! I tried painting fondant last night with the gel colors and had the same results...was much prettier before I started painting! How else can you "paint" fondant if you don't have an airbrush???
Just a little bump....any help/suggestions would be appreciated!
Wow! Great question. Also KHalstead. Did you airbrush the cookies then paint on details with brush or just brush paint. Did you use stencils or free hand the flower cookies and pansies?
When I paint on fondant, I use airbrush colors - not the airbrush itself. Sometimes it's a little thick/sticky so I dilute with vodka.
At first I was under the impression I needed to use petal dust with vodka but I didn't have any and it was too expensive (and sort of a pain) and then I realized I had a box of airbrush color. It doesn't change the taste or anything and it has a really good consistency.
Khalstead ~ holy crap, your cookies are amazing!
thanks for all the great info
I have painted on fondant several times and I just use color gels thinned (or not) with vodka.
I have a huge array of paintbrushes and I'm sure I'm using each and every one incorrectly, but the whole thing is a lot of fun! If you look in my pics, there should be one in the top row - it's two tiers and has purple/fuschia/yellow flowers on it. It's no Monet, but it matched the invite well.
Now, if only Michael's was still offering painting classes, I'd be fantastic!
All my life I painted on wood for a living using acrylic paints and stencils that I bought or made myself. I am having the time of my life using the same techniques on cookies and fondant. For stenciling you want a soft stencil brush--the softer the better as too stiff will make marks in the fondant. I put some of my petal dust color in the cover and rub the stencil brush in that. Then I pounce the brush on a piece of paper toweling to take off the excess. Press the stencil just a tad into the fondant and pounce your brush on the area you want to color giving it a light coat of color. Now reapply the dust and do just the outside edge with a smaller brush to give the contrast you need. I use a black food writer pen to outline the areas and add detail. I just finished some large round cookies with spring flower sprays on them and they were so pretty. I don't know much about computrs so can't post the pics.
Another way for stencil or freehand paint is to use melted cocoa butter and mix in petal dust for the desired color. Use the same technique as above for stenciling or just freehand. If your color bleeds under the stencil, you have too much paint on your brush.
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Background. Photoageing of skin is thought to be caused by protein denaturation, which can be induced by ultraviolet radiation. Previous studies have also reported that inflammation is related to protein denaturation; however, the influence of inflammation on skin ageing has not been explored in detail.
Aim. To investigate the possible connection between inflammation and protein denaturation, which might lead to skin ageing, we focused on halogenated tyrosine as a denatured substance produced during the inflammation process.
Methods. We measured halogenated tyrosine in aged human skin. Inflammatory cells and halogenated tyrosine were detected by immunohistochemistry using antibodies to mast-cell tryptase, neutrophilic myeloperoxidase and halogenated tyrosine. Finally, using elastic van Gieson (EVG) staining, we investigated whether the sites of halogenated tyrosine coincided with the sites at which proteins were denatured.
Results. Immunohistochemical analysis indicated that both inflammatory cells and halogenated tyrosines increased with ageing in both photoexposed and photoprotected skin. EVG staining confirmed that the localization of halogenated tyrosine was close to the sites at which protein was denatured.
Conclusions. Our investigations indicate a possible connection between skin ageing and inflammation, suggesting that halogenated tyrosine could be a useful marker of ageing skin.
At an early stage of inflammation, inflammatory cells, which contain granules filled with peroxidases such as myeloperoxidase (MPO), invade the dermis. The peroxidases released from these inflammatory cells catalyse reactions between hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and either chloride ions (Cl−) or bromide ions (Br−), producing hypochlorous acid (HOCl) and hypobromous acid (HOBr), respectively.1,2 This is an extremely effective defence system against viral pathogens or bacterial infections; however, overproduction of HOCl or HOBr results in their reaction with amino acids in peptides and proteins, and in the production of modified tyrosines, including halogenated tyrosine, nitrotyrosine and dityrosine.3
In our previous study, modified tyrosines1,2,4 were detected in mice irradiated with ultraviolet (UV) light. These mice had the typical features of ageing, such as deep wrinkles and thickening of the dermis and epidermis.5 We also found that modified tyrosine levels were increased even in nonirradiated aged mice compared with nonirradiated young mice. In addition, the results suggested that reactions to UV-induced inflammation in skin were enhanced in ageing skin. Thus, we hypothesized that inflammatory responses might increase with age in human skin.
