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209 - Code of Hero
In the Axalon, Dinobot is on his knees, gazing at his sword. He looks out the window, seeing the ravens flying over the sun (In the missing man formation), which resembles the golden disk. He turns his sword towards himself, and then after an hesitation decides to not commit suicide, tossing his sword away, which lands alone on the floor in the light. Some people like to talk about cartoons taking risks or showing brutal imagery? We just witness a character consider suicide. Optimus returns to the ship and talks to Rhinox, who tells him the Quantum wave is travelling through time and space and it will eventually reach Cybertron. Cybertron will know where they are. Optimus wonders if Megatron made the same calculations. Rattrap betss that he did. Optimus says they should look into increasing the base defenses. I have nit picks about this scene, but I'll save them for a later episode. Dinobot leaves his quarters, crossing Rattrap. The two trade their usual insults, but Rattrap then taunts him about the events of Maximal, No More. Dinobot has gotten it from everyone since that episode (And I credit the writers for not letting it slide or go forgiven), but it is Rattrap who delivers the most stinging criticism:
Rattrap: Funny, y'know, not much changes around here. Except maybe the occasional allegiance.
Dinobot freezes in his steps, then turns around and walks towards Rattrap
Rattrap: Found any golden disks lately? Passed them on to any Predacons?
Dinobot: I don't need to explain my actions to you, Mouse!
Rattrap: It's right. You don't. Coz they pretty much speak for themselves.
Dinobot: Go ahead, rodent. Push it one more inch.
Rattrap: (Rattrap shoves Dinobot away) Ya know, I used to figure I had you pegged: eh, he's a slag-spouting saurian, but at least you know where he stands. Guess we live and learn.Rattrap walks away, but Dinobot admits to himself that Rattrap's words are the truth. He says destiny gives everyone a great test, and he wonders if his test passed already and he failed it. He knows he can't undo what he already did, but he can yet mitigate it. Dinobot leaves the base with one pistol. Cheetor flies over a valley, spotting Megatron and Rampage, who fire at him. Dinobot answers his call, telling him to return to base for repair, he'll figure out what Megatron is up to. While having this discussion, Dinobot's been tracking Tarantulas, and spotting a gazelle, gets and idea. Tarantulas comes out of his lair, approaching the gazelle stuck in his web. He looks around, cautious, but sees no one. Mid way to his prey a sound makes him freeze. And we see Dinobot's hand out of the dirt, pointing the gun at the spider bot's gut. Dinobot picks up and after the coercing, interrogates his prey, freeing the gazelle too. Tarantulas tells him he does not know the contents of the Golden Disk. Megatron keeps it on him at all times and will not risk making another backup. Dinobot then shall go to Megatron. And it just happens that Tarantulas will make a fine means of transportation. Cavemens in the valley cry in terror as Megatron flies over head, re-joining Rampage. After torturing Rampage's spark into compliance of course. He admits he expects Cybertron forces to arrive soon, and, to Rampage's glee, that his demise is a likely option, but only if reality remains as it is. Megatron looks at a distinctive mountain, and gets the Golden Disk out, turning his claw into a reader-hologram projector. The hologram is an image of the same mountain, taken in the future. Megatron then orders Rampage to blow up at mountain, and after deliberating between shooting Megatron and the mountain, the crab agrees. The mountain explodes, and the hologram shorts out for a bit, before showing the image of the mountain's broken peak in the future. Megatron cheers. And Dinobot sees the whole scene. The future can be changed. History is not fixed. Hilariously, Megatron should be able to see and HEAR Dinobot, but he doesn't. Not even when Tarantulas fires on Dinobot as he is distracted, and Dinobot crushes the spider with a rock (again) is Megatron even clued by the weapon detonations. Megatron explains that, according to the golden disk, this valley is where the Human race will emerge. The Human race will prove a valuable ally to the Autobots, helping them triumph over the Decepticons and establish the pecking order between Maximals and Predacons. Megatron, looking as the rest of his troops are joining him, orders them to wipe out all life in the valley. The Human race shall never exist.
Having just crushed Tarantulas, a damaged Dinobot radios to base, telling them what is going on. Optimus tells him to retreat and wait for them, but as Dinobot looks over the burning valley, cavemen trying to help their wounded, he refuses that order.
"The question that once haunted my being has been answered. The future is not fixed, and my choices are my own. And yet, how ironic... for I now find that I have no choice at all! I am a warrior... let the battle be joined."While I often hear that Dinobot's decision is the proof Maximal values rubbed off on him, I think that while it plays a part, it's not just all of it. As I said in Maximal, No More, Dinobot's made many hard choices in his life, and as he said in that episode, he has honor, Predacon Honor, yes, but honor nonetheless. Even as a Predacon, Dinobot never accepted striking down a defenseless enemy. He saved Optimus in Beast Wars Part 2 for that very reason. He fought his clone in beast mode because of it. Even as a Predacon, Dinobot would not allow his kind's final victory to come from a slaughter of innocent, helpless cavemen. This isn't the victory Dinobot signed in for. There's no glory in that. Furthermore, Dinobot now having proof that he is the master of his own fate, can't follow up on that revelation to escape responsibility. To just follow orders and back off would be doing just that: not taking responsibility for something he and he alone can do. Dinobot sees that the test destiny was giving him is here, now, and he'll not let any pretense keep him away from that. The Maximals ride out, and it is Rattrap who voices concerns: Megatron against six Predacons (How does he know Tarantulas was taken out?) there will not be enough left of Dinobot to build a toaster. I must ask: WHY ARE YOU TRAVELLING AS A GROUP? Cheetor alone could make it there first. Optimus and Rattrap shortly after. Why travel at Rhinox' max speed? Sure, you'd be outnumbered, but it's less suicidal odds than Dinobot alone. Blender Butt is cleaved by Dinobot's blade, and used a shield from Blackarachnia, who is shot using Inferno's own gun, which Dinobot then turn on Inferno's own head. Said head flies out of the valley past Megatron, who is admiring the slaughter, and the Predacon Commander notices that someone's taking out his troops. Using his spinning blade thing as an Helicopter, Dinobot attacks Rampage and Waspinator. The later shoots his blades, but Dinobot lands on Waspinator, stuffing him head first into Rampage's cannon as he turns to tank mode (having been disarmed by Inferno's gun), crippling Protoform X. Dinobot stands back up, having sustained damage from pretty much all the Predacons. He looks up at Megatron up the valley, who looks back, sending Quickstrike in, and then spots two cornered cavemen.
"One lonely turncoat, battling on against impossible odds." (Wipes fake tear) "I'm almost touched! ...Fortunately, such moments pass quickly. Quickstrike, scrap him! ... And just to tilt the odds even further..."Dinobot is shot by Quickstrike. He tries to fire his eye lasers, but to almost no effect. Dinobot's internal computer warns him his systems are failing. But the warrior needs no weapons, and suplexes Quickstrike to unconsciousness. Dinobot's internal computer again warns him: His power reserves are 96% depleted. He should enter stasis mode. But Dinobot overrides his own systems, despite the warning that any more power loss will result in the loss of his spark. Megatron soon arrives in beast mode, taunting his former second-in-command.
