LOS ANGELES (AP) Tony Azevedo is a speed boat in a pool full of aircraft carriers. And 16 years after he burst onto the international scene, he remains one of the world's most dangerous scorers.
What comes next will have to wait. The captain of the U.S. water polo team is going to his native Rio de Janeiro in search of one of the few lines missing from his resume: an Olympic gold medal.
Heading to his fifth Olympics - a record for the U.S. program - much has changed for the 34-year-old Azevedo since he scored 13 goals in his Sydney debut in 2000. He has played professionally all over the world while becoming one of the biggest names in water polo, drawing one of the loudest ovations when he was introduced before Sunday's exhibition against Australia.
Azevedo and his wife, Sara, are expecting their second child, a little sister for 3-year-old Cruz. Because of the Zika virus, which can cause severe birth defects and babies being born with abnormally small heads, she will stay home when Azevedo travels to the Games.
''The risk just is too much so we just decided, hey, she can watch it at home with my sister,'' Azevedo said.
Azevedo's sister, Cassie, also is an accomplished water polo player, starring at Cal State Long Beach before playing professionally in Italy. Their father, Rick, is a former coach for the men's national team.
Azevedo's family ties provide a window into how he has been able to thrive in the sport for so long while giving away significant inches and pounds to many of his competitors. He is listed at 6-foot-1, 198 pounds, while many of his teammates on the U.S. national team clear 6-4 and 210 pounds.
Azevedo helped the U.S. win the FINA Men's Intercontinental Tournament last weekend in Japan, taking home MVP honors after he scored two goals in a 10-9 victory over Australia in the final. He had 10 goals when the U.S. secured its spot in Rio by winning gold at the Pan American Games last summer in Toronto.
The Olympics have brought out the best in Azevedo, while team success has mostly eluded him. He powered the U.S. to silver in 2008 for its best finish in 20 years, but that was followed by a disappointing eighth place in London four years ago.
If Brazil is his final Olympic stop, it brings his career full circle. He was born in Rio and plays professionally for Sesi in Sao Paulo.


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The Bucket List, The Dark Knight, A Million Dollar Baby, Driving Missy Daisy and The Shawshank Redemption are some notable films of veteran actor Morgan Freeman. He often portrays the role of a mature and wise character.
Photo Gallery: New faces to watch in Hollywood
Cameron Diaz is the pretty, sweet and funny gal. Her best moments can be seen in What Happens in Vegas, My Best Friend's Wedding, Knight and Day and Charlie's Angels.
Sylvestor Stallone is Mr. Rambo, the gun wielding superhero. He is also popular as Rocky Balboa. Stallone is a tough guy character.. A few of the films he made portraying this persona include Tango and Cash, The Expendables, The Expendables 2 and Cliffhanger.
Robert de Niro was many a time cast as someone who is part of the mob. Think of Mean Streets, The Godfather and The Untouchables. He was also great as Jake LaMotta in the Raging Bull and as the violent rapist in Cape Fear.
Catherine Zeta-Jones played sophisticated woman roles in films such as The Mask of Zorro with Antonio Banderas and Entrapment opposite Sean Connery.
Michael Douglas took on quiet and sensitive roles at the start of this career. He then shifted to comedy roles in films such as Romancing the Stone, The Jewel of the Nile and The War of the Roses. However, he is best known for his 'man against woman' role as seen in successful films Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction and Disclosure.
Lisa Kudrow was best known as the funny and eccentric Phoebe Buffay in the highly successful TV series, Friends. She broke away from this typecast role playing in 'The Comeback' and 'Web Therapy.'
Christopher Lee often portrays the role of a crazy villain. He is great at it acting out as Count Dracula then as Frankenstein in horror films during the early part of this career. Later on, he continued this portrayal in The Star Wars prequels and The Lord of the Rings. He is now 90 years old but can still deliver sophisticated villain lines superbly.
Michelle Rodriguez is the tough, independent babe. She played the troubled boxer in Girlfight and the female fighter in the highly successful Fast & Furious. Other triumphant stints included Blue Crush and Avatar.
Clint Eastwood is without doubt of Dirty Harry fame portraying the role of an anti-hero cop, Harry Callahan. He was famous for this macho role. Eastwood did try adventure comedy in Every Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can as well as drama (Gran Torino and The Bridges of Madison County).
Ben Stiller mostly played in comedy films such as Meet the Fockers, Night At The Museum, and Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.
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Q: Get indices of top N values sorted in descending order in matlab sparse matrix I am extremely new to the matlab programming language and am trying to accomplish the following task:
   (1,3)       0.0000
   (2,3)       0.0000
   (3,3)       0.0000
   (4,3)       0.4803
   (5,3)       0.0000
   (6,3)       0.0000
   (7,3)       0.0000
   (8,3)       0.0000
   (9,3)       0.0030
  (10,3)       0.0000
  (11,3)       0.0000

The above matrix is a sparse column vector (only a part of which is shown above) of values most of which are zero. I would like to get the indices of the values sorted in descending order which would basically give me the positive non-zero values (there are no negative values in the vector!) in descending order along with their corresponding indices. I would like to know how to achieve this in matlab. I tried the sort function in matlab and it seems to sort the values but doesn't keep track of the indices which are also equally crucial. I also looked at sortrows function but doesn't seem to work for me. I tried the following code which was from another question at SO (unfortunately I am unable to find it again in order to cite it here):
A = sparse([0,1,2;3,4,5;6,7,8])
[sortValues,sortIndex] = sort(A(:),'descend');

Output:
sortValues =

   (1,1)        8
   (2,1)        7
   (3,1)        6
   (4,1)        5
   (5,1)        4
   (6,1)        3
   (7,1)        2
   (8,1)        1

    sortIndex =

         9
         6
         3
         8
         5
         2
         7
         4
         1

In this case I don't know how to make use of the sortIndex to retrieve the original indices of the sorted values. Any help would be much appreciated.
Just to be clear the output that I am looking for in the above case of the sparse matrix would
be:
(4,3)     0.4803
(9,3)     0.0030
........  0.0000
........  0.0000
........  0.0000
etc...

A:  [I,J,S]=find(A);

 result=sortrows([I,J,S],-3);

