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The latest revision of the UN Population Division's World Population Prospects, released this summer, projects that total population will reach 10.9 billion by the end of the century. That's an additional 3.7+ billion people by 2100. Strikingly, nearly all of this growth will occur in developing countries. And 64 percent will be concentrated in just 10 countries.
Why is this? More importantly, what does this mean for the people who live in these countries?
In eight of these nations—namely Nigeria, Tanzania, DRC, Niger, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya and Zambia—an important driver of population growth is persistently high fertility. The remaining two countries accounting for the world's increase are those with already large populations and high net migration (like the United States).
We know that fertility is determined by many factors, including contraceptive use. Women in each of these countries bear more than four children on average, and more than a quarter of married women in Tanzania, Ethiopia, DRC, Uganda, Kenya and Zambia want to delay or limit childbearing but lack contraception.
There's no cause for alarm. But having so much future population growth concentrated in so few countries does mean that we need to make smart investments today so that all women can have the right to contraception and future families can thrive. Family planning is a cost-effective investment, and meeting the need for contraception can reduce the number of maternal and newborn deaths, improve resilience to climate change impacts, and reduce poverty. In other words, meeting women's needs presents a tremendous opportunity for improving development prospects everywhere.


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by James Brumley | May 16, 2013 9:35 am
Although few seem to appreciate it, the past few weeks have been nothing less than amazing for stocks.
Yes, the S&P 500 as well as the Dow Jones Industrial Average have both hit new all-time highs. But the move into uncharted territory is even more impressive in that it materialized on top of an already-frothy 17% rally. All told, stocks have advanced 22% since the November low, with hardly even a blip along the way.
Most amazing of all, however, is that the market has rallied to new highs without the help of technology bellwethers Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL[1]), International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM[2]) and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN[3]). Indeed, stocks have managed to do the unthinkable despite the fact that these three names have been working against the market. Each has been lethargic at best of late, if not outright bearish.
Nothing lasts forever, though, and sometimes misery can yield opportunity. All three of these stocks will eventually turn things around … but one of them is more apt to do it before the other two.
To call a spade a spade, IBM had spoiled its investors.
Up until the first quarter of the year, the tech company had posted nine years' worth of quarterly revenue increases. It also topped estimates in almost every single one of those quarters.
So, when it finally stumbled last quarter by only earning $3 per share versus expectations of $3.05, the surprised market panicked and sent the stock 8% lower in just one day. Although shares have regained most of that loss since then, IBM is still well under its mid-March highs, and not looking particularly compelling.
For more than a decade, the market has given Amazon a pass, overlooking expenditures that seemed to perpetually grow in lock-step with revenue[4]. For whatever reason, however, investors seem to have finally had enough, sending AMZN lower to the tune of 7% in late April after unveiling last quarter's earnings.
Funny thing is, earnings weren't bad. The pros were only expecting a profit of 8 cents per share, but Amazon.com turned in 18. Revenue grew by 22%, and operating margins widened to 26.6% — the best Amazon had seen in more than a decade.
So what's the problem? While operating margins might be strengthening, net margins have slumped to a paper-thin 1.1% last quarter … with no end in sight, given the company's penchant for big spending.
Like it or not, with Apple being the highest-profile company in the world, the stock and the underlying company are loosely linked, at best.
Instead, the stock is the story — and it's not just a reflection of traders' ever-changing opinion of the company, but also a driver of that opinion. If shares are headed higher, the rhetoric tends to become bullish. If shares are falling, the chatter takes on a bearish tone.
That dynamic has very much worked against Apple since September of last year, sending the stock lower by at much as 40% — a downtrend that appears to have been renewed just this week — now that competitors are starting to catch up on the smartphone front.
No fanfare needed. IBM is your best bet among the three tech names in question.
Even within the technology sector, there's chic "new tech" and stodgy "old tech." Amazon and Apple fall into the 'new' category, which is fine … except it means investors who follow, buy, and sell those stocks tend to be driven by stories, growth forecasts, peer opinion. (Not to mention the fact that many of those investors are probably also Apple and Amazon customers.)
Now that the crowd has turned a critical, questioning eye toward both names, that psychological freight train is going to be tough to stop.
IBM, on the other hand, is "old" tech, boasting a long history with old-school investors and institutions — the crowd that can actually pick the stock up and start carrying it again once they're satisfied IBM will get back into a decade-long growth groove.
Yes, Big Blue is tiptoeing into modern consumer technology arenas like cloud and mobile, but it's leveraging a much more established name to wedge its way into those newer markets. Investors will soon figure out that last quarter was a necessary growing pain, and will be quick to forgive. They won't be as encouraged with Amazon and Apple now that their vulnerabilities have been exposed.
As of this writing, James Brumley did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
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Thieves strike multiple Worth County churches
Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:13:23 GMT —
Multiple Worth County churches had their air condition units ripped apart over night.
Thieves stole the copper wiring from multiple units. Investigators wouldn't comment on the burglaries, they would only confirm that four churches were vandalized. And at some of those churches, multiple units were destroyed.
Chapel Hill Baptist Church was one of the churches vandalized. Pastor Larry James says he thinks the thieves planned it all out and had maybe even done it before. "It seems as though they caught all the law enforcement agents at the homecoming game last night and picked their timing out very well," says James.
The targeted churches say they hope police catch the people responsible. Law enforcement officials say they more information on the case Monday.


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just pulled in to mrs_d's place of work to pick her up on way home. I was early for a change so I turned the engine off. bad idea. now it won't start. nothing at all from the starter motor.
my uneducated guesses are in order of most likely (in my uneducated mind):
a) starter motor
b) immobiliser
c) battery - but it was good enough to run all lights & radio, even a very flat battery does turn the starter a bit
d) totally seized engine for reasons unknown - it's not the oil -
e) it's French, so it'll be an electrical problem. '56 plate Citroen C4 1.6 petrol.
anyway, it took me 15 minutes in the phone queue to get through to the RAC, an 0800 number from my mobile phone; estimate is up to 2 hours before the patrol can get there.
We got a taxi home, I'll go back when RAC rings with an ETA.