Concerning the relationship between inflammation and the ageing process, Chung et al.6 reported that the expression of a gene cluster associated with inflammatory reactions increases with age. Hirose et al.7 reported heightened inflammatory reactions in the blood vessels of elderly subjects. However, the influence of inflammation on skin ageing has not been explored in detail.
In this study, we investigated the possible correlation between inflammation and ageing in human skin. Although the number of inflammatory cells may be increased in aged skin, this increase could be transient. Hence, this study focused on halogenated tyrosine as a specific marker of protein denaturation caused by inflammation,8 because it is produced during the inflammation process and is presumed to accumulate in the skin.4 The presence of halogenated tyrosine in aged skin would strongly suggest that inflammation is involved in skin ageing.
Using immunohistochemistry, we investigated the levels of inflammatory cells (neutrophils and mast cells) and halogenated tyrosine in aged human skin. We also investigated, using elastic van Gieson (EVG) staining, whether the sites of halogenated tyrosine coincide with the sites at which proteins are denatured.
The study was approved by the medical ethics committee of Kyoto University, and all participants gave informed consent.
Patients and sample collection
The study enrolled eight young (mean ± SD age 24 ± 6.9 years, range 7–38) and eight aged (mean ± SD age 72 ± 6.8 years, range 61–87) subjects. Photoexposed samples were obtained during surgery from the face, forearm and dorsum of the hand, and photoprotected samples were obtained from the buttock, thigh, back, abdomen, chest and shoulder. The samples were taken from skin without inflammatory lesions.
The specimens were fixed, embedded in paraffin wax, sectioned at 6 μm, and then dewaxed for EVG staining and immunohistochemistry, using an anti-MPO Ab-1 rabbit polyclonal antibody (RB-373-A0; Laboratory Vision Corp., Fremont, CA, USA) and an anti-mast-cell tryptase antibody (sc32889; Santa Cruz Biotech, Santa Cruz, CA, USA).
Staining of halogenated tyrosine
The sections were autoclaved at 120 °C for 5 min and incubated for 18 h at 4 °C with a 1 : 50 dilution of 3A5 antihalogenated tyrosine biotinylated antibody.1 After processing using a commercial kit (PK-4002; Vectastain ABC-PO Kit; Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, CA, USA), the sections were developed with diaminobenzidine (SK-4100; DAB Substrate Kit peroxidase; Vector Laboratories) for 5 min at room temperature, and then photographed and analysed.
Image analysis
To quantify the photographs of halogenated tyrosine and neutrophilic MPO, unnecessary structures such as hair follicles were trimmed away, and then a skin dermis area of 0.1 mm2 was automatically level corrected and binarized (Adobe Photoshop Elements version 3.0; Adobe Systems, San Jose, CA, USA), and analysed by Image J software (http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/) to calculate the percentage of pixels in the stained area. Similarly, an area of skin dermis 1.6-mm2 in size in immunofluorescence images of the mast-cell tryptase was binarized, and the percentage of pixels in the stained area was calculated. The Wilcoxon rank sum test was used for analysis, and significance was set at P < 0.05.
Detection of neutrophils in human skin
Neutrophils were detected in human skin. Even though samples were taken from clinically noninflammatory lesions by skin surgery, many MPO-positive sites were seen in photoprotected elderly skin (Fig. 1b). In photoexposed elderly skin, MPO-positive sites were even more abundant (Fig. 1d). By contrast, samples of young photoprotected skin and photoexposed skin had few or no MPO-positive sites (Figs 1a,c). Image analysis of the stained area showed a tendency for the MPO-stained areas to increase in elderly skin compared with the young skin, although the levels were not significant (data not shown).
