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Keeping the Family Business Going
by Tim McCune
Among the more lamented departures from the world of electronics was RCA's microphone business. A few years ago I visited the college radio station where I'd worked in the 80s, and one of my former professors was proudly showing off an RCA 44A ribbon microphone the school had acquired. Though it had a few dents and scratches, it was a work of art. Soon after I saw it, the university's music department borrowed the mic for recording sessions and never gave it back.
A typical RCA 44A ribbon microphone
Like original McIntosh MC275 amps, old ribbon microphones are collected because, when used correctly, they produce sounds hard to get elsewhere. But eventually even the vintage electronics section of eBay runs dry.
One of the companies helping to provide new ribbon microphones and preamps, Cloud Microphones, has been able to continue the work RCA did through collaboration between a musician/businessman, Rodger Cloud, and Stephen Sank, son of RCA's ribbon microphone designer Jon R. Sank.
Jon Sank had done design work at RCA that included the BK-10A and the BK-11. When he passed away in 1998, he left Stephen with the knowledge and other tools to continue the ribbon microphone work that RCA had left behind.
Cloud came to Tucson as a singer/songwriter and started getting involved with bands and recording music. Sank moved into an office suite next door to Cloud's studio, and in 2006 they started working together.
"So we collaborated on the initial designs of some of the mics, and I worked with him first refurbishing the vintage mics and so forth, and I really fell in love with the technology as it was in the 1930s and 1940s. It was just pretty darn great," Cloud told me. "However, there were certainly challenges with the technology, most notably those types of microphones had a really weak sensitivity and are really difficult to deal with in terms of amplifying them."
Cloud said that even with exceptional amplifiers, it was very difficult to use ribbon microphones to record some softer sounds because of the gain requirements. This led Sank and Cloud to develop the JRS-34 ribbon microphone, named in honor of Sank's father and noting the year he was born.
Rodger Cloud with his version of the RCA mic
"As we worked on it, I really felt the need for an active microphone," Cloud said. "And we really pushed ourselves to come up with something. We weren't just coming up with something that was OK. It had to be absolutely audiophile quality."
The result was a ribbon microphone that uses a Linear Systems LSK389 monolithic dual n-channel JFET to amplify the signal. Cloud wanted a dual JFET that would provide common-mode rejection in his amplifier, and settled on the LSK389. "It's just the JFET that we like the best. The power requirements for the circuit are low. We tested all of them, and this is the one that seemed to give us the results we were looking for."
Wiley Ross, who runs the recording studio at the University of Arizona, is a big fan of the Cloud's gear. "I use the Cloudlifter almost always when recording from a passive microphone," he wrote in a recent email to me.
"I don't use it because I need the gain, I have plenty with my Millennia Media HV-3R, but because the sound is better; richer, more depth," Ross wrote. "With the Cloudlifter Z it's like having your mic locker expand to do all the different sonic possibilities afforded."
Ross added that Cloud's JRS-34 is a "main-stay" ribbon microphone. "I love it on all wind and brass instruments. Listening tests with other fine ribbons with faculty, students, and staff confirm its superiority."
The Cloudlifter
Using a JFET-based circuit wasn't an obvious solution at first, Cloud said. "We were looking at several options with the microphones, and I was the one who suggested that we try the JFET technology. We were also looking at chip-based technology, different ways we could activate the mic. One of the problems with a chip-based design was we were going to have to use a couple of nine-volt batteries. We just couldn't figure out a way to get it to work on the phantom."
Using the Linear Systems' LSK389, which combines ultra-low noise with low IDSS , enabled Cloud and Sank to build a phantom-powered active ribbon microphone. Cloud said the prototype of the active circuitry was set up in a test box to enable testing various microphones. "And it only took a few moments to realize that this box is cool. And that's how the Cloudlifter accidently came to be."
The Cloudlifter is the active part of the company's ribbon microphone broken out into a format that can be used with many microphones people already have, and it soon became the company's best-selling product. "It's a game-changer, or more accurately a 'gain-changer,' because it allows people to use microphones that they normally would not even consider for softer sources, acoustic instruments, because the problem in the past has always been defeating the noise floor of the preamplifier."
The Cloudlifter is a standalone product customers could use to boost the gain of other microphones. It plugs into the line coming from a microphone and uses any standard phantom powered microphone input device to provide up to 25dB of "ultra-clean, transparent gain."
The Cloudlifter is recommended for: recording direct into a digital audio workstation interface; working with noisy or low gain preamps; using mixers/preamps that impair the sound at higher gain settings; working with passive ribbon microphones or low-output dynamic microphones; capturing softer sound sources such as acoustic instruments and voice; and when using long cable runs.
When Cloud and his colleagues were first designing the circuit, they used Toshiba JFETs. "We found out about Linear Systems' products so we tried and we compared it," says Cloud. "We liked it better than Toshiba. It was still an improvement, and I liked what it did for the Cloudlifter — it seemed to drop the noise floor even further, which is always a good thing when you're dealing with really low-sensitivity microphones."
Cloud said that after sales increased for the Cloudlifter, it became too labor intensive to match the single LSK170 JFETs. "It was becoming almost a full-time job to hand-match these little JFETs, so we started looking at the duals, and we went to the surface-mount technology, and I've got to say the Linear Systems duals are awesome. We can't match them that closely by hand, and the failure rate of the entire card as a whole is less than one in a thousand now. And we couldn't achieve that making them by hand."
The common-mode rejection enables the Cloudlifter to "pass clean audio in the worst of circumstances, next to a radio tower, in EMI hell," according to Cloud.
AEA's Ribbon Microphones & Linear Systems' JFETs
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21 comments on "Keeping the Family Business Going"
eafpres
Hi Tim–really nice article. The music industry, both professional and amateur, seems chock full of really cool gear. It is amazing to me the range of products available. It seems to me that there are lots of folks who just really love music, and make really neat products even if they don't sell tons of them. Take amps, for example. There continue to be a broad range of boutique tube amp makers, so if you are a guitar person, the range of options is amazing, and relatively affordable.
These mics and mic-amps you describe appear to be in that category of being done by people who love the music and want to give people the best possible choices when recording. In this time of all-out mass production, it is really nice to see this kind of business.
mccunets
Many thanks. Yes, high-end audio lends itself to small, innovative companies. I ran across a company in Romania a couple weeks ago that does specialized amplifiers.
jkvasan
It was clever to have this Cloudlifter as a standalone module, if my understanding is right. You have two mangoes with one stone, as people in this part of world say. One, you got the product matched to present range and second, it also is compatible to legacy products. What more you could ask for as an enthusisast?
I would be curious to know the Common Mode performance/Noise reduction improvement in terms of percentage between the original single FET design and the dual one. Just , for my interest, you know.
Scott Elder
" lends itself to small, innovative companies."
I think this is just an extension of the analog industry in general. Many ways to solve a problem and very difficult to prove that solution A is better than solution B because technical specifications are clouded behind human senses and emotions. For example, distortion in just the right way is viewed by many as a good thing, and bad by others.
In digital, there is no hiding. Tell me your Power, MIPS and FLOPS and a winner can be proclaimed.
Netcrawl
@Tim nice article, RCA, the second-oldest recording company in the US history, I believe its owned by GE, its introduce us to the world of music- and the microphone. Its the company that brought us the power of radio and microphones, yes, I remember this one, she's old, well I'm not sure about her age pretty old about 40-50 years old (my best guess).
Vishal Prajapati
It is very true that specialized amplifiers are still made and they are expensive too. Some of the examples I found here
http://www.whathifi.com/news/manchester-show-2011-mistral-valve-amplifiers-shine
600$: http://www.audioaffair.co.uk/Icon-Audio-Stereo-20-PP-Valve-Amplifier/product_5517
Good question, I'll check with LIS's president, John Hall. Hall first started working on duals with Jean Hoerni at Union Carbide in the early Sixties. The big question then was whether tapering in the epitaxial layer would cause the duals to be mismatched. This problem (as I understand it) was solved mostly by interweaving the two transistors on the die. Also, the epi layer inconsistencies often averaged out. Matching two singles takes a lot of time, so having duals that match well helps in production efficiency. It's probably also not possible to get the same temperature drift with two singles as with a well-designed dual.
Great stuff. The Burning Amp conference, www dot burning amp dot org, has a lot of cool audio gear, prototypes and small production run.
D Feucht
Interesting, nostalgic article, Tim – and kudos to Mr. Cloud! (I'm glad the company name has nothing to do with cloud computing.) These are the microphones that became the symbol of radio broadcasting. When I was in high-school at Benson Polytechnic School in Portland, Oregon (1964-68), we had a 250 W AM (1450 kHz) radio station, KBPS, that was run by students. It covered all of Portland. I remember one of those ribbon microphones in the studio.
For my own (slightly illegal!) AM station at home, I bought a cheap (crystal, not ribbon) look-alike microphone and still have it. In the transmitter, I used 6L6GC tubes for the final stage and could light 100 W light-bulbs with the output power but did not have an AM antenna system that could deliver it. And that might have been to my advantage.
After I got my first-class FCC radiotelephone license my senior year (age 17), I gave up home radio stations and turned to building oscilloscopes. I joined Tektronix at age 17, and my broadcasting "career" wound down quickly after that, though Bill Vandermay, chief engineer of KATU, channel 2 TV, in Portland, and an aavid "ham" who built the first satellite weather receiver of any TV staion in Portland, lived 3 blocks away from my (parents') house and my radio station in SE Portland, though I don't remember telling him about it. He also set the national high-jump record when he was an engineering student at the U. of Washington.
David Maciel Silva
These amplifiers are specialized valved?
The best and most expensive usually, but not very common to find, could share the data for this company?
Thanks for the link. Cool stuff on the website. Really interesting.
@Maciel: Sure, would love to hear more about it
I found this site that sells plus valve amplifiers.
Apparently the price is not so high ..
Rodger Cloud
In answer to your question, the original single FET design is the same, except that it used 2 sets of hand-matched JFETs. The common mode noise rejection is theoretically and functionally the same, at least on an audible level, it's just that it was very time consuming and there would always be a few that did not pass our common mode noise rejection test. With the LSK389 duels from LIS, the sound is the same, but the pass rate for our -very strict- noise reduction test is pretty much 100%. The "match" is much closer than what can be accomplished consistantly by hand, and the fail rate on the assembly line is near zero.
Rodger,
Hand matching components could be very tricky. As you said, factory built devices have a better chance to match. The differences also may not be that wide. Pass rates can be higher in the line.
RedDerek
As I posted in a comment on Brad's 'Very Low Gate Threshold FET', obtaining a dual MOSFET would afford the best potential matching since the FETs are most likely to be located next to each other on the wafer – exception is when moving from one row to start the next. Also, to best match the thermal issues, having MOSFETs co-packaged would allow them to share the same heat.
I wonder how the low Vth parts that Brad mentioned would be of benefit in the circuit?
jimtech14
Certain countries seem to have engineers more prolific in designing valve amps, the obvious standouts being China and Italy – this Unison Simply Italy has EL34 output tubes to generate just 12 watts, but my friend has one in his system and the quality is just amazing.
kendallcp
Matching FETs for medium-scale production quantities of amplifiers is not that difficult. I was building preamps with JFET input pairs in the early 80s, and computerized measurement technology was already feasible then (HP-85, anyone?). You need one bag of suitable JFETs, one enthusiastic lab tech, one test fixture that sets the Ids and measures the Vgs, and a set of numbered baggies. You measure the Vgs of all the transistors and log the values against the serial numbers of the baggies. Then you just run a simple sort/match process in the computer, and get the tech to pull out the pairs (or quads, or…) that match.
It's great that we can still get JFETs for this kind of circuit, because sometimes they are just the best. I had a soft spot for my JFET-input switchable moving coil / moving magnet phono preamp. The reason I used single matched JFETs (usually J108 or J106) was that they were only a small fraction of the price of the only available low noise duals at the time. If that price skew has gone these days then yippee!
Sounds like you're talking about the ALD MOS devices. It's quite unlikely that these are anything like quiet enough for these microphone applications. Of course, someone with the time to read the datasheets may demur… Low frequency noise can be a pernicious issue with MOS front-ends in audio, and not many opamp manufacturers have that under control without chopping techniques. The TI OPA2376 seems particularly good for low 1/f noise corner for a MOS-input amplifier.
chirshadblog
@jimtech: Is it a Chinese product ? Normally the Chinese product quality is really good even though they copy and make low cost products. I feel that in Chine you get the best designers.
@chirshadblog Unison Research is an Italian company, they also make Aria loudspeakers 🙂 I agree about Chinese reliability !


