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You Have to See What Sound Really Looks Like
We're not talking about digital renderings of sound waves or synesthesia! This amazing video from NPR's science tumblr Skunk Bear uses an interesting photographic technique to capture what it looks like when sound waves push against the air.
It's incredible actually seeing the sound of hands clapping:
and being able to see sound vibrations leave a speaker!
Whether you're a musician or a music lover, sound is a huge, yet normally invisible, part of your life. What do you think about these photos and video of sounds? Let us know in the comments below!


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Research Topics
I Needham
Affiliation: University Hospital
Country: Switzerland
Detail Information
- The effect of a training course on nursing students' attitudes toward, perceptions of, and confidence in managing patient aggressionIan Needham
Research Unit, University of Applied Science, Fribourg, Switzerland
J Nurs Educ 44:415-20. 2005..We tentatively conclude that it is possible to enhance nursing students' perceived confidence in managing patient aggression without changing their fundamental views of it...
- Coercive procedures and facilities in Swiss psychiatryIan Needham
Kantonale Psychiatric Hospital, CH 9500 Wil, Switzerland
Swiss Med Wkly 132:253-8. 2002..Coercive measures in psychiatry,although in many cases effective in violence management and injury reduction, have been criticised from a consumerist point of view...
- The perception of aggression by nurses: psychometric scale testing and derivation of a short instrumentI Needham
School of Nursing, Fribourg, Switzerland
J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs 11:36-42. 2004..69 and r = 0.67 for the two POAS factors with retest reliabilities of r = 0.76 and r = 0.77. The shortened scale offers a practical and viable alternative to the longer version...
- [Effects of aggression management trainings for mental health care and disability care staff--systematic review]Dirk Richter
Westfälische Klinik Münster, Munster, Germany
Psychiatr Prax 34:7-14. 2007..Aggression management trainings for staff have been implemented in many organizations of mental health care and disability care. The efficacy of such programmes has rarely been analysed...
- Structured risk assessment and violence in acute psychiatric wards: randomised controlled trialChristoph Abderhalden
Nursing and Social Education Research Unit, University Bern Psychiatric Services, Bolligenstrasse 111, Berne 60, Switzerland
Br J Psychiatry 193:44-50. 2008..There is a lack of research on the possible contribution of a structured risk assessment to the reduction of aggression in psychiatric in-patient care...
- Frequency and severity of aggressive incidents in acute psychiatric wards in SwitzerlandChristoph Abderhalden
Nursing and Social Education Research Unit, University Bern Psychiatric Services, Berne, Switzerland
Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health 3:30. 2007..Variations in study designs, settings, populations, and data collection methods render comparisons of the incidence of aggressive behaviour in high risk settings difficult...
- The Impact of Patient Aggression on Carers Scale: instrument derivation and psychometric testingIan Needham
University of Applied Science, Fribourg, Switzerland
Scand J Caring Sci 19:296-300. 2005....
- The effect of a training course in aggression management on mental health nurses' perceptions of aggression: a cluster randomised controlled trialI Needham
Head of Research Unit, University of Applied Science, Route des Cliniques 15, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
Int J Nurs Stud 42:649-55. 2005..A repeated measures design was employed to monitor change. No effect was found. The short time frame between the training course and the follow up measurement or non-responsiveness of the measurement instruments may explain this finding...
- Non-somatic effects of patient aggression on nurses: a systematic reviewIan Needham
School of Nursing, University of Applied Sciences, Route des Cliniques 15, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
J Adv Nurs 49:283-96. 2005..Background. Patient aggression towards nurses is a longstanding problem in most nursing domains. Although reports on the consequences of physical aggression are more numerous, the non-physical effects create much suffering...
- The effectiveness of two interventions in the management of patient violence in acute mental inpatient settings: report on a pilot studyI Needham
University Berne Psychiatric Services, Berne, Switzerland
J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs 11:595-601. 2004..Further testing of the interventions is necessary to measure the effect of the training alone and to counteract 'ward effects'...
- Predicting inpatient violence in acute psychiatric wards using the Brøset-Violence-Checklist: a multicentre prospective cohort studyC Abderhalden
Nursing and Social Educatio Research Unit, University Berne Psychiatric Services, Bolligenstrasse, CH 300 Bern 60, Switzerland
J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs 11:422-7. 2004..1%, and the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve 0.88. In some false positive cases intense preventive measures had been implemented. The predictive accuracy of the BVC-G proved consistent with the Norwegian original...
- The effect of a training course on mental health nurses' attitudes on the reasons of patient aggression and its managementS Hahn
Insel Education Centre, Department of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedics, University Hospital Berne, Berne, Switzerland
J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs 13:197-204. 2006..Moreover, it remains questionable to what extent a single instrument of measurement can record attitude changes...
- Testing the Q-DIO as an instrument to measure the documented quality of nursing diagnoses, interventions, and outcomesMaria Müller-Staub
Pflege PBS, Bern, Switzerland
Int J Nurs Terminol Classif 19:20-7. 2008..To describe pilot testing of Quality of Diagnoses, Interventions and Outcomes (Q-DIO), an instrument to measure quality of nursing documentation...
- [Nursing diagnoses, interventions and outcomes--application and impact on nursing practice: a systematic literature review]Maria Müller-Staub
Pflege 20:352-71. 2007..The relationships among diagnoses, interventions and outcomes require further evaluation. Studies are needed to determine the relationship between the quality of documentation and practice...