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If skiers are the heroes of the ski world, then ski photographers are the unsung heroes. These are the guys (and gals) who are out in the field at all hours questing for that idyllic image that is usually a confluence of chance, free will and necessity (or so says Melville)… which is to say a lot of hard work and creativity, and a little bit of luck. Sure, some photographers are heroes too, but the majority of them are trying to scratch out a living and get published.
This week, for the Ski Salt Lake Shootout ski-photo competition, Powder.com has been embedded with a different photographer's crew each day, at Alta, Brighton, Snowbird and Solitude. Each of the seven participating photographers is charged with coming up with the best portfolio of (8) images, two from each resort—so it adds a deadline component to the already well-known difficulties of banger image-creation in the first place. Based on what we've seen already, the final product will be impressive—thanks to some of that luck, including 16 inches of new snow on the eve of Day 1.
There will also be winners… to be announced at a party in downtown Salt Lake City tonight, and later we'll be rolling out a selection of the top photos from each photographer's Shootout portfolio. There's also a Facebook fan-favorite contest that will be ramping up on Visit Salt Lake's page (linked above) that we'll keep you posted on. Now, the behind the scenes stuff… — Tim Mutrie, text/photos
Update: Feb. 12, 7:22 p.m.:
Winners: 1. Garrett Grove, 2. Andrew Strain, 3. Steve Lloyd; "Urban Meets Mountain" category: Lee Cohen.
Grove quote: "It was a great week and we had a super strong team. I haven't spent too much time skiing in Utah, so without the help of Nick [Russell], Jason [West] and Forrest [Coots], I would've been clueless. I was there to capture the zones that they took me to."
Day 1, Feb. 8: With photographer Steve Lloyd's crew at Snowbird.
Day 2, Feb. 9: With photographer Lee Cohen's crew at Solitude.
Day 3, Feb. 10: With photographer Garrett Grove's crew at Snowbird.
What follows below is Day 4, Feb. 11, with photographer's James Douglas Shields' crew at Alta.


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Legendary surfboard shaper Allan Byrne has been waiting his whole life for a show like this one. "They had to kick us out of here last night," he said Sunday morning, after refusing to leave the Sacred Craft Consumer Board Expo on Saturday afternoon. "I've never really felt like hanging out at a trade show before, but I didn't want to leave this one." Byrne, who's regarded by many of his peers as the best channel-bottom shaper in the world, came all the way from Australia to take part in this, the second annual major gathering of surfboard shapers and hard goods suppliers.
"The motivation for this thing is pretty simple," says Scott Bass, the show's founder. "Most real surfers can't tell you what kind of trunks Nat Young was wearing during the World Contest in 1966, but they could easily tell you the name of his board. You know why? Because the only thing that really matters in this sport is what you're riding, not what you're wearing." Indeed, most of the people strolling the aisles of this show, which featured more than 90 hard goods suppliers—from boards and blanks to specialty items like repair kits and paddles—were hardcore surfers, which is why they know Nat Young's board was dubbed Magic Sam.
"It's just great to see so many like-minded people in one place," says Byrne, who was catching up with long lost friends as he roamed the halls. No matter where you turned, you were bound to bump into a legendary craftsman. In less than 10 minutes of speaking with Byrne near the entrance to the show, Greg Noll, Rusty Preisendorfer, the Campbell brothers, Carl Ekstrom, Larry Mabile, Gary Linden, Matt Biolos, Pat Rawson, Chris Christenson, and Gerry Lopez all walked by.
The show included seminars on all things board related, shaping demos, and even a shape-off in honor of the late Bill Caster, a legendary shaper from the San Diego area. Since most surf industry trade shows are fashion centered, small label shapers and hard goods suppliers have very little incentive to bother with them, and thus, very few venues to gather together to talk shop. The Sacred Craft show, by contrast, honors the work of those who actually create the fun. "The reason this is so great is it feels like somebody finally cares about us," says Byrne, who summed it up best for all involved.
"This year's show was twice as big as last year's," says Bass, "so we know there's a need for people to get together to talk shop. And anybody who knows shapers knows they love to talk about surfboards, which is why we had such a tough time getting everybody to leave last night. That says a lot."


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Fiona, senior lecturer and research fellow in Malaysia Fiona, senior lecturer and research fellow in Malaysia
Name: Fiona
Studied: Early Modern History
Working as: Senior Lecturer and research fellow in Malaysia
My name is Fiona and I come from Norwich. I studied early-modern History at the UEA from undergraduate to PhD level. I also took a masters in Higher Education. During, and after I finished my PhD, I worked as Lecturer in History at the UEA's School of History, and also as a Researcher for the University of Sunderland and the UK Meteorological Office. My main areas of interest are British history and the history of the climate and environment.
Tell us a little about the global opportunity that you took
In early 2011, I made a decision to leave the UK and travel. I had never been on a gap-year after A levels and had wanted to do something different for a long time. As I already had a career however, the normal travelling or volunteering options were less appealing. I decided that my best option was to find a career job overseas. I choose Malaysia because I had family connections there and had already visited several times. On a previous visit I had been to the campus of the National University and met some of the staff. When I made an application there, already knowing people really helped. The campus is just outside of the capital city Kuala Lumpur.
What was the biggest barrier to taking this opportunity and how did you overcome it?
My field (17th century British History) was not very sellable in Asia! However, I had also worked for several years with the UK Meteorological Office's ACRE project (www.met-acre.org) on a series of research projects concerning the historic climate. I had to use this angle of my work in order to market my CV. Moving overseas means that you have to be adaptable but this has actually worked in my favour. Four years on, I am now doing a lot of work in this field and really enjoying it. I am now leading the regional arm of the ACRE project, a role that entails travel across Southeast Asia.
Was it difficult to fit in with a new culture?
Yes, and no. Living in a capital city means that it is very multi-cultural and westernised. It's not like living in some small town. There is a big expat community and, with so many people in the same boat, it is easy to make friends. Meeting locals is more difficult but I have met many people through sports. You have to put yourself out there and join groups, take part in activities and so on. You can't wait for people to come to you.