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In the fields of optometry and ophthalmology, the Hirschberg test, also Hirschberg corneal reflex test, is a screening test that can be used to assess whether a person has strabismus (ocular misalignment).

A photographic version of the Hirschberg is used to quantify strabismus.

Technique

It is performed by shining a light in the person's eyes and observing where the light reflects off the corneas.  In a person with normal ocular alignment the light reflex lies slightly nasal from the center of the cornea (approximately 11 prism diopters—or 0.5mm from the pupillary axis), as a result of the cornea acting as a temporally-turned convex mirror to the observer. When doing the test, the light reflexes of both eyes are compared, and will be symmetrical in an individual with normal fixation. For an abnormal result, based on where the light lands on the cornea, the examiner can detect if there is an exotropia (abnormal eye is turned out), esotropia (abnormal eye is turned in), hypertropia (abnormal eye higher than the normal one) or hypotropia (abnormal eye is lower than the normal one).

Interpretation
In exotropia the light lands on the medial aspect of the cornea.  In esotropia the light lands on the lateral aspect of the cornea.  In hypertropia the light lands on the inferior aspect of the cornea.  In hypotropia the light lands on the superior aspect of the cornea. A cover test can tell you the extent of the eso/exotropia.

Individuals can suffer from several tropias at once.  In Graves ophthalmopathy, it is not uncommon to see an esotropia (due to pathology of the medial rectus muscle) co-morbid with a hypotropia (due to pathology of the inferior rectus muscle).

Krimsky Test
The Krimsky test is essentially the Hirschberg test, but with prisms employed to quantitate deviation of ocular misalignment by determining how much prism is required to centre the reflex  The Krimsky test is advisably used for patients with tropias, but not with phorias.

History
The technique was developed by German ophthalmologist Julius Hirschberg who in 1886 used a candle to observe the light reflex in an eye with strabismus.

