" One of my favorite Democratic sounding boards emails: "Mayors are fantastic.
|
|
You should have sounding boards to test your ideas and challenge your ideas.
|
|
Korey and Rubio knew this; they'd been each other's sounding boards at Warby Parker.
|
|
My partner is an artist himself and we're really good sounding boards for each other.
|
|
Passionate people turn to responsible reporting, whereas many headlines are just sounding boards to further divide people.
|
|
Those people were often used as sounding boards for finding the best doctors, or troubleshooting problems with treatments.
|
|
The friendship survived, and Koenig was among Longstreth's sounding boards as he fine-tuned "Dirty Projectors" for release.
|
|
BECKY QUICK: What's it like in terms of-- how-- how you all kind of use each other as sounding boards?
|
|
Staff are the eyes, ears and sounding boards for members and it matters who they are and what their experiences are.
|
|
And members of the U.S. women's national soccer team have become sounding boards and guides for others fighting for pay equality.
|
|
For this you may be thankful on busy nights when those wood slats go from attractive design elements to unnervingly effective sounding boards.
|
|
She wrote and rewrote "Farinelli," she said, with both Mr. Rylance and Mr. Dove ("absolutely fantastic on dramaturgy with new writers") as sounding boards.
|
|
The two would go on vacations together and brunch on the weekends, and acted as each other's sounding boards for both personal and professional challenges.
|
|
They follow impartial adviceOur friends and family can be great sounding boards, but their advice is rarely objective — especially when it comes to our money.
|
|
Investors, who are talking a little more publicly about it these days, also seek to serve as sounding boards for founders when crap hits the fan.
|
|
The Times said that Trump is doing this "slightly more often," but still makes calls to his friends, allies, and sounding boards from his trusty mobile.
|
|
Now they see each other as valuable sounding boards for trickier lyrics, and as support systems for dealing with a stan culture that can be militant.
|
|
When perspectives are unrepresented in discussions, when some kinds of thinkers aren't at the table, classrooms become echo chambers rather than sounding boards — and we all lose.
|
|
Network hosts are among the president's staunchest media allies, with hosts Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson acting as informal advisers and policy sounding boards for the president.
|
|
These people -- the sounding boards of the most powerful man in the country (and maybe the world) -- have a massive amount of power in their own rights.
|
|
The people you're trying to help may use their sounding boards' well-meaning availability as a reason or excuse not to get the professional help they really need.
|
|
Our producers, using our hosts as sounding boards, then take those ideas and do more research to figure out what ideas will be most viable as engaging radio stories.
|
|
Lou Dobbs, a Fox News host who is one of the president's favorite sounding boards, has also encouraged Mr. Trump's negative views of her handling of the migrant crisis.
|
|
With another veteran waitress, Danyelle (Shayna McHayle), Maci tends to hover near Lisa, and together they eagerly serve as her seconds in command, sounding boards, cheer squad and surrogate family.
|
|
The attack took many by surprise, as coverage of his administration on the network is overwhelmingly positive and certain hosts even serve as informal advisers and sounding boards for his policies.
|
|
The friends tended to be little more than sidekick sounding boards, standing by to throw encouragement or pithy punchlines into the mix before disappearing until it was convenient for them to return.
|
|
Several of them, however, expect the new president to satisfy his compulsion for continuous communication by calling outsiders and by tramping from office to office in search of gossip and sounding boards.
|
|
"As you go about creating an oversight strategy and a path forward, we would like to convey our personal willingness to connect you with resources on substance and sounding boards on priorities," it adds.
|
|
Their absence will deprive Mr. Trump and his daughter and son-in-law of many of the aides who served as crucial buffers and sounding boards as a turbulent and politically uncertain year begins.
|
|
For several elections now, our Facebook feeds have served as our very own political sounding boards, and we're sure your statuses aren't going unnoticed in a campaign season that has been deemed dark, divisive, and dangerous, pretty unanimously.
|
|
Trump's two adult sons, trusted sounding boards for the President, are engrossed in the day-to-day operations of the family business in Manhattan, leaving Trump in the White House without the familial structure he once relied on.