Megatron: Hmm, my ears are burning! Yesss! Why, Dinobot, what a delightful surprise! Let's see, where are we now? I have the Golden Disk, I have the power to change the future, and the only obstacle in my path to unimaginable glory... is yourself. Exhausted. Damaged beyond recovery. (Megatron transforms) Defeated.
Dinobot: Not just yet!
Megstron: Ah-ah-ah! (Megatron reveals a bound caveman) One more step, and it's raining bits of early anthropoid, yesss. Oh dear, how positively Maximal of you. You were weakened before you started, Dinobot. Weakened by compassion.Dinobot however grabs a stick and charges at Megatron when he stops pointing his gun at the caveman, but to no effect.
Megatron: A stick? Against a transmetal?
Dinobot's Internal Computer: Final Warning: Power failing. Jeopardy Extreme. Repeat: Extreme''
Megatron: Of Please, Face it, Dinobot! You're old technology, obsolete. What could you possibly do?
Dinobot: Improvise.Dinobot smashes his stick on a pointy rock, forming a sledgehammer. He charges at Megatron with the hammer and hits him so hard, he drops the Golden Disk, and the bounds holding the caveman turn offline. With the remaining power he has, Dinobot shatters the disk with his eye beams. He then falls. Megatron stands, but the arrival of the Maximals and gunfire from Optimus, makes him retreat, lamenting how close he was. As Cheetor puts out the fire, the Maximals gather around their fallen comrade, Rattrap horrified at Dinobot's current state. Rhinox laments that Dinobot is too far gone, even for stasis lock. (I'd figure that since Dinobot is simply running out of power, they could wire him to one of them by booster cables. Then again what do I know.) Rattrap holds the hand of his comrade as he lives his last moments.
Optimus Primal: Well fought, my friend. You saved the valley. (Dinobot sighs in relief) You saved the lives of those who live here... and of those who are still to come.
Dinobot: Then... there is nothing to regret.
Rattrap: Like I said, you're just a blasted, slag-spouting saurian, but... it's nice to know where you stand.
Dinobot: Upwind of you, for preference, vermin. ...Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly, the ill deeds along with the good, and let me be judged accordingly. The rest... is silence.With those words, Dinobot expires. His spark rising out of his body. Following Rattrap's lead, the Maximals salute their fallen comrade as his spark soars into the stars, to join the Matrix.
Optimus: He lived a warrior... and died a hero. Let his spark join the Matrix, the greatest of Cybertron.Outside the Axalon, the Maximal fliers fly in the Missing Man formation as Rattrap and Rhinox incinerate Dinobot's body. It would be touching. EXCEPT THAT RATTRAP IS IN HIS PRE-TRANSMETAL FORM!!! I don't usually note animation goofs except when they would have plot relevance, but come ON. The one of the most touching, emotional moment of the series, and you put the wrong character model in? WTF.
Back in the valley, the caveman that Dinobot saved finds the hammer he made. He looks at it, curious, then uses it smash a coconut open. Amazed at what this piece of technology can do, he almost doesn't notice the same snake from the opening sneaking up behind him till the last second, where he turns and smashes the snake with the hammer, seemingly killing it. Victoriously he shouts, raising the hammer to the sky. In the stars above, one star twinkles.
Code of Hero, is in my opinion the best episode of Beast Wars, and considering the great competition it has for the post, it still manages to be leaps and bounds above them. Heck, I can say that in my opinion, Code of Hero is the best piece of Transformer fiction. The episode is brilliantly shot. Most of the scenes having something iconic or filmed from a specific angle to make them stand out more. The final scene with the caveman and the hammer is an example of unneeded fluff added to make the episode better: It serves next to no plot use, but reminds you what Dinobot fought for, and adds a bit of hope to show that even in his death, Dinobot did not just save lives, but changed them for the better. Code Of Hero does stand in comparison to Other Visits. If you need to kill a character or remove them from the show, THAT'S how you do it.
- With Dinobot's death and the arrival of Rampage last episode, the Maximals are at a notable power disadvantage, which will factor in their taking a more defensive stance for the season finale.
- Scott McNeil once said that Dinobot knew he was going to die 5 episodes before he (Scott) realized he was going to die. It's not till he recorded the episode's last lines that he realized Dinobot was going to be dead-dead not carton-dead like Waspinator.
- Bob Forward, who directed the episode, could not believe that after viewing Dinobot's death scene and funeral a hundred time to make sure it was perfect, the whole production team missed the Rattrap goof yet every fans saw it on their first viewing.
- Dinobot's last words quote Hamlet: "The Rest Is Silence."
- This episode is the only one directed by the series writer. It is also the only episode to be given storyboards prior to animation, rather than being animated on the fly by Mainframe Entertainment. The story boards were later auctioned for charity at Botcon. Dinobot's death helped even more people that way!
- Taken from the Transformers Wiki: During the recording of this episode, Scott McNeil was attempting to deliver Dinobot's last words, but was continually interrupted by the recording crew's laughter. He is reputed to have said while still in character, "Do you mind?! I'm trying to die here!"
- The episode came packaged with Dinobot's toy for the ''Beast Wars 10th Anniversary" release.
- The Caveman with the hammer would become a minor recurring character. He's thus probably a Witwicky.
- The cavemen are voiced by Gary Chalk, who voices Optimus.
- Dinobot did indeed join the "Greatest of Cybertron", as Optimus wished: Dinobot was the first fan-chosen inductee to Hasbro's Transformer Hall of Fame in 2010. At the time, the only Transformers inductee were Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron and Starscream. Dinobot beat out Jazz, Grimlock, Soundwave and Shockwave.
The greatest moment of the entire franchise, hands down. There's a reason it's the number one listing for the Western Animation section of Dying Moment Of Awesome.
It only goes uphill from here. Hope you're doing alright, and hope to see another entry soon.
Been a busy week, next update is either tonight or tomorow, with the season finale done by sunday.
Okay, I know Megatron has to deal with a lot of treachery with his own units, but it's supposed to be Dinobot vs 6 Predacons :p.


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San Diego police released photos and a video Thursday of a man they suspect in four residential burglaries that occurred last week in Rancho Bernardo.
The burglar targeted small items, including jewelry, when he hit the unoccupied single-family houses on Bernardo Center Drive near Rancho Bernardo Road during the morning of Feb. 6, said police Officer Jim Johnson.
During a 10 a.m. break-in at one of the houses, a home security camera captured footage of a man leaving the residence, Johnson said. The thief had entered through an unlocked garage door, he said.
The burglar may have fled the area on a sport-styled motorcycle, Johnson said.
Crime Stoppers is offering a $1,000 reward for details about the suspect or thief. Anyone with information is asked to call police at (858) 538-8000 or the Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at (888) 580-8477.

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Knut Nesse started his career in 1992 with the Scana group in Stavanger as Controller and joined Skretting Norway in 1995 in the same position. In 1997 he moved back to the Scana group to take up a two-year assignment as Finance Director of their joint venture in China and returned to Skretting in 1999, first as Controller and subsequently in various management positions.
Early 2006 Knut Nesse moved to Chile and was appointed Managing Director of the Skretting Salmon Feed business. He returned to Norway end of 2006.