See also
 Cover test
 Eye examination
 Terms for anatomical location

References

Medical signs
Physical examination
Eye procedures

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Jack Sears Weighing Options
I wondered Friday if former USC QB Jack Sears would reconsider going to San Diego State now that Rocky Long resigned?
And now 247Sports says he will not enroll at San Diego State for the spring semester as he waits for the Aztecs to hire an offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Sears could still go to San Diego State but is keeping his options open.
It makes sense because you cannot afford to make a mistake when you transfer. A quarterback needs to play and be in an offense that suits him.
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04Trojan says:
RIP, Kobe (From a Warriors fan). Crazy and sad. And I hope his kids were not on board.
Un believable – saw it on another site thought it was a joke. 5 on board all gone.
gotroy22 says:
Shocking. He was a LA icon in spite of the rape allegation.
Topix Trojan says:
It was a LOT more than just the rape allegation. But as is often the case when someone dies, people only want to remember the good stuff. He was a great athlete, but not such a great person.
Pudly76 says:
New reports say that wife and kids weren't onboard..
Sorry but this just in…
Kobe's daughter Gianna Maria — aka GiGi — was also on board the helicopter and died in the crash, reps for Kobe Bryant tell TMZ Sports. She was 13.
TMZ reports they were on their way to the Mamba Academy for a basketball practice when the crash occurred. pic.twitter.com/jqb9VxlQMn
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Linkster says:
What a tragedy. This puts a lot of little thing's in perspective. Every day is a gift, enjoy it with Gods grace.
Is Jack Yary 'possibly' re-considering?
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on his official visit.
Yary committed to USC in the spring before backing off that pledge in November due to the team's lack of tight end usage. But the Trojans have remained on his radar as there is a significant draw to following in the footsteps of his father Ron Yary, a former Trojans offensive lineman was the No. 1 overall pick in the 1968 NFL/AFL Draft out of USC and has been inducted into both the College Football Hall of Fame and Pro Football Hall of Fame.
"Obviously I want to go there because my pops went there and stuff and be able to continue the legacy, but in the end I've got to do what's best for me, getting me to the next level after college and what's best for me as a person. I've got to take all that into consideration," the younger Yary told TrojanSports.com last week.
USC is also hosting defensive end signee Tuli Tuipulotu
on his official visit this weekend
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missred November 21, 2020 at 11:14 pm
Declan Ganley to sue the state over closing of mass. Oh christ….
V aka Frilly Keane November 22, 2020 at 10:06 am
More important that eating
My dilemma here is
Just where do I start?
Made for the late FK on fairness
Hank November 21, 2020 at 11:29 pm
Closing pubs at 10 to "discourage after-pub house parties"?
I can think of no greater way to encourage them. This government really are morons..
scottser November 21, 2020 at 11:30 pm
Worst.
Government.
SOQ November 21, 2020 at 11:39 pm
Ah leave them alone- they are running around pretending to look like they know what they are doing- the courts will decide in due course
Malfeasance- duckgo it- – they deserve every single friggen sentence handed down.
Tom J November 22, 2020 at 1:40 pm
When does this imaginary trial start.
Nigel November 22, 2020 at 2:39 pm
Soon as Rudy Giuliani is free.
SOQ November 22, 2020 at 3:35 pm
When the cost of this obscene madness is totaled up.
Charger Salmons November 22, 2020 at 4:03 pm
A regular reminder.
A total of 37,470 people in England have died from Covid-19.
96% had a pre-existing health condition
54% were over 80.
92% were over 60
The total number of people under 60 with no underlying health problems who died with Covid this year: 339
Three years ago 42,000 people died in England during a flu epidemic.Not a single business was closed for a day.
So it's definitely an imaginary trial then.
SOQ November 23, 2020 at 6:07 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds5tg260GYk
Tom J November 23, 2020 at 7:34 am
Who speaks for the people who have died from Covid 19. Will YouTube do that also.
George November 22, 2020 at 12:21 am
The human Podge and Rodge puppet that is George Hook cares about Covid-19 all of a sudden. Strange.
Also Dr Bunsen Honeydew.
topsy November 22, 2020 at 1:00 am
George Hook is a living legend.
millie November 22, 2020 at 8:23 am
That's really a massive overstatement of the matter.
If you wanted to, for example, call David Attenborough a living legend, then yes, I'd say you were correct. George Hook? Rather less than.
Hank November 22, 2020 at 9:58 am
Marty Morrissey??
Now he's a lidgind
Tinytim November 22, 2020 at 10:16 am
It's pronounced leg end.
Daisy Chainsaw November 22, 2020 at 12:57 pm
Leg end.
Just shows
That he'll say anything to get traction
Maybe his fans here the other day can decide this one
Charger Salmons November 22, 2020 at 1:05 am
The Boris surge and this is even before the EU capitulates …
Heh x polls eh ?
Westminster voting intention:
CON: 41% (+3)
LAB: 38% (-4)
LDEM: 6% (-1)
GRN: 4% (+1)
https://mobile.twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1330240064895541253
Islington millionaire lawyer Sir Kneelalot rebuilding Labour's red wall brick by brick.
They talk of nothing else in former coal mining towns in Yorkshire.
Basically he's just Jeremy Corbyn with a better tailor …
' Today we remember everyone who has lost their lives to transphobic violence. Labour is committed to trans equality and a society free from hatred and discrimination.'
https://mobile.twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1329736137431199744
bisted November 22, 2020 at 9:40 am
…before who capitulates Charger…Dominics work was done…at least you won't have to pay a levy on your fudge…
…why does the Business Post try to pit the government against NPHET…one makes decisions, the other merely offers advice based on the best public health data…
GiggidyGoo November 22, 2020 at 8:18 am
Did Ross mention the Woulfe scandal in his book? If not, then he is full of it.
He's like Hook
Needs to see his name printed somewhere every now and again
SB November 22, 2020 at 10:24 am
He has been talking for many years of the need to reform how judges are appointed and tried to bring in legislation during the previous government, which was stymied by the establishment. I think he was a sub-standard minister for transport, but in this, he's legit. I'm sure the book contains a lot about it, but he wouldn't have known about Woulfe when he was writing it, precisely because it was kept secret.
GiggidyGoo November 22, 2020 at 10:54 am
I don't remember him though making any ripples about the appointment when it was announced – certainly nothing along the lines of what he's saying now.
Meanwhile the Irish rugby team held a sombre post-match get-together over a few beers last night to discuss their latest defeat by a rampant England at Twickenham.
They called it the UN general assembly.
Oh suit yourselves ….
#ruggerbantz
Charger Salmons November 22, 2020 at 11:26 am
Just as an aside I'm not sure the Saturday morning papers full of Ireland complaining about those nasty England players making lots of noise on the pitch and sledging the proud boys in green was the ideal pre-match motivation for a rugby test match.
What were they expecting to meet – a UN peace-keeping envoy ?
Almost Stephen Kenny-esque in its negativity.
Brother Barnabas November 22, 2020 at 11:37 am
ordinarily when I witness a fellow making such a schlepper of himself in a public setting, I'd attempt a benevolent intervention
the last time provoked such moronic petulance that I'm disinclined to try again
it's a shame when one's good samaritan tendencies are curbed by another's baseness
bisted November 22, 2020 at 11:58 am
…saw that Barabas…couldn't believe that he seems to be lashing out in all directions…I was sure that when Dominic got turfed out of Downing Street and the humiliating brexit climbdown began he would do one of his regular disappearing acts…
ReproBertie November 22, 2020 at 12:18 pm
