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As the state's only volunteer-driven homeschool organization, VaHomeschoolers has only one paid part-time contractor – our lobbyist. This means that the bulk of the work is done by our volunteers, homeschool parents, like you, who feel strongly about supporting homeschooling in Virginia and who recognize the importance of an organization like VaHomeschoolers. Consider supporting VaHomeschoolers by volunteering your time and abilities.
For more information and complete job descriptions for any of these positions, please email our Volunteer Coordinator. When applying, please include a listing of relevant skills and/or any previous experience.
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If none of these positions seems to be a fit, but you want to help, email VaHomeschoolers with your areas of interest and skills. Many volunteer opportunities exist, and we can find one that is the right size and scope for you.
Help Wanted – Positions Available
- VaHomeschoolers Voice
- Graphic Designer - CRITICAL NEED! Position Available Starting August 2015
- Advertising Sales Manager
- Advertising Salesperson
- 2016 Conference, Glen Allen Cultural Arts Center
- 2016 Conference Chair – CRITICAL NEED!
- Government Affairs Committee
- Website
- Outreach
To inquire about any of these positions, ask questions or offer names of people you think would be suitable, please contact us or apply online
VaHomeschoolers Voice
Don't you love receiving your copy of VaHomeschoolers Voice every other month? Do you realize that the entire publication is put together by unpaid volunteers, and all of them are homeschooling parents and children? You too can be a part of the Voice team!
Graphic Designer – Starting August 2015
The Graphic Designer will be responsible for the layout of each edition of the magazine. The Graphic Designer will coordinate desig n and copy order with VOICE Editor, coordinate with VaHomeschoolers Photo Editor to secure photos for the issue, send pdf proofs of magazine in layout format to editor for review (note this step will be repeated multiple times),and revise and edit as instructed by VOICE Editor. Once final approval of magazine copy and layout is received the Graphic Designer will send final pdf proof file and production files to printer, review electronic pre-press proof from printer for production issues, and work with printer to resolve issues as necessary.
Skills and Qualities Needed: Experienced designing for 4-color printing process, publication design experience preferred. Proficient using Adobe Creative Suite; able to create publication layout in InDesign; able to process photographs in PhotoShop Able to prepare production files to meet requirements of print shop. Creative, organized, reliable, conscientious, team player.
Time Commitment: Varies. The magazine is printed 6 times a year with highest level of commitment being one month prior to publication of each issue.
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Advertising Sales Team
Advertising Sales Manager
Manager will coordinate the sales of advertising in VaHomeschoolers publications, in official emails and on our website.
Skills and Qualities Needed: Excellent people skills, enthusiasm and a clear understanding of the mission and spirit of VaHomeschoolers. Sales experience helpful but not necessary. Extensive knowledge of VaHomeschoolers as an organization a plus.
Time Commitment: 5-10 hours per week estimated. More or less depending on how much space there is to sell and how many inquiries we get from clients.
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Advertising Salesperson
Salesperson will accept contracts and payments from clients who wish to advertise with us. Solicit advertising from vendors that sell homeschooling materials and services.
Skills and Qualities Needed: Excellent people skills, enthusiasm and a clear understanding of the mission and spirit of VaHomeschoolers. Sales experience helpful but not necessary. Extensive knowledge of VaHomeschoolers as an organization a plus.
Time Commitment: 5-10 10 hours per week estimated. More or less depending on how much space there is to sell and how many inquiries we get from clients.
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2016 Conference Team
VaHomeschoolers Conference Chair
This position may be filled by an individual or may be co-chaired by two people.
General Overview: The conference chair facilitates the theme, logo and general tone of the conference. They are responsible for coordination of all aspects of the conference in conjunction with a board representative. This includes establishing a team of coordinators for all areas of the conference such as exhibitors, volunteers, speakers, etc.
Job Description:
- Locate and contract for a venue in conjunction with board representative.
- Sole liaison with the venue
- Propose theme and logo for conference.
- Develop list of prospective keynote or featured speakers. Contract those chosen.
- Familiarize yourself with the duties of the various committees.
- Secure volunteers to serve as chairs of each of the committees.
- Create a conference planning timeline and share with committees.
- Provide support, resources and guidance to committee chairs. Help insure they are informed, on schedule, and enthusiastic.
- Supervise selection of speakers and session topics with session chair.
- Facilitate the production of the registration booklet and program. This includes collecting copy from committee chairs as well as drafting some copy.