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Tierra Santa is a band that I came to learn of on 2003, thanks to a nice friend, who loved their music to death. I didn't know too much metal by that time, and that's why this album became such a marvellous experience for me. Before Tierra Santa, I hadn't learned about many bands that focused on lyrical themes of dragon stories, mythology, and ancient battles. As a matter of fact, hundreds of bands have already tried it, and they can succeed musically, but lyrically it all turns into a fiasco. However, Tierra Santa is not the case, and, in my opinion "Sangre de Reyes" marked the highest achievement for a young Spaniard band who risked everything since the very first day and tried to follow a different path that many heavy metal bands took by the mid 90's, where they imitated the old school metal, without owning a bit of originality.
Anyways, let's get back to business. Tierra Santa had already released three interesting and smart albums ("Medieval", "Legendario", and "Tierras de Leyenda"), which made the band grow in every corner, but it was not enough. It was time to level everything to the adequate place, and this is when "Sangre de Reyes" came to life. While "Medieval" had absorbing atmospheres, was powerful and fresh, "Legendario" was more solid, had a better production, and the lyrics had also improved way too much. Meanwhile, "Tierras de Leyenda", their third album, was supposed to be their highly anticipated masterpiece, since it was one of the most popular albums of 1999, and it included both elements from the first two.
Now, if you combine all of the above, and add to them the maturity and the shining experience of a band which has already embarked in successful tours worldwide, and is ready to walk the next step, you might as well get an instant classic. Also, don't forget that in those years, the band reached creative heights, so they had to start the new millennium with something BIG. In addition, the band had a loyal fan base, which grew day by day, and left no doubt that there was nothing that could stop these monsters from conquering new frontiers. No one ever thought that these Spaniards could do something more ambitious and fantastic than "Tierras de Leyenda".
They were all wrong…
"Sangre de Reyes" is such a complete and perfectly worked jewel, that I still shiver every time I push "Play" so I can enjoy it one more time. It has undoubtedly a professional heavy metal structure, but it also goes from efficient speed metal moments, to impressive power metal blasts. This is not a band that likes to make any instrument sound higher than the rest, and leave the other musicians behind. No, each instrument has the appropriate sound level, there's a place for every band member to show his abilities without stealing the show, and overall, they worked as a nice team. The high end mix makes the drums blend very well with the rest of the music, so they don't sound neither too high, nor too low. There are cool riffs in every song, but, as the guitarists don't have a huge and stupid ego, we won't listen to five-minute solos or something like that. Angel has never been the best singer in the scene, but his voice owns such a strange magic, which allows him to have the right pitch for each song, and he delivers a brilliant performance which proves that there is no need for high-range vocals in order to make an outstanding heavy metal release. Keyboards are also included, but only in small doses, where they wonderfully help to create medieval atmospheres, and add a miraculous final touch to the songs.
Moving on with the album content, I can say that there's not a song which leaves you dissatisfied. There are no fillers, no disposable intros, and they don't screw up the only power ballad of the album. It will be difficult for anyone to stay motionless after listening to the first song, because this release was made to energize any metal freak who seeks for new and exciting experiences. If there's a production that describes absolute equilibrium, then "Sangre de Reyes" definitely has it from head to feet. As I mentioned before, the main lyrical themes focus on epic battles which took place somewhere back in time, like "David y el Gigante", which is a power-metal oriented song about the Bible passage of young David against Goliath, but it also encourages everyone to not fear any enemy, no matter how tall, how big, or how powerful he is. This is the opener, and it just blows you away, because after its short piano intro, the bass introduces itself with a blazing personality, while the growing speed takes control of every sense from your body, and the chorus stays inside your brain whether you like it or not. A beautiful guitar solo follows the second chorus, and this is how the band proves how much they have grown up in every aspect. I cannot go any further, without mentioning that this is one of the catchiest songs that I've ever heard in my life.
Now, if you liked what you've read until now, and you want more songs in the vein of "David y el Gigante", then you can also check "La Armada", perhaps the speediest song, featuring double bass drumming, and preceded by a soft prologue named "Dos Vidas". These songs tell us a story about a young man who is called to the army, obliged to go to war so he can defend his country, and unfortunately has to leave his family behind. Maybe you can feel that "La armada" is a little bit generic, and it's true, but it doesn't become repetitive. However, there you have "Pegaso", another highlight, which has more depth and it's magnificently elaborated, because it sounds as if all of the instruments are soaring, but what really defines the course of the song, is the perfect execution of the bassist, whose instrument is perhaps a little bit louder than it should (Only for this song), and so it seems as if the musician's balls are on fire. As you can imagine, the lyrics tell the story about the legendary winged horse "Pegasus", a mythological beast of the Greeks.
You mustn't worry, because it's not all about speed. There are mid-paced songs like the fabulous "El Laberinto del Minotauro", which provides heavy metal nitrous shots, and aggressive riffs, combined with the talent of Angel, who shows new intensities in his voice, it's cleaner than usual, and he doesn't force it at all. There are female vocals in the bridges, as well as in the chorus, but what bewitches your ears is the mix of Angel's vocals with the stormy guitar passages, which are worth to listen. Meanwhile, "Juana de Arco" is faster, it has more symphonic elements, and due to its short but shocking lyrics, there's a long guitar break, where this instrument seems to be begging for mercy and it tries to reflect the excruciating pain that "Joan of Arc" lived in her last minutes of breath, when she was burned at the stake a few centuries ago.
As I said before, all of the songs are decorated with discreet keyboard elements, but once the ballad "El Amor de mi Vida" begins, they become the essential part of this beauty made music. If any human being has loved, at least for once in a lifetime, then he or she knows exactly why songs like this exist. What would a metal album be without a charming ballad like this? If the most influential bands in history have at least one song of this nature in their repertoire, how can Tierra Santa stay behind? It's like in any novel. There's always a special spot for love, that one particular feeling which is said to make the world go round and round. This is a song dedicated to the love of your life, and it moves itself with such a pleasant and peaceful harmony sweetened by lovely guitar riffs, while the vocals reveal Angel's strongest assets. He is also joined by a female singer, who performs the final bridge and chorus, and it duplicates the emotions that you are already feeling in your heart. If you have never loved in your life, and you're laughing after reading these word, then don't bother in listening to "El amor de mi vida", and walk away from it. Its lyrics are EXACTLY what any man should say to his girl, if he really loves her that damn much, and there's nothing cheesy about that. For me, this is one of the best ballads of all time.
Tierra Santa's third release wouldn't have been excitingly enough without a few melodic power metal tracks, and that's when "La Ciudad Secreta" and "La Sombra de la Bestia" show up. These are two songs with similar features (Speed, riffs, vocals), but the first one is very macabre, and the latter has edgier interpretations, as it's the devilish song of the album. While "La Ciudad Secreta" speaks about the purgatory and describes with detail what happens when a person dies, "La Sombra de la Bestia" focuses on the internal conflict of a werewolf, who is about to succumb to the madness of the beast that lives inside him. Last, but not least, we have "Mi Tierra" and the title track, which are worth to listen, as well, but I won't say anything more about these two, except that the title track sounds very much as "Legendario" (A song from a previous album of the same name). I'll better let the reader find out the rest by himself.