It takes a certain level of self deception to have a go at a national team for using players that were born elsewhere while also supporting a team that includes the Vunipola brothers.
Brother Barnabas November 22, 2020 at 12:34 pm
nathan hughes, ben te'o, manu tuilagi, joe cokanasiga…
scottser November 22, 2020 at 2:01 pm
So with BB in the loser's club along with pretty much everyone else except Charger's other usernames (benblack, Kate etc) is it time to just collectively ignore his 'contributions'? He's little more than a yapping pup these days, one good belt of a rolled up daily mail usually shuts him up.
Cú Chulainn November 22, 2020 at 4:14 pm
That works, but it's the orderlies who confiscate his phone that works the best.
The Loser's Club.
What an excellent description. I hope you don't mind if I borrow that.
Of course entry requirements are fairly low.Mouthing words as you type them is normally enough to get you in.
And this club is full of guppies.
Marvellous.
Brother Barnabas November 22, 2020 at 4:27 pm
it's hard to know if you're being self-deprecating ("the Loser's Club") or if you simply still havent grasped how to use an apostrophe to form a possessive noun
what was that you were saying about standards of education?
heh heh heh x high-level idiocy
ps I believe the cool kids call this a burn
Papi November 22, 2020 at 5:00 pm
It'll take about three days for the burn to get through the outer layer of flesh in Spaffys case.
#obesityisntfunny
benblack November 22, 2020 at 6:43 pm
@scottser
Your detective skills are more Seán Sherlock than Elona Holmes.
And, I'm sure you'd have a pile of those rags in your house ready to roll.
I expected better from you.
Charger is hit-and-miss – like us all – but he's a damn sight brighter than you.
Please don't take this post personally, you can always live off the royalties 'The Losers' Club' affords.
Spaffers alter ego runs to his masters bidding.
You're just too obvious benblack.
Oh, and its Enola, not Elona.
Cheers for that, scottser.
And, it's; 'it's', not 'its'.
Mine is a simple spelling mistake, yours, a grammatical error.
i couldn't give a toss for your pedantry, chargerblack.
Although, I'm sure you'll thank me for pointing out that yours WAS a spelling mistake. Past tense.
' Trinity College Dublin is considering removing the name of George Berkeley from of one of the libraries on its campus because the 18th-century philosopher was once a slave owner.
The discussion around Berkeley Library coincides with what the university describes as a wider commitment to respect diversity.
Following the revival of the Black Lives Matter movement earlier this year, Trinity has informed staff and students that it is committed to "decolonising the curriculum" and will be introducing its first black studies course.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/trinity-college-dublin-mulls-bringing-george-berkeley-to-book-over-slave-links-h32drlwp9
A quick reminder that in the 2020 World University Rankings TCD dropped 44 places to 164th and remains the ONLY Irish university in the top 200 of the Times Higher Education annual league table.
Go woke, become a joke.
Gabby November 22, 2020 at 10:37 am
Berkely was a philosopher who didn't trust his sense impressions apparently.
Sure Have Inferiority Troubles meter powering up rapidly this morning. Must have been cold beans for breakfast
Toby November 22, 2020 at 10:57 am
We don't want to become the kind of country that celebrates slavery. In the UK you banished a Duchess because she was coloured. You shamed a black footballer for trying to feed your kids. And the number of BAME people dying from Covid reveals how racism is institutionalised in Britain. We don't want to become that and if it takes removing Brit slaveowners from public, its a small price to retain National dignity.
Royal Duchess banished from her free multi-million pound house renovated at UK taxpayer expense and forced to slum it in her multi-million dollar mansion in California complains Irish Republican barstooler.
Heh x strangebedfellows.
Royal Black Duchess shunned for not being white enough for ex colonial empire. Not a nice look really. But then again, for a country that carried out Bloody Sunday, you'd probably call this an evolution of sorts.
Charger Salmons November 22, 2020 at 12:01 pm
Banished or shunned ?
It's make your mind up time for our foaming at the mouth contestant.
Can he improve on his recent pronouncement that Covid-19 is waycist for only targetting multi-millionaire black actresses ?
Or some such nonsense.
Join us after the break when we play Republican Hate-Off.
Toby November 22, 2020 at 1:13 pm
Ah Charger, you like to be glib and flippant. But I will remind you forever that subjecting so much of the world to cruel and inhuman treatment for so long is neither glib nor flippant for those you hurt.
You don't like it up you Charger (as Mountbatten never said to the young lads of Kincora). And as long as you embrace people like him and shun the Black Duchess, you will forever be loathed for who you are.
Mate, even the Wolfe Tones can't get a gig with that nonsense these days.
The Empire ended a long time ago.
Get off your knees and buy yourself a nice portion of self-respect. You'll find it on sale at BoggerzRus.
Dead right Mate. We ended the empire, and don't forget it. With that ended the day where we will tolerate any casual anti-irish bigotry as well. This isn't Punch magazine Mate.
I don't believe it's An Phoblacht either despite the delusional fantasy world you and that other loser Stephen Kenny inhabit.
Welcome to 2020 beret boy.
We only have to be lucky once :-)
" We "
Best laugh of the day.
E'Matty November 22, 2020 at 1:30 pm
Is this the same Trinners that has in the past 5 years welcomed none other than Madeleine "The price is worth it" Albright, when speaking of the half a million children killed by US sanctions on Iraq, or Hitlery "We came, we saw, he died" Clinton, after Qaddaffi had been killed having had a bayonet forced into his rectum on the side of the road, as part of the US regime change project in Libya which has left the once most prosperous country on the African continent ruled by competing warlords, human slave auctions are rife and unleashed the worst refugee crisis since WW2 on Europe resulting in bodies washing up on European beaches and the increasing polarisation of politics across the continent? That Trinity College? Those lads are seriously woke.
bisted November 22, 2020 at 1:42 pm
…ah here…sure didn't they recently deplatform Richard Dawkins for his views on islam…
I often find wokery is the result of some people having too much time on their hands and just about everyone employed by a university falls into that category.
All this virtue-signalling is fine and dandy but surely these clowns would be better off trying to arrest the headlong plunge of their university down the global index of competence and quality.
You only have to read some of the comments on here to understand how poor third-level education in this country has become.
going by your punctuation and grammar, primary-level education isnt too hot either
Burns night early this year, I see.
Janet, dreams of a steamed clootie November 22, 2020 at 5:27 pm
ah here don't drag Robbie into this
unless you'd like to dedicate a wee poem to scurrying and scuttling cratures ?
Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi' bickerin brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee
Wi' murd'ring pattle!
I'm truly sorry Man's dominion
Has broken Nature's social union,
An' justifies that ill opinion,
Which makes thee startle,
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,
An' fellow-mortal!
I doubt na, whyles, but thou may thieve;
What then? poor beastie, thou maun live!
A daimen-icker in a thrave
'S a sma' request:
I'll get a blessin wi' the lave,
An' never miss 't!
Thy wee-bit housie, too, in ruin!
It's silly wa's the win's are strewin!
An' naething, now, to big a new ane,
O' foggage green!
An' bleak December's winds ensuin,
Baith snell an' keen!
Thou saw the fields laid bare an' waste,
An' weary Winter comin fast,
An' cozie here, beneath the blast,
Thou thought to dwell,
Till crash! the cruel coulter past
Out thro' thy cell.
That wee-bit heap o' leaves an' stibble
Has cost thee monie a weary nibble!
Now thou's turn'd out, for a' thy trouble,
But house or hald,
