We think of Homebrew as our startup (it just happens to be one that writes checks instead of code). And we've definitely had to deal with the typical startup challenges while getting Homebrew off the ground, including fundraising. While cloud services, open source software and engineering outsourcing/offshoring have driven down the costs of starting a technology company, I've been dismayed at how little impact technology has had on aspects of company-building that have nothing to do with the the traditional technology stack, such as obtaining credit, finding office space and buying insurance. There is still tremendous opportunity to improve the costs and efficiency of creating businesses, especially small businesses that are part of the Bottom Up Economy. We've learned this first hand over the past few months.
– Fund formation. Legal work, including for our fundraising (akin to company formation and fundraising for startups), took us 100 days, required countless state and federal forms and cost us about $125k in legal fees (yikes!). And because we're a VC, we had to purchase a special type of insurance called Venture Capital Asset Protection, which protects us in case we get sued while performing our duties as board directors of the companies we invest in. We obtained our policy through a broker and pay about $15k annually to cover us. Finally, we conducted a trademark search and registered our name, which required using a separate trademark lawyer and incurred about $3k in fees. While fund formation is clearly a high class problem, small businesses usually need to complete similar steps when starting up. They need to incorporate, register the business, seek trademark protection and get liability insurance. While we had the benefits of time and resources, most startups don't. Yet, beyond a now dated LegalZoom, little seems to have been done to decrease the cost and complexity for new businesses.
– Office space. It took us two real estate agents and about 7 months to find and move into our offices (3200 sqft at a bit over $10k per month). The good news is that in most commercial real estate markets, San Francisco included, tenants don't pay broker fees (lots of startups don't seem to know this….hire an agent!). However, landlords can make you jump through hoops, including providing financial statements, certificates of incorporation, etc., to sign a lease. As a startup much of this is hard, if not impossible, to provide. But it doesn't end there, once you find office space you need to find a real estate lawyer to review your lease agreement (cost us about $2000) and get lease insurance ($2700 through an insurance broker). In both cases, we relied on our real estate agent to recommend a service provider as there wasn't any good way of "shopping" for one. Is there anyone out there working on a Zillow or Trulia for commercial real estate?
– Office outfitting. Furniture, internet service, janitorial service, utilities, electricians, movers, painters, food and drink. These things add up, even if you're just opting for IKEA and Costco. And they take time because there are no good sources for identifying providers, for comparing pricing and quality or for scheduling. Even with the help of friends, all of this took countless hours, appointments and emails. The most frustrating was furniture, which took 4-8 weeks (and counting!) for delivery with no regular visibility into a delivery status. And we know we're not alone in struggling through these items because we hear about them regularly from founders and small business owners we meet.
– Hiring. For small businesses, hiring is still done through personal networks, walk-ins or Craigslist. Given that we were looking for more than just an employee, a true founding member of the Homebrew family, we relied exclusively on our personal networks. The process didn't cost money but it took 5 months of interviews, reference checks and social outings to vet candidates. We were fortunate that all of that time and energy resulted in finding a great Director of Operations. Unfortunately, for small businesses, they rarely have the luxury of that much time to find a qualified employee.
– Health insurance. Our Director of Operations is an employee so the State of California requires us to carry workers' compensation insurance. Again, we worked through a broker and obtained a policy that costs us $240 annually for one employee. We also needed health insurance for our team. This was possibly the most painful experience that we had even though we worked through a broker. The list of reasons why is too long to delineate but it includes: 1) not being able to obtain insurance without 6 weeks of payroll 2) needing to provide proof of insurance for one employee who opted out of coverage (?!?) 3) completing over 16 different forms for only two covered employees 4) having to provide partnership agreements, ownership structure and our Certificate of Formation for who knows what reasons 5) requiring a paper check for payment of the first month's premium to initiate coverage and 6) taking over 3 months from start to finish (our insurance finally kicked in on 8/1). And all of this is for a process that is completely opaque and results in what we hope is good insurance given the $2500 per month to cover two employees and their families. The vast majority of small businesses rely on insurance brokers for finding and maintaining health care coverage and no doubt face the same questions and frustrations we did.
– Banking. As a startup in Silicon Valley there are plenty of banks that will service you, so finding a bank is not a problem. However, the process of actually opening an account takes countless paper forms and hours of back and forth with the bank. And if you want a business credit card, good luck. Homebrew is a $35 million fund with large institutional investors and we still couldn't qualify for a credit card with reasonable limits and fees from a number of banks. After six weeks, we were finally approved for a card from Amex on the back of my personal credit card history. Imagine the pain if you're a small business on Main Street!
– Payroll. Maybe the easiest thing we did because of our outsourced CFO and ZenPayroll (wish we could have invested but Homebrew didn't exist then!). Most small businesses still rely on ADP or Paychex but it's great to see a better solution available.
– Web Presence. Finding and negotiating for a web domain, designing a logo, building a website that works well on mobile, choosing a web host and setting up various online identities (blog, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, AngelList) takes time and can cost significant amounts of money. We have the benefit of having worked in technology for years (and it still wasn't painless), but for a small business that wants to have a meaningful online and social media presence, the resources available to help understand its needs, find options and learn how to use them, are still incredibly disparate and unclear. The number of options available are limitless but the information needed to make intelligent decisions is rarely available.
– Infrastructure. We're a completely cloud-based company so we use Google Apps for email, Google Docs for document creation, DropBox as our file system and Base for CRM. Selecting a CRM system was the most difficult of these choices because there are so many options in the market and no good way to compare them. We also chose to buy a printer/scanner/copier because as much as we want to be a paperless office, it's hard to avoid paper completely in our business. Fortunately, we didn't need a POS system, merchant account, accounting system (our outsourced CFO uses Xero), etc. like many small businesses do because I think I would have pulled the little that remains of my hair out trying to figure all of that out.
As a fund, we had the luxury of raising our money upfront and having ample time to work through these issues as there was no clock ticking. But for small businesses, the costs and the time taken away from selling and serving customers can mean the difference between success and shutting the doors. There is so much friction involved in the process of establishing a new business and relatively little has been done to make it easier. We hope that Homebrew can play a part in changing that. Over the past few months, we've put in place a lot of the foundation to support entrepreneurs participating in the Bottom Up Economy. We're going to share as much as we can along the way – both the good and the bad – to be transparent about our work and to encourage more innovation in support of the Bottom Up Economy.
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The salmon are in on the Chicago lakefront. If you get a chance, go to any harbor and cast a spoon. This is from this morning. My son caught a coho and a brown trout in about 15 minutes.
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Wish I could run up there for some fishing. Would LOVE to catch a load of them.