Figure 1. Inflammatory cells (neutrophils and mast cells), were detected in both young and aged human skin. (a–d) Immunohistochemical detection of neutrophils using an antineutrophilic myeloperoxidase antibody. (a,c) Young skin from (a) buttock of a 7-year-old child and (c) jaw of a 27-year-old adult. (b,d) Aged skin from (b) buttock of a 76-year-old and (d) cheek of a 73-year-old. (a,b) Photoprotected and (c,d) photoexposed specimens. (e,h) Immunohistochemical detection of mast cells using an anti-mast-cell tryptase antibody. (e,g) Young skin from (e) buttock of a 22-year-old and (g) cheek of a 19-year-old. (f,h) Aged skin from (f) back of an 87-year-old and (h) dorsum of the hand of a 74-year-old. (e,f) Photoprotected and (g,h) photoexposed specimens. (i) Image analysis using binary image processing of immunofluorescence using an anti-mast-cell tryptase antibody. The vertical axis shows the ratio of positive reaction sites per 1.6 mm2 (n = 8). **P < 0.01, Wilcoxon rank sum test.
Detection of mast cells in human skin
Mast cells, which play an important role in inflammation and induce the chemotaxis of neutrophils,9 were detected in the dermis by an anti-mast-cell tryptase antibody. More mast cells were present in elderly skin than in younger skin (Figs 1e–h). Image analysis of these photographs confirmed that there was a significant increase in mast cells in elderly skin compared with young skin (Fig. 1i).
Detection of halogenated tyrosine in human skin
Immunohistochemical detection of halogenated tyrosine, using an antibody that binds dihalogenated tyrosines, such as dichlorotyrosine and dibromotyrosine, showed that there were significantly more halogenated tyrosine-positive sites in elderly skin (Fig. 2b) than in younger skin (Fig. 2a), and there was a dramatic increase in the number of halogenated tyrosine-positive sites in photoexposed elderly skin (Fig. 2d). Halogenated tyrosine was also found to be distributed in the upper dermis, which is more susceptible to denaturing with ageing. The increase in halogenated tyrosine in elderly skin was significant (P < 0.01) (Fig. 2e), and there was also a significant difference between the halogenated tyrosine of photoexposed elderly skin and that of photoprotected elderly skin (P < 0.05). These results confirm the modification of proteins in aged skin.
Figure 2. Immunohistochemical detection of halogenated tyrosine using the 3A5 antibody in young and aged human skin. (a,c) Young skin from (a) buttock of a 22-year-old and (c) jaw of a 27-year-old. Aged skin from (b) back of an 87-year-old and (d) face of a 67-year-old. (a,b) Photoprotected and (c,d) photoexposed specimens. (e) Image analysis using binary image processing of immunofluorescence using the antihalogenated tyrosine antibody. The vertical axis shows the ratio of positive reaction sites per 0.1 mm2 (n = 8). *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, Wilcoxon rank sum test; arrows show positive reaction sites.
Elastic van Gieson staining
To investigate whether the sites of halogenated tyrosine coincided with sites at which proteins are denatured, the skin samples were exposed to EVG staining. In photoprotected young skin (Fig. 3a), collagen fibres stained bright red and elastic fibres stained black, showing that no denaturation had occurred. Correspondingly, no positive sites of halogenated tyrosine staining were seen in young skin (Fig. 3b). In photoexposed young skin (Fig. 3c), the collagen had a similar structure, but with a slight lightening of the red staining, and the elastic fibres were stained black as before. Similarly, very few positive sites of halogenated tyrosine were seen (Fig. 3d). The photoprotected skin of the older subjects (Fig. 3e) had further lightening of the red staining, probably due to denaturation with ageing. In addition, halogenated tyrosines were mainly seen in the upper dermis, suggesting that these positive sites correspond to the denatured areas (Fig. 3h). In photoexposed older subjects (Figs 3g,h), these phenomena were exaggerated, probably due to the effects of UV irradiation.
Figure 3. Adjacent photographs show the same parts of the same tissue of the skin. (a,c,e,g) Elastic van Gieson staining; (b,d,f,h) immunohistochemical detection of halogenated tyrosine. (a,b) Photoprotected young skin from buttock of a 22-year-old; (c,d) photoexposed young skin from jaw of a 27-year-old; (e,f) photoprotected elderly skin from back of an 87-year-old; and (g,h) photoexposed elderly skin from face of a 67-year-old. Orange arrows show the denatured parts of the skin dermis, and black arrows indicate the positive sites of the antihalogenated tyrosine antibody.