|
|
By night, when the eggs and other breakfast dishes roll off the menu and the room fills up with people more interested in mezcal and the "overproof margarita" than coffee and agua fresca, the windows become sounding boards.
|
|
For a while, he thought the screenplay might not have any plot, but he still decided not to share it with his usual sounding boards — del Toro; Carlos; the director Alejandro González Iñárritu, whom he met in the 1990s.
|
|
The President is at his most comfortable in Mar-a-Lago, according to friends and advisers, who say Trump will regularly work the room at the club, socialize with members and use them as sounding boards for his thoughts and ideas.
|
|
Much of the comedy comes from Ramy's sounding boards: Steve (Steve Way), who has muscular dystrophy and a caustic attitude, and his Muslim friends Mo (Mohammed Amer) and Ahmed (Dave Merheje), who have a more comfortable and casual relationship to their faith.
|
|
The two talk consistently throughout the day on the phone, say White House aides, and she remains one of his most viable sounding boards -- and one of the few people in Trump's world who can openly give her opinion, even she disagrees with him.
|
|
Think health-focused digital communities, perhaps targeting a single sex or time of life, as we're increasingly seeing in the femtech space, or health-focused apps and services that can act as supportive spaces and sounding boards that cater to the particular biological needs of different groups of people.
|
|
In tech, an industry grappling with a lack of gender diversity, women play an increasingly important role for other women: They serve as role models to girls who are just beginning their STEM education, mentors to up-and-coming female employees, and, for those in the upper ranks, sounding boards to their peers.
|
|
Nearly every day of his young presidency, Trump has picked up the phone to seek counsel, friendship and fresh perspective from dozens of people: He's reached out to decades-old sounding boards like Tom Barrack and Phil Ruffin, "winning" sports figures like retired Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight and Patriots coach Bill Bellichick, as well as political advisers like his former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski and Rudy Giuliani, New York's former mayor.
|
|
H. S. Parmelee. Piano Sounding Boards. United States Patent 301,068, June 24, 1884; H. S. Parmelee.
|
|
While the Republican Party held the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, Simpson often served as the Speaker Pro Tempore of the House, particularly during debates concerning controversial legislation, due to his command of House procedure. Simpson is known to have broken several sounding boards with the gavel while calling the House to order. This inspired Simpson to have a number of sounding boards produced in Idaho, which he presented to then Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL) as a joke. When the Republican Party regained control of the House of Representatives in 2010, Mr. Simpson began once again to serve frequently as the Speaker Pro Tempore of the House.
|
|
"Hillman, J. (1990) Oedipus Variations: Studies in Literature and Psychoanalysis. Spring p.90 Hillman qualifies his many references to gods as differing from a literalistic approach saying that for him they are aides memoires, i.e. sounding boards employed "for echoing life today or as bass chords giving resonance to the little melodies of life.
|
|
2, Covina Publishing Company, Covina CA. 1913. pp.144-150 and had patented the company's Tension Resonator, a device fastened to the perimeter of the wooden structure of pianos meant to prevent their sounding boards from flattening. This was first included in their grands in 1900. The firm advertises that it is currently used in all Mason & Hamlin pianos.
|
|
Instead of an official editor, Guillory uses friends as sounding boards. He did not begin drawing until 2018. The large gap in time allowed him to distance himself from the work and approach it as though it were written by someone else. Guillory can pencil and ink at a rate close to one page per day.
|
|
Cello bridge holds strings over the finger and sounding boards. On instruments with a curved bridge, it is difficult to bow more than two strings simultaneously. Early treatises make it clear that composers did not expect three notes to be played at once, even though the notes may be written in a way as to suggest this. Playing four notes at once is almost impossible.
|
|
The generic name is derived from the Greek words κιθάρα (kithara), meaning "lyre", and ξύλον (xylon), meaning "wood," referring to the use of the wood in the sounding boards of string instruments. Several species, especially C. caudatum and C. spinosum, are cultivated as ornamentals. ;Species # Citharexylum affine D.Don \- from northern Mexico to Nicaragua # Citharexylum alainii Moldenke \- Dominican Republic # Citharexylum albicaule Turcz. \- Cuba # Citharexylum altamiranum Greenm.