Very cool!!!!Are they good to eat?
WF- I don't like the trout but the salmon are great.
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"I'm very happy to see that Respect the Gift has made it to #1 at the top of the chart," says Sutherland, who is currently working on his debut solo album from home in remote Attawapiskat First Nation. "I'm really proud of the song, and glad that fans are liking it."
Respect the Gift continues to earn airplay in Canada, Germany, Australia, and the United States, while the music video is closing in on 40k views. Watch the video now!
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One of the design highlights is the 'star blanket' that first bursts onto screen at 00:48 before coming back in different variations (including a dazzling 'disco' version!). Star blankets are significant to Indigenous culture in that they are often given as gifts and represent the act of giving.
A cross-country production story, it was shot in Oct 2020 at The Chroma Ranch in rural Manitoba, with a tiny Winnipeg production crew and Winnipeg dancers, animator Justin Stephenson (Gord Downie's The Secret Path) working remotely from Toronto, and Sutherland isolated in Attawapiskat.
We would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario (Music Recording Projects) for assistance to record music demos. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts (Digital Originals) for assistance to make the music video.
Copyright © 2021 Adrian Sutherland d/b/a Midnight Shine Music. All Rights Reserved.

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'Crossroads studies are the only reason I am alive today'
by Aaron Mueller | Sep 19, 2018 | Latest News, Stories
Most of Esteban's life has been an ongoing battle against drugs and alcohol.
At age 12, he began experimenting with marijuana and other drugs. By age 17, he was an alcoholic and cocaine addict. At age 25, he landed in a drug rehab program. He would return to rehab nine times by his 40th birthday.
"I was never able to quit drugs until I came to prison," Esteban said.
But without drugs, his life felt empty.
"I have tried to commit suicide twice. I'd pretty much given up on life in prison," Esteban said. "Until I started Crossroads."
In 2010, Esteban began the Crossroads Prison Ministries mentorship program. Through the Crossroads Bible studies and encouraging letters from his mentors, Esteban has found new life.
"In the last few years, I've gotten closer to God. My Crossroads studies are the reason I am alive today," he said. "I know now where to look for help when I'm feeling lonely, depressed, anxious and sad."
Crossroads studies also helped Esteban to come to a place where he could repent of his past sins and find forgiveness in Christ. "I know I'm not perfect and have a lot of work to do. But God is with me," he said.
For the past six years, Esteban has been studying with his Crossroads mentor, Diane.
"The letters of encouragement my mentor sends me are always a blessing," Esteban said. "I couldn't wait to hear from Diane and receive her input."
He shares the letters from Diane with the other prisoners in his unit. It's a way of sharing the Gospel with his neighbors, Esteban says.
"Esteban is a man of determination," Diane said. "He is determined to fully put his trust in God's plan for his life. Esteban has his ear close to God's heart."
Esteban is now in Crossroads's Tier 3 level of study where he is taking seminary-level Bible courses and learning about how to become a spiritual leader in his facility.
Do you want to share the hope of the Gospel with men and women in prison, like Esteban? Find out how to become a Crossroads mentor.
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I believe that currently far too many of us believe in the 'struggle', and not the necessary snuggle. We laud and magnify the people who have 'struggled' and thrived (or who tell us that they have struggled and thrived). The messages of competition and zero sum; in sports, in reality TV, in politics, are consistent and clear; life is a struggle, there is a winner and there are losers. There is no other meaning, just winning or for most of us, losing. And sadly, it is often the losers themselves who get caught in this deadly thinking trap.
Quite frankly friends, this zero sum game we believe we are playing is very dangerous because it assumes that competition is the only important element in our lives. Income inequality, a lost middle class, a generation of well educated young people most of whom cannot find full and fulfilling employment, xenophobia, homophobia and sexism on the rise and the anxiety and fear driven by a real or imagined constant threat of terror are all signs of a very serious if not terminal illness. I submit that all of them are related to excessive competition, winners and losers. We are instead to choose life. And that is the good news; that while competition can be important and healthy in many ways, cooperation and companionship is vital, it is the way of life.
Take time to reflect on all of the people who loved, supported, coached and challenged you in life, and give a prayer of thanksgiving for their contributions to your life.
Be challenged by the call of wisdom a life of love and forgiveness, and that is not an easy life. To love and forgive is much more difficult than to compete and crush.
Find ways of investing and participating in co-operative business models like credit unions and housing co-ops. They are amazing ways of bringing life and cooperation back into the economy. Check out Douglas Rushkoff's 2016 book, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus for more ideas.
May you find snuggling, co-operation and companionship in your work and life this week.


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Louis van Gaal's jigsaw puzzle with new-boy Radamel Falcao adding to his striking options
SQUEEZING Radamel Falcao into his Manchester United side will be one problem Louis van Gaal is happy to have.
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SUPER STAR: The Colombian adds to Van Gaal's options [GETTY]
The United boss could not say no when one of the world's top strikers was offered to him and it is a massive coup for a team outside of the Champions League to land him.
The possibility of a deal first came to United's attention on Sunday afternoon and they moved swiftly to secure the Colombian striker.
His agent Jorge Mendes also offered him to Arsenal and Manchester City when it became clear he would not be joining Real Madrid, but United showed the most interest.
United's executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward's ever-growing friendship with Mendes also helped secure the deal.
Mendes was in Manchester last week to broker the £59.7m deal for Angel Di Maria but the pair have been in constant touch over the last 12 months.
Woodward, a shrewd businessman, knew he had to improve his footballing contacts after last summer's embarrassing transfer window and believed a strong relationship with a big gun like Mendes would prove worthwhile.
And so it has for both parties with two of the biggest deals in Europe this summer done by United.
Falcao, 28, has scored 104 goals in his last 139 club appearances - a record that could not be ignored by a side who have scored just two goals in four competitive games this season.
The former Porto and Atletico Madrid striker comes at a cost, of course, and a hefty one at that.
United will have to fork out £6m to Monaco for the loan and fund his £18m-a-year wages with the fee to make the deal permanent at the end of the season in the region of another £50m.
After only smashing the British transfer record with the £59.7m signing of Di Maria last week, the football world was stunned when the news leaked out from Old Trafford yesterday.
But what makes the move all the more surprising is United's need for players in other areas.
Their defence looks feeble and short of bodies, while they clearly lack the dominant defensive midfielder who can spray passes to link the back line to their multitude of attacking talent.
Arturo Vidal was believed to have been that man but concerns over his knee saw United refuse to meet Juventus' £40m asking price yesterday.
But it is another knee worry that may make the Falcao deal as practical as it is a luxury.
Robin van Persie is struggling with the same problem that saw him miss the end of last season.