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Unearth Extreme Adventure in Fossil Fighters: Frontier for Nintendo 3DS
Battle, Dig and Drive Through the Prehistoric World of Vivosaurs. Brave explorers of the Fossil Fighters: Frontier game will discover a huge 3D world filled with fossils to excavate, prehistoric creatures to revive and primeval battles to conquer. The new portable game, launching for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems on March 20, has players grabbing their excavation tools, hopping in fully customizable vehicles and heading out into the wild world to dig up fossils and revive them into vivosaurs (think of them as extra powerful, extra colorful and extra awesome dinosaurs). These collectible vivosaurs can then be trained and sent into turn-based battles with other mighty beasts. Fossil Fighters: Frontier also lets friends explore and excavate together, fight as a team against rogue vivosaurs and battle in six-player multiplayer reptilian rumbles.
The expansive world of Fossil Fighters: Frontier is rich with things to discover. By hopping behind the wheel of a customizable Bone Buggy, players can explore to excavate fossils that can transform into a wide variety of different vivosaurs. After unearthing fossils, players place them in the back of their Bone Buggies to carefully clean and revive them using the touch screen of the Nintendo 3DS family of systems. Various upgradeable tools like drills and hammers can be found in the game and used in the fun and intuitive excavation process. Select dig sites might even host puzzle- or speed-based challenges, which can be completed to earn valuable and power-enhancing rare fossils."Video game fans are about to get an adventure of prehistoric proportions," said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. "Between Fossil Fighters: Frontier,Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. and the upcoming Puzzle & Dragons Z + Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition games, it's a great time to be a Nintendo 3DS owner."
Finding fossils and collecting resurrected vivosaurs is only part of the fun, as these prehistoric creatures can be sent into truly epic battles that pit vivosaur versus vivosaur. All vivosaurs fall into one of five elemental categories – Water, Fire, Air, Earth and Neutral – and possess a special ability that will assist them in battle. Players will encounter many different types of battles in the game, whether a story-based battle that takes place in the main campaign, daily tournaments or even StreetPass battles that let players train against other vivosaurs they pick up while using the StreetPass feature.
And the robust multiplayer options in the game don't end there. In co-op local wireless, friends who each own a Nintendo 3DS system and the Fossil Fighters: Frontier game can team up and visit dig sites together. Each player travels in his or her own Bone Buggy and can work together to excavate the same fossils or work together to dig out hard to excavate fossils more effectively. Fossil Fighters: Frontier even features local wireless battles with up to six players or tournaments with up to two friends! Players who want to take their battles online using broadband Internet access can compete in one-on-one battles against random players to fight to the top of monthly online leaderboards.
For more information about Fossil Fighters: Frontier, visit http://fossilfighters.nintendo.com. Excavators-in-training that visit the game's website will also have the ability to search for hidden fossils. These five fossils are hidden all over the site, and each time one is found, a new bonus, like wallpapers, game tips and exclusive activity, is unlocked. The site can be browsed right now, but the fossil hunt unlocks on March 20, the same day the game launches in stores and in the Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS at a suggested retail price of $29.99.
Remember that Nintendo 3DS features parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about this and other features, visit http://www.nintendo.com/3ds.
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On Saturday, January 17, the Classic Car Show will return to FishHawk Ranch. It will take place in Park Square from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Car Registration will take place from 10-11 a.m. It cost $10 for Car Pre-Registration at The Osprey Club and $15 day of the show. This is a free event for spectators and there will be a DJ and door prizes, food available for purchase and the proceeds will benefit the Emergency Care Help Organization (ECHO) of Brandon. Donations of canned goods, blankets and clothing will also be accepted for ECHO. There will be awards for Best Era Cars from: 1900 – 1909, 1910 – 1919, 1920 – 1929, 1930 – 1939, 1940 – 1949, 1950 – 1959, 1960 – 1969, 1970 – 1979, 1980 – 1989, 1990 – 1999, 2000 – Present. Looking for all makes and models.
For more information, call Resident Services at 657-6629. FishHawk Ranch will also be holding another Market Day on Sunday, January 4.
Bloomingdale resident Cheryl Kehrmeyer was presented the Laurie Ellis Mission Advocate Award in November at the Campo Family YMCA's "A Night in Venice" themed Corks & Forks signature fundraising event. The award is presented annually to a volunteer of the Greater Brandon Area YMCA who embodies the YMCA mission, serves as an active ambassador, represents the efforts and vision of the YMCA, and promotes the healthy development of mind, body and spirit both personally and to the community.
The Bloomingdale Homeowners Association (BHA) established the Best of the Best Student of the Month Program to recognize outstanding students in the community. If selected, the student receives a $25 gift card provided by our sponsor, Ray Chadderton of The Chadderton Group of Keller Williams Realty.
Bloomingdale residents can send nominations to bloomingdale. homeowners@gmail.com or call 681-2051. Nominees must be in home, public, or private school and residents of Bloomingdale. Include the nominee's name, address, phone number, e-mail and school attending. In addition, provide a short paragraph detailing why he/she should receive the award.
Congratulations to Dana Dittfeld, December's Best of the Best Student of the Month!
Dittfeld is a senior attending Bloomingdale Senior High School (BSHS) and is a member of the Varsity Cheerleading Squad. For 14 years, she has cheered for others; 10 years for the Brandon Bears Football program where she was part of an award-winning team and the last four years for the Bloomingdale Bulls. Now, her community is cheering for her.
A rigorous cheerleading schedule leaves little time for other pursuits—Dittfeld spends two to three hours daily practicing or actively cheering for BSHS's various sports teams. She is part of the select competition squad and in 2012 was voted Outstanding Team Leader by her peers. In 2013, she was named a Team Captain. Those who know her cite her leadership skill as strength.
What free time this busy lady has is spent working on her college prep curriculum, which includes AP subjects and Florida Virtual School classes. With solid academics, her plans are to study nursing and attend a four-year college. After earning her nursing degree, Dittfeld's goal is to work with pediatric patients.
Her proud parents are Dave and Denise Dittfeld who reside in Somerset.


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Don L. Searle
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Singing the Song of Redeeming Love
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Bless Those Elders
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On Call for the Lord
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"How Does She Know Our Songs?"
Mark Cannon
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Church Leaders Host Area Clergy
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"How Does She Know Our Songs?" Ensign, Mar. 1993, 66–68
By Mark Cannon
Our family has always enjoyed music. As we have sung together in family home evening and at church, we have felt the unifying effects of music as it brings us closer to each other and to our Father in Heaven. But it wasn't until recently that we learned that the language of song can be universal.
A Latter-day Saint family came to the United States from Taiwan to attend the wedding of their daughter in the Washington Temple. The following week they attended a reception our New York ward held to honor the newlyweds. The reception was lovely, but my wife and I were concerned as the bride's parents struggled to communicate with guests through a translator. Although they smiled as they greeted everyone, it was obvious that they were uncomfortable in such foreign surroundings. We wanted to do more.
Knowing that this was their first trip to this part of the United States, we offered to take them to visit the Sacred Grove and the Hill Cumorah. They enthusiastically accepted the invitation, and the following morning, we picked up the bride's parents and the newlyweds and left for Palmyra.
Although our family struggled to talk with them on the three-hour drive to Palmyra, our conversations were relatively brief and simple. As time went on, the silence became increasingly uncomfortable.
When we arrived, we noticed few people at the visitor sites. Although the solitude gave us all an opportunity to contemplate the events of the Restoration, it also emphasized the formidable barrier between our two families and cultures. We felt a strong desire to share our feelings with them as we walked through the Sacred Grove. But as my wife sat with the bride's mother, they were able to exchange only the simplest of words, not knowing for certain if the other understood.
During the long drive home, two of our children began singing Primary songs to pass the time. "Book of Mormon Stories" soon filled our station wagon, and to our surprise, the new bride began singing along in Chinese. Our children stopped singing and listened. "They're from Taiwan!" our children said. "How does she know our songs?"
Our children and their daughter began singing more Primary songs. Our children sang more and more verses, and the bride kept right up with them—verse for verse.
Soon everyone was involved. It became a game to see who could sing a Primary song that couldn't be sung in Chinese. We sang "I Love to See the Temple," "Tell Me the Stories of Jesus," "Love One Another," "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam," "The Golden Plates," and many more. To our astonishment, they knew them all. They even knew the actions that go along with the words of "Popcorn Popping."
Mile after mile we sailed along, singing and laughing. As we sang, our music seemed to fill me and to brighten everything around us, and my love for our Chinese guests grew without limit. For I had discovered once again that we are all brothers and sisters, children of the very same loving Father. And as members of the Church, we are bound together by the gospel of Jesus Christ and by the music that sings his praises.
Mark Cannon is a member of the Schenectady Ward, Albany New York Stake.


