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General Moly Announces First Quarter 2012 Results
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
General Moly Announces First Quarter 2012 Results08:30 EDT Wednesday, May 02, 2012 LAKEWOOD, Colo. (Business Wire) -- General Moly, Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE Amex and TSX: GMO) announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012. Net loss for the three months ended March 31, 2012 was $3.2 million ($0.03 per share), compared to a loss of $4.2 million ($0.05 per share) for the year ago period. Our cash balance at the end of the first quarter was $35.1 million compared to $40.7 million at the end of 2011. During the first quarter, cash use of $5.6 million was the result of $4.0 million in Mt. Hope Project development, engineering and procurement costs, $2.1 million in General and Administrative expenses, partially offset by $0.5 million in proceeds from stock option exercises. Financial information is included at the end of this release. MT. HOPE PROJECT FINANCING UPDATE When final permits are received, POS-Minerals Corporation (a 20% owner of the Mt. Hope Project) is anticipated to fund its final $56 million initial contribution, plus 20% of all costs the Company has spent on the Mt. Hope Project to date. The Company estimates this combined payment will be approximately $100 million. Thereafter, the Mt. Hope Project will be funded 80% by the Company and 20% by POS-Minerals Corporation. As announced on February 16, 2012, China Development Bank ("CDB") has confirmed the basic terms underlying a proposed $665 million term loan to finance the Mt. Hope Project, including a CDB intention to lend $399 million and arrange a consortium of Chinese and international banks to fund the remaining balance. The term loan is anticipated to carry a maturity of 12 years including a 30 month grace period to allow for the construction of the Mt. Hope Project. The interest rate will remain subject to market conditions and Chinese government policy until loan documentation is completed later this year. The Company and Sichuan Hanlong Group Limited ("Hanlong") are continuing to work with CDB with a target of having the term loan completed, approved and available to the Company shortly after receipt of the Mt. Hope Project's operating permits. Once the term loan is in place and required permits are received, the Company intends to close on Hanlong's Tranche 2 equity purchase for $40 million, bringing Hanlong's share position in the Company to 25% on a fully-diluted basis. MT. HOPE PROJECT PERMITTING UPDATE The Bureau of Land Management ("BLM") published the Mt. Hope Draft Environmental Impact Statement ("EIS") for public comment on December 2, 2011. The public comment period concluded on March 1, 2012. The BLM is now in the process of considering comments received in the development of a Final EIS. Once the Final EIS is completed, it will be advanced toward publication through the Notice of Availability process within the U.S. Department of the Interior and thereafter published in the Federal Register for a 30-day period. Following the close of this period, we anticipate the BLM to issue a Record of Decision ("ROD") allowing the Company to initiate construction activities. Based on a larger number of comments than expected during the public comment period, the Company now anticipates the ROD to be issued in the second half of this year, although circumstances beyond our control, including agency delays or requests for additional information or studies, could cause the ROD to be delayed. In addition to the ROD, three Nevada state-issued permits are viewed as major environmental permits. These are the Water Pollution Control Permit, the Air Quality Permit and the Reclamation Permit. The Company continues to develop the applications and supporting information for these permits. These three permits are anticipated to be received before the issuance of ROD. MT. HOPE PROJECT WATER RIGHTS UPDATE On July 15, 2011, the Nevada State Engineer issued a second Ruling granting the Company's water right applications for the Mt. Hope Project's mining operations. Permits subject to the State Engineer's Ruling were issued in December 2011 and January 2012. Pending a successful outcome of an appeal of the Ruling discussed below, the water will become available for consumptive use following the State Engineer's approval of a Monitoring, Management and Mitigation Plan ("3M Plan"). The Company is finalizing its proposed 3M Plan, developed with input from Eureka County, and we anticipate the State Engineer to approve the 3M Plan prior to the receipt of Federal permits in the second half of this year. In August 2011, Eureka County and two other parties comprised of three individual water rights holders in Diamond Valley and one in Kobeh Valley, filed Petitions with the Nevada State District Court appealing the Ruling of the State Engineer. An appeal hearing took place on April 3, 2012 before the Nevada District Court. A decision by the District Court is expected by mid-2012, although the District Court is not required to act under any specified timeline. We continue to anticipate a favorable District Court decision, upholding the State Engineer's Ruling. Pending a successful outcome of the appeal hearing, and approval of the 3M Plan, the Company will have the right to use the water for construction and operations at the Mt. Hope Project. MT. HOPE PROJECT ENGINEERING AND EQUIPMENT PROCUREMENT UPDATE Engineering efforts, which were paused in March 2009, were restarted in January 2012 by M3 Engineering & Technology following the publication of the Draft EIS. Although the Company has ordered or purchased most of the long-lead milling equipment and haul trucks, firm orders for the drills and loading equipment for the mine fleet, and other process equipment must still be placed. As equipment procurement is restarted, agreements that were suspended or terminated in 2009 will be renegotiated under new market terms and conditions, as necessary. LIBERTY PROJECT UPDATE In November 2011, the Company completed an updated pre-feasibility study on the Liberty Project indicating an estimated Net Present Value of $538 million. The study utilized molybdenum and copper prices of $15.00 and $2.50 per pound, respectively, and used an 8% discount rate. Included in the study was an NI 43-101 compliant mineral reserve including 541.4 million tons with ore grades averaging 0.068% molybdenum and 0.08% copper. The study outlined estimated molybdenum and copper reserves and resources, production, capital and operating cost parameters, along with project economics. In 2013, the Company anticipates commencing a Bankable Feasibility Study on the Liberty Project to better evaluate the project for development once the Mt. Hope Project is funded and under construction. MOLYBDENUM MARKET UPDATE During 2011, molybdenum prices traded in a relatively narrow range between $12.85 and $17.70 per pound, finishing the year at $13.40 per pound, according to Ryan's Notes, a ferro-alloy industry news and pricing publication. Since year end, prices have traded higher and are currently trading at $14.20 per pound. Additional information on the Company's first quarter 2012 results will be available in General Moly's 2012 Form 10-Q, which will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and posted on the Company's website. GENERAL MOLY, INC. (A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY) CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (In thousands except per share amounts) March 31,2012 (Unaudited) December 31,2011 ASSETS: CURRENT ASSETS Cash and cash equivalents $ 35,103 $ 40,709 Deposits, prepaid expenses and other current assets 109 105 Total Current Assets 35,212 40,814 Mining properties, land and water rights – Note 4 147,188 143,732 Deposits on project property, plant and equipment 67,104 66,474 Restricted cash held for electricity transmission 12,005 12,005 Restricted cash held for reclamation bonds 1,133 1,133 Non-mining property and equipment, net 767 819 Capitalized debt issuance costs 5,202 3,136 Other assets 2,994 2,994 TOTAL ASSETS $271,605 $271,107 LIABILITIES, CONTINGENTLY REDEEMABLE NONCONTROLLINGINTEREST AND EQUITY: CURRENT LIABILITIES Accounts payable and accrued liabilities $ 4,652 $ 4,568 Accrued advance royalties 8,950 8,950 Accrued payments to Agricultural Sustainability Trust 2,000 2,000 Current portion of long term debt 10,640 10,596 Total Current Liabilities 26,242 26,114 Provision for post closure reclamation and remediation costs 583 587 Deferred gain 1,150 1,150 Accrued payments to Agricultural Sustainability Trust and Hanlong 4,000 2,000 Long term debt, net of current portion 113 131 Total