He recovered in time to play in the World Cup for Van Gaal and Holland, but there are serious concerns at Old Trafford over his long-term fitness.
The Dutch striker has looked rusty in his two appearances this season and that has been put down to a lack of pre-season action.
But he may need surgery to repair the knee and that could put him out of action for up to four months.
With this in mind when Falcao was offered up, Van Gaal was happy to give Woodward the green light to seal the deal.
There is also the chance that once Van Persie is fit or if he can stay off the operating table then Wayne Rooney can drop back into midfield.
The England international was not keen on that when former boss Sir Alex Ferguson tried it, but Van Gaal hopes to convince him that he has to be more adaptable in his system.
The 3-5-2, or any of the different variations of it, will stay for now under Van Gaal, who still believes it is the best system to use with the squad he has at his disposal.
He believes it gets the best out of the technical midfielders he has, but with the arrival of Falcao and the signing of Di Maria, Juan Mata may be wondering how he might fit into Van Gaal's thinking.
Rooney simply has to play now Van Gaal has made his club captain and the price tag of Di Maria means the United boss has to get the best out of him.
Mata was Moyes' signing and his lower work rate may make him more disposable than others for the Dutch chief.
The first indication of who Van Gaal prefers will come when United line out against QPR a week on Sunday.
The international break should give Luke Shaw time to recover from his hamstring injury while Marcos Rojo's visa problems are expected to be sorted by then.
Rafael could also return to be part of a new-look defence and wing-back system.
Daley Blind, who completed his £14m move from Ajax yesterday, could make his debut in midfield.
Then it will be up to Van Gaal to solve his dilemma at the top end of the field, and he will hope to get the best out of the £200m attack to ensure United's gamble to get back into the Champions League pays off.


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I was compelled to make an account because I had A LOT to say about this movie. But I'm happy to see that other posters have already addressed Han Seoul-Oh's background, and the fact that he is Korean-American, not Japanese. I'm also glad to see the Lucas Black aging 10 years from one scene to another (but still playing a 17-year old) has been brought up.
Here are a few more things I need to talk about:
- Not only do Sung Kang and Gal Gadot's names appear in the opening titles for this movie, they appear before actors who are actually in this movie, namely Elsa Patakay, who is in multiple scenes.
- Upon my first viewing of this movie I thought James Wan had done a seamless job of reworking this movie after the death of Paul Walker, and while he should still be applauded for saving this film, during my third viewing it became much more apparent where changes were made. The Paul Walker dad/retirement story makes NO SENSE. He ALREADY has a kid, why is a second kid suddenly the final nail in the coffin? This storyline was clearly shoved in after Walkers death, and it becomes even more obvious during Walkers one-on-one scenes with Mia in the garage and Diesel on the plane. The other characters are doing all the talking at Walker is just saying "yeah" or lines that were clearly lifted from a pre-filmed conversation about something else. The HDTGM gang makes a good point about Hobb's daughter, which further proves this storyline is ridiculous. I'm very interested to know what the original script for this movie looked like - I hope there is a feature about this on the Blu-Ray.
- Regarding everything in these movie revolving around cars: What are the chances that the one-of-a-kind super hacker device, God's Eye, was mailed to a guy who decided to put it in A CAR?
- Hobbs gives Elena a letter of recommendation for being an awesome cop or whatever. Are we supposed to forget that she abandoned her duties and ran away to Spain to live with a wanted criminal for like a year? Not only is she not in jail, she's been given her job back, been allowed to immigrate to America, and is now getting a promotion. I get that the Rock thinks she's cool because Dom's gang is honourable or whatever, but how is the US Government cool with this?
- How was this not addressed????
GloriaDrewArt 22
with all the ambiguity surrounding her ability to remember the other movies, it is now my headcanon that June is the Michelle Rodrigez of the How Did This Get Furious group
Entering the Bone Zone 81
I may or may not be in the middle of watching all seven movies over the weekend.
Amazing idea. I have contemplated this marathon myself, but it seems awfully daunting.
How jarring is it to get from the original to Furious 7 in one weekend? In the original Brian O'Connor got guff from his superiors about the cost of replacing the souped up drag racing Honda Accords (or whatever) he was losing. In 7 the gang appears to have a nearly unlimited travel, car, and weapon/gadget budget courtesy of either The Rock's government group or Kurt Russell's government group. In the first half-ish of the series the gang is pursuing criminal activities of some kind or on the lam for them, but now they are directly in the employ of Uncle Sam and apparently are not responsible in any capacity for the collateral damage inflicted upon Rio, London, and now Los Angeles.
That said, Furious 7 is a movie comprised almost entirely of boss fights (Statham v Rock, Statham v Diesel, Walker v Jaa, Rodriguez v Rousey, most of the crew v Hounsou) and beautifully crafted if implausible set pieces in the Caucus Mountains, Abu Dhabi, and Los Angeles. There is very little exposition, and it is glorious.
My hope is that with 8 - do away with any naming conventions, switch to simply numbers, and force the world to reckon with the fact that this is the defining movie series of our time, perhaps all time - the scale is pulled back a bit. You can't get bigger and boss fightier than the masterpiece we got this year. Less is more, Vin.
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I have a couple of additional observations on F7 that I don't think anyone has touched on yet.
When Dom and Mia are leaving the house just before it blows up she tells Dom that Brian "misses the bullets," but does anyone else recall what he told her before that? According to Mia, Brian tells her, "He doesn't miss the girls. He doesn't miss the cars..." Um...he "doesn't miss the girls?" Since the first movie, hasn't it always been Brian and Mia? I know they are separated for a time between the first and fourth movie, and since the chronology of these movies is a bit wonky it makes it hard to determine, but when was he ever just fucking around with the race car groupies? And even if during their estrangement he did stray, is that something you'd ever tell your significant other? "You know, honey--you'd think that the thing I miss most is all the indiscriminate sex I've had with the scantily clad, racer babes, but you'd be wrong. It's actually all the near death experiences, I miss the most. Although, sometimes they were one and the same, if you know what I'm saying! Oops, sounds like our son needs another bottle. I'll be right back..."
I would also guess that one of the "miss the bullets" scenes would have had to have been done after Walker's death (I'm thinking the bomb scene)*--since the second scene feels redundant to the first. If not, I guess it just further proves what a raging narcissist Dom is since--when he says it to Brian--he has this look on his face like, "I get it man. I'm so close to you, I know exactly how you're feeling." No dipshit, you're just parroting back what Mia told you word for word. Stop trying to get this guy to buy that you've got some mystical hotline to his soul.
