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Kissy-Cross Bunny Sal Finish!

Happy Easter!
If you'd like to stitch this freebie click here.

I made a few changes from the original.  I changed the fabric color, the colors used to stitch, took out the two green leaves in the top center and added a heart charm instead.  Thanks for taking the time to peek at my blog.
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Sunday, March 28, 2010

The Story of the Black Pants

Last summer my friend S and I taught the 2 years olds on Wednesday night's at church. This involves lots of sitting in very low 2 year old sized chairs and sometimes even getting in the floor. My clothing of choice for this, was pants.

One night, I came home from work and realized that both of my 'go to' pairs of pants were dirty. I really didn't want to wear a skirt or dress, and I didn't have time to wash the dirty pants. I had a pair of black denim jeans, that I'd worn at a smaller size in my life. I decided to put them on to see if I could stand to wear them for the couple of hours required. I'd have to bend over and squat low a few times probably to stretch them out, and see just how much circulation they cut off at my waist.

Imagine my surprise when the pants fit. Not only did they fit, they fit perfectly, like I'd just gone out and bought them. I felt light as a feather. My backside felt positively small. I could hardly wait until time to go to church in my very nicely fitting pants, with no worries about circulation, or those horrible red marks all over my lower body where they'd pressed in. I loved wearing those pants!! It was one of the first marks of progress for me, since I really had not noticed my other clothes getting too large.

In time, the black denim pants got too large. I actually wondered what was wrong with the pants! It even took me a while to realize there was nothing at all wrong with the pants, it was me. I had continued to shrink and they stayed the same size. That was a bit of an epiphany for me. I realized that things were changing with my body, but I was not recognizing it. I was thinking it was whatever was outside of me. I really had to open my eyes and recognize the progress I was making. I was beginning to wonder about myself in this regard. Then I ran across this article -

It gave me comfort to know that what was happening to me was typical as to what has happened to lots and lots of other people that have lost weight. It was a real turning point for me. I consciously acknowledged that I was different and it was good. Maybe it will help the readers as well.

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Steam rice cutlet recipe – Rice Vada recipe

Got bored with daily common breakfast foods or have lots of left over cooked rice or you would like to try something new recipe from steam rice. If yes, then here is the recipe of “Steam rice cutlet” or “Rice Vada recipe” [Commonly known in India] to try and enjoy the taste of Indian foods. Good news is this recipe is easy to make and can be made up from leftover rice as well.

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  • 1 Cup Steam rice (You can use either leftover rice or fresh one)
  • 1 tsp coriander powder
  • 1 tsp cumin powder
  • 1 tsp Garam Masala
  • ¼ tsp Turmeric Powder
  • 1 tsp Red Chili Powder
  • Salt for taste
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  • 7-8 Garlic cloves
  • Half inch Ginger smashed well
  • Handful of cilantro leaves chopped finely
  • 1 Cup Gram Flour (Besan in Hindi or commonly known in India)
  • 2 tsp Corn Flower
  • 1 Cup grain (Suji or Rava)
  • Oil for frying

  1. In a small bowl take steamed rice, add coriander powder, cumin powder, garam masala, turmeric powder, Chili powder, Salt, mustard seeds, Ginger and garlic paste, cilantro chopped leaves and mix well.
  2. Then add good enough gram flour (Besan) using spoon and make flour dough. Add 2 tsp corn flower in to it and knead well.
  3. Make circular flat balls (Vada ) of this rice mixture (Prepared in step 1 and 2) and keep them on flat plate after applying small amount of oil to it so that it should not stick to it.
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  5. Fry for some time. When these Vada’s turn light brownish in color, remove them from Kadai and keep them aside in different flat plate.
  6. Serve hot along with Tomato sauce.

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Beware of the OTHER messages box on Facebook.

If you are on Facebook, do you ever check the OTHER message box? This is the spot where The Zuckman’s staffers (or more likely, the site robots) tend to tuck notes that come in from non-friend users. Some are simply spam, while many of those messages are astonishing or alarming. Others are altogether hilarious.

Lately, the OTHER messages box on Facebook has been called MESSAGE REQUESTS. But it’s no less scary.

20 doozies

Here are a few gems from the OTHER messages box, quoted without corrections of spelling or grammar. Bear in mind: These are from total strangers. OK, they are from much-stranger-than-strangers. And they go back a bit. (It’s been a while since I’ve sorted, deleted, or reported stuff from the mailbox of mire.)

  1. “Help! I would want know you please.”
  2. “I search for friend we lost contact for long time, but I find your page instead.”
  3.  how are you today? It's nice that people can socialise using FB method, I am not often here but I would like us to know each other more better,”
  4. “I am impatiently waiting your answer.”
  5. “You arrested my eyes.”
  6. i looking for serious relationship for ever and am not here to joke with any one”
  7. “You wish I get a chance.”
  8.  “I draw to people who quirky... do you mind if we can get be connected?”
  9. “I bet if they are elect Miss Face Book … she has be you.”
  10. “i must confess you are the one that cross my hearth.”
  11. “So sorry if contracting you here is wrong.”
  12.  “i wildly like to know you to better, sir. I do hope hear you soonest.”
  13.  “OMG. You are indeed appetizing.”
  14. “My fortune need bank transfer. Rule world with me.”
  15. “one thing you have to know is you queen ammong all.”
  16. “Please, can we be best of friends? my instinct tells me that your friendship will bring more joy my life.”
  17. “I will hoping to hear from you so that I tell you more about my self.”
  18. “Dear my best friend in past life.”
  19.  “Please don’t think it as fake message. My name is …”
  20.  “Hello? Hello? Hello?

Are you as creeped out as I am? And who was that last one, Adele?

Gotta say it: I don’t answer these mysterious missives. Heck, I usually don’t even read ‘em. This time, I scanned the first lines from the message listing for the purpose of this article. I opened a few to pull out the quotes listed above. And then I wanted to call a Hazmat team and schedule an emergency session in a decon chamber.

That OTHER/MESSAGE REQUEST box is a quagmire!

Sure, I know I should never even venture into the OTHER message box on Facebook. On the other hand, I occasionally find real messages tucked into that spot. Sometimes genuine folks may send well-meaning and informative notes without actually becoming Facebook friends. As such, their messages may be placed in that box.

So I steel my nerves and take a look once in a while to see what has piled up. But I still feel as if I need a bottle of brain bleach afterwards.

Best beware of the OTHER/MESSAGE REQUEST box on Facebook.

Here’s something especially funny.

I’ve compared notes with a few friends (of all ages and shapes and sizes and descriptions) and found they have received many of the same messages (verbatim) from the same people! Do we dare hope a mutual friend or two may have been pranking us all?

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Kuma is an enormous man, nearing 7 meters tall, he is the tallest remaining Shichibukai (being one inch shorter than former member Moriah) and is usually seen carrying a Bible. His overall appearance resembles that of a bear, though there are a few key differences. His eyes are strangely covered by either a pair of glasses or clear-mirrored lenses. While initially he will give the impression of wearing glasses, it seems that, based on the Pacifistas that were destroyed, those are actually his own eyes.

