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RED at Cine Gear Expo: new camera line-up and BTS with Christopher Probst
RED Digital Cinema returns to Cine Gear Expo, the LA event offering an exhibit, seminars and panels covering filmmaking insights, techniques, and technology from top makers and content creators.
Jose Antunes
RED will be at Cine Gear Expo to show, for the first time, its new DSMC2 camera line-up. Attendees will also have the chance to listen to DP Christopher Probst explain how the short film Epoch was shot.
The 23nd Annual Cine Gear Expo returns to the Paramount Studios on May 31-June 3, 2018. The 2018 event offers over 300 exhibits (June 1-2) along with dozens of complimentary seminars and panels. Attendees can also enjoy the Cine Gear Film Series competitions and film screenings in Paramount's state of the art theatres.
RED Digital Cinema will be at Cine Gear Expo this year in Los Angeles at The Studios at Paramount from June 1-2. Located at Booth S101 in Stage 17, RED will showcase its DSMC2 camera line-up featuring its premier sensors, MONSTRO 8K VV, HELIUM 8K S35 and GEMINI 5K S35. The new system, based on one camera BRAIN with three sensor options, which ProVideo Coalition mentioned before, will effectively debut at the event. This modified camera line-up represents a more streamlined approach which will result in a price reduction compared to RED's previous camera line-up.
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Cine Gear Expo will also be the place to go if you want to see the new GEMINI 5K S35 sensor. RED will be highlighting its flexibility and the sensor's ability to deliver exceptional low-light performance. RED's cinematic Full Frame sensor, MONSTRO 8K VV, will also be exhibited. Additionally, RED will demonstrate 8K workflow, covering 8K REDCODE RAW, HDR and image processing pipeline (IPP2).
Because cameras only exist for telling stories, RED will also be taking attendees behind the scenes on Christopher Probst, ASC's new short film, Epoch. On June 1 at 12:45pm and June 2 at 11:45am, at the the Sherry Lansing Theater, Probst will break down his approach to shooting the short film, set in a post-apocalyptic world of harsh, dusty exteriors and dark desolate nights. Probst and director Rich Lee relied on the sensor qualities of the RED MONSTRO to deliver a visually compelling 13-minute narrative finished in 4K.
There is a story behind the short film Epoch, which started when Jarred Land asked "Christopher Probst and Director Rich Lee to take Monstro 8K out and do a little something to put it through it's paces, just for fun". The result was Epoch, about which Christopher Probst wrote a first comment at REDUser forums, revealing that "Epoch was a beast to pull together and the shoot was minimally staffed and among the more challenging in my career. Post production presented similar hurdles in its own right and though it took longer than any of us would have liked, we are happy to present it here for you all!"
There is an interesting conversation growing at RED User forums about the whole production process, with more notes from the people involved, that you may want to check, if you want to know more about the behind the scenes of this project. The short film Epoch, which tells the story of a lone woman searching for others as she struggles to survive in a desolate, post-apocalyptic wasteland, is the newest in the series Shot on RED, created to demonstrate the potential of RED's cameras and sensors. Watch the 13-minute short film now!
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Benjamin Cahan was the original developer and co-founder of Final Draft™, the worldwide leader in screenwriting software for motion picture and television industries. As the company's CEO from 1989 to 2001, he took Final Draft™ from a home-based software company to a valuable brand name respected and used by the majority of writers, producers and studios across the globe.
Prior to developing Final Draft™, Mr. Cahan received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland in 1984. He worked as a computer programmer for IBM during his college years and moved to Los Angeles after graduation to work for a defense contractor in Los Angeles. Eighteen months later, after taking a film production class at the University of Southern California, he left the defense industry and formed his own company developing film production software.


On Saturday, a team of 4 golfers, captained by Hugo B, went over to Wellington College to take part in the Independent Schools Golf Association inaugural competition, competing for the Junior Salver.
After a nervous start in the morning, all the golfers went out and played excellently in the afternoon round where the team battled up the leaderboard to finish 10th out of 16 schools.
Olly M was our star player on the day and he finished 7thout of 66 players.
Next weekend our girls and boys will compete at Cambridge Lakes in the local schools competition so there are plenty of opportunities to develop on the great results we are already seeing.


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Home News Adult library usage falls 'significantly' across all groups
Adult library usage falls 'significantly' across all groups
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There has been a "significant decrease" in the proportion of adults who engage with public libraries across all demographic groups for the first time since...
There has been a "significant decrease" in the proportion of adults who engage with public libraries across all demographic groups for the first time since records began.
A report on public library engagement commissioned by the government department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has revealed that 33.4% of adults had visited a public library in the year April 2015 to March 2016, down from 33.9% a year earlier, and down from 48.2% in 2005/06. The report revealed there has been a "significant decline" in the proportion of adults who used a public library in all individual English regions since 2005/06, when records began, with the South East region seeing the largest decline, from 51% in 2005/06 to 31.9% in 2015/16.
The research also found that the gap between ethnic groups using libraries is increasing, with a higher proportion of adults from BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) groups using a library in the year April 2015 to March 2016, than adults from the white ethnic group (45.6% compared with 31.6%). The divide reflects a "significant" decrease in the proportion of adults from the white ethnic group using public libraries since 2013/14, while the proportion of BAME adults using libraries has remained stable.
Library visits by adults in the five most deprived areas in England has remained "reasonably stable", the report revealed. However, the proportion of adults using public library services in the least deprived areas has dropped from 46.3% in 2009/10 to 31.4% in 2008/9.
Many campaigners have attributed the decline in usage to the widespread closures of many libraries in England. A recent investigation into library closures by the BBC revealed that a total of 343 libraries have closed in the last six years, with a future 111 closures planned this year. This number of closures in England is higher than the government's official estimate of 110 closures.
Ian Anstice, editor of Public Libraries News, told The Bookseller that the "dramatic" fall in usage, comes as "no surprise when we have witnessed often dramatic cuts to library budgets and a disinterested government". Anstice said: "Public libraries elsewhere in the world have not faced such sharp cuts in usage - I've checked, they've fallen but not at this rate - so it's something unique to the UK and that thing is almost certainly austerity."
Laura Swaffield, chair of the Library Campaign, added: "Obviously it's significant that this period has seen a catastrophic decline in the number of libraries, and big cuts affecting service quality. So a decline in usage is no big surprise. It's also significant that usage is holding up better among those who need libraries most - unemployed people, deprived communities, BAME communities."
"All the same, we badly need to get a grip. The destruction is intensifying. The DCMS does nothing to help, Arts Council England (ACE) is the wrong body to cover libraries, the Libraries Taskforce has no sense of urgency...Some library services are booming. We urgently need to see what they are doing right."
Desmond Clarke, library campaigner, told The Bookseller that new libraries minister Rob Wilson needs to ask the Libraries Taskforce and those responsible for managing and developing the service "what are they actually doing to reverse the decline which should be at the very top of their agenda". He added: "For those responsible for the service to continue to ignore the crisis is unacceptable."
BBC local radio stations are helping to raise the profile of libraries by partnering with them to create "one of the biggest book clubs in the country", which it hopes will encourage both reading and boost visits to the venues. Meanwhile, libraries are also tapping into the Pokemon Go trend to increase visitors.
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Library usage falls nearly 30% since 2005
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A Truffle from Pembrey Country Park ! This is the third species of truffle collected from Pembrey. This one is a 'true' truffle , one of the ascomycete family rather than a 'false' truffle, a basidiomycete. From the Kew book on truffles, I made this to be Tuber dryophila but sent one specimen to Carol Hobart in Sheffield as she has a particular interest in 'truffles'. She says there is at present some confusion about some species and it could be T maculatum. She is getting molecular (DNA) studies done bit by bit on specimens she has so in time a correct name can be given to this find. I did not have to dig for it as there were two close together on the soil surface --- looking like small pebbles. Both had holes where insects had burrowed in to have a meal. These did not have a strong smell.
So how did you find this, and the other two species of truffle in Pembrey Philip? Have you got a pet pig to snuffle them out for you? I thought they were underground fruiters.
I'm sure I've seen the second one in a box of chocolates!
Bruce, Colin ---- if you think something on soil surface looks like a pebble/snail-shell but isn't, it could be a truffle species. Had one while weeding my small front garden / one collected by Emma Chin on a track in Pembrey Country Pk very soon after starting a 'fungus-walk' one October. One collected by a visiting mycologist at Llyn-Llech-Owain as this had been left on a conifer stump by a squirrel. You can dig, but I've had no luck !!!!