- [Measuring patient satisfaction in an emergency unit of a Swiss university hospital: concept clarification and results (part 1)]Maria Müller-Staub
Notfallzentrum Insel, Universitatsspital Bern, Schweiz
Pflege 21:172-9. 2008..83, .82, .70) and criterion validity was supported. Further results will be presented and discussed in part two of the study (Müller-Staub, Meer, Briner, Probst & Needham, 2008)...
- Nursing diagnoses, interventions and outcomes - application and impact on nursing practice: systematic reviewMaria Müller-Staub
Saint Louis University School of Nursing, St Louis, Missouri, USA
J Adv Nurs 56:514-31. 2006..Specifically, it examines effects on documentation of assessment quality; frequency, accuracy and completeness of nursing diagnoses; and on coherence between nursing diagnoses, interventions and outcomes...
- [Effect of a training course in management of aggression and violence on nursing students]Adelheid Zeller
Kantonale Psychiatrische Dienste Wil und FHS St Gallen, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Schweiz
Pflege 19:251-8. 2006..The results show that the training course can lead to improvements in nursing students' self-efficacy and confidence...
- [Measuring patient satisfaction in an emergency unit of a Swiss university hospital: occurrence of anxiety, insecurity, worry, pain, dyspnoea, nausea, thirst and hunger, and their correlation with patient satisfaction (part 2)]Maria Müller-Staub
Notfallzentrum Insel, Universitatsspital Bern, Schweiz
Pflege 21:180-8. 2008..The results of both studies (part 1+2) (Müller-Staub, Meer, Briner, Probst & Needham, 2008) are discussed, conclusions drawn and implications for practice and research presented...
- Meeting the criteria of a nursing diagnosis classification: Evaluation of ICNP, ICF, NANDA and ZEFPMaria Müller-Staub
Pflege PBS, Stettlerstrasse 15, CH 3006 Bern, Switzerland
Int J Nurs Stud 44:702-13. 2007..Few studies described nursing diagnosis classification criteria and how classifications meet these criteria...
- Development of an instrument to measure the quality of documented nursing diagnoses, interventions and outcomes: the Q-DIOMaria Müller-Staub
Pflege PBS, Bern, Switzerland
J Clin Nurs 18:1027-37. 2009..Because research-based instruments were not available, the instrument Quality of documentation of nursing Diagnoses, Interventions and Outcomes (Q-DIO) was developed...
- [Quality of nursing diagnoses, interventions and outcomes: criteria and operationalization of the measurement instrument Q-DIO]Maria Müller-Staub
Pflege PBS Projekte, Beratung, Schulung, Bern, Schweiz
Pflege 21:327-38. 2008..Further testing of the validity and reliability of the Q-DIO is recommended...
- Implementing nursing diagnostics effectively: cluster randomized trialMaria Müller-Staub
PBS, Stettlerstrasse 15 3600 Bern, Switzerland
J Adv Nurs 63:291-301. 2008..This paper is a report of a study to investigate the effect of guided clinical reasoning. This method was chosen as a follow-up educational measure (refresher) after initial implementation of standardized language...
- Aggressive behavior of nursing home residents toward caregivers: a systematic literature reviewAdelheid Zeller
School of Nursing, Department of Health, University of Applied Science, St Gallen, Switzerland
Geriatr Nurs 30:174-87. 2009..Furthermore, there was a lack of information about "triggering" factors and interactive events during personal care in the referenced publications...
- [Nursing diagnoses in acute psychiatric wards in Switzerland and Austria: commonalities and differences]Christoph Abderhalden
Forschungsstelle Pflege und Pädagogik, Universitäre Psychiatrische Dienste UPD Bern
Pflege 20:149-56. 2007..20 NANDA diagnoses account for a large portion of the care problems of acute psychiatric patients. Local differences in the use of the diagnostic process deserve further examination...
- [Wil Psychiatric Clinic. Criteria for evaluating nursing plans]Ian Needham
Krankenpfl Soins Infirm 96:28. 2003
- Predicting inpatient violence using an extended version of the Brøset-Violence-Checklist: instrument development and clinical applicationChristoph Abderhalden
Nursing and Social Education Research Unit, University Bern, Bolligenstrasse 111, 3000 Bern 60, Switzerland
BMC Psychiatry 6:17. 2006....
- [Anxiety and stress as a fertile field for aggression]Sabine Hahn
Universität Maastricht, NL
Krankenpfl Soins Infirm 101:19-21. 2008
- The Management of Aggression and Violence Attitude Scale (MAVAS): a cross-national comparative studyJoy Duxbury
Department of Nursing, University of Central Lancashire, UK
J Adv Nurs 62:596-606. 2008..This paper is a report of a study to determine the transferability of the Management of Aggression and Violence Attitude Scale to European mental health inpatient settings...
- Nursing students' experiences in managing patient aggressionJohannes Nau
Evangelisches Bildungszentrum für Pflegeberufe Stuttgart, Protestant Centre of Nursing Education Stuttgart gGmbH, Stöckachstrasse 48, 70190 Stuttgart, Germany
Nurse Educ Today 27:933-46. 2007..To gain more insight into student nurses' educational outcomes in Germany the view of the target group was explored...
- Improved quality of nursing documentation: results of a nursing diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes implementation studyMaria Müller-Staub
Pflege PBS, Stettlerstrasse 15, CH 3006 Bern, Switzerland
Int J Nurs Terminol Classif 18:5-17. 2007..To evaluate the impact of the quality of nursing diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes in an acute care hospital following the implementation of an educational program...