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I just love this metal basket.....50% off....will use for Fall arrangements......and what a surprize, on the back of my ATM receipt was a coupon for HL for 40% off a non sale item.......so I scooped up these 4 metal napkin rings.......this was a good day!!!
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I am here a little late for the party, but wanted to join in anyway!!! This little glass dome is actually the cover for a butter/cheese plate from Princess House, put some silk strawberries under it and made a setting in my cherry cupboard with flow blue china and Gaudy Welsh baby cups......

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We were looking for a fun way to make fruit pizza, so we decided to make a rainbow design. It was easy to put together with fresh fruit, and the kids had fun helping, too. Take a look at our recipe.

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  • 1 package of place and bake sugar cookies (24 count)
  • 4 ounces cream cheese
  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 cup Cool Whip
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
  • Fruit (we used strawberry, mango, pineapple, kiwi, blueberries and grapes for our rainbow)
  • Marshmallows

Place sugar cookies on a round, cookie sheet, about an inch apart each. Bake according to package directions. As the dough heats up, it bakes together to create a cookie base. While it cools, mix cream cheese, powdered sugar, Cool Whip and vanilla together. Spread out on top of your cookie base. Place your fruit on, one layer at a time, starting with the strawberries. If you follow the arch of the cookie sheet, it’ll be easy to make the rainbow shape, going about 3/4 of the way down on each side. Once you have all of your layers of fruit on, add “clouds” at both ends with miniature marshmallows.

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To be quite honest, I’ve never been a fan of Mike Oldfield’s overly sophisticated and “cerebral” recordings. Without really being able to put a finger on it, I have a (very) soft spot in my heart for “Platinum” though, his 1979 release that sort of came and went at the time.

After a somewhat unrewarding tour in 1979, Oldfield virtually “threw” this album at his unsuspecting fans and I jumped on board simply because I liked the cover … and because I actually stayed at my Copenhagen record store to listen to the entire first side of the newly released LP at the time. That happened perhaps three to four times only ever since I started buying music.

Still today, reviews are mixed at best, even downright poisonous at times. The biggest problem people seem to have with this album is that with its unconventional structure of one long four-part opening track on side A and assorted (compositionally totally unrelated) tracks (partially with vocals) on side B, it comes across as unfinished. Add to that the completely different character when compared to previous recordings and what you get is something that spells “flop”.

That might be so, but the first side (tracks 1-4 on the CD) are still a mainstay at my place and now that I have finally bought into the deluxe edition of this material, it once again displays that wonderful flow that made me hang around for just about 19 minutes although I was supposed to get back to school (incidentally, my history teacher let me off the hook after reminding me to replace “Oldfield” with “Bach” the next time I tried to come up with an “inventive” excuse for skipping his class).

Although vastly different, I have two albums that have a seamless flow between tracks, Jean Michel Jarre’s “Oxygene” and this one.

I think I’ve heard those first four Platinum tracks a thousand times (especially on headphones, which I also did way back when I bought the original LP). The rest is idiosyncratic at times, but also good, especially the percussion-oriented “Woodhenge”. The “Deluxe Edition” has an added live recording of some of the the material (Wembley Arena, May 1980), which is very interesting.

Give it a listen.

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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Review | Rai: The Orphan [2015] Matt Kindt | Clayton Crain

Lula has freed the Geomancer Karana from captivity and revealed Father kept her captive so no one will rise against New Japan from Earth. Spylocke is held by the new Rai now called X-Eye. Spylocke is using old videos to give instructions to his acolytes including a reward for killing Silk who has betrayed both Spylocke and Rai. After Rai fell to Earth he realizes he is not healing because he is not connected to New Japan and is shot by the natives of Earth.

Now Rai is on a journey to find an island with a warrior who cannot die. They find the beheaded Ax who is prepared to self-destruct. Rai continues his search for the Eternal Warrior until he finally finds him. Rai needs his help to rescue a Geomancer which the Eternal Warrior agrees to kill Father and let New Japan fall. Spylocke puts in the code to kill New Japan and it falls onto the Earth.

The series does not conclude here however lets into next year's 2016 summer event 4001 AD. The series seems like a cheat as it builds towards something else instead of giving the audience closure.


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Emily is from Salem Oregon and has been a Type-1 Diabetic since Valentines Day, 2006.

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It’s the Superbowl–don’t bother with poxy little wings…try drumsticks! They’re a great wing-alternative that are meatier, tastier, less messy, and cheaper.  These two wing-style drumstick flavours are with simple and tasty ingredients. They’re easy to make and are hearty enough to fill up even the hungriest of game watchers.

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How to Avoid Overeating When Stressed Out

Avoid Overeating When Stressed OutStress can feel terrible. But what can be worse than just feeling tense and anxious is the fact that it can also cause all sorts of havoc on our ability to lose weight through cravings.

Overeating when stressed is especially detrimental if you are feeling stressed out a lot. It not only releases cortisol hormones into the body, which makes it more difficult to burn fat, but it also sends many of us the mental signals that we want to eat in order to feel some comfort.

For some people, this means gorging on foods like sweets and fatty snacks, until they’ve eaten three times the calories that they should in a day. For others, overeating when stressed can mean that all of those smart food choices are thrown out the window and even though that awesome salad has already been made and is just waiting for you in the fridge, you’ll still opt to order in a pizza.

Fear not! There is a way to get back to healthy dieting even when your stress levels are brimming. The key is to stick to some very effective stress busting techniques so that you will get at the problem at its source. Once you have focused on busting your stress, you’ll find that it is much easier to stick to your weight loss routine.

Consider the following stressful situations and how you can overcome them to avoid overeating when stressed:

Drowning under an ultra tight deadline – you may feel as though you should chug the coffee, go to bed late and wake up early, but that will actually hurt not only your weight but also your productivity. Instead, drink green tea, get a good night of sleep, and get up every thirty minutes just to stretch and do a mini-meditation for a couple of minutes. You’ll be shocked at the energy and clarity it brings.

The kids are sick – you may want to just eat whatever is there because you’re not cooking for the whole family, you’ll stress over work you’re missing, and you’ll want to skip your exercises, but instead, do some yoga or pilates while the kids are napping. Take your own naps if you can. Ask a co-worker to cover your tasks and offer to pay them back at another time (and then live up to that promise if you ever want to have that help available to you again).

A fight with a friend or partner – the natural inclination is to stew over it, spend time alone, skip your workout, and eat a lot of junk food followed by slightly too much wine. Instead, call up a friend and vent it all out. Go for a brisk walk to burn through all that pent-up energy. Rebuild yourself and give yourself the healthiest meal that you possibly can. Make a project out of the ideal nutrition. This will help you to sleep better, wake up refreshed, and then patch things up as quickly as you can.

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Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Make it Colourful

This little guy is a freebie I got from buying from Pollycraft this week (you'll probably see some of my cards using those images soon!)

I really wanted to join in the Make it Colourful challenge this week and this little guy shouted bright colours to me!  I used my new nestie, coloured with copics and used a green grosgrain ribbon.

  1. AWE!!!!!!!!!! He is a cutie and to be honest with you i don't like MICE EEEEEEEH!!! Gives me goose bumps lol!

    but yours looks like a cutie colored so stinckin adorable and BRIGHT COLORS OFCOURSE LOL!

