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Sara did a lot of research and really listened to my friend's needs and wishes and found him the perfect place. He said he would have moved sooner but it seemed so daunting a task and now is so happy and relieved that it is all over.


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Scraping the Sky: Architecture and American History
In 2017, 144 skyscrapers (towers at least 660 feet tall) joined the skylines of 69 cities across the globe—a record that will likely be broken again before the end of 2018. This inquiry-based lesson combines individual investigations of primary resources and visual media with group analysis to investigate the following inquiry: How is the evolution of the American skyscraper related to broader themes of modern U.S. history, economics, and culture?
Chronicling and Mapping the Women's Suffrage Movement
This lesson brings together digital mapping and the Chronicling America newspaper database as part of an inquiry into how and where the women's suffrage movement took place in the United States. Primary source newspaper articles published between 1911-1920 and maps from 1918-1920 are used to prompt student research into how women organized, the type of elections that women could participate in, and the extent to which the 19th Amendment transformed voting rights in the U.S.
The Green Book: African American Experiences of Travel and Place in the U.S.
Release of the film Green Book (2018) inspired renewed interest in the experiences of African Americans when traveling in the United States during the 20th century. This inquiry-based lesson combines individual investigations with whole or small group analysis of primary sources and visual media to investigate the compelling question: How have the intersections of race and place impacted U.S. history and culture?
Lesson 1. Hopi Place Names
A guided exploration of "Hopitutskwa," the Hopi homeland, through maps and place names. Using English translations, students make inferences about the Hopi cultural relationship to landscape and place. They examine regional place names of their own home communities and create personal maps by identifying and naming places of importance in their lives.
Lesson 7: Trekking to Timbuktu: Restoring the Past (Student Version)
For many people, Timbuktu is a metaphor for the mysterious, the remote, or the unobtainable. But the Malian city of Timbuktu was, in fact, once a thriving center of commerce and intellectual activity.
Lesson 6: Trekking to Timbuktu: The Search for Timbuktu (Student Version)
Lesson 7: Trekking to Timbuktu: Restoring the Past (Teacher Version)
For many people, Timbuktu is a metaphor for the mysterious, the remote, or the unobtainable. But the Malian city of Timbuktu was, in fact, once a thriving center of commerce and intellectual activity. In the lessons of this curriculum unit, students will learn about the geography of Mali and the early trade networks that flourished there. They will study how the spread of Islam influenced the cultures and economies along the Niger River. They will find out about the three kingdoms that evolved in ancient and medieval West Africa.
Lesson 6: Trekking to Timbuktu: The Search for Timbuktu (Teacher Version)
Lesson 2: Trekking to Timbuktu: Trade in Ancient West Africa (Student Version)
Lesson 1: Trekking to Timbuktu: The Geography of Mali (Student Version)

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beset vessels. Safety of mariners is our primary concern.
Franklin Strait has started to refreeze. Franklin Strait is one of the main bottlenecks that we hoped to traverse to complete the passage to Greenland. We can't even get there because the border between Alaska and Canada is blocked, with the only other boat westbound with us stuck in the ice, unable to move forward or retreat.
He painted a wonderful picture of us stuck in Cambridge with Dogbark frozen in and the girls breathing air that freezes right out of your lungs.
Turning back was a very hard decision. There were some tears, and some group hugs.
The Arctic is not an easy place. But it is stunningly beautiful. And there are many lessons here. As a team, we all learned about a place, a climate, an ocean like no other. We battled winds, and ice. We worried about polar bears, but never saw more than their prints and their poop.
We flat out loved our experience, the good and the bad. It snowed, actually accumulating on deck last night. In August. Nice timing!
We are lucky to have had the chance, with a ton of help and support, to explore a tiny part of it. Some of us will be back someday, but for now, it is time to leave.
But…exactly where will Dogbark go?
Time (and this blog) will soon tell but Talia is forcing me to reveal that white sand beaches and jungles may be on the itinerary.
Stay tuned, and thanks to all of you for sharing in our adventure so far!


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The 2013 G8 Summit in County Fermanagh presents an unrivalled opportunity to showcase both Northern Ireland's research capabilities in engineering and the established links with universities in developing countries, according to University of Ulster academic.
Dr James Uhomoibhi, who is a lecturer & E-Learning Coordinator in the Faculty of Computing & Engineering, was recently appointed Visiting Professor of computer science and IT at Igbinedion University in Nigeria.
The Jordanstown based academic is originally from Nigeria but has spent the last 25 years living and working in Ireland. He has been to the forefront of many initiatives to forge stronger educational links between the developed and the developing world.
Dr Uhomoibhi said the visit of theG8 leaders (US, UK, Russia, Germany, France, Canada, Italy and Japan) could help focus attention on the excellent research being carried out at Ulster.
"Natural and man made disasters around the world - such as tsunamis, earthquakes, droughts and conflicts - highlight the importance and relevance of engineering products and services being researched at the University of Ulster, as well as the pivotal role engineering education plays in global development," he explained.
As a member of SEFI (a French acronym for the European Society for Engineering Education), Dr Uhomoibhi was elected to head up the task force on European Co-operation with Africa to share engineering 'know how' with African nations and universities. He is also the European representative of the influential African Laser Centre (ALC).
"I hope to foster a stronger relationship between the University of Ulster and Igbinedion University so we can facilitate collaborative research projects and attract Nigerian students to study in Northern Ireland," he said.


