Not long ago, I posted a nylon string version of the Ray Kane classic "Keiki Slack Key." Here is a similar version recorded around the same time, but on steel string guitar. Keiki Slack Key (not to be confused with the Sonny Chillingworth song of the same name) is one of the first slack key songs I transcribed, and has stayed on my setlists ever since. To me, Ray Kane is probably the best example of an 'old style' slack key player, and his tracks are always nahenahe. I never got to take a lesson from Ray, though I did get to speak to him and his wife Elodia on the phone once, not long before he passed – a cherished memory. Hope you enjoy.
Here is an improvisatory piece recorded for a project I had a few years back. The idea behind the project, called "Awake Again," was to have a handful of songs that were connected by mostly shorter and improvisatory 'transitions' that would act as both glue and palette cleanser between the slightly more structured songs. The wallpaper shows me with my old Taylor 310ce that I used to record this song. Hope you enjoy.
Recorded with a Taylor 310ce (Elixir Polyweb 80/20 Bronze) and a matched stereo pair of Shure KSM 141 microphones in Holualoa, Hawai'i, 3/16/09.
Today's song from the vaults is a cover of My Morning Jacket's "At Dawn." The song and its eponymous album came to me at a formative period, becoming both anthem and inspiration for pursing musical goals in life. Sometimes you wonder if music guides you in a certain direction, finds you at the right moment, or if you attract it when you need change and encouragement. There's a Nick Drake style intro not on the original cut, but it seemed to work. Hope you enjoy.
Recorded with a Taylor 412ce LTD (Rosewood/Spruce, strings are Elixir Nanoweb Phosphor Bronze HD gauge set) and a single Beyerdynamic MC 930 microphone in Honolulu, 9/20/14.
Elixir HD Light strings are made the same as other elixirs, but the gauge of the set is unique. Basically they married medium gauge treble strings with light gauge bass strings to find the optimal string gauge for small bodied Taylor guitars (GA/xx4 and GC/xx2).
The idea behind HD Lights is that both string tension and EQ would be more balanced across the strings, resulting in better playability and better tone.
On the high end, the thicker gauge treble strings give you more body, better definition, and improved action. The lighter bass strings keep the bass clear – it's not muddy even when you tune down. Along with the balanced EQ and improved playability, you also get a more even volume resulting in easier to control dynamics.
Andy Powers at Taylor came up with the idea for these after redeveloping the 800 series, and these strings are indeed great with the revoiced 600, 800, and 900 series GC and GA guitars. The revoiced models have a stronger, more focused bass in particular, so using lighter bass strings helps keep the low end form being overpowering or becoming muddy. The revoiced models also have a livelier top – so the lighter bass strings still have enough presence without being boomy, and the thicker trebles still have snap, but without being too thin.
Overall, their more balanced EQ coupled with more balanced string tension make HD Lights especially conducive to alternate tunings and ideal for fingerstyle guitar.
⁃	80/20 Bronze will be brighter with more zing.
⁃	Phosphor Bronze will be a little warmer with more heft or body. I prefer them for fingerstyle because of their combination of warmth, clarity, and detail.
Nanoweb vs Polyweb: HD Lights are only available in Nanoweb (as of now), which works fine for me, but prior to using this gauge I used Elixir's Polyweb strings. Though they have slightly different characteristics, I have found both Nanoweb and Polyweb coatings to produce good sounding strings.
Recorded with a Taylor 414ce-NR (Rosewood/Spruce nylon string) and a Neumann TLM 102 microphone.
Here is my Clarence White inspired arrangement of the Bluegrass classic, "Banks of the Ohio," played fingerstyle with a thumbpick (rather than flatpicked or cross-picked). I've uploaded two versions of this song: one was recorded with the Neumann TLM 102 microphone that I have been using for a while; the other features my new Ear Trumpet Labs Edwina mic. So if you're interested in how these two mics sound, this provides a comparison. The Neumann is a little bit smoother to my ear, while the Edwina has a little more clarity with a slight top end boost (though not too hyped). Both are fine microphones and I look forward to continuing to record with them both.
Both recorded with a Taylor 412ce LTD (Rosewood/Spruce, Gotoh 510 tuners, strings are Elixir Nanoweb Phosphor Bronze HD gauge set) and a Fred Kelly thumbpick.


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Q: Error on retrieve field from database using Laravel 5 Have a controller function:
public function pageedit($id)
{
    $page = Pages::where('pgeID','=',121)->get();
    return view('admin.pageedit')->with('page',$page);
}

And a simple view:
@extends('admin')

@section('content')
    @include('/partials/adminpageheader')
    Edit Page {{ $page }}
@endsection

When I run this, I get the output as follows:
Intranet Web Control Panel (Pages)
Admin Home - Admin Home Page
Edit Page
[{"pgeID":"121","pgeActive":"0","pgeContent":"1","pgeMainLevel":"6","pgeLevel":"1","pgeParent":"6","pgeOrder":"3","pgeTitle":"Employee Assistance Program","pgeHeader":"Null","pgeBody":Employee Assistance Program that all employees can access 24\/7. The website, www.assist.com has an amazing amount of information available. If you are looking for training, articles, resources and more, check them out. The use","pgeNav":null,"pgeContents":"Null","pgeCallOut":"Null","pgeEditor":"Null","pgeTitleDRAFT":"Null","pgeTemplateDRAFT":null,"pgeNavDRAFT":null,"pgeContentsDRAFT":"Null","pgeCallOutDRAFT":"Null"}]

So I know it is pulling the data correctly.  But when I try to display JUST the page title (pgeTitle) I get an undefined property error if I try {{ $page->pgeTitle }} and an undefined index error if I try {{ $page['pgeTitle'] }}
I know it has to be something simple I am forgetting, but I will be danged if I can figure out what it is. Thoughts?

