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A Catholic priest who rode a « hoverboard » scooter during Christmas Eve Mass in the Philippines has fallen afoul of his diocese, which suspended Father Albert San Jose for attempting « to get the attention of the people » in a personal manner. The priest has apologized for the incident, which was recorded.
« The Eucharist demands utmost respect and reverence, » the diocese wrote in a statement this week. « It is the Memorial of the Lord's Sacrifice. It is the source and summit of Christian life. It is the Church's highest form of worship. Consequently, it is not a personal celebration where one can capriciously introduce something to get the attention of the people. »
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OSONS, PLAIDOYER D'UN HOMME LIBRE Nicolas Hulot, Les Liens qui libèrent, 2015, 95 pages
L'AFRIQUE POUR LES NULS Jean-Joseph Boillot and Rahmane Idrissa, First éditions, 2015, 370 pages.
L'AFRIQUE DANS LE MONDE, CAPITALISME, EMPIRE, ÉTAT-NATION, Frederick Cooper, Payot, 2015, 246 pages.
LA COUR PÉNALE INTERNATIONALE ET LA LUTTE CONTRE L'IMPUNITÉ EN AFRIQUE Sinan Kamagate, l'Harmattan, 2015, 186 pages.
GÉOSTRATÉGIE AMÉRICAINE EN AFRIQUE (1993-2014) Alain Fogue Tedom, l'Harmattan, 2015, 194 pages.
Nicolas Hulot
With its timely publication just before the beginning of COP21 in Paris, Nicolas Hulot's latest book is simultaneously a manifesto, a cry from the heart and a certain amount of wishful think- ing. In its tone and brevity, it is somewhat reminiscent of Stéphane Hessel's book Indignez-vous, published five years ago… Will it have the same amazing success in the bookshops? We certainly hope so, for the sake of this ardent ecological activist, even though we do not necessarily share all his views.
OSONS, PLAIDOYER D'UN HOMME LIBRE Nicolas Hulot, Les Liens qui libèrent, 2015, 95 pages
The merit of Osons lies in the presentation of twelve concrete proposals to combat global warming, together with ten suggested individual commitments to respect nature. It is flawed by its grandiloquent style and peremptory statements such as: "I wish to proclaim that, for the first time, humanity may self-destruct as a community, but also as a supreme value"… One would like to see a more sober and measured approach, but this is the nature of the book: it is more of a petition to save the planet and reform the capitalist system than a scientific reference work. Nicolas Hulot prefers to quote the Dalai Lama and old African proverbs than his friends from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) or other scholars.
His declared primary role is that of a missionary or visionary.
"Let us dare to state, he writes, that the climate crisis is the ultimate injustice (…) Solidarity is no longer just an option in an interlinked, hyper-reactive world: it is the indispensable condition for peace (…) On a connected planet where everything is seen, everything is known, injustice and poverty – wherever they are – constitute a danger to everyone's prosperity. Fundamentalism is sometimes the outcome when poverty can find no other outlet." Once and for all, the ex- presenter of Ushuaïa exchanges his role as a television journalist for that of a prophet of doom and denounces "the finance industry, which takes no account of the general interest" and the "markets which are doing extremely well from the scarcities that they create". Throughout, he calls for "regulation and controls" and dares to express the hope that the humanity which "damages, spurns and loots is not a representative sample of human behaviour" because, he assures us comfortingly, there are "many Mandelas and Pasteurs that most people know nothing about".
Following his statement "let us dare to try love, the most renewable of energies" which may wring a wry smile from the reader, Nicolas Hulot – who has travelled the world for forty years – fiercely defends the principle of precaution, characterises as an "aberration" the transatlantic trade treaty being negotiated between Washington and Brussels and urges the European Union to "get back on track" and decree common rules in the service of the "common good".
He does not tackle the issues of COP21 head-on; they are well known: at the top of the list is maintaining the increase of the Earth's average temperature below 2°C, whereas the current trajectory is leading to 3 or 4°C… But between the lines, we are shown everything that this means for water, agriculture and the migration of populations which will no longer have any food where they are. In this context, he denounces the contradictions of countries "that talk of decarbonising the economy and at the same time provide massive subsidies for fossil fuels".
Hulot makes the case for the energy transition and ecological taxes. "We must", he writes, "impose less tax on work revenues and more on unearned income, carbon emissions, environmental impacts, pollution, the mining of natural resources…" He is talking about an essentially punitive taxation of substitution. Giving tax relief to work will boost employment. Sweden, he adds, has shown the way.
The end of his book is devoted to "twelve key proposals for political decision-makers", namely: regulating finance; putting the economy at the service of humans; putting an end to the abuses of the multinationals; producing and consuming in a virtuous circle; "de-oiling" investments (in other words, ceasing to exploit two thirds of the fossil fuels that we know today and investing elsewhere); incorporating pollution into the sale price; keeping the Earth blue (respecting the oceans); preserving the soil; providing food without destroying; strengthening social justice to combat climate change; reinventing democracy; providing global governance for the environment.
This is followed by a list of "individual commitments" which precede a call for signatures to support the Fondation Nicolas Hulot. There are ten individual commitments: travel in groups or without any kind of engine; think twice before travelling by air; eat less meat, but of better quality; put an end to food waste; make "green" investments (in other words, choose ecological financial investments); choose 100% renewable electricity; act against energy wastage; act for nature; share; and, lastly, engage in activism and get involved on behalf of the climate…
Osons is really a kind of UFO in literary form. A small catalogue- type of book, a jumble of politics and ecology, it tosses into the mix a lot of ideas in very few pages. It is essentially a reflection of its author: by turns annoying, original, childish and captivating.
Book Review by Baudouin Bollaert
L'AFRIQUE POUR LES NULS Jean-Joseph Boillot and Rahmane Idrissa, First éditions, 2015, 370 pages.