    Thank you for coloring with us at
    Make it colourful,RubyM:)

  2. Hold on whilst I get me sunnies on - this is one bright card. Such a cute little mouse I love the simplicity of the layout it really makes the image pop.
    Thanks for joining us at Make it Colourful.
    Beccy x

  3. So cute! I love these cheerful colours, one of my favourite combinations.


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Monday, January 11, 2016

Making a 3D Printer - Control Box

I made a box out of MDF to house the electronics for my 3D Printer. I started with some rough sketches, cut the 1/2" MDF on the table saw and then the 1/4" on the laser cutter. Here's what I've got so far:

 It took a lot of trouble shooting to get the alignment just right.

Both of the sides slide out for easy access to the electronics.
Eventually I will paint the box after drilling a few holes in the top for the cords to go through.

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Digital XO (Theory)

Digital Crossover Over

Powered by (((Acourate)))

The advantage of passive Vs active crossover has long been debated. There are many points for and against such setup. But if you search the internet, there is a new entity that comes up recently with the the advancement of computer technology and sound card and this is digital crossover.

The advantage of this technique is that it stays in the digital domain and the signal can be accurately manipulated to generate the desired outcome. In the setup that I am current using, all the DSP is done with 64bit floating points to give the best accuracy – far better than passive crossover can achieve.

Linear Phase Vs Minimal Phase Filter

The two most basic categories of digital filters are FIR and IIR. An analog filter will be IIR, while a digital filter can be either FIR or IIR. FIR stands for Finite Impulse Response, and typically, though not necessarily, these will exhibit a linear phase response. This means that as all frequencies propagate through the filter, they will arrive at the output at the same time. Finite Impulse Response means that the filter’s response to an impulse will settle to zero in a finite time.

IIR stands for Infinite Impulse Response, which will be minimum phase (dual pass IIR to achieve linear phase being an interesting exception), and though the total delay might be less than FIR filters, some groups of frequencies may be delayed more or less than others (i.e. group delay). An IIR filter’s response to an impulse may last indefinitely due to feedback in the filter.

Both linear phase FIR and minimum phase IIR filters exhibit phase distortion. The difference is that the distortion is linear in one, and non-linear in the other. The linear phase filter introduces the same delay at all frequencies. The more aggressive the filter, the greater the latency through the filter. You can make an almost infinitely steep FIR filter, but you may have to wait until next month to hear the output. The pre-echo (often called pre-ringing) is the other obvious drawback. Post-ringing in IIR filters (and FIR) is less of a problem since it is typically masked by the signal. In Acourate, Uli has elegantly solved this in his latest software update. You can check this out in this web.

So what does all this means in terms of sonic quality? In my experience, linear phase filter has a more forward soundstage with better transparency, dynamics and realism. The separation between instruments are more clear.

With minimal phase filter, the soundstage is receded, transparency is less. And sound very much like passive XO and ordinary “high end” speaker.

I have a number of friends coming over and said that my system sound is very strange and incoherent. The instruments are like playing separately in the orchestra. I then switched over to minimal phase filter and they are all happy. I guess they are just so used to this playback setup and forgot what the real thing sound like. I am a regular concert attendees and I think the real sound is closer to the linear phase than minimal phase.

What other advantage can one get from digital crossover? The best answer is already given by Uli

Effect of speaker design on digital crossover

This is main concern about ported Vs sealed design. As we know, a ported design can produce better bass extension, but this bass extension is bought about by the port resonance. The frequency response and the phase behaviors is intrinsic to the speaker design. In other words, it is already determined by the box volume, the port size and length. In digital crossover, we changes the behaviors of the driver based on measurement, you can even achieve boosting and suppression similar to Linkwitz Transform as well. However, there is no guarantee the port response will be what we want as it is not under direct DSP control. Using sealed box will not have this problem as all frequency response will be under direcet DSP control.

The explanation of ported design is best found in Wiki

Unlike closed box loudspeakers, which are substantially airtight, a bass reflex system has an opening called a port or vent, generally consisting of a pipe or duct (typically circular or rectangular cross section). The air mass in this opening resonates with the “springiness” of the air inside the enclosure in exactly the same fashion as the air in a bottle resonates when a current of air is directed across the opening. The frequency at which the box/port system resonates, known as the Helmholtz resonance, depends upon the effective length and cross sectional area of the duct, the internal volume of the enclosure, and the speed of sound in air.

When this vent air mass/box air springiness resonance is so chosen as to lie lower in frequency than the natural resonance frequency of the bass driver, an interesting phenomenon happens: the backwave of the bass driver sound emission is inverted in polarity for the frequency range between the two resonances. Since the backwave is already in opposite polarity with the front wave, this inversion brings the two emissions in phase (although the vent emission is lagging by one wave period) and therefore they reinforce each other. This has the useful purpose if producing higher output (for any given driver excursion compared to a closed box) or, conversely, a similar output with a smaller excursion (which means less driver distortion). The penalty incurred for this reinforcement is time smearing: in essence the vent resonance augments main driver output by imposing a “resonant tail” on it. For frequencies above the natural resonance of the driver, the reflex alignment has no influence. For frequencies below the vent resonance, polarity inversion is not accomplished, and backwave cancellation occurs. Furthermore the driver behaves as though suspended in free air, as box air springiness is absent. This is a far more significant problem with vinyl record replay, because in this case there may be significant subsonic content in the audio signal, due either to warped records, or to turntable suspension wobbling or acoustic feedback.

By their own nature, resonant systems cannot start and stop instantly. Ported speakers stagger two resonances, one from the driver and boxed air and another from the boxed air and port, in order to achieve their bass output, a more complex case than an equivalent sealed box. This causes increased time delay (increased group delay imposed by the twin resonances), both in the commencement of bass output and in its cessation. Therefore a flat steady-state bass response does not occur at the same time as the rest of the sonic output; rather, it starts later (lags) and accumulates over time as a longish resonant “tail”. Because of this complex, frequency-dependent loading, ported enclosures generally result in poorer transient response at low frequencies than in well-designed sealed box systems.

Another trade-off for this augmentation is that, at frequencies below ‘tuning’, the port unloads the cone and allows it to move much as if the speaker were not in an enclosure at all. This means the speaker can be driven past safe mechanical limits at frequencies below the tuning frequency with much less power than in an equivalently sized sealed enclosure. For this reason, high-powered systems using a bass reflex design are often protected by a filter that removes signals below a certain frequency. One such filter is the rumble filter often built in to receivers or amplifiers designed to be used with LP records because of undesired LF rumble from the mechanical parts of the turntable, or from the strong subsonic excitation caused by warped vinyl discs. Unfortunately, electrical filtering adds further frequency-dependent group delay. Even if such filtering can be adjusted not to remove musical content, it may interfere with sonic information connected with the size and ambiance of the recording venue, information which often exists in the low bass spectrum.