The other moment that kind of bums me out is in Abu Dhabi just before their daring three skyscraper escape from Shaw. In this scene, they've driven the car through a wall into the party, Letty is laid out on the floor, and Roman rushes to help her. The elevator chimes, and who should walk out, but the inexorable Deckard Shaw who fires a couple of rounds into the ceiling for good measure. He tries to stop Dom, but even getting hit by a car isn't enough to slow him down. Pandemonium breaks loose. They're only means of escape is to launch the car out of a window. Shaw chases after them, but there's nothing he can do. Our heroes have escaped! Well, Dom and Brian have escaped, anyway; Letty and Roman, on the other hand...I guess they just escape through the ancient art of movie editing.
I mean, Shaw is after everyone that he blames for his brother's condition, not just Dom. And although it could be argued that Roman, and a severely injured, Letty (who just made a huge scene by being in a brutal fight with one of the bodyguards) were able to make their escape with the rest of the partygoers, but Dom can't possibly know that! He makes zero effort to rescue them or ensure their safety. For all he knows he just left a really good friend and his "lover" to the whims of a madman just so he could pull off a really sick stunt. What a prick!
*In all fairness, if one of these scenes was added after Walker's death, it is a credit to the filmakers that I can't tell which one it is.
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You're right about everything but one minor point (that doesn't really affect your argument, but I feel compelled to correct anyway). Brian and Mia split up at the end of the first movie after Brian reveals he's a cop. They don't actually get back together until near the end of the fourth movie. During the second movie, he was trying to get with Evan Mendes for most of it.
But that's the only other woman we ever see him pursue. Otherwise, you're totally right, and it's been Mia. He ate shitty tuna sandwiches for months to try to hook up with her; I don't really buy that he was out chasing a bunch of racer chicks.
Fair point. I re-watched 2 Fast about a month ago and I couldn't remember if he and Mendes had a thing or not. I read the plot summary on Wikipedia and I didn't see anything. I mean, if you can't go to Wikipedia to confirm whether or not two characters hook up in a movie then I think we need to just get rid of the whole damn thing.
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This is a twist on Jason's idea that the whole franchise has been a delusion of Dom's at an insane asylum. You guys have talked a lot in this and the other Fast and Furious podcasts about all the times the characters should die if normal laws of physics applied. My idea for how the franchise should end is with the reveal that Dom in fact crashed during the opening hijack of The Fast and the Furious, and everything since then has just been a hallucination of how his life might have played out as life is leaving his body. You have to admit, that would make everything make sense (even the feverish jump forward in time to Tokyo Drift).
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here is how I see Nicolas Cage in fast 8 or as I call it,
that's cages real ferrari enzo. money well spent.
Ramo85 0
Ok so along with never losing a fight,vin diesel must have an only drove an American car unless absolute necessary otherwise in his contract. When they show up in Dubai, each in their own car mind you, everyone is driving a rather expensive exotic super car...except vin diesel. He is driving a Dodge Charger or Avenger I think? They couldn't even give him a Viper or SRT challenger? Is he that hardcore against imports?
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I would give that great pun a rimshot, but that is so amazing that it deserves an equal drum response.
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I don't know if anyone mentioned this (I'm slowly making my way through all the comments), but I think it's hilarious how much Lucas Black ages. They show the exact scene again from Tokyo Drift and then after he races Dom, they have their chat and he looks SO much older! I mean, I know he actually IS 9 years older, but it's just really funny to me. I like to imagine that that's what happens when you race Dom. It takes it's toll on you and and the more badass you are, the more youth you retain.
That being said, I actually wanted him to join the crew. Or even in the next one. I know someone else commented that they were afraid that would happen but I'd love it. I actually watched all 7 of these movies in the last few weeks for the first time, so they're all really fresh in my mind and I want them to connect even further.
Oh shit! Those statue pics are from San Diego Comicon that year! I remember seeing them! Ahhh memories, it's been so long since I've been to SDCC. It's too expensive now. Bleh.
For the Omissions segment...
In the jumping through 3 buildings in a car scene, inside the 3rd building there is a makeshit museum or gallery of some sort with some statues that they crash and destroy before jumping out.
Those statues remind me a lot of the statue army from the 3rd "The Mummy" film...
Another "fun" fact is that the director from the first Fasts Rob Cohen is the director of The Mummy 3 and Universal owns both the Fasts and Mummy franchises... Could this also be an F.U. to Rob Cohen? Or maybe a wink / reference / same universe / obscure fact / statues gathering dust and occupying space in the universal studio lot? He also directed "Stealth" so...
*Ps.: Oh wait a second... After listening to the episode this must mean that Universal movies DO exist in the same universe so years after The mummy movies the events of the "Fasts" movies take place... NAILED IT!
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I know someone else commented that they were afraid that would happen but I'd love it.
That was probably me. As long as he didn't talk, I guess it would be okay. He can stand there slackjawed with Vin Diesel the whole time. But when he opens his mouth, he's so annoying. He's half the reason Tokyo Drift is so hard for me to get through.
Yeah I can totally understand that, but I guess it's grown on me a bit.
Slightly related, I laughed that the kid from Home Improvement was in Tokyo Drift. haha
Side note: that wasn't enough Jason Statham for me. I am now watching Crank for the first time. I cannot believe I never saw this before. This shit is so awesome.
TimLowell 0
The tag line or possibly the title of the 10th film will be:
Dude...
Enteril 1
Great episode overall, but one extremely sticking point that shouldn't have been confusing after seeing the other movies. Han is almost certainly American, and is DEFINITELY not Japanese. There are constant meta jokes throughout 4-6 about how he's never been to Tokyo and has always wanted to go there, which is why (beyond him being alive) everyone knew Tokyo Drift occurred last in the chronology even before it was obvious they were going to unite them all. Even if you hadn't seen 4-6, it should have been apparent that his home was in LA because people that were clearly supposed to be his family were there. The entire segment joking about stealing his body had odd, unintended racial consequences because of this oversight.
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I watched it the other night for the first time in about 7yrs, it holds up really well. Make sure you watch the second one ASAP, it almost makes Crank seem like it took itself too seriously.
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Why did they feel the need to crop in that scene of dialogue from Tokyo Drift, and intercut it with actors who are clearly a decade older.? This is a 190 million dollar film. We don't bring Lucas Black into the film, so this scene only serves to clear up the timeline. It's bizarre. Shoot new footage? Just pull in a couple of shots? Completely ignore this completely unrelated character? This seems the ONLY wrong way to do this. But then the movie kept being awesome, still I was waiting for June to kvetch about this.
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Hi all, long time listener - finally caught up with the podcast (now sad I've heard them all!)
Not sure if already brought up, only looked back through about half the replies.