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Overcoming Web3 Bias
How to navigate strange new paradigms that could change everything—unless they don't.
by Nathan Baschez
It's brutal out there
Author's Note: This was written in the Fall of 2021, near the height of the most recent crypto boom. The mood then was very different then than it is now, but the ideas are as interesting and important as ever (in my humble opinion, lol). In fact, it's perhaps even more useful to revisit web3 hype now, since we have a bit more emotional distance from the price swings.
Lately I've been teetering between fascination and disgust with regard to web3.
Some days I feel like the holy trinity of NFTs, DAOs, and DeFi might replace the very foundation that society rests on. Other days it feels like 90% vaporware and Ponzi schemes that collectively emit more CO2 than a medium-sized country.
The challenge, as I see it, is to hold both of these ideas at once.
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But this essay isn't about web3. Instead, it's about how to deal with things like web3: strange new paradigms that could change everything—unless they don't.
Paradigms are models of the world. They tell us what's out there, how it all fits together, how it works, what's broken, and what to do next. New paradigms gain adherents when they promise a better future based on a different model of the world, and they grow as their models is proven to work—i.e. generate results for adherents. Religions, ideologies, technologies, and fads are all examples of paradigms.
Battles between new and old paradigms are like swamps where reason goes to die. They are the mind-killers. Snags in the universe destined to stymie our best efforts at linear, harmonious, predictable progress. They divide us into faith-based groups that disdain and even despise one another. Neutrality becomes nearly impossible as you approach the fray.
The reasons for this are as follows:
New paradigms don't work that well at first (how could they?)
Sometimes they never become important (remember 360º video?)
Sometimes they end up changing everything (remember the internet?)
The bigger the shift, the harder it is to wrap your head around (e.g. did you know time is relative to speed??)
The more you learn about a new paradigm, the more likely you are to believe in it (thanks to the "mere-exposure effect" and "consistency bias").
Also thanks to these cognitive biases, most new paradigms seem wacky at first, so you'll resist taking them seriously (though this effect tends to be weaker if you're younger).
If you wait to learn and act until the new paradigm is working perfectly, it's probably too late (e.g. Nokia and smartphones).
On the other hand, if you go all-in on a paradigm that ends up failing, you could waste a lot of time and money (e.g. spending $600k on a beanie baby).
The stakes in the short-run of making a correct assessment of a new paradigm are often low, so we align ourselves based on social incentives—what's best for our status with the ingroup—rather than accuracy (e.g. new paradigms can easily become crony beliefs).
In a paradigm culture war, it's tempting for fence-sitters like me to quote Yeats and bemoan the best lacking all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. We get fixated on the hucksters and haters profiting off the disruption. But actually, I think attitude polarization is a necessary and inevitable part of any paradigm shift. And overall I'd rather live in a society capable of change than one that isn't.
All innovation is based on faith. The motivation to start building a new way has to come from somewhere, and as any inventor will gladly tell you, it ain't reason. It comes from a hunch. People within the bubble of the paradigm rely on shared faith and social rewards to keep going even when things get hard. This might look annoying from outside of the bubble, but from a macro perspective, I'm glad it happens. I'm glad there are millions of people pouring everything they've got into a new way of organizing society. Even if it might not live up to everything they hope it will be.
The problem is, what to do if you're feeling anxious about your place in the paradigm culture wars.
If you're excited to join the new paradigm but you're worried you'll look like a fool if it all comes to naught: don't worry about it and dive in! My only advice would be to focus on building, and keep the "collecting" / "investing" to what you can easily afford to lose. (And, as always, don't be a judgy jerk to people who think differently from you.)
If you honestly don't care about the new paradigm, but you're worried the world will pass you by and it could cost you dearly, I have good news: these things take a lot of time. If we look back at previous paradigm shifts like the PC, internet, and mobile, it's clear that it created a lot of new opportunities and killed some old ones, but for the most part everyone ended up OK. People get new jobs. The only thing I would say is: don't judge the new paradigm by the loudest voices. It's far more interesting to learn about the fundamentals than it is to listen to the hype men. (And, as always, don't be a judgy jerk to people who think differently from you.)
Whether you're a believer or not, the root cause of most mistakes people make when dealing with new paradigms comes down to two things: fear and arrogance. We fear we'll miss out, that we'll fail, or that we'll be judged and rejected. And when we're not afraid, we're arrogant. We think the new thing is obviously bullshit, or obviously amazing, and it decreases our attachment to the actual truth.
When dealing with a new paradigm, reason has its limits. The best strategy is to embrace curiosity, and don't worry too much.
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Wonderful article. Do you have any web3 fundamentals resource recommendations? Thanks.
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Ethan W.L. – The Pink House
1.5.22 by Matty McPherson
It's early January and new things are afloat everywhere. We turn our attention to Seattle, WA, headquarters of the esteemed Drongo Tapes operation setting up for their 47th release and 1st of the 2023 season. What's this? They're asking us to turn our attention to the Green Mountain State, Vermont, for a selection and smattering of selections from a film entitled the Inventor Crazybrains and the Girl Called Bird, aka "The Pink House?" Color me intrigued, Drongo, color me intrigued.
Ethan W.L. is a sizable portion of "the big nest" recording project, although Ethan set out for Vermont in 2021 to help film and compose a score for an independent feature. And lo and behold, he brings a series of riches and "film appropriate" American primitive guitar finger picking back not just for the silver screen, but for our own home listening. No such thing exists in the big nest catalog, partially because Ethan really had not pivoted with such devotion into playing acoustic guitar. The acoustic was acquired last year at a thrift shop, and that which became a catalyst for a series of sonic explorations deeper into folk, bluegrass, and blues music that the big nest catalog has yet to feature.
The Pink House does have function as the film soundtrack it was composed for; in particular humongous pieces like Bird that seemed designed for room tone droning and Nora's House, which has rustle and bustle, is reminiscent of the ambient dread that Marble Hornets had tapped into over a decade back. As well as his first two pieces, "I Will Rise" and "The Pink House" that amply build off Traditional Melodies, while checking the boxes of someone creating motif-oriented, thematic musics. "Ompompanoosuc" is a piano piece that lets its notes often breath and reverberate as a balance from the guitar, while also serving to highlight an emotionally broad moment. Yet, the decision to provide these pieces, especially in their placement, gives Ethan's exploration more resonance. It feels as much a document of personal discovery and tribulation to a tradition that found him, begets over an hour of jams and fingerpicking that could become your own winter delight. And therein lies what makes this sudden shocker of a release, only seven days into the year mind you, such a delight.
The few big nest-esque moments come near the end, and leading to them is a humongous trove of stunners. And without traditional percussive, Ethan's ability to pull tenacious thumps out of the guitar give each track robustly rudimentary pace and melody. character that savors long after the campfire. The harmonic razor-fingery loops of "Mad River Lament" present one such dance. Meanwhile, rustic blues that peek through the chords of "Appalachian Gap". The yearning, steadfast run of "Indian Love Call" that paces itself in adding small surprises and a tempo kick that feels of it is detailing a small tumble. The process is often similar between the cuts, but the change in tuning and reference points give a flair.
Perhaps it's best documented and captured on White River Rag's. The dilatory pacing harkens to a sweet spot between High Aura'd's works for Unifactor and Astral Editions, as much as the blues traditions that 75 Dollar Bill can be tethered to. The tracks incorporates a spectral drone that hits akin to a low winter sun coming through beams in the house, before finding a galloping pace that giddies-up with finesse. It still drops out of a shock, coming back in more ragged glory during its finale. And there, I'm left more curious than ever as to when the big nest is incorporating acoustic guitar into its field of vision.
Edition of 75 available at Drongo Tapes' Bandcamp
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Biographie

FitzGerald est né au 19, Lower Mount Street à Dublin le . Il est le fils du révérend William Fitzgerald et de sa femme Anne Francis Stoney. À la naissance de George, son père était professeur de philosophie morale au Trinity College à Dublin et vicaire à l'église St Anne sur Dawson Street. En 1857, il quitte Dublin avec sa famille pour occuper un poste en région. George revient à Dublin à l'âge de 16 ans et est accepté au Trinity College. Il y devient fellow en 1877 et y fera sa carrière au complet.