Whether or not the effects of these in a properly designed system are audible remains a matter of debate. A poorly designed bass reflex system, generally one that is tuned too high or too loosely, can ring at the tuning frequency and create a ‘booming’ one-note quality to the bass frequencies. In effect, this is due to the port resonance imposing its characteristics to the note being played, and is grossly exacerbated if the port resonance coincides with one of the resonant modes of the room, a not unusual occurrence. In general, the lower in frequency a port is tuned, the less objectionable these problems are likely to be.

Ports often are placed in the front baffle, and may thus transmit unwanted midrange frequencies reflected from within the box. If undersized, a port may also generate “wind noise” or “chuffing”, due to turbulence around the port openings at high air speeds. Enclosures with a rear-facing port mask these effects to some extent, but they cannot be placed directly against a wall without causing audible problems. They require some free space around the port so they can perform as intended. Some manufacturers incorporate a floor-facing port within the speaker stand or base, offering predictable and repeatable port performance within the design constraints.

Thoughts About Crossovers
© 2006 by Dr. Ulrich Brüggemann

This white paper describes some views about the application of crossovers. The goal is to show some unexpected effects and a new (?) approach for the design of crossover filters. Basically all items told here are not really new. But it seems that the idea to make the crossover filters in accordance to the good old passive crossover filters prevents from seeing the inherited problems. Luckily the use of digital crossovers allows to overcome the given limitations. Acourate offers such solutions. This is explained step by step to give insights and a better understanding.

1 The Minimum Phase Crossover Filter Story

A common way to generate crossover filters is to make similar filters like found with passive crossovers. Passive filters are made of passive elements e.g. inductors, capacitors and resistors. The crossover network built with these elements behaves like minimum phase filters. Minimum phase filters simply spoken are filters that have the shortest possible phase deviations (= delays) to achieve a desired frequency response.

As the passive crossover is a causal system the reaction on an input signal takes place after the signal. The best possible answer for a driver would be a Dirac pulse response. But the Dirac pulse means a flat amplitude response and we do not want to have a flat response. We want to have a flat passband where the signal passes and a stopband where the signal will be suppressed. In between there is a transition area. The transition area and the stopband have a different amplitude behaviour by definition. Thus the signal is influenced by amplitude and phase changes. The phase change means that the input signal gets delayed in the corresponding frequency range.

Let’s take a view on an example. It is given as a standard 2nd order Butterworth filter (12 dB/octave or 40 dB/decade slope in the stopband) for a 3-way system. The crossover frequencies are arbitrarily selected as 150 Hz and 3500 Hz.

Remark: the filters have been created with the Scientific Filter function of Adobe Audition with a length of 65536 samples each (samplerate 48000 Hz) and been saved as dbl-files (double precision floating point format). Audition allows to read these files and to explore the given input files. The first picture shows the amplitude responses of the crossover filters:

Fig. 1 Amplitude response of a Butterworth 2nd order crossover filter with lowpass 150 Hz, bandpass 150 Hz/3500 Hz and highpass 3500 Hz

The filters cross at the crossover frequencies at the -6 dB point. (Remark: The reason for the slope deviation at the right side of the bandpass is given by Adobe Audition !)

Now let’s have a look on the time domain signals of the filters as created by Adobe Audition. Acourate allows the display of both time and frequency domain. It is possible to load and view 6 independant signals. The graph for each curve can be switched on/off by the appropriate checkboxes. The next picture shows the behaviour of the lowpass time domain signal.

Fig. 2 Lowpass pulse response (minphase Buttherworth 2nd order 150 Hz)

The signal has a max. value of 0.0068 at sample 74 (shown by Acourate at the right side of the graph. Therefore the curve has to be selected by the Active Curve radiobuttons). Sample 74 means a time of 74/48000 = 1.54 ms.

What about the bandpass behaviour? It is shown in the next picture:

Fig. 3 Bandpass pulse response (minphase Buttherworth 2nd order 150 Hz/3500 Hz)

Acourate tells us that the max. value is 0.1459 at sample 3. The peak is at a different position.

And finally we look at the highpass curve:

Fig. 4 Highpass pulse response (minphase Buttherworth 2nd order 3500 Hz)

The highpass peak has the value 0.6542 at sample 0. We can see that the three filters have their peaks at different times. All filters start at the time 0 but the reaction takes place at different times.

For a better comparison the time axis of the three curve graphs is left unchanged.

Now let us assume that we have the best available speaker drivers. They are SO GOOD that their behaviour is described by our ideal Dirac pulse. This thought experiment allows us to study the response of the speaker where the crossover filters define the overall answer. The crossover filter response determines the result for each driver and the sum of the filters determines the speaker response. We can simply add by Acourate the three time domain signals to get the sum. And by selecting the step response checkbox of the sum curve we get a display that corresponds to the often published curves in audio magazines as a part of a speaker review:

Fig. 5 Step response of sum signal (minphase Butterworth 2nd order 150 Hz, 3500 Hz)

Let us study the behaviour of the step response. First comes the tweeter (ideal tweeter + real highpass), then the mid driver (ideal midrange driver + real bandpass) and with a delay of about 6 ms the reaction of the woofer (ideal woofer + real lowpass).

It is important to understand what is happening here. Even in the case that we have our assumed ideal speaker drivers the resulting step response is determined by the minimum phase crossover filters. We can also suspect that the well-known and often published step response curves are also a result of the applied passive crossovers.

If a passive crossover is substituted by a digital crossover but the design is following the standard minphase definition then we will get NO IMPROVEMENT.

To understand a little more about the minphase behaviour let us explore a crossover of higher filter order e.g. the same Butterworth filter but instead of order 2 now with order 20. What is predictable anyway is a longer delay with higher filter orders. The more steep the slope is the longer is the filter length or simply spoken the more delay is given. This we can see in the picture 6. Doesn’t the step response look really bad? No wonder why people with sensitive ears tend to prefer very low crossover filter orders. Please also not that the woofer now instead of 6 ms (2nd order) reacts at 14 ms !

Fig. 6 Step response of sum signal (minphase Butterworth 20th order 150 Hz, 3500 Hz)

We can definitely see with the higher order minphase filter that we have to expect different expanded delays for different frequencies. And we can consider this as a serious time distortion.

Is the time distortion the only bad effect? No, for example let us take a view on the amplitude response of the sum signal of the 2nd order Butterworth crossover, given in the blue curve of picture 7. The amplitude at the crossover point is – 6 dB. This means a value of 0.5. But it seems that 0.5 + 0.5 is not equal 1.0 (0 dB). We get -8 dB to -9 dB.

Fig. 7 Amplitude response of sum filter (minphase Butterworth 2nd order 150 Hz/3500Hz)

The reason is that we add two signals of the same frequency but with a different phase. In the best condition we can get the desired 0 dB, but in the worst condition two signals with identical frequency can even cancel each other. This is not the case here because the phase shift is not 180°. But in any case we do not get the expected straight frequency response.

Conclusion: Minphase crossovers have disadvantages. Different type of minphase crossovers have different type of disadvantages. With higher filter orders the behaviour gets worse. This has lead to the preference of low order filters. But also low order minimum phase filters result in time distortions. The different frequencies are played at different times. Is it a wonder that we have a never ending discussion about the quality of speakers? Please note that we have discussed here only the crossovers with the assumption that the drivers and the speaker cabinet behave perfect !