Our results indicate that inflammatory cells and halogenated tyrosine, which increase with ageing not only in photoexposed skin but also in photoprotected skin, occur extensively in or near areas with denatured protein in connective tissue in skin dermis. The data indicate a possible connection between skin ageing and inflammation, suggesting that halogenated tyrosine could be a useful marker of ageing skin.
A limiting factor to the study is that the samples were obtained from surgical off-cuts, preventing direct comparison of photoexposed and photoprotected specimens from the same human subject. However, our results show that the number of inflammatory cells increases with ageing even in skin without apparent inflammation. In addition, we found that halogenated tyrosine, which is one of the indicators of protein denaturation by inflammation, exists in human skin and increases with age. These findings suggest that skin inflammation, which occurs over many years, may be involved in skin ageing.
Although halogenated tyrosines can be detected in the lungs and livers of rodents treated with lipopolysaccharide or endotoxin,1,10 the existence of halogenated tyrosine in human skin has not been previously investigated. Our earlier study showed an increase in halogenated tyrosine in mouse skin exposed to moderate doses of UV irradiation.5 Taken together with the results here, the data suggest that the levels of inflammatory cells and halogenated tyrosine increase with age, and that these levels are accelerated by stimuli such as UV exposure. Our results also show that the number of mast cells increases in photoprotected aged human skin. We hypothesize that mast cells, which increase in number with age, induce the chemotaxis of neutrophils, which consequently produce halogenated tyrosines. MPO has been suggested to be involved in various diseases11–13 and in the degradation of the extracellular matrix.14 These reports suggest that inflammatory factors may affect tissue damage and induce the dysfunction of crucial proteins. Although the reason why the number of inflammatory cells increases with ageing remains unclear, this increase could have a very important influence on skin ageing.15,16
Finally, our results suggest the possible involvement of halogenated tyrosine, produced by previous skin inflammation, in skin ageing, through denaturation of the skin tissue. However, we could not clearly show a direct influence of halogenated tyrosine on elastin aggregation or collagen denaturation. We propose that the increased halogenated tyrosine levels could be useful markers of human skin ageing, reflecting denatured proteins resulting from previous skin inflammation.
Our investigations raise the possibility of a connection between skin ageing and inflammation, suggesting that halogenated tyrosine could be a useful marker of ageing skin.
• Although previous studies have suggested a possible relationship between inflammation and the ageing process, the influence of inflammation on skin ageing has not been explored.What does this study add?
• Inflammatory cells and halogenated tyrosine increase with ageing not only in photoexposed but also in photoprotected human skin, appearing extensively in or near areas with denatured protein.• Thus, halogenated tyrosine could serve as a marker of inflammatory protein damage.
We thank Dr T. J. Lin, Dr L. Anthony and Ms C. Goh for stimulating discussions and helpful advice.
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The U.S. military has formally shut down the war in Iraq, officially retiring the flag of U.S. Forces-Iraq. Troops lowered the flag and wrapped it in camouflage, formally "casing" it, according to Army tradition.
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Okay I was jokingly told Y2K was not that big of an issue really now.....
By a younger person maybe 14 at the time of 1999
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Oct 6, 2010 at 10:52 UTC
I stopped in to work between parties, had a cigar with my boss and went home. end of story...
Oct 6, 2010 at 10:57 UTC
I was passed out (literally passed out) by midnight, unfortunately. Though we did go for an early breakfast and a ceiling tile at the restaurant decided it was time to fall...directly on our table, spilling everything. We got a free breakfast for it, and had the joy of yelling Y2K in a crowded restaurant. Otherwise it was a pretty normal new years.
Oct 6, 2010 at 10:58 UTC
A manager I worked for at the time wanted me to be sitting by the servers when midnight came around to make sure everything would work OK.
Instead, I was doing what I do every New Year's Eve (same group of people get together every year and have for years).
Oct 6, 2010 at 11:02 UTC
I wasn't working in IT at the time, but I was still a nerd. I was the paranoid one, ordered the Y2K discs from MS. All that panic. None of my systems blew up.