Summary: Some biblical principles to help us come closer to being all that God has created us to be.
What did God see when He looked at David's heart? What does He see when He looks at yours? How can my potential be realized? What attracts God to me?
Secret 2: Growth is _chosen_ during distress.
Secret 3: Prosperity does not deaden _sensitivity_.
"For Your word's sake, and according to Your own heart, You have done all these great things, to make Your servant know them. There-fore You are great, O Lord GOD. For there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
Secret 4: Failure pushes _toward_ Him, not _away_.
Some biblical principles to help us come closer to being all that God has created us to be.


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Gritzner var bibliotekarie i preussiska civilministeriet. Han författade ett stort antal heraldiska, genealogiska och personhistoriska arbeten, bland annat Grundsätze der Wappenkunst (1889–1890).

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Snake oil salesmen. Scam artists. Outdated, ineffective tactics.
When you're thinking about hiring an SEO agency, you want to avoid any and all of the above. But with so many people claiming to be SEO experts these days, how can you weed out the con men and find a capable SEO partner?
There's good news. Even if you don't know much — or anything — about SEO, there are still questions you can ask that will help you determine if an agency is worth hiring or just making promises they can't keep.
This in-depth guide will not only tell you the questions to ask an SEO agency you are considering hiring, but also the answers you want to hear and the rationale behind them.
1. Can You Guarantee Specific Results?
Anyone who tells you they can guarantee you a top spot or that they have a "relationship" with a search engine is either lying or doing something shady and/or dangerous.
While most agencies will tell you they're confident based on their past work that they can help you achieve your business goals, anyone who promises a specific ranking or traffic level is blowing smoke.
With that being said, your SEO Agency should be able to work with you to forecast general scenarios based on your budget, your specific strategy, and your competition.
2. How Long Will It Take to See Results?
As an immediate disqualifier, write off any businesses that promise "instant" results or tell you you'll be at the top of the search engines two weeks from now. The SEO techniques they're using aren't sustainable, and they're not being upfront with you about what's really possible with SEO.
The simple truth about SEO is that it takes time. It may sound like a prospective SEO company is stalling when they tell you that it may take three to six months to see results, but it helps to understand that SEO is not some sort of dark magic. There are measurable metrics at work that need to be influenced in order to improve your ranking.
For example, part of what search engines measure to determine your rankings are the number of links pointed to your website as well as the quality of those links. If you're a brand-new website in a competitive niche, your competitors have already had time to get a head start in building links and driving up the metrics that influence search position.
Different niches come with different levels of competition. There are some that may only take a few months to see results, and others that could take significant time to see any returns.
That's just the nature of SEO — so if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
A keyword-mapping document (with proposed page titles, meta-descriptions).
Recommendations for improvements to your on-page content.
Recommendations for technical improvements (site architecture, load time, etc.).
A report on the links they've been able to secure.
A monthly report on changes in rankings, traffic, and onsite metrics.
What you're watching for is deliverables that tell you what changes are being made, which links are being built, what content is being produced, and so on.
If you're not receiving ANYTHING at all, chances are good the agency isn't doing very much, either.
As for the results you can expect — that's a tricky one. Sometimes, traffic may actually get a little worse before they get better. Rome wasn't built in a day, and as your agency revamps your website, re-maps your keywords to be more relevant, and improves the overall experience for customers, Google may need to re-crawl your site to better understand the changes being made.
However, if you do experience drop-off, it shouldn't persist for months before the trend is reversed. What you want to watch for is incremental growth in qualified (buying) traffic, not just traffic on the whole. Keep an eye on year-over-year sales numbers and metrics like back link counts, rankings, and qualified leads.
3. Have You Ever Worked With a Business Like Mine Before?
One of the best ways to know if an SEO agency can handle your project is if they've already achieved demonstrable returns in the same niche. If they have, they'll know what it took to get results and should be able to explain the strategy they used.
But if they haven't, it shouldn't immediately disqualify them as a lead — what you're really trying to learn through this question is how well your company is a fit with their agency, and vice-versa.
If you're a very large company with a content-heavy website (thousands of pages), a company used to working with small businesses may struggle to deal with the scope of the work necessary to help you.
If you're an e-commerce website, an SEO firm who has limited experience in e-commerce may have a tough time adapting to the content and structural limitations of an e-commerce website.
If you're in a niche with strong governmental restrictions or tricky legal requirements (like pharmacy, law, etc.), a company who isn't well acquainted will need to be brought up to speed on what's acceptable and what's not relative to your niche.
4. How Has SEO Changed in the Past Few Years?
Asking how an agency "stays current" with their tactics and strategies is all but worthless if you don't know how SEO has changed yourself. They can tell you they read a lot of industry blogs and watch videos from Google, but what does that actually tell you?
Does the agency know the specific names and timelines of Google's important changes to search?
Can they explain how those changes have impacted the way SEO is done?
Can they explain all of this in plain English?