- [Nursing science--still not visible enough?]Ian Needham
Pflege 19:3. 2006
- [Learning from the interaction]Ian Needham
Pflege Z 57:521. 2004

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Millions for clean energy projects, advanced building codes
The Dept. of Energy will award $6.6 million in competitive grants for clean energy projects and advanced building codes.
The Dept. of Energy (DOE) recently announced that it will award $6.6 million in competitive grants for 15 state-level projects, nine of which focus on developing policy and regulations to support gigawatt-scale clean energy capacity, and six of which focus on developing advanced building codes.
Of these awards, $4 million will go to the gigawatt-scale clean energy capacity projects, which will develop policy and regulatory frameworks that will enable gigawatt-scale clean energy, either through renewable energy or demand-side reductions.
Although no cost share was mandated, state partners will contribute up to $1.8 million for these projects. The six advanced building codes projects will receive $2.6 million, which will assist states in developing and implementing residential, commercial, or overarching building codes. Along with its financial assistance, DOE will support these projects with ongoing technical assistance.
Of the nine clean energy capacity projects, three will go to states that are focusing on electrical grid infrastructure: Colorado will examine barriers and incentives to expand its transmission grid for renewable energy projects, while Hawaii and Maryland will examine policies for smart grid technologies that could encourage the use of renewable energy, demand-side management, and energy storage.
Two states will focus on financing: Michigan will develop four pilot projects for utility financing of customers' cost-effective clean energy projects, with each loan repaid using a portion of the consumer's energy cost savings, while Wisconsin will draft regulations for low-interest loans for renewable energy projects. Wisconsin will also aim to convert up to 25 old, small coal-fired power plants to burn wood instead.
In the Southeast, Georgia will develop a framework for integrating clean energy supplies into the energy infrastructure of Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, while South Carolina will seek to overcome barriers for coastal wind, wave, and tidal energy projects. And in terms of energy efficiency, Arizona will create a streamlined and cost-effective home weatherization program, while Maine will partner with the Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnership to develop regional protocols for evaluating, measuring, verifying, and reporting demand-side resource impacts.
For the advanced building code projects, Florida, Massachusetts, Nebraska, and Washington are improving their existing residential or commercial energy codes in order to produce a 30% energy usage reduction over the existing codes. In addition, North Carolina will update its state energy code by 2010, while California plans to build the California Building Energy Efficiency Standards Learning Management System, an online system that will educate building department processionals about enforcing its current building energy efficiency standards and the next standards update.
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Compass rear camber
I've got a 2008 Jeep Compass, 2.4L Manual, FWD.
When i switched from my summers to my winters I noticed that the inboard tread block on the summers were considerably worn. I took it to a shop to check it out, they told me that the bushings on the control arms etc were fine, but the alignment was way off (lots of negative camber and toe out).
so they fixed the toe-out, however they said that the camber in the rear is non adjustable, and is sitting at -1.8 degrees. they said the only way to fix it would be new rear struts, which if i remember correctly they quoted $465/side.
any tips/suggestions? i've seen some things online of special bolts to allow camber adjustment, should i be worried about tire wear? i realise the wear on my summers was from the camber +toe, but with the toe fixed will the camber alone cause wear issues? is the quote for struts reasonable?
thanks in advance!
I would think that yes, a wheel tilted in at the top would make it wear unevenly. However if it truly mattered, the car manufacturer would make it adjustable. So it must not matter. I'd leave it.
Springs can settle a bit, struts can settle a bit. Actually, people pay money to lower their cars. So you got a freebie. But that negative camber is going to cause premature wearing of your tires. So it's going to cost you if you DON'T do something about it. So you have a cost you need to incure either way. I go for the long term solution as it will ultimately pay for itself.
There are aftermarket camber adjustment kits to compensate for lowering. Did a quick google, and found this you tube video. If I ran into the same situation as you did, I'd be looking where to buy one of these kits. More adjustability for alighnments is always a good thing. The R&R or the arm itself looks really easy and the end result is a pretty common adjustability design. But unless you have the right tools, I'd take them to a machine shop do the indicated modifications.
For what it's worth, I've installed aftermarket camber adjustment kits in all my sports cars just to be sure I get a good alignment every time going forward.
Thanks a ton, I'll have to take a look at the video at home since I can't see it at work, I was leaning towards what you suggested, replacing the struts and getting the camber kit for future issues.
From my quick google I found these, which offer up to 1.75 degrees of adjustment, should be enough for me even if I don't change the struts.
Edit: Oops forgot to put on the link for the camber bolts: http://www.drivewire.com/vehicle/jee...alignment-kit/
Trying to figure out if the camber bolts will work on the rear, some sites say they are for front only, some seem to say they'll work front and back, that video you posted shows a camber arm instead of camber bolt which is a bit more expensive. Anyone have any experience that would be able to tell me if a camber bolt will work on the rear end of a compass?
The kit you gave link to is simply a pivot cam bolt replacement for the upper mounting bolt of a strut that pulls the top of the wheel inward or outward as you rotate the cam bolt. Most cars, including our Compass's, only have struts on the front. Rear are single mount shocks.
So that AC Delco kit (or the like) will only work for front adjustments. See diagram in the below post.
You'll need the kind of kit the video I gave link to for adding similar camber adjustment to the rear.
Well, I've got 2 camber arms on order from Amazon (they had the cheapest overall price with shipping, $200 all together) and have a shop lined up to do the work for me. They have to remove my factory upper control arms, press out the bushings, press them into the new arms, install, and align.
Should be fun, I'll try to post pics once theyre all set to go.