A: $page is an array, where the index is numeric as far as i can tell, so you should do:
{{$page[0]->pgeTitle}}

A: Instead of using ->get() use ->first(). This will return a single instance as opposed to the collection, which is the difference between having to use an array accessor and not.
$page = Pages::where('pgeID','=',121)->first();
                                         ^
                                    first==single
                                get==array collection

A: The same answer than Taxicala, but I'd suggest you to use ->first() method instead of get, since you're looking for only 1 row.
$page = Pages::where('pgeID','=',121)->first();

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Hamilton Fish
Publisher/Editorial Director, The Washington Spectator
President, Public Concern Foundation and Washington Spectator
Former Publisher and Editorial Director, The New Republic
Former Publisher, The Nation
Former President, The Nation Institute
The Nation Institute
Nation Books
Washington Spectator
The Nation Institute Scandal
The New Republic Scandal
George Soros Adviser
Left-Wing Political Positions
Connected Organizations
Hamilton "Ham" Fish V is a liberal activist who has financially supported or published numerous liberal political journals, including The Nation, the New Republic, and the Washington Spectator. In November 2017, Fish resigned as publisher of the New Republic following allegations that he had sexually harassed female employees.[1] According to a HuffPost report, Fish had a long history of mistreating women, most notably an incident at the Nation Institute, a nonprofit supporting liberal journalistic efforts, where he had allegedly choked a female executive.[2]
Fish is generally credited with purchasing and restoring the defunct liberal publication the Nation. [3] Under his watch, the publication continued to stake out political positions "to the left of the national consensus."[4] Fish served for more than a decade as the President of the Nation Institute, a journalism-centric non-profit supporting the liberal reporters in both mainstream and openly partisan outlets.[5] After departing the Nation Institute, Fish served as publisher of The New Republic from 2016 until the allegations of his misbehavior surfaced.[6] He also served as publisher of the Washington Spectator; the magazine's website continues to refer to him in that capacity as of January 2018.[7]
Fish V has served as a political adviser to liberal billionaire and financier George Soros and a board member of Soros' Open Society Institute (now the Open Society Foundations). In 2000, he joined with left-of-center blogging magnate Arianna Huffington to produce a sponsored "shadow" convention during the 2000 Republican National Convention featuring "left-wing GOP-bashers" like Ben and Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen and comedian and future U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota).[8]
Hamilton Fish V comes from a longstanding political family: Hamilton's ancestor Nicholas Fish fought with George Washington in the American Revolution and ran for Congress in 1800 as a Federalist. His son, the first Hamilton, ran for Congress in 1842 as a Whig, served as Governor of New York,[9] and as Secretary of State to President Ulysses S. Grant.[10] Fish V's grandfather and father were both Republican U.S. Representatives, with his father representing New York until 1994. [11]
In college at Harvard, Fish became active in the movement opposing the Vietnam War. Fish dropped out of Harvard in 1971 to form the National Movement for the Student Vote to register voters under the newly enacted 26th Amendment, which allowed 18-year-olds to vote. [12] (He later returned to Harvard, graduating in 1974.[13])
Fish raised money for the unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign of Johnson administration Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a liberal Democrat, in 1974, and for the Moreland Commission, a New York state panel that investigated nursing home scandals in the early 1970s.[14]
Fish has produced several documentary films. He was a co-producer in 1975 of The Memory of Justice,' a documentary based on the Nuremberg Trials. In 1985 he co-executive-produced Hotel Terminus, a documentary on the life of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie which won the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary in 1989. [15]
Fish waged two unsuccessful campaigns for United States Congress as a Democrat from Westchester County, New York, in 1988 and then again in 1994 from Putnam County, New York. [16] During his 1988 campaign, he staked out an array of leftist positions that; called for Democrats to replace "the phony Republican war on drugs;" supported an increase in government funding for public and private day care; and called for socialized "catastrophic health-care coverage." He also complained that defemse spending consumed to much of the budget shortchanging domestic programs. [17] Fish's 1994 campaign was endorsed by a number of left-wing organizations including the Westchester Coalition for Legal Abortion, the New York League of Conservation Voters, the National Organization for Women on both the state and national level and the New York State A.F.L.-C.I.O. [18] He lost a Democratic primary in 1988 and the general election in 1994.
In 1977, with partner Victor Navasky and a group of about 50 other investors, then 26-year old Hamilton Fish V raised more than $950,000[19] to purchase The Nation Magazine, which has been described as "a mainstay in liberal journalism for more than a century."[20] Fish V served as the Magazine's publisher and Navasky, a former editor of the New York Times Magazine, served as its editor.
During this time, Fish V also helped to create the National Writer's Union, a member of the United Auto Workers and the AFL-CIO. [21]
Fish is generally credited with revitalizing The Nation.[22] Under his watch, it grew its readership slightly and never earned a profit, losing about half a million dollars a year.[23]
In 1985 Fish sold the magazine to Wall Street investor Arthur L. Carter, who had agreed to pay off the magazine's $2 million in accumulated debts.[24] Fish V retained a 10% stake in the magazine[25] and remained as publisher until 1987. [26]
From 1995 through 2009, Fish served as president of The Nation Institute, the Nation's associated nonprofit arm supporting liberal journalism projects.[27]
According to Fish V under his watch the Nation Institute administered a journalism fellowship program for progressive reporters to inject their leftist writings into both mainstream and alternative media sources and distributed three major award programs for progressive reporting. [28] Additionally, through the Nation Institute Fish V created and sponsored TomDispatch.com, a liberal political commentary website and listserv written by left-wing commentator Tom Englehardt.[29]
According to a HuffPost report, Fish's eventual 2009 departure from the Nation Institute was spurred by a staff revolt against him for failing to do his job ― which largely consisted of raising money for the nonprofit organization. HuffPost also alleged that Nation Institute staffers were also disgusted with the way he treated female employees.[30] Fish disputed this account of his departure from the organization saying that he left on his own terms over low funding and board disputes.[31]