Avec Oliver Lodge, Oliver Heaviside et Heinrich Hertz, FitzGerald est l'un des physiciens les plus en vue des Maxwellians qui révisent, prolongent, éclaircissent et confirment les théories mathématiques de James Clerk Maxwell sur l'électromagnétisme pendant les années 1870 et 1880. En 1883, en se basant sur les équations de Maxwell, FitzGerald suggère un appareil pour produire des courants électriques à oscillations rapides, lesquels créent des ondes électromagnétiques. Ce phénomène est démontré expérimentalement en 1888 par Hertz.

FitzGerald est connu pour sa  dans sa courte lettre à l'éditeur de Science, George Francis FitzGerald. En 1889, il publie le court article  où il avance que tous les objets en mouvement se raccourcissent selon la direction de leur déplacement, qui explique certains résultats de l'expérience de Michelson-Morley. Pour parvenir à ce résultat, FitzGerald s'est en partie appuyé sur la façon dont les forces électromagnétiques sont perturbées par le mouvement. Il s'est entre autres appuyé sur quelques équations qu'Oliver Heaviside venait de publier. Le physicien Hendrik Lorentz explore les mêmes concepts en 1892 et met au point les transformations de Lorentz, cadre conceptuel plus vaste, pour expliquer le comportement des électrons. L'hypothèse de la contraction de FitzGerald-Lorentz deviendra une partie essentielle de la relativité restreinte telle que publiée par Albert Einstein en 1905.

FitzGerald a régulièrement souffert de maladies du système digestif. Il est mort chez lui le , le lendemain de l'opération d'un ulcère.

FitzGerald est aussi le neveu de George Johnstone Stoney, physicien irlandais qui a proposé le mot « électron ». Lorsque ces particules sont découvertes par Joseph John Thomson et Walter Kaufmann en 1896, FitzGerald propose ce terme.

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Liens externes

  J. M. D. Coey, Millenium Trinity Monday Memorial Discourse
  Lettres de la Royal Dublin Society (collection numérisée de plus de 2000 lettres envoyées par et reçues par FitzGerald)

Naissance en août 1851
Décès en février 1901
Physicien irlandais du XIXe siècle
Membre de la Royal Society
Lauréat de la médaille royale
Décès à 49 ans
Personnalité inhumée au cimetière de Mount Jerome

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ADI.Clinic is a simple format. Founders book 20 minutes online to talk to a bunch of angel investors about their idea or startup. They will listen and give honest feedback, maybe suggest next steps, or make connections with others who may be able to help. The sessions are free format, more like a chat, not about pitching. This post covers the early days, our initial traction, some interesting reactions.
Back in 2013, David Russel, Nick Shewring and Rudi Bublitz decided that not enough was being done to help startups get off the ground and steer a healthy course on their challenging journey towards growth and overseas markets. Cut a long story short, David and I put in time and Nick promptly threw in some free space at BizDojo.
Here the BizDojo blog announcing our first Ⓐngelic Ⓓrop Ⓘn.
The response was overwhelming, coming initially only from Dojo residents and other founders in the startup ecosystem who already knew David and me from before. We had expected only the occasional angelic chat and thought we'd mostly hang out at the Dojo, in those days in the Ironbank Building, and make good use of free office, coffee, and WiFi. NOT SO. From June 2013 onwards, David and I would, every Thursday afternoon, play a double act, not partners in crime, not dragons to dread, but angels with advice. From that first Thursday onwards, we have had four to six booked sessions most weeks, except of course during the Xmas break.
Massey's ecentre very quickly started sending their founders along to get another perspective from the guys at the Angelic Drop In. That was incredibly encouraging because until then we had had virtually no contact with the entrepreneurs from the ecentre. David and I were Ice Angels at the time and figured that our IA-hat had gotten in the way. So when the IA's manager at the Icehouse saw our traction and invited us to run this under the ICEHOUSE brand, we kindly declined.
Because ADI is independent and is not looking to generate consulting or other income from the advice our referrals come from a wide range of entrepreneurial programs such as ecentre, ICEHOUSE, Microsoft Innovation Challenge, Lightning Lab, SODA, Unitec, Startup Weekend,  or Velocity (formerly Spark). Referrals also come from companies such as ASB, Deloitte, Everedge IP, EY, KPMG, PwC, or Three Sixty Capital Partners.
David Russell took a job with NZTE in San Francisco almost exactly at the first anniversary. He has carried on joining in as a mentor by Google Hangout from time to time. Thankfully, the void he left in NZ has been filled by many very competent mentors so that we can have from one to four mentors on any given day. More mentors is more fun for the mentors and offers founders different perspectives.
Karl von Randow, Claudia Wyss, Jai Somaratne, Lachlan Sloan, Kate Turska, Daniel Burrill, Josh Comrie, Tim Warren, James Hoseason, Rodger Howie, John Newton, Arron Patterson, Simeon Burnett, Christine Reeve, Dale Shaw, Glen Harris, Paul Trotter, Sanjay Ram, Stu Christie, Charlie James, Katheren Leitner.