2. Delayed Minimum Phase Crossovers

The pictures 2-4 show the peaks of the pulse responses at the positions at sample 74, 3 and 0 for lowpass, bandpass and highpass. Thus they are at different positions. An idea is to apply some delay for the bandpass and the highpass to bring all peaks together. So the idea is that the sum will have the highest value at position 74 and we get closer to a Dirac behaviour. This situation is shown in the next picture. It has been created with Acourate by insertion of 71 zero samples at the begin of the bandpass time domain signal and by insertion of 74 zero samples at the start of the highpass signal.

Fig. 8 Pulse responses of bandpass and highpass with shifted peak positions

The next picture shows the resulting step response of the sum of the pulses (blue curve). Also shown are the step responses of the crossover filters. We can see that the step response still is far away from looking good.

Fig. 9 Step response of added crossover filters with shifted peak positions

And we can already feel that the amplitude response also is not flat under these circumstances. In reality is has got even worse !

Fig. 10 Amplitude response of added crossover filters with shifted peak positions

Conclusion: The trick of simply using additional delays does not help. Of course now we can try to apply other modifications. So e.g. you can look for the proposals of Le Cléac’h. But we already feel that this will only give suboptimal solutions.

3. Linear phase crossover filters

The previous two chapters show that minimum phase crossovers will not give perfect results. So we think about another solution. What we expect is a perfect addition of the crossovers resulting in a Dirac pulse. Then we have the 1:1 transfer and our crossovers behave together like the famous piece of wire.

Let us look at 2nd order Butterworth filters with the same corner frequencies as in the previous chapters but now created by Acourate. These filters show linear phase crossover filters. Linear phase filters show a symmetric behaviour. The peak is in the center.

The centered peak of course has some important properties: we will get a delay. In our example with 65536 filter taps we will get a delay of 32768/samplerate seconds, e.g. at 48 kHz samplerate the overall delay is about 0.683 seconds. This is no problem if we have the sound without being accompanied by pictures (video). If we listen to music only the delayed playback doesn’t matter.

(Remark: also in case of video a solution is possible. We have to accept compromises and to take mixed phase filters. They also allow a perfect addition but we will have restrictions on the filter slopes. Another solution is to delay also the picture, but this is considered to be difficult. And finally a solution is to simply accept the minphase crossovers as the ear becomes much less critical if the eye is concentrating on the picture).

More important with a linphase filter is of course the question about the pre-echo or pre-ringing. If our ears will detect it then we will not accept linear phase filters. And this property of a linear phase filter is quite often be questioned and discussed. Let’s see.

Fig. 11 Pulse responses (lowpass – red, bandpass – green, highpass – brown) of a 2nd order linphase Butterworth filter with corner frequencies 150 Hz, 3500 Hz

The amplitude response is shown in picture 12.

Fig. 12 Amplitude responses of the Acourate 2nd order linphase Butterworth crossovers

But now we are interested in the behaviour of all three crossovers together. How to they add together?

Fig. 13 Step responses of the linphase crossovers including the sum (blue curve)

The three crossovers add to a Dirac pulse and thus the step response shows the behaviour that we wish. Please note that the lowpass shows an overshoot. But it is compensated by the bandpass. And this is valid at any time. The filters compensate each other so that the sum is perfect.

If the sum is ok then also the amplitude response should look fine:

Fig. 14  Amplitude response of the added crossovers

Conclusion and discussion: With the linear phase crossovers generated by Acourate we get a perfect behaviour. The crossovers add up to a Dirac pulse. So we have reached a first goal in our speaker optimization. Based on the thought experiment with assumed perfect drivers we can concentrate on the behaviour of the crossover filters themselves. And it can be shown that linear phase filters allow us to reach the desired function.

Are Butterworth filters the only possible filters? NO. We can design filters with different shapes and they all fulfil our goal. Examples (the same corner frequencies are taken):

Fig. 15  Amplitude response of a 2nd order linphase Neville-Thiele crossover (please note the STEEP slopes)

Fig. 16 Step response of the NT filter according to Fig. 15.

Of course the steep slope of the NT filter (that is perfect if we really want to separate our driver from certain frequencies, e.g. resonances of metal membranes) shows more ringing. But the sum is still perfect.

Fig. 17  Amplitude response of a R-Bessel filter of order 40.

Fig. 18  Step response of the 40th order R-Bessel filter

Our example in picture 17 and 18 shows a Bessel filter of type R. This means that we have a steep slope at the right side of the crossovers. The left side always has the order 2. This is a property of the Bessel filter. A remarkable property can be seen in the step response picture. We do not have any overshoot in the lowpass despite of the high order !

How is this all achieved? Why do we always get our perfect step response?

We can simply do something that is much more difficult to achieve with passive crossovers: we can use the method of subtraction. If we subtract our first digitally generated crossover from the Dirac pulse then the rest defines a remaining part. And we can create a next crossover and subtract this again. By this way we get all our crossovers and of course they will in return add perfectly to our Dirac pulse. You should think about how to achieve this with passive analog components only.

Can the subtractive method also get applied for minphase filters?

Acourate will allow you to play with this and to study the result (Acourate is intended as an audio toolbox and not as a one button solution). You will find that you can do it but the amplitude responses will look very weird. The linear phase approach shows a much better behaviour. But it is also possible to create mixed phase filters by making some compromises (especially regarding steep slopes). The mixed phase filters have much less delay. So a delay down to about 60 ms should be possible.

If you do listen to music only then time is not important and thus linphase filters are preferable.

A final important question in this whitepaper:

All the discussion is based on the assumption of having perfect drivers. But speaker drivers are not perfect. Is the approach shown here still valid?

YES. Let us consider a bandbass. We have to expect that in the passband our driver should already behave well. In the transition area and in the stopband the driver has less influence, especially in the stopband as the driver should simply spoken get no signal to play. So the crossover has to be selected so that the good properties of the driver are used ! If the driver does not have a good behaviour we should not use it.

The goal is to select the driver’s frequency range where the driver behaves well by nature (its own physical properties). Then only some small non-perfect properties have to be corrected (e.g. a correction in the stopband is senseless). The driver has to be linearized. And the good news: Acourate supports this linearization.

The idea: if the desired crossover plus the driver plus the driver linearization behave like our ideal crossovers shown in this whitepaper then the synthesis of a good sounding speaker is no longer a fiction, it becomes reality.


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February 2, 2011

Blizzard of '11

I am not saying I am happy we got hit with a blizzard yesterday, but if I am going to be honest, I was a tad glad. For the past week and a half I have been cooped up in a training class for work and things at home have been very busy. I am not complaining, but as my husband kindly pointed out last night, I have been neglecting my blog.

Yesterday I was able to catch up on my digital life a bit. I am in love with the new High Gloss online magazine. If you have yet to look at it, put it on your to do list. I also got creative (well creative for me anyway) in the kitchen and whipped up some chicken salad. Any my Dyson got a bit of preventive maintenance. Good times. Anyway, here are some pictures from yesterday, enjoy and stay warm.