- Coordinate the promotion, advertising, social media and marketing campaigns
- Proof all copy generated for publication – announcements, press releases, solicitations, etc.
- Requesting bids from suppliers such as catering, printing and tote bags, for Board review and contracting with those companies chosen
- Facilitating leadership team communication and creating a positive team atmosphere
- Attend to needs of VIP speakers on site.
- Assure expenditures are within the board provided budget.
- Send periodic updates to the board.
Skill Set:
- Strong management and leadership skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to successfully juggle multiple tasks
- Capable of seeing the big picture as well as needed details.
- Able to communicate clearly and frequently
- Resourceful
- Willing to respect the policies set by the board, and to respectfully argue his/her case if they have reason to disagree
- Experience in conference planning
- Able to asses quickly and respond calmly in crisis situations
Time Commitment: The 2016 Conference Chair is an upper management position and will require intentionality from now until the end of conference in recruiting, training and communicating with volunteers.
Training and Accountability: The 2016 Conference Chair will report directly to the President and Board of Directors for VaHomeschoolers. Information and insight can be gleaned from previous conference chairs who will be available to answer any questions.
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Government Affairs Committee
Did you enjoy reading about our efforts in the General Assembly? We're looking to expand our Government Affairs Team for 2015. We track legislation, work with public school divisions and spend a lot of effort keeping our members informed. You saw the fruits of this labor this year. Want to be a part of it in future?
Legislative Program Coordinator
Leads VaHomeschoolers' legislative efforts in the General Assembly, coordinating our team of legislative monitors, working with our lobbyist and Government Affairs Director to develop lobbying strategy, written materials, and writing periodic legislative.
Skills and Qualities Needed: Good leadership and communication skills and ability to write clear and concise summaries of legislative issues and events. Prior knowledge of the legislative process is not necessary, but it is helpful.
Time Commitment: Varies from 5-20 hours per week. Highest during the 6-10 weeks of the General Assembly (January- March), and significantly lower the rest of the year. This position requires frequent availability via email and phone.
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School Division Program Coordinator
Coordinator will lead VaHomeschoolers' work with public school divisions and encourage positive working relationships between homeschoolers and their local school divisions. Coordinate our already-established school division policy review project, working with our team of volunteer researchers, and documenting our findings for VaHomeschoolers members, school divisions, and the general public. Assist homeschooling families in working with their school divisions. Write reference material and other communication with school divisions on behalf of VaHomeschoolers.
Skills and Qualities Needed: Good leadership and communication skills, as well as familiarity with Virginia's home instruction statute and related laws.
Time Commitment: Varies from 0-10 hours per week, highest during the summer, when we conduct our school division policy review research.
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Website Technical Manager
Work with the Website Administrator and be responsible for handling all the day-to-day technical maintenance of the existing website and blog. Perform upgrades to the website and blog WordPress software and plug-ins. Determine the appropriate technical solutions to issues that arise.
Skills and Qualities Needed: Strong WordPress technical skills and knowledge.
Time Commitment: Will vary dependent upon needs. Typically 5-10 hours a week.
Training and Accountability: Will receive an overview of the VaHomeschoolers website backend. Coordinates with the Website Administrator.
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Website Content Coordinator
Work with the Website Technical Manager to ensure that the VaHomeschoolers website is kept up to date. Receive and respond in a timely manner to requests for corrections, updates and for the addition of new website content from VaHomeschoolers Board Members and key volunteers. Will not be expected to generate original content or perform technical tasks.
Skills and Qualities Needed: General understanding of blog software (experience with WordPress is a plus, but not required). Some familiarity with HTML helpful for troubleshooting. Flexibility and attention to detail. Ability to keep track of multiple requests from multiple people and to respond in a timely manner.
Time Commitment: Will vary dependent upon needs. Typically 2-5 hours a week.
Training and Accountability: Will receive an overview of the VaHomeschoolers website backend and how to make updates. Coordinates with the Website Technical Manager.
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Regional Coordinators
Work closely with the Board of Directors and Volunteer Coordinator to improve statewide communication within VaHomeschoolers, arrange locations and publicity for coffee chats and seminars in your region, distribute of VaHomeschoolers materials to libraries and other homeschool friendly locations, be a drop off point for giveback programs and used curriculum resources.
Appropriate for: Homeschool parent or other adult (18 and older)
Requisite skills: People skills, ability to bring homeschoolers together, distribute organizational materials in public places; good email and other communication skills for sharing information with the Board of Directors.