In 2000, Fish V co-founded and served as a publisher for Nation Books,[32] created as part of the Nation Institute that would publish books on politics, culture and history reflecting the liberal principles of the Nation magazine.[33]
Nation Books titles include Taking Back America: And Taking Down the Radical Right by Vanden Heuvel and Robert Borosage, The Bush-Hater's Handbook: A Guide to the Most Appalling Presidency of the Past 100 Years edited by Jack Huberman, Warrior-King: The Case for Impeaching George W. Bush by John C. Bonifaz, Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia by Gore Vidal, and Right Wing Justice: The Conservative Campaign to Take Over the Courts by Herman Schwartz.[34]
Since 1994, Fish V has served as president of the Public Concern Foundation, which published the Washington Spectator, a monthly political publication. He personally highlighted an array of the publication's recent left-leaning politically charged articles on President Trump's proposed border barrier in a Texas wildlife refuge; the impact of the oil and gas industry on the Louisiana coastline; alleged suppression of the minority, student and immigrant vote in Georgia; chemical plant safety and alleged carcinogens in plastics; and the 2017 People's Climate March in New York City.[35]
According to Ari Berman, a senior reporter at Mother Jones and a fellow at The Nation Institute, "A lot of people heard rumors about Ham's behavior but felt powerless to do anything about it […] He was a powerful person who was being protected."[36]
As news of Fish's original suspension spread, HuffPost reported that employees who served under him at his former employer, liberal journalism nonprofit the Nation Institute, had sent private warnings to women at the New Republic "that their incoming boss was trouble."[37] At least one current Nation staffer emailed Katrina Vanden Heuvel, the editor and publisher of The Nation, and asked her to tell New Republic owner Win McCormack about the circumstances under which Fish had left the Institute."
According to HuffPost's report, Fish allegedly grabbed the neck of a high-ranking female Nation Institute employee. HuffPost recounted, "Fish V, who is well over 6 feet tall, approached [Taya Kitman, a high-ranking Nation Institute staffer] from behind, put his hands around her neck and applied pressure, according to four people with knowledge of the incident…He left red marks on Kitman's neck."[38]
The HuffPost report also detailed a number of other allegations against Fish, demonstrating how he could be demeaning or creepy and often made bizarre or suggestive remarks at work. According to one HuffPost source who was on staff during Fish's tenure at the Nation Institute, Fish had demonstrated "patterns of inappropriate behavior" including unwelcome shoulder massages, commentary about women's bodies, their clothing, the way a woman walked, and overtly sexual comments about dildos and lesbians.[39]
Recounting one instance HuffPost wrote, "multiple people who worked with Fish V recalled another time when he told a woman that her lipstick tube looked like a dildo."[40]
In response to HuffPost's report, Fish V denied wrongdoing. He also brushed off other claims as being motivated by malice toward him or ill will toward The Nation Institute.[41]
In late 2017, Hamilton Fish V was suspended and later resigned from as publisher of the New Republic following allegations of inappropriate behavior toward female subordinates.[42] Fish's name had reportedly previously appeared on an "unverified, crowd-sourced spreadsheet of '[S**tty] Media Men'" that circulated online following sexual-assault allegations against prominent Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.[43] Fish also took a leave of absence from his duties as president and trustee of the Desmond-Fish Library.[44]
According to the HuffPost report citing two of Fish V's New Republic colleagues, "Fish would approach women from behind, put his hands on their shoulders, sometimes massaging them." HuffPost sources further alleged, "He would generally make dismissive jokes and physically leave the room when I [a former New Republic staffer] brought up problems.'" [45]
His action prompted female staffers at the magazine to draft a complaint detailing their grievances, which was signed by editorial staffers and delivered to top management. Shortly thereafter, the magazine's owner McCormack announced an internal investigation into Fish's conduct and that he would be taking a leave of absence. [46]
In 2000, Hamilton Fish V was a political adviser to liberal billionaire and financier George Soros and he sat on the board of Soros' Open Society Institute (OSI), now the Open Society Foundations. In this role Fish V worked with Soros and left-wing blogger Arianna Huffington to plan a "shadow" convention held in Philadelphia during the Republican National Convention featuring "left-wing GOP-bashers" such as Ben and Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen and comedian and later U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota).[47]
The "shadow" convention also featured Soros's other liberal sub-organizations. For instance, the Lindesmith Center in New York, regarded as Open Society Institute's drug-policy arm that lobbied for needle exchanges and medicinal marijuana, was said to be playing a direct role in the shadow convention to make sure "the drug war comes under attack."[48]
Three years earlier, Fish had defended Soros claiming that he was "not a traditional leftist," but rather "a humanitarian who's very concerned about the way a growing number of people in America, from prisoners to legal immigrants, are being disenfranchised."[49] In 1999 Soros' Open Society Institute gave a $50,000 grant to Fish's Nation Institute.[50]
Hamilton Fish III, a staunchly conservative Republican former U.S. Representative from New York, labeled his grandson Hamilton Fish V a "leftist" who picked up his political leanings at Harvard University[51] and at one point the elder Fish labeled his grandson a communist.[52] Fish V attributes the 1960s era of rebellion and protests, as well as his opposition to the Vietnam War and support for civil rights, as the reasons why he opted to become a Democrat and shun his family's four-generation history in the Republican Party.[53]
Fish V is often described as an environmentalist.[54] He has stated, "I think it's pretty clear from my perspective that there's not only a rampaging issue of climate change but a pretty concerted campaign under way to deny the issues associated with climate change and especially being conducted by interests that have a very small agenda."[55]
In December 2016, Fish V penned an article entitled "How Trump Ruined Christmas" calling the election of President Donald Trump a "calamity" that he hoped would be the catalyst that pushed America to move to the left on identity politics and environmentalism.[56]
Since 2003, Hamilton Fish V has given $5,375 to Democratic candidates or causes including, $600 to Democratic Party Committees, $1,200 to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, $1,000 to John Kerry's presidential campaign, $127 to MoveOn Political Action, and over $2,000 to various Democrat candidates for Congress.[57]