Liabilities 32,088 29,982 COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES – Note 10 CONTINGENTLY REDEEMABLE NONCONTROLLINGINTEREST 98,073 98,073 EQUITY Common stock, $0.001 par value; 200,000,000 shares authorized, 91,220,944 and 90,818,248 shares issued and outstanding, respectively 92 91 Additional paid-in capital 257,442 255,894 Accumulated deficit before exploration stage (213 ) (213 ) Accumulated deficit during exploration and development stage (115,877 ) (112,720 ) Total Equity 141,444 143,052 TOTAL LIABILITIES, CONTINGENTLY REDEEMABLENONCONTROLLING INTEREST AND EQUITY $ 271,605 $ 271,107 GENERAL MOLY, INC. (A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY) CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE LOSS (Unaudited - In thousands, except per share amounts) Three Months EndedJanuary 1, 2002(Inception of ExplorationStage) to March 31, 2012March 31, 2012 March 31, 2011 REVENUES $ — $ — $ — OPERATING EXPENSES: Exploration and evaluation 168 169 39,869 Write downs of development and deposits — — 8,819 General and administrative expense 2,925 3,938 72,700 TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES 3,093 4,107 121,388 LOSS FROM OPERATIONS (3,093) (4,107) (121,388) OTHER INCOME / (EXPENSE) Interest and dividend income — 11 4,062 Interest expense (64) (60) (478) TOTAL OTHER INCOME / (EXPENSE), NET (64) (49) 3,584 LOSS BEFORE INCOME TAXES (3,157) (4,156) (117,804) Income Taxes — — — CONSOLIDATED NET LOSS $ (3,157) $ (4,156) $ (117,804) Less: Net loss attributable to contingently redeemable noncontrolling interest — — 1,927 NET LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO GENERAL MOLY, INC. $ (3,157) $ (4,156) $ (115,877) Basic and diluted net loss attributable to General Moly per share of common stock $ (0.03) $ (0.05) Weighted average number of shares outstanding – basic and diluted 91,175 90,372 COMPREHENSIVE LOSS $ (3,157) $ (4,156) $ (117,804) GENERAL MOLY, INC. (A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY) CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (Unaudited - In thousands) Three Months Ended January 1,2002(Inception ofExplorationStage) toMarch 31,2012 March 31, 2012 March 31, 2011 CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES: Net Loss $ (3,157 ) $ (4,156 ) $ (117,804 ) Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used by operating activities: Depreciation and amortization 107 91 1,751 Interest expense 64 60 478 Equity compensation for employees and directors 810 1,039 17,622 (Increase) decrease in deposits, prepaid expenses and other (4 ) 62 (17 ) Increase (decrease) in accounts payable and accrued liabilities 18 (3,292 ) (7,285 ) (Decrease) increase in post closure reclamation and remediation costs (4 ) (12 ) 374 Services and expenses paid with common stock — — 1,990 Repricing of warrants — — 965 Write downs of development and deposits — — 8,819 (Increase) in restricted cash held for electricity transmission — — (12,005 ) Net cash used by operating activities (2,166 ) (6,208 ) (105,112 ) CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES: Purchase and development of mining properties, land and water rights (3,330 ) (2,272 ) (124,152 ) Deposits on property, plant and equipment (630 ) (6 ) (68,537 ) Proceeds from option to purchase agreement — 285 1,150 Purchase of securities — — (137 ) (Increase) in restricted cash held for reclamation bonds — — (642 ) Cash provided by sale of marketable securities — — 246 Net cash used by investing activities (3,960 ) (1,993 ) (192,072 ) CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES: Proceeds from issuance of stock, net of issuance costs 558 19,337 228,277 Net (decrease) increase in leased assets (38 ) (50 ) 94 (Increase) in capitalized debt issuance costs — (431 ) (3,136 ) Proceeds from debt — — 10,000 Cash proceeds from POS-Minerals Corporation — — 100,000 Cash paid to POS-Minerals Corporation for purchase price adjustment — — (2,994 ) Net cash provided by financing activities 520 18,856 332,241 Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents (5,606 ) 10,655 35,057 Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period 40,709 53,571 46 Cash and cash equivalents, end of period $ 35,103 $ 64,226 $ 35,103 NON-CASH INVESTING AND FINANCING ACTIVITIES: Equity compensation capitalized as development $ 181 $ (34 ) $ 6,639 Restricted cash held for reclamation bond acquired in an acquisition — — 491 Post closure reclamation and remediation costs and accounts payable assumed in an acquisition — — 263 Common stock and warrants issued for property and equipment — — 1,586 Accrued portion of capitalized debt issuance costs 2,066 — 2,066 Accrued portion of advance royalties — — 8,950 Accrued portion of payments to the Agricultural Sustainability Trust — — 4,000 General Moly is a U.S.-based molybdenum mineral development, exploration and mining company listed on the NYSE Amex (formerly the American Stock Exchange) and the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol GMO. Our primary asset, our interest in the Mt. Hope Project located in central Nevada, is considered one of the world's largest and highest grade molybdenum deposits. Combined with our second molybdenum property, the Liberty Project that is also located in central Nevada, our goal is to become the largest primary molybdenum producer by the middle of the decade. For more information on the Company, please visit our website at http://www.generalmoly.com. Forward-Looking Statements Statements herein that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and are intended to be covered by the safe harbor created by such sections. Such forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, anticipated, expected, or implied by the Company. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, metals price and production volatility, global economic conditions, currency fluctuations, increased production costs and variances in ore grade or recovery rates from those assumed in mining plans, exploration risks and results, political, operational and project development risks, including the Company's ability to obtain required permits to commence production and its ability to raise required financing, adverse governmental regulation and judicial outcomes. The closing of the Hanlong transaction and obtaining bank financing are subject to a number of conditions precedent that may not be fulfilled. For a detailed discussion of risks and other factors that may impact these forward looking statements, please refer to the Risk Factors and other discussion contained in the Company's quarterly and annual periodic reports on Forms 10-Q and 10-K, on file with the SEC. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements. Cautionary Note to U.S. Investors Concerning Estimates of Reserves and Resources Calculations with respect to "proven reserves" and "probable reserves" referred to above have been made in accordance with, and using the definitions of National Instrument 43-101, as required by Canadian securities regulatory authorities. For United States reporting purposes, the U.S. SEC applies a different standard in order to classify mineralization as a "reserve". Under SEC standards, mineralization may not be classified as a "reserve" unless the determination has been made that the mineralization could be economically and legally extracted or produced at the time the reserve determination is made. No such determinations have been made with respect to any mineralization at the Liberty project, and it cannot be assured that such a determination will be made. This release also uses the terms "measured", "indicated" and "inferred" resources. We caution U.S. investors that while such terms are recognized and required by Canadian Securities Administrators pursuant to the National Instrument 43-101, the SEC does not recognize them. U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that any part or all of mineral deposits in these categories will ever be converted into reserves. "Inferred Resources", in particular, have a great amount of uncertainty as to their existence, and great uncertainty as to their economic and legal feasibility. It cannot be assumed that all or any part of an Inferred Mineral Resource will ever be upgraded to a higher category. Under Canadian Securities Administration rules, estimates of Inferred Mineral Resources may not form the basis of feasibility or pre-feasibility studies. U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that part or all of an inferred resource exists, or is economically or legally minable. 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Browns fans breathe a sigh of relief when general manager Ray Farmer's "Textgate" penalty does not strip the Browns of any draft picks.