Why did that guy even sell the speed chip, was it some sort of special chip... couldnt he have used another one that a friend hadn't given him for safekeeping. Why couldn't he just contact the billionaire and be all "so um that chip has been recalled I'll come replace it with a new one".
Also the warehouse fight bugged me, you know thats where Deckard is, why the hell would you take the god's eye to that location, you dont need to track him any more! That guy is using it like a video game minimap. If you really wanted to make sure he didnt leave - leave the gods eye with Ramsey back at HQ and have her talk to the team via earpieces.
After all that effort to retrieve God's eye, now it's lost... and Kurt Russel seems to not give a shit at all, "welp I'm outta here with Socom, good luck Dom see ya thanks for getting me God's eye for the afternoon"
Of course I know these are all just movie logic to keep the plot going or make an interesting set piece, but just stood out to me. Loved this movie, I loved all 7 tbh, even 2-3! I have a high tolerance though.. saw Pixels on fathers day (au) and didnt think it deserved all the hate - but it could be a future candidate for hdtgm!
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How was Britain conquered between 950 AD-1066?
Key Stage 2, History, Vikings and Anglo-Saxons
In this lesson, we will learn about how the Danes conquered Britain for a short period, before learning about the Battle of Hastings.
Q1.Which of these Anglo-Saxons united England?
Edward the Elder Aethelflaed Aethlstan
Q2.Which kingdom was Aethelflaed the ruler of?
Mercia Wessex East Anglia
Q3.Edward wanted to continue sharing the Danelaw with the Vikings.
How was Britain conquered between 950 AD - 1066?
Q1.When did Sweyn Forkbeard come back for revenge?
Q2.King Cnut became king of how many countries?
One Three Five
Q3.There were three rivals for the throne after the death of Edward the confessor.
Q4.Who was killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge? (select two)
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Tostig Godwinson Harold Godwinson Harald Hardrada William of Normandy
Q5.Who won the Battle of Hastings and became king of England?
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Phew what a scorcher! Global temperatures are rising. We know that. What most people don't realise is the urgency.
The United Nations IPCC says that to avoid severe climate breakdown, we must limit global heating to 1.5 degrees.
Mark Lynas details the effects in his new book: Our Final Warning.
We're already at 1 degree. 2 degrees will see massive reductions in crop yields. It will see flooding and storms of Biblical proportions. The economic damage will dwarf the 2007 crash and the Covid-19 pandemic.
If we pass 3 degrees, we'll see Southern Asia, the Mediterranean, and much of the US start to turn into a desert. We'll see billions of people in Africa, Southern Asia, the Middle East and Central America displaced. A collapse in global trade. Worldwide food shortages. The whole world engulfed in a refugee crisis.
The UN published that current climate agreements will result in global temperature increases of 3.2 degrees.
Business as usual is not an option.
The North of Tyne has already committed £24 million to a Green New Deal, creating jobs in offshore wind and low-carbon materials. We're looking to set up a local carbon offset programme. We've allocated £2 million to retrain workers from polluting industries into the green economy. We're working cross-regionally to develop a net-zero transport system. We'll be net-zero organisation soon within years, not decades.
What does a Citizens Assembly add?
I saw a comment from someone committed to tackling climate change, who asked, "isn't this an engineering problem?"
In March, the Chancellor announced £1bn for green transport. In the very next breath, he announced £27bn "for tarmac". If he understood the climate reality, he'd have put £27bn into public transport.
A trade union tried to lobby me to support opening a new coal mine. I've heard MPs say "if we all just do a little bit" – use a bit less energy, eat a bit less meat – we can solve the problem. I'm not sure how "we all just do a little bit" of installing an offshore wind farm.
Life has a nasty habit of throwing up issues that don't have a neat, self-contained solution. What if you're a low-wage worker who has to drop the kids off to school on a rainy morning, before driving half an hour to work. Is it realistic to say, "cut down your emissions, buy a push-bike?"
So no, it's not just an engineering problem. It's a political problem, a social problem, and an economic problem.
Our original plan for an in-person Citizens Assembly was scuppered by lockdown. We're now tendering for a company to run the Assembly for us, with an online component. Details are on our website. Closing date is 18th August.
We'll recruit a random sample of fifty people. Different ages, jobs, educational background, gender, ethnicity, the works. In a normal consultation, people with strong views are always over-represented. That's why people selected will get paid for their time – so they're motivated to participate even if they don't have strong views. Also so those without much money can afford the time to participate.
They spend perhaps thirty hours together. First, getting up to speed on the issues. The climate science, and the local options. Then deliberating on how it would affect their lives. The tradeoffs they would be willing to make. Might I consider changing the way I shop? Would I be up for participating in a community energy scheme? What are the barriers to me walking or cycling more? Is there a hybrid way to travel, perhaps with an e-scooter on the bus? If so, how much better would the bus service need to be?
The questions will be guided by an advisory panel. They'll be local authority officers, academic experts, and stakeholders.
Once the Assembly is concluded, the North of Tyne cabinet will evaluate the results. The wisdom of crowds will show us what else we could do, beyond our Green New Deal. Here's another way to look at a Citizens' Assembly. It's democracy. Our lives have got to change. Do we just tell people what to do, or involve them in decision making? I prefer talking to people. I usually learn something.
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The new digital art festival NEW NOW in Essen
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How can people, nature and technology live together in harmony? The NEW NOW festival creates a hybrid and participatory space to explore this question through digital art. While doing that it becomes a living sculpture itself.
This year, from 27th August to third October the festival for digital arts NEW NOW will take place for the first time at the UNESCO World Heritage Site Zollverein. For five weeks, the mixing plant of the Zollverein coking plant will be transformed into an open production centre as well as an exhibition and discussion space for digital arts. During this time, ten international artists in residence will use virtual reality, video works, 3D sculptures and other (digital) forms of expression to explore the question of how new possibilities for human coexistence in harmony with technology and nature can look - also with regard to the post-industrial heritage of the Ruhr region. The public can participate in the artistic process in workshops, talks and performances on site and digitally. On 18th and 19th September, the aforementioned questions will be discussed in an interdisciplinary conference entitled "Another World Is Possible". In the last two weeks of the festival, from 18th September to third October, there will also be an exhibition of the works created.
The Zollverein site offers more than just walls for the festival. It can also be understood metaphorically, explains Jasmin Grimm, the artistic director of NEW NOW and the Zollverein Foundation with a focus on digital arts: "In the past, coal was mined at Zollverein, today it is ideas. We are continuing this image: we are in a place that can be called the catalyst of modernity. Electricity and automation are key phenomena without which digitality and thus digital arts would be inconceivable. So it's inevitable to create connections between the site's history and its new present."