Cherkis, Jason and Schulberg, Jessica. "Publisher Of The New Republic Resigns Amid Harassment Allegations." HuffPost. November 3, 2017. Accessed December 18, 2017. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hamilton-Fish-new-republic-resigns_us_59fccfc8e4b04cdbeb333476 ^
Cherkis, Jason and Schulberg, Jessica. "New Republic Staff Was Warned Its Publisher Had A History Of Mistreating Women." HuffPost. October 31, 2017. Accessed December 18, 2017. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hamilton-Fish-new-republic-nation-institute-women_us_59f79183e4b0c0c8e67c258e ^
Carmody ,Deirdre. "Nation Magazine Sold to Group Led by Hamilton Fish V." NY Times. December 23, 1977. http://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/23/archives/nation-magazine-sold-to-group-led-by-hamilton-Fish.html ^
Payne, Erica. "The Practical Progressive: How to Build a Twenty-first Century Political Movement." PublicAffairs of Perseus Book Group. U.S.A. February 23, 2009. Accessed December 18, 2017. https://books.google.com/books?id=9Oca3D-ZKNQC&pg=PT311&lpg=PT311&dq=%22hamilton+FishV%22+and+%22nation+institute%22&source=bl&ots=peVwmRJ8LG&sig=6FyzSk0zouD6dAY01m-8lrpkUwU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi5jfS0p5nYAhUL7SYKHU76Dhk4HhDoAQgrMAE#v=onepage&q=%22hamilton%20FishV%22%20and%20%22nation%20institute%22&f=false ^
"About." Washington Spectator. Accessed January 02, 2018. https://washingtonspectator.org/about/. ^
Novak. Robert D. "McCain and the Unconventional Convention." The Washington Post. July 17, 2000. Accessed December 18, 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2000/07/17/mccain-and-the-unconventional-convention/28252a80-eae4-4e72-b468-daf7080160b0/?utm_term=.68158bd6b9c9 ^
Feron, James. "Hamilton Fish V Throws His Hat Into the Ring." NY Times. April 17, 1988. Accessed December 18, 2017. http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/17/nyregion/hamilton-Fish-throws-his-hat-into-the-ring.html?pagewanted=all ^
"Biography: Hamilton Fish: Secretary of State." U.S. Department of State Archive. Released on July 15, 2003. Archived January 20, 2009. Accessed December 18, 2017. https://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/former/40878.htm ^
Brenna, Elsa. "3-Way Contest in the 19th After All." NY Times. October 23, 1994. Accessed December 18, 2017. http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/23/nyregion/3-way-contest-in-the-19th-after-all.html?pagewanted=all ^
Scherer, Ron. "The Fish Family: Hooked On Politics After 200 Year." Christian Science Monitor. May 13, 1994. Accessed December 18, 2017. https://www.csmonitor.com/1994/0513/13031.html ^
"An Interview with Hamilton Fish." Voqal. February 23, 2013. Accessed December 18, 2017. https://voqal.org/interview-with-hamilton-fish/ ^
Boody, Peter. "Profile: Hamilton Fish V finds an Island not named Martha." Shelter Island Reporter. July 29, 2013. Accessed December 18, 2017. http://shelterislandreporter.timesreview.com/2013/07/29/profile-hamilton-Fish-v-finds-an-island-not-named-martha/ ^
Feron, James. "Hamilton Fish V Throws His Hat Into the Ring." NY Times. April 17, 1988. Accessed December 18, 2017. http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/17/nyregion/hamilton-FishV-throws-his-hat-into-the-ring.html?pagewanted=all ^
Carmody ,Deirdre. "Nation Magazine Sold to Group Led by Hamilton Fish V." NY Times. December 23, 1977. http://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/23/archives/nation-magazine-sold-to-group-led-by-hamilton-FishV.html ^
Cullen, Bernard. "The Nation magazine sold." UPI. December 24, 1985. Accessed December 18, 2017. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/12/24/The-Nation-magazine-sold/1719504248400/ ^
Cherkis, Jason and Schulberg, Jessica. "New Republic Staff Was Warned Its Publisher Had A History Of Mistreating Women." HuffPost. October 31, 2017. Accessed December 18, 2017. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hamilton-FishV-new-republic-nation-institute-women_us_59f79183e4b0c0c8e67c258e ^
Schwartz, Mattathias. "Unconventional wisdom." Salon. June 9, 2005. Accessed December 18, 2017. https://www.salon.com/2005/06/09/navasky/ ^
Diamond, Edwin. "Now The New York 'Observer.'" The New Yorker. July 18, 1987. Accessed December 18, 2017. https://books.google.com/books?id=deQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=%22hamilton+FishV%22+and+%22nation+magazine%22&source=bl&ots=9pTGW3fUdK&sig=tFizB8HWwNa0zkrCj4GF6vUTxmY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiez-uR-JjYAhXs24MKHQGOBFU4ChDoAQhTMAc#v=onepage&q=%22hamilton%20FishV%22%20and%20%22nation%20magazine%22&f=false ^
Hamilton Fish Linkedin Page. Linkedin.com Undated. Accessed December 18, 2017. https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamilton-fish-7727687/ ^
Reid, Calvin. "PW: Avalon, the 'Nation' to Launch Nation Books." Publishers Weekly. March 27, 2000. Accessed December 18, 2017. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20000327/36436-pw-avalon-the-nation-to-launch-nation-books.html ^
Joanna Lucas, Barbara. "Trendsetters of the Left." Capital Research Center. Organization Trends. January 2015. Accessed December 18, 2017. https://capitalresearch.org/article/trendsetters-of-the-left/ ^
Weaver, Hilary. "The New Republic Publisher on Leave of Absence after Sexual Harassment Allegations." Vanity Fair Magazine. October 30, 2017. Accessed December 18, 2017. https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/10/new-republic-publisher-on-leave-of-absence-after-sexual-harassment-allegations ^
Rowe, Chip. "Fish Resigns from New Republic, Takes Leave at Library (Updated)." The Highlands Current. November 3, 2017. Accessed December 18, 2017. http://highlandscurrent.com/2017/11/03/hamilton-fish-takes-leave-new-republic-library/ ^
Barton, Julia. "Media Circus: Soros losers." Salon. March 19, 1997. Accessed December 18, 2017. https://www.salon.com/1997/03/19/media_124/ ^
Hewett, Jennifer. "THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD … AND THEN GAVE AWAY THE PROFITS." Sydney Morning Herald. November 15, 1997. Reprinted in "George Soros Interviews." Scrib.com, Page 124. Accessed December 18, 2017. https://www.scribd.com/document/10985769/George-Soros-Interviews ^
Scheer, Robert. "Hamilton Fish: Democrats Have Failed To Provide A 'Viable Vision For The American Voters.'" HuffPost. July 30, 2017. Accessed December 18, 2017. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hamilton-fish-democrats-have-failed-to-provide-a-viable_us_597e029de4b06b305561d1d0/ ^
Berkovitch, Ellen. "A Conversation with Hamilton Fish on The Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of Climate and Sustainability." August 2012. Accessed December 18, 2017. http://adobeairstream.com/art/a-conversation-with-hamilton-fish-on-the-marfa-dialogues-the-politics-and-culture-of-climate-and-sustainability/ ^
Fish, Hamilton. "How Trump Ruined Christmas." Washington Spectator. December 28, 2016. Accessed December 18, 2017. https://washingtonspectator.org/how-trump-ruined-christmas/ ^
Federal Election Commission. Individual Contribution Records: Hamilton Fish. 2003-2017. Accessed December 18, 2017. FEC.gov. ^
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Genes put African Americans at higher risk of disease; fat secretes hormone that may control diabetes; toward a plausible RNAi therapy.