To thole the Winter's sleety dribble,
An' cranreuch cauld!
But Mousie, thou art no thy-lane,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!
Still, thou art blest, compar'd wi' me!
The present only toucheth thee:
But Och! I backward cast my e'e,
On prospects drear!
An' forward tho' I canna see,
I guess an' fear!
…since we've invoked the bard…he had his own idea on some suicides…an epitath, this is from memory, so apologies:
Earthed up here lies an Imp o'Hell
Planted by Satan's dibble
Poor silly wretch damned him sel'
And saved the Laird the trouble
SOQ November 22, 2020 at 10:49 am
I have to wonder if there was not an ulterior motive in this RTE teeth 'n tits picture thing. I find it hard to believe that these champions of everything governmental did not know that those pictures would be released.
RTE would be under very strict restrictions as to what can and cannot be said on the topic after all- it is in effect a state of emergency- quite similar to a war situation, but when you look at the public support of lockdowns, there is only one way it can go- and that is down.
Are they maybe starting to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds? I am probably just giving them too much credit- pity Turbity wasn't there.
Janet, dreams of a steamed clootie November 22, 2020 at 10:59 am
I think people really are that stupid I'm afraid, I'd say those pictures were put up internally thing what's the harm under the influence and taken down after someone sobered up and realized internal was not secure or more likely someone with a bit more cop at RTE pointed it out,
* thinking what's the harm
Today is National Cranberry Relish day in the states.
https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-cranberry-relish-day-november-22/
Mwiam finally apologizes. Standard copy and paste for the luminaries. https://www.thejournal.ie/ocallaghan-apologises-5275243-Nov2020/
"I let everyone down and for that I will be forever sorry," said O'Callaghan.
O'Callaghan said that as someone in the public eye, it is her job to "lead by example".
As Catherine Connolly might ask… 'When did you realize that it's your job to lead by example?"
Couldn't Virgin Media ask for an interview with herself and the others? Let's see how they'd handle it themselves.
Redundant Proofreaders Society November 23, 2020 at 8:50 am
What folk are being 'led' by Miriam O'Callaghan?
Genu-INE question.
Excellent piece By Eoghan Harris in the Sunday Indo and judging by the abuse he's getting on social media this morning from the Shinnerbots he's clearly delivered some home truths.
A rare voice in Irish journalism.
Time for Ireland to mature as a nation.
' Brit-bashing is brutalising us and sowing dragon's teeth '
https://m.independent.ie/opinion/comment/brit-bashing-is-brutalising-us-and-sowing-dragons-teeth-39775127.html9
ReproBertie November 22, 2020 at 3:14 pm
For a fella that encourages people to get up off their knees you sure do love a self-loathing lickspittle.
Like breeds like.
The only thing the Brits understand is brutality. A nation who colonised, enslaved, brutalised and starved its people must be treated like the monster it is.
Have you asked the hundreds of thousands of Irish people who moved there to find work and chose to stay how monstrous Blighty is ?
Fantasy meets reality in much the same way that Ireland ran into a white brick wall yesterday.
You're not very good at this contemporary history lark are you ?
GiggidyGoo November 22, 2020 at 6:22 pm
Couple of blighters in ireland too. The ones with the inferiority complex take to the comment sections.
Theres plenty of help for that out there now. Good luck.
Britain murdered hundreds of thousands of Irish people, and multiples of that worldwide. Blighty is a cancerous, toxic stain on history and now that its hurting, its getting dangerous again. So, Im sorry if im not going with your Billy Bunter avin' a larf schtick Matey. You don't get to swagger your colonial history around here.
Hundreds of thousands?
But it's this same attitude that you display that we rebelled against.
Bullpoo and bullying.
So what's your plan? Wait until the Empire collapses completely, and then stick the boot in? Kick them when their down, is that it?
Liking a T.V. show – The Crown – is a far cry from collaborating with the enemy – watch 'Fauda' on NetFlix if you're into that.
History is history, colonial or otherwise.
*they're*
Probably your best ever contribution, Spaffy.
More of this from you!
it's not easy typing out a comment while stuffing an entire toblerone into your fat mouth
try to be more understanding, papi
You're right, of course, we should all be more tolerant of those less fortunate than ourselves.
Trump legal team's Pennsylvania challenge dismissed by the judge.
"strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations"
So much winning.
johnny November 22, 2020 at 12:14 pm
biased judge.
(Brann, a Republican,before his nomination was involved in Republican politics,the NRA and the Federalist Society.)
-Powell now says Brian Kemp, the GOP governor of GA and major Trump ally, has been bribed by a voting machine company that she has said is a front for Hugo Chavez and Venezuela to rig the election on behalf of Joe Biden-
….the back nine should be glorious around noon.
US reported 12 million covid cases:
0M-1M: 98 days
9M-10M: 10 days
10M-11M: 6 days
The unstoppable force of Biden's victory versus the immovable object of magical-thinking Trump supporters is going to make life interesting for Republican politicians squashed between the two.
Dismissed…. with prejudice. Which should be the tagline of the movie they make out this, All The President's Dismissed Legal Cases.
johnny November 22, 2020 at 1:17 pm
speaking of movies ,these are getting,great reviews on Prime.
the five films, Mangrove, Lovers Rock, Red, White and Blue, Alex Wheatle and Education, should be on BBC One and iPlayer.
Mangrove-trailer here.
https://youtu.be/VHFLv3k2Eww
"The anthology, anchored in the West Indian experience in London, is a celebration of all that that community has succeeded in achieving against the odds," Steve McQueen explains. "Although all five films take place between the late 1960s and mid-1980s, they are just as much a comment on the present moment as they were then. They are about the past, yet they are very much concerned with the present. A commentary on where we were, where we are and where we want to go."
-the series called small axe is available in states to stream,with new films dropping every friday until Dec 18.
Rosette of Sirius November 22, 2020 at 2:08 pm
Have a look what Trump's other 'lawyer' is getting up to on Twitter….
https://mobile.twitter.com/jennaellisesq/status/1330346436760903682
Can anyone in Dublin cc confirm an emerging story is that all pubs in Temple Bar (except Gogatrys) have their shutters up and are displaying a Conditional Acceptance Notice listing 12 CoVid related questions?
https://twitter.com/duzBme/status/1330124407365373953
What Freeman of the Land garbage is this? They're citing the Magna Carta as the true law of Ireland?
Cian November 22, 2020 at 12:51 pm
Chapter 61 of the Magna Carta. Which only existed in the original 1215 version (which the king was coersed to sign) it wasn't included in the 1216 version that was freely signed.
Daisy Chainsaw November 22, 2020 at 5:24 pm
Any bits of the Magna Carta in Irish legislation were removed in 2007. Besides, it looks like those notices were gummed on by ratlickers, not by the premises. https://mobile.twitter.com/frikisada/status/1330522642881896449
The Magna Carta they refer to never applied to Ireland. The Magna Carta Hiberniae, which has no chapter 61, was signed in 1216.
Ignoring the usual dragged loud cans- Can anyone in Dublin cc confirm an emerging story is that all pubs in Temple Bar (except Gogatrys) have their shutters up and are displaying a Conditional Acceptance Notice listing 12 CoVid related questions?
…in fairness, publicans in Temple Bar volunteering to be the epicentre of the latest attempt at the purge has a ring of truth…
Rob_G November 23, 2020 at 11:20 am
Sticking up a piece of A4 paper on a building does not give a piece of fanciful text legal standing.
Lilly November 22, 2020 at 12:21 pm
Absolute dog's dinner of a piece from Irish Times' Jeniffer O'Connell on Dryrobes.
-was most read online,first thing,did make me laugh.
way more importantly did you get yours:)