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The question of past, present and future is also reflected in the name of the festival. With its title, NEW NOW deliberately avoids anchoring itself in the future. After all, topics such as climate change and pandemics are also being negotiated and these are already acute today, says Grimm. "We want to focus on shaping the present and not simply postpone responsibility for it until tomorrow." NEW NOW is to be understood as a place of possibilities. It straddles utopias and dystopias and strives for a creative and experimental engagement with the present, subjective reality.
The festival is a hybrid: it occupies Zollverein not only as a physical location but also as a virtual space. The virtual, interactive platform "ZECHE" makes it possible to follow the festival live even far away from Essen and to get in touch with others. Participants are explicitly encouraged to actively contribute to the festival with their reactions and ideas, so that the artistic works are shaped over time and constantly developed through exchange.
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International connections will not be neglected either: the Korean artist duo Kimchi and Chips from Seoul will develop a new installation for NEW NOW. During the last two weeks of the festival, a second moon will appear in the sky above Zollverein - drawn with laser projectors and powered by solar energy. As a digital monument, "Another Moon" celebrates the end of the coal era and will be visible from all over Essen at night when the sky is clear. NEW NOW also cooperates with the Canadian MUTEK festival for audiovisual performance nights.
Festivals and exhibitions often put the finished artwork at the centre of the action. NEW NOW takes a different approach and looks behind the scenes. The focus is on the process of creating artistic works. "We deliberately emphasise the production process, which is why we see the festival as a 'Living Sculpture' in which different actors participate. In the first three weeks of the festival, the art production takes place, followed by the exhibition in the two weeks after that," explains Jasmin Grimm.
NEW NOW will take place from 27th August to third October 2021 and is a project of the Zollverein Foundation. The Festival for Digital Arts is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and is part of the "Neue Künste Ruhr" initiative. Read more about NEW NOW here.
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Exploring the vast Earth Microsoft has created for Flight Simulator 2020
The Air Current was given the world's first hands-on look at the new 2020 version of Microsoft Flight Simulator.
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The development team that built Flight Sim, known as the Aces Game Studio, was disbanded by Microsoft in 2009. The company walked away and the code was eventually licensed to Lockheed Martin to create its own simulation software called Prepar3D (pronounced Prepared) that it uses for professional air, land and sea training.
In Microsoft's absence, an entire economy sprung up around the platform to keep it (and Lockheed's P3D) alive. Third-party developers harnessed leaps in graphics and computing power, bringing complete simulations of real aircraft like Boeing's Next Generation 737, 777, 747-8, Airbus's A320 and then-Bombardier's Q400 to life. Ultra-precise photoreal terrain and airports have become commonplace. Dynamic weather generators and global air traffic control networks thrive. In 2011, Microsoft had tried to find its way back to flying software, but struggled mightily to do so as its plans largely shut out those same developers.
But about five years ago Jeorg Neumann, a Microsoft executive, had an idea for the company's Hololens — its augmented and virtual reality headset. A feature, called Holotour, allowed you to explore San Francisco, the Collosseum in Rome and Machu Picchu in Peru. "It looked right, it felt right, it sounded right, but it was just three dots on Earth," said Neumann. "I wonder if we can do this for the whole planet?"
Neumann showed what he and a small team had created. Phil Spencer, Microsoft's Executive Vice President of Gaming, put on the Hololens, running a rudimentary version of Neumann's experiment. Spencer asked Neumann why he was being shown a video of Seattle. "And then I turned the plane," Neumann recounted. "This is real. We can do this."
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BUHARIMETER: Buhari's govt 'slow, underperforming' — Nigerians
Politicians everywhere are never short on promises. After 16 years of rule by a party which oversaw rising corruption, growing poverty levels and a failing war against Boko Haram insurgency, Nigerians had had enough of the broken promises of the erstwhile ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
So, many Nigerians invested hope in Muhammadu Buhari whose All Progressives Congress promised "change" ahead of the March 2015 elections. Nigerians voted the APC in with a hefty majority, bringing about the first democratic power transfer between parties at the federal level in the country's history.
After more than two years in office, Nigerians are questioning whether the Buhari-led administration is truly the change they bargained for.
An array of public policy experts who spoke at this year's Buharimeter Citizens' Town Hall Meeting organized by the Centre for Development and Democracy on Friday in Abuja said the government is moving at a very slow pace in meeting the demands of the people that voted it into office.
"We have a so-called democratically elected government, which was accepted by the people because they felt that the Goodluck Jonathan-led administration was corrupt and should be made away with. But what is happening?" asked a former vice-chancellor at the University of Abuja, Nuhu Yaqub, the chairman of the occasion and keynote speaker.
"The Buhari administration is so sluggish in the implementation of its programmes and campaign promises."
"Recently, resident electoral commissioners were appointed in about 12 states or so while that of 16 states is yet to be appointed. The issue is: what are you waiting for, bearing in mind that election is getting closer?"
Mr. Yaqub, a professor, said though the Buhari administration has recorded successes in some areas, it derailed in keeping to its major campaign promises on security, corruption and the economy.
"They decimated Boko-Haram in certain aspects. The question is when is the terminal point for Boko-Haram because they (Boko-Haram) appear to be a cat with nine lives that keep springing up every now and then?" he said.
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On the issue of corruption and economy, Mr. Yaqub asked where money recovered from looters so far is being kept.
"My fear is that if care is not taken, another regime will come and give the money back to the people it was collected from. If the money is collected, let us know the actual amount collected, what is it going to be used for, how is it going to be utilized and why have so much money recovered and we still go out to borrow money to fund the budgets?"
Idayat Hassan, the CDD director, said Mr. Buhari had spent 881 days in office but yet issues of corruption and insecurity were still rife in the country.
She said the Buharimeter came out of the challenge to assess governance in the country.
Her welcome address centred on Mr. Buhari's fight against corruption and insecurity.
Ms. Hassan said Buhari's administration was still under-performing in securing the nation, adding that although the administration prides its self with fighting corruption, it still lacks visible road map and strategy for the fight.
The Nigerian Country Director, Open Society Initiative for West Africa, Jude Ilo, expressed disappointment with certain developments under President Buhari, especially his government's consistent refusal and reluctance to obey court orders.
"Other trends have worsened under this administration such as the worrying pattern of the government's reluctance to obey court orders. Nothing can justify the disrespect for the rule of law.
"The sense that there is lack of commitment to the anti-graft campaign that heralded the coming into power of this government is fast destroying its credibility," Mr. Ilo said.