What else can be said about such an outrageous creation like the one you have in front of your very eyes? Listening to it is like reading a book about mythology, but all of its characters, landscapes, feelings, battles, plots, and conflicts are brought to life in almost 50 minutes of modern heavy metal inspirational madness. As you can see, "Sangre de Reyes" is very unique in its genre. It is a pearl within a sea full of oysters, where the genre has been brutally mishandled by thousands of acts that want to sound similar to some heavy metal pioneers as Helloween, Gamma Ray, or Yngwie Malmsteen, as I mentioned in the first paragraph. Today, it's not easy to find an epic heavy/power metal album that doesn't become monotonous and repetitive. Nevertheless, Tierra Santa's fourth work marks the difference, and it stands out with a ferocious army of killer warriors as "David y el Gigante", "Pegaso", "La Sombra de la Bestia", and "El Laberinto del Minotauro", with epic reinforcements as "Juana de Arco", "La armada", and "La ciudad secreta", and the undeniable feelings that prevail in every human being as "El amor de mi vida" and "Mi Tierra". All of these songs became anthems and were played live from that moment on, and the band's fame skyrocketed. That's why "Sangre de Reyes", an album that has an unbreakable personality, and is full of infinite passion, deserves to be crowned as Tierra Santa's most complete, impressive and innovative album in their catalogue.


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So I've run into quite a conundrum here. I've just bought two Northern Electric 4045-C Amplifiers. Powering either one on by itself the amplifier sounds great, little bit of hum but other than that great. However, if I turn them both on at the same time (they are monoblocks so I do need to have them both on for stereo) they start to distort horribly. They'll play fine for five minutes and then start distorting all over the place for thirty seconds, play fine, then distort again. I'm not sure what is causing this distortion. Figured it was a power issue since the amplifiers work fine when only one is on. Any ideas?
Found a schematic here
Haha, I posted that schematic. Crazy amp, HUGE 25hz power transformers. I could never get rid of the background hum in mine. Is yours still running a 5X4 or has it been modified to 5U4?
Uses 5U4, that hum isn't too bad on one but the other has hum and a "hizz" that is fairly pronounced that I'm still working on getting rid of. Thanks for the schematic lol I've been using it quite a bit. Replaced/resoldered all the connections to try and alleviate the hum and distortion issue I've been having but to no avail so far.
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Here's a pic of them, they ain't perfect but they certainly work!
Does the hum go away if you short the balanced inputs together?
Also, are you driving electro-magnetic speakers? if not, have you installed a dummy load to cap the B+ for them?
Haven't tried shorting the inputs together, can give that a go tonight. Nope, vintage speakers as well so I've capped the B+. Had these running perfectly in another location, before I took them home, soon as I hooked them up at home this distortion issue arose. I know they work as I can use either independently and they sound just fine, both powered up at the same time sounds like they keep dropping signal intermittently
:cop: Surprisingly and perhaps a first, but I think this actually belongs in the Tubes / Valves forum since these are apparently being used in a home stereo system. (Usually I'm moving guitar amps from Tubes / Valves to Instruments And Amps)
I think you will have a lot more visibility for this particular issue in Tubes / Valves..
Very odd behavior, I'm wondering if this is some sort of extreme ground loop issue. I'd very carefully check the leakage current from chassis to a good earth ground on each of those amplifiers.. Do they behave this way when they are not connected to the pre-amplifier? How are the various components in your system grounded? (not grounded)
haha, I had moved it from that thread originally after reading the rules again. If you'd like to move it back that's fine by me. I'm floating the ground at the moment but will check the leakage current from the chassis, maybe throw in a real good ground. Still baffled why the problem only exists in my house. Hooked these back up in my friends shop and they play without a problem. Seems like the amp isn't the culprit here.
My understanding is these are used as part of your stereo system and are not a guitar or instrument amplifier so it may be legitimately be posted to Tubes / Valves. Instruments and Amplifiers is intended for devices that make music not reproduce it. :D
Grab an AM/FM radio and turn it on, tune across both bands while the amps are misbehaving and see if you hear anything.. Be quick of course so as not to damage anything - hopefully all will be silent - no squeals or odd noises due to amplifier oscillations.
Make sure the AC connections to both amplifiers are wired the same way in the event that leakage current is the cause of this issue. I'd recommend in any event grounding the chassis of both amps for safety..
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Electronic music seems to have been all the rage, even back in the early '90s, but the Dream (aka Citrus Slumber) has been the innovative force behind much of the John Tesh like synth patterns played on new age stations during that time. You might think the band (comprised of keyboardist-guitarist Edgar Froese, his son Jerome Froese, and keyboardist Paul Haslinger) would choose to rest on its many laurels after so many years, but Melrose rocks as hard as synth created music can, picking up where their previous, very engaging disc, Lily on the Beach, left off. Los Angeles imagery abounds here, as on the rhythmic title cut (the only one to feature sax) and the hypnotic "Rolling Down Cahuenga." Once again, the happy upbeat sequences are more than offset by more reflective ballads like "Electric Lion." While some of the tracks tend to carry on a bit too long, the textures are generally interesting enough to keep things entertaining. If there were more sax, TD's music could be considered an offshoot of smooth jazz. But it's great as it is -- smart, hip machine oriented sounds from masterful players and producers. ~ Jonathan Widran
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VAL D'ISERE, France -- Julia Mancuso won a downhill yesterday for her first World Cup victory, with teammate Lindsey Kildow third in a strong American finish.
Mancuso, the Olympic giant slalom champion, completed the 1.55-mile course in 1 minute 38.93 seconds. Austria's Renate Goetschl was the runner-up, 0.43 seconds behind. Kildow, winner in Val D'Isere last year, was next in 1:39.47.
"To win my first World Cup race feels good, but I always knew it was there, it was just the case of being able to execute," Mancuso said. "That was a pretty solid run I'd say, my skis were working for me."
Mancuso won her first race since taking the giant slalom in Turin last February. She placed 10th and 39th in downhill races at Lake Louise, Alberta, earlier this month.
"I was pretty nervous actually, though I knew I had a pretty good run, but you really never know in skiing," Mancuso said. "I felt like I executed everywhere I could, with no real big mistakes and my lines were good, so I just had to wait."
Kildow leads the downhill standings with 240 points, 85 more than Goetschl. Anja Paerson of Sweden finished fourth despite feeling ill before the race.
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Sources: Headquarter job cuts ongoing at Wal-Mart, Sam's Club
Retail insiders and consultants to Wal-Mart Stores have told The City Wire the annual job elimination drill at corporate headquarters has been ongoing for the past two months with several hundred jobs between Wal-Mart and Sam's Club home office operations being shaved from the payrolls as fiscal 2014 winds to a close.
The underlying reason cited for what some sources say are deeper than normal home office job cuts is tight budgetary constraints as the retailer's fiscal year ends Jan. 31. Numbers from numerous sources contacted by The City Wire indicate a job cut and/or hiring freeze range between several hundred and up to 1,000.