It shouldn't take Roger Goodell too long to figure out that docking the Browns a draft pick would be a slap in the faces of Browns fans who have been slapped way past silly.
One expert after another thinks the Browns will pounce on a wide receiver in Round 1. They simply can't agree which of three wideouts it will be.
Only two tights ends have been picked in the top 20 within the last 10 NFL drafts. A review of the other candidates, one from Ohio State, helps explain why the Browns might "over-draft" Maxx Williams.
Browns coach Mike Pettine expects quarterback Johnny Manziel to take part in the team's practices next month after leaving rehab.
Observation and today's conversations lead us to this plausible view of a Browns ownership change.
Ohio State's Devin Smith is on the short list of wideouts the Browns are eyeing from a cluster of players who won't be top 20 picks but project as possible NFL starters. A look at Smith and the others now that the first wave of free agency is over.
Who's next? We'll get into Browns wideout options for the 2015 draft in another article. Here, we produce a five-and-five wideout list that basically begs the question ... what happened?
Adding Dwayne Bowe buttresses the "win-now" mantra. Yet, the billion-dollar question remains.
A Pro Bowl wide receiver with Kansas City, Dwayne Bowe signed a two-year contract on Friday with Cleveland,
Dwayne Bowe had a fairly big game in a win over New England last year, but his ebbing production and age raise questions. With Bowe agreeing to terms with the Browns, one question is whether Ray Farmer would spend a Round 1 draft pick on a wideout.
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PreparedEx Now Offering Fully Scalable Version of LaunchPAD®
Crisis Simulation Application that Cost-Effectively Prepares Organizations to Manage Crises
MIDDLETOWN, RI – PreparedEx, the leading crisis, emergency and security management company, today announced the introduction of a fully scalable version of its crisis simulation application called LaunchPAD®. The new product now enables small-to-medium-size organizations to cost-effectively conduct realistic crisis exercises with the same sophisticated tools and expertise LaunchPAD currently provides to large multi-nationals.
Organizations of any size and geographical footprint can now use LaunchPAD to test their crisis plans and the performance of their response teams in highly realistic and rapidly changing crisis simulations.
Organizations can conduct exercises using simulations tailored to their training needs, such as a natural disaster, workplace violence, pandemic, cyber-attack or fire scenario. During the exercise, the application records the response teams' actions at each step as the distressing scenario unfolds, creating a record for after-action review and assessment.
"We're excited to offer this new version of LaunchPAD for improving crisis preparedness. Its scalability and flexibility can now put this vital tool into the hands of any size organization," said Rob Burton, founder and managing director of PreparedEx. "LaunchPAD's ability to improve crisis preparedness and response not only benefits the organizations but also benefits the societies in which they operate."
LaunchPAD is accessed through a web browser via most web-enabled devices permitting an organization's crisis team to collaborate during the exercise from wherever they might be in the world -- as would invariably be the case during an actual crisis. Exercise participants coordinate their responses within the system via the response interface, or they can utilize their own existing documentation recordkeeping procedures as they conduct the sessions.
LaunchPAD allows organizations to design their own crisis scenarios and gives them the option to use the PreparedEx crisis experts to supplement the scenario with multi-media "injects" that move the scenario forward to make the exercise realistic and engaging. At the end of each scenario, LaunchPAD stores the session so it can be reused in the future to remind existing team members or to bring new team members up to speed. LaunchPAD also produces a PDF report at the end of each session.
LaunchPAD is ideal for any organization that is serious about contingency planning. The application is offered based on an annual subscription through Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum packages.
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The benefits that DRaaS brings to disaster recovery testing
By Gabriel Gambill
You would be pretty worried if you didn't have fire safety and evacuation plans in your office, so why would you not put the same contingency strategy in place for your data?
Too many businesses don't have a disaster recovery plan, so my advice is to sit down and consider it pronto. Disaster recovery as a service (DraaS) or cloud-based DR strategies are now making data recovery plans far less complicated and highly efficient for businesses. But despite being able to re-think their DR plans in the cloud and make them so much easier, companies are still lax about testing the plan on a regular basis.
To put it into context, perhaps it's best to start by defining what a disaster could be. When we say 'disaster' often we mean something that is out of our hands. Floods, hurricanes power cuts and earthquakes all spring to mind. However a disaster could be something as mundane as a software update or a simple human error. They're often not as newsworthy as a natural disaster but have just as much impact on an organization's ability to operate.
Haulers of Crude Finding Coverage Scarce
HOUSTON—The recent spike in oil and natural gas production has led trucking companies to grow so quickly that they sometimes scramble to find qualified drivers. This has meant tightening coverage with a limited number of carriers and a market in "disarray," Anthony Dorn, a broker with Sloan Mason Insurance Services said today at the IRMI Energy Risk and Insurance Conference.
"Carriers have taken a bath on construction risks," he said. "Only nine carriers will write crude hauling."
He added that there is a "huge need for risk management in trucking right now. A lot of these are fly-by-night companies. They are running with drivers that have no experience, they are getting violations from the DOT left and right for not having licenses and adequate brakes on their trucks and they are running on dirt roads that aren't made for 100,000 pound units," Dorn said. "It's a very risky place for underwriters. If we don't do something as agents and as risk managers there will be fewer carriers."
Top Tips for Implementing Data Storage Tape
How things change. For years, even decades, people have been getting rid of tape. They bought into the idea that disk was the way to go and that tape was "old hat."
But the realities of a Big Data world and the advances in tape technology, density, reliability and usability have brought the realization to many that they shouldn't have been so hasty. And that's showing up in the raw numbers. According to the Active Archive Alliance, nearly 250 million Linear Tape Open (LTO) tape cartridges have been shipped since the format's inception. That's more than 100,000 PB of data on LTO.
Tape, then, is returning to some organizations that dumped it a while back. Its role is steadily being expanded in others who remained faithful, and it now serves as the backbone data repository for many of the major cloud data providers.