Can there be anyone who is unfamiliar with the series "For Dummies" published by First? Its success has given it credibility even though it was initially often viewed with condescension… The truth is that it is eclectic, remarkably well put together and compiled by excellent authors. L'Afrique pour les Nuls ("Africa for Dummies") is no exception to the rule. The dual perspective that the two authors bring to the continent – on the one hand, an African PhD in Political Science who lives in Niamey and on the other hand, a French academic who divides his time between Asia and Africa – makes the book an engrossing read from start to finish.
Africa is not generally well understood and the tone is set in the introduction: "Although it is the cradle of the human race and great empires like those of Mali or Ethiopia," its thousand-year old history is often reduced to the slave trade, colonialism and the current political instabilities. The ambition of Jean-Joseph Boillot and Rahmane Idrissa is therefore to lift the veil on a fascinating past and a promising future, because, they write, referring to an old African proverb, "as long as the lions do not have their own historian, the hunting tales will always redound to the credit of the hunters!"
There is certainly no question of passing over the wars, famines, epidemics and endemic corruption in silence, but the intention of the book in general is to cast a benevolent eye on the continent. Its "thousands of ethnicities, languages and dialects" are sources of "tensions but also of unbelievable riches". Its space of 30 million square kilometres is too often associated with desert regions, whereas it possesses "the most beautiful forests" in the world. Predicted to have 2 billion inhabitants by 2050, it is emerging as the "future giant" of the 21st century.
Like all the titles in the series, this one is broken down into several chapters in which, with the assistance of many text boxes and icons – "common belief", "key date", "do not forget", "did you know?" or "portrait" – an instructive living portrait of Africa emerges, supported by research, not to mention the appendices. The book is also designed to be a reference work with maps, statistics, a chronology and a substantial bibliography…
In the course of the stroll through time and space which the two authors invite their readers to take, surprise follows surprise. For example, we discover that the Manden Charter, written in Mali in 1236, is perhaps the first declaration of human rights; that Africa's surface area could accommodate China, the United States, Europe and Japan combined; that anthropologists have identified eleven human groups in Africa, divided into five types of population, one white and four black; that Africa is still the least populated of the world's continents with 37 inhabitants per km2 compared with a world average of about 50; that the Tutsis and Hutus form different castes, but not different ethnic groups; that Samory and Rabah – the "last empire builders" – died in the same year, 1900, two months apart, defeated by the French; that it took more than twenty years for the American Congress to finally pass an anti-apartheid law in 1986, driving many multinationals to leave South Africa…
On the topic of racism, L'Afrique pour les Nuls serves as a useful reminder that this scourge came late to Europe. There have always been highly-regarded Africans in the old continent according to the authors and it is not surprising that Shakespeare was able to put one of them at the head of the Venetian army in his play Othello. In their view, the contempt for African Blacks, already a feature of the Arab- Muslim civilisation, only began to develop in Europe during the 17th century, even though the philosopher Anton Wilhelm Amo and General Abraham Petrovitch Hannibal were still making their mark at that period in Germany and Russia respectively.
In the section entitled "Geopolitics, the great African game",
Joseph Boillot and Rahmane Idrissa show caution. Europe, they say, sees Africa as both a source of raw materials and "an attractive market" as well as a hotbed of problems related to migration and a home for jihadists … The United States, they continue, "has very little interest in Africa" whereas Asia, on the other hand, regards it as "a formidable opportunity". Caught in the middle, they write, "Africa is struggling to create an order that will guarantee it a powerful role in world affairs". According to them, the eternal debate between Pan-Africanism and a simple union of sovereign nations is not going to be settled any time soon!
Particularly interesting are the sections analysing the postcolonial cultural divergences between Anglophone and Francophone Africans. Votes and elections at the African Union are generally decided on this basis and it is standard practice for a Francophone secretary-general to succeed an Anglophone secretary-general, even though, sometimes, account must be taken of the "possibility of an Arab-speaking candidate from North Africa"… Do these cultural divergences also imply post- imperial allegiances? There is certainly an "automatic" allegiance on the part of the ex-colonies to their former colonial power, according to the authors. It is the result of "the almost invisible effect of the habits and relationships which survived independence, as well as of the psychological comfort created by historical intimacy". But, they add, times are changing…
In their conclusion, in the knowledge that lack of capital and fragmentation are slowing down Africa's emergence, Jean-Joseph Boillot and Rahmane Idrissa imagine three scenarios for the future. The first is pessimistic: "balkanisation" and its collateral damage will make the continent a "failed power". The second scenario treads a middle path with "the creation of major regional hubs" that can carry weight in an increasingly globalised world. Finally, the "optimal" scenario is the birth of the United States of Africa … "As impossible as the plan seems, the authors believe, the feeling persists. Although the political references of the Africans begin with their identity and/or citizenship, they will always end with a sort of continental 'nationality'."
The book concludes with a chapter entitled "The 'Tens' Section": Africa's ten key personalities, the top ten places in the continent, the ten key events in Africa's history, the ten artists or cultural personalities of the contemporary period and the ten symbols of Africa… Behind its playful and necessarily subjective aspect, this chapter sums up the ambition of the whole book: to inform without boring its readers. Of course, some of its points of view can be disputed, the elliptical nature of some of the text regretted, possible omissions pointed out and some of the choices challenged, but they have succeeded in their aim: L'Afrique pour les Nuls is a fine tool for the popularisation of the topic.
Book Review by Baudouin Bollaert
Frederick Cooper
Professor of History at New York University, Frederick Cooper is an undisputed specialist on Africa, one of the rare historians to combine a study of the period of independence with a long- term view of Africa. Hence his enthralling journey deep into the era of the slave trade, the period of the empires, colonial exploitation, emancipation, struggles for independence, etc. All these events have left their mark on contemporary Africa, an impact which has not always been appro- priately measured.
L'AFRIQUE DANS LE MONDE, CAPITALISME, EMPIRE, ÉTAT-NATION, Frederick Cooper, Payot, 2015, 246 pages.