There has no been release of this information from the company, and there seldom is where Wal-Mart is concerned as this is generally chalked up to routine annual job re-evaluation. As an employer of some 2 million, the retailer sees an active turnover rate, even at the upper income levels in the corporate office.
The last time Wal-Mart made a home office layoff announcement was 2010, when the retailer trimmed 300 jobs from the corporate payrolls. In January 2009, between 700 and 800 jobs were cut in the corporate office.
"As you probably know we haven't announced any home office organizational changes since 2010 and we aren't planning any broad announcements this year. It's correct to say that individual departments look at their teams on an ongoing basis to ensure the structure is consistent with the strategy but the numbers you are suggesting is not anything I'm aware of," Wal-Mart spokesman David Tovar noted Monday (Jan. 27) in an email.
Wal-Mart was asked to substantiate the number of open positions recently pulled from job listings and to quantify their recent home office layoffs, but the retailer said they have nothing planned like the "rumored cuts and speculation."
The retailer is within its 30-day quiet period mandated by the federal Securities and Exchange Commission for speaking to the media on sensitive issues ahead of earnings. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will report its fiscal 2014 earnings on Feb. 20.
Three independent consultants interviewed by The City WIre on Monday said they knew of internal streamlining underway at Sam's Club and Wal-Mart corporate offices. Sam's Club CEO Rosalind Brewer recently revealed that the Wal-Mart division is laying off 2,300 workers as the warehouse club seeks to reduce the level of middle managers. The staff reduction is roughly 2% of Sam's workforce, and is the largest staff reduction by the retailer since 2010.
At Sam's Club, the membership and the marketing units have been consolidated into one department eliminating several positions with that synergy. At Wal-Mart corporate some downsizing is also underway through attrition, pulled open positions (aka, hiring freeze) and position terminations.
"Those impacted are typically given 60 days notice, and told that they can apply for open jobs within the company," one of the consultants explained.
Bill Simon, CEO of Walmart U.S., has said at any given time the retailer has between 15,000 and 50,000 jobs open. There are roughly 10,000 corporate jobs in Bentonville between Sam's Club and Wal-Mart and their ancillary operational units.
Two former retail executives, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they knew several individuals with more than 25 years of service who were recently informed that their home office positions were being eliminated.
Ron Loveless, a former Sam's Club and Wal-Mart executive, told The City Wire that all brick and mortar retailers are under pressure as they are losing share to more online players. He said this is the time of year when retailers scale back their payrolls, and home office positions are not immune from that purge. Although Loveless said he has not personally heard of any major home office cutbacks at Wal-Mart and Sam's Clubs at this time, those recently announced in club operations were likely needed.
"Wal-Mart and Sam's Club are making substantial investments in their online operations and continue to hire people as they should. I wouldn't be surprised if there is some downsizing of other departments as a result," Loveless said.
He also praised the management teams of Wal-Mart and Sam's Club, saying if cuts are being made, they likely are justified during the challenging times for the retail sector.
Analysts with Kantar Retail have said Wal-Mart is struggling with its mature brick-and-mortar formats, and they expect the retail giant to face flat to 2% same-store sales for the foreseeable future.
Wal-Mart U.S. has reported negative same-store sales for the past two quarters and Sam's Club continues to underperform its major competitor Costco.


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Former Wizards guard Roger Mason Jr. scored 20 points in his return to his hometown as the Spurs won 97-86 on Saturday night in Washington. It was the Spurs' fifth victory in a row.
Tim Duncan led the Spurs with 23 points and seven rebounds.
Tony Parker had 12 points, Richard Jefferson had 11 and Manu Ginobili had 10.
The Spurs used a 9-2 run late in the game to lock up the victory.
Third quarter: Roger Mason has 18 points. Tim Duncan has 16. The Wizards lead 71-70 at the end of the third.
Second quarter: Former Wizard Roger Mason Jr. has 16 points off the bench for the Spurs. It's tied 50-50 at halftime.
First quarter: Tim Duncan has 10 points and the Spurs lead 30-24 at the end of the first quarter.
Mike Monroe provides an update on the Wizards' recent turmoil:
Spurs starters: Tony Parker, Keith Bogans, Richard Jefferson, Tim Duncan and DeJuan Blair.


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Joint press briefing with the NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and the President of Hungary, János Áder - Opening statement by the NATO Secretary General
NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
17 Jan. 2013
Joint press briefing
with the NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and the President of Hungary, János Áder - Opening statement by the NATO Secretary General
Good afternoon.
Mr President, I would like to welcome you on your first official visit to NATO.
Hungary is a dependable Ally. And the Alliance greatly values your country's strong support.
We are very grateful for the work that Hungarian troops are doing in Afghanistan to keep the country secure. By training the Afghan forces, you are helping to shape a better future for the Afghan people. And I welcome Hungary's intention to stay engaged in Afghanistan after our combat mission ends.
The transition of responsibility for security from ISAF to the Afghan forces is on track. Afghan soldiers and police are taking the lead for the security of almost 90 percent of the population. By mid-2013, they will be in the lead for the security of 100 percent of Afghans nation-wide. This will mark an important milestone. And by the end of 2014, they will be fully in charge of their own security across the country, and our ISAF mission will be completed.
Hungarian troops are also playing their part in our Kosovo mission. This reflects the importance Hungary attaches to the Western Balkans, a region which we all want to see anchored in Euro-Atlantic structures.
Hungary's contributions to our missions are even more valuable because they are made despite times of economic austerity. In tough times, it is even more important that we do better with what we have, and work together as much as we can.
Hungary has already joined a number of important projects. You host our Strategic Airlift Capability, three C-17 heavy transport planes which are shared by 10 Allies and two partners. You also participate in several other multinational projects, such as the pooling and sharing of medical facilities.
We should all keep looking for more opportunities to cooperate. And we must hold the line on defence spending as our economies start to recover.
So let me thank you, Mr President, for your support, and Hungary's support. I will continue to count on that support in the months to come.
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Legal Question in Family Law in Illinois
I have been divorced from my childrens dad for 7 years. At the time of settlement I rec'd the normal child support, and also spousal support for a time of 30 months. Recently, I have been unemployed since Oct 2012 and my home is in forclosure - is this grounds to get temporary spousal support (although it said in decree once the 30 months up, I was barred from asking again).
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Sue Roberts-Kurpis, Esq. Law Office of Sue Roberts-Kurpis
You can't get additional maintenance but you could possibly file for an increase in child support.
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Water in the desert
In this week's news section, reporter Jack King highlights a lack of transparency when it comes to the Dirt City's water supply.
The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority spent millions on a project that's designed to take some of the strain off our aquifer. We divert water from the Colorado River Basin and add it to the Rio Grande. But the utility hasn't met its relief objectives for 2009 and 2010, and the governing board had no idea, according to King's story.
The utility's promised to up its transparency game.
This week, County Commissioner Art De La Cruz wrote a letter to the Alibi defending the project. He writes:
First and foremost, after three years of project operation the U.S. Geological Survey is reporting that the aquifer is showing signs of rebound. According to the USGS New Mexico Water Science Center, increases in winter groundwater levels (which are most representative of aquifer condition) are being observed. This is consistent with predictions from model simulations wherein groundwater pumping was reduced in favor of using surface water. Given that the water-level trend had generally been downward through the early part of this decade, the reversal is an extremely positive development.