Had a problem with too much negative camber on my left rear. I took it to the dealer today and they said that the rear cradle was off a little, possible cause- a big pothole. I do remember hitting a bad one last winter about when that tire started wearing faster than the rest. They did a 4 wheel alignment and adjusted the cradle. $110. Now everything seems to be lined up. That's the first I ever heard of a rear cradle being out of place!
New to site. This talked about the rear camber not being adjustable. I know that I can get adjustable after market to install and then rear camber ( which is out on one side) can be brought back in. My question and I have searched but not found an answer either yea or nay, is is there anything other part that you would replace that would correct the problem? Would a new rear control arm fix? I would think not as it is a pretty solid piece. Rear bushing? Rear shocks? or is the only way to bring it back in limits is to add an adjustable arm?
Not oppsed to replacing the arm with an adjustable, just trying to figure my options.
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recommend really good schools half an hourish circumference from Windsor?(20 Posts)
We are moving from Canada over to the Uk. My hubby will work around Windsor ish area. We don't know where to start. We have two bright Primary school age girls who it would be good to see at a grammar school later on. The problem is we can't afford the top prices for property. So we need a nice village with reasonable prices, good primary schools and secondary school access. HAS ANYONE ANY IDEAS? PLEAEAEAEASE???? We are completely befoggled where would be a nice place to live?
Cheapside, neat Ascot. Fab primary school and catchment for Charters (not grammar but excellent comp - latin for bright kids and lots of expectation.)Or Cookham, which would give access to Bucks grammars. Depends how much money you want to spend. North Ascot a lot cheaper but still has excellent primary schooling. Or Maidenhead if have girls as could go to Newlands. Does that help a bit ?
Burnham is not bad. The house prices are quite reasonable, in catchment for Burnham grammar (amongst others) and 15mins from centre of Windsor (by car).
For Burnham primary schools- Priory is Ofsted Outstanding but I read in the paper that it is expanding to have 1000 on role- that would be too big for me to stomach. Lynch Hill is also 'outstanding' but the actual immediate area it is in is not great- not sure how close you would have to live to get in. Lent Rise used to have the most fabulous reputation and I think still has it's outstanding rating (as far as I know) and St Nicholas in Taplow is more 'villagey' and also supposed to be good. So there are quite a few choices!
Closer to Windsor the Laing Estate has reasonably priced housing and the 3 tier schooling system, which personally I think is good. Sadly Windsor Girls senior school is not a patch on Windsor Boys so less great for you in terms of senior schools.
I'm afraid, around here, if you want the quintessential English village you will have to pay top whack for a house! I can't think of a lovely village with reasonable house prices unless you were prepared to go as far out as somewhere like Wallingford.
<entirely off topic but I just read 'hourish circumference' as 'whorish circumstances' ... I think I need glasses>
Sorry, do carry on.
Just a thought- you might want to consider Wokingham. There are some great primary schools there and the Holt is a really good senior girls school.
Second Wokingham. Or Crowthorne. If you have church attendance then could live in Binfield, and go to Ranelagh for secondary (amazing school).
THANK YOU ALL SOOOOOMUCH .This is such a major help. All of the ideas above are a starting point which I will investigate. PLEASE keep em coming-insider knowledge is crucial to help us!!!!!!!!!!!
I used to live in Crowthorne and teach in Wokingham. Now live in Burnham and teach in Bourne End so I know the north western quadrant of your search area pretty well. PM me if you want to know any particulars of that area!
I'd avoid state schools in Windsor, tbh. The best one seems to be St Edward's Middle (up to year 8), but you need to live within spitting distance.
There is modestly priced housing in Windsor, btw - lots to Victorian cottages. You have to trade size for location.
The best comprehensives close to Windsor are Charters (Sunningdale/Ascot) and Ranelagh (Bracknell). They have large catchment areas which include modest housing.
The part of Surrey close to Windsor is not great for schools, unfortunately.
Slough grammars are very overcrowded.
Can you stretch to private schooling?
My friend's kids are at St Edwards (and it is fantastic). She does live within spitting distance now but when she got them in she lived on the Laing in Dedworth which is not that close? She is catholic though
in theory.
I'm not sure being able to go private helps much actually in Windsor does it? I suppose there is the Bridgidine but I believe it has financial troubles.
My money would still be on Wokingham with a view to the Holt.
EBD, all independent schools in the Windsor area have financial troubles (maybe not Eton). The school you mentioned has had quite public financial troubles recently, but they are now being managed by a team of top accountants and troubleshooters, I believe. A lot of independent schools will be looking to them to learn how to do their finances properly.
Oh good, I'm very glad to hear that of the Brigidine MrsMeaner. My friend (mentioned above) went there herself on a scholarship and certainly got a fantastic education. Last I heard was all the free school business in the papers.
I meant that there just aren't many senior independent schools in Windsor. Lots of preps but you are looking at further afield for senior unless you want Eton or the Brigidine
racks brains for others but can't think of any.
True, the senior schools are further afield - Sir William Perkins's, St George's Weybridge, The Abbey, etc., but they buses from Windsor, as well as fairly decent public transport.
It's hard to pick and area that is right for schooling all the way through. Most families would be more concerned to be close to good primary schools, and then be willing for their senior school children to travel to school. You also have to want to live in a place for itself, rather than just schooling.
Not sure how these ramblings help the OP
Mumneedswine I would have to disagree.. HATED every minute of Ranelagh, was definately not pushed to my limits and found lots of people thought the same. They are very good with bottom end achievers, getting them C's, but nothing else.
I also went to Cheapside, which was great.
Would suggest Charters (sunningdale) or The Marist (girls catholic school), Sunninghill. Sir William Perkins also good.