The result of the analyses and scrutiny of the thousand and one current faces of the continent has been to obscure "the big question": where did Africa come from and what were its relations with the world over the preceding centuries? The Europeans who discovered it rather late in the day are far too inclined to regard Africa as having little history or none at all…
Frederick Cooper's reflections are the result of lectures given on the basis of the ground-breaking work by W.E.B. Du Bois, published in 1946, The World and Africa: An Inquiry into the part which Africa has played in World History. In this work, Du Bois – an eminent historian and the first African-American to have been educated at Harvard – described what Africa had contributed to the world. He demonstrated in particular that the Africans had long experience of self-government and would in the future be capable of governing themselves. The issue of their necessary liberation from the "colonial yoke" was pre-eminent in his reflections.
The struggle for black emancipation in the United States went hand- in-hand with that of the African movements for political representation, social equality and economic well-being. At that time there were said to be "400 million Blacks scattered across the surface of the globe".
Since the 1950s, this figure has increased by 350%. It would have been interesting to pose the question of whether there is some solidarity of values and shared interests between this continent which, by 2050, will constitute almost one quarter of humanity and the black diaspora dispersed throughout the world. But this is not Frederick Cooper's argument. He chooses instead to question the vertical and horizontal relations between Africa and the rest of the world, explaining why plans like that for "Eurafrica" have never come to fruition.
He also believes that the concepts currently used by economists or politicians such as "Africa and the world economy", "the market and the state", "development aid", "the sovereign state" and "foreign interference" will only be fleetingly significant. In his view, the key issue is to get rid of these formulas which have an impact the consciences and behaviour of African societies and create obstacles to the development of experiments, projects, and local businesses.
At the end of his vast historical panorama, Cooper concludes that there are many future possibilities for Africa. Through his broad vision he makes a great contribution to expanding the vision that many observers still have of Africa. He shows how hasty was the judgement of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 in Dakar: "The Africans have not fully entered into history. […] Africa's problem is that it lives its present too much in nostalgic yearning for the lost paradise of childhood. […] In this realm of fancy where everything is always beginning again, there is room neither for human endeavour nor for the idea of progress." For Africa, deep in its history, has developed its own models and pursued an original path. Now it is up to Africa to define its terms, modalities and concepts without allowing them to be dictated by others.
Book Review by Eugène Berg
LA COUR PÉNALE INTERNATIONALE ET LA LUTTE CONTRE L'IMPUNITÉ EN AFRIQUE Sinan Kamagate, l'Harmattan, 2015, 186 pages.
A lecturer in English, trade unionist and political commentator, Sinan Kamagate makes a useful contribution to the current debate on the action of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Africa. His first goal is to elucidate the strange paradox which continues to cast a shadow over this institution. At the outset, it was the subject of great enthusiasm on the part of the African countries: they provided the biggest contingent of signatory states to the Statute of Rome (34 out of 123), opening the way to the creation of the ICC to try the most serious crimes committed in the world. However, the Court rapidly drew criticism, sometimes extremely virulent, from African leaders and intellectuals disgruntled by the "partiality" exhibited by the court in relation to them.
Apart from a few anecdotal instances, all the major cases tried – 23 in total – have related to Africa and its leaders. The subject has become very sensitive, particularly in Côte d'Ivoire, with the appearance in court at The Hague of the former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo in November 2011. In an effort to shed some light on the situation, the author looks at the experience of the military tribunals set up after the Second World War (Nuremberg, Tokyo). He also examines in detail the various international ad hoc courts which were set up at the beginning of the 1990s: the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
In so doing, Sinan Kamagate provides a complete and up-to- date picture of the political crises and armed conflicts in Africa, the circumstances that led to war crimes (CAR, Sudan, Uganda, Libya) and crimes against humanity (post-electoral crises in Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea and Mali). Each of them is subjected to close scrutiny.
No region in Africa has been spared. Also, far from being simply a criminal court, the ICC also plays a part in deterring and preventing conflicts. It has also been called upon to support the reconciliation process in a number of countries in conflict. These are aspects which tend to be overlooked and on which the author rightly focuses, with many concrete supporting examples.
But the main aim of his book is to analyse certain weaknesses of the Statute of Rome and to point out the limitations of the prosecution policy adopted by the Prosecutor. Is it the case that the current failures of the ICC are damaging its credibility? Why is the ICC the subject of so much criticism? How can it effectively combat impunity in Africa? It is certain that alongside the purely legal elements, of which he provides a detailed analysis, politics is constantly insinuating itself into the operation of the ICC, particularly by way of referrals to the Court by parties states and by the United Nations Security Council. Too often the states take refuge behind the principle of sovereignty or manipulate the ICC against their opponents, while protecting friends and allies, and even in some cases actually guaranteeing them protection against any prosecution.
In addition, as Kamagate quite correctly points out, three of the five permanent members of the Security Council (the United States, Russia and China) have not ratified the Statute of Rome, even if the first two have signed it. Among the Arab countries, only Jordan and Tunisia (in June 2011, after the Arab spring) and recently Palestine, have recognised the ICC. Lastly, nuclear states like Israel, India and Pakistan have not even signed the Statute of Rome, expressing criticism of several aspects of the international court.
Book Review by Eugène Berg
Alain Fogue Tedom
In 1993, during the presidency of Bill Clinton, we saw the beginning of a United States African policy. According to Alain Fogue Tedom, professor of international and strategic relations, an expert in defence issues (University of Yaoundé II, Soa) and Director of the African Centre of Strategic Studies for the Promotion of Peace and Development (CAPED), this policy really took shape, after the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.
GÉOSTRATÉGIE AMÉRICAINE EN AFRIQUE (1993-2014) Alain Fogue Tedom, l'Harmattan, 2015, 194 pages.