My backyard yesterday during the blizzard

Owen loves the snow, natch

Lex giving me some love

And yet, another rough day ahead of us. At least the sun is out.

Teresa at Splendid Sass said...

I wish that we would have some snow. It have been bitterly cold at times, but no snow! It has been some winter. Beats summer, but I am ready for a little spring.
Hope all is well with you.

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#RavenRamblings on #NewReleases (@RavenMcAllan) AKA Red Bus Syndrome

Hi all it’s Raven here.

I often wonder why I can’t have a nice ordered everything spaced out life. Some people do, but sadly not me.

Take holidays, none for relatively ages then two close together. Oh I’m not complaining about having a holiday, I so enjoy them but that seems to be the way my life works. Don’t see my daughter for months then twice in three weeks, that sort of thing.

It’s the same with book releases, they come in a convoy, a bit like London buses. None for ages then two at once.

bus bus 2

This week is no exception. Two books out, and then as far as I can tell nothing until December (unless I get something else written PDQ.)

(a…b i g…g    a    p…until December then a

However, this week I have two books out … okay no more pics (except covers) I promise.

The Scottish Lord’s Secret Bride and The End Game. One Regency and light, one contemporary and dark. Both set in Scotland. But there the similarity ends. They even have different author names. The End Game is written under my alter ego Kera Faire. Not because I want to disassociate myself from it, nothing could be further from the truth. But because the Kera stories are darker than the Raven ones.

Secrets never stay buried for long…

Reluctant heiress Lady Morven Weston is tired of her mother interfering in her love affairs. At almost twenty-six there’s only so many more society balls she can attend before resigning herself to life as an unmarried maid.

But when Lord Fraser Napier, the man Morven ran wild with one long, hot summer, returns to Scotland, his shocking revelations change everything. Fraser never annulled their whirlwind marriage all those years ago!

Preparing to take up his ancestral seat, Fraser’s not letting go of his secret bride that easily—he needs an heir. It’s only a matter of time before Morven surrenders to Fraser’s seductive touch and finds herself in his bed…

(available from Amazon Are and Kobo)

As an undercover operative, your life is not your own and you can’t trust anyone.

Emma MacKay is only too aware of that, but it still sucks when you have to take out a friend’s fiancé, because he’s suspected of being a traitor.

Milo Dorn is more than an undercover operative. He’s one of the dispatchers, secret killers for the department.

When someone is feeding his pigs fresh meat he needs to find answers.

What he finds instead is the woman of his dreams. While the sex is mind blowing, and makes him want to throw away the rule book, he cannot forget the first rule of the game.

Trust no one.

When the truth comes out, can Milo and Emma find a way to each other, or are their jobs an obstacle to high to overcome?

The End Game is on.

(available from 22nd from Evernight Publishing Amazon Are and Bookstand)

Happy reading,

Love R x

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Detail of Henry Herbert Wills, 1856-1922, from a 1930 painting entitled Some Who Made Bristol Famous by Ernest Board. Wills was a tobacco manufacturer, benefactor of the University of Bristol, and founded St Monica�s Home of Rest in Bristol.

Creator: Ernest Board

Date: 1930

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Pioneer ACO Program Results: Why Saving Money for CMS Doesn't Mean The Business Model is Viable

According to South Dakota researchers, the predator status of Tyrannosaurus rex can no longer be questioned. After finding one of its teeth embedded in the healed spine of a Hadrosaurus, paleontologists now believe T rex was a fearsome hunter, not an carrion munching opportunist

But, asks the Disease Management Care Blog, how do we really know that that Hadrosaurus wasn't  pretending to be dead when the T rex took its bite?  Alternatively, the Hadrosaurus could have been sleeping and only looked dead to a slow-witted and lazy T rex

Dino doubts, says the DMCB, remain.

Such is the level of skepticism that the DMCB is bringing to its reading of the recent CMS press release describing the initial results of the Pioneer ACO program.  CMS says "positive" and "promising." The DMCB says "problematic" wonders if, like the T rex dilemma, there isn't an alternative interpretation.

The DMCB explains.

Recall that the Pioneer ACO program is designed to test whether large integrated organizations can be successfully rewarded for reducing health care costs through a program of "shared savings."  Under the program, if the savings exceed a minimum threshold, CMS will remit a portion of the upside savings back to the participating organizations.

According to the press release, the health care costs for the 669,000 Medicare beneficiaries cared for by the 32 Pioneer ACO program providers grew only .3% versus .8% for a parallel group of "similar beneficiaries." 13 organizations exceeded the savings threshold, which will lead to Uncle Sam writing checks for $76 million in shared savings.

This front page article in The Wall Street Journal has more detail. It says 18 of the 32 reduced health care costs, which leads the DMCB to conclude that five otherwise "successful" participants did not cross the required savings threshold. Two participants lost money. That, in turn, suggests the remainder, or twelve, broke even.

Details on how each individual institution fared are not readily available.  According to WSJ, Boston's Partners Healthcare reduced Medicare claims expense by $14 million.  They will be rewarded with a shared savings check of $7 million. Wisconsin's Bellin-ThedaCare will get "several million."

Good "win-win" news for the Pioneer organizations, CMS, Uncle Sam and U.S. taxpayers, right? A critical mass (40%) achieved millions in shared savings, which means proof of concept met and that a key part of Obamacare is successful, right?

"Not exactly," says the DMCB.

It figures 100% of the participating organizations had to each invest millions for personnel and other infrastructure to pursue the Medicare savings in the first place.  In other words, they were in the red before Pioneer even began.  That means that, in addition to the two participating organizations that lost money, the 12 that "broke even" as well as the 5 that did not make threshold also lost millions

That's 19 losers or almost 60% of the participating organizations.

In addition, it's possible that for some of the 13 "winners" that the shared savings awards won't  match their up-front multi-million dollar investment either.  Assuming that's true, it's possible that as many as two thirds of the Pioneer organizations lost money. No wonder 9 of the participants have signaled a desire to exit the program.

The DMCB's dinosaur analogy may be apt.  Given a two out of three likelihood of losing millions in the first year of operations, ACOs may just be too big and complicated to survive in the current health care environment.  Nonetheless, the Pioneer program will continue and the DMCB will stay tuned for the Year 2 results.

In the meantime, the DMCB wishes CMS good luck in using these "positive" and "promising" results to expand the program anytime in the near - or distant - future.

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I had been dreaming of this mountain for at least a year or so. In the summer of 2000 I went to Zermatt to start the preparation and acclimatizing. The first week I ascended a couple of 4000 meters peaks (Breithorn and Rimpfischorn), and then I headed for Chamonix to fulfil my dream.....

I got the idea of climbing Mont Blanc in 1999, when I read some interesting articles on internet. Making dream become reality happened very fast in this case, as I went to Switzerland the following year to start the acclimatizing in Zermatt. After a couple of 4000 meter climbs, I was pleased to discover that my body adapted very well to high altitude, having no headaches or other problems at all. So I decided to catch a train to Chamonix and start the climb of Mont Blanc immediately. Two weeks before I arrived, however, there was a huge snowfall in the mountains around Chamonix, causing a lot of avalanches and killing more than 10 climbers in one week. Still I decided to stick to my original plan, but I have to admit that all the accidents did not boost my confidence of doing a solo climb right then.