Cybersecurity Project Targets Better Patient Health
Keeping up with and fending off cybersecurity threats is a daily topic for all organizations, but for health care providers and systems, failure in that regard can result in much more dire results than a financial or reputational loss. It can result in bodily harm or death. It's possible that you could draw a line to such severe consequences in other industries and lines of work, but for the health care industry, that added layer of urgency is always present in cybersecurity protections.
A large research project devoted to determining how best to protect patient health while maximizing use of digital tools and resources, named IMMUNE-SECURE, got a boost in attention from health care IT organizations and other technologists with the announcement today that Dr. Larry Ponemon, well-known in IT circles for his work through the Ponemon Institute, has joined the advisory board for the project.
Study: Workforce Wary of Mobile File-Sharing Security
The growing proliferation of mobile devices continues to make business faster, more agile, and more efficient. However, a recent study suggests U.S. workers remain concerned about the security of their mobile devices when it comes to cloud-based file sharing.
According to a recent study, 73 percent of the 1,000 U.S. employees surveyed said that they preferred to use email over file-sharing services, up 4 percent from the 69 percent in the previous year's survey. Those who made use of file-sharing services dropped to 47 percent, down from 52 percent in 2013.
IT Security Stories to Watch: Panda Security Flags Itself as Malware
Panda Security accidentally flagged itself as malware last week, causing some user files to be quarantined.
And as a result, the antivirus software company topped this week's list of IT security newsmakers to watch, followed by Bitglass, Trustwave and Software Advice.
What can managed service providers (MSPs) and their customers learn from these IT security newsmakers? Check out this week's list of IT security stories to watch to find out:
FEMA, State Broadcasters and Emergency Managers to Conduct a Test in Four States of the Emergency Alert System
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in coordination with state and tribal emergency managers and state broadcasting associations, will conduct a test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee. The test will begin at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) and will last approximately one minute.
"The goal of the test is to assess the operational readiness and effectiveness of the EAS to deliver a national emergency test message to radio, television and cable providers who broadcast lifesaving alerts and emergency information to the public," said Damon Penn, Assistant Administrator of FEMA's National Continuity Programs. "The only way to demonstrate the resilience of the system's infrastructure is through comprehensive testing to ensure that members of tribes, and the residents of Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, receive alerts when an emergency occurs."
The test will be seen and heard over radio and television in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, similar to regular monthly testing of the EAS conducted by state officials and broadcasters. The test message will be nearly identical to the regular monthly tests of the EAS normally heard by public. Only the word "national" will be added to the test message: "This is a national test of the Emergency Alert System. This is only a test..."
The test is designed to have limited impact on the public, with only minor disruptions of radio and television programs that normally occur when broadcasters regularly test EAS in their area. Broadcasters and cable operators' participation in the test is completely voluntary. There is no Federal Communications Commission regulatory liability for stations that choose not to participate.
In 2007, FEMA began modernizing the nation's public alert and warning system by integrating new technologies into existing alert systems. The new system is known to broadcasters and local alerting officials as the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System or IPAWS. IPAWS connects public safety officials, such as emergency managers, police and fire departments, to multiple communications channels to send alerts to warn when a disaster happens. For more information, please visit www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/31814.
One-Quarter of People who Experienced California Quake at Risk for PTSD
(TNS) — Many of those who lived through last August's 6.0 magnitude South Napa Earthquake suffered mental health issues as a result, with about a quarter of those at risk for PTSD, according to a newly released survey, Napa County officials announced.
The California Department of Public Health recently released the final results of the door-to-door survey of Napa and American Canyon households conducted September 16-18. The Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response final report was based on the survey that asked questions about residents' experiences during and after the temblor to assess the extent of injuries, chronic disease exacerbation and mental health issues associated with the earthquake, and the degree of disaster preparedness of these communities.
Mental health issues were extremely common among residents of both cities, with about 79 percent of Napa households and 73 percent of American Canyon households reporting a traumatic experience or mental health stressor during or since the earthquake.
Why testing and exercising are essential for an effective business continuity program
This is a tale from the mists of time; from days of yore when it was difficult to get people interested in business continuity management and even more difficult to secure their involvement in exercises and tests (OK, in fairness, that could have been this week, but just indulge me for a moment).
Some of you may have heard me tell this story before, but recounting ancient tales didn't do Hans Christian Anderson (or my Dad) any harm and, in any case, I'm a big fan of recycling.
Having been asked to contribute something on exercising and testing to this year's Business Continuity Awareness Week Flashblog, and despite conforming in terms of using the snappy title demanded of all the contributors, I really couldn't bring myself to write about strategy or methodology or process or the difference between a test, exercise, rehearsal, etc, etc, etc. So I'll leave that to those whose boats are floated by that sort of thing and tell you my favourite exercising story instead.


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Long before the Spanish arrived in South America, the native Inca worshipped divinities at sacred sites. The Spanish brought Catholicism, and with it devotion to the Virgin Mary. The Church condoned the appearance of the apparition of the Virgin at ancient sacred places, such as Cocharcas, as part of its strategy of conversion.
This painting represents a pilgrimage to the Virgin of Cocharcas. Figures in both native and Spanish dress teem around the statue, which is under a canopy like the parasol carried over the head of Inca royalty. Both the place and the treatment of the human form express the continuity of religious devotion during a dramatic convergence of cultures.


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one of many words I coined over 20 years ago: geoism, geonomics, geonomy, geocracy, etc – neologisms that later others came up with, too. CNBC once had a Geonomics Show, and Middlebury College has a Geonomics Institute. If "economy" is literally "management of the household", then geonomy is "management of the planet". The kind of management I had in mind is not what CNBC was thinking – top-down. My geonomics is not hands-on, interfering, but hands-off, organic. It'd strive to align policy with natural processes, similar to what holistic healing does in medicine, what organic farming does in agriculture. Geonomics attends to two key components: One, the crucial stuff to track is fat – or profit, especially profits without production, such as rent, or all the money we spend on the nature we use. Society's surplus is the sine qua non for growth, needed to counter death – not merely more, but sustainable development, more from less. Two, the basic process to respect is the feedback loop. These let nature maintain balance automatically and could do the same for markets, if we let them. Letting them would turn our economies, now our masters, into a geonomy, our servant, providing us with prosperity, eco-librium (to coin a term) and leisure, time off – a hostile environment for economan but a cradle for a loving and creative humanity.
a POV that Spain's president might try. A few blocks from my room in Madrid at a book fair to promote literacy, Sr Zapatero, while giving autographs and high fives to kids, said books are very expensive and he'd see about getting the value added tax on them cut down to zero. (El Pais, June 4; see, politicians can grasp geo-logic.) But why do we raise the cost of any useful product? Why not tax useless products? Even more basic: is being better than a costly tax good enough? Our favorite replacement for any tax is no tax: instead, run government like a business and charge full market value for the permits it issues, such as everything from corporate charters to emission allowances to resource leases. These pieces of paper are immensely valuable, yet now our steward, the state, gives them away for nearly free, absolutely free in some cases. Government is sitting on its own assets and needs merely to cash in by doing what any rational entity in the economy does – negotiate the best deal. Then with this profit, rather than fund more waste, pay the stakeholders, we citizenry, a dividend. Thereby geonomics gets rid of two huge problems. It replaces taxes with full-value fees and replaces subsidies for special interests with a Citizens Dividend for people in general. Neither left nor right, this reform is what both nature lovers and liberty lovers need to promote, right now.