CONTEXT: Heart disease, stroke, transplant rejection, and autoimmune diseases kill African Americans at a higher rate than white Americans. Access to health care, health behaviors, and socioeconomic and community factors explain many, but not all, of these disparities. Genetic differences are often discounted, because variations within a single racial group are larger than variations among racial groups and because race is increasingly viewed as a social construct rather than a biological one. Nonetheless, race-based medicine is hotly debated, and race-specific therapies are being studied. Many diseases that disproportionately afflict African Americans are linked to inflammation or an overactive immune system. To test whether genetics plays a role in these diseases, Roberta Ness and colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh tracked nearly 600 women to examine genetic variants known to promote inflammation.
METHODS AND RESULTS: The researchers tested for variants of six different genes among healthy women who received prenatal care before successful first births. Of these, 179 identified themselves as black, 387 as white. The genes coded for proteins, called cytokines, that regulate the immune system. For five of the six genes studied, black women were more likely than their white counterparts to carry a proinflammatory variant; the difference was statistically significant for four genes. For one gene, black subjects were 36.5 times more likely than whites to carry two copies of the proinflammatory variant. However, for any single gene, many white women carried a proinflammatory variant, and many black women did not.
WHY IT MATTERS: Improving unhealthy living conditions and habits and reducing social disparities will be most effective in preventing inflammatory disease; still, tests that show who is most likely to fall ill could help those at risk get preventive counseling and care. By demonstrating a genetic contribution to disease that is race-specific, this work suggests that race could be used as a shorthand for genetic predisposition to guide medical advice. This notion is controversial because of the high genetic variation within racial groups. Making decisions based on race alone will include some people who can't benefit from treatment and exclude others who can. To resolve this issue, genetic tests to assess risk factors should be developed. Meanwhile, using race as a kind of genetic proxy to inform preventive care might deliver the most good to the most people.
SOURCE: Ness, R. B., et al. 2004. Differential distribution of allelic variants in cytokine genes among African Americans and white Americans. American Journal of Epidemiology 160:1033-1038.
CONTEXT: Abdominal fat is a dangerous thing. This is not because the fat clings to internal organs (which it does), but because it secretes a suite of hormones that preserve the fat's existence and affect metabolism. The result is an increased risk of a number of maladies, from diabetes to heart disease. In a series of experiments, researchers led by Iichiro Shimomura at Osaka University found yet another hormone made by abdominal, or visceral, fat – one that, surprisingly, mimics the beneficial effects of insulin.
METHODS AND RESULTS: Using tissue samples taken from two human volunteers, Shimomura's team first identified genes that were active in visceral fat. The researchers tracked one of these genes to a protein known to help immune cells mature. Next, they studied more than a hundred people and found that the more visceral fat they had, the higher their blood levels of the protein. Another experiment observed mice genetically predisposed to obesity; as they got fatter, blood levels of the protein rose. Because the protein comes from visceral fat, the researchers named the protein "visfatin." Mice completely lacking the gene for visfatin died before birth; mice carrying only one functional copy of the gene had elevated glucose levels. Adding visfatin to liver, fat, and muscle cells had the same effect that insulin did; visfatin even lowered glucose levels in insulin-resistant mice. Still more studies indicated that insulin and visfatin bound to different spots on the same protein (the insulin receptor), which, when activated, causes cells to take in glucose. In fact, when the spot where insulin binds to its receptor was mutated such that insulin could not bind, visfatin still could bind, triggering the same response as insulin.
WHY IT MATTERS: Diabetes occurs when the body doesn't make enough insulin or doesn't respond properly to the hormone. The disease afflicts nearly 200 million people worldwide and is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. This research opens another route to finding diabetes drugs. Either visfatin or molecules that fit visfatin's binding site could help control the disease. Teasing out the natural role of visfatin may yield insights; though greater amounts of fat produce greater amounts of visfatin, these levels are insufficient to counter the ill effects of obesity. Studies that resolve this paradox may show how obesity and its associated diseases could be prevented or treated.
SOURCE: Fukuhara, A., et al. 2005. Visfatin: a protein secreted by visceral fat that mimics the effects of insulin. Science 307:426-430.
CONTEXT: RNA interference (RNAi) – once thought to be an experimental artifact, then considered an unimportant anomaly – is now recognized as an important technique for regulating gene expression in animals, plants, and fungi. In essence, RNAi occurs when small RNA molecules (short interfering RNA or siRNA) ambush messenger RNA, the molecule through which the instructions in a gene are translated into the protein that will act them out. At least three companies hope to transform the technology into new therapies. It's tough to do, because siRNA is rapidly destroyed in blood and has trouble getting into cells. Now, a team that is headed by Jürgen Soutschek and Hans-Peter Vornlocher at the biotech company Alnylam has shown that a new version of siRNA can travel through the bloodstream into cells and lower cholesterol levels.
METHODS AND RESULTS: Soutschek and colleagues made siRNA that would silence the gene for a cholesterol-boosting protein, apolipoprotein B. Using established techniques, they modified the chemical backbone of siRNA to make it more stable. In a novel approach, they linked siRNA to another molecule (ironically, cholesterol) that enters cells easily and injected the linked molecules into mice. The treatment lowered "bad" cholesterol levels by more than 40 percent, and follow-up tests showed that siRNA had entered cells and stopped production of apolipoprotein B.
WHY IT MATTERS: Drugs available today work in just a handful of ways. Most bind to a protein and affect its function. Others replace a protein. RNAi drugs would do something completely different: they would stop a protein from being made at all, and so treat diseases in ways that other techniques cannot. By showing that RNAi drugs can be delivered through blood, this research counters the strongest criticism of the technique. But more obstacles remain: in humans, siRNA must travel farther in the bloodstream than in mice, the amounts of drug required are still prohibitively high, and long-term treatments with cholesterol-linked siRNA may have side effects worse than the disease. Nonetheless, these results, and more like them, will begin to sway the skeptics.
SOURCE: Soutschek, J., et al. 2004. Therapeutic silencing of an endogenous gene by systemic administration of modified siRNAs. Nature 432:173-178.