The team at Grill Masters Club is dedicated to the art and soul of grilling. Smoking, barbecue, turning meat and vegetables into mouthwatering grilled perfection—that's the mission. The team and their fans and customers love to try new things. Every month, Grill Masters Club sends a box of hand-selected grilling supplies: rubs, sauces, marinades, wood chips, recipes and accessories.
The company researches, tests and approves of everything they ship in every box.
Think a program like this is limited to summer grilling season? Think again. We see activity in this program year-round, with spikes around the winter holidays just like any other gift-related program! With Average Order Values in the $100 range, this is a solid program for anyone in the gourmet, outdoor, or cooking verticals. The conversion rate for content-based affiliates is around 18%.
But yeah—don't fall asleep on summer grilling season. You'll want to be involved as this program blows up.
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Festival: Hot Docs
Hot Docs – Canadian International Documentary Festival (April 26–May 6, 2012) is a competitive event seeking Canadian and international documentaries of all lengths (feature length: 60 min. or longer; mid-length: 30 to 59 min.; short: under 30 min.) and subject matter. ELIGIBILITY: Submissions must have been completed after January 1, 2011; cannot have been screened publicly prior to January 1, 2011; must be Toronto premieres; must be in English, subtitled in English; must be exhibited in one of the following screening formats: 35mm film, DigiBeta (NTSC or PAL) and HDCAM. Entry fees: $33.90 CDN for short films; $67.80 CDN (before December 2, 2011) or $118.65 CDN (before January 13, 2012) for mid and feature length films. AWARDS: Hot Docs features two juried competition programs and several noncompetitive programs. DEADLINE: December 2, 2011 (early); January 13, 2012 (late). WEBSITE: hotdocs.ca/.
Opportunities: International Film Festival Summit
International Film Festival Summit (December 4–6, 2011), held in Austin, Texas, is the largest international organization representing the film festival industry. The IFFS mission is to promote and strengthen the global film festival industry through education, networking, dissemination of information, and the cultivation of high standards. This year's featured topics include Anatomy of a Festival: South by Southwest, Programming: The Fine Art of Film Selection, Marketing Strategies: Integrating Social Media and Technology, The Festival Mission, Sponsorship Strategy, Box Office Technology Solutions, among others. Notable speakers include Richard Linklater (Before Sunrise, Before Sunset), as well as SFFS' very own Steve Jenkins, Sarah Cathers, and Linda Butler. DEADLINE: Register by September 25, 2011 to receive discounted rate. WEBSITE: filmfestivalsummit.com/iffshome.html.
Welcome to SF360
SF360.org represents a nearly six-year experiment in philanthropically funded film journalism, covering films and filmmaking in the Bay Area and beyond. Published by the San Francisco Film Society, the website debuted February 27, 2006 and was created in a unique collaboration between SFFS and Indiewire, with Susan Gerhard as editor. While SF360.org is no longer publishing feature stories, the SF360 Archive remains the most comprehensive collection of articles about the Bay Area film community, with more than 1,000 feature stories and reviews as well as Indie Toolkit's informative columns about the basics of creating a film and delivering it to audiences. Articles by some of the Bay Area's most notable voices will remain at your fingertips for the foreseeable future.
Funding: California Story Fund
The California Story Fund, presented by California Council for the Humanities (CCH), supports public humanities programs that bring light to compelling stories from California's diverse communities and provide opportunities for collective reflection and public discussion. ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must have California tax-exempt organizational status or partner with a California tax-exempt organization that will serve as a fiscal sponsor, not have an open grant with CCH, and be in good standing with CCH. Projects should be based on stories gathered from community members, include a public discussion component and at least one humanities expert. Film/video projects should not exceed a total budget of $50,000. AWARDS: Applicants may request up to $10,000, which must be matched by at least an equivalent contribution of non-federal funds or in-kind services. DEADLINE: November 15, 2011. WEBSITE: calhum.org/guidelines/guidelines_csf.htm.
Funding: San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Cultural Equity Grants
San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Cultural Equity Grants provide "financial support for the enrichment of San Francisco's multicultural landscape." ELIGIBILITY: Organization Project Grants provide up to $15,000 to support the presentation of high quality works of art and arts activities, including film and video screenings and arts festivals. All art forms will be considered. To be eligible, organizations must have 501(c)(3) status or use a fiscal sponsor. Grant Period: June 15, 2012 - December 31, 2013. AWARDS: Grants awards are up to 15,000 to support the enhancement of arts facilities in the city. DEADLINE: November 10, 2011. WEBSITE: sfartscommission.org/ceg/grants/index.html#opg.
Shoot Online: "Bodega Goes Bicoastal, Opens San Francisco Office Under Exec Producer/Partner Clint Goldman"
"Bodega, a New York-based content creation/production company, has extended its reach Westward with the opening of a San Francisco shop headed by executive producer/partner Clint Goldman." More at shootonline.com.
Funding: Durfee Foundation Artists' Resource for Completion Grants
Durfee Foundation Artists' Resource for Completion Grants give individual artists money to complete work for a specific, imminent opportunity that may significantly benefit their career. AWARDS: up to $3,500. ELIGIBILITY Artists must be Los Angeles County residents, 21 years or older and have secured an invitation from an established organization to present the work. Full-time students are ineligible. Current DEADLINE: Quarterly, current November 1, 2011. WEBSITE: durfee.org/programs/arc/index.html.
Opportunities: Rough Cuts
Rough Cuts is a series of work-in-progress documentary screenings that are produced at a variety of locations throughout San Francisco. The next event (November 14, 2011; 7:30 p.m.) features one rough cut of a feature-length documentary and then a conversation about the film. The post-screening discussion is designed to give the filmmaker a better, more objective sense of what is working and not working with the film, with particular attention paid to improving the film's structure and narrative clarity. ELIGIBILITY: Rough Cuts is currently accepting submissions for the next event. If you are editing a documentary that is over 40 minutes long and are seeking feedback, they encourage you to submit. Principal photography should have been completed, and filmmakers tare encouraged to submit films that are in the later stages of post-production. AWARDS: Invaluable feedback and constructive criticism. DEADLINE: November 1, 2011. Submissions must arrive by 5:00 p.m. WEBSITE: sfroughcuts.com/index.html.
Wired: "At Popcorn Hackathon, Coders Team With Filmmakers to Supercharge Web Video"
"Filmmakers and coders hunkered down for two days of creative collaboration here during a first-of-its-kind hackathon that explored the future of web video — specifically Popcorn.js, Mozilla's HTML5 media toolkit designed to amp up interactivity" reports Angela Watercutter. More at wired.com.
Opportunities: Cinequest Screenwriting Competition
Cinequest Screenwriting Competition, held in conjunction with the Cinequest Film Festival (February 28-March 11, 2012), is accepting submissions. ELIGIBILITY: The competition is open to screenplays of all genres and lengths up to 140 pages that have not been optioned, purchased, produced, or put into production. Scripts should be in English, properly formatted, and submitted in PDF format. Scripts written as adaptations of other works must have secured rights before being submitted. Entry fee $45-65. AWARDS: Finalists receive non-cash prizes, including exposure to literary agents, film studios, and producers. Top prize is $5,000. DEADLINE: September 26, 2011 (early); October 17, 2011 (late). WEBSITE: cinequest.org/sp_agent.php.
Opportunities: Center for Asian American Media Fellowship Program
Furthering CAAM's work to nurture Asian American media professionals and advance the field of Asian American media, the second annual CAAM Fellowship Program will connect young, talented individuals with leading professionals in the field. ELIGIBILITY: Participating fellows will have access to the leading Asian American talent in film, television and digital media. Each fellowship will be individually tailored to best fit the needs of the fellows and advisers. Fellowships will range from fully integrated collaborations to regular feedback on current projects to an ongoing dialogue about professional development. AWARDS: The CAAM Fellowship Program Retreat will allow the mentor-mentee pairs to spend two full days together in a quiet and peaceful environment where they can focus on the mentees' career, whether it is a script being developed or an acting career that needs some guidance. DEADLINE: October 17, 2011. WEBSITE: caamedia.org/filmmaker-resources/fellowship/caam-fellowship-program-2011/.
Funding: TFI Documentary Fund
The TFI Documentary Fund provides grants and guidance to exceptional filmmakers developing engaging feature-length documentaries which emphasize character and that allow audiences to consider history, culture and society through the experiences of extraordinary individuals. ELIGIBILITY: Submissions must be non-fiction motion pictures with an intended length of at least 70 minutes and should creatively document unique character(s); submissions can be in the advanced stages of development, production or post-production and must not have aired on any form. Foreign language documentaries are eligible, but must be subtitled and suitable for an American audience. Applicants must be over 18-years old. $25 entry fee. AWARDS: Grants of at least $10,000 will be awarded in 2012. DEADLINE: October 10, 2011. WEBSITE: tribecafilminstitute.org/tfi_documentary/.
Funding: TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund
The TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund supports innovative film and video artists who are living or working in Mexico, Central and South America and working independently in their efforts to reach a larger audience. ELIGIBILITY: Submissions must be animation, documentary and/or hybrid feature-length films with an intended length of at least 70 minutes. Submissions must be in production or post-production and must not have aired on any form of television, been screened publicly or have been distributed in theaters or via the internet. Projects may be in any language or dialect. Applicants must be over 18 years old. Student films and stand-alone short films are not eligible for submission. $25 entry fee. AWARDS: Last year, the Fund administered $10,000 grants to four selected films. In addition to funding, each grantee will receive a U.S. based advisor and guidance from the Tribeca Film Institute. DEADLINE: October 10, 2011. WEBSITE: tribecafilminstitute.org/filmmakers/latin_fund/.