What is the most rewarding aspect of working abroad?
The sense of achievement that you gain from establishing yourself so far from your comfort zone and making it work for you. I have also met many wonderful people and been exposed to many new experiences. I know it's a cliché, but it's a real eye-opener moving somewhere like Asia, after growing up in a developed country like the UK. I strongly believe that these experiences make us better and more rounded people.
Having now worked here for almost 4 years, I have been able to build a good network and expand my career interests. I travel extensively for work and have had amazing opportunities to visit almost every country in Southeast and East Asia.
Did you know the language before going and how did you deal with the language barrier?
Malaysia is a country made up of three main racial groups: Malays, Chinese, and Indians. Each of these groups speaks a variety of different dialects of their native tongue. I realised early on that, even if I choose one of these dialects and learned it, it wouldn't actually get me very far! Luckily, the common uniting languages are English and Malay. Many people actually speak a bastardised form of English known locally as Manglish. It's a combination of Malay, English, and some Chinese. I have learned some basic Malay (and Manglish) since I arrived here. Most people speak English but knowing some Malay can be useful at work. It also helps you to integrate if you can speak like a local!
How did you fund your trip?
I had some savings to cover me for an interim period until my job started. Luckily, the British pound goes much further in Asia.
Have you got any advice for people considering a global opportunity?
Do it! It's been the best experience of my life and I don't regret it at all. My main tips would be:
- Don't move overseas without any money in the bank. Living abroad can be cheap but if you have an emergency (medical/travel etc) you won't have the NHS or your family as a back-up.
- Put yourself out there to make friends. Join expat groups, sports/hobbies groups. Feeling lonely can be depressing so far from home and, friends act as a support network for advice.
- Make the most of it whilst you are overseas. Travel and explore the local area.
- Be aware of local cultures/customs. Be respectful.
What is your favourite expression from your host country?
Manglish/Singlish for, well, pretty much anything! It adds stress to a word e.g. Ok lah … can lah … I don't have it lah!!!! Used universally, regardless of racial background and language.


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- Records by Harold Rome (composer), vocal & piano. "Song of the Ads" (Contemp: 78/Keynote K-502, ALB-605) (1956: ALB-316) "I Wanna Be a G-Man" (Contemp: 78/Keynote K-502, ALB-605) "Sing Me a Song of Social Significance," "One Big Union for Two," "When I Grow Up" (1956: ALB-39) "Mene Mene Tekel" (1954: ALB-360, ALB-1893) (1956: ALB-39) "Sunday in the Park" (1954: ALB-360, ALB-1893) (1956: ALB-39, ALB-563) "It's Better with a Union Man" (1954: ALB-360, ALB-1893)
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text: On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Alex Marinko <alxmrnk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I would like to call the attention of Haiku developers towards the > importance of having user-friendly programming languages available on > Haiku. I definitely agree with you, and for the record my vote (and developer time) will go toward making Ruby a first-class citizen on Haiku (and I've been doing some work in that direction lately by helping port the Rubinius implementation to Haiku.) I think Stephan properly expressed the dangerous road in trying to turn this into a committee vote. In the end we will get other languages because someone puts the work in getting a particular language working in Haiku and making the Haiku API available from that language. The former part of that is not so hard (many languages already work in Haiku) but the latter is where the challenge is. But fortunately we have Jon doing some great work in that area. Most any language can interface with C, whereas C++ is quite a bit harder. So Jon has made this much easier for the rest of us because of his libcharlemagne which provides a very generic C API wrapper around the Haiku C++ API. Using SWIG or other Foreign Function Interface support in another language one can interface with the Haiku API through libcharlemagne. In addition Jon is building a GUI interface designer (his main motivation for making libcharlemagne originally) which I think could also be made available to other language "IDEs" to make it even easier to create Haiku applications in any language. So in the end because Jon chose to do something flexible, reusable and open source, the rest of us have much less work to do. On that note the best we could probably do now is try to make use of libcharlemagne from various languages and see what is missing, and then either provide very clear bug reports or patches to fix those problems. Lastly in previous discussions we have talked about making a generic Haiku API description in an easily parsable format would could also ease creation of API wrappers in other languages. It could also be used for some automated testing and could form the base of documentation for a new Haiku Book. Once a format is decided for this (again someone could be a pioneer here and work on this) then we could use a divide and conquer approach to manually create all the descriptions for various parts of the API. These could then be used by all the various languages. A header parsing tool could generate most of the boilerplate which could then be filled in with more detail. -- Regards, Ryan


text: Fraulein, an 11-1 outsider and the second longest price in a select field of six fillies and mares, scored a major upset in the $837,750 E.P. Taylor Stakes (gr. IT) Sunday at Woodbine.At the finish of the 1 1/4-mile classic, contested over a turf course listed as yielding, Fraulein and red-hot jockey Kevin Darley prevailed by one length over a closing Alasha. The even money favorite, Volga, wound up third, a further length back. Defending champion Choc Ice was a non-threatening fourth. The final time of 2:10.03 was one of the slowest clockings since the race became a turf event in 1968.Nadia and jockey Corey Nakatani assumed an early lead and proceeded to walk through the first quarter in 29.70, the half in 57.93. Darley then sent Fraulein up to challenge Nadia as the duo matched strides through a pedestrian six furlongs in 1:23.33. In behind the top pair, Volga, with Jerry Bailey, and second choice Alasha, ridden by Johnny Murtagh, began to gear up coming off the far turn as the field straightened for home.Nearing the sixteenth pole, Fraulein, along the rail, drew clear and withstood a last ditch challenge from Alasha on the outside as Volga, in third, drove inside of a fading Nadia but couldn't close the gap. Benefitting from the weight-for-age conditions and the yielding turf, both Fraulein and Alasha carried 117 pounds as the only 3-year-olds