The first effect of the American geostrategic plan in Sub-Saharan Africa was really to put the action of the European powers
on trial – principally France, but also the United Kingdom, Portugal and Spain; they were guilty of not having known how, been able or been willing to help Africa to develop and yet continued to exercise a strategic, political, military and economic guardianship of the region's states. But this plan has many other purposes…
Having no colonial history and given its international standing and status as a land of immigration, the United States has long enjoyed a considerable capital of sympathy in Africa. Although this capital has been further increased by the fight against AIDS conducted by Washington, the real intention of the Americans was to gain control of Africa's mineral and energy resources at a time when no one could yet foresee the "shale gas revolution". Hence its priority interest in the Gulf of Guinea, whose oil offers many advantages: sweet and easy to refine, it is located only a week by tanker from the Gulf of Mexico, where the American refinery is situated. In addition from 2001, there was the war against terrorism, as Al Qaeda chose Africa (first the Horn, then the Sahel) as one of its training grounds.
The author presents the various instruments and mechanisms implemented by the United States in response to the African crises. They have taken various forms under different acronyms, ACRF (African Crisis Response Force) which became ACRI (African Crisis Response Initiative). The latter fixed six objectives: standardisation, interoperability of equipment, training of instructors, transparency, support and teamwork, in a programme costing 30 million dollars in 2001-2002. Nigeria is the second country in the world, after Canada, to benefit from American weaponry training programmes. However, owing to its essentially strategic aspect, ACRI did not really involve the Africans in the design of the programmes.
But the most important tool in America's geostrategy in Africa was the creation on 6 February 2007 of a military command for Africa, AFRICOM. This was not, as some have suggested, a matter of installing military bases, but of establishing "transit zones" and "maritime stop- over points" for the logistics serving the US land troops in Africa. As a result of Algeria's refusal to host the command headquarters, it was temporarily established in Stuttgart until 2014, which says a great deal about certain misunderstandings between Americans and Africans. Torn between "pipeline diplomacy", defence of human rights, the desire to control natural resources – partly so that they do not fall into the hands of the Chinese – and the fight against jihadism in support of the French interventions in Mali, the US strategy in Africa has not yet found its balance.
Alain Fogue Édom's book enables United States' thinking on Africa to be defined. The book emphasises that the African countries still have a long road to travel for the continent to meet the tough demands of competition and shows a world where only the quest for power regulates the interactions between states. Having neither a real system for collective security, nor an uncontested leadership, Africa remains dependent for its security on external powers. But the United States, concerned by Asia, once again caught up in the European continent (Ukrainian crisis) and not at all inclined to disengage from the Middle East, is struggling to play a genuinely stabilising role in Africa…
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There's been a recent craze amongst Saints fans everywhere as "the Unkown Who Dat" (pictured) is gaining in popularity and discussion by the second. This brave soul suffered through the extremely cold temperatures in DC to will the Saints to victory last weekend. This man is reaching celebrity status. He's got a facebook group in his honor with over 11,500 members, a main dedicated website designed solely to uncover his true identity, and a discussion forum that's covered this topic for over 30 pages. The webpage is trying so hard to uncover his identity, a twitter account has been created as well, and it has received support from various media icons. What's next? Heres 's hoping
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With a few exceptions, the Board of Education generally meets on the third Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. The 2017 Board of Education regular meeting schedule is as follows:
A Work Session is scheduled for Wednesday, February 8, 2017, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Grand Event Center located at 820 Goodale Blvd., Columbus.
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Tuesday, March 16, 2017 (note second Thursday)
Tuesday, April 18, 2017 (meeting time is 5 p.m.)
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Tuesday, June 27, 2017 (note fourth Tuesday)
Monday, July 10, 2017
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Monday, October 16, 2017 (Note meeting date change made on 9/19/17).
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|30th September 2012, 09:58 PM
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Still cannot understand...
I see people strongly supporting such design, and other say it is useless...
|30th September 2012, 10:00 PM
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sort of clash of the different design approaches.. I assume :/
|30th September 2012, 10:10 PM
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I know what you might be thinking-first order electrical will not protect the tweeter enough. It will suffer excess distortion. That's what I thought might happen. However, distortion testing has shown that not to be the case. See my blog for the confirmatory graphs if you remain unconvinced. However, success hinged on using low distortion drivers, and a topology that fairly rapidly attenuates the tweeter 15-20 dB at the crossover.
|30th September 2012, 10:16 PM
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I've edited and added some info in my post #20, but now it is on another page:
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|30th September 2012, 11:31 PM
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Quite a bit of time and thought went into this specific design. The entire idea was to take the power response of the dxt lens and and extend it down the frequency spectra with a carefully chosen crossover topology. The crossover is exactly as it needs to be to execute a flat on axis response and a notably smoother off axis response than the majority of more conservative designs. It places quite a demand on the tweeter. Unlike some of the armchair modeling jockeys posting, my measurements seem to back up my implementation quite well.
I described the design choices in detail.
I executed a network that achieved the these targets.
I provided a number of measurements to prove that I met the targets.
In a group setting the speaker was well received.
The design, as it stands has a commendably flat on axis frequency response, a notably smoother off axis response than any other non waveguide project mentioned here (and most not mentioned here!) and the distortion measurements to prove the tweeter can handle the stress.
If the unconventional design scares you, or you feel your design skills aren't up to snuff, by all means, build a more typical 2 way third or fourth order design. Skip the dxt while you're at it. Of course, then you have just another of the ten million generic two way designs out there.
I'm not saying this is the "ultimate," "best," blah, blah, blah speaker. It may indeed not be your cup of tea. But the above critique falls along the line of "I like Porsche, BMW are rubbish."
PS- You can build it or not build it. If you do, don't change C4 to 50 uF
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|1st October 2012, 01:39 AM
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No, it's rubbish Mark. About the worst treble filter I've ever seen.
Here's why. You've done great things with the bass. I really like the notch on the bass which cuts out a lot of cone breakup and linearises the phase nicely. But that single capacitor and TWO notches are TERRIBLE. A second or third order treble filter with appropriate attenuation is The SEAS Solution for the DXT and it's mine too.
The Fs resonance is WAY lower, which stops it sounding like a "Little Girl with a Guitar" optimised speaker and the phase is almost perfect. Zaph and friends may like your simple crossover, but he too often does some odd things in my opinion. Someone has to say the Emperor has no clothes sometime. Thanks for speaking up though. Look forward to the Mark 2 version which will be REALLY good.