|
|
Non tanned goatskin is used for parchment or for drumheads or sounding boards of some musical instruments, e.g., mišnice in medieval Europe, bodhrán in Ireland, esraj in India and for instrumental drum skin named bedug in Indonesia. In Roman mythology priests of god Lupercalia wore goatskins. A breed of goat that provides high-quality skin is for example the Black Bengal breed, native to Bangladesh.
|
|
Retrieved from printed photocopy archive January 13, 2014. Salvi regularly collaborates with scientists to revolutionize the harp. After many years of research with scientists at University of St. Andrews in Scotland, he developed the electronic harp, which first showcased at the Third World Harp Congress in Vienna, Austria, in 1987. For the past decade and a half, Salvi has been very involved in conducting studies with sounds and sounding boards.
|
|
James Tiberius Kirk is a fictional character in the Star Trek media franchise. Kirk (William Shatner) first appeared in Star Trek: The Original Series serving aboard the starship USS Enterprise as captain. Kirk leads his crew as they explore new worlds, new civilizations, and "boldly go where no man has gone before". Often, the characters of Spock and Leonard McCoy act as his logical and emotional sounding boards, respectively.
|
|
Eventually, Dolge built felt mills, made felt shoes, autoharps, piano cases, piano sounding boards, piano hammers, ran lumber yards, and contributed to the local physical infrastructure and educational needs. In 1887 the citizens unanimously petitioned the authorities at Washington to change the name of the place from Brockett's Bridge to Dolgeville, New York. Dolge failed financially and left Dolgeville in May 1899. He lived in California and started a business there.
|
|
Brazelton joins fellow film-comics Joe Dunn of Joe Loves Crappy Movies and Gordon McAlpin from Multiplex to produce a weekly podcast called The Triple Feature; begun in 2007, the three authors use the TalkShoe service to discuss films for an hour or so. The podcast is a feature for fans of the three webcomics, it also cross-promotes the three comics, and provides sounding boards of equal fanaticism for the three.
|
|
The puipit at Trull, Somerset, is noted for its fine figure carving. A large figure standing under a canonv fills each of the nanelled sides. while many other smaller figures help to enrich the general effect. Examples of Gothic sounding boards are very rare; that, together with the pulpit, in the choir of Winchester is of the time of Prior Silkstede (1520), and is carved with his rebus, a skein of twisted silk.
|
|
The identifying feature was the use of two un-barred sounding boards, one of which was meant to form the bottom of the instrument instead of the usual heavy wooden base or frame, and they were intended to be bent into arches to increase their stiffness and coupled using a sound post. By late 1859 Mathushek was associated with lawyer Wellington Wells, and coassigned him patents for a repetition action and grand pianos.F. Mathushek. Piano Action.
|
|
Chapters also serve as important local sounding boards for its advocacy efforts, identifying local and regional issues and helping its national advocacy team to make sure policy recommendations accurately reflect what is happening and needed at ground level for its members. Chapters operate independently, with volunteer boards responsible for recruiting new members and developing engaging programs and activities. The national office provides policy direction and operational assistance. Chapter membership is diverse, with a wide range of ages, backgrounds and interests.
|
|
As the axis rotates, wooden hammers are lifted off their resting position by fixed notches. As they fall back, they rhythmically impact on a wooden board. While the quality of the sound is dependent on the wood of which the hammers and sounding boards are made, the rattle frequency depends on the number of hammers, as well as changes in wind speed. The device is used primarily to scare starlings and other birds off the vineyards so that they do not peck grapes.
|
|
93 including uprights as well as squares and grands, producing as many as thirty pianos a week. The factory was equipped with a steam engine, as well as steam powered elevators and drying rooms, and had been augmented with a second wide building where grand cases, sounding boards, and actions were manufactured and cases varnished and iron frames gilded."The Piano Forte Manufactory of Knabe & Co., Baltimore" Debow's review, Agricultural, commercial, industrial progress and resources. vol.2, no.1, p.