If an SEO agency maintains that SEO is "more or less the same," tread carefully. While it is true that the core fundamentals haven't changed, there are a lot of specific tactics that have had to be updated in order to keep up with the updates. If they can't walk you through specific updates and tell you how they'll impact your business, take caution. You need an SEO provider that can speak both tech and business in plain English.
5. What Parts of the SEO Process Do You Outsource?
Outsourcing mundane or repetitive tasks to capable workers can help cut overhead and reduce the cost of your SEO campaign.
Outsourcing specialized tasks (like outreach) to highly qualified third parties can expand an agency's capabilities and improve the quality of the work you get back.
But outsourcing is also tricky, because if the agency gives too much leeway to outsourced help or outsources the work to unqualified parties who don't really know what they're doing, the results can be disastrous.
This question forces agencies to own up about not only the parts of the process they call in help for, but then opens the floor up for follow-up questions into what that outsourcing process looks like and how they choose their vendors.
Strategy — If the agency doesn't have the know-how to craft a strategy on their own, there's absolutely no reason you should be hiring them.
Link building — How an agency builds their links is vital, and if they're shipping off the task to a cheap third party without doing quality control, that's a fast track to finding yourself slapped with a penalty. If a potential SEO provider mentions they outsource link building, question #5 on our list becomes crucial for them to answer correctly.
Content creation — Your content is your message, and the message you send online is how your business will be perceived by your customers. You want to be VERY careful about who gets to handle the content you put your brand name on. If the agency outsources content, you'll want to know if the writers are native English speakers, where they are based, and what quality assurance measures are in place to keep things consistent.
6. What's Your Link-Building Process?
The sources of links must be relevant to your specific business.
Links need to be accrued naturally over time, not blasted out.
Anchor text (the text of the link) should be varied and natural.
Tactics like bulk blog commenting, spamming in forums, or submitting to low quality generic directories are not valid approaches.
A manual approach to building links is best. Blasting out links via software is an easy way to get in trouble.
You want to hear that the agency considers your audience and your niche before building links, and knows how to avoid being penalized for breaking Google's terms of service.
7. How Do You Choose the Keywords We'll Be Targeting?
If the only thing your agency says is "traffic level," that's a problem. SEO is not about driving the greatest amount of traffic — it's about driving the most-targeted traffic.
Relevance of the keyword to your offering is crucial, but equally important is trying to understand the head space of the person making the search. Are they high in the marketing funnel, or near the bottom?
Also critical is the competition level. Even if a phrase receives enormous traffic volume, if you cannot rank for it, there's no point in wasting money trying.
8. What Metrics Do You Think Are Most Important to Measure?
Rankings, traffic, and back-link numbers are all very important things to monitor, and I'm certainly not saying your SEO should be ignoring them.
But effective SEO means doing more than just increasing rankings, decreasing bounce rates, or improving your traffic levels. More time on-site means nothing if that traffic never buys from you, and rankings only matter if they're helping to generate qualified leads.
Ultimately, you want an agency that's able to tie their SEO efforts back into your bottom line. Can they measure the leads they're generating? How will they calculate SEO's impact on your overall sales?
You need an agency who sees the big picture.
9. What Will the Process for Implementing Changes Look Like?
One of the easiest ways to spot a scammy SEO agency is that they don't ask you to change anything or come back with any recommendations for you to implement. That's just not how SEO works; a site needs to be changed to be optimized.
As a client, you need to have an understanding of which specific changes your SEO partner is capable of implementing without you, which will involve your input, and how recommendations will be presented. It needs to be clear from the very beginning whose responsibility it will be for making updates to things like your content, website architecture, local listings, and so on.
Knowing who you need to talk to and how they'll communicate (monthly meetings, ongoing update e-mails, etc.) will be important before moving forward.
10. What Do Your Reports Look Like, and Can I See One?
If you can't understand the way the information is presented, it's going to create all kinds of conflict internally.
This is your chance to get an inside look at how the agency presents their results, outlines their recommendations, and showcases the metrics that matter.
You want to see a report that's clearly explained in a language you actually understand. Graphics are great, but they should make it easier to see what's going on — not just more colorful.
The key points should be summarized for easy reading (or your C-Levels will get impatient and tune out), but there should also be a reasonable level of detail.
What was done, and why?
What have the impacts of previous changes been?
What kinds of returns have been generated?
What obstacles still stand in the way?
What must be done to overcome them?
What's are the next steps?
Remember that what's reported is what's measured, and the key metrics the agency told you they measure success by should be plain as day.
Bonus: Can You Walk Me Through a Few of Your Best Case Studies?
Case studies are shiny examples of an agency's best work. If they don't have any, that should be cause for concern. While numbers and names may be anonymized because of non-disclosure agreements, you should still be able to get a good story or two out of the agency as to how they helped a specific client achieve a specific outcome.
While it might be intimidating to interview different SEO providers, asking the right questions at the beginning of the relationship will only set you up for success. Be bold, ask questions, listen closely, and don't be afraid to walk away. Those who know what they're doing will be remarkably open and friendly about their processes, while those who aren't will reveal themselves as the unqualified options they are. If you're interested in learning what an up-to-date SEO strategy for your business can look like, contact Digital Current and schedule a personal 1-on-1 consultation with an SEO strategist.