Fanrborough Sixth Form college best for A-levels, (train ride away)
I wouldn't rate Marist
I did one of my PGCE teaching placements at Ranelagh (many moons ago) and have to say I didn't enjoy it. However I didn't enjoy my PGCE so it's not necessarily a reflection on the school. I found the staff rather stuffy and miserable
trusts that it's so long ago that none of them will be mumsnetters. I much prefered my other placement at Garth Hill, however it should be borne in mind that I get my kicks out of teaching kids with behavioural difficulties!
We have rather hijacked...
For what it's worth, OP, I have chosen Lambrook (in Winkfield, west of Windsor) for my DS, although I have no idea where he will go for senior.
Garth is defintely my preference over Ranelagh. Doing well these days.
I'm really annoyed my mum chose Ran over Garth for little bro (yr 7). Fuming.
I'd steer clear of Marist too. No idea what the teaching is like but I've had the misfortune to encounter quite a few pupils from there and they are all without exception really unpleasant. It may just be the ones I've met but if I had a dd I wouldn't choose it.
Oakfield is a very good middle school with a truly fantastic headtecher.
Thank you all so much. You really have no idea how helpful these suggestions are. I thank you sincerely for your time and efforts. We have a few starting places now, when we had none. I am eternally grateful. Thanks...and here's to a community of lovely mumsnetters!!
I cannot emphasise how bad the Marist is. I went there for only a year before moving. Horrible, unpleasant girls, the teachers are just as bad if not worse (my head of year was particularly bad - reducing me and a number of other girls to tears and even panic attacks), they pressure you with so much work and their results are pretty rubbish. The facilities are very unimpressive too, although the school constantly brags about them for some reason. Another thing is that if you are not sporty you will immediately be bound to have a horrible time there. Not only will you have nothing to do at lunch because everybody else is at sports clubs but you will be bullied by the pe teachers because you're not very good, and for that reason you lose serious confidence. A girl in my class was very upset at one point because a teacher made a comment about her weight. Lastly, you are not inspired in any way shape or form to believe in yourself or to try new things.
Sorry rant over and no offence intended.
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I am running iGO 8.3.2 on my Renault MediaNav car navigation unit, which has Windows CE 6 and a MIPS processor.
Everything is working very well, but I want to try to get TTS voices working.
Can someone upload the Dutch TTS voices for me please ?
And maybe tell me how I get it working ?
Very much appreciated.
Downloaded the file and put them on my USB drive.
Followed procedure which I found somewhere, but when I select the voice (either female or male), iGO 8.3.2 crashes and closes down.
Hmm, it might be for Primo; iGO 8.3 is really old and you might have to look for Loquendo release. I do not have dutch voice for Loquendo but maybe someone might.
Try with this Dutch voice pack. It says Loquendo and IGO8.
Unrar (no pass) and copy into the IGO main folder
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Thanks G-ulash,
I have installed these TTS voices and I see them in iGO.
I can select them (and iGO doesn't crash), but I don't hear any voice.
I do hear the "beep" when normally the voice should say something, but as said no voice.
What am I doing wrong ?
Did you also install the Loquendo "engine" (the DLL files plus the folder TTS_Loq) that came with the download ? These files are language dependent. The package should be a Dutch" unity.
I do not use TTS, so I can't give much help, only try to.
I found some sys.txt lines that can make the difference (or not). Feel free to try.
Last edited by G-ulash; 31st December 2015 at 10:39 AM. Reason: sys.txt
Yes, I've put the folder "tts_loq" in the root (so it's a subfolder for root now) and put all the DLL files also in the root.
Then I've put the 2 files from the "voice" folder onto \storage card\iGo\content\voice folder.
I also added a line in sys.txt :
I added some sys.txt lines in my previous post.
Maybe that is the solution? Anyway, you may want to delete (better rename) the save folder and try again.
Have found some other Dutch voices. Uploading now
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First of all, much thanks for your help G-ulash !
I've tried the settings, but still no voice.


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For a while, Michael Crabtree was hurting. Then Braylon Edwards went down. Now, Joshua Morgan is out, probably for the rest of the season.
Though the 49ers are a surprising 4-1 and leading the NFC West, their receiving corps has yet to be at full strength.
Morgan, who suffered a broken bone in his lower right leg Sunday in the 48-3 victory over Tampa Bay, had surgery Monday. He leads the team's wide receivers with 15 catches for 220 yards. Edwards, meanwhile, is still out with a knee injury for perhaps the next two weeks. It's expected he may return for the Oct. 30 game vs. the Browns, after a bye week.
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Aretha Franklin doesn't need to demand respect anymore. The 64-year-old pop-soul star received nothing less than utter adoration as she stepped onstage Saturday night at a packed Opera House. Still, it didn't hurt that she began her performance with her punchy soul anthem, ``Respect," wailing and berating with considerable sass, and reminding everyone just who was holding the microphone.
Dressed in a white satin evening gown topped by a voluptuously ruffled matching stole, her outfit glittering here and there with diamond-studded jewelry, Franklin looked the part of an elegant, commanding diva. But outside of enjoying glamorous accoutrements, she presented songs straight up: no frilly vocalizing, no flashy theatrics. Just a killer band and a singer as vocally passionate and limber as she is personally determined.
Franklin is fortunate, though. Her big, bold, brassy voice has weathered a half-century recording career (a 14-year-old Aretha recorded gospel songs for her father, Reverend Franklin) with little erosion of its earthy power. So there was no need for gilding. Aretha still has ``It," too, that big personality. She cracked jokes and gave a shout-out to two Boston establishments she obviously enjoys: Berklee College of Music and Legal Seafoods.