an alternative to conventional land trusts. Just as it seems some functions should not be left to the market – private courts and cops invite corruption (while private mediation is fine) – just so some land should not be left in the market. That said, sacred sites do not make much of a model for treating the vast acreage of land that we need to use. So the usual trust model, which is anti-use and counter-market, can not apply where it's needed most. Trust proponents worry about ownership and control – two very human ambitions – but they're not central. Supposedly, we the people own millions acres – acres that private corporations treat as private fiefdoms – and conversely, the Nature Conservancy owns wilderness the public can some places use as parks. So, the issue is not who owns but who gets the rent – ideally, all of us.
a way to redirect all the money we spend on the nature we use – trillions of dollars annually. We can't pay the Creator of sites and resources and are mistaken to pay their owners this biggest stream in our economy. Instead, as owners we should pay our neighbors for respecting our claims to land. Owners could pay in land dues to the public treasury, a la Sydney Australia's land tax, and residents could get back a "rent" dividend, a la Alaska's oil dividend. We'd pay for owning sites, resources, EM spectrum, or emitting pollutants into the ecosphere, then get a fair share of the recovered revenue. The economy would finally have a thermostat, the dividend. When it's small, people would work more; when it's big, they'd work less. Sharing Earth's worth, we could jettison counterproductive taxes and addictive subsidies. Prices would become precise; things like sprawl, sprayed food, gasoline engines, coal-burning plants would no longer seem cheap; things like compact towns, organic foods, fuel cells, and solar powers would become affordable. Getting shares, people could spend their expanded leisure socializing, making art, enjoying nature, or just chilling. Economies let us produce wealth efficiently; geonomics lets us share it fairly.
shaped by reality. In the 1980′s, the Swedish government doubled its stock transfer tax. Tax receipts, however, rose only 15%, since traders simply fled to London exchanges. Fearing a further exodus, the Swedish government quickly rescinded the tax altogether. (The New York Times, April 20) That willingness to tax anything leads us astray. Pushing us astray is that unwillingness to pay what we owe: rent for land, our common heritage. Assuming land value is up for grabs, we speculate. We cap the property tax on both land and buildings and the rate at which assessments can go up; while real market values rise quicker, assessments can never catch up. Our stewards, the Bureau of Land Management, routinely sell and lease sites below market value, often to insiders, says the Government Accounting Office. Once we grasp that rent is ours to share, we'll collect it all, rather than let it enrich a few, and quit taxing earnings, which do belong to the individual earner. That shift is geonomic policy.
a scientific look at how we divvy up the work and the wealth, how some of us end up with too much or too little effort or reward. That's partly due to Ricardo's Law of Rent, showing how wasteful use of Earth cuts wages. And it's partly due to how a society's elite runs government around like water boys, dishing out subsidies and tax breaks. While geonomists look political reality right in the eye, without blinking, conventional economists flinch. When Paul Volcker, ex-chief of the Federal Reserve, moved on to a cushy professorship at Princeton cum book contract, the crush of deadlines bore down. So Volcker asked a junior associate to help with the book. The guy refused, explaining that giving serious consideration to policy would ruin his academic career. The ex-Fed chief couldn't believe it and asked the department chair if truly that were the case. That head honcho pondered the question then replied no, not if he only does it once. And economics was AKA political economy!
a manual. The world did not come without a way for people to prosper, and the planet to heal and stay well; that way is geonomics. Economies are part of the ecosystem. Both generate surpluses and follow self-regulating feedback loops. A cycle like the Law of Supply and Demand is one of the economy's on/off loops. Our spending for land and resources – things that nobody made and everybody needs – constitutes our society's surplus. Those profits without production (remember, nobody produced Earth) can become our commonwealth. To share it, we could pay land dues in to the public treasury (wouldn't oil companies love that?) and get rent dividends back, a la Alaska's oil dividend. Doing so let's us axe taxes and jettison subsidies. Taxes and subsidies distort price (the DNA of exchange), violate quid pro quo by benefiting the well-connected more than anyone else, reinforce hierarchy of state over citizen, and are costly to administer (you don't really need so much bureaucracy, do you?). Conversely, land dues motivate people to not waste sites, resources, and the ecosystem while rent dividends motivate people to not waste themselves. Receiving this income supplement – a Citizens Dividend – people can invest in their favorite technology or outgrow being "economan" and shrink their overbearing workweek in order to enjoy more time with family, friends, community, and nature. Then in all that free time, maybe we could figure out just what we are here for.
of interest to Dave Lakhani, President Bold Approach (Mar 8) and Matt Ozga (Jan 29): "I write for the Washington Square News, the student run newspaper out of New York University. Geonomics seems like it has great significance, especially in this area. When was geonomics developed, and by whom?" About 1982 I began. Two years later, Chilean Dr Manfred Max-Neef offered the term geonomics for Earth-friendly economics. In the mid-80s, a millionaire founded a Geonomics Institute on Middlebury College campus in Vermont re global trade. In the 1990s, CNBC cablecast a show, Geonomics, on world trade as it benefits world traders. My version of geonomics draws heavily from the American Henry George who wrote Progress & Poverty (1879) and won the mayoralty of New York but was denied his victory by Tammany Hall (1886). He in turn got lots from Brits David Ricardo, Adam Smith, and the French physiocrats of the 1700s. My version differs by focusing not on taxation but on the flow of rents for sites, resources, sinks, and government-granted privileges. Forgoing these trillions, we instead tax and subsidize, making waste cheap and sustainability expensive. To quit distorting price, replace taxes with "land dues" and replace subsidies with a Citizens Dividend. Matt: "This idea of sharing rents sounds, if not explicitly socialist, at least at odds with some capitalist values (only the strong survive & prosper, etc). Is it fair to say that geonomics has some basis in socialist theory?" A closer descriptor would be Christian. Beyond ethics into praxis, Alaska shares oil rent with residents, and they're more libertarian than socialist. While individuals provide labor and capital, no one provides land while society generates its value. Rent is not private property but public property. Sharing Rent is predistribution, sharing it before an elite or state has a chance to get and misspend it, like a public REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) paying dividends to its stakeholders – a perfectly capitalist model. What we should leave untaxed are our sales, salaries, and structures, things we do produce.
an answer to a rarely asked question. If price is a reward for production, why do we pay for land, never produced by any of us? What is land price a reward for? Good behavior? How much money do we spend on the nature we use? Who gets it? What do they do with it? (If you answer all these correctly, you're not a genius but a geoist.) The worth of Earth is enough that were we to collect and share it, we could abolish taxes on the goods we do produce. For example, San Francisco's Redefining Progress has calculated that Cali-fornia could abolish all state and local taxes were it to collect the values of resources and of using na-ture as a dump. By exorcising the profit motive from depletion and pollution, rent collection could replace bossy regulation. Economies could self-regulate, as the rest of the eco-system does. See how big problems yield to big answers when we ask the right questions?