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Fue descrita científicamente por Kerremans, 1897.

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Passionate water users hit the streets of Mudgee on Saturday to show their opposition to a planned bulk water transfer between Windamere Dam and Burrendong Dam. The rally was organised by councillor and spokesperson for the water users, Russell Holden who said the planned transfer would leave Windamere Dam's water levels dangerously low. The Saturday rally had approximately half of the numbers that the first gathering at the Windamere boat ramp had in early August. A post on the 'Hands off our water' Facebook page said they were disappointed more people didn't march the streets on Saturday. "It is disappointing to see such a small number of local residents turn up to today's Save our Water rally," the post said. "This will impact every resident of Mudgee," "Not only will there be less water in the dam, but council could be forced to put in extra water treatment, every ratepayer of the area will pay more," "It was also disappointing to only see one current councillor there today, with Russell Holden addressing the crowd." Mr Holden said while he wanted to see 'more arms and legs' at the march, he feels they "certainly got the message across". But this march isn't the end for Mr Holden and the group, with plans to march on Macquarie Street and even take legal action if needed. "We've taken some legal advice and we can do a merit based appeal through WaterNSW on the bulk water transfer and if that was unsuccessful, if push came to shove, we could make an appeal through Land and Environment Court," Mr Holden said. "I would put it to council that we may need to go that far and ask for council's support to do that." In addition to these concerns, Mr Holden is stressing that people understand the way water is stored in our region compared to others. "Nobody in the Cudgegong Valley has really on-farm storage. So our on-farm storage is Windamere Dam. Whereas lots of the big license holders have huge on-farm storages," he said. "Even if they can't pump from the river they have that water in storage and when they are allowed to pump from the river, often they will pump and refill that on-farm storage. Here in the Cudgegong, we don't have the ability or capacity to do that." "There's no doubt there's two opposing views here. That's something we're going to have to manage and navigate our way through," "I would like to think the end result would be a renegotiation of the water sharing plan and potentially the separation of Windamere, Cudgegong and Burrendong/Macquarie."
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Passionate water users plead 'keep your hands off our water'
Benjamin Palmer
Photos: Simone Kurtz
Passionate water users hit the streets of Mudgee on Saturday to show their opposition to a planned bulk water transfer between Windamere Dam and Burrendong Dam.
The rally was organised by councillor and spokesperson for the water users, Russell Holden who said the planned transfer would leave Windamere Dam's water levels dangerously low.
The Saturday rally had approximately half of the numbers that the first gathering at the Windamere boat ramp had in early August.
A post on the 'Hands off our water' Facebook page said they were disappointed more people didn't march the streets on Saturday.
"I would like to think the end result would be a renegotiation of the water sharing plan and potentially the separation of Windamere, Cudgegong and Burrendong/Macquarie."
Russell Holden
"It is disappointing to see such a small number of local residents turn up to today's Save our Water rally," the post said.
"This will impact every resident of Mudgee,"
"Not only will there be less water in the dam, but council could be forced to put in extra water treatment, every ratepayer of the area will pay more,"
"It was also disappointing to only see one current councillor there today, with Russell Holden addressing the crowd."
Mr Holden said while he wanted to see 'more arms and legs' at the march, he feels they "certainly got the message across".
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But this march isn't the end for Mr Holden and the group, with plans to march on Macquarie Street and even take legal action if needed.
"We've taken some legal advice and we can do a merit based appeal through WaterNSW on the bulk water transfer and if that was unsuccessful, if push came to shove, we could make an appeal through Land and Environment Court," Mr Holden said.
"I would put it to council that we may need to go that far and ask for council's support to do that."
In addition to these concerns, Mr Holden is stressing that people understand the way water is stored in our region compared to others.
READ ALSO: Magpie breeding season starts early in Dubbo
"Nobody in the Cudgegong Valley has really on-farm storage. So our on-farm storage is Windamere Dam. Whereas lots of the big license holders have huge on-farm storages," he said.
"Even if they can't pump from the river they have that water in storage and when they are allowed to pump from the river, often they will pump and refill that on-farm storage. Here in the Cudgegong, we don't have the ability or capacity to do that."
"There's no doubt there's two opposing views here. That's something we're going to have to manage and navigate our way through,"
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Hit the bricks
The ideal of the high street is a civic space where concepts and community can flourish. This issue is all about those shops and the people making it a reality.
No magic carpet
Iran's economic troubles have been well documented. But in the capital Tehran there is renewed hope that newly elected president Hassan Rouhani can ease Western sanctions and spark a turnaround in the failing economy.
Taming the streets
Once considered ungovernable, Mexico City has taken its first steps to becoming a socially progressive 'megalopolis' – and much of the credit for that can be given to its innovative new mayor, Miguel Ángel Mancera.
The fight for Hungary's skies, a high-rise revolution in Austria and election watch in Georgia, plus Sweden's integration minister talks about life after the Stockholm riots.
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I Fruttarelli
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"Everybody knows us and stops by for a chat," says Maurizio, who delivers groceries using a three-wheeled Piaggio Ape van or a scooter when not debating the merits of the city's two football clubs with passers-by. "I'm the one who gets out and about, going around the city and the port, where we often take fruit and veg to yacht owners but my brother still loves to man the counter."
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I Fruttarelli Via di San Bernardo 16R, Genoa
Farmacia del Cinghiale
Macelleria Annunciata
Monocle comment: It's important to see a familiar face when being served and neighbourly shop owners can help build a sense of community between local residents. An extra pair of eyes at street level also helps to keep crime in check.
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This culture of an independent apothecary-style farmacia is not uncommon in Italy. Like many historic family-run establishments, Farmacia del Cinghiale dispenses conventional pharmaceutical drugs alongside natural ones. Arcuri has become an expert on Australian flowers and deals in homeopathy, herbal therapy and aromatherapy too.
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Monocle comment: Regulation has helped preserve Italy's pharmacies. In Italy, by law, there has to be at least one pharmacy for every 3,500 people.
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Opened in 1996 by Mauro Brun and his meat-carving colleague Bruno Rebuffi, the butcher's shop sits on a quiet side street, steps from the city's high-end clothing stores. "Our philosophy is that when you eat, eat only quality foods. People may not consume as much meat today as in the past but a good steak is one of the finer pleasures in life, like wearing a good suit," says Brun. The steaks are from Fassone cattle, a Piedmontese breed known for tasty and tender meat. Brun also tries to get clients interested in less popular cuts too. For traditionalists, there are meatballs for pasta and local classics such as Milanese Cotoletta – a breaded veal cutlet.
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Q: alsamixer USB Headphone/MIC combo cannot control mic I have attempted everything i have been able to scour the internet for and am at a loss. HyperX Cloud Flight S headphones will not allow me to use the mic whereas their previous non-s revision works perfectly. Here are some relevant outputs:
uname -a
Linux laptop 5.3.0-42-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 28 05:49:40 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