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Priya Giri Desai documents matchmaking efforts for HIV-positives in India.
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Britta Sjogren gets a second chance to make a film about how people rebound from trauma.
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Susan Gerhard
When news of San Francisco Executive Director Graham Leggat's passing hit the web, responses were heartfelt and immediate. SF360 collects a few of those thoughts.
Funding: The Roy W. Dean LA August Grant
The Roy W. Dean Film and Writing Grants fund shorts, documentaries and low budget independent features. ELIGIBILITY: New film and video projects (including works-in-progress) that are unique and benefit the society. Student filmmakers, independent producers or independent production companies are all welcome. AWARDS: Winner gets a variety of awards including scholarships and cash prizes for different production fields. DEADLINE: August 30, 2011. WEBSITE: fromtheheartproductions.com/grant-lavideo.shtml.
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Adam Hartzell
Filmmaker talks about Chicago, identity, music and the making of 'Polish Bar.'
Voices Converge at San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
SFJFF covers broad geographic, political terrain.
'Shoes' on the Other Feet at SF Silent Film Festival
Dennis Harvey
San Francisco Silent Film Festival features the work of the most important female director of the silent era, Lois Weber.
SF Film Society Signs Lease on New Theatrical Home
SFFS to offer daily, year-round programming, classes and events in dedicated state-of-the-art theater for the first time in its 54-year history. The San Francisco Film Society and New People today announced significant news for Bay Area filmgoers: the signing of a lease that brings the Film Society's exhibition, education and filmmaker services programs and events to one primary theater on a daily, year-round basis, beginning in September. The San Francisco Film Society | New People Cinema opens its doors in September in the state-of-the art...
New People Entertainment Launches Online Channel
Press release: New People Entertainment, a film division of New People, Inc. that focuses on the licensing and distribution of Japanese films and media, has announced the beta launch of its own exclusive web channel where audiences will be able to stream a variety of the company's films and content. More at newpeoplechannel.com.
The Lunch Love Community Documentary Project
Pacific Film Archive presents The Lunch Love Community Documentary Project, featuring in-person presentations and webisodes that examine the impact of nutritional habits on youth and the current Berkeley School Lunch Initiative. More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
Olsson Feels 'Soldier's Heart' Beat
Stephen Olsson looks into novel methods of treating PTSD in 'A Soldier's Heart and the Long Road Home.'
VCinema Podcast Finds Its Audience
An Asian cinema talk-radio show broadcasts from San Mateo to the world.
Film 2010: We're Not Here to Make Friends
Hannah Eaves
'The Social Network' debate offered a moral for all of us: If you don't like this digital revolution, build one of your own.
Lukitsch Pedals into the 'Gap'
Laura Lukitsch's new project asks whether we can replace car culture with biking, public transportation and high-speed rail.
De Michiel and Constantinou Offer Food for Thought
Filmmakers with deep roots in Bay Area cinema enter the brave new world of Web broadcasting with a series on food education for children.
Ed Burns Looks to Future by Getting Back to Basics
Andrew Provost
Ed Burns offers ideas about art and marketing as he releases his new film, 'Nice Guy Johnny,' into the world.
Charles Ferguson Solves 'Inside Job'
Charles Ferguson offers intel on the world financial crisis with 'Inside Job.'
Innovative Characters, Concepts Inform New California Website
A new film/photography website offers compelling characters, bold artistry and innovative storylines.
Media Pulse: The Closed Net Threat
Sara Dosa
The looming prospect of a two-tiered internet may compromise the ability of independent filmmakers to fund, exhibit and distribute their films.
'Winnebago Man' Hits the Road
Director Ben Steinbauer and Bay Area-based producer Malcolm Pullinger talk about anger, RVs, and "going viral" with their new film.
Guevara-Flanagan Soars with 'Wonder Woman'
East Bay filmmaker Kristy Guevara-Flanagan muscles her way through her new documentary feature, The History of the Universe as Told by Wonder Woman.
A Digital Glossary
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Studio B Films Wins Telly Awards
San Francisco-based video production company recognized for work for Adobe Systems and Izze Sparkling Juice.
SFIFF53: 'At the Movies' with Roger Ebert
You know someone is well liked when they re used as the standard by which you fall short.
Link TV's ViewChange Launch
Jane Riccobono
ViewChange.org, a digital-media hub on global development, offers news about microeconomics and innovative web technology that enables users to contribute to the causes they re learning about.
Karim Ahmad on ITVS's Forward-Thinking FUTURESTATES
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Citizen Critics' New Outlets, Challenges in 2009
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After Sept. 11, 2001, A Decade Found Its Way
B. Ruby Rich
On Sept. 13, 2001, I stood in a Toronto park and spoke to Canadian television: Movies wouldn't be the same. I was wrong.
Coming Around to 'Convergence'
The 6th Screen: Hannah Eaves compiles some questions about "convergence", the increasingly popular practice of combining television and computer usage.
San Francisco Cinematheque Fall Program Underway
Max Goldberg
A year after Jonathan Marlow took the helm as executive director, the organization is showing fresh signs of life.
Cory McAbee and 'Stingray Sam'
High-concept cabaret-act favorite in the Bay Area who sidelines as a filmmaker, Cory McAbee (The American Astronaut) speaks about his latest, Stingray Sam.
E-news You Can Use
The rapid adoption of e-newsletters by documentary filmmakers is the latest example of resourcefulness and efficiency among contemporary independents.
Free and Open: Video's Cambrian Explosion
The Sixth Screen: Veteran journalists and filmmakers alike are polishing up their resumes, contemplating the hospitality industry, and wondering: Who stole my career?
Are Your "Friends" Worthless?
Fear-Free Fundraising: Are Your "Friends" Worthless?
Lawrence Jordan: to Infinity and Beyond
Sean Uyehara
Leading light of avant-garde cinema Lawrence Jordan speaks on the occasion of his Gallery Extraña show and his 75th birthday.
Connecting Here and There at the 27th SFIAAFF
Matt Sussman
This year, the festival feels like it has truly arrived as an internationally recognized platform for cross-Pacific cinematic exchange, in this disparate cross-section of films from home, abroad and places in between.
Politics Get Personal in 'Project Kashmir'
Jonathan Kiefer
Co-directors Senain Kheshgi and Geeta V. Patel, two American friends with family ties to opposite sides of the conflict, went to Kashmir together to see what they could learn–and what the rest of us could.
Veteran Berkeley Filmmaker's Baseball Doc
While ballplayers were relaxing in the off-season, Eugene Corr plowed ahead with his baseball documentary From Ghost Town to Havana.
Pamela Harris, GFEM, and Filmmaker Funding
Oakland's Pamela Harris and Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media are connecting media makers with financial resources.
Greenscreen Envy
The Sixth Screen: Senior Director of Marketing and Product Management and iFanboy producer and co-host Ron Richards talks about Revision3, the next generation of TV.
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The Sixth Screen: If you're interested in the future of online technology, 'jaguar' is the evergreen example used to explain what's called The Semantic Web.
SWAG: Free Feature Films On the Web
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What's Fair is not Foul
The Sixth Screen: The first installment of a new, monthly column by filmmaker and journalist Hannah Eaves looks at just how "fair use" is being utilized.
In Other Words: Pacific Whims
Laura Irvine
As an Asian film fan, it's a miracle I keep my day job at this time of year.
Capelle on Composers: Day Three
The final installment in the San Francisco composer and musician's blog from the 2008 SFIFF.
Capelle on Composers: Day Two
Errol Morris has a giant brain. Anybody who wants to argue against that thesis does not have a giant brain. So let's move on.
"2 Husbands," One Amazing Race?
Tanner Shea and Zach Slow have launched the 2 Husbands contest and website, where they ask women to post videos in consideration of becoming their wives.
15 Minutes of YouTube
Justin Juul
The List: A collection of individuals who caught my eye in an intense week of YouTube scouring. Most have gotten upwards of one million views.
A Superdance and a Superbowl
Wrapping up Sundance Ô07, with the NFL's big game as the best metaphor to describe the annual festival.
Second Look at 3rd I
Three days, nine films, eight shorts, and endless bliss courtesy of last weekend's fourth annual 3rd I South Asian Film Festival.
Case Studies in Indie Distribution at Digimart
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Truman Capote , 1974
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Voting Protection-Related Sites
The List: American Blackout director Ian Inaba names the top four Web sites.
TurnHere's Travel Videos
There's one resource on the Net where some of the best travel videos have congregated, the Emervyille company aptly named TurnHere.
All About Eva
The List: Ten faves from Eva Sollberger's YouTube series, The Deadbeat Club, which revisits the decade she spent working in the Bay Area film community.
Would Football By Any Other Name Smell As Sweet?
Bay Area soccer fans offer their takes on the best football films.
Ten Near Masterpieces Rescued from the Dustbin
Jonathan Marlow
An alphabetical accounting of ten titles well worth watching that somehow slipped through the cracks.
Addictive TV's VJ-style "Eye of the Pilot" at the Kabuki
An intimate group caught Addictive TV's VJ-style show of ÔEye of the Pilot' at the Kabuki, and stayed late for an enthusiastic Q&A.
Shigeta's Presence at the SFIAAFF
Chi-Hui Yang
Six degrees of James Shigeta: an actor ahead of his time sustains a presence in American and Asian American cinema.
Funding: Oppenheimer Cine Rental New Filmmaker Equipment Grant Program
The Oppenheimer Cine Rental New Filmmaker Equipment Grant Program supports new filmmakers in producing their first serious film project. The grant awards the use of Grant Program Arriflex 16SR2 camera package to senior and graduate thesis students and to independent filmmakers for a scheduled period of time. ELIGIBILITY: Students, media arts center members and unaffiliated independents are encouraged to apply. Proposed projects may be of any noncommercial nature: dramatic, narrative, documentary, experimental, etc. (Commercial projects, music videos and PSAs will not be considered.) DEADLINE: Ongoing. WEBSITE: oppenheimercinerental.com/grant.html.