in the race, while the others lugged 123 pounds.It was the second win (her first Grade I) in seven starts this year for the Cliveden Stud-owned, British-bred Fraulein, a daughter of Acatenango. The result was also a complete reversal of fortunes for trainer Edward Dunlop, who saddled Cayman Sunset to a last place finish in the 2001 E.P. Taylor."My filly gets a mile and a half. We literally walked for the first three-quarters of a mile," said Darley, who has enjoyed remarkable recent success. He won his first classic (Group I) with Bollin Eric at Doncaster Sept. 14 in the Rothmans Royals St. Leger, then upset the highly-regarded Hawk Wing with Where or When in the Group I Queen Elizabeth II Stakes Saturday at Ascot. "When I saw there was a gap on the inside, my filly quickened to get there and then she stays on. I thought that if I don't give her clear run, when we get in the straight, I'll be stuck for turn of foot. I just edged up the inside and when I asked her she lengthened her gallop all the way to the line. She stayed. Thankfully she just held on, " he continued.Added assistant trainer Peter Boothman, "(The fractions) didn't really worry me at all as long as they did go eventually, because she does have a great turn of foot and when she kicks on, and got those three or four lengths on them, that meant they would have a tough time to try and catch her. That (Kevin Darley's move around the far turn) won the race for us."Boothman also indicated that Fraulein would now head to Belmont Park in New York for the $100,000 Pebbles Stakes (gr. III) on Oct. 14.By winning the E.P. Taylor, the fourth richest race in Canada behind only the Canadian International, Queen's Plate and Atto Mile, Fraulein earned a purse of $502,650, a five-fold increase over her career earnings of just $97,337, prior to today's jackpot.Fraulein returned a healthy $24.40, $9.50 and $4.50 across the board, combining with the Sir Michael Stoute-trained Alasha ($5.90, $4.10) for a $112.60 exacta. A 1-6-5 trifecta (with Volga, $2.30 to show) paid $260.30.(Chart, Equibase)


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Midcoast Babe Ruth League swings in with opening weekend games
The Midcoast Babe Ruth League — a spring/summer baseball league for 13-to-15-year-old players in Knox, Waldo and Lincoln counties — swung in Sunday, May 18, with six of the nine teams in action.
Regular-season games will be played on Sundays until mid-June, then the schedule will open up after area schools are closed for the summer.
Teams in the league, including the high schools from which players are pooled from, are: Rockland Café (Oceanside High School), Waldo County (Mount View High School and Searsport District High School), Camden (Camden Hills Regional High School), Damariscotta Lions (Lincoln Academy of Newcastle), Waldoboro (Medomak Valley High School), Swan Lake Grocery (Belfast Area High School), Wiscasset Merchants (Wiscasset High School), Rockport (Camden Hills Regional High School) and Union Farm Equipment (Medomak Valley High School).
Union Farm Equipment plays its home games at Medomak Valley High School and Waldoboro at the Waldoboro Recreation Field, while Rockport and Camden play home games at the Marge Jones Recreational Facility in Rockport.
Rockland Café plays its home games at the Oceanside High School baseball field in Thomaston, Waldo County at Searsport District High School, Swan Lake Grocery at Belfast Area High School, Wiscasset Merchants at Wiscasset High School and Damariscotta Lions at Great Salt Bay School in Damariscotta.
Each team will play 11 regular-season games and each team qualifies for postseason play.
The regular season concludes on Wednesday, July 2, with the postseason beginning Monday, July 7. The championship game will be at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, July 16 at Medomak Valley High School in Waldoboro.
Babe Ruth baseball is for players ages 13-15, born on or after May 1, 1998 and prior to May 1, 2001.
Following the championship game, all-star teams will be chosen among the eight participating squads: A 13-year-old team, a 14-year-old team and a 13-15-year-old team. Those squads will then move on to play in their respective state tournaments.
Action from the opening weekend of regular-season play May 18 saw Rockland Café beat Waldo County 7-5, Swan Lake Grocery beat Waldoboro 10-0 and Damariscotta Lions beat Camden 19-3.
Wiscasset Merchants and Union Farm Equipment were slated to play, but the game was postponed due to wet field conditions.
Coaches can report results to Courier Publications/VillageSoup by emailing game information or by sending photos, taken by a smartphone, of the home and away books, to email@example.com. Results also can be reported by calling 594-4401, extension 116. All results published are what VillageSoup has received on a particular game.
The following is a recap of reported results:
Rockland Café 7, Waldo County 5
At Thomaston May 18, the hosts got out to an early lead and prevailed by two runs over the visitors. Rockland Café scored four runs in the first inning, two in the third and one in the fifth. Waldo County scored five runs in the sixth inning.
Coby Dorr, Matt Waldron and Logan Sheridan pitched for Rockland Café, allowing nine hits and two walks, with 10 strikeouts.
Mitchell Philbrook and Liam Cail pitched for Waldo County, allowing six hits and six walks, with three strikeouts.
Leading Rockland Café at the plate were Titus Kaewthong (single), Dorr (triple), Kirt Ilvonen (single), Sheridan (single) and Josh Peaco (single).
For Waldo County, Barrett Grant (single), Kyle Moore (single), Evan Thomas (single), Cail (single) and Cole Frey (single) paced the offense.


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Tunisia: ATDF wins Simone de Beauvoir Prize
The Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (ATFD) won the 2011 Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women's Freedom - a French award honoring women's rights advocates worldwide.
The ATFD was recgonized for their accomplishments in the realm of feminist activism. The jury for the Simone de Beauvoir Prize chose the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women for their important role during the Tunisian uprisings in defending women's rights and freedoms.
According to Fathia Hizem, who is in charge of external relations at the ATFD, the organization is proud to receive the award as Tunisia undergoes a historic transition. She explained that the association is determined to expand their activities nationwide during this formative period. "This award motivates us and pushes us to work harder and increase our activity - particularly in rural areas," she stated.
The jury of the Simone de Beauvoir Award consists of various artistic and academic figures. The prize was created as an initiative by Julia Kristeva in 2008 to mark the 100th anniversary of the birthday of French philosopher and writer Simone de Beauvoir. The award is worth 20,000 euros, and it is sponsored by the French Institute, the National Book Center, University Paris Diderot, and Gallimard Editions.