amixer -c1 contents
numid=4,iface=CARD,name='Keep Interface'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1
  : values=off
numid=2,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1
  : values=on
numid=7,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Switch',index=1
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1
amixer: Control hw:1 element read error: Invalid argument

numid=3,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=8,min=0,max=74,step=0
  : values=54,54,54,54,54,54,54,54
  | dBminmax-min=-74.00dB,max=0.00dB
numid=8,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Volume',index=1
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=2,min=0,max=1,step=0
amixer: Control hw:1 element read error: Invalid argument

numid=9,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Capture Switch'
  ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1
amixer: Control hw:1 element read error: Invalid argument

numid=10,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Capture Volume'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=rw---R--,values=1,min=0,max=1,step=0
amixer: Control hw:1 element read error: Invalid argument

numid=5,iface=PCM,name='Capture Channel Map'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=r----R--,values=1,min=0,max=36,step=0
  : values=0
  | container
    | chmap-fixed=MONO

numid=1,iface=PCM,name='Playback Channel Map'
  ; type=INTEGER,access=r----R--,values=2,min=0,max=36,step=0
  : values=3,4
  | container
    | chmap-fixed=FL,FR
    | chmap-fixed=FL,FR,FC,LFE,SL,SR,SL,SR

numid=6,iface=PCM,name='Playback Channel Map',device=1
  ; type=INTEGER,access=r----R--,values=2,min=0,max=36,step=0
  : values=0,0
  | container
    | chmap-fixed=FL,FR

lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0951:16ea Kingston Technology HyperX Cloud Flight S

cat /proc/asound/cards
1 [S              ]: USB-Audio - HyperX Cloud Flight S
                      Kingston HyperX Cloud Flight S at usb-0000:00:14.0-2, full speed

arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 1: S [HyperX Cloud Flight S], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

A: The kernel update in 5.7rc3 introduced a patch for this issue (for this headset specifically). Once patched your dmesg output should have a line that looks like:
[    6.804026] kernel: usb 1-1: Found post-registration device assignment: 095116ea:02

The alsa configuration documentation states:
Module snd-usb-audio
--------------------
...
delayed_register
    The option is needed for devices that have multiple streams
    defined in multiple USB interfaces.  The driver may invoke
    registrations multiple times (once per interface) and this may
    lead to the insufficient device enumeration.
    This option receives an array of strings, and you can pass
    ID:INTERFACE like ``0123abcd:4`` for performing the delayed
    registration to the given device.  In this example, when a USB
    device 0123:abcd is probed, the driver waits the registration
    until the USB interface 4 gets probed.
    The driver prints a message like "Found post-registration device
    assignment: 1234abcd:04" for such a device, so that user can
    notice the need.

So taking the above information you get from dmesg, and the field you need from the config docs, add this to the end of alsa-base.conf
# Add delayed register for HyperX Cloud Flight S Headset
options snd-usb-audio delayed_register=095116ea:02

Then reboot and you should be able to see the headset and profiles as expected.
As a side note, there is another option in the snd-usb-audio module
quirk_alias
    Quirk alias list, pass strings like ``0123abcd:5678beef``, which
    applies the existing quirk for the device 5678:beef to a new
    device 0123:abcd.

This would lead me to believe that you could copy the quirk that already was written by kernel 5.4 for "Kingston HyperX AMP" and apply it to this headset, as well as adding the delayed register and it would work pre 5.7. As i already bit the bullet and did the kernel upgrade i am not going to go back and check. If someone gets that working please let me know and ill update the post here. It should be as straight forward as:
options snd-usb-audio quirk_alias=095116ea:095116d8 delayed_register=095116ea:02

Let me know!