Please be on the lookout for Pico in the Sauk Rapids area.
Pico is Senegal parrot who was last seen near the duck ponds walking paths. The last sighting was around 8th Ave and 7th Ave past the 12th/13th street area.
Please contact Lindsey with information at 320-492-9129.


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Tisa Farrow (THE GRIM REAPER), Ian McCulloch (CONTAMINATION), Al Cliver (CANNIBALS), and Richard Johnson (THE HAUNTING) star in this worldwide splatter sensation directed by 'Maestro of Gore' Lucio Fulci (CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD, HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY, THE BEYOND) that remains one of the most eye-skewering, skin-ripping, gore-gushingly graphic horror hits of all time!
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Zombie Wasteland – Interviews with stars Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson & Al Cliver, and actor/stuntman Ottaviano Dell'Acqua.
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Notes on a Headstone – Interview with composer Fabio Frizzi.
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Zombie Lover – Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro talks about one of his favorite films.
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Q: argparse: parse specific options first, while having all options shown in usage hint I have an application whose options handling partially depends on the value given for other options, as in
python tool.py --limit=s:100 stuff property

A simple argument parser could look like this:
import argparse
parser=argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('--limit')
parser.add_argument('stuff')
parser.add_argument('property')
args = parser.parse_args(['--limit', 's:100', 'something', '123'])

However, how the --limit argument must be handled depends on both stuff and property. I could make --limit unknown to the parser, parse only known arguments with
args, unknown = parser.parse_known_args(['--limit', 's:100', 'something', '123'])

and pass unknown to a second parser which can act according to the values of stuff and property, but then I couldn't include the second parser's help in the output of python tool.py --help, or could I?

A: You could give the first parser a custom usage parameter that includes all the arguments.  You could write that by hand, or fetch it from a (unused) parser that includes all arguments.
 astr = parser.format_usage()

fetches the usage string
 parser = ArgumentParser(usage=astr,...)

passes it to a new parser.  You may need to edit astr a bit.
Including the extra help lines will be trickier.  You could add them to the description or epilog.

The order in which arguments are parsed is determined by their order in the sys.argv.  The parser looks for positional arguments, then an optional, more positionals, next optional, etc until the strings are consumed.
As matter of philosophy I prefer to think of argparse as a parser, not a 'handler'.  It's primary purpose is to figure out what the user wants, and it give useful feedback if they want something unexpected.
Interactions between arguments are best handled after parsing.  It is possible to implement interactions with custom Action classes, but that code typically gets more complex.
In your example --limit occurs first, putting 's:100' in the namespace
Initial namespace with defaults:
namespace(limit=None, stuff=None, property=None)

namespace after parsing --limit:
namespace(limit='s:100', stuff=None, property=None)

namespace after parsing the 2 positionals:
namespace(limit='s:100', stuff='something', property=123)

The limit custom Action could look at the values for stuff and property, but that doesn't help if those strings come after.  Similarly, stuff action could look at and modify the limit attribute, but a latter --limit could overwrite that.
If you expand on how these arguments interact we could give you more concrete ideas.

Another thought - use one parser to handle the help, and handle --limit in a most general way.  Then creat or modify a new parser using the useful values from the first, and parse the input again.  The same sys.argv can be parsed multiple times by multiple parsers.  Nothing is destroyed in parsing.


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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2002)7:5(346)
Title: Development priority map for flood countermeasures by remote sensing data with geographic information system
Authors: Islam, Md.M.
Sado, K.
Keywords: Bangladesh
Issue Date: Sep-2002
Citation: Islam, Md.M., Sado, K. (2002-09). Development priority map for flood countermeasures by remote sensing data with geographic information system. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 7 (5) : 346-355. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2002)7:5(346)
Abstract: Bangladesh suffered damage on account of the most catastrophic floods of 1987, 1988, and 1998, resulting in untold suffering of the people. This paper demonstrates the technique to develop a flood hazard map and a land development priority map for counter-measures against flood damage. To create the final products, the flood hazard map and land development priority map. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) data for the flood events of 1988, 1995, and 1998 were incorporated with geographic information system data. Flood-affected frequency and flood depth categories were estimated using NOAA AVHRR images. Special attention was paid to population density for the construction of the land development priority map, because highly dense populated areas represent the highly important urban and industrial areas of Bangladesh. The land development priority map offers a new opportunity for flood risk management, planning, design, and operation of flood control measures in Bangladesh, and should be useful in assigning priorities for the development of at-risk areas.
Source Title: Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2002)7:5(346)
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Q: python3 urlopen raises 404 error while openning in the browser I'm using urllib.request with python 3.4.6 to open https://www.ethz.ch/ (The actual url is longer but the problem is the same), which opens fine with Firefox but throws a 404 error with python.
Here is the code
from urllib.request import urlopen
connection = urlopen('https://www.ethz.ch/')

and it gives the following error message
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./generate_group_meetings_ical.py", line 9, in <module>
    connection = urlopen('https://www.ethz.ch/')
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 161, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 470, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 580, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 508, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 588, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not found UA

The code used to work fine though. Another piece of information is that I'm not root on the machine and python3 was upgraded from 3.4.5 to 3.4.6. So the comes either from the web server side or from the python side. I'm not a python nor a web expert so I couldn't figure it out myself.
Hope anybody can help me.

A: Thanks to Francisco's comment and that post I could make it work with the following code
from urllib.request import Request, urlopen
req = Request('https://www.ethz.ch/', headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'})
connection = urlopen(req)

I also checked the original version with python 2.7.13 and urllib2 and it worked. Apparently python 3.5 works (answer from Laxmikant) and it was originally working under 3.4.5. So something happened in the upgrade from 3.4.5 to 3.4.6 that caused the error.

A: @Pheidippides Check for typos if any in your entire url, it worked for me:
Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 17 2016, 17:05:23)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
$>from urllib.request import urlopen
$>connection = urlopen('https://www.ethz.ch/')
$>connection.read()


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Are You Withholding the Reward?
You have probably heard the saying 'begin with the end in mind'. In other words, visualize how you want something to turn out. However, if we want more enjoyment when we do things as a family then we should begin with the WHY in mind.
I love this comment by the motivational speaker Dan Clark: "Begin with the why in mind rather than the end in mind. This allows us to reward effort rather than results." I love his comment because when adults adopt this attitude we and our kids have more fun and satisfaction in just about everything we do together.
Remember why you're going for a family drive, why you're letting the kids help you paint, why you're making cookies, why you're folding socks together or why you're preparing dinner. The purpose of just about everything we do in a family is to build relationships.
Stop worrying about how the cookies taste, how the painting looks, if all the socks got matched, if dinner tasted great, whether there's a mess, or how long the project takes. Keep your mind focused on relationship building.
As adults, we have motives that can prevent us from rewarding our family's efforts to work and play together, regardless of the outcome. These motives can make it more difficult to give ourselves a reward just for being together, for enjoying each other, for working on our relationships.
When we plan any activity, vacation, chore, etc. with our family it is almost impossible not to have an outcome in mind. However, if the family event doesn't match that outcome then it's easy to feel dissatisfied, even angry. It's important to watch our expectations.
Keep expectations from getting in the way of enjoying your family. Avoid the trap of giving up because, well, what's the use, what can they possibly be getting out of this? Keep the perfect from becoming the enemy of the good. The point is not what you teach, or how well it looks, but being together. There's great value in linking your satisfaction to being with your family even when it falls short of your expectations.
In our world, we get rewards for getting stuff done. If the job's done right, we get bigger rewards. Rewards are what we're used to.
In our families, the reward isn't a paycheck but a sense of accomplishment and a feeling of happiness. Frequently, we withhold this reward from ourselves and other family members if what we're doing doesn't turn out right, in other words, if it didn't meet our expectations. We don't give ourselves the reward for simply engaging with our family and solidifying relationships.
It's OK to reward ourselves with a sense of satisfaction and happiness even if we fall short of our expectations.
Success in any family endeavor can be measured by how people feel during and after an activity together. Is the family energized? Did you have fun? Did you feel happy being with one another? Was there a sense of satisfaction or accomplishment? Was individual esteem strengthened? Are relationships better? Is the family feeling still strong?
If we can answer yes to even one of those questions then we can reward ourselves because we will have succeeded in WHY we are together as a family – relationships!
When we remember why we do things as a family it's easier to jettison these common motives and have greater enjoyment as we work and play together.
Your family gathers at the table for dinner. You notice that one of your children's hands are filthy and send them to wash. Another child complains that now you all have to wait to say grace because of so and so's messy hands. The child with the messy hands comes back and gives their sibling a raspberry with their tongue. You intervene, remind them it's time for grace and pick someone to pray.
During the prayer, the smallest child tips their milk. They should have had hands folded for prayer but they were reaching for a slice of bread. While the family finishes grace you head to the kitchen for a towel.
Both you and your spouse feel a bit frustrated but as you wipe up the milk your husband says, "Guess what I saw today?" One of the children responds with, "What?" "Well, I saw a sign for the circus, it's coming to town." There is a round of happy comments and someone says "Can we go?" "Well, we can talk about that at our family meeting. But do you know what my favorite thing was when I went to the circus as a kid, the Kaliope." Someone responds with "The whatopee. I never heard of that." And so the conversation goes for the next few minutes. Then your oldest child asks to be excused which starts an avalanche of request to be done.
And it was nice. You all sat down together. You ate together. You kept your cool and managed your responses. You had a full five minutes of conversation as a family. No one went away feeling less than. It was a success! Reward yourself with a sense of satisfaction and a happy feeling that you are managing just fine because you are!
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Earle manages the relationships of several of our healthcare and academic institutions, as well as other non-profit organization employers in helping them fulfill their fiduciary responsibility to their plan and achieve best practices in plan administration. He also acts as a senior level resource to a number of other Cammack Retirement clients.
In his executive role, he is responsible for the development, implementation and management of strategic initiatives in the overall delivery of services to defined contribution plan clients. He oversees the procedures for production of Cammack Retirement Group's quarterly Due Diligence reports and the recordkeeper searches we conduct via a Request for Proposal process. He also leads the team that responds to requests for our advisor services. Earle works out of our New York City office.
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Entries in Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood (1)
Mr. Rogers Gets a Remix
Fotos International/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- What happens when you mix the childhood comfort of seeing Mr. Rogers in his green sweater, tying his shoe and asking you to be his neighbor with today's ramped-up technology?
A viral video that you can't stop watching.
Called "Garden of Your Mind," the video is a musical mash-up of classic scenes from the PBS children's show Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, remixed and played over and over to a slow tune.
Even more captivating is that the three-minute YouTube video gives Fred Rogers, Mr. Rogers himself, the Auto-Tune treatment, using an electronic processor to alter the pitch of voices in the clips.
"You can grow ideas in the garden of your mind," Rogers, who died in 2003, "sings" in the song's chorus.
The show went off the air in 2001, after more than 30 years of Rogers signing off with his signature, "Won't you be my neighbor?" goodbye.
PBS Digital Studios saw the video, which was posted to YouTube on Thursday, as a way to pay tribute to a hero, the station said, and found an unlikely Mr. Rogers fan in the world of music to produce it.
"When we discovered video mash-up artist John D. Boswell, aka melodysheep, on YouTube, we immediately wanted to work together," PBS Digital Studios explained in a statement on its YouTube channel. "Turns out that he is a huge Mr. Rogers Neighborhood fan, and was thrilled at the chance to pay tribute to one of our heroes."
Perhaps more intriguing is that PBS says the Mr. Rogers remix is just the first of several iconic personalities from PBS shows that will get the Auto-Tune treatment, meaning Sesame Street in Auto-Tune could be next.
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tagged Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, Viral Video, YouTube in Celebrities, Entertainment General, Television