Mont Blanc can be climbed by several routes. All of them requires extended glacier crossing. Basic ice equipment is therefore essential. The Gouter-route is the standard route, and it's normally a two days climb in addition to general acclimatizing. This is also the safest route, but still there are several dangers to deal with:

1) frequent rock falls in a coloir below Gouter Hut, often referred to as the Russian Roulette
2) strong winds on Bosses Ridge, probably one of the most weather extreme ridges in the Alps, causing a lot of deaths when climbers are blown off the ridge to a certain death 1000 meter below
3) dangerous crevasses, especially if one gets off the normal route because off snow storms and low visibility.
4) thunderstorm hits the mountain almost daily, so it's essential to get off the mountain before 12 AM
5) altitude sickness

The mountain has claimed approx 5000 lives so far. Peoples who are underestimating the climb, such as light clothed tourists etc, often end up in fatal accidents in stormy weather. I decided to climb this mountain solo, but this is not recommended because of security issues on the glacier and the narrow ridge. To hire a guide is probably a better choice (700 Euros).

I started an early morning by taking the train from Chamonix to St Gervais/Le Fayet and then a tramway up to Nid d'Aigle (2372m). From there it was easy walking up to Tete Rousse Hut (3167m). By then the weather had turned really bad, and I considered staying a night in the hut. However this would make the next day climb to the summit very long, so I decided to continue to Gouter Hut (3817m) in bad weather. First I had to cross the dangerous coloir. I clipped my harness into the fixed rope, and waited 5 minutes to study the frequent rock falls. During those 5 minutes, rocks fell several times from above with incredible speed. I didn't like the situation at all. But finally I started the 50 meters traverse into the coloir, running as fast as possible. My timing was perfect and I reached the other side in safety. From there it was funny scrambling on the spur all the way up to Gouter Hut in rainy weather. I was a little bit surprised when I entered the almost empty hut. Normally it's very crowded in high season, but that day there was a lot of space, and the fact that I didn't have any reservation was certainly not going to be an issue. It seemed like the bad weather forecast had scared the people off the mountain. Only 15 people remained in the hut.

By the evening winds had reached incredible speed, and I felt the hut was close to being blown off the ridge. Simple tasks like going to the outdoor toilet, was impossible due to the weather so I had to pee in a bottle. During the night the wind speed was increasing even more, and I hardly got any sleep in all the noise. As my hopes of climbing Mont Blanc faded away, my body started to relax and I finally fell asleep. Normal wakeup call at 2 AM was cancelled due to bad weather. But at 4 AM the weather had improved a lot, and it was time to wake up and get some food. One hour later we started the climb in complete darkness, and the wind occasionally forced us down to a horizontal position. My tactic was to be in the front, but not the first one. The broad glacier trail had vanished during the night because of the storm, and I did not want to waste any energy on route finding. Hence I left a guided team in front of me to break the trail and to find the way up the mountain.

Going unroped on the glacier didn't scare me very much. The glacier is not too dangerous as long as one stick to the trail. But I also knew that if I lost the trail, deep crevasses lurk under the fragile snow. When the sun rose I was confident to take the lead and continue on my own. I started to freeze because of the slow pace of the other climbers, so I decided to speed up.

I reached Dome de Gouter after a couple of hours. From here I could see the Bosses Ridge and the remaining climb to the summit (see big picture). When I arrived the bivouac hut Vallot, I met 3 Americans coming up the Grand Mulets route. While I decided to take a short break here, the Americans continued the climb. After 10 minutes I continued up the Bosses Ridge, and I was glad having those Americans in front of me breaking the trail, as I started to feel powerless in the high altitude. Walking unroped up the steep and narrow Bosses Ridge is not the wisest thing to do, so I moved slowly up the snow ridge to prevent any errors or falls here, as this would cause a fatal slide to death more than 1000 meters below.

The final meters I was resting every 20 meters, to regain my breath. I didn't have headaches or any other problems; it was just hard work in this high altitude. I was so pleased when I finally reached the summit. I have never experienced such great views in my entire life. From the roof of Europe I could see France, Italy and Switzerland. The 30 minutes I spent on the summit (20 minutes totally alone) will forever remain as a special moment in my life. Normally one has to share the summit with 50-100 other people at the same time, so I was extremely lucky to have this silent moment on my own.

Descending the 2500 meters from the summit to the tramway felt like a never ending journey. I also got lost on the glacier, leading me into an area with huge crevasses in all directions. The only option was to go back and search for the correct way. My GPS turned out to be very useful here.

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Sunday, August 30, 2009

Divorce Lawyers Need A Hug, Too!

It is no wonder that many of the lawyers I talk with here in Augusta, Georgia would not be caught dead handling divorce cases! I'll bet it's no different where you are, too! Practicing family law is just too stressful, according to many of my lawyer friends. Divorce is stressful for you, the client, but the point is that you should also understand it can be stressful for your divorce attorney, too!

Divorce attorneys generally attempt not to get too involved, emotionally, in your child custody issues and other divorce matters, (so that they can exercise the independent judgment that you need), but, frankly, such emotional detachment can be difficult to maintain. After all, lawyers are human, too, you know! And even if it's not the attorney's fault, for example, if the judge issues an order allowing unsupervised child visitation by your worthless spouse, "Sluggo," your attorney may still feel badly about it, too!

And dealing with the lawyer or their client, "Sluggo," on the other side, can also be a source of intense stress, as your lawyer fights hard to represent your interests in the divorce case. I've often teased that I face more physical danger as a divorce lawyer than I ever did before as a federal prosecutor!

In my opinion, of the best divorce attorneys I know, it takes a special kind of lawyer who is willing to fight hard in a contested divorce and yet can endure the stress that goes with it.

In conclusion, while there may be no great tips here, in this post, about how to win your divorce case, please simply take a moment and consider that your divorce lawyers are going through the stress of your divorce with you. So, hug a divorce lawyer today!

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Monday, August 30, 2010

This Bridal Shower Wedding Invitation is designed to coordinate with all of the Vintage Rose 'n Birds Wedding Ensemble. This elegant, vintage inspired Wedding Shower Announcement is a hybrid of original watercolor artwork by Audrey Jeanne Roberts and vintage elements. A cluster of antique roses in pink, yellow and red is mixed with other classic blooms and two love birds. The elegant scroll work is contemporary artwork inspired by antiques. A soft damask pattern in a light mossy green finishes off the art. The text reads, "Today I marry my best friend..." but can easily be changed to any text that you desire. A complete wedding ensemble is available to match.

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Friday, January 2, 2009

Single Pink Peony Cake Flower

Yesterday was a VERY productive day in terms of flowers and other things. LOL. One would think that a normal person, when sick would be stuck in bed feeling miserable... Well... my fever and swollen glands gave me a boost of energy... who knew! I made 100 stephanotis flowers for a couple of bouquets I plan to post on Etsy by the weekend and made 12 gardenia hair flowers to replenish the dwindling inventory of my hair flowers on Etsy and of course another cake flower. The last couple of posts I have been doing sets of flowers. This time I figured I would do a single peony cake flower. Many of my brides are just looking for a single LARGE flower and peonies are one that many seem to like. This one is 6 inches in diameter and over 40 petals. It's beautiful all by itself.