not exactly Georgism, the Single Tax on land value proposed by Henry George. He did, tho', inspire most of the real-world implementations of the land tax that some jurisdictions enjoy today, and modern thinkers to craft geonomics. While his name and our remedy both begin with "geo" since both words refer to "Earth", the two have their differences. (a) George pegs land monopoly as the fundamental flaw while geonomics faults Rent retention. (b) To fix the flaw, George was content to use a tax, while geonomics jettisons them in favor of price-like fees. (c) George focused on the taking while geonomics headlines the sharing. George envisioned an enlightened state judiciously spending the collected Rent while geonomics would turn the lion's share over to the citizens via a dividend. (d) And George, as was everyone in his era, was pro-growth while geonomics sees economies as alive, growing, maturing, and stabilizing. Despite these differences, George should be recognized as great an economist as Euclid was a geometrician.
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Ever since the first NEX-5 came out, I've been trumpeting its strong points. With the notable exception of the amazing new Sony RX1, the NEX-5 series is the smallest camera with an APS-C or bigger sensor. In other words, it's the smallest camera that you can really get professional level shots out of. The two big features that I've wanted ever since Sony came out with this camera are in-camera charging so that I don't have to carry around a separate charger, and an audio-in port.
The built in microphone is acceptable, but if there's any amount of wind or background noise, audio quality degrades very quickly. Despite the incredible optical quality of the camera, the audio quality when recording videos has been its Achilles' heel, making many videos unusable. All that Sony would need to do to fix this is put a tiny little microphone jack on the camera. The new NEX-6 and the NEX-7 both have microphone jacks, but getting that jack isn't worth the (admittedly small) increase in camera size.
In a desperate attempt to improve sound quality, I bought Sony's own solution, a microphone that clips to the top of the camera. While it's better than the built-in mic, the microphone was still vulnerable to camera noise as well as background noise. Plus, sometimes you just want to wear a little clip-on lav mic and not worry about outside sounds.
I searched online for some solution, but although there was speculation that it might be possible to hack something together, no one had actually done it. One night, as I drifted off to sleep, my mind circled back around to the microphone issue. I had been recording a video every day for a couple months, and I really wished that I could just plug a microphone in. There had to be a solution. I decided that since the add-on Sony mic wasn't that great anyway, I'd take it apart the next day and see what I could figure out.
Now, it may be worth pausing here to mention that I am not great with electronics. I have the cheapest soldering iron available, and I barely know how to use it. In fact, my method of soldering is so bad that I suspect I'm the only one who does it this way. Other than a childhood penchant for taking things apart (and usually not bothering to put them back together), I have no real experience with this sort of stuff. I mention all this, because I imagine that the following paragraphs are going to a) make me sound like I know what I'm doing and b) possibly scare you away from trying this. The reality is that I'm a complete amateur who's just dedicated and reckless enough to make stuff like this happen, and that the process is actually pretty easy.
So the next morning I woke up and began prying away at the microphone. It was actually pretty fun finding all the hidden screws and detentes holding the thing together. Cut down to its bare components, the Sony ECM-SST1 has a very strange design. It has two very cheap looking microphones, but they're suspended by rubber bands as you'd expect a high-end microphone to be constructed. One faces straight forward and the other faces directly perpendicular to the side. I can't quite wrap my head around how Sony gets good stereo separation from a design like this, but it does. Upon seeing the setup, I actually put the mic back together to test the stereo functionality. My guess is that the front mic is responsible for picking up all the sound and that the sideways mic is responsible for positioning. I mention this not because it's at all relevant to the procedure I'm going to outline, but rather because I figure it may give more experienced people some ideas on how to improve my method.
I found a pinout diagram online of the proprietary (why does everything have to be proprietary, Sony?) connector, which clearly labeled the microphone channels. Of interest is that there are actually THREE channels, plus a ground. Left, right, and center. Also of interest, the microphone doesn't use the center channel. So it's there for some accessory that hasn't yet revealed itself, I guess. I cut the left, right, and microphone ground, and wired them up to a microphone.
It recorded sound, but it was extremely noisy and hard to hear. Far worse than the internal mic. I tried reversing the channels, using just left or just right as mono channels, grounding the ground to other stuff, but nothing would make it sound anywhere approaching decent. Always noisy. This was pretty frustrating, because I was sure that it would work. I was impelled to give up, but the dream of audio-in for the NEX was just too real. There had to be some way to do it.
I clumsily soldered the tiny wires that I had cut back together, insulated them with heat shrink tubing, and stared at the blasted contraption. I cut all of the wires going to the two front microphones and decided to test what would happen if I hooked the front one up to an audio jack. I should mention here that the suspense was excruciating, because for every test I'd have to solder everything together, record a video, and then transfer it to the computer to listen and make sure the audio quality was good. But in this case it paid off-- I was rewarded with crystal clear audio! The first words ever uttered into an NEX-5N via a 3rd party microphone were "Oh god, this had better work."
Giddy with success, I immediately set out to figure out the best way to use my contraption on a long term basis. All of my tests had been done with the guts of the microphone strung along across the top of the camera. Hardly a sustainable solution. My first inclination was to use the now defunct microphone enclosure, adding an audio port to the back. I actually went so far as to drill a hole in the back of it, when I spotted the NEX flash across my desk. Now, I'm not sure if I'm just such a bad photographer that I don't understand how to use the flash, or if this flash is so bad that makes every photo look worse, but I never use it. Maybe, I thought, I could make it into an enclosure for the microphone circuitry. This would allow me to have a much smaller unit and a flat surface on the top to mount a microphone-carrying cold shoe.
Next thing I knew, I was prying apart the flash and had discarded the innards of it, leaving a nice empty shell to play with. A bit of drilling and cajoling later, I had my unit all together. Nonfunctional flash in front, audio processing on the inside, and a nice 3.5mm audio jack on the side. Triumphantly I recorded a video explaining what I had done and swapped it over to my computer to hear how good it sounded. And it did sound good-- in the left channel. It turns out that in my haste to put the flash back together, I had pulled loose one of the extremely delicate wires attached to the connector. The next half hour of my life was spent trying to fix this, and, in the process, breaking most of the other wires and covering the whole hot mess in solder. In short, I completely ruined everything.
I did what any other reasonable person would do next, and I ordered another Sony microphone to gut for parts. It arrived today, and I'm happy to say that using its cable I was able to hook up my original board to make the first ever fully-functional 3.5mm microphone port for a Sony NEX-5. Here's proof:
If you'd like to do the same, here's how (video at the bottom):
1. First, take apart the microphone. I recorded a full video on how to do this below, so I won't get into the particulars here. The short version of it is that you uncover the hidden screws at the bottom to remove the connector, and then very carefully pry everything else apart. Be particularly careful with the cable that runs from the connector to the board, because it's damn near impossible to repair if you break it.