Oct 6, 2010 at 11:03 UTC
We did all the pre-patching on all the computers, and servers, so it wasn't that eventful. We had the entire IT staff, sitting there until midnight, just to verify that the world didn't come to an end. We did get food and such, but it still sucked having to be away from the family for something so silly.
Oct 6, 2010 at 11:07 UTC
Junior in high school at the time. Spent the night at my cousins with a medium sized group of friends listening to jams and eating snacks.
I had joked to everyone that I was going to take over the world when the computers all shut down but knew nothing would really happen. Unlike that Family Guy episode...
Oct 6, 2010 at 11:23 UTC
HD IT Solutions is an IT service provider.
Non story. Everything was covered months in advance (long dates, recoding where necessary, patches from suppliers, backups).
1 man got quadruple time for sitting in the office, though we'd told the bosses that - in the event of everything going pear shaped - he'd probably not be able to call for assistance ;)
Oct 6, 2010 at 11:31 UTC
I was still in elementary school haha :)
Oct 6, 2010 at 11:38 UTC
Much like the rest. We had planned and patched everything. But due to the fact that we got data from other companies, it was determined we were to all be there (developers included).
So... LAN party and pizza until about 11:45 PM.
Then we all took our spots. I was sitting in front of a large bank of servers. Suddenly at midnight, EVERY HARD DRIVE LIGHT TURNED ON SOLID!!!!
Needless to say, I had an instant of OMGWTF!!! Then realized the number of maintenance jobs, and backups, and other stuff we had kick off at midnight on a daily basis. Then I had a good laugh at myself.
In the end we had only one issue with an external vendor on a VERY old mainframe. But we were fine.
Oct 6, 2010 at 11:40 UTC
I started my first year of tech school that year
I did the same thing I did every year. Go to bed.
Oct 6, 2010 at 11:54 UTC
We did absolutely nothing other than patch the workstations... /shrug
We partied like it was 1999 though ;) LULZ
Oct 6, 2010 at 12:11 UTC
Working for MS Support at the time, I remember driving home after my shift ended at 11:30, thinking that the world was about to end. :-)
Back in 1998 I was working at a retail computer store, had a paranoid freak come in. He was replacing every single thing he had because he claimed that "they were not Y2K compliant". I took his PCs in on trade, sold him some brand spanking new Pentium MMX 200Mhz machines with Dallas clocks on them, because everyone else had bad clocks. Took one of this machines afterwards, forwarded the clock to 12/31/1999, ran the machine and watched what happen. Guess what, NOTHING!
Not to say that there wasn't any Y2K related stuff, but they definately were not in the x86 home market.
Oct 6, 2010 at 12:52 UTC
I was working with closely with local governments, and found the biggest issue was fighting disinformation and such. My research told me it was pretty much going to be a non-event, and I said so when I was interviewed by our local radio and television stations. They wanted to go with the press reports, and they were asking what folks should do to prepare. I told them that folks have known for 30 years this was going to happen, and that patches and new ways to keep time have come out, and critical industires were taking care of their side of it. I did say that the private person needed to have copies of their records and such, just in case, and beyond normal guidelines for Emergency preparedness, I wouldn't go out an stockpile tons of food, buy gnerators, or such. I told them to keep their money in their pockets.
I also began talking at civic groups and walked away realizing that to a lot of the folks, the end of civilization as we knew it might not be a bad thing. I kept remembering a story I'd heard called "waiting for the barbarians" where everyone closed up shop, stopped passing laws, sold their property and generally lived high on the hog for a while because everything was going to be destroyed anyway. Then came the word that they weren 't coming, that they'd gone home. A character in the story is supposed to have said, "To bad, they were a solution of sorts".
That's how a lot of folks were looking at it. Things come to a grinding halt, no more mortgage, bills, and etc. The media hype and fear were something people didn't look at logically, and many stockpiled food, and purchased generators, and etc. I still stayed with the idea that it's always a good idea to have something set aside, but by buy things you're going to eat, not spend money of MREs and such (my exact line, a tuna fish sandwich is a tuna fish sandwich rather the lights are on or not). And I kept telling folks to keep their money in their pockets. A lot of them didn't lsiten, and to this day, there's thousands of boxes of MREs sitting in various farages and basements all over the 6 county area, and hundred of generators that have never been started.