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Many composers talk about creating music, but few discuss the tools required to do it. What I mean is the IT side of music creation. I will do my best to explore this broad topic providing the most concrete information.
The choice of displays (audio) – the more displays with a different bandwidth, the better, because the entire bandwidth consists of a low (bass), medium (female voice) and high (drums) band. Therefore if we want to hear all bands clearly, we have to gather as many displays or HI FI loudspeakers, as possible.
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The choice of headphones. – Headphones are a very useful thing, especially when creating music at night. They might serve as an additional tool when checking the bandwidth in ready songs. It is worth paying attention to the softness of membrane surroundings and the comfort of wearing the bow, because listening for a few hours and working on uncomfortable headphones might result in earache.
The choice of sound card. – It is worth remembering that external sound cards have to possess a processor in order to serve well when working on music (it is similar to the difference experienced when using a processor without additional cores). Sound cards without a processor enable only recording the sound from the outside, because they do not have a large ASIO latency, and therefore i.e. one cannot record sounds from a microphone and sounds being played simultaneously. It refers to recording vocal for background music (modern computers allow creating music using integrated sound cards without ASIO support. In such case you should choose the ASIO Full Duplex option in the music creation programme audio settings). The power input is very significant, because we may lose time on setting appropriate volume and changing it from quiet to loud. In 2010 the AVID sound cards producer presented the cheapest and most efficient external sound cards, which cooperate with every music programme. One of the technically advanced devices intercepting audio channels in real time is MOTU, which was the most popular equipment used in studios, before the external Pro Tools HD set appeared. A lot of external devices may be plugged in to it (e.g. the effects) without being concerned about the processor overload.
I have been asking myself one question for a very long time: why do we need compressors, sound processors, effects, sound banks and other external devices at all? The answer is: because they do not occupy the memory and processor in the real time.
The choice of the graphic card. – In order to plug in more than two HD displays, one has to possess a PCI dual/triple head graphic card (graphic cards manufactured by Zotac are for those who want to play and simultaneously create music on a few screens, or for those who only want to work on their PC) or an external graphic card manufactured by Matrox. Some composers use HD TVs apart from ordinary displays, alongside a laptop screen and more and more frequently touchscreens manufactured by Apple. Apple computers are equipped with ATI Radeon cards, which enable to plug in many displays (and provide the opportunity of plugging in a few graphic cards).
Let`s count power for Macs with 1-core, 2-core, 4-core, 8-core and 12-core processors (the maximum 12-core processor is available only on Mac Pro 2 computers). PC computers may handle a 16-core processor manufactured by AMD, which has already been put on sales (Intel has produced so far only a 6-core processor). When choosing a processor, pay attention to the cache memory.
In 2009 there was a breakthrough in the computer development. The largest obstacle in their expansion was the high price of the RAM memory. Now the average amount of the RAM memory in the computers owned by composers is 8 – 12 GB RAM, and the cutting edge PC mainboards operate with as much as 130 GB RAM. When purchasing the RAM memory, bear in mind not only the amount of memory, but also its speed (MHz frequency). I can tell from my own experience about a situation when the servicing agent put the wrong RAM memory into a computer I ordered – it was too slow as for the given mainboard. In consequence I had to cope with the system errors called "Blue Screen of Death" for a couple of days (when the computer was freezing, it was making similar sounds as during the "Neo awakening" in the Matrix movie). It was especially annoying during a few-hour work on music. Of course the memory was exchanged, which came as a huge surprise for the computer shop owner. Therefore for the future I recommend choosing a more expensive mainboard, which will "survive" a couple of years, because it will be possible to purchase more and more RAM memory to it and change the processor without the necessity to install a new PC operating system and music software.
However, if you have two left hands or don't know, which computer parts could be exchanged for the more modern ones, I recommend purchasing ready computers of the "all in one" kind, e.g. manufactured by HP, Asus or MSI, which are very similar to the Macintosh sets (some models have a touchscreen, which will have a significant impact on the quality of work when writing in the note processor).
If you have little RAM memory and constantly complain about the "buzzing" of the computer not coping with a large number of switched on virtual instruments, then I have a remedy for you. The Cubase programme has the option of recoding ready notes from a virtual instrument onto WAV tracks "on the run" (the process takes literally a few minutes and can lighten the RAM memory's load up to 90%). This function is called Freeze VST and can also lighten your computer's load in terms of the effects switched on in a Mixer. Unfortunately, after "freezing" the virtual instrument track it cannot be edited later (only notes may be copied), unless it is "unfrozen" – this action takes less than 5 seconds. You can also save and import ready WAV tracks manually in other programmes not having this function, but it is very time-consuming.
Having a large amount of the RAM memory and a few-core processor makes the work of every musician problem-free, which is related to the improvement in the music quality and the performance speed.
Windows 7 takes up 1 GB of RAM memory, which is related to the loss of huge space otherwise used for recording virtual instruments (you can also choose the 64 version of Windows XP, which takes up a smaller amount of RAM – 500 MB. However, it is not supported by drivers and may operate at 16 GB RAM memory the maximum. Windows 7 operating system does not have as many mistakes as its previous versions and differs in terms of automated installation of devices drivers in the online mode.
The Mac computer is more expensive than the PC computer, not mentioning its sub-assemblies. The Leopard operating system update is expensive itself, not mentioning the additional update of programmes for Mac. If we wanted to install the same programmes on the newly purchased super computer MAC OS, we would have to record everything from the scratch. Meanwhile on the computer with the Windows operating system there are two ways of installing the whole software and data as file images, using Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image programmes, or as system settings backup (using Windows 7 main board – this refers to systems older than Windows 7).
The best way to minimize the loading time of the Windows system is to buy a few discs and assign different functions to them – office, creative, entertainment, diagnostic or backup. Nobody clever will do a few things simultaneously relying on the system operating speed and his own efficiency during one day.
I was surprised to discover that there is an opportunity to work on many PC computers at one time while creating music. Such an option existed once only in Macintosh computers (until 2003). FX Teleport enables the cooperation between computers via TCP/IP LAN (even remotely). It works on the basis of a Host computer or Server computers. Another programme which is similar to FX Teleport, but more advanced than it, is Jbridge.