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Difficulty in Bastionland
Electric Bastionland doesn't have modifiers, difficulty classes, or many of the mechanics that other games use to differentiate between an easy task and a hard task.
There are other ways to make vaulting over a garden fence feel different to scaling a brick wall crowned with barbed wire.
Difficult sleeping conditions
This ties in nicely to a little manifesto I've been working on. As discussed previously, I'm now working on Bastionland full-time, so I wanted to have a set of guidelines that I can use to focus my thinking. Something I can draw on if I'm ever stuck on a difficult decision.
That will be its own post further down the line, but one part feels relevant here:
Distillation Method
Replace multiple rolls with one roll
Replace rolls with interesting decisions
Replace modifiers with dice variation
Replace mechanical effects with diegetic effects
Like all methods, this isn't the answer to everything. You could boil everything down until there are no rolls, no mechanics, everything is diegetic, but that isn't the goal here. It's about carefully considering every new rule and roll that you include in the game and questioning whether it's justifying its own weight.
A Note on Diegesis
For the unfamiliar, diegetic content is something that exists within the fiction of the piece. Film music is the classic example. The radio playing in the background is diegetic, the orchestral film score that only the audience can hear is non-diegetic. Emmy talked about this over on her blog. Essentially I want the conversation at the table to be mostly about what's happening to our characters in their world, not the mechanics of the numbers on our sheets and rules in our books. As Emmy explained, it's not always a case that diegetic = good and non-diegetic = bad. I use non-diegetic elements in Bastionland (Ability Scores, HP, Damage) but I'd like to keep the focus elsewhere.
Grappling a giant octopus is difficult because it has eight arms with vicious suckers, not because it has 5 HD, an innate +5 to grapple and the "multi-arm-combat" feat
It ties into another point in my manifesto.
Rules are False Idols
Use dice mechanics and technical terminology as little as possible. Numbers are not the answer, and wherever possible plain speech is preferred.
It's a bit overwrought but these are intended to keep me on track, so it pays to be a little heavy-handed when it comes to self-disciple. I find the temptation with game design is to add complexity to simple things and simplify complex things until you inevitably end up in the middle ground. I want to make a deliberate effort to make simple games with lots of flavour. That's my place on the spectrum, and I love it here.
So onto the main point of this post.
Variable Difficulty in Electric Bastionland
Even without the traditional mechanical tricks, there are a number of ways to make certain tasks feel more difficult than others.
What about adding in D&D 5e style Advantage/Disadvantage as a House Rule?
No! This is a good example of a rule that adds very little complexity, and might seem like an easy add-on, but really it goes against the spirit of the game. The exclusion of mechanical difficulty variation was a deliberate choice to move the game's focus away from chasing mechanical advantages, and more towards diegetic conversation as detailed above. I can't stop people adding this rule into their hacks of the game, but I'd strongly advise trying some other methods first.
Instead, if you think the players would be facing a significant advantage or disadvantage to their roll, consider the following. This advantage/disadvantage could come from the situation being especially favourable/unfavourable or from them making especially clever/foolish preparations.
No single one of these fits all situations, so think of them like options on your tool belt.
If the situation is safely in their favour, or the risk has been minimised, does this even need to be a roll? Reward them for their good planning and fortuitous circumstances and just let it happen. Using the brick wall example, if the players take time to pin footholds in place and support each other with rope then there's no need to call for a roll.
Enhanced Success
There's still a risk, so the roll remains, but if they can pull it off then the rewards will be much greater. Imagine the players are trying to get inside a family crime syndicate. They've spent a bunch of money on a charm offensive, trying to get in with the big boss at a fancy ball. On a fail he'll still see through your scheme, but if you pass then maybe you've gone beyond just making a contact. Maybe he's thinking of ushering you directly into the inner circle.
Lower Risk
As a flip-side to the above, some advantages act as a safety net. If the risk is completely removed then there's no need for a roll, but this assumes that there are still consequences for failure. If you've donned an appropriate disguise for your attempt to infiltrate a library then when you're caught by the night watchman you may be sent on your way as a wayward student, rather than than hauled into the cells for interrogation as a spy.
Barrier to Entry
Sometimes the situation is so bad that you can tell the players "no, this won't work" and start to discuss alternatives. It may be that they need to find a new way to approach this obstacle or maybe abandon it entirely. If your rival has drenched the cliff-face you were hoping to scale with slippery oil then it may be completely inaccessible. Either find a way to disperse the oil or take another route entirely.
Mixed Success
On a good day a success may have meant you breeze past this obstacle, but here the situation is so bad that even at-best you're only going to get a mixed success. A farmhand from Deep Country on their first day in Bastion could be masquerading as a legal clerk, but they're never going to convince the judge that they're a fully qualified solicitor. They might just muddle by for long enough to get one piece of the information they need before being ushered away.
Increased Risk
Again, the reverse of the above. Leaping over pits is a tired dungeon-crawling example, but I think it works here. Failing to leap over a ten-foot deep pit might cause d8 damage on a fall. Replace that with a thirty foot plummet into grinding machinery and I think it's a fair situation to bring out the fabled Save-or-Die. Note that I would only bring out instant death as a consequence when you've hammered the point home to the players that this is a Save or Die situation, and they're under no obligation to go through with the action. These are the sort of consequences I want players to choose to meddle with, not something I'd spring on them in the general course of play.
But before you use any of these...
Don't underestimate how much can be covered by a regular old roll. If the situation warrants you calling for a Saving Throw then you don't need to over-complicate matters. Sometimes it's just a STR Save. Electric Bastionland is meant to play differently to a game where the GM sets target numbers and applies seven +2 and -2 modifiers to the roll. It's fast, it's simple, and remember that the tools above should only be used as a response to exceptionally good/bad planning from the players or beneficial/harmful factors coming from the world around them. They should only be used with the goal of creating interesting decisions or and encouraging clever play.
Let their decision to swim into the belly of the whale be the death of them, but have them blame themselves, not the whale.
Note on Transparency
I'd always advise being open with your players about the difficulty of the task. It can feel dissatisfying to think a situation is in your favour, ace the roll, and then face a mixed success as the result. One of the mantras in Bastionland is "If in doubt, give more information than you might think" and it's crucial to the methods discussed above.
Labels: Difficulty, Electric Bastionland, mechanics
Ray Otus 26 March 2020 at 15:36
Love the thoughts here. I'm not sure I'm convinced by your use (or Emmy's) of the word diegetic, but that's some linguistic pedantry for another day. :) My favorite bit was about the tendency of designers to simplify complexity and "complexify" (yeah, I made up a word, sue me) simplicity until you effectively end up with a giant amorphous blob of design mashed potatoes.
James 27 March 2020 at 02:25
This is slightly tangential to the post, but lately my dumb designer brain has been mulling over an 'investigation roll' to buttress the information pillar of the ICI doctrine.
Something like, when you poke or prod at a situation with your physique/finesse/words, you roll the save, pass means you learn something helpful, fail means you learn something ominous.
Obviously it stems from my background with narrative games and takes away from the 'decisions not rolls' philosophy, but I find that I often need a framing device to help me come up with that precious information.
Assuming the GM hasn't prepped all there is to know about the trap/situation, is there a better (odder) approach to investigation, you think?
Cavegirl 27 March 2020 at 06:46
I don't see why you'd tie it to a character stat. Furthermore, tying it to whether a *character* succeeds feels like it breaks the sense that the world already exists outside of the players' actions, which this style of game often relies on.
If you don't know the answer to a PC question, then either roll on a pre-written random table (I like 'I search the body/I loot the room' tables for this reason) or just make some shit up.
This is, of course, my take on it and not necessarily representative of Chris's views.
That makes a lot of sense! I think one of the behaviors I have to relearn is to interrogate the environment as an objective construct before interrogating the temperament/relationships of the PCs. The games I come from seem to do it the opposite way, and that seems like a mind boggling distinction within the hobby (to me, anyway).
So the answer was staring me in the face under 'actions the PCs don't have control over'. Luck rolls are the perfect format for this kind of content framing. After that, we've got content generation tables of the kind you describe, search/loot. Then we're into the Choice part of things.
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Keyword-based image color re-rendering is a convenient way to enhance the color of images. Most methods only focus on the color characteristics of the image while ignoring the semantic meaning of different regions. We propose to incorporate semantic information into the color re-rendering pipeline through semantic segmentation. Using semantic segmentation masks, we first generate more accurate correlations between keywords and color characteristics than the state-ofthe- art approach. Such correlations are then adopted for rerendering the color of the input image, where the segmentation masks are used to indicate the regions for color rerendering. Qualitative comparisons show that our method generates visually better results than the state-of-the-art approach. We further validate with a psychophysical experiment, where the participants prefer the results of our method.