Read the rest of his letter in the next edition of the Alibi, which will be online tomorrow evening. And look for another article by King in the coming weeks.
How much do City officials make?
Berry's expanded online transparency efforts
Mayor Richard Berry provided us with a new online time-waster Wednesday on the city's ABQ View government transparency website. The database list includes the names, departments, positions, base pay and total year-to-date earnings of all 6,000 city employees. It will be updated every pay period. Seriously, I've already looked up the salaries for the Police Department and am moving on to Parks and Recreation as soon as I finish writing this blog.
ABQ View launched in August of 2010 and started out by publishing the names (or positions) and salaries of appointed officials and the 250 highest-paid employees. The city is the first in New Mexico to publish this information on all employees who's salaries come from tax-payer money, according to the Albuquerque Journal.
Due to Berry's efforts on increasing government openness, the city received a Sunny Award from the Sunshine Review for a perfect record in transparency. Only 112 governmental entities throughout the country have received this distinction from the nonprofit organization that collects and shares state and local government information.
Some city employees expressed concerns about publicizing a notoriously taboo subject like salary, but Berry pushed ahead saying that the community deserves to know how its money is spent. Concerns about identity theft have not been substantiated.
The expansion of the website allows interested parties to search out instances of nepotism as well as examine the database for tax money spent on travel expenses and city contracts. For the incurably nosy, its the peephole we've been waiting for.
Making Sausage
Playing Chicken With Millions
Senators battled as the final moments of the 2011 legislative session ticked away
If an eye for an eye makes everyone blind, a bill for a bill leaves our roads messed up and our senior centers unfunded.
During the legislative session, most measures are passed in the final days, hours and even minutes. As the clock wound down on Saturday, March 19, lawmakers threw a wrench in the works to force one of the governor's priorities through. But it didn't work, and in the end, Gov. Susana Martinez' "social promotion" education bill got left behind—and so did millions for improvements around the state.
Making Sausage
Free the Data—Crack open the databases, New Mexico. Taxpayers want a look. Under Rep. Joseph Cervantes' (D-Las Cruces) bill, the state would allow people to peruse electronic collections of data "maintained by or on behalf of a public body."
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See-Through Government
The latest word in New Mexico government is "transparency." Mayor Richard Berry's administration released its new transparency website, ABQ View (cabq.gov/abq-view), on Aug. 25. Sunshine Review, a national nonprofit that focuses on the issue, says the city site "achieved not just every mark on Sunshine Review's transparency checklist, but also nailed all our suggested data as well. Data is even downloadable in different formats."


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Data Capture Approaches - Best Practices to Obtain Value
There are several ways for data capture applications to classify pages, find fields, and extract data. All data capture packages employs the following to recognize information on scanned images:
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
- Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) for hand-print
- Optical Mark Recognition (OMR)
- Barcode technologies
Locating and Identifying Values
For the purposes of this discussion, templates are static and definitions are dynamic. The methods used to classify and locate information vary slightly from package to package, but there are four primary approaches:
- Templates
- Iterative Templates
- Data Keyword Pairs
- Combination of Iterative Templates and Data Keywords Pairs
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Issue No. 03 - May/June (2012 vol. 32)
pp: 7-16
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MM.2012.16
Andrew Brownsword , Electronic Arts
Wilson W.L. Fung , University of British Columbia
Inderpreet Singh , University of British Columbia
Tor M. Aamodt , University of British Columbia
Programming GPUs is challenging for applications with irregular fine-grained communication between threads. To improve the programmability of GPUs and thus extend their usage to a wider range of applications, the authors propose to enable transactional memory (TM) on GPUs via Kilo TM, a novel hardware TM system that scales to thousands of concurrent transactions.
SIMD processors, hardware-software interface, parallel processors, transactional memory, GPU, KILO TM, fine-grained communication
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – After playing professional baseball for nearly a decade, a former Gopher has come back to Minnesota to help his college team.
Rob Quinlan has rejoined the Gophers after playing eight seasons with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. In his college days, he was a star player who set many Gopher records, but now he plays a different role with the Gophers.
He is the Gopher's volunteer assistant coach and he is learning to see the game in a new way.
"I'm done playing now, so I thought it would be great for me to come out here and share some of my experiences," Quinlan said.
The Gopher's head coach, John Anderson, said they asked him to join the team because of his ability to communicate the game.
"I think he's got a great understanding of the game, but … he's got a way of really connecting with people," Anderson said.
Quinlan isn't quite ready to call his playing career over, but he is waiting to take the next step. So far, Quinlan still feels comfortable in a baseball uniform.
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It's Easter Sunday, and Jesus is alive.
But let's look at Friday, Jesus the great king is defeated, hanging on a cross.
The crowds gathered at the cross hear the words "It is finished" and they do not see a victorious saviour, bringing an end to sin and death. They see their defeated champion saying "This is the end"
Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea take his body, the body of the greatest one they have ever known.
Isn't this what religion so often tries to do?
"If we can just try and hold onto this old story, this old tradition, this memory for a little bit longer."
Metaphorically you can feel the tension, they want to preserve this dead thing. There is hopelessness and there is darkness that rolls over the entire earth.
And as the hours roll by and Saturday arrives, there's a tension in the air. There's the tension of the promises of Jesus and God broken and unfulfilled.
For some of us Saturday has never ended. We are still sat in the middle of a failed story, with all our hopes and our dreams left in a tomb somewhere.
All we have is a memory of the past, but no hope for the future.
It reminds me of the hopelessness of Ecclesiastes.
"What do people get for all their hard work under the sun? 4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth never changes. 5 The sun rises and the sun sets, then hurries around to rise again. 6 The wind blows south, and then turns north. Around and around it goes, blowing in circles. 7 Rivers run into the sea, but the sea is never full. Then the water returns again to the rivers and flows out again to the sea. 8 Everything is wearisome beyond description. No matter how much we see, we are never satisfied. No matter how much we hear, we are not content." Ecclesiastes 1:3-8
The writer draws his conclusion in chapter 2
"So I came to hate life because everything done here under the sun is so troubling. Everything is meaningless–like chasing the wind."Ecclesiastes 2:17
Do we live like it's Saturday…
In the shame of Peter, afraid alone and full of regret. He has rejected the one that he loves. He has walked away from the one that chose and loved him.
Have you ever made a mistake that has brought shame to your life. A mistake that went against the very thing that you believed for yourself. A mistake that you thought there was no way back from. Can you sit with Peter for a minute and feel his pain. He can't even say sorry because Jesus is dead.
Can you imagine the regret that Peter is feeling the pain and the hurt.
The hours roll past and Sunday comes. Light breaks over the horizon, the sun rises again. The breathe of God comes over Jesus and his eyes open. He is alive, the son of God is awake. The greatest surprise in human history has taken place and many people don't even realise it was happening.
As the sun rose on Jerusalem that day it was the first day of a whole new creation. Do you know most people are still living like it's Saturday they don't realise that the son of God has opened His eyes.
The resurrection changed everything for Peter.