I knew it was going to be a non-event, and felt the only real danger was if someplace somewhere, someone missed a patch or such. Still I sat in the Six County EOC (that was part of my contract) that night along with my Response Team. We ate goodies, watched Dick Clark and the ball drop,collected our pay, and went home.
Easiest $30K I ever made.
Oct 6, 2010 at 1:23 UTC
Rememered one thing...
When I got home, my wife had been watching the news. We lived in Nashville, TN at the time.
Anchor: "Let's go to Bob at the Nashville Airport to see what's happening."
<switch to Bob at airport, see Bob, and the janitor in the background polishing a floor>
Bob (looking quite pissed): "Nothing Steve, Not a thing."
Anchor: "OOOooooKay...."
Oct 6, 2010 at 3:01 UTC
Rememered one thing...
When I got home, my wife had been watching the news. We lived in Nashville, TN at the time.
Anchor: "Let's go to Bob at the Nashville Airport to see what's happening."
<switch to Bob at airport, see Bob, and the janitor in the background polishing a floor>
Bob (looking quite pissed): "Nothing Steve, Not a thing."
Anchor: "OOOooooKay...."
Oct 6, 2010 at 3:31 UTC
I was working for MBB (Mighty Big Bank) who assembled a new division of 30 or so people who made life a living hell for the rest of us. Had to go to meetings, fill out reports, for months. It turned out there was a lot of six-digit dates in the old code, some of it 30 years old or so, some of it written in COBOL before it had subroutines (GO TO NUM 1,2,3,4,5 DEPENDING ON NUM), so it actually was hell to fix. Got it all fixed before the ball dropped, tho.
Oct 6, 2010 at 3:37 UTC
I was in an all Mac space at the time (public school), so I went out and partied!
Oct 6, 2010 at 4:01 UTC
I was laid off in late October of 1999 and was on unemployment at the big moment - the only good thing about the layoff was 'yes, no more Y2K prep at work'!! Course the wife made me buy supplies to stash at the house for when the zombies came...
Oct 6, 2010 at 6:03 UTC
Chestnut Consulting is an IT service provider.
I did as a young kid would do at that time - a yearly tradition was to get online and play the newest Command and Conquer when midnight struck.
At midnight I told someone that the power went out in the chat and people started to panic
Oct 7, 2010 at 3:39 UTC
Got drunk on a street corner at 15 years old and celebrated new year with a snog that lasted until 1am lol
Oct 7, 2010 at 4:20 UTC
I walked the streets with my mates ringing an old school bell and wailing "THE END IS NIGH! RAPTURE! RAPTURE!"
Then I got mugged.
Good times!
Oct 7, 2010 at 4:28 UTC
I was in London town watching the fireworks going off by the river thames, and getting involved in the general chaos that followed inc general drunkeness with people partying like it was 1999! its was great :-D
Oct 7, 2010 at 7:18 UTC
In the run up to Y2K, there was plenty of form filling going on (customers wanted to know what we were doing regarding compliance, and we wanted to know what our suppliers were doing).
Our Sage accounting software was updated, and we ran no other software or hardware which would have a problem. As mentioned above, a non-event.
I was invited to the MD's new year party, but to bbq steaks, so I made sure I had plenty of good food and drink at his expense, took some video and made use of the indoor pool.
I remember the mobile phones didn't work, probably because too many people were trying to make calls.
Oct 7, 2010 at 8:39 UTC
I sat at a friends house and drank. For midnight we heard lots of explosions. First reaction was "OHHHH SH!(@*#T!!!", turns out the town had surprise fireworks planned for midnight. I don't think they really thought that one through....
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Bob Herbert, in his May 8 column, ''Room to Learn,'' writes about how smaller class sizes are beneficial to a student's learning experience.
As a graduate of the New York public school system, I recall my experience at Forest Hills High School 25 years ago.
Teachers repeatedly reminded me that because class ran for 40 minutes and since there were often 38 students in the class, there just wasn't that much time for answering my questions.
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Gun store giveaway to protest obama
For those not around the Pittsburgh area i wanted to share this because i find it to be awesome.