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It's nearly 150 years since Malcolm Dunn, Head Gardener to several members of the Irish and Scottish nobility, described grapes as "the most noble and challenging of fruits…". You can imagine him, weathered and worn, leaning on his spade as he regards a row of withered vines and shakes his head in despair.
Little is known about Dunn now, but many of today's grapegrowers and winemakers would agree with him about the fascinating complexities of viticulture. Jill Glenn meets Simon and Natalie Tooley who are rising to the challenge at their Hertfordshire vineyard.
Natalie was completely on side from the start, though. If she's ever questioned the wisdom of Simon's ambitions, she's not admitting. She, like he, is totally committed to the venture. When they began, Natalie was working full-time as a fashion designer, and had her own design business on the side too. It's evident that they're both very driven people. Although she no longer works full-time away from Frithsden she continues to design (her clothing range Calla Lily is available in the vineyard shop, along with the wine, plus other local produce and classy gifts) and manages the business.
It was when Simon moved to Berkhamsted to live with and marry Natalie that his long-held dream began, slowly, to come to fruition. His first action was to acquire an allotment and plant 60 vines – an improvement on the three in his London garden, but only ever a temporary solution.
He and Natalie literally stumbled into their new life one Sunday afternoon. Out for a walk, they were looking for the neighbourhood vineyard (there had been one on the site since 1971) in the hope of a tour and a tasting – and were highly disappointed to discover that Peter and Anne Latchford had stopped production and pulled up the vines three or four years previously. They fell into conversation with the Latchfords… and learned that the couple were considering selling the plot: they felt too old to stay in such a remote spot, and the land was going to waste.
The following month Simon and Natalie offered to buy both the house and the land. The Latchfords were startled, even incredulous, but glad to sell to a couple whose intention was to run it as a vineyard.
The empty land gave Simon the advantage of a clean slate, and perhaps a little reassurance with the knowledge that vines had grown well here before. And it is an idyllic location. As you stand at the top of the slope and look over the neat rows to the valley beyond it is breathtakingly beautiful.
It has been, of course, a massive learning curve. Not only did Simon have minimal experience, he doesn't even have the sort of background that one necessarily associates with vine-growing: when he and Natalie bought Frithsden he was working as a television cameraman, a job he initially maintained, full-time, along the equally full-time task of setting up the vineyard and the winery. It made life easier to be able to rely on a salary in the early, scary days… but I get the impression he didn't have much sleep. Or much free time. It was only last year that he gave up the permanent BBC position, although he continues with occasional camera work on a freelance basis. He's scheduled to do some filming for Never Mind The Buzzcocks this autumn, but he knows now that he can fit that around the vine-growing calendar, and that a steady stream of wine is on its way.
Output has increased year on year. In 2007 there was a small harvest, and, in defiance of received wisdom that they shouldn't make wine from it, they went ahead with the vinification process and produced 400 bottles. It was a useful experience, Natalie explains, gently breaking them in for 4,000 bottles in 2008, and 5,000 in 2009. Having increased the planted area, they anticipate 10,000 bottles from the 2010 harvest.
Simon chose to grow hybrid vines, on the basis that they are now sufficiently developed to produce good-tasting wine, and have the advantage of being largely disease-resistant. The pure vine (vitis vinifera) is still popular in England, but it's prone to diseases such as mildew, which require regular spraying with sulphur: expensive and time-consuming. So far his judgement has been proved correct: his white grapes have rarely needed to be sprayed, and he has only occasionally had to attend to the red.
He grows four varieties (the names of which are likely to be unfamiliar unless you are a fan of English wines, but which thrive on these soils): Solaris, Phoenix and Seyval Blanc – all whites – and Rondo, a red from which he produces rosé wine. Solaris was very new to the market when he chose it (how brave!) but grows well in Switzerland and Scandinavia, and has proved to be a great choice: it ripens in mid-September, with enough sugar content to produce a 13-14% alcohol wine – "and it tastes lovely", Simon adds. I can agree with that. Sitting outside the winery on a sunny summer's evening, sipping a glass of Solaris, you could be in any wine-growing region of Europe, imbibing a more-than-respectable local vintage.
Living at Frithsden has brought them close to the natural world. Last winter, for example, they looked out in the snow one evening to see eight or ten deer walking up their drive, eating the holly. Just the evening before I was there Simon had come across two stags – "complete with antlers" – peering into the greenhouse adjacent to their vegetable patch. It sounds incredibly romantic and amusing, but he confesses his reaction generally runs to "Oh God, not them again…". The deer have destroyed walnut trees, all but killed the plum trees, even eaten their strawberries – and, of course, nibbled the vines. There's not much he can do. Anti-deer fencing costs thousands.
For a man who has succumbed to the mad lure of a lifetime's dream, Simon is nevertheless practical and pragmatic, and resolute in the face of adversity. It's a physically demanding life, too, and there's always something to do, even after the harvest when everyone thinks there's nothing going on. One vine can take 20' to prune, for example. That occupies a lot of winter. Apart from harvest, when he's helped by a crowd of volunteers, he works the land alone.
He's happy though, with how it's all panning out. "I do love it, I do absolutely love it… but it's not the idyllic lifestyle you imagine." There are plenty of sleepless nights; there are long, long hours; there are natural challenges – the weather, the deer and the rabbits – and there are man-made ones – the law, the commercial demands of the business.
"I thought I'd just plant vines, make wine and sell it," he says. Perhaps it hasn't been quite as straightforward as that… but essentially that's what he's done.
Frithsden Vineyard is open to the public for vineyard tours, wine-tasting and sales: Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 11am to 6pm, and at other times by appointment.
Email info@frithsdenvineyard.co.uk for more info.


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Brian P. Simpson, Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle, Volume I: Integrating Theory and Practice (Macmillan, 2014).
Brian P. Simpson, Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle, Volume II: Remedies and Alternative Theories (Macmillan, 2014).
History (all categories)
Anne Marie Wolf, Juan de Segovia and the Fight for Peace: Christians and Muslims in the Fifteenth Century (Notre Dame, 2014).
Philosophy: General and History of
Michael T. Ferejohn, Formal Causes: Definition, Explanation, and Unity in Socratic and Aristotelian Thought (Oxford, 2014).
Richard Holub, Nietzsche's Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism (Princeton, 2015).
Armand Marie Leroi, The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science (Viking, 2014).
Roger Scruton, The Soul of the World (Princeton, 2014).
Scott Soames, Analytic Philosophy in America and Other Historical and Contemporary Essays (Princeton, 2014).
Scott Soames, The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Volume 1 (Princeton, 2014).
Bernard Williams, Essays and Reviews, 1959-2002 (Princeton, 2014).
Edouard Machery, Philosophy within Proper Bounds (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Philosophy: Epistemology (including Moral Epistemology)
Jennifer Church, Possibilities of Perception (Oxford, 2013).
Bart Streumer, Unbelievable Errors: An Error Theory about All Normative Judgments (Oxford University Press 2017)
Philosophy: Meta-Ethics, Ethics, Philosophical Anthropology, Applied Ethics
Neera Badhwar, Well-Being: Happiness in a Worthwhile Life (Oxford, 2014).
Mark LeBar, The Value of Living Well (Oxford, 2013).
Gregory Mellema, Complicity and Moral Accountability (Notre Dame, 2016)
Daniel Russell, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics (Cambridge, 2013).
James Stacey Taylor, The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death: New Essays (Oxford, 2013).
Steven Gimbel, Isn't That Clever: A Philosophical Account of Humor and Comedy (Routledge, 2018)
Christian B. Miller, The Character Gap: How Good Are We? (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide (Princeton University Press, 2017)
Bongrae Seok, Moral Psychology of Confucian Shame: Shame of Shamelessness (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Linda Zagzebski, Exemplarist Moral Theory (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind/Biology/Psychology
Hilary Rose and Steven Rose, Genes, Cells, and Brains: The Promethean Promises of the New Biology (Verso, 2014).
Jennifer Greenwood, Becoming Human: The Ontogenesis, Metaphysics, and Expression of Human Emotionality (MIT Press, 2016)
Philosophy: Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law
Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan R. Cole, Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom? (Columbia, 2015)
Thom Brooks and Martha Nussbaum ed., Rawls's Political Liberalism (Columbia, 2015)
Chad Flanders and Zachary Hoskins, The New Philosophy of Criminal Law (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
Harry G. Frankfurt, On Inequality (Princeton, 2015)
Gerald Gaus, The Tyranny of the Ideal: Justice in a Diverse Society (forthcoming, Princeton, 2016).
Philip Pettit, Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World (Norton, 2014).
Flemming Rose, The Tyranny of Silence (Cato Institute, 2016)
Alfred Moore, Critical Elitism: Deliberation, Democracy, and the Problem of Expertise (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
David Riesbeck, Aristotle on Political Community (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Political Science: American Politics (and related social science)
Political Science: Comparative Politics/Area Studies
John Judis, Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014).
Political Science: International Relations, Security Studies
Stephen Coleman, Military Ethics: An Introduction with Case Studies (Oxford, 2013).
Daniel Cunningham, Sean Everton, and Philip Murphy, Understanding Dark Networks: A Strategic Framework for the Use of Social Network Analysis (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
Robert Greenwald, Unmanned: America's Drone Wars (film)
Phil Gurski, The Threat from Within: Recognizing Al Qaeda-Inspired Radicalization and Terrorism in the West (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016).
Avery Plaw, Matthew S. Fricker, and Carlos Colon, The Drone Debate: A Primer on the U.S. Use of Unmanned Aircraft Outside Conventional Battlefields (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016).
Political Science: Theory
Lauren K. Hall, Family and the Politics of Moderation: Private Life, Public Good, and the Rebirth of Social Individualism (Baylor University Press, 2014).
Josiah Ober, The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece (Princeton, 2015).
Timothy Sandefur, The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty (Cato, 2014).
Edwin van de Haar, Degrees of Freedom: Liberal Political Philosophy and Ideology (Transaction, 2015).
Stephen P. Hinshaw and Richard Scheffler, The ADHD Explosion: Myths, Medication, Money, and Today's Push for Performance (Oxford, 2014).
Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld, Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience (Basic, 2013).
Richard Saul, ADHD Does Not Exist: The Truth About Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (HarperWave 2014).
E. Fuller Torrey, American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System (Oxford, 2013).
Religious Studies and Theology
Carlos D. Colorado and Justin D. Klassen, Aspiring to Fullness in a Secular Age: Essays on Religion and Theology in the Work of Charles Taylor (Notre Dame, 2014).
David Nirenstein, Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition (W.W. Norton, 2014).
Theodore Ziolkowski, Uses and Abuses of Moses: Literary Representations since the Enlightenment (Notre Dame, 2016)
Karima Bennoune, Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism (W.W. Norton, 2014).
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THIS FREE COURSE WILL MAKE YOUR PHOTOS AWESOME. PERIOD.
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See them as large as you can.
Look at them un-cropped so you can explore the composition.
Spend a few minutes on each one, looking around, thinking about what's in the frame, what's not, and how it's lit.
The ORDER of these images is not random, and frequently adds to your exploration.
As you go back to your own photography, return periodically for another run. It will take a number of journeys through these over time to have maximal effect.
*Don't concern yourself with the artists, or titles, or subject matter, or technical specifications of camera and paper. Just look at them and see what they feel like, how light, framing, focus and time are all manipulated by the photographer, for effect. While the same set of photos might be instructive in a conversation about natural light (or photography in general) this current lesson is about composition and the way the objects are oriented in the frame. In every single case here, you could not crop or take a part of the image without killing it; they are each designed with an understanding of the external frame.
**Also, I'm not suggesting these are the 50 most important photographs in history, or the best photographs in history, or anything like that. I'm only suggesting that these images can teach you everything you need to know about taking photos.
Mostly, because I spent my whole life around this collection of photographs and it is how I learned; i didn't go to school for this. But my parents had impeccable taste and these photographs became my primary understanding of photography and i believe my photos are better for it.
In particular, the mid-century modernists (mostly in Paris) stealthily stealing images with their 35mm film cameras, created photos that are remarkably instructive to us: the lenses and vantage point and subject matter they had was similar to our wandering around with smartphones today. Many famous and beautiful photos—images created in studios, of models, of things that require special equipment or access, or whose value is simply historic or conceptual, are not going to be as instructive as these.