Lilly November 22, 2020 at 1:40 pm
Not yet Johnny, it's not cold enough. I have a nice, light changing robe I'm happy with for now.
As for the IT piece, it's 'most read' because it's topical and could potentially be an interesting, and in the right hands, humorous piece. But this was just typing, lacking insight or wit. Just blah.
V aka Frilly Jeane November 22, 2020 at 10:57 pm
Any chance of the jist of it there Lil
Niece/ Sister over in 'Merkica there
picked up an ex State Swim Team one for me at a thing, some college fundraiser auction thing
Knowing I'd get use out of it – which is fair enough
I probably would alright
Was she cribbing about them or what
f_lawless November 22, 2020 at 1:05 pm
See what they're floating over in the UK. If implemented, it will surely be coming to Ireland too under the "all island approach". The end game is to get everyone to opt into these blockchain digital identities, public health is just being used as the vehicle to do so. It's an attack on liberal democracy as we know it
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13265133/brits-freedom-passes-covid-negative-tests/
"BRITS could be given special 'freedom passes' to allow them to live a relatively normal life – if they have two negative Covid tests in a week.
The Telegraph reports that under the plan, people could be given the special passes if they can prove they have been regularly tested.
Those who have been given the all clear would then be given an electronic document to show they have the freedom to roam.
A source said: "They will allow someone to wander down the streets, and if someone else asks why they are not wearing a mask, they can show the card, letter or an App."
..(Jeremy Hunt) has already said he backs "offering people who comply with testing and isolation requirements a 'freedom pass' that removes the requirement to follow lockdown regulations".
However, for the scheme to be a success, millions of tests will have to take place every day.
..The hopeful (?!) news comes just five days after it was reported those who have had the vaccine may get special mobile phone QR codes to allow them access to major sporting events.
Government insiders say those who have been inoculated could be issued with some kind of digital proof showing they are immune from the virus."
'Suely' is doing a lot of work there. Say what you will about our lot, they're not exactly falling over themselves to oblige Boris's notions.
This is part of something much bigger. The Tory party is merely acting as facilitator to the plans of these transnational uber-wealthy elites who dictate global policies. Similar happenings are afoot in different countries across the globe.
I think it would be hard to imagine the likes of FFG's Martin and Varakar putting up much resistance on behalf of ordinary Irish citizens to the diktats coming from the 1%ers . They'll align themselves to the interests of big business as they always do. In fact I think current government policy regarding Covid-19 is already being heavily influenced in this way.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/507336-great-reset-world-economic-forum/
"If the 'Great Reset' really is so good for us, let's hold a referendum on it, so it can have a democratic mandate (or not)"
Even Beaker is turning against Varadkar and McEntee. https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/varadkar-and-mcentee-an-embarrassment-to-fine-gaels-law-and-order-values-39772773.html
Shayna November 22, 2020 at 2:04 pm
The e-Scooters Law to be passed before Christmas is bizarre. As great a vehicle as they are – I'd love one, but to be fair – consider the motorists of Ireland – they're not that great. Deaths on Ireland's roads rank among the highest in Europe. About 20 years ago, I passed my HGV Class 1 test – during my instruction period – I was told to, "live" in my left mirror of the unit – cyclists/moped riders cut inside traffic all the time – add to this e-Scooter riders, it's going to be carnage. One message I'd like to offer to the future e-Scooters, and also other road users is, if you can't see the wing mirrors of a 65ft long vehicle – you're too close!
Cian November 22, 2020 at 2:23 pm
Ireland has the lowest road fatalities per head of population across the EU.
https://amp.rte.ie/amp/1150834/
Going by the first line in that article, we have exactly the same – 100% fatality rate of people killed in road accidents.
"Ireland had lowest fatality rate of persons killed in road incidents…"
Cian, it's the number, as a whole,not per capita I was quoting. I think it was as recent as 2008, where drivers, untested could drive a car, legally ((With "L" plates). Also, my point was the safety of e-Scooter Riders on the road. There are a lot of eejiits on the road already, why add to the mayhem, legally?
That makes no sense either. We have a small population so our total deaths will be smaller than any bigger country.
Out figures have improved hugely over the years (especially once the motorways were built). Bit we are current the safest.
It is clear now that the presentation of the efficacy rates of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines which have been heavily promoted by the media and political class this past week is not quite telling the full picture. The key, it appears, is the difference between disease reduction efficacy and infection reduction efficacy. Here is one of the scientists behind the development of the vaccine who hopes the jab will have a 50% efficacy rate at reducing infection, which is what matters if you are expecting the whole population, including those not at risk from the virus, to receive the virus to create herd immunity. At 50%, half of people who receive the vaccine could still be potentially capable of contracting the virus and spreading it to the vulnerable and others.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/15/biontech-vaccine-scientist-says-jab-could-halve-covid-transmission-pfizer
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/will-covid-19-vaccines-pave-path-back-to-normality-1.4414915
"The vaccine efficacy rate, 94.5 per cent and 95 per cent for the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines respectively, refer to protection against Covid-19 disease not against Sars-CoV-2 infection."
"We have learned from experience with other infectious diseases that vaccines that do not prevent infection may not prevent transmission of a virus or bacteria in the population. For example, the current pertussis vaccine prevents children from dying from whooping cough, but does not prevent bacterial colonisation of the nose, thus allowing community transmission of the infection, resulting in periodic epidemics of whooping cough."
The article also interestingly goes on to touch on the personal identity issue at the heart of this vaccine roll-out "The Health Service Executive, hospitals and GPs in Ireland do not have integrated IT systems and, unlike most developed countries, Ireland does not have a patient identifier number. Scanning of barcodes on every vial of vaccine before administration coupled with a patient identifier number would allow electronic recording of every individual vaccination."
Does anyone have any information on the age profile of the subjects involved in the Pfizer and Moderna trials and whether any have pre-existing health conditions? We already know the healthy under 65 (and even most in the healthy over 65s) population are not at any serious risk from this virus. If the infection efficacy rate is at just 50%, is this a risk worth taking for parents with young children on an experimental new genetic based therapy (a method which has never successfully developed any therapy to date) in record time (just 8 months!) where the kids themselves are not at any real danger from the virus? It'll be interesting to see which parents will allow their kids be effective guinea pigs (long term effects of these vaccines will potentially remain unknown until widely administered, as with Pandemrix), for this undefined notion of "the public health" which seems to mean whatever NPHET and the government say it does, and is myopically obsessed with a virus with a fatality rate of at most 0.23%, and likely even lower.
SARS-CoV-2 is the infection. CoVid-19.is the disease- meaning you have symptoms or sickness. A 95% efficacy against developing CoVid-19 while at moment it is about 80%- there is no such thing as asymptomatic CoVid-19- a 15% reduction so- marketing spin.