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Chasewater Railway Museum July 1959 Bits & Pieces 6 RPS Mag No.1
The first newsletter of the RPS was published in July 1959 and followed the information given in the previous leaflet.
It invited members "to send letters, articles and news items for inclusion in future issues".
Other items raised were "Why don't we take over a Branch Line?" The short answer was – not enough members.
"What type of Branch Line are we interested in?"
"The type of branch line we are interested in would have adequate storage space for relics and must be within easy access of large centres of population. The exact criteria will be the subject of investigation by your committee, but we must bear in mind that the bulk of traffic would come from visitors on summer weekends and Bank Holidays who would not necessarily be railway enthusiasts. We should be able to offer such people other attractions in the way of fine scenery and a terminus that is a natural tourist attraction with good facilities for meals, sight-seeing, etc".
"Where will this Branch Line be?"
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"Working from this basis, we have evolved the idea of an organisation built up of districts, each playing their own part within a national plan for preserving a collection of relics. The first district has been formed, covering the counties of Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire, and this is called the West Midland District. A meeting of local members has been called to discuss plans for a London and Home Counties District. The suggested area is the counties of Bucks, Essex, Herts, Kent, London, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. Other suggested areas for similar schemes are East Midlands, N.W England, Scotland, South Wales, Tyne/Tees and Yorkshire."
Other items were – How do we form a District, Increasing our Membership, and the names and addresses of the officers of the RPS.
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Kemahl 'The Hitman' Russell poses with the Junior North American Boxing Federation middleweight title after his seventh round technical knockout victory over Ian 'The General' Green in New York on Saturday September 9, 2017.
Kemahl 'The Hitman' Russell is now the Junior North American Boxing Federation middleweight champion after a technical knockout win over Ian 'The General' Green in New York on Saturday night.
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In music, a scale is an ordered series of musical intervals, which, along with the key or tonic, define the pitches. However, mode is usually used in the sense of scale applied only to the specific diatonic scales found below. The use of more than one mode is polymodal, such as with polymodal chromaticism. While all tonal music may technically be described as modal, music that is called modal often has less diatonic functionality and changes keys less often than other music.
1 Greek modes
2 Church modes
2.1 Use of the modes
3 Modern modes
3.2 Chords with the modes
4 Other types of modes
5 Analogues in different musical traditions
Greek modes
Early Greek treatises on music referred to modes, or scales, which were named after certain of the Ancient Greek subgroups (Ionians, Dorians, Aeolians), one small region in central Greece (Locris), and certain neighboring (non-Greek) peoples from Asia Minor (Lydia, Phrygia).
The Greek modes were:
Dorian and Hypodorian
Phrygian and Hypophrygian
Lydian, Hypolydian
Plato believed that playing music in a particular mode would incline one towards specific behavior associated with that mode, and suggested that soldiers should listen to music in Dorian or Phrygian modes to help make them stronger, but avoid music in Lydian, Mixed Lydian or Ionian modes, for fear of being softened. Plato believed that a change in the musical modes of the state would cause a wide-scale social revolution.
The philosophical writings of Plato and Aristotle (c. 350 B.C.E.) include sections that describe the effect of different musical modes on mood and character formation. For example, this quote from Aristotle's Politics:
" The musical modes differ essentially from one another, and those who hear them are differently affected by each. Some of them make men sad and grave, like the so called Mixolydian; others enfeeble the mind, like the relaxed modes; another, again, produces a moderate or settled temper, which appears to be the peculiar effect of the Dorian; and the Phrygian inspires enthusiasm. "
Plato and Aristotle describe the modes to which a person listened as molding the person's character. The modes even made the person more or less fit for certain jobs. The effect of modes on character and mood was called the "ethos of music."
Church modes
There is a common misconception that the church modes of medieval European music were directly descended from the Greek notion of modality mentioned above. In fact, the church modes originated in the ninth century. Authors from that period misinterpreted a text by Boethius, a scholar from the sixth century who had translated the Greek musical theory into Latin. In the sixteenth century, the Swiss theorist Henricus Glareanus published Dodekachordon, in which he solidified the concept of the church modes, and added four additional modes: the Aeolian, Hypoaeolian, Ionian, and Hypoionian. Thus, the names of the modes used today do not actually reflect those used by the Greeks.
The eight church modes, or Gregorian modes, can be divided into four pairs, where each pair shares the "final" note. The pair also shares the central five notes of the scale. If the "scale" is completed by adding the three upper notes, the mode is termed authentic, while if the scale is completed by adding the three lower notes, the mode is called plagal (serious).
The pairs are organized so that the modes sharing a final note are numbered together, with the odd numbers used for the authentic modes and the even numbers for the plagal modes.
In addition, each mode has a "dominant" or "reciting tone," which is the tenor of the psalm tone. The reciting tones of all authentic modes began a fifth above the final, with those of the plagal modes a third above. However, the reciting tones of modes 3, 4, and 8 rose one step during the tenth and eleventh centuries with 3 and 8 moving from b to c (half step) and that of 4 moving from g to a (whole step) (Hoppin 1978, p.67).
Only one accidental is used commonly in Gregorian chant—si (B) may be lowered by a half-step. This usually (but not always) occurs in modes V and VI, and is optional in other modes.
Dorian Hypodorian Phrygian Hypophrygian Lydian Hypolydian Mixolydian Hypomixolydian
Final (note)
D D E E F F G G
Final (solfege)
re re mi mi fa fa sol sol
Dominant (note)
A F B-C A C A D C
Dominant (solfege)
la fa si-do la do la re do
Given the confusion between ancient, early, and modern terminology, "today it is more consistent and practical to use the traditional designation of the modes with numbers one to eight," (Curtis 1998) using Roman numeral (I-VIII), rather than using the pseudo-Greek naming system.
The eight musical modes. f indicates "final" (Curtis, 1998).
Use of the modes
