Is there a way to change the layout of the "latest posts" section on the homepage? – Graphene Themes Forum
In the latest post section that shows up on the homepage, is there any way to control the layout of the posts? Right now there latest post stretches across the page and all subsequent posts are in 2 columns below that latest post. I’d like to forego the big latest post and just show all posts in 2 columns. Is there a way to accomplish that?
Hi guys, new to this theme and love it however, having a few issues with displaying the side bar widgets.
When I select on the right hand panel in the page editor to use the sidebar, the page rearranges itself accordingly as if there is a side bar waiting to be placed. This is perfect, but when I insert a widget into the widget menu, None of the widgets are displayed. i have tried header, footer and both right and left side bar planes, but I still get nothing. Please could some one help me resolve this issue.
What is it about the Dutch? They sell marijuana joints and hashish-laced ``space cakes'' in specialty shops. Prostitutes stand brazenly in skimpy lingerie under soft neon lights on display for window-shopping customers and tourists.
And the country lets doctors kill patients wanting to die. Sex shops and dope-selling ``coffee houses'' are overtaking wooden shoes and windmills as popular images of Holland.
In the last year, the parliament enacted laws legalizing brothels and regulating the sex trade; sanctioning gay marriages and investing those unions with full rights; and approving euthanasia conducted under strict guidelines. Now there is talk of prescribing suicide pills for the elderly.
The Vatican called the gay marriage law ``a grave attack on the family.'' Its newspaper denounced the euthanasia bill.
Yet, while these laws attracted worldwide attention, their evolution was so gradual here that the Dutch hardly noticed when they were adopted and went into force. All were debated for decades, then carefully crafted into bills reflecting a broad consensus.
Why is a country of 16 million people, one of the smallest in Europe, at the forefront of liberal legislation? Why did it happen in a country that embraced Calvinism, the dourest, most regimented stream of Christianity?
The Dutch say they are as conservative as other Europeans, only more sensible about dealing with alternative lifestyles, using a pragmatism drawn from their history.
Decriminalization gives authorities more control over activities, they say. After the country overturned a widely ignored 1912 brothel ban last year, these houses became taxpaying establishments required to give employee benefits. The law also weeds out illegal immigrants, underage girls and forced prostitution.
Euthanasia here accounts for about 3,500 deaths a year, a rate the Dutch say is secretly matched in other countries. But the law passed in April regulates conditions under which doctors may help patients end their lives.
The Netherlands is a patchwork of minorities and subcultures, says van der Horst, author of ``The Low Sky,'' which explains the Dutch ways. ``In such a system, tolerance and respect for private lifestyles is essential, because the alternative is civil war,'' he said.
This system, what the Dutch call ``the expediency principle,'' is a hallmark of Dutch justice. The sale of hashish and marijuana is illegal, but 850 coffee houses sell marijuana joints or 5-gram packets of hash without fear of prosecution as long as they don't sell liquor.
Despite the availability of drugs, a 1997 study by the Center for Drugs Research at Amsterdam University said U.S. marijuana use is twice as high as in the Netherlands - 9 percent of Americans older than 12 tried it at least once that year, compared with 4.5 percent here.
Amsterdam, Netherlands - Legalized prostitution, drug use and euthanasia are symbols of a live-and-let-live philosophy.
The ear hears via hair cells that sit on the resonant basilar membrane in the cochlea. Each hair cell is effectively tuned to a narrow frequency band determined by its position on the membrane. Sensitivity peaks in the middle of the band and falls off to either side in a lopsided cone shape overlapping the bands of other nearby hair cells. A sound is inaudible if there are no hair cells tuned to hear it. [full article]
Interesting but BIG. I got partway through it. It made me think of an ongoing talking point. We had a former member that was overly enthused with bandwidth and 24-bit DSP. Anything less was totally inferior. Others bring it up occasionally.
I think it says that 16 bit can provide an adequate dynamic range as long as it doesn’t start with 0. This is what Bernafon does. However, I’d love a more educated opinion.
I’m no expert but I have done a bunch of reading on this topic. I’ll just go ahead and puke out a bunch of thoughts
I would adhere to the 16/44 school of thought. I would understand that 24/44 would perhaps be a little better and in this day… what… 30-35 years after the advent of the cd when the 16/44 standard was laid down…24/44 should be easily implemented.
How I understand the bits is that the 16 bits are how often an analog sound is being converted into a digital value. So the higher that bit the more frequent a value is being taken from the analog sound.
How I understand the second number is the total possible frequency on both left and right. So really it’s half. ie 22kHz on each side of a stereo signal in the case of the 44 number.
I have read about brain response to ultrasonic sounds where perhaps the “sound” is being detected through the skin or bones and that the brain “sees” it. But is it “music”? I understand in an analog environment that harmonics may go ultrasonic. But again is it music?
Then there are all the stops along the way from original making of the sound to recording equipment to mastering equipment to the recorded sound media. And that’s just the input. Then there’s the play back equipment from the media player to the possibly analog amplifier to the speakers or if digital then to the digital to analog converter to the digital or analog amplifier and finally out to the speakers. All of those parts (and internal filters etc) have to have all the right capabilities to maximize the sound reproduction. If some don’t (and you’re not going to know a great many of them) then you can’t possibly get that maximum sound.
Then there’s us. We are here because our ears are failing us. Good freakin’ luck with that 24/192 music file you downloaded. We will never regain the sound sensing capability that we had in our teens before we killed our ears with loud concerts, load music in headphones, loud work environments, unprotected gunfire etc. or if you did everything right…just plain old simple aging.