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Two Faced Thursday
Hymn-like jazz from Dave Douglas and Bobo Stenson's groups, songs from Iris Dement, Danny Marr, Lisa Miller and Perry Keyes, Native American music from Pura Fe and a couple of versions of Witchi Tai To, one of the most effective and earliest mixtures of jazz and folk music.
Supporting Information
Secret Steel
Lucky Oceans
Head Records HEAD 060 www.headrecords.com
Lucky Oceans – 'Secret Steel'
40 second excerpt
(Austral comp and perf: minor key pedal steel guitar with double bass, drums and electric guitar [Dave Brewer]
CD Cut 8 – 'Living Streams'
Comp and arr Dave Douglas, Borrows from the Hymn St. Columba,
Dave Douglas Music, BMI
Greenleaf Music www.greenleafmusic.com www.davedouglas.com
Dave Douglas Quintet with special guest Aoife O'Donovan – 'Be Still'
(Aiofe O'Donovan's gentle, folk inflected voice sings hymn with brass band and free jazz pathways, featuring Dave Douglas' trumpet, Linda Oh's bass, Jon Irabagon's tenor sax and Rudy Royston's drums in one of the hymns beloved by his late mother)
Dave Douglas Quintet with special guest Aoife O'Donovan – 'Be Still' will be the CD of the week on the Daily Planet starting on Monday the 26th of November
CD 2, Cut 2 – 'All That Is Beautiful'
Charlie Haden
Pub Not Spec
ECM 2280/81 (Through Fuse in Australia)
Jan Garbarek, Egberto Gismonti, Charlie Haden (Magico) – 'Carta de Amor' (Love Letter)
Fade applause to 15:30
(Hymn-like piece for Gismonti's piano, Haden's double bass and Garbarek's sax)
CD Cut 1 – 'Rule #1'
Lisa Miller
WIFE CD 009 (Through Inertia)
Lisa Miller – 'Meet the Misses'
(Austral comp and perf: Remake of song that was recorded for an album that Lisa doesn't have access to. Acoustic, electric and steel guitars, double bass, flute and tambourine)
Lisa Miller – 'Meet the Misses' will be the CD of the day on the Daily Planet on Tuesday the 27th of November
Friday November 30 SYDNEY
Camelot Lounge Cnr 103 Railway Pde & 19 Marrickville Rd, Marrickville
With very special superstar guests Dog Trumpet!
Saturday December 1 BLUE MOUNTAINS
Clarendon Guesthouse 68 Lurline Street Katoomba tel: 02 4782 1322
With more special superstar guests Dog Trumpet!
FRIDAY December 8 MELBOURNE
Northcote Social Club 301 High St Northcote VIC
With very special guests Dan Lethbridge and Tenielle Neda
SATURDAY December 9 MELBOURNE
Flying Saucer Club 4 St Georges Road Elsternwick
With very special guest Tenielle Neda
FRIDAY December 14 ADELAIDE
The Wheatsheaf 39 George Road Thebarton
With very special guest Dan Lethbridge
CD Cut 16 - 'Boxing Day'
Perry Keyes
OdFellows Music Publishing through Sony/ATV Music Publishing
Laughing Outlaw Records LORCD-118
Perry Keyes - 'Johnny Ray's Downtown'
(Austral comp and perf: Perry's love letter to Sydney and 100 years of boxing, incorporating Jack Johnson's victory at the new Rushcutter's Bay stadium in 2008, Les Darcy and more)
Perry Keyes presents: The Vanguard in Newtown on Friday November 23rd. Loene Carmen will be the special guest for the evening.'
CD Cut 1 – 'Go On Ahead and Go Home'
Iris Dement
Songs Of Iris (ASCAP)
Flariella Records CD-FER-1005
In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
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website: www.theplanetcompany.com
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Iris Dement – 'Sing The Delta'
(Uplifting gospel with organ, steel guitar, rhythm section and Iris's piano and vocals telling people to go home and see their families)
CD Cut 11 – 'Mama Was Always Tellin' Her Truth'
Iris Dement
Songs Of Iris (ASCAP)
Flariella Records CD-FER-1005
In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
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website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.redeyeusa.com
Iris Dement – 'Sing The Delta'
(Easy swinging country gospel feel about Iris' straight talking mother)
CD Cut 5 – 'One More Time'
Edward Meaden John 'Mokie' Mungulu
Pub Not Spec
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Danny and Waylon Marr – 'Music Man: A Tribute to Ewart (Mokie) John Mungulu Bear'
(Australian Indigenous comp and perf: Both of Fitzroy Express, Waylon plays drums and Danny sings and plays guitars and bass, with Jim Fisher's mandolin and Lucky Oceans' pedal steel guitar)
Danny and Waylon Marr – 'Music Man: A Tribute to Ewart (Mokie) John Mungulu Bear'
will be the CD of the day on the Daily Planet on Wednesday the 28th of November
CD Cut 4 – Great Grandpah's Banjo'
Pura Fé
Snake Lady Music (ASCAP)
World Music Network/Rough Guides RGNET 1288 CD (Through Fuse in Australia)
Pura Fé – 'Full Moon Rising' (Bonus CD to 'the Rough Guide to Native America)
(Song that combines blues banjo, slide guitar and vocal elements with Native American vocal and percussion effects)
CD Cut 19 – 'Witchi Tai To'
Jim Pepper
Pub Not Spec
Eric Records 115-12 Through Universal Special Markets
Various – 'Hard to Find 45s on CD, Vol. 6: More Sixties Classics'
(Native American musician Jim Pepper sings and plays sax on his song, adapted from a Peyote song he learned from his grandfather, a surprise hit for his group 'Everything is Everything' and the highest a Native American chant has ever charted
CD Cut 6 – 'December'
Anders Jormin
Pub Not Spec
ECM 2233 www.ecmrecords.com (Through www.fusegroupaustralia.com/ in Australia )
Bobo Stenson Trio – 'Indicum'
(Sensitive Scandinavian piano trio features the plucked and bowed double bass of Anders Jormin
Bobo Stenson Trio – 'Indicum' will be the CD of the day on the Daily Planet on Monday the 26th of November
CD Cut 4 - 'Witchi Tai To'
Jim Pepper
Pub Not Spec
ECM 1041 www.ecmrecords.com (Through www.fusegroupaustralia.com/ in Australia )
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Call it the War of the Robes.