|
|
In Bolivia, the government of Evo Morales has been working with Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) and other research institutes to do the same. However, in Chile, many think tanks during the 1990s seemed to endorse and maintain the legitimacy of policies implemented during the previous decade by the military dictatorship headed by Pinochet. # Spaces of debate – In this case think tanks serve as sounding boards for new policies. In Chile, during the Pinochet dictatorship, many left wing intellectuals and researchers found ‘asylum’ in think tanks.
|
|
The Japanese version of the jester, these men were once attendants to daimyō (feudal lords) from the 13th century, originating from the "Ji Sect of Pure Land Buddhism", which focused on dancing. These men both advised and entertained their lord and came to be known as doboshu ('comrades'), who were also tea ceremony connoisseurs and artists. By the 16th century, they became known as otogishu or hanashishu (story tellers), where they focused on story telling, humour, conversation. They were sounding boards for military strategies and they battled at the side of their lord.
|
|
The organization of the ASC is divided into Members and Staff, which includes the Executive Management. Members set policy and recommend changes to the Securities Act and the Securities Regulation, and members act as the Commission's Board of Directors. The Staff has responsibility for registering persons and companies, reviewing prospectuses, considering exemption applications and taking enforcement action. The ASC staff has also created four advisory committees to act as sounding boards for developing new or amended securities regulation: Financial Advisory Committee, Petroleum Advisory Committee, Securities Advisory Committee, and Financial Review Committee.
|
|
Archetypal psychology is a polytheistic psychology, in that it attempts to recognize the myriad fantasies and myths that shape and are shaped by our psychological lives. The ego is but one psychological fantasy within an assemblage of fantasies. To illustrate the multiple personifications of psyche Hillman made reference to gods, goddesses, demigods and other imaginal figures which he referred to as sounding boards "for echoing life today or as bass chords giving resonance to the little melodies of daily life"Hillman, J. 'Who Was Zwingli?', SPRING Journal 56, p.
|
|
In September 1890, a successful Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition was held in the building; the catalogue can be seen in the Monmouth Museum. Between 1897 and 1903, the Hall was used for a number of plays staged by the actor, director and impresario Ben Greet. The linked emblems of the Rolls family and that of the town of Monmouth QRpedia codes in books In 1963 the organ was inspected by an organ tuner who declared it to be useless. Water had affected the sounding boards and the instrument was falling to pieces.
|
|
He remained permanently in 1868 and worked in piano making and importing in New York City. In 1874 Dolge went to Brockett's Bridge, Fulton County, New York, prospecting for spruce wood to be used for piano sounding boards. He purchased the old Brockett building and in April 1875, he began manufacturing felt in it, later known as the Dolge Company Factory Complex. Within a few years Brockett's Bridge grew from 325 to over 2,000 inhabitants, many of whom were German immigrants, whom he had interested in the area by advertisements and agents.
|
|
"Succession" In essence, Liz and Jack have developed into each other's best sounding boards. For example, when Liz believed herself to be pregnant, her first reaction was to go to Jack's office (then occupied by the daughter of G.E.'s CEO) and, when ultimately she was unable to speak with him face to face, she left multiple messages on his phone. When Jack heavily embarrassed himself at a business retreat, Liz took the attention away from him by doing improvisation, including holding open her blouse to reveal her white bra. Jack was clearly moved and appreciative of her actions.
|
|
Westerkerk Amsterdam, ringing the bells for a service In a lower chamber behind the sounding boards in the tower wall there are three swinging bells also made by François Hemony in 1658. The largest swinging bell was replaced after 27 years by Claude Fremy (his pupil, nephew and successor), because it was cracked. The bells (a major triad) are rung to announce the divine service on Sunday and also when the service is on, during praying the 'Our Father'. This bell by Fremy is also connected with the pedals in the baton keyboard of the carillon.