The set was split into two sections, with her band -- which included a 10-piece horn section and her son Teddy on guitar -- providing a musical interlude that included some instrumental solos (sax, flute, piano, percussion, etc.). No matter how good, with Franklin offstage, it was an interlude nevertheless.
The first portion of Franklin's performance comprised classic soul and visited her acclaimed 1960s Atlantic Records catalog, including a stunning, punchy ``Chain of Fools," which was nothing less than perfect. The second moved toward jazz and included a couple of songs from her forthcoming record, which, Franklin said, will be titled ``Aretha" and be released in February. When she warmly, passionately took over playing piano as well as singing, etching out a mournful blues, ``Lady Soul" went deep, beyond branded expectations. Right to the living, aching heart.


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I use local::lib in exactly that way to maintain a repository on a central server for 64bit and 32bit architectures and it works fine because the architecture-specific stuff ends up in architecture-specific directories, as moritz pointed out. However, it is also true that you want to make sure that you compile on a machine that is as close to the machine on which they will run as possible. In particular, you want the same compiler to be used. At work, we have one machine to compile 64bit and one for 32bit software, which run the same version of the OS we use in production.
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Fifteen Tech Laureates from five countries explained their unique remedies to global problems including access to safe drinking water, the lack of financial services in India, failing education systems, and health care inequality. Solutions included a solar powered water ATM, a voice-based knowledge system accessed via mobile phones, and an alphabet-teaching puppet with its own television show!
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Conservatives Upset By Other Conservatives Being Conservative On Gay Marriage
Russell Kirk once said conservatism was not a set of ideas as much as "a mood." If so then conservatism is in a curious mood as gay marriage gains wider acceptance. There has always been a schism between fiscal conservatives and social conservatives but as homosexuality has become more normalized and less taboo, particularly to younger people, the conservative movement seems to be confused and having new and strange feelings towards progressive social positions. But when confronted with their hidden truth they lash out. A love that dare not speak its name?
Take Kevin Williamson of National Review.
For the record I object to being called a Democrat.
But more to the point. Williamson wrote a piece defending himself and his National Review colleague Jonah Goldberg on their support for gay marriage being conservative.
Gay marriage is somewhere around No. 8,373 on the list of things I care about, as I think I've mentioned before, but I think I'd still go with Cheney and Portman and Deroy. The tendency among conservatives to read out those who disagree with them on one issue out of every hundred is tedious and self-defeating, not to mention distasteful.
But is supporting gay marriage conservative? Or are conservatives once again trying to pull a fast one on everybody as they did previously with civil rights, claiming that racial equality was somehow traditionally an American value despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. To reverse the famous John Kerry gaffe – they voted against it before they voted for it.
It still seems a little late in the game or perhaps early in the historical record to attempt revisionism and claim that supporting gay rights is in the conservative tradition.The conservative movement built its Reagan-Bush(-Bush) coalition with the Moral Majority a group that could not be more clear on their view of gay rights – Hell No!
The column Williamson took issue with by National Organization For Marriage Political Director Frank Schubert lays the argument out rather clearly.
You can't support gay marriage and claim to be a conservative any more than you can be "pro-choice" on abortion and claim to be a conservative.Is Michael Bloomberg or Arnold Schwarzenegger a conservative? Any Republican who supports same-sex marriage is in a similar boat.
Homosexual activists are hoping that these statements by moderate or liberal elites in the GOP will appeal to Republicans who make up a majority on the Court — especially Justice Anthony Kennedy. The fact remains, though, that support for true marriage is rock-solid among Republicans in general, and conservatives in particular.
Schubert's logic is pretty sound. You can certainly be a Republican and be for gay marriage but being for gay marriage is antithetical to the most basic values of conservatism such as abortion. What would one call a pro-choice pro-gay marriage public official? I imagine conservative does not come to mind.
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Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Umeox just introduced one of its latest models, the V206, with little fanfare at the MEDPI tradeshow in Monaco. But the V206 is no ordinary phone; it's a low-cost, ruggedized and waterproof handset powered entirely by sunlight.
The V206 is just one of a new generation of low cost, solar-powered phones that use technology from Dutch company Intivation. Intivation's SunBoost chip makes it practical and cost-effective to charge small devices like mobile phones via the sun.
A single solar cell of the size that fits onto a phone does not produce enough voltage to charge the phone's battery. The traditional solution is to use multiple, smaller cells in series, each of which boosts the voltage. This approach has several disadvantages, including sub-optimal performance when some of the cells are shaded, the higher cost of manufacturing multiple cells, and the fact that multiple cells have higher levels of defects that affect performance. SunBoost is a boost converter that amplifies the output voltage from the 0.3-0.6V produced by a single solar cell up to the 1.2-3.7V required to charge the battery. The SunBoost chip also has integrated Maximum Power Point tracking (MPPT), which automatically adapts to light intensity and ambient temperature to ensure that the solar cell operates at close to its maximum effectiveness in all conditions.
While the trend for mobile phones in developed countries is towards more expensive and power-hungry handsets, 1.6 billion people in the developing world don't have access to a regular electricity supply. Not only is the electricity grid in many emerging markets unreliable, it's also expensive, with consumers spending 15-20% of their incomes on it. If there is no local power, phone owners have to walk to the nearest town or pay inflated prices to a mobile charging vendor to charge their phone. According to Intivation, allowing customers to charge their phones from the sun boosts ARPU (revenue per customer) by 10-15% in semi-rural areas. Many African countries have more than six peak sun hours per day, making them ideal for solar-charging. Large parts of Asia and Latin America also get more than 4 peak hours per day.