Pittsburgh Tactical Firearms is a close retailer for me, they sell guns ammo and accessories but they also have survival and tactical classes available.
They have been all over the news and receiving so much negative attention because of their way to protest the proposed awb. And that is by giving away various firearms and ammo. The most recent giveaway was an ar15 along with 1000 rds of ammo.
Before this i have been there a time or two but they have just gained a lifer. I will make the extra 20 min drive just to buy whatever i need from them.
What do yall think of this and the negative publicity they are getting?
Pittsburghtactical.com. ohh yeah they have pmags in stock...for 39.99 though
Lol I love how they call an AR a high caliber rifle eve though the .223 is extremely close to 22lr
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PACE installation
Please consider not forcing EUs to install PACE.
Understandably, you have to have PACE installed, or you can't use your iLok, which means you can't use EW sample content. And also understandably, it is best to have the latest drivers and PACE sw.
But forcing people to install it - which, BTW, installs other unnecessary sw (like Bonjour and the MSDN responder) - is not cool. First off, the driver version on the HDD may be the latest one already. Secondly, you force the EU to uninstall the previously mentioned unnecessary bloatware. Why not make it an option. Just b/c the drivers are a necessity is not reason enough to force people to install it.
Thank you.
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1) If you decide to use EastWest software, you will have to install iLok software.
2) We install the latest Pace drivers ONLY if the existing driver is older then the one we install.
3) We only install the bare minimum of Pace software needed to run the Installation Center and Play.
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1) If you decide to use EastWest software, you will have to install iLok software.
Already installed. As I stated earlier - just b/c the sw is a necessity is not reason enough to force people to install it.
2) We install the latest Pace drivers ONLY if the existing driver is older then the one we install.
The driver maybe - but the sw too? What if I do not want the latest sw (which is not required to run EW products)?
3) We only install the bare minimum of Pace software needed to run the Installation Center and Play.
False. Other sw gets installed as well. Please see previous post.
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This rings true for me, because every time I try to update Ilok License Manager, it gives me an error, saying that Windows 7 Updates are required in order to install the software. I update Windows 7, and still nothing changes. So I've stuck with the version that comes with Play 4.3.5. This is also because my DAW (Sonar 8.5 Producer Edition) supports both 32 bit and 64 bit VST plugins, and as far as I know, Play 5 doesn't have 32-bit support. When I have more than one version of Play (4.3.5 and 5.0.4, for example), it causes Sonar to crash while loading instruments. What's up with that, I wonder?
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Hi Jeff,
I have been in contact with Pace.
They do indeed install Bonjour and mDNS Responder (which is a part of Bonjour - nothing to do with MSDN). Bonjour is a networking software by Apple which is also available for Windows. Pace use it for certain services, none of which are used by EastWest.
Pace support assured me that Bonjour can safely be uninstalled without affecting the functionality of the iLok software.
All the best,
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text: Show Hide image Culture 10 September 2009 Fish Tank (15) A quirky drama finds unexpected poetry in the Essex badlands Sign up for our weekly email * Andrea Arnold's Red Road, a revenge thriller set on a Glasgow housing estate, was an exceptional debut, but it created an unusual challenge for its writer-director: when you have squeezed poetry from such a prosaic, unforgiving setting, where can you go next that would not resemble Versailles in comparison? Arnold has found the answer in Fish Tank. And to think some people say that Essex is good for nothing. This corner of that disparaged county was immortalised by Billy Bragg in "A13, Trunk Road to the Sea". Yet it's the land that cinema forgot - a sweep of concrete and water, with unexpected marshy pockets, presided over by rows of pylons. Robbie Ryan's camera seems palpably curious, even excited, about what it might find on the estate where 15-year-old Mia (Katie Jarvis) lives with her mother, Joanne (Kierston Wareing). There is a listless chorus line of dancing girls, and a Mickey Mouse shadow that turns out to belong to a boy whose afro is sculpted like topiary. Arnold lends the place the jumping-bean energy of Brooklyn in Do the Right Thing - it throbs with the same