Monthly Archives: September 2024

WWE RAW PRIMER 5/13: (SPOILER-FREE), Becky “2 Contracts,” Dogs Allowed on Miz TV, Women’s Fatal Four-Way, Ricochet vs. Corbin, Monster vs. Psychopath, A “Clash” of Styles and a Beast Slayer, Rabbit “Food”

SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)… WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW PRIMER WILD CARD EDITION MAY 13, 2019 LONDON, ENGLAND AT THE O2 ARENA AIRS ON USA NETWORK, 8:00 P.M. EDT BY FRANK PETEANI (@FrankPeteani), PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR Announcers: Michael Cole, Corey Graves, Renee Young Raw Rating Last Week: 1.63 (0.07 improvement over […]

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Mom goes back to college to honor last promise to husband killed in Iraq War: “I think he’s really proud of me”

Tiffany Eckert might be America’s most unlikely sorority sister.  The 41-year-old mom may be older than her compatriots at the Sigma Kappa sorority house at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, but she still feels right at home.  Eckert’s husband, Andy Eckert, died fighting in the Iraq War. Her son Myles went viral in 2014 […]

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Baltic Sea pipeline leaks will have “significant detrimental” impact on climate, researchers say

Methane escaping from the damaged Nord Stream pipelines that run between Russia and Europe is likely to result in the biggest known gas leak to take place over a short period of time, and highlights the problem of large methane escapes elsewhere around the world, scientists say. There is still uncertainty in estimating total damage, […]

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Russia detains Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant chief, Ukraine says

Russian forces blindfolded and detained the head of Europe’s largest nuclear plant, Ukraine’s nuclear power provider said Saturday, reigniting long-simmering fears over the plant’s security. The alleged kidnapping on Friday apparently took place shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin escalated his war in Ukraine and pushed it into a new, dangerous phase by annexing four […]

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Nominations Golden Globes 2024 : Anatomie d’une chute dans la course, Barbie et Oppenheimer parmi les favoris

Quels sont les films nommés pour la 81ème cérémonie des Golden Globes, qui seront remis le 7 janvier prochain ? Découvrez les nominations côté cinéma. Coup d’accélérateur pour la saison des récompenses 2023/2024. Avec les nominations aux Golden Globes, nous entrons dans une dernière longue ligne droite qui nous conduira jusqu’aux Oscars, remis dans la […]

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Thrax Audio Siren loudspeaker

Based in Bulgaria, European audio company Thrax has been active since 2009. Their ingenious and varied design approaches seen over several product lines have continued to intrigue me with their conceptual originality, innate musicality, and imaginative use of a broad spectrum of technologies. Their products range from valve (tube) amplification to digital audio and, more […]

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Dan D’Agostino’s Progress to Progression

To accompany my review of the Dan D’Agostino Master Audio Systems Progression monoblock amplifier elsewhere in this issue, I talked to Dan D’Agostino about the amplifier’s design. I started by asking him what were some of the major differences between the Momentum and the Progression monoblocks? Dan D’Agostino: I took the best parts of the […]

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BorderPatrol Digital to Analogue Converter SE

The trouble with a classicist he looks at the sky He doesn’t ask why, he just paints a sky—John Cale and Lou Reed, “Trouble with Classicists,” from Songs for Drella Left brain/right brain, yin/yang, male/female, Apollonian/Dionysian, classical/romantic, painterly/linear, dark/light, hard/soft, warm/cool…I use these contrasting adjectives in my reviews because I feel some confidence in their […]

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Exposure CD Player

Exposure owner/designer John Farlowe graduated from the UK’s University of Sussex at the end of the swinging ’60s. He put his B.Sc in electronic engineering to use at HiWatt, manufacturers of tube guitar amplifiers. His keen interest in pro audio, particularly in sound reinforcement for rock bands, led him to Midas (studio mixing desks and […]

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Listening #207

The stars are matter. We are matter. But it doesn’t matter.—Don Van Vliet Only sensibilities trained on poetry can wholly appreciate it.—T.S. Eliot (writing about Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood) In the 17th century, steam engines began appearing throughout Europe and Asia, ushered into existence by any number of different inventors. More recently, multiple inventors conceived and […]

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