My 3rd order sim below. Bit rough and ready, I used different drivers and the 7uF is rather optional. But you KNOW it makes sense.
Best Regards from Steve in Portsmouth, UK.
|1st October 2012, 05:42 AM
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Here is the off axis curves for the Idunn,
Here's mine.
What can I say? Equally flat on axis response, better off axis response, and graphs showing commendable distortion performance.
Nothing wrong with the Idunn. It's polished in the way a Honda Accord is polished. It's just like all the other two way designs out there, a standard, if somewhat dullard of a crossover meant to showcase Seas' drivers. Still it suffers from a more uneven off axis response, and thus, on the basis of measurements alone, is inferior.
Even if you're not into measurements as all that important it still did very well in a large group listening eval. I can't say for sure which would win in a head to head listening competition since the Idunn wasn't there. (And I wouldn't presume to guess what the Idunn sounds like-just that the crossover is a dullard.)
I guess it depends on whether you think a smoother power response is important. It seems that you can't seem to think outside the box (sorry to use that cliche), so keep on driving your Accord/Camry kind of two way.
Anyway, I don't want to get into a big war. The comments you've posted about the tweeter's Fs and where to put the notch doesn't always apply and a good designer knows what he can "get away with," in order to meet a design goal.
Anyway, not much more to say to you personally. I've made it quite clear what my design goals were and how I achieved them. I've got the measurements to back them up as well as, again, some comments in a large group setting. Folks will have decide for themselves based on the strength of the data presented whether or not to try a more innovative design.
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|1st October 2012, 08:38 AM
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Good morning.
So it true mercedes vs audi ...
Mark, thank you for for explanation.
|1st October 2012, 04:30 PM
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There is nothing strange with using a first-order electrical filter + notches with the DXT tweeter. I have done the same with my Prestigious Two Monitor DXT design. There is nothing "rubbish" about it, just another way to design and to achieve the design goal.
The DXT tweeter is very well suited for using a simple first-order + some contour shaping circuit, actually this is the way to make the full potential of it and to make it sing. I've tested several more "conventional" passive filters as well as active ones and the best so far is the simple one I describe in the picture.
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|1st October 2012, 07:22 PM
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Just my notes: DXT is waveguided and designed as "directed" driver. That was the goal of DXT technology, offered by Seas. With notching it (especially on 6Khz - that notching does not look good to me on THIS design) you get hole in response of tweeter, which filled with response of woofer to achive flat responce. So, directivety of DXT is suffered a bit on certain freq and filled with wider directivity of woofer's response - that is why this design have better plots on of-axis measurements. It could be bad or it could be good - only listening test can confirm it. But ER18RNX's response @6kHz is not the best. That is the only what (possibly) bad could be.
Question to Mark: do you have driver's measurements in-cabinet to play with it? If so, would it be possible to get it in some importable format (Freq | Mag | Db), if possible.
Note to System7: do not play much with Visaton's boxsim - it is "thing on it's own" and far from the truth if you measure speakers with microphone. It is good just to play with Visaton's constructions, see crossover response, but nothing else.
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These photos were taken Friday at Three Weavers Brewing Company during their bottle release party for the official beer of the 2016 LA Beer Week, Unity. Unity is an "experimental IPA" in that it used a lot of an experimental hop so new it does not have a name yet, other than HBC 522. It got the name Unity because while it was brewed and bottled at Three Weavers, many members of the L.A. County Brewers Guild participated in the brew. While it has been said that too many cooks spoil the broth, that was definitely not the case with Unity. Unity is a delicious resinous American IPA with a slight sweetness in the finish.
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Chef Lincoln Engstrom from Texas Motor Speedway stops by Good Day to show off the Hawg Heaven Three Little Pigs. It's a skewer featuring smoked bacon, pork tenderloin and grilled chorizo links.
Hawg Heaven Three Little Pigs
1 ea Pork Tenderloin, silver skin removed
2 TBL Smoked Paprika Dry Rub, Recipe Follows
6 ea Sliced Bacon
4 ea Mini Sweet Peppers, Grilled
2 ea Chorizo Links, Grilled
2 ea 12" Bamboo Skewers
Dust Tenderloin with dry rub and let marinate at least 20 minutes. Lay out 6 slices of bacon and wrap the tenderloin with the bacon. Roast at 375, about 40 minutes or internal temp of 140. Let rest. Slice tenderloin into six medallions and put on skewer alternating with chorizo and baby sweet peppers.
Smoked Paprika BBQ Rub
1 lb brown sugar
½ lb kosher salt
1 cup smoked paprika
½ cup ground cumin
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text: This is one of the shams I made to go with Holly and Nick's wedding quilt. I just made 2 extra stars, added some borders, and quilted it. I had enough that I also made a small throw pillow out of another star. I got so into this, I couldn't stop!


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LGBT activism is alive and well in the South, but what special issues come along with preaching equality in the Bible Belt?
Jonathan Cole of the Tennessee Equality Project will discuss "LGBT Activism in the Deep South" in front of the Marxist Student Union on the University of Memphis campus. The lecture is open to the public on Thursday, March 28th at 7 p.m. in the Mitchell Hall Auditorium on the University of Memphis campus.
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I've had a website for several years (and now myspace, etsy and blogspot) but have never done a proper diary or blog. I tend to be erratic with my postings and also uncertain as to how much I should ever reveal about my life or myself but that is only because I am such a private person and a bit of a loner like my little friend in the picture. I will retreat into my own world as I have since I was a child, creating things for my own amusement and hiding them but at the same time wishing that someone would take notice of what I was doing. At this time in my life I believe that I am finally getting over waiting for that elusive someone to take notice and I'm just going to have to get in their face with it. I envy the creative people that I know who can just put it out there and take or leave the response that may or may not come. I've been much too sensitive or maybe my friends put up a good front!
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If planning that big holiday barbeque caused you to miss out on the hottest entertainment news stories this weekend, there's no need to stress. We've got the details on The Help's winning streak at the box office, Beyoncé's birthday and much more right here.