As of February 28, 2017, the prices of Xbox Live subscriptions will be decreasing. If your subscription is currently set to auto-renew before Feb 28, 2017, you will be charged the current price at the time of your next scheduled auto-renewal. If your subscription is currently set to auto-renew after Feb 28, 2017, you will be charged the new price at the time of your next scheduled auto-renewal.
To change how you pay for Xbox Live Gold, check your renewal date or cancel your subscription please visit https://account.microsoft.com/services.
We occasionally update pricing in a given market to address changing market conditions. For example, changes in currency value. We do so always keeping in mind that our goal is to offer our members the premium gaming and entertainment service at a fair price. In this case, there are a small number of markets we will be updating Xbox Live Gold pricing in. We have notified members whose accounts are on auto-renew in those countries so they are aware well in advance.
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Q: Deixar a barra centralizada usando dragdealer.js Estou usando essa biblioteca para criar barras que o usuário possa interagir: http://skidding.github.io/dragdealer.
Gostaria que a barra de arrastar começasse no 0, ou seja, no meio da barra:

Porém, a tenho da seguinte forma:

HTML:

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CSS:
#just-a-slider {
   height: 60px;
   width: 100%;
   border-radius: 3px;
  -webkit-flex-wrap: wrap;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
  -webkit-align-content: center;
   align-content: center;
}
#just-a-slider .handle {
   height: 60px;
   line-height: 60px;
   border-radius: 3px;
   background-color:#2c3e50;
}

JavaScript:
$(function() {
   new Dragdealer('just-a-slider', {
      animationCallback: function(x, y) {
         $('#just-a-slider .value').text(Math.round(x = 100-x*200));
         if (x <0 ) {
            $('#just-a-slider .value').text(Math.round(x = -x));;
         }
      }
   });
})

A: Basta usar o método setValue para especificar o valor inicial desejado. Veja a função com algumas otimizações:
d = new Dragdealer('just-a-slider', {
    animationCallback: function(x, y) {
        document.getElementById('value').innerText = Math.abs( Math.floor(x*200-100) );
    }
});

// Aqui setamos o valor inicial:
d.setValue(0.5, 0, true);

Veja o demo no JS Fiddle.
Notas:

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*No HTML acertei o ID do seu código, tinha um 4 sobrando no final do just-a-slider;

*troquei o class do value por ID, para facilitar o update do valor sem complicações;

*No callback eu eliminei a dependência do jQuery, para ficar um demo mais adequado para uso geral;

*A função Math.abs retorna o número sempre positivo, eliminando a necessidade do if que você utilizou no Callback. Que por sinal, tinha duas atribuições x = que eu imagino não serem necessárias.
Segue o HTML atualizado:

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Record Results Again
St Saviour's and St Olave's is delighted to announce its best ever set of GCSE results. 82% of our Year 11 students achieved the key benchmark of 5 A* to C including English and Mathematics. This represents a 4% improvement on our previous best which was achieved last year.
We are exceptionally proud of not only the attainment of our girls, but also their progress with 93% of students in English and 91% in Maths achieving the Government's target of three levels progress between key stage 2 and key stage 4. Our successes extended to a range of different subjects with a record 45% of our students achieving the EBacc group of qualifications.
A summary of the figures can be found below:
82% of students achieved the main government benchmark of 5 A* to C grades including English and Maths;
90% of students achieved 5 A* to C grades;
44% of students achieved the English Baccalaureate;
82% of students achieved A* to C grades in Mathematics;
97% of students achieved A* to C grades in English;
78% of students achieved 2 A* to C grades in Science.
Amongst an array of fantastic results, there were some outstanding outcomes for individual students.
Headteacher, Catherine May, expressed her delight: "Congratulations to all of our year 11 students on these wonderful results. 82% achieving 5A*-C grades including English and Maths is the best in the school's history and I am so proud of the girls. They have worked extremely hard along with our totally dedicated teaching and support staff, and I'm delighted their effort has been so well rewarded. We look forward to them achieving further success in the 6th Form."
Director of Learning (Key Stage 4), Anne Marie Jones, said: "These are a fantastic set of results, the best ever and richly deserved by a hard-working year group. I warmly congratulate Year 11 and wish them every success for the future."


Have you ever walked into your local grocery store, bought over $100 worth of items, purchased these items and walked out the store casually?
What if I told you that your receipt of the purchases you made could earn you up to $5000 cash without spending an extra penny!
Hi my name is Christopher Alemao and I would like to introduce to you my app called: Receipt Cash.
I am a third year University of Toronto student studying Machine Learning and Data Mining.
I came across this idea when I was leaving my local grocery store and was reading over my receipt when I came across a part at the end which stated that I could win over $5000 simply by filling out a survey online!
Not many people take advantage of this golden opportunity and thereby miss the chances of ever winning.
I would like to give this opportunity to the customers by developing an easy to use app that allows them to seamlessly scan their given receipt, fill out the survey and submit it for a chance to win!
Step 2: Customer log into the app by using their google account, facebook account or entering an email address to get verified.
Step 3: Once the customer has created an account, they will be brought to a screen that tells them to scan a copy of their receipt.
Step 4: The app will correctly identify the name of the store and bring up the correct survey according to that particular store.
Step 5: The customer will fill out the survey and it will be sent to the particular stores website server to be submitted.
Step 6: After filling out the survey the customer will be given the option to either save its copy and answers for next time or delete it from their account based on their experiences.


How has a relatively new company—built in just 2004— become a customer-centric leader? The answer: by using customer feedback as a guide for improvement. Within the first year of using Medallia to monitor and improve experiences, Tory Burch has reduced detractors by 12% and decreased the spread in NPS points across all stores by 15 NPS points, thereby delivering consistent transformational experiences across the globe.


Place a few saucers in the freezer for testing the jelly and then fill a large preserving pan with the chopped quinces. Cover with cold water and simmer for 2 hours or until fruit is soft.
Line a large bowl with clean muslin or cheesecloth and pour in the mixture. Bring the ends together and tie to a stick so that it hangs above the bowl and leave to drip overnight.
Measure the juice, adding 500ml caster sugar for each 600ml juice.
Add the lemon juice, geranium leaves, if using, or the rose water. Boil until setting point is reached. Remove any scum from the surface as you go. Be patient. The jelly is ready when a spoonful on a frozen saucer forms a wrinkled skin when you push a finger through it.
Fill sterilised jars with hot jelly and screw on lids tightly. Invert the jars for an hour, then store upright. Leave for the flavour to intensify for a couple of weeks before eating.