Early music made heavy use of the Church modes. A mode indicated a primary pitch (a final); the organization of pitches in relation to the final; suggested range; melodic formulas associated with different modes; location and importance of cadences; and affect (i.e., emotional effect). As Liane Curtis (1998) explains, "Modes should not be equated with scales: principles of melodic organization, placement of cadences, and emotional affect are essential parts of modal content," in Medieval and Renaissance music.
Carl Dahlhaus (1990, p.192) lists "three factors that form the respective starting points for the modal theories of Aurelian of Réôme, Hermannus Contractus, and Guido of Arezzo:
the relation of modal formulas to the comprehensive system of tonal relationships embodied in the diatonic scale;
the partitioning of the octave into a modal framework; and
the function of the modal final as a relational center."
The oldest medieval treatise regarding modes is Musica disciplina by Aurelian of Réôme while Hermannus Contractus was the first to define modes as partitionings of the octave (Dahlhaus, p.192-191).
Various interpretations of the "character" imparted by the different modes have been suggested. Three such interpretations, from Guido D'Arezzo (995-1050), Adam of Fulda (1445-1505), and Juan de Espinoza Medrano (1632-1688), follow:
D'Arezzo
Example chant
I serious any feeling happy, taming the passions Veni sancte spiritus (listen)
Hypodorian
II sad sad serious and tearful Iesu dulcis amor meus (listen)
III mystic vehement inciting anger Kyrie, fons bonitatis (listen)
Hypophrygian
IV harmonious tender inciting delights, tempering fierceness Conditor alme siderum (listen)
V happy happy happy Salve Regina (listen)
Hypolydian
VI devout pious tearful and pious Ubi caritas (listen)
VII angelical of youth uniting pleasure and sadness Introibo (listen)
Hypomixolydian
VIII perfect of knowledge very happy Ad cenam agni providi (listen)
Most of the theoretical writings on Gregorian chant modes postdate the composition of the early Gregorian chant repertoire, which was not composed with the intention of conforming to particular modes. As a result, for these chants, the application of a mode number can be only approximate. Later chants, however, were written with a conscious eye on the eight modes.
Modern modes
The modern conception of modes describes a system where each mode encompasses the usual diatonic scale but with a different tonic or tonal center. The modes can be arranged in the following sequence, where each next mode has one more shortened interval in its scale.
Intervals in the modal scales
Lydian IV
perfect major major augmented perfect major major
Ionian I
perfect major major perfect perfect major major
Mixolydian V
perfect major major perfect perfect major minor
Dorian II
perfect major minor perfect perfect major minor
Aeolian VI
perfect major minor perfect perfect minor minor
Phrygian III
perfect minor minor perfect perfect minor minor
Locrian VII
perfect minor minor perfect diminished minor minor
The first three modes are termed major, and the remaining ones are minor. A mode is deemed major or minor by the intervallic relationship between the 1st and 3rd scale degrees. A mode is considered minor if the 1st and 3rd scale degrees form a minor 3rd (three semitones above the root). A major mode instead has a major 3rd (four semitones) from the 1st scale degree to the 3rd.
The Locrian mode is traditionally considered theoretical rather than practical because the interval between the 1st and 5th scale degrees is diminished rather than perfect, which creates difficulties in voice leading. However, Locrian is recognized in jazz theory as the preferred mode to play over a iiø7 chord in a minor iiø7-V7-i progression, where it is called a 'half-diminished' scale.
Major modes
The Ionian mode is identical to a major scale. The Lydian mode is a major scale with a raised 4th scale degree. The Mixolydian mode is a major scale with a lowered 7th scale degree.
Ionian (I) (listen)
Lydian (IV) (listen)
Mixolydian (V) (listen)
Minor modes
The Aeolian mode is identical to a natural minor scale. The Dorian mode is a natural minor scale with a raised 6th scale degree. The Phrygian mode is a natural minor mode with a lowered 2nd scale degree. The Locrian mode is a natural minor mode with lowered 2nd and 5th scale degrees.
Dorian (II) (listen)
Phrygian (III) (listen)
Aeolian (VI) (listen)
Locrian (VII) (listen)
The relationship between the seven modern modes is discussed in more detail in the article on properties of musical modes.
Modes came back into favor some time later with the developments of impressionism, jazz, (modal jazz) and more contemporary twentieth century music.
The use and conception of modes or modality today is different from their use and conception in early music. As Jim Samson (1977, p.148) explains, "Clearly any comparison of medieval and modern modality would recognize that the latter takes place against a background of some three centuries of harmonic tonality, permitting, and in the nineteenth century requiring, a dialogue between modal and diatonic procedure."
The Ionian mode is another name for the major mode, in which much Western music is composed. The Aeolian forms the base of the most common Western minor scale; however, a true Aeolian mode composition will use only the seven notes of the Aeolian scale, while nearly every minor mode composition of the common practice period will have some accidentals on the sixth and seventh scale degrees in order to facilitate the cadences of western music.
Besides the Ionian major and modern (harmonic/melodic) minor modes, the other modes have limited use in music today. Folk music is often best analyzed in terms of modes. For example, in Irish traditional music the Ionian, Dorian, Aeolian and Mixolydian modes occur (in roughly decreasing order of frequency); the Phrygian mode is an important part of the flamenco sound. The Dorian mode is also found in other folk music, particularly Latin and Laotian music, while Phrygian is found in some Central European or stylized Arab music, whether as natural Phrygian or harmonic Phrygian (Phrygian Dominant), which has a raised third (the so-called "gypsy scale"). Mixolydian mode is quite common in jazz and most other forms of popular music. Because of its dream-like sound, the Lydian mode is most often heard in soundtrack and video game music.
Some works by Beethoven contain modal inflections, and Chopin, Berlioz, and Liszt made extensive use of modes. They influenced nineteenth century Russian composers, including Mussorgsky and Borodin; many twentieth century composers drew on this earlier work in their incorporation of modal elements, including Claude Debussy, Leoš Janáček, Jean Sibelius, Ralph Vaughan Williams and others. Zoltán Kodály, Gustav Holst, Manuel de Falla use modal elements as modifications of a diatonic background, while in the music of Debussy and Béla Bartók modality replaces diatonic tonality (Samson 1977).
They have also been used in popular music, especially in rock music. Some notable examples of songs using modality include Simon and Garfunkel's Scarborough Fair (although the ballad was not composed by the group, Simon and Garfunkel popularized it, and will be considered as a modal song in this article), which uses the Dorian mode, and many of the jam-songs of The Grateful Dead.