sultry, ceaseless bassline, and Mia's hip-hop moves recall Rosie Perez's frenetic routine at the start of that movie. The question, when Joanne's latest boyfriend, Connor (Michael Fassbender), prowls into the kitchen one morning, is whether Mia will resist doing the wrong thing. To unravel sexual tensions between an adult and an adolescent is to risk being prurient or alarmist (or both, in the case of those suffering from Larry Clark syndrome). Arnold wisely takes a cue from Catherine Breillat's À ma soeur!, playing the infatuation from the junior party's perspective. The images of Connor viewed through Mia's eyes make you realise how strongly the "male gaze", a term beloved by film theorists, still informs what we see on screen. A simple shot of the seat of Connor's jeans, ogled by Mia as he climbs the stairs, feels positively transgressive. Red Road portrayed a feral world where distinctions between the species were academic. Fish Tank continues that idea: Mia proves in one scene that she is not yet housebroken, and the non-human cast includes a dog called Tennents and a carp that meets a sticky end, as well as some symbolic nonsense involving a tethered horse that Mia tries to liberate. Arnold is interested chiefly in a different kind of blurring, where youthful attention-seeking shades into adult desire, and she excels at dramatising the confusion that arises there. Competing with both her kid sister Tyler (Rebecca Griffiths) and her mother for Connor's attention, Mia is forced to play helpless child and alluring temptress - a woman in control of her body, but not ready to forsake her pyjama bottoms decorated with tiny strawberries. She is not alone in her generational crisis. Even as Mia struggles to evoke a maturity she has not yet acquired, Joanne is passing her in the opposite direction, scraping her hair into playground pigtails and earning a reprimand from Tyler for dancing half-naked in the kitchen. "Look at yourself, tramp!" says the child, easily the wisest character here, sneering at her mother. Fish Tank is unequivocally in thrall to Mia, sometimes to its detriment. Its most obvious influences, the Dardenne brothers' Rosetta and Erick Zonca's The Dreamlife of Angels, at least acknowledged that not everything their working-class heroines did could be interpreted as an emblem of indefatigable strength. But Jarvis, who has never acted before, is incapable of a bogus moment. It is common knowledge that she landed this break after she was overheard remonstrating with her boyfriend on a station platform, which, to the best of my recollection, is not the way it all began for Audrey Hepburn. By the end of the film, I felt certain I would not want to meet Mia down a dark alley, but Fish Tank does the most anyone couldask for in rendering her desperate or unfamiliar life less remote. The film reserves neither pity nor horror for its milieu - where even knowing the word "milieu" could earn you a split lip - and for its characters, the sort of people who usually make it on to our screens only in exposés of poor dietary habits or support for the BNP. Arnold convinces us that they suffer the same as anyone else; they just happen to do it in a place where the cultural Mecca is the Circus Tavern, Purfleet. Ryan Gilbey is the New Statesman's film critic. He is also the author of It Don't Worry Me (Faber), about 1970s US cinema, and a study of Groundhog Day in the "Modern Classics" series (BFI Publishing). He was named reviewer of the year in the 2007 Press Gazette awards. Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 14 September 2009 issue of the New Statesman, Where next? More


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Jikes requires a reference to the boot class path to work properly in the JDK 1.2 or later environment. The patch below allows the bootclasspath attribute to be coded on the Javac action (it is currently ignored if build.compiler == jikes)
Why bother? So that Javac actions can be coded with extdir and bootclasspath and work equally well either with classic or Jikes. The only change required is the build.compiler property itself.
Here is the patch:
--- Javac.java Wed May 10 16:20:34 2000
+++ Javac.java.new Sat May 13 15:45:17 2000
@@ -456,6 +456,13 @@
StringBuffer classpath = new StringBuffer();
+ // Jikes doesn't support bootclasspath dir (-bootclasspath)
+ // so we'll emulate it for compatibility and convenience.
+ if (bootclasspath != null) {
+ classpath.append(File.pathSeparator);
+ classpath.append(project.translatePath(bootclasspath));
+ }
// Jikes doesn't support an extension dir (-extdir)
// so we'll emulate it for compatibility and convenience.


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One such Crinya-class freighter was used by the Rebel Alliance. The modified Planet Jumper was assigned to the Trax sector and fought during the Battle of Bissillirus. It was used to help steal stored food supplies and an Imperial convoy.