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The Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has declared German Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to media reports, the death of their mother his condolences. The two of you were together on the phone, reported the Turkish Pro-government media. Merkel's mother, Herlind Kasner, had died at the age of 90 years. In the interview, Erdogan's with the Chancellor, it had been in addition to bilateral relations, it said in the Report.


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I Gotta Make It is the debut studio album by American R&B recording artist Trey Songz. It was released on July 26, 2005, by Atlantic Records.

Background
Recording sessions took place from 2004 to 2005, with Trey Songz' then mentor Troy Taylor, alongside Mike Caren and Delante Murphy serving as the records executive producers, while the additional production by Warryn Campbell and Bei Maejor; additionally, there are four guest appearances from American rappers Twista, Juvenile and T.I., alongside American R&B singer Aretha Franklin.

The album was supported by two singles: "Gotta Make It" featuring Twista, and "Gotta Go". The album debuted at number 20 on the US Billboard 200.

Singles
The title track, called "Gotta Make It" was released as the first single from the album on November 23, 2004. The song features guest verse from American rapper Twista, while the production was provided by Trey Songz' then mentor Troy Taylor.

The album's second and final single, called "Gotta Go" was released on July 9, 2005. The song was produced by Troy Taylor.

Critical reception

Andy Kellman of AllMusic said that the album "is both very enjoyable and full of promise, carrying a fine balance between throwback and modern hip-hop soul".

Track listing
Information is taken from Liner Notes and Discogs.com except where noted. Tracks 1–6 & 8–17: Vocals produced by Trey Songz Tracks 5–7, 10 & 12: Vocals produced by Troy Taylor. Tracks 2–6, 8–10 & 12–17 feature Background Vocals performed by Trey Songz & Troy Taylor

Sample credits
 "Gotta Make It" contains elements from "It's Forever" performed by The Ebonys.
 "Cheat on You" contains elements from "(Let Me Put) Love on Your Mind" performed by Con Funk Shun.
 "Gotta Go" and "Gotta Go (Reprise)" contains elements from "Child" performed by 21st Century.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

Trey Songz albums
2005 debut albums
Albums produced by Maejor
Albums produced by Scott Storch
Albums produced by J. R. Rotem
Albums produced by Troy Taylor (record producer)
Albums produced by Warryn Campbell
Atlantic Records albums

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Directed by Patric Ullaeus, the clip finds the band performing the track in the middle of a fiery blaze.
"We've fought through giant private obstacles as well as an extremely complicated break-in at our headquarters studio to bring this album to you. So at the same time as it's certainly not been painless or at all easy, it's been rewarding in new ways and our creativity has been painted in colors of honesty and sincerity.
Enjoy the clip below, featuring guitarist Henrik Danhage decimating his Charvel Star.


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Ministerial panel to go into garbage plant issue
| Thiruvananthapuram, April 19 | Updated on: Apr 19, 2012
Garbage crisis in Kerala capital worsens
The State Cabinet has set up a sub-committee to deal with the issues pertaining to the reopening of the garbage treatment plant at Vilappilsala near here.
The Ministers for Panchayats, Urban Affairs and Health will be members, the Chief Minister, Mr Oommen Chandy, told newspersons here.
The team will liaise with the Vilappilsala panchayat authorities.
The plant had been lying closed in the face of strong protests from locals against alleged health hazards emanating from its continued operation.
The Supreme Court had recently rejected the appeal of the panchayat against reopening of the plant run by Thiruvananthapuram Corporation.
This is what has necessitated fresh round of confabulations between the State government and the panchayat administration.
VILLAGE OFFICES
The Cabinet also decided to take forward the 'one village, one panchayat' policy so that every panchayat will have a village office.
The State government will soon collect data about panchayats without a village office and those having more than one village office.
As the first step, a village office will be set up in Seethathode panchayat of Pathanamthitta district. Vacancies of village officers will be filled.
A land acquisition unit will be set up in Kannur under a deputy collector to acquire land for the widening of national highway.
Land acquisition for rehabilitation of landless tribals in Wayanad will be fast-tracked.
The Cabinet has also given financial clearance for the cochlear implant scheme for children. It will be inaugurated in Kozhikode on April 30.
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Vladimir Putin & Russia 2021-April 2022
The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)
Are we seeing the beginning of the end of Putinism?
By Michael McFaul
(WaPo Opinion) Wartime leaders change generals when they're losing, not winning. On Jan. 11, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff, was to replace Sergei Surovikin, who was appointed just a few months earlier in October….
This shake-up at the top of the military is not the only sign of Putin's recognition of failure. He canceled his annual end-of-year news conference, evidently reluctant to take questions even from a mostly loyal and controlled press corps. His solitary and subdued appearance at the Cathedral of the Annunciation in the Kremlin on Orthodox Christmas communicated little confidence.
His propagandists sound depressed. Strikingly, one of them, Sergei Markov, summed up the previous year by stating bluntly, "The USA was the main winner of 2022. Especially Biden." Newspaper reporter Maksim Yusin recently said on a talk show that Russia's "special military operation" had achieved none of its original goals. Former Putin adviser Sergei Glazyev lamented in public that Russia does not have a clear end objective, a sound ideology or the resources to win the war against the collective West.
… Putin's societal support is soft and declining. Public opinion polls show he still enjoys popular support. But these polls in Russia have high refusal rates, which should not be surprising in a country where you can go to jail for 15 years for "public dissemination of deliberate false information about the use of Russian Armed Forces." The minority responding to these polls supports the regime, but the majority who choose not to respond likely do not. And even these highly flawed polls show little enthusiasm and declining support for the war, and a solid majority ready to support Putin if he ends the invasion. Anxiety about the conflict is growing. And the demographics of his support are clear: The older, more rural, less educated and poorer support Putin in greater numbers than the younger, more urban, more educated, wealthier Russians. Putin is losing the future.
Putin's Last Stand – The Promise and Peril of Russian Defeat
By Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage
(Foreign Affairs January/February 2023) … It…appears that Russia is headed for defeat. Less certain is what form this defeat will take. Three basic scenarios exist, and each one would have different ramifications for policymakers in the West and Ukraine.
The first and least likely scenario is that Russia will agree to its defeat by accepting a negotiated settlement on Ukraine's terms. That said, a Russian government—under Putin or a successor—could try to retain Crimea and sue for peace elsewhere. To save face domestically, the Kremlin could claim it is preparing for the long game in Ukraine, leaving open the possibility of additional military incursions.
A second scenario for Russian defeat would involve failure amid escalation. The Kremlin would nihilistically seek to prolong the war in Ukraine while launching a campaign of unacknowledged acts of sabotage in countries that support Kyiv and in Ukraine itself. In the worst case, Russia could opt for a nuclear attack on Ukraine. The war would then edge toward a direct military confrontation between NATO and Russia. Russia would transform from a revisionist state into a rogue one, a transition that is already underway, and that would harden the West's conviction that Russia poses a unique and unacceptable threat.
The final scenario for the war's end would be defeat through regime collapse, with the decisive battles taking place not in Ukraine but rather in the halls of the Kremlin or in the streets of Moscow. Putin has concentrated power rigidly in his own hands, and his obstinacy in pursuing a losing war has placed his regime on shaky ground. Russians will continue marching behind their inept tsar only to a certain point.
Don't Fear Putin's Demise
Victory for Ukraine, Democracy for Russia
By Garry Kasparov and Mikhail Khodorkovsky
(Foreign Affairs) Pro-democracy Russians who reject the totalitarian Putin regime—a group to which the authors belong—are doing what they can to help Ukraine liberate all occupied territories and restore its territorial integrity in accordance with the internationally recognized borders of 1991. We are also planning for the day after Putin. The Russian Action Committee, a coalition of opposition groups in exile that we co-founded in May 2022, aims to ensure that Ukraine is justly compensated for the damage caused by Putin's aggression, that all war criminals are held accountable, and that Russia is transformed from a rogue dictatorship into a parliamentary federal republic.
Wartime Putinism – What the Disaster in Ukraine Has Done to the Kremlin—and to Russia
By Michael Kimmage and Maria Lipman
(Foreign Affairs) Wartime Putinism is a reduced Putinism, and it would be impossible to describe today's Russia (to Russians) as an ascendant power. It is, rather, an embattled power. This explains the frenzied media campaign to drum up support for the war, which masks the fact that Putin has committed Russia to a long cycle of stagnation. Isolation and sanctions will together contribute to Russia's economic and technological decline. Nobody can say how long Putin can walk this dispiriting tightrope. Putin's warpath does not lead from point A to point B but is a circuitous route that leads from point A back to point A. A fine-tuned method for avoiding failure, wartime Putinism has all the hallmarks of a dead end.
Russia's Eugenic War
Four policies of racial cleansing
The onset of the war, and then the announcement of mobilization, drove much of the Russian intelligentsia and the middle classes abroad. From Putin's point of view, this was a necessary "self-cleansing," in which Russia was "spitting out" traitors (his phrasing) like insects. In the initial invasion force, and then among the mobilized, Russia's ethnic minorities were over-represented. This too changes the complexion of Russia's multiethnic population, leaving it more Russian. Third, Russia is now emptying its prisons to send these men to fight and die in Ukraine. This too is explicitly presented as a purification of the Russian population.
These actions all involve the reduction of the population of the Russian Federation. A fourth racial action more than compensates for this. It is the systematic seizure of Ukrainian women and children and their deportation into the vastness of Russia. From the territories occupied by Russia some three million people have been deported, disproportionately young women and children. At least two hundred thousand and as many as 700,000 children have been taken by force to Russia. (For comparison: Nazi Germany deported about 200,000 Polish children for assimilation during the entire Second World War.) The logic is that the women will have to marry Russian men and that the children will grow up as Russians.
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The New Act on IORPs is coming!
On 20 December 2018, Parliament passed the act transposing directive (EU) 2016/2341 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2016 on the activities and supervision of institutions for occupational retirement provisions (the so-called IORP II directive; here, the "Directive") and also amending the Act of 27 October 2006 on the supervision of institutions for occupational retirement provisions (the "Act on IORPs").
This Act (the "New Act") transposes the Directive into Belgian law. The Belgian legislator thereby faithfully incorporated the provisions of the Directive, but also made some limited changes to the Act on IORPs.
The New Act enters into force on 13 January 2019, which means that the Belgian legislator respected the deadline for transposing the Directive into Belgian law. There are transitional measurements for pension funds or institutions for occupational retirement provisions ("IORPs") existing on 13 January 2019.
The FSMA is said to be working on no fewer than 11 circular letters which will lay out the IORPs guidelines and recommendations on implementing the new obligations. These circular letters will, most likely, be published on the FSMA's website in the following months. IORPs must take these into account when implementing the obligations of the New Act.
In this Newsletter we list for you the most important changes.