In John 21 you see the disciples fishing out on the lake, they've been at it all night and caught nothing. They hear this voice call to them from the shore and quickly remember the voice of their saviour who called them those three years ago. It says they follow the instructions of Jesus and the nets are full of fish. Peter jumps in the water and swims to shore.
Have you ever made a mistake that just destroys you?
Jesus looks at the eyes of Peter and says "Do you love me Simon son of John? You're going to be a Shepherd not a fisherman, feed my lambs"
"Do you love me Peter?" "Take care of my sheep" Then after a while he looks back over at Peter, I know all you wanted to do was say sorry, but I want to ask you again
"Do you love me Peter?"
"You Know I love you"
"Feed my sheep"
He reinstates Peter for the three times he failed. Three times he welcomes him back with love in the middle of his greatest pain. The resurrection meets us and takes away our greatest pain.
He wants to meet you if your hopeless
He wants to meet you if you hard work
He wants to meet you if your disillusioned and doubting
He wants to meet you if you feel like you have failed and your unrecoverable, there is no mistake that he will walk away of.
He walks through walls you have put up and doors that you've locked.
Because Jesus awoke to resurrection life He is saying no matter the situation no matter who you are. I will restore your worth, dignity and hope.
Sunday is here


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Lexington Herald Leader, December 27, 2011
A year has passed since the announcement by Denver-based Catholic Healthcare Initiatives (CHI) of the proposed merger of St. Joseph Health System (SJHS) with the University of Lousville's University Hospital and other Louisville hospitals. Much has been said and written of the merger, much of it confusing and increasingly contradictory. Merger leaders initially held that the Catholic Ethical and Religious Directives (ERDs) must be followed by merger partners. These directives prohibit procedures that the Catholic Church views as intrinsically evil such as contraception, direct sterilization, and abortion.


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Thank you for excusing the rather late posting of these minutes. Andrea Jones was very kind to provide me a copy of her notes, which have only been slightly edited below for clarity and continuity.
We had a very nice gathering poolside at the Residence Inn Mount Pleasant on the morning after the Charleston Games, with the largest attendance in years and 17 bands represented by the time the meeting closed. One disappointment is that there were no additional candidates who came forward to run for any of the branch offices for 2017-18. In addition, the Branch Secretary was absent due to work commitments and the Branch Treasurer (whose duties have been stripped due to the current funding procedures of the Association) was also excused due to making airport deliveries for judges of the weekend's events. On a side note, thanks to Peter Armstrong for bringing the Charleston Games back on-par through his very able directorship of the Piping and Drumming events. Andrea Jones, Pipe Major of the Loch Norman Pipe Band, very graciously agreed to take minutes of the meeting. Thank you Andrea! The minutes are as follows per Andrea's submission:
Meeting held at Residence Inn Mt. Pleasant, SC. Meeting brought to order at 9:30am.
In attendance: Bill Caudill, Jim Dillahey, Eric MacNeill, Bobby Minnear, Jerry Finegan, Ian MacKenzie, Andrea Jones, Tom Crawford, Josh Collins, Martina Murphy. Bands represented: Atlanta 3, Atlanta 4, North Georgia, Dunedin 2, Dunedin 4, Dunedin High School 3, Dunedin High School 4, Dunedin Middle School 5, Loch Norman, Charleston 4, Charleston 5, St. Andrews University, Wake and District 4, Wake and District 5, Wake and District 3, Citadel 4, Citadel 5.
Chairman Caudill opened the meeting with an overview of current Branch incentives, beginning with the Over 50 Solo event pilot program, discussion enused:
1. 50 and over competition. Keep it. Options of 2/4 two parts? 4 parts? Write letter to other games to encourage them to participate.
2. Opening Ceremonies-Brutal for Bands. Stand in the sun. Maybe develop a format for the Bands to come in, play, and move off. Try to work with the Games to come up with a plan for the Bands to not stand around.
-rebuttal: A lot of pomp and circumstance. People want to see the Bands and Clans, etc. We cannot dictate to Games…
-Suggest a model of speakers and then bring the Bands in. Bands are on and off.
-Be considerate of the heat and instruments.
Make a proposal to standardize Opening Ceremonies in the South.
Proposal seconded. Motion passed.
– No other candidates for Office for 2017-18 outside of incumbent Chairman Caudill.
– No nominations for any other offices by announced deadline or at this meeting.
– No treasurer position due to running everything through EUSPBA. Most Branches eliminating the position.
-Al McMullin would like to either run and work together, or run against current Branch President. This communicated to current Chair. Intent to eventually split back to a Florida Branch. He can run or be offered an Officer at Large position. Voice wanted in the different directions and regions of the Branch. Current chair will contact Al with suggestion and input or decision.
-There is no "co" position at this time. Suggested Al run for Secretary if he wants to "help". No complaints have been heard to suggest that Florida wants to break away from the Southern Branch.
After further contact, Al McMullin declined to run for either of the Branch positions, but is running as a write-in candidate for EUSPBA President
Chairman Caudill to serve by acclimation, and will either make selections or take volunteers for Secretary position as well as name other at-large officers to insure coverage of the Branch's geographical area. This to happen prior to the new year 2017.
4. Branch Monitor coordinator is concerned that there is not enough communication with Florida area. Suggestion that they also need to get more monitors. Branch Chair to communicate with Games organizers to insure that proper monitoring is taking place.
-Sanctioning packet needs to be revamped. Will be discussed and brought up at the AGM.
5. EUSPBA has a continuous calendar now. Must keep up. We no longer have an "off" season. We need to evolve. Most Bands have a void from Greenville to Charleston. The void will allow our bands to travel overseas and up north. Discussion ensued.
-Mid-season regrading for Bands in Florida this year. Maybe it should no longer happen in December but should be continuous throughout the year. For Bands and Soloists.
-What do the Bands think of having 3 "major" competitions for the Season?
-Encourage Bands to travel more throughout the region. Both for Florida to come up here and encourage our Bands to go down there.
For more on this, please see the Branch website for a update soon on the "re-envisioning" of our contest calendar from the current January through October model within our Branch.
6. Proposal of a Branch Advisory committee. Discussion ensued on branch seats.
Long term controversy regarding Officers at Large in the Association. EUSPBA rules state that officer at large positions are appointed and not elected.
7. AGM Agenda items:
A: gather agenda items for AGM
1. -First ever Concert format contest held in our Branch.
Thoughts on competition: Echo and location, lack of information ahead of time regarding stage/conditions, location of the judges in the audience, should they be together or allowed to sit wherever they want? Precedence is that judges are usually together. Point made that it needs to be consistent. Try to insure more acoustically friendly venues for any future events.
-Discussion ensued on having more of these "concert" formats outdoors.
Send proposal saying that Southern Branch would like the rules and regulations to be examined by EUSPBA to be for pipe band competitions in concert format. (See Bill's notes for exact wording).
2. Proposal made by Jerry and Bobby on Instructor rules. Playing members of lower grade bands have the benefit of playing in a higher grade band. Discussion ensued on the Instructor rule. Problems for players. Flying in players to compete.
-Proposal: allow players to play in multiple bands. See Jerry's written proposal to be sent to Bill.