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Q: Draw waveform for microphone in flex, is it possible? I'm making a audio recorder with Adobe Flex (Microphone, NetStream), I want to get the current audio wave from Microphone to display in the visualization area, any idea how can i get the data?

A: You'll need to be using Flash Player 10 as I think that's the first time you actually got access to to the Microphone apis.
Then there's a simple function you can call which will get the microphone data:
private var soundBytes:ByteArray    = new ByteArray;
SoundMixer.computeSpectrum(soundBytes, false);

I usually call the computeSpectrum code in an enter frame handler and draw out the wave form from there.
Edit: I don't want to mislead you. I think the above code is for a pre-recorded audio file. If you want to user the microphone in flash 10. You do it like this:
private var _mic:Microphone;
_mid = Microphone.getMicrophone();
_mic.addEventListener( SampleDataEvent.SAMPLE_DATA, onSampleData );

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    while( event.data.bytesAvailable ){
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A perfect day in Nashville begins with bonuts, and ends with 'Girl Talk' with Lauren Alaina. Just ask Mayhem.
I grew up with a pretty interesting mix of music as the soundtrack to my childhood. Despite growing up in a very traditional lower-middle class neighborhood, my dad was the first of his family and friends to head out to live 'in the sticks' … and he took my mom with him. It was the late 1970s and, in addition to the move, he bought a pick-up truck, you know … before that was cool. And when we were riding in my dad's truck, the music was undoubtedly the likes of Charlie Daniels, Hank Williams Jr., Alabama, or George Strait. My mom, on the other hand, was all about Tina Turner, The Pointer Sisters, and neon spandex Jazzercise routines. Somehow, out of all of this, I found an appreciation for lots of different types of music, as well as pick up trucks and neon spandex (neither of which I own … you're welcome.) But a quick browsing of the music in my iTunes accounts typically raises a few eyebrows. Mayhem appreciates it though, and I'm happy to report that her taste in music is equally eclectic.
If you're reading this, chances are pretty good you've heard of the Grand Ole Opry. You know, the show that made country music famous. There are few genres of music that respect and celebrate their history in such a way, but clearly, country reigns supreme. I mean, just think about the fact that a radio show that began in 1925 is still going strong 70 plus years later, with live performances on multiple days each week. Fun fact: the performances are still streamed live via radio (650 AM WSM), opry.com, the (free)Opry app, and also on Sirius XM Satellite Radio (on Saturdays).
And not only does the Opry celebrate where it's been, but the performances clearly embrace the future of country music as well. Let me give you an idea of what I mean – on the night we visited, there were eight different artists performing: Bill Anderson, Old Dominion, Charlie Worsham, Terri Clark, Dustin Lynch, Lauren Alaina, Dailey & Vincent, and Chris Janson.
Before arriving, I hadn't realized that there would be that many different artists performing, but then it all made perfect sense! As a 'radio show', the format is that each artist comes out and performs (about) 3 songs before heading off stage for the next artist to be welcomed. So what's it like to be in the Opry House? It's like having a two hour party with 4400 of your closest friends, who all appreciate your taste in music. There will be singing. There will be dancing. There will be storytelling. There will be laughing. And there is not a bad seat in the house.
It may start off, as our show did, with a few Bill Anderson classics, and move to having Dustin Lynch announce that he'd like everyone dancing in the aisles. And when Dustin Lynch asks you to dance, you dance. Yep yep.
So we headed backstage, and got a little peek behind the scenes. By the way, Opry offers several backstage tours (daytime, post-show, and VIP) so everyone has the opportunity to see where the stars hang out and get a more in depth history of the iconic show.
And then it was time to meet Lauren.
Truth be told, Mayhem was so overwhelmed at the idea of meeting Lauren, that she couldn't hold back the tears. When Lauren entered the room, she walked in to find a sobbing Mayhem awaiting her. But being the kind and lovely southern girl that she is, she took Mayhem by the hand, walked her to the mirror, and dried her tears.
You can see the nerves (hello new nail biting habit!) were getting the best of Mayhem early on, but chatting with Lauren quickly became more fun then Mayhem could have imagined. It was all over too quickly, and the two exchanged more hugs before Lauren headed back to her own dressing room, since she was performing in a second show that night!
As for us, we had one more stop on the behind the scenes tour – the stage!
And more specifically for Mayhem, the circle.
Before the Opry found it's current home at the Grand Ole Opry House, it's home was, for many years, the historic Ryman Auditorium. And when the Opry changed venues, they took a piece of the Ryman with them – an eight-foot circle of hardwood was taken from the Ryman and placed center stage at the Opry House. It's hallowed ground for country artists and stepping into that circle is when many country artists feel they've truly 'made it'.
Massive thanks to the Grand Ole Opry for the invitation and for sponsoring this post. As always, opinions are all ours, and all honest!
I mean, I should be jealous that Mayhem found a new BFF but I honestly can't compete with Lauren Alaina—that girl is on fire! The two of them combined are just too much cuteness for me to handle.
You could never actually lose status … she was just blinded by the stars for a sec 😉 What a FUN night and how cool is Lauren?!?!
I love her dress. We are big fans of stars. Please do tell, where did you get her star dress?


The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement was concluded in December 2015. The agreement is EU's second free trade agreement with a Southeast Asian country (after Singapore) and is the most ambitious and comprehensive FTA that the EU has ever concluded with a middle-income developing country.
Statistics from the Eurostat show that Vietnam was EU's sixth largest extra-region apparel supplier in 2015 (after China, Bangladesh, Turkey, India and Cambodia), accounting for 3.5% of imports in value (or €28.0 billion) and 2.8% in volume.
The EU-Vietnam free trade agreement is expected to substantially expand Vietnam's textile and apparel exports to the EU market. On the one hand, EU's import duties on textile and apparel from Vietnam will be eliminated through a seven-year phaseout period once the agreement comes into force (see below). On the other hand, a garment made in Vietnam which contains fabrics made in South Korea or other ASEAN countries with which the EU has a free trade agreement in force will still be qualified for duty-free treatment under the agreement.
Complied based on the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement: Agreed text as of January 2016.
The legal review of the negotiated text is currently on-going and will be followed by translation into the EU's official languages and Vietnamese. The EU Commission will then present a proposal to the Council of Ministers for approval of the agreement and ratification by the European Parliament. The agreement is expected to come into force in 2018.