The cost for the solar cell, modified battery, SunBoost chip, and related engineering is under $10 per phone. Mobile carriers don't subsidize handsets in emerging markets, so it's vital that the price point is low.Intivation's Marketing Director Rik Wuts says that the "sweet spot" for a mobile phone in these markets is around $20.
Vodafone added its first solar-powered handset (which uses SunBoost) in its Spring 2010 global portfolio. The Vodafone 247, manufactured by ZTE, generates enough energy from one hour of sunlight to power 20 minutes of talk time from a 20cm2 solar cell. Intivation estimates that an average low-ARPU user should not need more than two hours of charging a day. Since these phones are targeted at particular emerging markets, they often have distinctive features adapted to that market. The ZTE S316, for example, includes an LED torch, a vital necessity in African countries with unreliable power supplies. This model is now being sold via EcoNet in Zimbabwe and MTN in Sudan, bringing the number of African countries using SunBoost-enabled phones to 13 since the first phone was introduced less than a year ago. Phones including SunBoost are now being sold in a total of 17 countries.
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We examine the properties of the atmospheres of extrasolar giant planets at orbital distances smaller than 0.1 AU from their stars. We show that these "51 Peg b-like" planets are rapidly synchronized by tidal interactions, but that small departures from synchronous rotation can occur because of fluid-dynamical torques within these planets. Previous radiative-transfer and evolution models of such planets assume a homogeneous atmosphere. Nevertheless, we show using simple arguments that, at the photosphere, the day-night temperature difference and characteristic wind speeds may reach ~500 K, and ~2 km s-1, respectively. Substantial departures from chemical equilibrium are expected. The cloud coverage depends sensitively on the dynamics; clouds could exist predominantly either on the dayside or nightside, depending on the circulation regime. Radiative-transfer models that assume homogeneous conditions are therefore inadequate in describing the atmospheric properties of 51 Peg b-like planets. We present preliminary three-dimensional, nonlinear simulations of the atmospheric circulation of HD 209458b that indicate plausible patterns for the circulation and generally agree with our simpler estimates. Furthermore, we show that kinetic energy production in the atmosphere can lead to the deposition of substantial energy in the interior, with crucial consequences for the evolution of these planets. Future measurements of reflected and thermally-emitted radiation from these planets will help test our ideas.
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A Phase I - II Safety Study of Filgrastim (Neupogen) to Improve Left Ventricular Function After Severe Acute Myocardial Infarction
This study has been completed.
The Cleveland Clinic
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First Posted: September 22, 2005
Last Update Posted: September 19, 2008
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Rory McIlroy fights on in adversity
A NASTY head cold, fierce storm delays and an obscure chat with a rules official for leaving spike marks could have all conspired to stop Rory McIlroy in his tracks yesterday.
After playing 26 holes of the Singapore Open, he was one over par and dicing with the cut line.
But then McIlroy, 23, produced three holes of brilliance to show just why he is the world No1 and on course to win the Race to Dubai.
As the medicines kicked in, he hit three stunning approach shots in the space of four holes to within five feet and the birdies that followed saw him climb the leaderboard ahead of South African Louis Oosthuizen. Two lengthy torrential rain delays left McIlroy with six holes of his second round to complete on the third day on Sentosa Island, as tournament officials discussed cutting the event to 54 holes.
As for the spikes issue, McIlroy said: "Really, I didn't know I was leaving any marks out there."


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Saturday 1st January, 2012
The Epiphany
And New Year Greetings to all
WELCOME to Holy Innocents—we hope you enjoy this time of prayer as we reflect on Scripture together and celebrate the Eucharist. Thanks to Fr. Brenton for leading worship in the absence of the Rector
Collect for the Epiphany
Lord God of the nations, we have seen the star of Your glory rising in splendour: may the brightness of Your incarnate Word pierce the night that covers the earth, signal the dawn of justice and peace, and beckon all nations to walk as one in Your light. We ask this through Jesus Christ, Your Word made flesh, Who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, in the splendour of eternal light, God for ever and ever. Amen.
Readings Isaiah 68: 1—8 and Ephesians 3: 1—12 read by Trevor T
GOSPEL Matthew 2: 1—12
Fr Ron's Notes available at http://www.anglican-belair.blogspot.com/
PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE led by Don B
We pray for those in need: Ron Teague, Peter Little, Jenny Jeffrey, Dorothy Furnival, the Swaby family , Olive Marston, Kate Jennings, Blake Vause. Ivanka Cosic, Jim (fighting can-cer;) Eddie Barber and Bryan Baker. Michelle, Jake and Gail also
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sascha Williams, Jennifer Jeffreys
YEAR'S MIND—John Furnival
The Passing of the Revd Gordon Hewitson The Revd Gordon Hewitson passed away last Sunday in Perth. He was a former Rector of Blackwood and Belair before it was split into two parishes. There is to be a memorial service and interment of ashes at the Holy Innocents Chapel (the old Holy Innocents) on January 26, in the morning. Refreshments are to follow in the parish hall. More details to follow.
PREPARATION FOR NEXT SUNDAY The Baptism of our Lord
Readings Genesis 1: 1—5 and Acts 19: 1—7
GOSPEL Matthew 4: 12—17 & 23 = 25
SPECIAL NOTE: With Fr. Warren being on leave for the next two Sundays, Fr. Brenton Daulby will celebrate and preach at both services on those days.