Sweeping budget cuts in trial courts across California, coupled with mounting frustration with the state's much-maligned court bureaucracy, have exposed an unprecedented public rift in the normally tranquil fraternity of more than 2,000 judges. The division has handed new Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye a rebellion to quell in her first months in office, as well as legislative proposals now gaining momentum that are pitting trial courts against each other up and down California.
"It has made judges choose sides," an exasperated Cantil-Sakauye said in an interview this week. "I'd rather see our energies aimed at fixing our own problems."
As the judicial tension escalates, one casualty may be a statewide technology upgrade for the courts that has ballooned in cost to nearly $2 billion, prompting an outcry from many judges who consider it an ill-conceived boondoggle that should be scrapped to help pay for basic court needs. The fallout also has fueled a move to reduce the powers of the state's judicial leadership to control the purse strings of local county courts.
The strife in the state's judicial branch has been building for several years, particularly since the state Judicial Council, which sets policy for all California courts, two summers ago ordered all courts to close one day per month to save money -- an unprecedented move that infuriated many judges who argued that such a decision should be left to the local level. Cantil-Sakauye has vowed to avoid that step in the current round of budget slashing, but the issue has lingered.
The court closures spawned the Alliance of California Judges, a rebel group separate from the state's established California Judges Association. And the new group targeted two issues: the state Administrative Office of the Courts, which is the San Francisco-based court bureaucracy and the technology upgrade, which has been pushed by the AOC.
As this newspaper reported two years ago, the AOC, as the bureaucracy is known, has doubled its budget and workforce at a time when the rest of the court system has had to cut back, including a projected $200 million hit to court coffers this year. The AOC has become a favorite target because it is an emblem of reforms enacted more than a decade ago designed to centralize court oversight and finances in the state's 58 local courts, moving from county-funded trial courts to state funding.
All these factors have combined to cause the judicial unrest.
"I do think that there is very substantial resentment at virtually all levels of the courts," said Conrad Rushing, presiding justice of the San Jose-based 6th District Court of Appeal and not a member of the alliance.
In a survey last month, the California Judges Association revealed the extent of the discontent. A majority of the 877 judges who responded expressed dissatisfaction with Judicial Council oversight of the AOC and court affairs, as well as plans to push forward with the technology overhaul despite a state audit that found major problems with its "scope and direction."
Cantil-Sakauye, while taking those results "seriously," noted that many judges did not participate in the survey, suggesting the concerns may be overstated. But that has not held off legislation, backed by Assembly Majority Leader Charles Calderon, D-Montebello, that would remove some of the central powers of the council and AOC to govern local trial courts.
A watered-down version of Calderon's bill, which has heavy backing from the alliance and Los Angeles Superior Court's judges, was approved last week by the assembly's judiciary committee. Among other things, the legislation could make it tough for the council to proceed with the upgrade, designed to link all of the state's court information systems.
"What is driving this legislation and driving trial courts to speak up in majority numbers is they are tired of the AOC taking money that would otherwise go to them," Calderon said in an interview after the committee vote.
Cantil-Sakauye calls the bill "disrespectful to the branch" and "destabilizing." Trial judges have lined up for and against the legislation, which has taken on almost symbolic importance -- most judges agree it would not dramatically alter the status quo.
Santa Clara County's judges, for example, are among the strongest opponents of Calderon's bill, and are generally supportive of both the AOC and the tech upgrade. But neighboring San Mateo County's judges sent a letter endorsing the legislation.
Beth Freeman, San Mateo County's presiding judge, said her court's vote is a message for more local autonomy, "a more direct say in how our courts are managed."
Brian Walsh, Santa Clara's assistant presiding judge, counters that the legislative effort undercuts years of reform aimed at eliminating what was once considered the chaos of 58 different courts doing things 58 different ways. "To me," he said, "this is going backward."
The alliance of judges, however, is growing in numbers and arguing to limit the powers of the Judicial Council, which is often heavily influenced by the chief justice; previously that was Ronald George, who became one of the state's most powerful figures in that role, and now it is Cantil-Sakauye. With a summer of budget cuts on the table, some judges want to see change.
"(The legislation) is an important first step in the process to democratize the judicial branch," said Sacramento Superior Court Judge Marianne Gilliard, an alliance leader.
All this back-and-forth among judges who spend their days resolving conflict has Cantil-Sakauye, now in her fifth month as chief, wondering where her honeymoon went. She has urged judges to give her time to study the issues, saying, "I need to know what's in the cupboard."
But she acknowledges the challenges are inevitable in the current climate.
"With an institution of 2,000 judges and 17,000 court employees, there is always a level of discontent," Cantil-Sakauye said.
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Luminaria moves back into the streets
Updated 2:16 am, Thursday, February 7, 2013
It's official: Luminaria, the annual downtown arts blowout, is moving back into the street this year.
The event, which launched in 2008 as a way to showcase the city's artists, has been contained to HemisFair Park for the past few years. For 2013, it has been expanded to include Alamo Street from Market to César Chávez. It also will take place on part of the River Walk, reaching down into the quiet area around the Convention Center.
"We'll have art all up and down the street, but plenty of space for people to mingle," said Richard Rosen, artistic director for the event.
The event's new footprint is slated to be announced at a press conference this afternoon.
Luminaria will take place from 7 p.m. to midnight March 9.
More than 90 artists from San Antonio and across the country were selected.
Some will be placed outside Luminaria's borders, in King William and deeper into downtown. The "fringe" artists will have "a little more openness to try some things," Rosen said, adding that they won't have to make sure their work is family-friendly. "It gives them a chance to be more experimental and edgier as artists."
For the first time, San Antonians are being given the opportunity to make donations to the event through the Luminaria website, luminariasa.org.
Last year, Luminaria had to be postponed and rescheduled because of torrential rains. A rain plan is in place for this year that would allow outdoor installations to move into the Convention Center, Rosen said.