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Home Movies Great British Director Alan Parker Dies At 76, Gave Us "Fame," "The...
Great British Director Alan Parker Dies At 76, Gave Us "Fame," "The Commitments," "Midnight Express," "Mississippi Burning" and More
by Roger Friedman - July 31, 2020 1:15 pm
You'll realize what an impression the great British film director Alan Parker made on the culture when I tell you just that he made "Fame," a buoyant musical hit that gave birth to many top 40 hits and a hit TV series. It put the High School for Music Art Performing Arts on the map and famous all over the world. (Now it's known as LaGuardia.)
Parker has died at age 76 from a reported long illness. But his legacy lives on with "Midnight Express," "The Commitments," "Mississippi Burning" (for which Frances McDormand won her first Oscar), "Bugsy Malone," and the fine film version of William Wharton's seminal novel, "Birdy."
He also directed Madonna in "Evita," but he's forgiven. Antonio Banderas, however, was wonderful. Another ambitious project that didn't quite work was the film version of "Angela's Ashes," the great memoir by Frank McCourt. Still worth watching, however.
A kind of lost gem of performances with a Bo Goldman script was "Shoot the Moon," starring Diane Keaton and Albert Finney in a disintegrating marriage story that predates "Marriage Story" by many generations. It was far more raw and ahead of its time.
Alan Parker was nominated for two Oscars and three Golden Globes. He hadn't made a film since 2003, so he'd fallen out of the vernacular. But he's at the very top of all directors lists, and his work will live on. Condolences to his family.
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The 'Friends of Antique Art in Berlin' (precursor to today's Friends) was founded shortly before the First World War, in February 1913, thanks to the efforts of Theodor Wiegand, then director of the Antikensammlung and key initiator of the Pergamonmuseum.
After the Second World War, as most of the surviving antiquities were being gradually returned to Berlin (East and West separately), after either spending many years 'in exile' in the Soviet Union as looted art, or having their numbers greatly depleted at art collection points in the west, the great traditions of private patronage in the arts were completely extinguished in the East and out of favour in the West. It was only until 1979 that a friends group was founded to serve the Antikenmuseum in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
Immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a second association emerged in the city: the Friends of the Pergamonmuseum, set up in the interests of archaeology on the Museumsinsel as a whole. Both associations joined forces in 1998 to pool their resources in serving the Antikensammlung and Vorderasiatisches Museum. After a quarter century since its founding, the 'Friends of Antiquity' is one of the largest patron societies to support the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, with nearly 800 members. By serving the Antikensammlung and the Vorderasiatisches Museum, it is dedicated to advancing two world-class archaeological collections.
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We received the following note from the president of Robert Paul Properties: "Congratulations to this month's top real estate agents across the Robert Paul Offices on Cape Cod and in Boston on a great October! We are proud of all of you!" Do you see a familiar face?
Holly and I are grateful for a wonderful year of business already. With friends and clients we have been able to help complete over $10,000,000 in transactions. We are looking forward to continuing to finish 2018 with more successful closings.
Our clients have been looking at properties all over Cape Cod lately. Many of the buyers we have been chosen by, are not as town focused as in past years. When buyers who have over a million dollars invest or spend, look at real estate on The Cape, many more are looking for the spot and the feeling, rather than the town.
The phrase "location, location, location" has also been modified to more of "location, price, condition." As the elections next week make the future of the economy more clear, buyers are very cautious with their buying dollars. Sellers are still catching up with the idea that the market has begun to plateau.
The sellers who have chosen us this year, have all had different reasons to sell their property. Some have been families who are downsizing or upsizing, some were heirs settling estates, some were investors, and many others.
2018 should be a great year to remember, and 2019 will be a new set of events. We look forward to the future.
Congratulations to this month's top agents across our offices on a great October! We are proud of all of you!
Thank you Barbara. Next week will give us an indication of where the economy is headed.


A favourite scammer trick is to pretend that a recent lottery winner has decided to give away part of his or her winnings via the Internet.
Often, soon after a large lottery win is announced in the news, scammers will begin sending fake giveaway messages via social media, SMS, and email. The messages are supposedly sent by either the lottery winners themselves or "agents" working on their behalf.
The scammers often create fake social media profiles in the names of the lottery winners as a means of making their claims seem more legitimate. They will then distribute the giveaway scam posts via these bogus Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram profiles.
To further advance the illusion of legitimacy, the scam messages may include links to genuine news reports about the lottery wins.
Supposedly, the generous lottery winners have decided to share some of their good fortune by distributing a portion of their prize money (usually hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars) to a select group of strangers who answer an email or text message or interact with a social media post.
Some of the scam messages are designed to trick victims into sending money directly to criminals. Others are designed to promote fraudulent social media profiles or pages and trick people into divulging their personal information on scam survey websites.
But, if you do make contact, you will be told that you must send money in advance to facilitate the processing and transfer of your donation and cover various fees. The scammers will claim that these fees cannot be deducted from the donation itself and that you will forfeit the money if the fees are not quickly paid.
The scammers will continue to demand more and more fees until you realise that you are being scammed and stop sending money. After the scam has run its course, the criminals will simply disappear and you will no longer be able to contact them. And, alas, you are very unlikely to ever get back any of the money that you sent. Nor, of course, will you ever receive the promised funds, which the scammers never had to begin with.
And, to add to your troubles, the criminals may be able to steal your identity using the personal and financial information you sent them during the course of the scam.
My name is Neil Trotter a recent winner of 107.9 Million Pounds in the EuroMillion Jackpot Draw. I have decided to donate part of my win to few persons around the globe and you are lucky to be one of them. I am willing to donate (One Million Pounds) to you as part of my effort to help alleviate poverty and with this you can carter for the less privileged ones in your society. I know it is surprising for you to have received this notification at this very time but, I believe this is the right time and I will be glad if you are willing to receive this donation and help out as well.Do get back to me quickly via email.
John and Lisa Robinson won the powerball Jackpot 1.5 Billion. And he's giving everybody $50,000 who likes and shares this post! Note : Please like our page and will be winner.
These fraudulent posts are designed to promote the fake Facebook Pages to a much wider audience and substantially increase Page likes. Later scams distributed from the fake Pages will reach a considerably larger audience and thereby gain many new victims.
Alternatively, the Facebook Pages and their newly acquired likes may be sold on the black market to other scammers.
Some versions of the lottery giveaway scams also include links that lead to dodgy survey websites. Supposedly, users must visit the linked site, complete a survey, and provide their name and contact details before they will receive the promised donation.
But, any information supplied on the site will be shared with unscrupulous marketing companies who will subsequently inundate victims with unwanted emails, phone calls, text messages, and letters peddling a range of decidedly dodgy products and services.
People who win large lottery prizes are often quite generous and may well give away substantial sums to charities and those less fortunate. But, it is vastly unlikely that even the most generous lottery winner would ever randomly distribute millions of dollars to total strangers via social media posts or email.
We can put that firmly in the "not going to happen" basket.
If you receive such a message, do not respond to it.