Examples given. Allowing more people to play in Bands will help the Bands.
On the other hand…it was brought to attention that what happens when you play in several Bands? Can you give each Band the time and energy that they need? Higher level Bands could end up eating lower level bands. Other side…people are committed to their local Band, but also want to play in the higher grade band. Won't want to leave their local Band.
-it is worth discussing on a higher level.
Jerry will send example to Bill to bring it up at the AGM.
Proposal seconded. Motion passed.
3. Discussion ensued on MSR playing in Grade 4 as well as the rather poor average standard of Grade IV bands in the Branch at this time – references made to the previous day's contest.
4. Another agenda item: judging sheets for solos. Giving a rating 0 to 4.
-Discussion ensued. Language can be ambiguous.
-talked about points given. Gives a better indication of who is ahead. Analogy used: batting average.
Positive attributes and Negative attributes to this.
Proposal wordage decided on. See Bill's notes. Item added to Branch Agenda items.
5. Proposal made to consider letting lower grade bands challenge up. Games do not have to allow it, but Bands should have the option.
Proposal: Eliminate the restriction of allowing Bands to challenge up. See Bill's notes.
Proposal Seconded. Motion passed.
Discussion ensued to promote a drumming contest. Possibly helping Games to promote drumming. Maybe the judge can give a workshop after competition.
Comment – Money is there in the EUSPBA to run events but people are needed to do them.
Summary Comments/ Follow Up:
Bill will contact Al. Bill will also submit voted-on agenda items to EC for addition to AGM Agenda.
Should elections be held? No nominees? Acclamation?
Official Website to be primary source of communication within the branch. Tom Crawford asked to remain as Branch webmaster for official site. Need to be more involved on Social Media to help the membership keep up with the happenings, but without politics. Desire to create an OFFICIAL Branch social media presence.
Nothing else.
Meeting closed at 11:53am.
1) The Southern Branch requests that the Music Board examine the rules and regulations for pipe band competitions and how they relate to, or differ from, "concert format." We request that rules and guidelines for such "concert formation" contests be provided for the upcoming season.
2) The Southern Branch requests that the Music Board explore the option of putting "qualitative analysis" relative to grade level back on all scoresheets.
3) The Southern Branch proposes that the current prohibition on lower grade band contest challenges be eliminated and such challenges allowed.
4) The Southern Branch proposes that there be a proposed format created for opening ceremonies for Games events which will be more band-friendly.
5) Finegan/Minnear Proposal which was received later than other items and was submitted just as received for consideration at the AGM. Proposal is as follows:
Allow players to play in multiple bands – 1 year trial
Over the last several decades there has been an ever increasing trend for larger bands in the upper grades coupled with a rise in the overall skill level of players, which has also resulted in the draining of the lower grade bands as players move to higher grade bands where they can continue their personal growth and be challenged musically. The move to higher grade bands is a natural and healthy progression for up and coming players. This proposal seeks to 1) maximize the sharing of knowledge and experience from higher grade bands with lower grade bands and 2) find a balance between a musician's personal growth and maintaining the viability of that musician's local/home band.
1. Musicians would only be allowed to play in one band per grade
2. Musicians would NOT be allowed to play in multiple bands within the same umbrella organization.
Bands within the same organization would use the current Instructor rule.
3. No band can have more than a 25% overlap of rosters with another band.
4. The Instructor rule will still be in effect
These proposals will be submitted and spoken for on behalf of the Branch by Chairman Caudill in Baltimore.


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Structural reform of Japanese electric power industry: Separation between generation and transmission & distribution
This study examines the cost structure of Japanese electric power industry to investigate whether a structural reform on the industry really enhances a cost-saving benefit to consumers. A composite cost function model, using a panel data set, is used for this study. The data set consists of nine electric power companies from 1990 to 2008. Based upon the estimation results, this study examines whether economies of scale and vertical economies exist in the industry. Then, this study conducts a cost subadditivity test that is a necessary condition of natural monopoly. The empirical results indicate that the electric power firms exhibit the status of economies of scale in their transmissions and distributions and the operation as a whole. However, they do not exhibit economies of scale in their generations. Thus, the transmission operation, by integration, in a large area can improve its economic efficiency. Furthermore, the industry should introduce more competition in both generation and wholesale power markets where more firms can participate in their power trades. This study also empirically confirms that vertical economies have existed in the industry. Moreover, this study confirms that all the estimates in the cost subadditivity test satisfy the necessary condition of natural monopoly, where each estimate indicates cost saving in cost subadditivity. The test does not guarantee a sufficient condition of natural monopoly. However, it clearly indicates that the functional separation between generation and transmission will increase total production cost in the industry. The complete separation may result in a net loss of economic efficiency if a competition benefit does not exceed an expected economic loss. Consequently, this study suggests that the industrial structure of future Japanese electric power industry should be evaluated from not only an expected benefit by introducing competition but also an unbundling cost that occurs with a loss of vertical integration.
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Around 9 months old many babies are sitting unsupported and keen to explore the world around them even further. You may have noticed your baby rising up on all fours, lifting their body as if they're ready to move off and then crumple to the floor at the sheer effort of it all. This is a typical pre-crawling stage, testing out the component parts that make actual crawling a possibility. They will attempt to crawl when they are ready and not before.
Some babies crawl on their tummies and some crawl on their bottoms; both methods are fine and your baby will do what suits them best. Regardless of the method they adopt, it all responds to children's innate urge to move and discover. Chase noisy toys such as the Baby Safari Chime Ball encourages them to crawl.


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I Need Your Help With . . . Dog Destruction!
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It seems that Luca is getting a kick out of destroying everything in sight whenever he is kind of alone. Of course he is never alone, but Lance has proven not be such a whirlwind of trouble. Every time I leave my house and come back I always wonder what now he will have found to rip up. Today it was the water bottles I haven't put in the fridge yet and kibble. At least he didn't eat the food he just rips the packages open and is very happy with the result. He is also very happy when I get home. Now Lance is a completely different story. You leave and he sets himself up on his chair and just stays there. He doesn't wander around or wants to destroy he just sleeps. Now I have tried everything I could think of. Left loads of toys and tried to keep him busy with a kong and so on, but nothing seems to help. Even so I think it's getting worse. He has even found my bag and decided that whatever was in there it had to be taken out. I could really do with some help from you guys and tips to see what I can do to stop this.
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LA Good Question: Where to Buy the Doily Lucite Table?
Ahhh, drooling over all the beautiful things we see everyday in blogland, it's not easy deciding to actually buy something. Let's help Shellena who finally decided she wanted to buy this Lucite Doily Table but now can't find it anywhere! Have you seen it online or in person?
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(TPM) — A pro-life leader in the House says he and many other Republicans will vote against legislation to fund the government through September if a series of anti-abortion riders, which already passed the House, aren't included in the final bill.
"I'm going to push so hard to make sure those are all in there," Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) told The Takeaway. "You can't back off, from a human rights perspective. If you do so you facilitate the demise of hundreds of thousands of children."
Smith said several Republicans would defect on the spending bill if the abortion riders are removed. He focused specifically on one amendment, authored by Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), eliminating federal funds for Planned Parenthood.