Oro November 22, 2020 at 6:14 pm
Ummmm no that's not true. Out of the control test of both larger groups, if a certain number of 'group 1' who got the placebo got covid, they only 5% of that number of 'Group 2' who got the vaccine got covid. You're doing that thing again where you misrepresent information *whispering* on purpose.
Nobody 'gets' CoVid-19- it is a secondary disease, it is not a virus?
80% of people who are infected with SARS-CoV-2 never develop CoVid-19. These vaccines are claiming 95%- which is only 15% more than the pre-existing- what exactly have I missed?
Oro November 23, 2020 at 6:22 am
You've missed approx. 95% of the correct information. Go read about it yourself, there are explainers everywhere.
Here's the gist of it;
" In a press release, the companies said that there were 170 cases of COVID-19 among participants in the trial. Of those cases, 162 were recorded in people who took a placebo, and eight were recorded in people who received the vaccine. Ten cases were severe — and nine of those severe cases occurred in the placebo group. That indicates that the vaccine protects against the deadliest forms of the disease. Moderna, which released data from its trial this week, had similar findings."
They are claiming that these vaccines protect against the deadliest forms of the disease- the disease being CoVid-19- except 4 out of 5 people who are infected with SARS-CoV-2 never develop it in the first place?
CoVid-19 vaccines will do nothing to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2- they are not designed to.
Again that is incorrect. You can look this up yourself altho I see you have a pattern of requesting others to do so on your behalf?(?) once a person is infected with the virus they have Covid19, this is not determined by the presence of symptoms. It is self evident from, well, medicine generally that one not need to have symptoms to be suffering from a disease (early cancers, early stages of AIDs, all sorts of asymptomatic infections (chlamydia, gonorrhea etc.)). I think you're fumbling the terminology so that you can misrepresent figures to play up your chaotic fantasy, but I'd suggest you do some reading (on your own and not from Twitter mind) and see for yourself what 95% efficacy means.
These vaccines will limit the spread of the virus. If a virus does not have as easy a host network it will not be as easy to spread. Thusly, it's prevalence will be lessened. Why don't you go and google 'smallpox eradication'.
'there is no such thing as asymptomatic CoVid-19'
Just off in your own world, aren't you?
So the difference between just being infected with SARS-CoV-2 and asymptomatic CoViD-19 is?
Where's alick when you need him?
Nigel November 22, 2020 at 10:59 pm
Sorry I don't really follow your covid fan fiction.
…oh dear Nigel…you've just exempted yourself from the honorary PhD being conferred by Broadsheet Bord na Rona in association with Mary Hopkins University…
"Will covid-19 vaccines save lives? Current trials aren't designed to tell us"
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4037
"If frail elderly people, who are understood to die in disproportionate numbers from both influenza25 and covid-19, are not enrolled into vaccine trials in sufficient numbers to determine whether case numbers are reduced in this group, there can be little basis for assuming any benefit in terms of hospital admissions or mortality. Whatever reduction in cases is seen in the overall study population (most of which may be among healthy adults), this benefit may not apply to the frail elderly subpopulation, and few lives may be saved.
This is hard to evaluate in the current trials because there are large gaps in the types of people being enrolled in the phase III trials (table 1). Despite recruiting tens of thousands, only two trials are enrolling children less than 18 years old. All exclude immunocompromised people and pregnant or breastfeeding women, and though the trials are enrolling elderly people, few or perhaps none of the studies would seem to be designed to conclusively answer whether there is a benefit in this population, despite their obvious vulnerability to covid-19."
Hon Tipp!
Hon Cavan too!
1920 All Ireland Football Semi-finals
Dublin V Cavan
Mayo V Tipp
Uncanny and fantastic! Wish I was in Cavan this evening. Its not too late mind you..
V aka Frilly Jeane November 22, 2020 at 3:36 pm
Hon' Tipp
Savage from the start
85 years is a long wait
Still very optimistic about our own side
There's always next year n'all that
Btw. I'll be cancelling my Friends of Tipperary Football DD
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Never in my life have I seen 'The Streisand effect' become so mainstream- banned from YouTube so by default he must be saying something interesting- Mike Yeadon.
Twitter header- BSc biochem tox, PhD respiratory pharmacol. 32y new meds research. Left Pfizer 2011 as VP Respiratory. 2012 founded biotech Ziarco, sold to Novartis 2017.
"More than 60% of the population are immune."
https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=409747283542470&_rdr
Well I'm not touching any of your links
' f knows what it leads too
So tell me instead
How does this lad know 60 % of the population are immune?
He didn't test me – or anyone I know
Congrats Cavan! Donegal were lacklustre. Godammit, we could have beaten Donegal today. Jesus, it's been a bad enough year, but 6 in a row for the Dubs?
That's not how Championship Football
Or Championship Hurling works
If Tyrone had the winnings of the Ulster Title this year
They'd have won it
Gobshy ..
…brilliant…brilliant Cavan…last time I saw that hunger was Donegal…really ungracious Shayna…twice!
Most definitely inspired by the Holy rebellious priest.
Well done, Cavan.
…didn't think I would hear anyone more sanctimonious than one of sacred harte's acolytes…but you proved me wrong…
Mysterious ways, dude.
…you sound…almost…Trumpian…most of us prefer evidence…
Evidence, no problem:
Cavan 1-13 Donegal 0-12.
https://www.skysports.com/gaa/gaelic-football/news/30543/12139516/cavan-1-13-donegal-0-12-breffni-score-upset-victory-to-claim-ulster-title
…yep…that'll do it…nothing to do with ranting priests…
Priests who are trying to do their duty by saying Mass – the only one in the country.
God bless Cavan.
Hardly ranting.
Show some respect and appreciation for the result.
…total respect for the evidence of my own eyes and the grit of the Cavan lads scoring a great victory over Donegal…not respect whatsoever for priests…ranting or otherwise…don't believe the Cavan people prayed harder than the Donegal people…
benblack November 22, 2020 at 10:15 pm
It was the priest.
"the only one in the country."
Except all the other priests saying mass of course.
benblack November 23, 2020 at 12:06 am
Mass is the gathering of people to receive Holy Communion from the hands of an ordained priest.
Please list the other priests and parishes 'saying Mass' so that I can fulfil my Catholic obligations.
Online religious services? I hear you say.
As perverse as it can get.
…at least we agree on one thing, dude…that mass broadcast over the internet is indeed perverse…to have unsuspecting browsers stumble across a ritual where a man in a dress claims to change a wafer into the body of a 2000 year old carpenter…and then expect you to eat it…perverse indeed…
A tad unfair – Shayna loves GAA football. I'm v. pleased for Cavan. Hurrah Cavan and all the rest of it! I did say a while back that this would be the year of upsets.
2020 Ulster final? Try this one in 1984
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m07it4_evog&t=10s&ab_channel=ArdboeO%27DonovanRossaGAC
I was with my dad, manager of Clonoe O'Rahillys GFC that day . We took Kevin McCabe back home in our car (A Renaulut Fuego – I know?) We won our county game and Kevin was thence pronounced. "The Prince of Tyrone", Frank McGuigan is, "The King" – Peter Canavan is simply, "Peter The Great".
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Q: Is it possible to compile svdlibc on a mac (64 bit)? I'm trying to compile svdlibc on a 64 bit mac.  Running the make file returns the error message:
main.c:1: error: CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set
main.c:1: error: CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set
make: *** [main.o] Error 1