Writing the first part of the article I decided to refute the thesis (PC computer stereotype) about the proportional relation between the computing power used in music production and the thickness of the composer's wallet. In the second part of the article I presented more informations about Hardware and the efficiency and capabilities of different programmes used to create music and sounds.
By Kole Hicks**In this article I refer to Mixing as if it includes all aspects of track production before mastering.
Mixing is typically considered by the majority of people as the thing you do to "sweeten" the music after it has been written and recorded. Furthermore, the "Mixing" definition tends to only refer to what we think of as "modern mixing" with balancing volume levels, EQ, Ducking, etc. via a Pro Tools (or other) session.
However as I see it, what we think of as modern "Mixing" existed before the time of computers or electronics and has been well known by many of the greatest musical minds throughout history. It is certain that these composers cared deeply for the way their music would be heard by others and I bet that a large majority of them would be right there in the mixing booth tweaking knobs if they had the tech available to them. In fact, many composers wrote very detailed notes on the score about how each instrument should be performed (Tone/EQ), where it's physical location to everyone else is (Panning), etc. In this article, I would like to challenge the notion and will supply arguments against the idea that Mixing & Composing have to be two separate processes.
*I always have the "philosophy" that if it ends up influencing the way the music will sound, then it's important enough to think of while I'm composing the piece.
The role and importance of a mixing engineer has become ever more apparent in newer styles of music (Pop, Electronica, Hip-Hop, etc.) where the professional is not only "fixing" up the vocal/instrumental parts and placing them in their appropriate "pockets," but adding unique filters, FX, EQs, etc. that directly influence the arrangement and are absolutely essential to the composition. It is my belief that these engineers don't get nearly the credit they deserve… listen to anything in the Top 40 on the radio and I can guarantee you'll hear how important Production is to many of those songs.
Also, if you've ever attended a Composer's convention/conference of some kind, then it's not a secret that many of the musicians there hold the belief that they should never mix their own music and that it is better left to a professional. While this can be true in some situations (Ex: Orchestral Music that is supposed to sound as "Classic" as possible) and I always advocate the use of or collaboration with other professionals, there are fantastic benefits of not only mixing your own music, but becoming aware of all the mixing tools available at your disposal.
So what happens when we no longer use Equalizers, Compressors, etc. in the way they were "intended," but instead think of and use them as creative tools? Something that you're not aware of and thinking about after the music has been recorded, but BEFORE… My main intention with this article is to help you become aware of this possibility and guide you through one of my examples. There are way to many available directions you can go in with this new approach (and I'm sure many of you are already starting to generate ideas), so I'd just like to show you an example of one of my projects.
If I were playing a fictitious/high-fantasy game as the great explorer "Marco Polo" while he wondered through the borderlands of Mongolia/Northern China on a foggy night… what would that sound like?
Let's say in this game that the developers feel it is important to aurally depict each character, place, and the time in history. However, they also would like to keep the score rather modern so that people can still connect to it (nothing overly abstract). In the "scene" described in the question above, it has been decided that the following should be included in the piece of music: Marco Polo's Origins/Theme, The Foreign Lands (Mongolia/Northern China), and the Fear/Tension/Excitement of being an explorer in a new land on a foggy night.
I'm a huge fan of Mongolian Folk Music (part of the reason I created this challenge) and more specifically throat/overtone singing. Also, one of my good friends is from China and she brought back a Hulusi (flute) for me that I've always wanted to use. Along with the overtone vocals and Hulusi (representing the foreign lands), I'll use a Taiko drum to control the momentum/pulse of the piece. Furthermore, I need to introduce Marco Polo to the piece. To represent him, I'll use a string section and nylon string guitar. The specific way I will be using them aren't exactly "historically accurate" to the time Marco Polo was around, but sound familiar to the player and can easily be used to give a sense of "Home" rather than Italy specifically (especially to most Westerners… assuming this is the main demographic of the game).
Now that we have our instrumentation chosen for this "zone/scene," we have to think of how we can bring in the Fear/Tension/Excitement… this is when "Pre-Meditated Mixing" is useful. To further enhance the "creepy" atmosphere (and add to the "unknown" sound quality of the instruments used in the foreign lands), I'll place an EQ on the overtone vocals so that I cut most (if not all) of the fundamental and instead focus on the overtone. Furthermore, I'll add massive delay to the Hulusi part and change the panning at random intervals (not drastic enough to draw the players attention away from the game… just enhance the unpredictability of the piece/zone). The Taiko's part will develop over time and the volume/panning would be interactive based off the player's proximity to danger (something we could control via Wwise/FMOD if the Taiko part was it's own separate layer).
As mentioned above, chances are high that we're dealing with a western audience and while you can get away with a lot aurally when there is a picture in front of someone, its wise to know when you're writing bizarre because something calls for it rather than "out for out's sake." With that in mind, I'll keep the harmony intact and this will NOT be an atonal piece. It will be tonal, although with it's slightly "out" instrumentation, mixing, and other elements the piece will still sound "foreign" without actually being completely foreign to the gamer.
The guitar will play a consistent "pulse" of tones and fade in/out while gradually panning around the "aural environment." The string section will act as the "western foundation," establishing something more traditional that the listener's ear can cling on to while concurrently representing Marco Polo himself. While there will only be 1 underlying harmonic progression, the progression (in it's entirety) will be developed over time. Because this is purely an example (and not exactly a cue from an actual game) I will attempt to move through different game states within a few minutes. However, if this music was to be absolutely interactive, then each section would be a few minutes long, comprised of multiple layers, and fade in/out from one another depending on the player's predicament.
All of this I have thought of before I've even written a note down and while it may not be practical in every situation, I recommend you try something like this at least once (if only to learn that it doesn't work with your writing process). It would be cruel for me to list off everything, show pictures, and not provide you with a link to what I created… so click on this link to listen to the piece.
Make sure to read through Part 2 of this article RIGHT HERE to find out what changes the piece went through and why certain decisions were made. Thanks for reading and keep composing fellow artists!