• Box Office Blitz: The Help took home its third-straight No. 1 finish, topping this weekend's box office at $14.2 million. The Debt and Apollo 18 followed with $9.7 million and $8.7 million, respectively.
• Drummer Drama: My Chemical Romance dropped drummer Michael Pedicone after claims that he was allegedly caught stealing from the band.
• Baby Vegetarian: At just 15 months, Bethenny Frankel's daughter, Bryn, could possibly be the youngest celeb vegetarian ever! The reality star revealed she's taken meat out of her tiny tyke's diet.
• Royal Pains: Prince losing a $3.9 million lawsuit related to fragrance promotion, though another judge must confirm the award. The pop star vows to fight the judgment.
• Real Housewives Drama: Following the death of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills husband Russell Armstrong, we delved into how Bravo will handle scenes from the show that included him and wife Taylor.
• Take-Off Trouble: Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong got the boot from a Southwest Airlines flight after he refused to pull up his pants when a flight attendant asked him to.
• Tying the Knot: Cheyenne Jackson married his longtime partner Monte Lapka in the Hamptons Saturday, tweeting, "It's official, after 11 years together, Zora's no longer a bastard. Married the best man I've ever known."
• Bangin' Bod: A very svelte Victoria Beckham stepped out wearing 6-inch Christian Louboutin stilettos just two months after giving birth to her daughter, Harper Seven.
• Baby Bumpin'?: Alyson Hannigan stirred up the baby rumor mill Friday when she was spotted at the Malibu Chili Cook Off sporting what looked like a baby bump. But it wasn't.
• Tough Break: Zsa Zsa Gabor's 68-year-old hubby Prince Frederic von Anhalt was hospitalized Friday after he was hit by a car in Beverly Hills. In spite of his injuries though, he was still in good enough spirits to crack a few jokes with us.
• Oscar Buzz: Eddie Murphy is reportedly in talks to host the 84th annual Academy Awards next year. The decision could be made as early as Tuesday when the producers of the show meet with the Academy's president.


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After losing sight, John Hull knew that if he did not try to understand blindness it would destroy him. In 1983 he began keeping an audio diary. Over three years John recorded over sixteen hours of material, a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of blindness. Published in 1990, the diaries were described by author and neurologist Oliver Sacks as, 'A masterpiece... The most precise, deep and beautiful account of blindness I have ever read.' Following on from the Emmy Award-winning short film of the same name, Notes on Blindness is an ambitious and groundbreaking work, both affecting and innovative -- and one of the most essential British documentaries of the year. Since premiering at Sundance in January 2016 (alongside our virtual reality project) the film has played at over 30 international film festivals and has been nominated for six British Independent Film Awards, including Best British Film, Best Documentary and Best Director.
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- The first publication was that of Toulmin Smith in 1885.[3] This was republished in 1963 and again in 2007.
- A century later Richard Beadle felt the time was ripe for re-examination of the manuscript, and he published a facsimile edition.[32]
- Beadle also published a transcription of the text with notes and glossary.[33] This included many minor amendments to Toulmin Smith's work, but no major surprises.
- Beadle's 1982 text has been put on-line at the University of Michigan[34] and at the University of Virginia[35] Because this has been constrained to use a modern alphabet, the obsolete letters thorn and yogh, which are correctly reproduced in the printed version, here appear as "th" and "yo" respectively.
- More recently Beadle has revised and enhanced his work into two volumes, the first containing an introduction, the text and musical settings accompanying the plays[36] and the second containing notes, glossary and discussion.[36]
Edition in modern spelling
- The version of Beadle and King[1] contains a transcription of 22 of the plays into modern spelling. This is not unambiguously a benign process; where the modernisation involves the loss of a syllable it has just been dropped, which in general damages the scansion, for example is the Middle English word "withouten", which in this edition appears as "without". The Middle English ending "-and" for the present participle has been changed to the modern equivalent "-ing", but retained where the "-and" was required for a rhyme.
Modernised editions
- The first complete full modernisation was that of J. S. Purvis.[11][13]
- A more recent complete modernisation is that of Chester N. Scoville and Kimberley M. Yates[37] in Toronto.


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British glam rockers The Darkness have been honoured with the prestigious Songwriter Of The Year award at this year's (04) IVOR NOVELLOS.
The I BELIEVE IN A THING CALLED LOVE foursome picked up their gong at the 49th awards for songwriters and composers in London earlier tonight (27MAY04).
Delighted lead singer Justin Hawkins dedicated the award to "songwriters everywhere".
Hawkins joked, "It's a great award, it's the heaviest. This is the biggest award you can get if you write your own songs.
"We have always wanted something like this but didn't expect to be in this position now. Now we've got here we're not going to let it go."
Other winners at the prestigious event include jazz newcomer Amy Winehouse for Best Contemporary Song, Dido for International Hit Of The Year and Radiohead picked up International Achievement.
The winners include:
Best song musically and lyrically: LEAVE RIGHT NOW - WILL YOUNG. Written by FRANCIS EG WHITE.
Best contemporary song: STRONGER THAN ME - AMY WINEHOUSE. Written by AMY WINEHOUSE/SALAAM REMI.
The Ivors dance award: STRICT MACHINE - Goldfrapp. Written by ALISON GOLDFRAPP/WILLIAM GREGORY/NICK BATT.
Most performed work: SUPERSTAR - JAMELIA. Written by MICH HANSEN/JOSEPH BELMAATI/REMEE.
International hit of the year: WHITE FLAG - DIDO. Written by DIDO ARMSTRONG/ROLLO ARMSTRONG/RICK NOWELS.
Best-selling UK single: MAD WORLD - MICHAEL ANDREWS FEAT. Gary Jules. Written by ROLAND ORZABAL.
Outstanding song collection: ERIC STEWART, KEVIN GODLEY, LOL CREME, GRAHAM GOULDMAN (10CC).