Which doesn't make much sense.
The make file is:
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CC = gcc -Wall -O4 -march=i486
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ifeq ($(HOSTTYPE),powerpc)
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endif

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main.o: Makefile main.c svdlib.h
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svdutil.o: Makefile svdutil.c svdutil.h
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ld: lto: could not merge in main.o because Invalid ALLOCA record for
architecture x86_64

Has anyone done this?  Or is there a different svd library that I should use instead?  (For large sparse matrices?)
EDIT: porneL seems to have found the problem.  Changing the top line in the makefile to:
CC = gcc -Wall -O3 -march=x86-64

compilation work.  Haven't tested the results yet, but looks very promising.

A: -O4 causes this for some reason. Use -O3 instead.

A: You could try with port ( http://www.macports.org/ ) it seems it s availablee :
svdlibc @1.34 (math, science)
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Basically you ll install macports then , sudo port install svdlibc.

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With all due respect to pumpkin spice, we're team apple cider everything come fall: warm apple cider, apple cider doughnuts (all about balance here), and, of course, a renewed appreciation for the funky, tart health food favorite that is apple cider vinegar. And the latter is right on time for the onslaught of colds, flu, and immunity challenges that the season brings.
We've now got more ACV products and drinking vinegars on the market than ever before, so to help us make sense of it all, we caught up with expert and author Jessica Cording, M.S., R.D., CDN, to ask her everything she knows about apple cider vinegar. Below, a checklist to keep in mind when shopping for a bottle, how she knows it's the real deal, and her favorite way to drink up.
1. Made with organic apples, raw, and with the mother. "I like to make sure it says these three things on the bottle," Cording explains. Organic is self-explanatory, but what about the last two?
Raw refers to how the apple cider vinegar is processed. "In an ideal world, you get the fermentation benefits that are a side effect of how apple cider vinegar is made," Cording says. Apple cider vinegars that have been pasteurized (a fancy word for heated or made with chemical processing) can lose some of the beneficial, gut-friendly nutrition that accompanies the live ingredients.
The "mother" is the part of the apple cider vinegar that looks a little, well, suspect. It sometimes looks stringy, murky, or like sediment that's collected at the bottom of the bottle—these are all good signs. Also known as mycoderma aceti, the mother is a group of microorganisms—the beneficial bacteria and enzymes—that converts alcohol to vinegar. Without it, there would be no ACV. That's why apple cider vinegar that contains the mother is the real deal.
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Manuka honey company Wedderspoon's new line of apple cider vinegar concentrates checks all three of these boxes—with the added immunity support of high-quality New Zealand Manuka the brand is known for. One flavor in particular, the Immunity Black Currant Apple Cider Vinegar, provides a double hit of immunity (thanks to the vitamin C and Manuka honey), bumping it to the top of the cold season shopping list. And bonus: If you're not a fan of the traditional tangy taste of ACV, Wedderspoon's addition of earthy Manuka honey and seasonal fruits and spices has you covered.
2. A glass or BPA-free bottle. "I prefer glass, but when that's not an option, a shelf-stable BPA-free plastic bottle is best," says Cording. If you go with a plastic bottle, be sure not to leave it sitting in the sun or in the back of a hot car, and recycle it when you're through!
How to store it
Once you've purchased a winning bottle of ACV, you'll want to know whether it goes into the fridge or pantry. While Cording mentioned that most vinegars keep at room temperature, she likes to keep her ACV cool. "I store in the fridge so it stays as active as possible," she says. Noted!
How to drink it
1. Be sure to dilute it. "I always tell my apple-cider-vinegar-obsessed clients to dilute it if they're adding it to their rotation," says Cording. "That means no shots of apple cider vinegar." Consuming undiluted apple cider vinegar can irritate or burn the esophagus, which is antithetical to its purpose! Cording's favorite way to consume apple cider vinegar is by adding some to seltzer or regular water, but she also recommends adding it to recipes that call for an acidic ingredient, like salad dressings.
2. Add an immune booster. While Cording mentioned that adding whole fruits to ACV is her go-to, she recognizes it's not always possible for on-the-go nutrition. "Blackcurrant and raspberry are foods known to be high in antioxidants," she says, which are typically helpful in boosting immunity.
Propolis, a byproduct of honey-making, is another compound that's been studied for its anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and antifungal properties. Add propolis extract to your ACV concoction for an extra immunity boost! Wedderspoon's also makes a new bee Propolis and Manuka Honey Throat Spray in three flavors including Warming Orange Spice, Cooling Chamomile Mint, and Lemon Ginger, which helps coat and soothe the inner lining of your throat, perfect for whenever you feel a little something coming on.
If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, we can only imagine how beneficial a nutrient-packed, immune-boosting ACV must be for our health. Cheers!
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