Feeling much better today, so hopefully I will be able to knock out a few more cake flower designs to post later this week! Here's to a very productive 2009!

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U.S. immigration law is intended to protect U.S. employers and assist them with locating and recruiting foreign workers where needed.  U.S. immigration law is also set up to protect U.S. workers from losing jobs to foreign born workers.  Within this structure there are still opportunities for U.S. employers to sponsor foreign workers for temporary visas and legal permanent residency in the United States.

In some cases the U.S. employer must test the labor market and establish that there is no U.S. worker(s) available to fill the position before filing a petition with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office.  In other cases it is possible for highly-skilled individuals to immigrate without the necessity of having the U.S. employer test the labor market.

The level of skill required for the position, among other variables, determines which category of employment based immigration you will be eligible to immigrate through.  Each category has its own specialized requirements.

The EB-1 category consists of (1) persons of extraordinary ability, (2) outstanding professors and researchers and (3) executives and managers of multi-national employers.

The EB-2 category consists of (1) persons of exceptional ability and (2) persons whose jobs require an advanced university degree or its equivalent.

The EB-3 category consists of (1) professionals, (2) skilled workers and (3) unskilled workers.

The EB-4 category consists of (1) religious workers and (2) other “special immigrants”.

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Aelenei, Daniel, Hugo de Azevedo Leal, and Laura Aelenei. "The use of attached-sunspaces in retrofitting design: the case of residential buildings in Portugal." Energy Procedia. 48 (2014): 1436-1441. Abstract

This study addresses the energetic performance of an attached-sunspace applied to an existing residential building in Portugal. Four configurations (two attached, one integrated and one partially integrated) are studied in six different climatic zones. In addition other key parameters are considered such as ventilation (with or without natural ventilation), shading devices (one external and two internal configurations), number of glazed surface layers (single glazed and double glazed) and orientation (South, East and West). The thermal performance analysis, carried out using a dynamic simulation code, proved that energy savings for retrofitting design can be very important and that in climates with warm summers the risk of overheating can be considerably diminished through an accurate analysis based on modeling.


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11.4. Filter Reference

The different filter types configured and available within the replicate are designed to provide a number of different functionality and operations. Since the information exchanged through the THL system contains a copy of the statement or the row data that is being updated, the filters allow schemas, table and column names, as well as actual data to be converted at the stage in which they are applied.

Filters are identified according to the underlying Java class that defines their operation. For different filters, further configuration and naming is applied according to the templates used when Tungsten Replicator is installed through tpm.

Tungsten Replicator also comes with a number of JavaScript filters that can either be used directly, or that can be modified and adapted to suit individual requirements. The majority of these filter scripts are located in tungsten-replicator/samples/extensions/javascript, more advanced filter scripts are located in tungsten-replicator/samples/scripts/javascript-advanced.

For the purposes of classification, the different filters have been categorised according to their main purpose:

  • Auditing

    These filters provide methods for tracking database updates alongside the original table data. For example, in a financial database, the actual data has to be updated in the corresponding tables, but the individual changes that lead to that update must also be logged individually.

  • Content

    Content filters modify or update the content of the transaction events. These may alter information, for the purposes of interoperability (such as updating enumerated or integer values to their string equivalents), or remove or filter columns, tables, and entire schemas.

  • Logging

    Logging filters record information about the transactions into the standard replicator log, either for auditing or debugging purposes.

  • Optimization

    The optimization filters are designed to simplify and optimize statements and row updates to improve the speed at which those updates can be applied to the destination dataserver.

  • Transformation

    Transformation filters rename or reformat schemas and tables according to a set of rules. For example, multiple schemas can be merged to a single schema, or tables and column names can be updated

  • Validation

    Provide validation or consistency checking of either the data or the replication process.

  • Miscellaneous

    Other filters that cannot be allocated to one of the existing filter classes.

The list of filters and their basic description are provided in the table below.

Filter Type Description
BidiRemoteSlaveFilter Content Suppresses events that originated on the local service (required for correct slave operation)
BuildAuditTable Auditing Builds an audit table of changes for specified schemas and tables
BuildIndexTable Transformation Merges multiple schemas into a single schema
CaseMappingFilter Transformation Transforms schema, table and column names to upper or lower case
CDCMetadataFilter Auditing Records change data capture for transactions to a separate change table (auditing)
ColumnNameFilter Validation Adds column name information to row-based replication events
ConsistencyCheckFilter Validation Adds consistency checking to events
DatabaseTransformFilter Transformation Transforms database or table names using regular expressions
DummyFilter Miscellaneous Allows for confirmation of filter configuration
EnumToStringFilter Content Updates enumerated values to their string-based equivalent
EventMetadataFilter Content Filters events based on metadata; used by default within sharding and multi-master topologies
HeartbeatFilter Validation Detects heartbeat events on masters or slaves
JavaScriptFilter Miscellaneous Enables filtering through custom JavaScripts
LoggingFilter Logging Logs filtered events through the standard replicator logging mechanism
MySQLSessionSupportFilter Content Filters transactions for session specific temporary tables and variables
OptimizeUpdatesFilter Optimization Optimizes update statements where the current and updated value are the same
PrimaryKeyFilter Optimization Used during row-based replication to optimize updates using primary keys
PrintEventFilter Logging Outputs transaction event information to the replication logging system
RenameFilter Transformation Advanced schema, table and column-based renaming
ReplicateColumnsFilter Content Removes selected columns from row-based transaction data
ReplicateFilter Content Selects or ignores specification schemas and/or databases
SetToStringFilter Content Converts integer values in SET datatypes to string values
ShardFilter Content Used to enforce database schema sharding between specific masters
TimeDelayFilter Miscellaneous Delays transactions until a specific point in time has passed

In the following reference sections:

  • Pre-configured filter name is the filter name that can be used against a stage without additional configuration.

  • Property prefix is the prefix string for the filter to be used when assigning property values.

  • Classname is the Java class name of the filter.

  • Parameter is the name of the filter parameter can be set as a property within the configuration.

  • Data compatibility indicates whether the filter is compatible with row-based events, statement-based events, or both.


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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Our Temporary Home

Day 3-We finally arrived around midnight, exhausted. Our home in a hotel for the next few days. Of course, the dogs had been sleeping all day. Since Bradley had not had any meds to keep him calm I gave him one when we got to the hotel to try to get him to sleep through the night. He barked at every little noise. I thought we were going to get kicked out. But he just wasn't used to it and wasn't tired. We knew the boys deserved some time off the leash and out of their harnesses so we found a dog park. They went in just like they knew what to do. Brodie wanted to play fetch, of course. He was very disappointed that they did not have the water tubs for him to cool off in. He kept going to a water bowl and looking at me like, "This is not big enough." They did have some basic agility stuff though so we tried it out. I would to try to get them to do some agility, but this park is a little too far from our new house for us to visit often and our yard is not big enough for us to have it all at our house. But we'll have a back deck for them to jump off.

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