2. From the microphone, all you need is the cable I mentioned in step one, and the squarish logic board. There are five or so wires coming off of the board. If you're a better tinkerer than I am, I bet you can figure out how to use them all to get stereo sound. If you're not that clever, just pull off all of them except for the two closest to the edge, labeled M1 and MicGND. I pulled those off, too, and soldered directly to their pads, but this was pretty tricky and I wouldn't bet in favor of me duplicating the feat. Better to just leave the wires attached and use them.
3. Desolder the switch. To do that, just pinch the switch in a way that pulls it from the board, while applying the soldering iron to the opposite side. Hold it until your fingers burn, take a second to cool down, and try again. You'll make incremental progress, feeling the switch detaching from the board. Just a couple minutes of this will get it off. I blobbed a bunch of solder between the two contacts labeled 90. I'm not sure if it's necessary to do this or not, but it seemed like a solid idea.
4. So now you should have a cable, the square board, and just two leads coming off of it. Now look towards your flash with warring eyes and start taking it apart, too. Just remove the connector part as we did with the microphone, and then remove the plastic sticky panels on the side and hit those four black screws. Whatever you do, do not remove the silver screws that are holding the springs down. It's not necessary, and I'm not sure there's a more frustrating task than trying to put them back in. Pull out all the flash business, keeping only the plastic grey shell and the clear plastic lens. You can also get rid of the big vertical piece of plastic inside the flash and the smaller vertical piece behind the big thumbscrew. Pay special attention to the angle that the clear flash lens sits at-- it's not obvious once you take it apart.
5. Next you drill a 1/4" hole in the side of the flash for the audio jack to go through. You'll have to do a bit of positioning and measuring to find the right spot for it. Only once you've drilled that hole should you solder the leads of the audio jack to the leads coming off of your audio board.
6. I covered the whole board in masking tape just to make sure it didn't accidentally bump up against the audio jack contacts and short something.
7. There will probably be only one way that the board will fit in at this point, so go ahead and put it in. Hopefully you tested this before positioning your audio jack.
8. Now just close the whole thing up. The two front black screws won't have anything to bite into anymore, but put them in anyway. The adhesive plastic will hold them in place and together they'll prevent the top from becoming separated. Use the connector cladding pieces that you took from the microphone. The ones that came with the flash won't connect correctly without some modification.
And that's it! If it comes out anything like mine, it will be just a little bit janky looking, but will function like a champ. Here's a video of the procedure:
hi Tynan, you effort is really interesting.
I have always complained about Nex-5N lack of mic input, and Nex-6 and Nex-7 are no option for me: the first one cause I think it's not worth the upgrade (and the control dial looks so ugly!), second one has too high megapixel count, noise is worse than my little 5n.
Anyway, all this things about the external mic are quite strange.
Internal stereo mic is probably as simple as possible, so left and right go directly to the respective channels.
I wonder why the external one has perpendicular mics and circuitry for processing the signal.
If the electronics are on the external mic as you showed it means that out of it we should have a balanced stereo signal, so I don't understand why connecting directly a stereo mic to the connector gave a noisy signal.
It would be interesting to know if that signal was stereo or not and if correctly balanced.
The fact that your solution has only one channel is also very strange, being the sony mic a stereo one.
It would also be interesting to know which are the components on the small board, if we can replicate it without having to buy and break each time a new sony mic it would be clearly better.
Probably I have been a bit confusing, but I just wrote what came out of my mind in the excitment of reading and watching the video :)
its called 'middle and side' recording.the electronics subtract the side from the middle to derive the 'other side and make stereo. Its popular - or was - in film production
Hi Tynan and Riccardo,
Nice work Tynan! Thanks to your video peek inside the sony mic I'll be trying out something similar to suit my slightly different needs.
For what it's worth, the Sony mic is set up in a Mid-Side stereo configuration.
The circuitry would be decoding the mid and side information into a stereo signal (more or less splitting the 'side' and inverting the duplicate, then mixing each with the 'mid' signal to create left and right)
You won't be able to get a simple L/R from an XY configured microphone (or two separate channels from a couple of lapels) with this chip without somehow bypassing the MS decoding, which I imagine would be mighty tricky.
Also, I'm assuming there is some pre-amplification of the microphone signal done by the chip. My guess would be that this is why your initial attempt at soldering directly to the connector resulted in low level, noisy audio. The camera or your software would have had to boost an extremely low mic-level signal.
I'm after a line-level input (to come from a separate microphone preamplifier), so I'm hoping I'll be able to get away with your first idea. Now I just need to hunt down that pinout diagram you mentioned...
Anyway, thanks again for taking the plunge and sharing the results.
Nigel - that's exactly what I thought - the pinout Tynan described of the stereo mic screamed M/S decoding to me. I am an audio pro but this seems like a whole lot of work to get a mic attached - especially if you want to keep the rig lean and mean. I have several standalone audio recorders so maybe I'll continue syncing my Zoom H1 + Nex 5 audio (sigh...) and save up for a real dSLR
Hi Tynan, thanks for all your effort. I was hoping Sony would have equipped the follow up version NEX-5R with a 3.5 mm jack but they didn't. Now I'm hoping the successor of the NEX-5R will have one. Michael
Excellent tutorial. My only question is how did you get a clean signal? I created the device and used one mic in for L and one for R. The result is noisy and quiet audio as you mentioned. What did you do exactly to get your clean signal? I see that you only hooked up the front mic for mono. Anything else to fix the weak signal input? Thanks!
You are awesome for doing this, I didn't think it was possible. I own a 5N and SST1 mic, it's better than I thought it would be. But better than that, would be better!!
hi Tynan, i'm from Colombia.. and really i'm interested in your in jack 3.5" for my sony nex 5n. how can I will buy you flash-injack? I wait you answer. thanks so much. my email is email@example.com. again thanks.
can you do more video tests with the mic to show more of its capabilities? also if you have other mics to use with the camera can you show them in action also?
I just received and thoroughly tested the DIY NEX-5 audio adapter that Tynan crafted and it works great! I couldn't be more happy - it looks and functions like it came straight from the Sony factory - but of course it didn't... because Sony sucks for not making them in the first place.
Great job Tynan. You should consider making a few more. Although, now that I've already spent my $200 on your nifty device, I will say that you should charge more. $200 barely covers the cost of the Sony flash and external microphone that need to be hacked to make this audio adapter.
Hello Tynan! Im very interested buy the 3.5mm audio in of nex-5 from you! let me know what I have to do!
Hello Tynan,
I wanted to say thank you! I rebuilt my mic for the NEX-5 now. I had the same idea as you and I bought a ECM-SST-1. Then I tried on the cable between the connector and board to intrude but this has just launched a mega "hum" out! I've already finished and then wanted to sell the mic to be defective! Then I found your article and now I have the mic rebuilt so as you ( in Stereo).