|
|
It presents, then ruthlessly yanks back, an alternate universe Springfield ruled by dewy innocence rather than greed and mob mentality." He also felt the episode "got to make a relevant point in line with writer John Swartzwelder's libertarianism without sacrificing the momentum of the episode or losing track of the characters and turning them into mere sounding boards for their creator's beliefs". Empire named the Psycho parody as the second best film parody in the show. "The best throwaway gags blindside the unsuspecting viewer in episodes that are nominally about something else [...] Hitchcock is ripped off more than any other director but this is the most lovingly rendered reference.
|
|
The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas is intended to teach an audience what readers of the Preface are assumed to have learned. Two brothers, one a retired, but influential cleric (Franklyn) and the other a biologist of note (Conrad), independently conclude that humans must increase their lifespans to three centuries in order to acquire the wisdom and experience needed to make complex civilizations functional. Conrad has published their conclusions in a book. A housemaid announces the opportune arrival of Lubin and Burge, two prominent politicians with antagonistic viewpoints; they will serve as sounding-boards while the brothers present their case for the need of longer lifetimes.
|
|
Iron, gold and other minerals were mined here. The narrow, steep falls of the Ammonoosuc River provided water power for numerous watermills and factories, and the Parker Young Company was at one time the largest manufacturer of piano sounding boards in the world. Lisbon was the site of the first rope ski tow in New Hampshire. The Lisbon Area Historical Society promotes the public's interest in and appreciation for the Towns of Lisbon, Landaff and Lyman, and maintains the collection, preservation and cataloging of materials which establish or illustrate the history of the three towns, their indigenous history and heritage, their exploration, settlement and development, as well as their cultural and artistic heritage.
|
|
The specific design, and materials the used in the construction of the bridge of an instrument, have a dramatic impact upon both the sound and responsiveness of the instrument. Achieving a tonal characteristic that is effective and pleasing to the player's and listener's ear is something of an art and craft, as well as a science, and the makers of string instruments often seek very high quality woods to this end, particularly spruce (chosen for its lightness, strength and flexibility) and maple (a very hard wood). Spruce is used for the sounding boards of instruments from the violin to the piano. Instruments such as the banjo use a drum, covered in natural or synthetic skin as their soundboard.
|
|
200 where they were awarded a bronze medal,"Groupe II, Classe 10 - Instruments de Musique" Exposition Universelle de 1867, à Paris. Liste Générale des Récompenses Décernées par le Jury International Imprimerie Impériale, Paris 1867. p. 54 at the same level as J. Brinsmead of London, J. Promberger, Vienna, and Hornung & Moeller, Copenhagen, among others, but below the level of most of the manufacturers judged to be their equals in previous exhibitions. Advertisement and cash prices for Robert Wornum & Sons, piano manufacturers In 1866 A. N. Wornum patented methods of extending sounding boards beyond the wrestplank bridge in uprights and downstriking grands, which he claimed would improve their higher notes,Alfred Nicholson Wornum, no.
|
|
Ophthalmology in Ancient Egypt Parts of turtles were used to grind eye paint, which was applied both as a cosmetic and to protect eyes from infection and over-exposure to sun, dust, wind, and insects.Photo of Turtle Palette The flesh of Trionyx was eaten from Predynastic times to as late as the Old Kingdom, and later the flesh of turtles began to be considered an "abomination of Ra" and the role of these animals became an evil one. Turtle carapaces and scutes from Red Sea Turtles (Chelonia Imbricata) were used in rings, bracelets, dishes, bowls, knife hilts, amulets, and combs. Land tortoise carapaces from Kleinmann's tortoise were used as sounding boards for lutes, harps and mandolins.
|
|
The warmth and good humor with which they were presented made them acceptable even to the most sensitive listeners." Allen employed a writing staff but they served as his sounding boards and early draft consultants as much as actual writers; it was Allen who had the final edit and rewrite of each week's script, working as long as twelve hours a day in his own right on ideas or sketches. His ad-libbing ability caused many a show to fade away behind the ending network identification, because Allen often ate up air time. It was not as unusual for him as for others to sign off with "We're a little late, so good night, folks.
|
|