While remaining relatively uncommon in modern (Western) popular music, the darker tones implied by the flatted 2nd and/or 5th degrees of (respectively) the Phrygian and Locrian modes are evident in diatonic chord progressions and melodies of many guitar-oriented rock bands, especially in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as evidenced on albums such as Metallica's "Ride The Lightning" and "Master of Puppets," among others.
Chords with the modes
In jazz, the modes correspond to and are played over particular chords. The chord examples below are shown for the modes of the key of C. For example, over an Fmaj7♯11 chord, musicians typically play notes from the F Lydian mode.
Cmaj7 Dm7 Esus♭9 Fmaj7♯11 G7 Am7 Bø (Bm7♭5)
Although both Dorian and Aeolian can be played over a minor seventh (m7) chord, the Dorian mode is most commonly used in straight-ahead jazz because Dorian's 6th scale degree is major in relation both to the first and fifth scale degrees, leaving the interval of a major 2nd (two semitones) between the 5th and 6th scale degrees. In contrast, the 6th scale degree in Aeolian (the "natural minor") is minor in relation both to the 1st and 5th scale degrees, leaving a jarring minor 2nd between the 5th and sixth scale degrees.
Similarly, instead of Locrian, many jazz musicians play the 6th mode of the melodic minor over a half-diminished (ø or m7♭5) chord, because the natural 9th in that mode (e.g. C♯ over Bø) is more consonant with the m7♭5 chord than the ♭9 in Locrian (e.g. C over Bø). The "sus♭9" chord is also often played using the 2nd mode of melodic minor instead of Phrygian because of the natural 6th.
Other types of modes
In modern music theory, scales other than the major scale sometimes have the term "modes" applied to the scales which begin with their degrees. This is seen, for example, in "melodic minor" scale harmony (see Minor scale for a brief description of the melodic minor), which is based on the seven modes of the melodic minor scale, yielding some interesting scales as shown below. The "Chord" row lists chords that can be built from the given mode.
minor-major Dorian ♭2 Lydian augmented Lydian dominant Mixolydian ♭6 or "Hindu" half-diminished (or) Locrian ♯2 altered (or) diminished whole-tone (or) Super Locrian
C-maj7 Dsus♭9 E♭maj♯5 F7♯11 G7♭6 Aø (or) A-7♭5 B7alt
Most of these chords and modes are commonly used in jazz; the min/maj chord, 7♯11 and alt were in common use in the bebop era (indeed, the Lydian dominant scale and 7♯11 chord practically defined the bebop sound), while Coltrane-era and later jazz made extensive use of sus♭9 chords. Maj♯5 is less common, but appears in Wayne Shorter's compositions. The ♭6♭7 is rarely seen as such.
Though the term "mode" is still used in this case (and is useful in recognizing that these scales all have a common root, that is the melodic minor scale); it is more common for musicians to understand the term "mode" to refer to Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, or Locrian scales. In everyday speech, this is the most common understanding.
However, strictly speaking, for any possible scale, the number of possible melodic modes is dictated by the number of notes in the scale. 6-note scales have 6 modes, 5-note scales have 5 modes, etc. While most scales (a defined number of notes occurring in defined intervals) have commonly accepted names, most of the modal variations of the more obscure scales do not, and are instead referred to as "3rd mode of [your-scale-name-here]," etc.
Analogues in different musical traditions
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Musical mode history
History of "Musical mode"
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Ropes Inside A Hole – A Man And His Nature
Posted: 2 January 2023 in Albums
Tags: A Man And His Nature, Album Review, Autumnalia, epic, Expansive, Post Rock, Post-Metal, Ropes Inside A Hole, Shove Records, Voice of the Unheard
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Christopher Nosnibor
Italian / Swedish post-metal sextuplet Ropes Inside A Hole follow up their 2019 debut Autumnalia with an album that's expansive, mellow, and melodic. I do often wonder just how much separation there is between the softer end of post-metal and the chunkier end of post-rock, and after years of straining my ears, I'm no closer to an answer. And So I Watch You From Afar are categorised as post-rock, but pack more riffs than a lot off post-metal. Than again, Pelican bring the riffs, but they're balanced by so much space and texture, it doesn't feel particularly metal.
Ropes Inside A Hole balance riffs and space, there's no question of that, and it's hard to really say if those riffs are rock or metal or anything really. What there can be no dispute about is the fact that those riffs are immense – as is the album as a whole. The six tracks are expansive to say the least: the shortest, 'Overwhelmed', is over five minutes long, and of the rest, four are well over seven-and-a-half minutes in duration. They really know how to conjure a soundscape, and A Man And His Nature is a rich and detailed work that is remarkably nuanced and at the same time intensely forceful. When the riffs hit, they hit alright, although for my money they sit more with the sustained crescendos common to many post-rock works, without the serrated bite of anything metal.
But does genre mater even remotely, especially when the music is this good? A Man And His Nature is a vast and ambitious set that really pushes the parameters.
'Others Are Gone. I Don't Care' drifts along and chimes tunefully to begin, but when the distortion pedals hit and everything flares up so the band are firing on all cylinders and rocking it to eleven, it's a thick, middy welter of noise that blasts from the speakers. The drums become muffled beneath it all, and the sense of volume is immense.
'Loss and Grief' introduces vocals, and in keeping with the title, they sound plaintive and lost, before 'Feet in the Swamp, Gaze to the Sky' brings – quite unexpectedly – a more jazzy vibe, and not just on account of the woodwind – specifically sax – sounds that breeze in and float around over the jangling guitar and loping drums, but also with the loose composition and rolling beats. Its mellow but it's tense, too, and this is perhaps the most accurate summary of the album overall.
According to the band, the album was 'Written during the pandemic and the global lockdown… [and] deals with feelings of isolation, doubt, nostalgia, fear and anger and also marks a shift in the band's sound towards a more introspective approach materialized by the use of acoustic guitars, cello, violin and saxophone that contrasts perfectly with the more aggressive and heavy side of the band.'
All sides of the band are equally represented on A Man And His Nature. But the thing is, isolation is not something that seems to have really dissipated post-lockdown – because it was always there, and always will be. The pandemic only heightened underlying anxieties, and in some respects, were yet to fully leave lockdown and reclaim the lives we had before. It's not simply that we're still quaking and feeling insecure; many of us simply can't afford to live the lives we had before, to gad bout by train, to visit people and places like we used to – assuming those people and places still exist.
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