Thank you. Greetings from Germany,
PS: if you want I can send you a picture.
I spent $1800 on my first high quality camera. I was on the brink of Life Nomadic, and I justified the purchase with two ideas. The first was that I would be seeing a lot of things for the first, and possibly the only, time. Second, the particular camera I bought, an Epson R-D1s, seemed to hold its value well.
It came as a shock to a lot of people how primitive my camera was in many ways. It had no autofocus, no flash, no video recording capabilities, no self timer, and the only thing it could do automatically was light metering. It did that poorly. After each shot it was necessary to thumb a switch, which mechanically reset the spring for the shutter.
I bought a single lens for it, a Nokton 40mm/1.4. It had no zoom, and the aperture was set mechanically by rotating a ring on the lens. The lens was gorgeous. For those who don't know, a 1.4 F-Stop means that the lens is very fast: it lets in a lot of light. The average camera lens is probably around an f/3.5, which lets in only an eighth as much light as mine did. That's how I got amazing low-light pictures like this one.
I previously wrote an in-depth blog on my social media hardware bag, and the Kodak zi6 flip-style camera in particular.
I've since upgraded to the new Kodak zi8 camera (available from Amazon.com for about $180) which is just amazing. I can't say enough good things about this camera.
It has an external microphone jack (which the zi6 did not have) and it uses a rechargeable battery that can accept an external power connection during filming (meaning battery life is no longer an issue if you're near a plug, or if you're not near a plug, you can use an external battery pack like the Tekkon external battery pack, which uses 4 AA's).
At left is a picture of me using the zi8 along with the QuikPod to capture the content of a panel at a Digital Hollywood conference.
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I previously wrote an in-depth blog on my social media hardware bag, and the Kodak zi6 flip-style camera in particular. I've since upgraded to the new Kodak zi8 camera (available from Amazon.com for about $180) which is just amazing. I can't say enough good things about this camera. It has an external microphone jack (which the zi6 did not have) and it uses a rechargeable battery that can accept an external power connection during filming (meaning battery life is no longer an issue if you're near a plug, or if you're not near a plug, you can use an external battery pack like the Tekkon external battery pack, which uses 4 AA's). At left is a picture of me using the zi8 along with the QuikPod to capture the content of a panel at a Digital Hollywood conference. Here is a sample panel that was recorded with this camera (may take up to 30 seconds to start playing): Below are more pictures of me using it with various external microphones, including a lapel microphone. [gallery link="file" columns="2"]


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Since when did Augusta National Golf Club's perfectly legal membership policies become the business of every interest group and politician in America?
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney joined President Obama today in arguing that women should be admitted to the Augusta National Golf Club. "Certainly if I were a member, if I could run Augusta, which isn't likely to happen, of course I'd have women into Augusta," Romney said. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich chimed in on Twitter, saying his wife "would be a great member."
Does every school, class and club in America need to have representatives from both sexes present to be legit? Do men have to take a woman along for poker night? Do women need to have a guy along for a girl's night out? That's why all of this political grandstanding is so ridiculous. There's no more reason for Augusta to have female members than there would be for Wellesley College to become a coed college if that's not the direction it wants to go in. If the men at Augusta want to have female members, that's their call, but it shouldn't be forced upon them — and happily, they seem like they're going to keep standing tall on the issue.
As an American, it does my heart good to see the nags at NOW, the Democrat President, and the Republican candidates for President howling at a business that is essentially telling all of them that they can turn their complaints sideways and shove it. That spirit of defiance in the face of presumptuous, know-nothing politicians is part of what made this a great country in the first place.
This post originally appeared at The Huffington Post.
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As I have a lot of OS 9 software which I still use I am currently running OS 9.2.2, together with OS 10.1, on my G4 Mirror Door.
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Can I install the new disk in one of the spare hard disk slots in the G4 and run 10.5 whilst still keeping 9.2 on the original disk?
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Why your child wants discipline: Little kids are just learning how to play with their peers, and even half an hour can be a long time for them. Your child doesn't have the social grace to say, "Hey, I'm a little pooped right now. Anyone mind if we continue this get-together another time?" By grabbing toys or bursting into tears over her friend's choice of block color, she's not purposely trying to be difficult. She's telling you, in the only way she knows how, that she needs your help.
What to do: Give her the words to describe how she's feeling -- or tell her, if necessary, that her behavior is not okay.
You can say to your child, "It looks like you're tired of playing with that toy. Let's try the blocks over here." Or help her calm down by putting her on your lap and quietly reading a book together.
If your daughter does something like bop her pal on the head with a doll, saying "We don't hurt other people" is enough. If you're at someone else's house and decide to end the playdate, don't lecture your toddler. She's learning by your example: When her behavior gets out of hand, it's time to go home. She may be relieved to get back home to her own toys and routines.
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Shaded by the leafy contours of Burden Hill, in a sharp bend of Middle Creek off Eastgate Road in Sevierville, New Salem Baptist Church resists the ravages of time. It's a sturdy place, built by men and women of sturdy stock, one of whom helped build much of Sevier County in the late 19th century.
Alf McMahan, John Burden, Addie McMahan, Nancy Collman and Witt McMahan, African Americans all, were founding mothers and fathers of a "union church for the worship of any denomination." Squire and Mrs. Bob Henderson donated the land.
On Sunday, the man whose hands helped actually craft the structure, Isaac Dockery, will be celebrated.
Dockery lived from 1832 until 1910 and was a leader in Sevier County's small but influential black community. Dockery was a brick maker and mason and designed and built New Salem in 1886. A decade later in 1896, Dockery's brickwork formed the exterior of Sevier County's iconic courthouse.
The courthouse has had multiple makeovers, but the historic superstructure is still in place, casting a shadow over a statue of Sevier County's favorite daughter, Dolly Parton. But New Salem Baptist Church, an icon in its own right, needs some work.
Enter Knoxville resident Alverenne Bridgeforth, wife of John Bridgeforth, a Jefferson City native whose mother was Isaac Dockery's granddaughter. She'll be one of the hostesses, along with Shedenna Dockery, Alesha Burden, Doris Wilcox and Mona Dockery, for "Isaac Dockery Celebration Day" at New Salem. Last year, local and state officials officially proclaimed May 19 "Isaac Dockery Day," and folks enjoyed the day so much they decided to do it again.
"(Dockery) was a black man who did the amazing architecture of the church and laid the brick for the courthouse," Bridgeforth said. "We wanted to honor him."
But there's another important purpose for the party. "We're trying to raise money to renovate the church," Bridgeforth said.
The 3 p.m. event will feature guest speaker the Rev. C.C. Mills, who on weekdays is an assistant district attorney general in Greene County. Tickets are $25 for adults and $10 for children and are available at the door or by calling Bridgeforth at 865-919-6557.
Bridgeforth is optimistic about the ultimate preservation of a special place in Sevier County. "New Salem will not become a church again, but it can be something for the community to use," Bridgeforth said. "It can become a community gathering place."
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