"Right now, we're running on a rain-or-shine plan," he said.
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this recipe for mine. Next, things get a little... different.
4 egg yolks
3/4 c. brown sugar
1 c. milk
1 1/4 c. pumpkin puree
1 1/2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice - commercial or homemade
1/4 tsp. salt
2 Tbsp water
1 Tbsp vanilla
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
2 c. whipping cream, divided
2 Tbsp vanilla sugar (or plain granulated sugar)In a small saucepan over medium heat, whisk together egg yolks, brown sugar, milk, pumpkin puree, spices, and salt.
In a small bowl, combine water and vanilla. Sprinkle gelatin powder over the top and allow to bloom. Set aside.
Continue to cook the pumpkin custard mixture until in begins to boil and thickens slightly. Remove from heat and stir 2-3 minutes until cooled a little. Pour about 3/4 c. of hot mixture into bowl containing gelatine mixture. Whisk until gelatin is dissolved, then stir back into custard in saucepan. Pour the mixture into bowl and place in the refrigerator. Stir occasionally until mixture is cooled and starts to take on an egg white-like consistency.
In a chilled bowl, whip 1 c. of the whipping cream until it holds its shape
The result is lighter than a baked custard pumpkin pie, but retains the traditional flavor. I suspect it will be a Thanksgiving tradition here from now on - judging from the way dessert plates have been scraped clean.
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Fever Fans Help Coach Dunn Take the Polar Plunge!
Hey Fever Fans! The Indiana Fever and Special Olympics Indiana are partnering up to help nearly 10,000 people with intellectual disabilities participate in sporting events.
Head Coach Lin Dunn has agreed to be "Freezin' for a Reason" by taking the Polar Plunge if the Indiana Fever raises $5,000 for Special Olympics Indiana during the 2009 Fever season!
You can sponsor Coach Dunn in the Polar Plunge by making a donation to Special Olympics Indiana through this Web site. Lets all come together and make Coach Dunn take the Polar Plunge!
As Special Olympics Indiana's signature fundraising event, the Polar Plunge invites Hoosier residents to be "Freezin' for a Reason" and take the plunge for adults and children with intellectual disabilities. For the last decade, brave souls and warm hearts have jumped into bodies of water in February to raise money and awareness for Special Olympics Indiana.
Thank you for your support of Special Olympics Indiana. Donating through this site is simple, fast and totally secure. It is also the most efficient way to make a contribution to my fundraising efforts. Many thanks for your support -- and don't forget to forward this any other Fever Fans who you think might want to donate too!
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Alright Trav (Wake Your Daughter Up), after the subtle knock on my album recommendation skills (I still gotta' stand by Uncut Raw's "First Toke", I don't know what it is but I love that sh*t!) I feel compelled to well….to quote Jim Carrey in "Dumb & Dumber", "totally redeem myself"! Before I even attempt to "hip" anyone to any new releases I've gotta' give a major "Big Up" to both BossPlayer & Hip Hop Bootleggers, whom are both the "cream of the crop" when it comes to "checking out" new music. So, that leads us to the album depicted above: The second release from Ohio native Ill Poetic!
While Ill Poetic's follow up to "The Definition" is by no means an instant classic, I will go out on a limb and make it known that "The World Is Ours" is pretty freakin' good! Put it this way, I DL'ed "The World Is Ours" late last week and I spend close to 2 hours on the road a day in my ride, so what's been accompanying me throughout the majority of my drive? Point blank, "The World Is Yours" is the only thing that I've listened to this week. The first thing that you will notice upon first hearing MC/Beatmaker Ill Poetic is his undeniable resemblance to Peter Gunz, their voices sound exactly alike….EXACTLY! Actually, that may be…not to Ill Poetic's fault, the only recognizable downside of the album (As bad as it may sound, I've never really been able to stomach Peter Gunz' voice). Sorry Ill Poetic, but the good thing is that there is soo much right with "The World Is Ours" that it needs to see the light. You couldn't ask for a better four song start to an album. "Hoe" will grab your attention right away as you will engulf the layers of the obvious production influences of fellow-Nati' producer Hi-Tek with a hint of Dilla added as well. Next, "Cincilluminati" finds Ill Poetic letting you into his world and what he sees with what is right and wrong with the Nati', the real highlight is the production on this joint as the heavy bassline, soft trailing keys, and soothing vocal sample is thrown in too birth an undeniable "head-nodder". Thirdly, the Blueprint featured "Common Knowledge" will bring a smile to your face as you'll recognize the sample that is intertwined with the boom-bap production instantly (drop a comment if you can tell me what "Legends" used the sample back in 1992…Hint:don't TRESPASS). Finally, "What Ya'll Want" (which could have used a better title and chorus) is still a BANGER! The "church choir" kicks in shortly after the opening intro to "What Ya'll Want" and will surprise the hell out of you (think the way the Blue Scholars "Second Chapter" kicks in immediately following "Bayani's Prayer".
Yes, there are a few misteps on "The World Is Ours" as Ill Poetic can become a bit too preachy at times, but who can't? Also, he does get a little too syrupy on tracks like "Sugar Shack" & "Soul Electric". On the other hand, I did enjoy similar crafted cuts such as "The Beautiful" and "One More" featuring one of my favorite MC's Wordsworth. Surely, much like myself you'll favor the smooth guitar licks of "As I See" ft. Illogic. Honestly, Illogic is a good MC..but, the crispness and clarity of his production is VERY good! Bottom line peoples, I'm just a blogger not an album reviewer writing for the Vibe, The Source, XXL, etc., but what I will set out to do is give "shine" to artists and albums that break away from the norm and are "doin' it" per say. Being both a talented MC and a helluva' producer (BTW, did I mention that Illogic is handling all the production duties on "The World Is Yours"?), Illogic needs to be heard!