International achievement: Thom Yorke, ED O'BRIEN, Jonny Greenwood, COLIN GREENWOOD, Philip Selway (RADIOHEAD).
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Alice at the Palace Trailer (1982)
16 January 1982 Adventure, Fantasy, Family 72 mins
Meryl Streep stars as Alice in this production of Elizabeth Swados' musical, which was adapted from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Based on the acclaimed New York Shakespeare Festival production by Joseph Papp, Alice at the Palace follows Alice's surreal adventures with The Mad Hatter, The March Hare, The Queen of Hearts, and The Cheshire Cat, among many others.
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Online journal of West Virginia Storyteller Granny Sue.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Ramp Hunting!
I'll post more tomorrow. Right now, it's time for bed. Night, all!
13 comments:
- Joy@aVintageGreen said...
See you in the morning, ok, see your post tomorrow. Night.
- Sun Apr 01, 11:23:00 PM
- Jenny said...
I don't ever remember trying these when I was growing up in WV but I would love to now. I don't think they grow this far west from what I've read though.
- Mon Apr 02, 08:44:00 AM
- warren said...
Your hunter looks very proud!
- Mon Apr 02, 09:51:00 AM
- Ronda said...
Never did that, but keep hearing about them. So, you're going to cook them? Let us know how that turns out.
- Mon Apr 02, 11:22:00 AM
- Carolyn H said...
Granny Sue: what are ramps? Whatever they are, I don't think I have them on Roundtop. Nice day for your adventure, too!
- Mon Apr 02, 12:14:00 PM
- Granny Sue said...
Jenny, they are delicious when prepared right. I'd say they're more of an adult taste but I know a lot of kids who like them.
- Mon Apr 02, 04:00:00 PM
- Granny Sue said...
Warren, he was plumb tuckered! I caught him staring up at the trees and called his attention and I think he was surprised :)
- Mon Apr 02, 04:02:00 PM
- Granny Sue said...
Carolyn, ramps are a strong onion-type plant with broad leaves that tastes like a cross between onion and very strong garlic. If you eat them raw you will stink for days--literally. People consider them a spring tonic and there are ramp feasts all over the place in the spring. Ramps don't grow where I live so we have to get them elsewhere. Which I don't mind because it means a trip into some beautiful country.
- Mon Apr 02, 04:04:00 PM
- Granny Sue said...
I like to dry them, Ronda. I chop them up, spread them on cookie sheets and put them in my oven with the pilot light on. It dries them perfectly in just a few days. We always make a few batches of friend potatoes and ramps too--it's a springtime must. Absolutely delicious! That's for dinner tonight--ramps and potatoes, scrambled eggs and asparagus. If Larry gets lucky, we'll have molly moochers, too (morel mushrooms) and maybe sassafras tea.
- Mon Apr 02, 04:09:00 PM
- Country Whispers said...
I bet those wild flowers smelled prettier than those ramps did!
In all honesty I've never tasted them.
I've heard plenty of tales of the men going to hunt them and the women having to cook them and all the smelly stories about them. I like onions but it sounds like ramps are pretty potent.
- Mon Apr 02, 09:01:00 PM
- Granny Sue said...
I think the stories are bigger than the actuality, Jessica. They do smell, and if someone eats them raw, look out. But cooked they are not so potent, and really have an interesting flavor. I don't like them parboiled, which is how many ramp dinners serve them. I like them best like we had them tonight--fried with potatoes.
- Mon Apr 02, 10:24:00 PM
- Nance said...
Sue, I have never had ramps nor ever expect to, really -- but any ol' wild flower catches my eye. What is this little red beauty? Is it a trillium (sp?) I have a white one and a yellow one. What is the name of a red one? Always, every day, enjoy your posts. Tell Larry "Perk up quick!" and how is that cabin room coming along??"
- Mon Apr 02, 11:59:00 PM
- John "By Stargoose And Hanglands" said...
I know that ramps are powerful things but surely they can be overpowered without resorting to that huge stick that West Virginia's Finest is holding.
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Spring Stories on April 23, 2017 at First Presbyterian Church, 321 W South St, Kalamazoo, MI 49007. Doors open at 2:30 p.m. and the concert begins at 3:00pm. The box office will open at 2:00pm for at the door ticket sales. This concert is a lovely collection of songs performed by our 4 choirs: Preparatory Choir, Treble Choir, Bella Voce Choir, and Touring Choir comprised of children ages 8-18. Nothing is more beautiful than listening to the voices of children raised up in song.
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Karl Rectanus explains his Techstars experience as "a fire hose of goodness on a roller coaster of emotion."
What does that mean? 100+ mentor meetings in three weeks should explain it pretty well.
Rectanus is just days from pitching Lea(R)n before 350 investors and EdTech professionals in New York City, an event that represented completion of the prestigious Kaplan Edtech Accelerator program, powered by Techstars. Rectanus's startup Lea(R)n was chosen from more than 500 applications to join Kaplan's second accelerator class. Of 11 companies in the program, Lea(R)n was one of just three from outside Silicon Valley and New York.
As he reflects back on the three-month whirlwind, he now has a clear vision for the direction of the software company—to save teachers and administrators time and money with a neutral and objective platform to vet the best technology for their classrooms. There are pilots underway and a "huge" pipeline Rectanus's team is working to convert to customers. He expects to also partner with other members of the accelerator class.
And, though he wouldn't provide specific funding details, he believes Lea(R)n is on the way toward raising the funds to aid a national roll-out. "We won't stop until every school in America has access to LearnTrials," Rectanus says. "And then we won't stop. It's a $90 billion global e-learning market, growing at an incredible clip, and we've got a solution that can help K12, higher education and corporate learning around the world."
So what happened over three months at Techstars? Rectanus describes it in three phases. Month one was "Mentor Madness."
Rectanus met with Techstars founder and CEO David Cohen, author and VC Brad Feld, startup guru Bob Dorf, former Washington Post owner and current Facebook board chair Don Graham, Kaplan CEO Tom Leppert and numerous Kaplan executives and EdTech entrepreneurs.