Thanks! Yes we did have more technical insight from the engineers, but most of the musicians didn't even remember which models they owned or from what years they came... i.e. one artist said he used the Rhodes on every session in the early 60s... and the Rhodes wasn't even around then so, we had to monitor the accuracy :). Generally when I asked them what their favorite Rhodes was, they would say "one that works." So then there's that haha. It was unanimous though that all the artists preferred the suitcase models.
Donated.... and excited to watch it when it arrives! Thanks!
Just arrived in the mail and looking forward to watching it this weekend!
Thanks again for all your comments, Earth Wind & Fire fans will enjoy Larry Dunn's webisode posted below. Appreciate your shares and support!
This Rhodes sounds AWESOME, I wish mine sounded like this, betcha!
Hey Ben would you please share with us, how did you record the rhodes on this take?
Hey Abraham! It started with a really well set up piano obviously, but on the 5-pin Rhodes I have a little more overtone adjusted in to the tonebar setting. So they're a little closer to center on the pickups which helps bring out more of a mid-range sound that I feel is missing on the EQ curve of the 5-pin preamps.
It was recorded direct out, from the suitcase amp. This helped eliminate room noise or other "clicks" and "pops" that would show up on a microphone.
With the direct signal, some plate reverb was added for that vintage sound. Lastly, a little more EQ was added for that missing mid-high range. But the secret really is just to take a lot of time on each note and really set up the piano well.
Appreciate any opportunity to share them on Facebook or other social nets to spread to word. Thanks again for your support!
I wanted to make a special announcement, the book version of our documentary is finally complete and now available!
Through Hal Leonard books, we have published a nearly 300 page color book with the full length interviews from the musicians, many never-before-seen photos of the artists and a lot of Rhodes history. Included in the back cover is the exclusive Blu-Ray HD version of the documentary as well, with superior video quality and bonus interviews. It has been a huge undertaking, and we are very excited for its release.
To order a copy, please visit our website at www.fenderrhodesstory.com which has links to online ordering.
Thanks for everyone's continued support, please follow us on facebook, twitter etc. and help us continue the legacy of the Fender Rhodes!
We've been in front of him on multiple occasions and he's been receptive to the idea. We're still excited for when he's willing and ready to have time to come through for the project.
I own the DVD, and it's great.
Is this book pretty much just a transcript of the documentary?
If not, how much additional material is in the book.
I know the doc focused mainly on the players and their styles. Does this book have sections on the mechanics etc. of the Rhodes?
Hey Ray! The book includes the unedited full interviews from each player and CBS techs. To put it into perspective, the film is about 2 hours - all the footage transcribed into the book equals 40+ hours of footage. Needless to say, there is a ton more information that we didn't include in the film for the sake of run-time on a movie.
There are definitely great stories from the CBS folks talking about the factory, the production line, design, inner mechanics and more. The focus is definitely on the players that made it famous and their music, but I learned a lot myself when we conducted the full interviews with the original techs like Steve Woodyard and Mike Peterson.
There are also some incredible photos from the 40s 50s and 60s that I had never seen before, and have to give a huge thank you to Kenneth Manning for making that happen.
Thanks a lot Ben. It was a pleasure being a part of this project and can't wait to get my copy of the book. Great work guys(Ben & Gerald)!
Already enjoy the video, but can't imagine not having the book to accompany it, Ordered! Well put together, thanks for your efforts and can't wait for the delivery!
I ordered before one hour !
Maybe the first one to enter Greece!
P.S: Amazing stuff too Kenneth !
Watched "Down the Rhodes" last night. Excellent work, very well done. Thanks!
Any Executone sightings/information in the book and/or movie?
Haha I believe Kenneth had/has one and did have photos, but I will say a couple of rare birds have landed in there.
bjammerz, what's the story behind that pimp suitcase you're playing in the doc?
Ben , also what kind of setting did you perform on that "unreal " Fender Rhodes suitcase in the dvd ?The one that appears in most of the videos (Ray Manzarek etc).
Haha - the pimp suitcase aka "Solid Gold" was set out to be my building of the ultimate Rhodes.
It started out as a 1974 suitcase 73, one of my preferred eras and I also prefer the 73 key sound vs 88 sound. However, I wasn't a fan of how relatively low output the Peterson power supply is on stage. So I wanted to pair the top with a speaker cabinet from late 70s with the more powerful 5-pin power supply. As well, I really like the Eddy Reynolds EQ mod that was done to Peterson preamps - so the custom preamp I have is modeled after that sound, powered by a "Janus" 5-pin amp with a '74 top. For me it's the best of all 3 worlds and the piano is killer.
Of course it was also a total internal restoration, even changing out so-so tines, recapping the keys, key bushing job etc. so it's pretty new. Jensen C12N speakers.
I designed the faceplate online from Front Panel Express which turned out great. Found some gold shiny tolex-ish material, custom fabric for the speaker cloth - but my favorite is the "Chameleon" paint job on the lid. So in different lights, it's from green to gold to brown sparkle, from Alsa Corp.
I haven't had it out in the sunlight to capture the full effect so I'll snap a good picture in the near future.
That suitcase 88 is also a 1974, and I've been over that piano meticulously time and time again. I have a good deal of overtone compared to fundamental set up in the tonebars... the 88s tend to be muddier for me so I try to get some more mid-range out of them. Just a lot of time invested in adjusting each note, swapping out funky tines and playing with sustain in the high register... There are a couple funny moments where you catch a sticking key to which I always say, "I can't win!" haha.
For the film it was recorded stereo line-out of the power amp, and some slight EQ and reverb. But it's all really how the piano is set up to get a good sound.
bjammerz, did you put backchecks in your pianos?
It looked like George Duke's piano had backchecks, other than that it didn't look like any piano in the doc did (though I don't remember paying attention to that detail on "Solid Gold").
I've actually grown accustom to the action without backchecks. Pianos should have them by nature of an action design though.
I'm definately more of a tech than a player, but I'm suprised that more players don't consider back-checks a must-have mod.
Just receive the Book along with the blue ray .
This is a must for every Rhodes fun on earth .
This is a dream came true : A book full of Fender Rhodes story and not only.
Amazing testimonies from dozen of players.Plus photos etc.
THANKS BEN AND JERALD !
Just watched the video (MP4 download). Then watched it again with the wife, and afterward she handed me a shopping list of CD's to buy! Fortunately I had some of the material on LP, but I still spent 10x the cost of the video buying music!
Very well done Benjamin! That must have been an amazing experience getting to interview all those legends. The editing and recording was superb! I especially liked how the person interviewed would play a part of a song and then you would continue that song in the background. I assume this was a loop of their performance as it appeared seamless. And boy can those guys still lay it down. Wow!
Oh, and my wife loved the story of Phillinganes asking Stevie to call his Mom - hysterical!
Thanks very much for the support :) Gerald and I spent a great amount of time making sure it would become a quality film and book. My brother Chris Bove is an editor for PBS so he had the experience to bring together the footage in a very creative way.