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    Most under-rated guitarist of all time?

    .....ahhhh, the great and grand Mr Sumlin....equal parts angular, explosive and at home in the pocket.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4TXzF5tjm0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ri7TcukAJ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nXlXU5ACqI ....and Otis, what a monster...
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    Maria Sharapova tests positive for banned substance

    ....youse guys is too kind, thank you... Cheers
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    Maria Sharapova tests positive for banned substance

    ....just looked over the article above and appears I was dead wrong about some key issues in this case....my understanding had been she had stopped taking the drug when the new protocol kicked in.....if anybody has any experience cleaning egg off face would be grateful for any tips...and...
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    Maria Sharapova tests positive for banned substance

    ....I assume you mean retroactive TUE ?....soooo....haven't litigated in that area but have experience with the TUE idea ( along with several colleagues...most experience was good/successful ...some not so good and it did in fact involve retroactive TUE's )... ...find below a quote from the...
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    Maria Sharapova tests positive for banned substance

    ....of course she confessed to getting a positive but she has also said she did not take the drug after the date it was banned....the issue now is how and why the positive finding....the following from a recent NYT article throws some light of the bigger picture... ....and .... ...and...
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    Maria Sharapova tests positive for banned substance

    ....a big problem here is that WADA really botched their study on how long the drug would stay in the system...read, they really have no firm idea...so conceivably Sharapova could have stopped taking the drug as required by WADA but the drug stayed in the system longer than originally thought (...
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    Salon Son & Image / Montreal Audio Show Cancelled

    ....good on Michel and Sarah....a phoenix rises from the ashes....Their motivation: "We just could not accept that this magical event would disappear." Cheers ....no make that Double Cheers.... ...and as an extra added bonus...the show is apparently free to the public...
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    Measurement Thread: Measured Effect of Speaker Isolators

    ...yeah, its a real tough one, that....like trying to nail a 3-way cross-over, you spend a lot of time chasing your tail....its complisticated.... Cheers
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    Measurement Thread: Measured Effect of Speaker Isolators

    ....simply adding mass generally lowers frequency....simply adding stiffness generally increases frequency...ergo a more massy cabinet will not push resonant frequency up ( unless of course that added mass contributed a very large amount of stiffness and in that case the frequency could go up...
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    Audiophile Fuses

    ....wandered over to check that out....quite the highly motivated lynch mob they got there....the high-lite of the thread was someone using Ethan Winer to backstop a point....I laughed so hard my sides still hurt.... ....and there was a post by kneesup on page 7 that was interesting ..... "But...
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    The greatest bicyle racer of all time?

    ....well it just has to be Merckx doesn't it....no one else's palmares come even close....but the thing that for me stands out is the following.... "Between 1969 and 1975 he won about 35 percent of the races he entered..." ...which if you have ever raced bikes will understand as beyond...
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    Most under-rated guitarist of all time?

    ....Ernest Ranglin....no Ernest no reggae as we know it.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNToJfD7Dk0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT3dGLLKw6o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km1kkwhHbJE ...Mickey Baker...no Mickey no rock'n'roll as we know it...
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    The Volkswagen debacle

    ....find below an interesting op-ed found in the business section of Canada's paper of record....the message in its distilled form is that this is just another example of how things generally work these days...
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    Vibrations, audio components, and sound

    ....find below a post by Gary Koh from the thread mentioned up thread.... ------------------------------------------------------------------- " Quote Originally Posted by Phelonious Ponk View Post Gary, surely if you've built coupling or isolating into your speaker systems you've measured...
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    Disturbing "Sonic Trend" showing up on most all current "Big Buck" systems!

    ...not meaning to pull the scab off a recently healed wound but he also says... "I find it disappointing when loudspeaker manufacturers run extensive double-blind listening tests with trained and untrained listeners where they only compare loudspeakers to each other, but not to any live source...
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    Disturbing "Sonic Trend" showing up on most all current "Big Buck" systems!

    ....the irony is that it could also be said that 99% of the general population think that audiophiles are mad obsessives ( note mad in the English sense...not crazy.. )....so in terms of LOL where does that leave us...and more importantly, by that thinking, are they right, and we wrong ?.... Cheers
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    Negative show report posts... enough is enough.

    ....about five minutes ago I read the above bit to my wife who has been a medical researcher for over 20 years.....she burst out laughing.....and followed that up with, " he really has no idea "....apparently the standard they used to represent has left the building some time ago.....not to say...
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    I Am A Ukrainian, This Needs To Go Viral

    Yeah know, its kinda funny how the demonizing of Putin has become the predominant meme pushed by the Western media when talking about the Ukrainian situation( and btw used a great deal in this thread to beat down a lot of the critical comments aimed at the Western position in the Ukrainian...
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    I Am A Ukrainian, This Needs To Go Viral

    Very interesting analysis but there are a few things you may want to integrate into your narrative. The most important bit is that Russia is not limited by pipelines through The Ukraine to get its gas to Europe. The Russians also have a pipeline through Belarus and the newly completed Nord...
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    I Am A Ukrainian, This Needs To Go Viral

    Ms Wahl has become quite a story hasn't she? Find below a link to a story that shows some of the story behind the story. The article is entitled... How Cold War-Hungry Neocons Stage Managed RT Anchor Liz Wahl’s Resignation ...and can be found here...

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