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Effort Certification is the reporting and confirmation of an employee's time spent conducting any university activity. It is expressed as a percentage of the total institutional based salary (IBS). The university uses MAXIMUS, a third-party, online Effort Certification System located in accessUH.edu. Training documents related to Effort and the Effort Certification System are available here.
As a recipient of Federal research funding, the university is required to demonstrate that the payment of salary and wages from sponsored project funds accurately reflect the work performed. Internal controls are in place to assure that compensation for personnel services are accurate, allowable, and properly allocated to federal and non-federal sponsored activities. MAXIMUS is one such control, put in place to verify effort on sponsored projects against the university's financial system payroll.
The chart below outlines the steps, the responsible office or person, and the estimated time for completion.
Steps Responsible Office or Person Timing
Initiate the Quarterly Effort Report Office of Contracts and Grants 90 days after the last month of the quarter
Review of Effort Report and release email notification
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30 days to review
Receive email notification that effort forms are ready for review and certification Principal Investigator (PI) Within the 30 day review period
Log into AccessUH to begin review and certification Principal Investigator (PI) Within the 30 day review period after notification
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Department Business Manager May take up to 3 weeks to process
A new Effort form is generated for certification in MAXIMUS system
Principal Investigator (PI) 30 days after payroll correction at the close of the period
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Each quarter, effort reports are generated for all Principal Investigators, whether or not they are paid from sponsored project funds. For all other employees, effort reports are generated only if they are paid from a sponsored project. Principal Investigators must sign their own effort reports, as well as certify those of the individuals paid or contributing efforts on their grants.
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Institutional Base Salary (IBS) - the Federal Uniform Guidance (2 CFR Part 200) defines IBS as "the annual compensation paid by the University for an individual's appointment, whether that individual's time is spent on research, instruction, administration, or other activities." IBS excludes any income that an individual earns outside of duties performed for the university. Unless there is prior approval by the Federal awarding agency, charges of a faculty member's salary to a Federal award must not exceed the proportionate share of the IBS for the period during which the faculty member worked on the award." More Information about IBS can be found here.
The Salary Cap by Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is defined as the maximum annual rate of salary for full-time effort that can be charged to an award. Effective January 7, 2018 the Executive Level II (EL II) DHHS salary cap is $189,600 annually, an increase of $2,600 from the previous cap of $187,000. When calculating the cap for the quarter 2 reporting period, the previous maximum will be applied for 12/1/2018 – 1/6/2018; the new maximum will apply to salaries from 1/8/2018 – 2/29/2019.
To determine the salary cap threshold applicable to an individual grant, refer to the 'Issue Date' of the latest Notice of Award (NOA). Sponsors that currently utilize the DHHS salary caps or other caps are listed in the table below:
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National Institutes of Health DHHS Salary Cap
Administration for Children and Families DHHS Salary Cap
Administration for Community Living* DHHS Salary Cap
Agency for Health Care Research and Quality DHHS Salary Cap
Center for Disease Control DHHS Salary Cap
Health Resources and Services Administration DHHS Salary Cap
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Administration DHHS Salary Cap
Food and Drug Administration* DHHS Salary Cap
Sponsor - Non-Federal Cap Applied
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Cost Sharing and Matching represent that portion of the project costs not paid for by the sponsor's funds. When no portion of the salary paid to an employee contributing cost shared effort to an award is paid from grant funds, an effort report will NOT be generated and available for the PI to certify. The PI must provide OCG with the name and employee ID of any individual to which this scenario applies, so that they can be added for effort certification. When the individual is named at the proposal stage, OCG will include this information in the award setup.
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I have a passion for life and loving people is woven into the fragment of my soul.
My mother shared early on with me her love for people and skill of motivating others to help them achieve their dreams. She demonstrated to me the joy you receive when you help make people feel beautiful. I have loved helping people feel beautiful ever since. These fruits of the spirit are now a natural part of me.
I started as a little girl going to the "skin care meetings" and enjoyed the motivated, positive ladies with songs on their lips that vibrated the ceiling tiles.
My journey with skin care started then and when I was 16, I became a real consultant. I wonder if I was the youngest ever? Beauty school was the next step to having the skill to love on the folks enhancing their skin and hair. Shortly after graduating, my mother and I started a salon in Fresno which really gave us the insight of "Pampering at It's Finest". That journey lasted just enough to get our feet wet and I was off to the Northern California area where I reside today with my husband and precious children. My husband Jeff and I have been married for 23 years and have 3 wonderful children, Nathan, Meghan and Ethan.
I went back to school to receive my BSN at California State University, Chico in nursing. Nursing like loving skin and hair all relates to the joy and love of helping people. Today I work in the Mother and Baby Care Center at Enloe Hospital in Chico, California as well as assisting with Sonja Botanicals. The Sonja Botanicals Skin Care journey has been so amazing. It has been so wonderful to see the products put together in the customized regimes that make a difference in people's lives.
I love what I have been blessed to do in this life and ultimately the best part is to be a part of your life's journey. I challenge you to take part in the love of this company and the products that will enhance your life.


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Tyler Aldridge's Swing - Stop Excess Head Movement in the Golf Swing
We've had a lot of requests for Tyler Aldridge's golf swing. Tyler is one of Chuck Quinton's students who made it through all three stages of PGA Tour Qualifying School, earning full status on the nationwide tour for 2008. We're very proud of him for those accomplishments.
One of the things I worked on before each round during Qualifying School was keeping Tyler's head from moving both off the ball and back in front of the ball.
Tylor's head moves off the ball at the top, then back
As you can see in the photo series above, Tyler wants to shift off the ball just a little bit as he takes the club back. It's not substantial, but it's one of his tendencies.
When he first started out with us, Tyler was a pure upright swinger. He had his arms very steep, shoulders very flat in a very arms-dominated swing, including a big shift off the ball.
Of course, those tendencies don't go away overnight, but we flattened out his swing, got his arms on plane at the top, and got the club going back more on plane.
Now we're working on continuing to take this little bit of head movement out so he stops missing the ball to the right. If you shift off the ball and then drive forward and get back in front of that line, when you start to come back down you'll have a tendency to want to shift right back out in front of it.
Consequences: Loss of Lag, Tendency to Pull
Loss of lag
Aldridge starts to get out in front of it just a little, and it costs him a couple things. One, it tends to cause him to hit the ball out to the right just a little bit if he misses, and two, he loses a little bit of lag.
You can see the shaft starting to bow forward in the photo at left. That's pretty typical of someone who goes a little bit too hard from the top with the shoulders and gets out in front of it.
When this happens, the club will start to release a little early, you'll start to lose some lag, and as the head moves farther out in front of the ball it becomes more difficult to keep the ball coming out on line.
Tyler is a very, very straight hitter, so when he doesn't do this he hits it very, very straight.
He gets a good impact position and goes on through to a big, full release, getting just a little bit out in front of the ball. That's something we're working on.
Down the Line View
The club is outside his hands
From down the line you'll see Tyler has good spine angle and good tilt at address. His arms and club hang just below his shoulders; it's a very relaxed setup.
As he goes back, one thing he has a tendency to do is take the club a little outside and a little steep, getting the club well outside his hands. Unfortunately, this contributes to his tendency to get out in front of it and hit the outside of the ball.
We had him focus on a spot on the inside of the ball, to make sure he wasn't taking it outside and pulling it or hitting little pull cuts. This helped him strike the ball a lot more solidly.
Classic Rotary Swing Position
The club is just a little steep as Tyler continues his backswing, but he gets into a great position at the top.
You can see the classic Rotary Swing position in the photo at left. He's got the right arm just about vertical, the club face pretty well on plane, arms and shoulders on plane, good spine tilt, great shoulder plane going back; everything's in really good shape.
As he comes back down he makes a good transition move and gets the club back down on plane and into that position we talk about so much, with the shaft through the right forearm.
He's in a great position to hit the ball and, indeed, he gets into a very good impact position. The ball comes out perfectly on line and the club works to the left immediately after contact.
Shaft through right forearm
His lower body stays under control and stacked, without spinning out. He's got a solid base and doesn't let that right heel spin up or come off the ground too early.
It's a very good, controlled impact position. As he comes through the club works really hard to the left and the ball comes out perfectly on line.
This session was the fifth stage at Q-School. It was one of the days we did the most work on his swing before the round, and he hit 17 of 18 greens and all 14 fairways, so it was very productive. We look forward to a lot more big things from Tyler Aldridge.
Tyler Aldrich is an RST student who earned full status on the nationwide tour for 2008
Tyler has a tendency to move off the ball, then back in front
Getting in front of the ball can cause a loss of lag and a tendency to pull
Tyler also tends to take the club outside and get a little steep, hitting the outside of the ball
Focusing on a spot on the inside helped improve this issue
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Republican Party 'One of the Most Dangerous Political Movements In The World Today,' Boston Globe Says
The Republican Party in the United States "is actively fanning the flames of the global war on democracy," said the editorial board of The Boston Globe.
The newspaper's editorial board called on American voters not to give Republicans control of Congress – as polls suggest is likely to happen in the Tuesday, November 8 general election.
If the GOP takes control, the newspaper said, Republicans will persecute the president's son Hunter Biden, hamstring investigations into former President Donald Trump's behavior after the 2020 election, undermine the United States's support of Ukraine in its war with Russia, coddle "far right" political leaders in Europe, and fail to work with President Biden to deal with the recession "to quickly provide relief to those who need it most."
The editorial criticizes Republican candidates for questioning or failing to accept the official outcome of the 2020 presidential election. It also links many GOP candidates with the political riot and occupation of the U.S. Capitol that took place after a Trump rally on January 6, 2021.
"This iteration of the Republican Party — with its open disdain for American elections, allegiance with far-right autocratic movements, and cavalier attitude toward political violence — is one of the most dangerous political movements in the world today," the Boston Globe's editorial board said.
The editorial was updated on Sunday, November 6, according to the newspaper's web site.