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When we start a new business week, nobody really knows where the price will go in the short term. Some analysts suggest that current levels represent an important supportive region, and in the context of a traditional approach to technical analysis this seems to be correct.
However, traditional technical analysis was based on traditional assets, so even though it might be useful, it would be absurd to assume that it is safe.
All we can do is oppose the action we see standing and hoping things will not go against our prejudices.
With that in mind, here is an overview of what we focus on and where we intend to enter and leave markets as things move, regardless of the direction of movement.
Always look at the table below before getting an idea of the situation. It is a one-minute candle board and has superimposed our main rank in green.
As the graph shows, the area we're seeing for today's session is defined by the 7551's downside support and the 7710's upside resistance. First, we are after a fence over the resistance to confirm an immediate bullish goal 8000 shots.
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Q: Low contrast segmentation of circles I have some problems in Matlab with the segmentation of circles in this image. The contrast difference is really really small and the image itself is really noisy. I did some processing on the image and increased the contrast difference but still I dont know how to do next.
I found this paper but I dont know how to proceed with background reconstruction using DCT. I did previous steps though.
Image before adjustment:

Image after adjustment (the innercircle is cut from the whole figure using imfindcircles):

Each spoke consist of 3 circles and there are 10 spokes so 30 circles in Total.

What I've tried so far:
clc
clear
im = imread('f8.jpg');
im = mat2gray(im);

im = 1 - im;
s = size(im);

%contrast enhancement method suggested in paper
for x = 1:s(1);
    for y=1:s(2);
        a = max(im(x, :)) / mean(im(x, :));
        a;
        b = max(im(:, y)) / mean(im(:, y));
        b;
        ab = (a+b)/2;
        im(x, y) = im(x, y) * ab;
        im(x, y);
    end
end

imshow(im);

%bluring

h = fspecial('average', [2,2]);
im= filter2(h, im);

%find circles
[c, r] = imfindcircles(im, [35 50], 'Sensitivity', 0.92, 'Edge', 0.01);

% figure(1)
% imshow(im)
% hold on
% viscircles(c, r, 'EdgeColor', 'b');
% hold off

% making mask that cuts out the inenr circles

mask = bsxfun(@plus, ((1:256) - c(1,1)).^2, (transpose(1:256) - c(1,2)).^2) < r(1)^2;
mask = im2double(mask);
mask_al

for x=1:256
    for y=1:256
        if mask(x, y) == 1;
            mask(x, y) = im(x, y);
        end
    end
end

To sum up:
I need to count how many circles are visible on the image.

A: If you have some user seed input available (even if unavailable, you can use a Hough circles to seed) you might want to consider Active Contours:

Kass, Michael, Andrew Witkin, and Demetri Terzopoulos. "Snakes: Active contour models." International journal of computer vision 1.4 (1988): 321-331.

A: Use imfindcircles from Image Processing Toolbox. You can also try the function  activecontour . See help doc for more info on these.


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