Advice from mentors helped him decide to table any plans to work with technology providers or sell ads on the platform. Before he contemplated any such strategy, he'd need to earn the trust of educators. He calls that "the fulcrum on which the rest of the business rides." That decision changed the business model—originally money would be made from the product companies, who would pay to sponsor trials of their software for teachers and administrators. Techstars blogged about the decision here.
Through mentor meetings and potential customer interviews, Rectanus found that educators would be willing to pay for Lea(R)n's offering of a platform that could save them 80 percent of the time it takes now to make decisions about new technology. His research found that schools and districts are spending more than $5 billion a year on hardware, software and online content and the more than 100,000 education apps in the App Store are rated, on average, 4.2 stars.
"It's impossible for them to know what works when everything looks the same," Rectanus says.
Month two was focused on execution. Once the new vision was set, Rectanus found it much easier to rally his team around a different, but consistent set of key performance indicators. They developed a product road map, a new sales and marketing strategy and met with investors to share the new plans.
Activity in EdTech investing has encouraged them, despite that most startups in the field have yet to have proved themselves (a recent PEHub article points out). Thomson Reuters reported two weeks ago that funding to edtech startups should surpass $1 billion by year's end, up from $842 million in 2013. And Techstars graduates, on average, raise $1.9 million in follow-on funding (that's besides the $118K offered as part of the program). It has funded 350 companies since 2007—12 percent have been acquired and 10 percent have failed.
Month three turned to the pitch. A great deal of time was spent on the content and delivery, Rectanus says, and he's promised to share his pitch tips with ExitEvent readers once Techstars releases videos from Demo Day in coming weeks.
Demo Day was a highlight for Rectanus. "A real treat," he says, was having Summer Clayton, head of Raleigh's Exploris Charter School, introduce his pitch. Exploris has been a key partner during the development of Lea(R)n—feedback from staff there have had a big influence in building a tool helpful to educators.
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ONE MILLION Poles set to hit Britain's shores
FRESH fears over soaring immigration were raised yesterday after a survey suggested that up to a million Poles could be considering moving to Britain next year.
25 per cent of Polish working men claimed to be considering move to Britain for jobs
The overwhelming majority are men aged under 35 fed up with relatively low wages.
One in five of those questioned in a survey of 600 working-age people in Poland for recruitment agency Work Service said they might emigrate by the end of 2015.
Germany was the favourite destination, chosen by 26 per cent, but Britain was preferred by 25 per cent.
If the figures hold true for the whole of Poland's working population that would imply that up to a million could come to the UK.
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BATAVIA – Genesee Community College's board of trustees has turned to a longtime architectural partner to design two buildings in the largest expansion in the institution's more than four-decade history.
A massive College and Community Arts Center and a Student Success Center will begin to rise on the Batavia campus in the summer of 2015. The $19 million additions should be ready for the fall 2016 semester.
JMZ Architects and Planners will design the facilities, their fourth project in 10 years. The Glens Falls firm also produced the Conable Technology building, the Humphrey Student Center and the Steiner Art Gallery.
The 43,000-square-foot events center will be the largest meeting place in the area and will host college and community events such as trade shows and exhibitions. The events center will overlook the college's athletic fields and will house classrooms, offices, food services and a fitness center.
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Quincy Jones
Life Path Number 6
Quincy Jones is an American music producer, actor, conductor, arranger, composer, musician, television and film producer, instrumentalist, entertainment and media entrepreneur and humanitarian with a record 79 Grammy nominations and 28 Grammys.
He was born on Tuesday March 14th 1933, in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Quincy Jones possesses great compassion and seeks to be of service to others. He has concern for the weak and the downtrodden. He a healer and a helper to others. Quincy is capable of giving comfort to those in need and will frequently offer a shoulder for others to cry on.
Jones' task in life is to develop the tools necessary to be truly helpful to others, rather than to simply be a sympathetic ear. Quincy Jones must find the balance between help and interference. In the same way, he must learn the delicate art of the counselor who knows when to leave the struggle to others and when to avoid taking away the necessary experiences and lessons of life.
Quincy Jones is naturally balanced. Therefore, he is well equipped to support and ground others in times of trial.
It is in his nature to take on responsibility - often filling the void left by others - and to not turn away from personal sacrifice. At times, Quincy Jones may feel overburdened by the travails of others. However, the love others bestow upon him is his well deserved reward.
Quincy tries to maintain harmony within the family or group, balancing and fusing divergent forces. He seeks marriage and is often a wonderful parent, offering warmth, protection, and understanding to children.
He is generous, kind, and attractive. Jones is often admired even adored which baffles him. He is humble and yet he carries a deep pride. Quincy Jones moves well and gracefully, but will have to work to stay in shape. He must seek out physical exercise and limit the sweets and dairy he craves to keep himself from becoming plump and round.
When young, Quincy must be careful not to choose partners for the wrong reasons, and to not let sentimentality influence his decision, especially those involving the choice of a spouse. Jones needs to be needed, but must learn to discriminate between those he can help and others who are made weaker by his care. After all, it is in Quincy's nature to be attracted to the weaker brothers and sisters among us.
The temptation and the danger for Quincy Jones is to think of himself as the savior of the world, carrying the burdens of others on his shoulders.
Quincy Jones is blessed with musical talent, as well as in the visual and performing arts. However, his creativity may well be suppressed due to his willingness to sacrifice, or his inability to fully appreciate his own talents. This is not to say that Quincy cannot excel in these areas; on the contrary, he has the talent, and with effort he can make a success in a number of artistic fields.
Jones also has enormous talent in business. He is blessed with a great deal of charm and charisma, which Quincy Jones uses effectively to attract the people and support he needs.
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If ever there was a single moment of total transformation, it was actually the moment of Quincy Jones' birth. In that instant, Quincy stepped through a door in time into a new reality - the reality of human life. The most critical number in Jones' numerology chart is based on the date of his birth - the moment when the curtain went up in Quincy Jones' life.
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