He also cited the inability of states to pay salaries, unemployment and "the footprints of violence expanding from Plateau to Kaduna, from the marauding herdsmen to a resurgence of Boko Haram, Nigerians are worried about their safety and security," Mr. Ilo noted.
Patricia Achakpa, another member of a panel at the event, said over N872 billion had been invested in the North-east to tackle insurgency but there was nothing to show for the huge expenditure.
Ms. Achakpa said terrorism was being sponsored by many people in the area.
She also lamented the issue of gender imbalance in the Buhari administration.
The CDD launched 'Buharimeter' to track the delivery of President Buhari's campaign promises to Nigerians.
On May 28, the CDD released its two years' assessment report of the administration titled: Buharimeter Mid-Term Report on the performance of the incumbent administration against its 222 campaign promises.
The CDD Director, Mrs. Hassan, said that the two years' assessment report reveals that five of the campaign promises had not and cannot be achieved by the administration, noting that these constitute "broken promises".
Buharimeter, according to CDD, used media reports, desk review and survey to match President Buhari's campaign promises with public expectation and action taken by the government in its two years in office.
The report is a product of a National Survey on Buharimeter, carried out in all states and senatorial districts in Nigeria.
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I love the way they write things on the side of mountains in Peru. Great photos!
Thanks Andrea. Me too. Though from a different angle, that was the view from our apartment so we woke up to that every day.
Great photos, can't wait to see Cusco for myself in October!
Thanks Sarah. Enjoy yourself when you get there but watch out, the city has a way of sucking you in. We were only supposed to stay a few days and ended up staying for nearly four months.


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Bombla (do 30 XII 1959 Zdroje) – dawna gromada, czyli najmniejsza jednostka podziału terytorialnego Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej w latach 1954–1972.

Gromady, z gromadzkimi radami narodowymi (GRN) jako organami władzy najniższego stopnia na wsi, funkcjonowały od reformy reorganizującej administrację wiejską przeprowadzonej jesienią 1954 do momentu ich zniesienia z dniem 1 stycznia 1973, tym samym wypierając organizację gminną w latach 1954–1972.

Gromadę Bombla z siedzibą GRN w Bombli utworzono 31 grudnia 1959 w  powiecie sokólskim w woj. białostockim, w związku z przeniesieniem siedziby GRN gromady Zdroje ze Zdrojów do Bombli i przemianowaniem gromady na gromada Bombla. Równocześnie, do gromady Bombla przyłączono część obszaru zniesionej gromady Ostra Góra (wsie Łosiniec i Łomy oraz kolonię Zastocze).

1 stycznia 1972 do gromady Bombla przyłączono wieś Sitkowo ze zniesionej gromady Białousy.

Gromada przetrwała do końca 1972 roku, czyli do kolejnej reformy gminnej.

Przypisy

Bombla

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Meet NASA's new humanoid robot Valkyrie
December 17, 2013 / 4:36 PM / CBS News
NASA has a new humanoid robot. Nicknamed Valkyrie, it stands six feet two inches tall and bears a glowing NASA logo in its chest. And just like the humans it (sort of) resembles, it only took nine months to make.
Designed for the DARPA Robotics Challenge, Valkyrie -- officially named R5 -- is expected to aid disaster relief efforts. It's a role that could require driving vehicles, cleaning up debris and cut through walls. It will have a chance to show off its skills during the DARPA Robotics Challenge, held Dec. 20-21 in Homestead, Fla.
"We want to get to Mars," team leader Nicolaus Radford said in an IEEE Spectrum video about the robot. "Likely, NASA will send robots ahead of the astronauts to the planet. These robots will start preparing the way for the human explorers, and when the humans arrive, the robots and the humans will work together in conjunction building[habitats], laying foundation and just working together in that tight relationship. Technologies such as Valkyrie are going to really lead into the type of robotic systems that will one day be the precursor missions before the astronauts go to Mars."
Valkyrie comes from the same team that worked on the Robonaut, NASA's first humanoid robot to travel to the International Space Station.
"We really wanted to design the appearance of this robot to be one that when you saw it, you were going to be like, 'Wow, that's awesome," Radford said. "It's . . . very capable, very strong, completely self-contained. We have a two-kilowatt-hour battery, lots of onboard computing."
The international DARPA Robotics Challenge features 17 teams.
The team leaders are expected "to guide their robots through eight individual, physical tasks that test mobility, manipulation, dexterity, perception, and operator control mechanisms," according to the website. They are competing for a spot in the overall finals, slated for late 2014, where a $2 million grand prize will be awarded.


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Mon • April 29, 2019 • 7:00 PM
Event Cost: $55.00 and $65.00 (plus fees)
The Hilarious Celebration of
Women & The Change!
Rock.It Boy Entertainment presents MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL®
Monday, April 29 at The Cleland Community Theatre in Penticton – Doors 7:00PM. Show 7:30PM.
Tickets are $65.00 and $55.00 (plus Facility Fee & Service Charges).
Charge by phone, 1-855-985-5000 or online at www.ticketmaster.ca
The Off-Broadway Sensation featuring Original All-Star Canadian Cast!
MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL®, now in its seventeenth year of production, is recognized as the longest-running scripted production in Las Vegas. This original Off-Broadway musical comedy is set in a department store where four women meet by chance while shopping for a black lace bra. After noticing unmistakable similarities with one another, the all-female, all-star Canadian cast joke about their woeful hot flashes, mood swings, wrinkles, weight gain, memory loss, too much sex, not enough sex and more. These women form a sisterhood and a unique bond with the audience as they rejoice in celebrating that Menopause is not "The Silent Passage" anymore!
The laugh out loud, 90-minute production, gets audiences out of their seats and singing along to brilliant parodies from 25 classic hit songs from the '60s, '70s and '80s. The hilarious musical has been seen by millions and entertained audiences across the world. The show plays to consistently sold-out crowds from coast to coast, receiving standing ovations every night! Come see what millions of women worldwide have been laughing, cheering and raving about!
For more about MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL® visit: www.menopausethemusical.com.
For more information or interview requests contact:
Rob Warwick
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Cleland Community Theatre
325 Power Street, Penticton, , V2A 7K9


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Chet Atkins: CGP Exhibit Presents New Programs in March
Check the Chet Atkins: Certified Guitar Player Programming Calendar page for the latest special programs added in March.
RECENTLY FROM THE COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM:
COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME® AND MUSEUM TO CELEBRATE THE LEGACY OF CHET ATKINS WITH TWO MARCH PROGRAMS
Programs are in support of the exhibition Chet Atkins: Certified Guitar Player, Made Possible Through the Generous Support of the Gretsch Company
NASHVILLE, Tenn., February 23, 2012 – The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum will present two special programs next month in support of the exhibition Chet Atkins: Certified Guitar Player.