PRAYER CIRCLE in recess
BIBLE STUDY in recess
THURSDAY no Thursday morning services till February
SINGING GROUP Meets after the 10am service each Sunday. All singers welcome.
MOTHERS' UNION programme in recess until next year
The Parish Hall is booked for 21st January.
FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE SERVICE—Pleas for Helpers
Sunday 8th January will be our next turn to visit the wards and take patients to the service in the chapel. We would welcome more helpers, please; our call is only four times a year.
Please meet at the Chapel at 10 am on the day. Enquiries welcome –call Joan Fordham on 8278 2837
Part of being a Christian community is the support offered to each other in times of need. We offer short-term delivery of food where needed, local transport, phone calls, and other types of assistance. Call Iris Downes on 8278 3260 and Marlene Dixon on 8278 8568..
Next Sunday Jill Hilbig or Joy Campbell
Sunday after Don Caddy or Cynthia Macintosh
Next Sunday Reader Max A Intercessor Vanessa D
Sunday after Reader Family Araki Intercessor Ben Luks
Next week Flowers Jan Tregenza Brass Joan Durdin
Cleaning Group 2
RONBLOG .... On Epiphany
I grew up in a world where people of any different Christian persuasion were, more often than not, considered to be totally beyond the pale as far us Anglicans were concerned. It was not just a matter of (Roman) Catholics being beyond redemption, but so were many of the people of other sects and hangers on. When it came to those of other faiths, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and Callithumpians, well, forget it. They knew nothing of Jesus, so they were consigned to the then popular eternal hell. (Actually, this burning fiery furnace view stems not so much from Scripture as from Dante and his Inferno. Many people do not seem to know that!)
The atmospherics of those days of yore were terribly snobbish and isolationist. Mind you. Australia was really very isolated geographically anyhow, and the White Australia Policy was hardly ever challenged, until after World War II. So everyone was tucked up snugly and safely in the cocoon of their particular 'theology,' and later people wondered what the Church had done to have so few respond to the Gospel.
Denominations were isolated and isolating by their Eucharistic theology, and one was expected to fit the respective 'sausage skins' and look down the nose at others' skins, so to speak. As recently as the 1960s, there was no way the Anglican sisters at Coober Pedy Hospital could share in the Easter Communion at the Lutheran Church there, unless they first became Lutheran. I kid you not! So the very Sacrament of Unity was used as a tool for divi-sion and even revulsion. How stupid could we have got?
From the very call of Abraham, the move in this then-new Faith was designed for the entire world into which it was introduced. Look at the call of Abram and the precise and expansive wording of it. He was to be a blessing to all the world. At Sinai that same sort of breadth of vision was expressed, and of course the Old Testament prophets punched the wide drum again and again and again. The tragedy of Israel's blindness to that breadth of vision was echoed for another two millennia in the Christian world.
And yet here, at the Incarnation, the Biblical writers ensured that the message was heard even over the voices of people's bigotry. It is rather interesting and quite something of a profound challenge how the Scriptures, written and revised over thousands of years so often show clear evidence of various writers who have challenged the status quo and popular view of some subjects. Perhaps it is too gentle a way to move for change and yet that seems to be the process Biblical, all along. Didn't it take 1,800 years for English Christians to move to abolish slavery; 1950 years for Christians to see the Biblical imperative about being green, and a little longer to espy the need to embrace the equality of the sexes. All that may well have been because of the time it took for most of the population to be educated and inquisitive, but even so the story of the Church's rejection of Galileo and his explanation of the Earth revolving around the sun was a shocking indictment of the power of conservatism against truth. It would seem that people look to the Faith for security instead of finding in it the strength to follow wherever truth leads.
There, it strikes me, is the present challenge for us all that Epiphany brings.
Holy innocents Calendar
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A new indoor shooting range will be built in the Poway Business Park and speed limits on short segments of some of Poway's most-traveled roads will decrease as a result of actions taken Tuesday night by the Poway City Council.
The shooting range will be built on a vacant 2.8-acre parcel between Stowe Drive and Danielson Street and will include 42 shooting lanes. Construction should begin by next month and the business could be open a year from now, the owner said. The council approved the plans, which call for construction methods to reduce noise levels, by a unanimous vote.
In an unrelated matter, the council also accepted a new traffic study which will result in speed limit changes around town.
At the request of the Sheriff's Department, a survey of speeds done in 2008 was updated last summer. New state laws allow municipalities more flexibility in setting speed limits if surveys support such moves.
Based on the August 2012 speed survey, using the new rules the city plans to reduce by 5 mph the speed limits on certain parts of the following roads:
• Camino Del Norte from the western edge of the city to Pomerado Road where it becomes Twin Peaks Road. The speed limit is now 55 and will become 50 mph.
• Midland Road between Aubrey Street and Edgemoor Street (near Old Poway Park) that is now posted at 30 mph but will become a 25-mph zone.
• Oak Knoll Road between Pomerado and Carriage roads will drop from 30 to 25 mph.
• Pomerado Road between Ted Williams Parkway and Twin Peaks Road (near the Target shopping center) will fall from 45 to 40 mph.
• Ted Williams Parkway from the western city limits to Pomerado Road, now posted 55 mph, but will become a 50-mph zone.


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G'Day Mate!
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban were beaming on Friday (March 16) as they arrived in their home country Australia with daughters Sunday Rose, 3, and Faith Margret, 1. We just spotted the family-of-four leaving LAX for their long journey Down Under.
The Kidman-Urbans are in town as Keith continues to film The Voice: Australia.