So there you have it, so far (based on e-mails, comments) I've been pretty dead on with my recommendations of Buff 1′s "Pure", Raks One's "A Breath Of Fresh Air" and where did you hear about Blue Scholars "Bayani" first? (great to see everyone diggin' that album!) and only if I could push Uncut Raw's "First Toke" on Trav & Dan @FromDaBricks a bit more I'm sure they'll turn the corner as well…maybe not Trav. Believe it or not, the response from the Uncut Raw has been extremely positive…but I can see where some folks would compare it to much of MF Doom's work (other than "Madvillianary", I've never listened to anything Doom has done believe it or not)….Oh, well if your looking for some good Hip Hop on the horizon check out Ill Poetic's "The World Is Ours" HERE. In the meantime, I'm going to cruise over to Underground Hip Hop.com and pick this joint up! Now that's the true testament to how much I'm feeling "The World Is Ours"…-Eric


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A summary of trading in key commodities markets overseas:
The price of oil fell on Monday as traders concerned about global energy demand took profits ahead of economic data from China and the United States.
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for July delivery was down 50 cents to $US93.65 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The contract fell 10 cents to $US94.15 a barrel on Friday.
Analysts said traders took profits before May unemployment data is released Tuesday in Washington, which should help clarify the state of the recovery in the world's biggest economy.
Monday was also a public holiday in Britain.
London and New York commodities markets were closed for holidays.


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Duchess of York opens cancer unit
THE Duchess of York and her daughters, Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice, opened an outpatient facility for young cancer patients yesterday.
Sarah Ferguson unveiled a plaque at University College Hospital's Macmillan Cancer Centre in London.
It took three years to raise the £2.6million required. The Teenage Cancer Trust Hub will provide day care and outpatient facilities for patients aged 13 to 24.
The centre will allow young people to be treated in an environment designed with teenagers in mind.


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Brentwood Police Chief Mark Evenson is the first to acknowledge it — police departments in the Bay Area and across the country can and should be more diverse.
"There's no question that a lot of agencies are predominantly white," Evenson said.
He just wants to make one thing clear: His department isn't all white.
Neither are the ranks of officers in Antioch, Daly City, Napa, Novato and Walnut Creek, officials in those cities say, despite a 2010 Census Bureau report that estimated the cities' police departments were 100 percent white.
The figures appeared Aug. 24 in a front-page story and graphic in this newspaper about how racial strife over the police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, has focused attention on the diversity of police departments coast to coast. While the story made it clear that the Census figures were estimates — and that several departments challenged the zero-minority tally — some officials contend that the figures were dramatically inaccurate and mischaracterized their commitment to diversity.
Only one of the departments — Daly City — provided its own figures in response to inquiries from this newspaper before the story was published: The city's population was 14 percent white in 2013, while its sworn officers are 68 percent white, according to Capt. Pat Hensley.
After the story appeared, other departments provided current percentages of their officers who are white:
One Bay Area mayor whose police department appeared to have a higher percentage of minority officers than minority residents said the numbers were completely off.
The Census reported the San Leandro Police Department was 33 percent white and 47.6 percent African-American, but Mayor Stephen Cassidy said the actual figures are 66 percent white and 5 percent African-American. San Leandro's population is 26 percent white.
"I do believe we need police departments that reflect the populations, but the Census numbers are inaccurate," Cassidy said.
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That's why one has to use benchfft - or, with fftw3, the `tests/bench` programm > may dance around the planning difference. mflop data may be > only for the actual transform, not including plan generation, so it > would be possible for only a single transform (not including plan > generation or memory copying) using fftw3 to appear faster. Some hints on this may be gotten by cd fftw-3.0.1/tests ./bench -s icf8192 Problem: icf8192, setup: 476.52 ms, time: 202.25 us, ``mflops'': 2632.8 ./bench -opatient -s icf8192 Problem: icf8192, setup: 4.29 s, time: 198.00 us, ``mflops'': 2689.3 ./bench -oexhaustive -s icf8192 Problem: icf8192, setup: 28.92 s, time: 197.00 us, ``mflops'': 2702.9 (different machine than for the plots at www.ph..., Itanium 2): > As for scipy, I don't remember what scipy caches for fftw3 versus fftw2. > My theories are guesses from what I remember about the code, which I > haven't seen for a few months, but I'll try to take a look at it this > weekend or next weekend. 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Applying disc equalisation digitally uses up so much dynamic range that there may not be much left for the music! Inconvenient though it is, analogue will be better than digits.
No, I don't have 78s, but I've looked into the electronic problem for people who do.
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It is not that bad.
First of all, I use a 24bit conversion. So low levels are not a problem. Next, with a bit of care you can go up to -3dB at the input without any problem. If the pop is so big to possibly clip the input, you will need to cut it out anyway, so you loose nothing. Finally all subsequent work is done in 32bit floating point, so this introduces no clipping and makes sure rounding is no real issue until final conversion to 16bit for CD.
While analog EQ may be indeed a bit better, the problem is that there are about 10-12 curves. I don't like to put loads of switches in such circuits, and at the same time like to keep them compact. So it would mean 10-12 preamps. It can also be a hit and miss finding the best EQ for a given record. Certainly if some obscure label and you cannot date it for certain. So doing this digitaly is a lot easier.
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All good points, especially the 32 bit and rounding issue.
Your point about the lack of problem with large clicks being clipped is interesting. I would expect there to be a buffer between the input sockets and the A/D. If they are well matched, the buffer may not have any significant headroom above the A/D. Clipping the buffer might cause latch-up, prolonging the length of the click. It might be worth investigating.
When looking for curves, I was looking mainly for pre-RIAA LP equalisation. I found that to cover all possibilities, a 12 position switch was needed for bass eq and another for treble. If you reckon you only need 10-12 settings for 78s, you are getting off lightly. Still, it makes digits attractive.
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Now if you have a click, the application itself looks at the spectrum before and after and fill in according to that. So the click itself is not used for this. If the latch-up would occur, it would simply mean you have a slightly larger click to fill. As clicks can be several ms long, I don't think it would be a problem. But it is certainly something that needs to be checked before you start processing.
The digital route is attractive, but as I have no analog alternative, it is hard to tell if it really is an alternative. I guess it depends on what you want to achieve. For me it is nothing more that being able to listen to those discs. And I don't have enough of them around to justify an analog preamp.
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