On March 3, The Life and Times of Chet Atkins by Dr. Richard Hood will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the museum's Ford Theater. Dr. Hood, a Chet Atkins scholar and finger-style guitarist, will trace Atkins' life from his rural childhood to his career as a legendary guitarist and producer. Ben Hall and Eddie Pennington, both winners of the National Thumbpicking Championship, will perform selections from the Chet Atkins catalog. Pennington will also present a thumbpick guitar demonstration on March 4, at 1:00 p.m. in the museum's SunTrust Community Room.
On March 17, Chet Atkins at Studio B, a panel discussion featuring some of Atkins' closest associates, will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the museum's Ford Theater. RCA crossover artists Bobby Bare ("Detroit City") and Jim Ed Brown ("The Three Bells"), background singer Delores Dinning Edgin, studio guitarist Ray Edenton, and hit songwriter John D. Loudermilk ("Abilene") will share stories of their work with Atkins, providing insights into what made him one of country music's most successful producers of all time. The program will be streamed live at www.countrymusichalloffame.org.
Following the panel discussion, museum staffer Ben Hall will present The House That Chet Built: A Chet Atkins Tour of Historic RCA Studio B. This unique guided tour will show how Atkins worked in his longtime recording home, logging many hours as a musician and a producer, and cutting records that helped define the classic Nashville Sound.
The Life and Times of Chet Atkins, the guitar demonstration and Chet Atkins at Studio B are included with museum admission and are free for museum members.
Tickets for The House That Chet Built: A Chet Atkins Tour of Historic RCA Studio B can be purchased as an add-on to museum admission or for $9 for museum members. Reservations are required, and seating is limited. The shuttle departs from the museum promptly at 3:30 p.m. For information call 615-416-2001.
Museum programs are made possible, in part, by grants from the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission and by an agreement between the Tennessee Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Accredited by the American Association of Museums, the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is operated by the Country Music Foundation, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization chartered by the state of Tennessee in 1964. The museum's mission is the preservation of the history of country and related vernacular music rooted in southern culture. With the same educational mission, the foundation also operates CMF Records, the museum's Frist Library and Archive, CMF Press, Historic RCA Studio B and Hatch Show Print®.
More information about the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is available at www.countrymusichalloffame.org or by calling (615) 416-2001.
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We chose this cruise because of its great itinerary. We left from Miami. We had 7 sea days, which we loved. There was always somerthing to do, or you could just relax. We had a balcony cabin which we used everyday. The cabin was spacious with plenty of storage. Our room steward was fantastic!! We had dinner in Opus every night. The food & service was great. We usually had breakfast in Oceanview Cafe. There was a large variety of food to choose from. Nightly entertainment was good. Richard Spacey was entertainment director...he did an amazing job. We found embarkation & disembarkation to be easy. Our shore excursions were well organized. We were always greeted with cold, flavoured water & a cold towel when returning to the ship. The ship was very clean. The staff were friendly, very accommodating. We loved this ship & would definitely go on Reflection again.
We chose this cruise because of its great itinerary. We left from Miami. We had 7 sea days, which we loved. There was always somerthing to do, or you could just relax.
We had a balcony cabin which we used everyday. The cabin was spacious with plenty of storage. Our room steward was fantastic!! We had dinner in Opus every night. The food & service was great. We usually had breakfast in Oceanview Cafe. There was a large variety of food to choose from. Nightly entertainment was good. Richard Spacey was entertainment director...he did an amazing job. We found embarkation & disembarkation to be easy. Our shore excursions were well organized. We were always greeted with cold, flavoured water & a cold towel when returning to the ship.
The ship was very clean. The staff were friendly, very accommodating. We loved this ship & would definitely go on Reflection again.
This was a guarantee cabin. We did have a tender outside our balcony, but knew that we would. We did not find this to be a hindrance. We still enjoyed the balcony.
We toured Tenerife on our own, using transit. It was interesting & fun.
We hired a driver to take us to Nice, Eze, Monaco & Monte Carlo. We loved this port. It is so beautiful. Shopping was great too. We found a shop called " Victors" which was right near the spot where the tenders dropped us off.


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from Infinera Press Releases
Infinera sets highest-performance 600G transmission record
Via Infinera Press Releases
SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 06, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) announced today the successful demonstration of 600 gigabits per second (600G) per wavelength transmission over 250 kilometers (km) in a production network with the Infinera Groove G30 muxponder solution. Demonstrated on the backbone network of a leading European service provider, this achievement establishes a new benchmark for capacity and reach in optical communications. As bandwidth demands continue to grow, best-in-class 600G performance provides operators the ability to cost-efficiently scale network infrastructure for data center interconnect and metro networking applications while improving density, lowering power and simplifying operations and service activation.
The field trial was conducted with the Infinera Groove G30 CHM2T solution operating over the Infinera 7300 multi-haul dense wavelength-division multiplexing transport platform. In addition to achieving the delivery of error-free 600G 64 quadrature amplitude modulation (64QAM) transmission over a 250-km link in the production network, Infinera also successfully demonstrated 500G 32QAM over 500 km of fiber during the trial, another industry first. With industry-leading performance and the ability to support a wide range of configuration options for baud rate, modulation method, forward error correction and constellation shaping, the Groove G30 maximizes both reach and capacity, providing network operators a solution with greater flexibility and lower cost per bit.
"Delivering optimal reach, performance and capacity to meet the evolving network demands of our customers is at the heart of our Infinite Network vision," said Glen Laxdal, Senior Vice President, Product Line Management at Infinera. "This achievement underscores Infinera's commitment to continue delivering innovative solutions for network operators with capacity and scale while simplifying operations."
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The attempt will be staged in a stunning pyramid-shaped temporary nightclub in Federation Square, Melbourne. Christened "The Vertex" and built especially for the occasion, the structure will comprise a scaffolding frame clad in a revolutionary new polycarbonate thermoplastic sheeting that's UV-resistant, weather-resistant and boasts excellent thermal insulation.
Situated in a prime spot and covering an area measuring almost 100 metres squared, The Vertex will contain a fully-equipped professional DJ booth, VIP area, public dance floor and landscaped interior garden.The radical design is the brainchild of FMSA Architects, who won The Centenary Federation Arch Competition and created the celebrated "pick up" sticks arch across Swanston Street in 2000.
The Vertex's frame will be built by Tubeway Scaffolding, a family-run firm at the forefront of the industry in Victoria. The polycarbonate sheeting that will form the venue's walls is being provided by Ampelite, a major manufacturer and supplier of roofing materials.