Geographical Location: Coordinators needed for all regions in Virginia
Time commitment requested: At least two hours per month, more at the beginning as you are trained, tapering off as things get settled; time commitment depends on the needs and numbers of homeschoolers in your area, and also on how much you want to do.
Valuable work experience you can put on your transcript/resume. Experience in organizing groups, leadership, working with local organizations such as libraries and rec. centers. Good work may be rewarded by a letter of recommendation to an employer or institute of higher learning
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Announcements Designer
The Announcements Designer would assist the VaHomeschoolers board in creating announcement templates that could be used throughout the year. Also, he/she would create titles (headers) for use in announcements, on the website and possibly on printed materials. The bulk of the planning would be in the initial stages and with creative assignments as special projects arise.
Skills and Qualities Needed: Seeking someone who is creative, has a flair for eye-catching layouts and titles and is experienced working with graphic design software. A working knowledge of the MailChimp announcements program is desired but not required.
Time Commitment: 2-3 hours per month (or more in the beginning and then as needed).
Training and Accountability: The email designer will received orientation, training and project direction from the Email Coordinator.
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Outreach Materials Coordinator
The Outreach Materials Coordinator will receive and maintain a supply of VaHomeschoolers promotional materials (i.e., brochures, bunper stickers, newsletters, event fliers, etc.), confirm and follow-through with requests for materials, file for reimbursement for postage of mailings.
Skills and Qualities Needed: The Outreach Materials Coordinator skills will include organization, timeliness, strong written communication, and administrative skills.
Training and Accountability: The Outreach Materials Coordinator will receive initial training and direction from the Executive Director. A detailed job description will be provided.


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Commodities you spend too much time focusing on each song when you should focus on the album as a whole. Also your explanations don't say why the songs are good or bad just that they exist in general.
Album Rating: 3.5Finally gave this album a listen the other day - some parts are catchy but overall this is way to samey and they are really bad when it comes to transitioning from heavier parts to parts with singing
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'Risecore' lol
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Album Rating: 3.5Best review ive ever read
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Album Rating: 1.0Rating this to celebrate. Extra hate because they're from my area.
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Album Rating: 2.5This fucking band. This. Fucking. Band.
Album Rating: 3.5god this was better than issues
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Album Rating: 1.5Lol
Album Rating: 2.0Issues is so bad; this is almost good in comparison
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BOSNIAN RAINBOWS Announce Details of Debut Album
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Teri Gender Bender, Nicci Kasper, Deantoni Parks and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, known collectively as BOSNIAN RAINBOWS, will release their self-titled debut album June 25 on Sargent House.
The album will feature the previously unveiled tracks "Torn Maps" and "Turtle Neck"--which can be heard at:
... as well as nine other original Bosnian Rainbows compositions.The complete track listing is:
1. Eli
2. Worthless
3. Dig Right In Me
4. The Eye Fell In Love
5. Cry For You
6. Morning Sickness
7. Torn Maps
8. Turtle Neck
9. Always On The Run
10. Red
11. Mother, Father, Set Us Free
Many if not all of the above will be familiar to those who caught the band on its recent run of U.S. headline dates, shows that generated raves.
Bosnian Rainbows have just returned from their March 15 appearance at the Festival Vive Latino at Mexico City's Foro Sol Stadium and one show supporting with Yeah Yeah Yeahs in Guadalajara--with whom they'll meet up again in May for shows in Berlin and Paris. Other confirmed U.S. engagements at present are May 25 at the Neon Desert Festival in El Paso, TX, to be accompanied by a few yet to be announced Texas club dates. Bosnian Rainbows have been on the road consistently since August 2012, touring extensively in Europe, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and on the west coast, making a U.S. festival debut at last September's Fun Fun Fun Fest, and more recently completing the aforementioned February headline tour.
Further live dates will be announced as they are confirmed.
Live 2013
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05/08/13 - Paris, FR - Olympia *
05/25/13 - El Paso, TX - Cleveland Square Park
* w/ Yeah Yeah Yeahs
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Love everything CLE!
Not too sure how I feel about this whole online dating thing.. but I am getting sick of trying to meet people at bars. To me that's really not my ideal place to meet someone. Maybe the internet isn't either, but I guess I will give it a try... In a nutshell, I am a Cleveland born and raised gal. I went to school in West Virginia on a golf scholarship then moved to Florida to finish school and pursue professional golf. I lived in Florida for the past three years and recently moved back home. I am obsessed with everything Cleveland and couldn't be more happy that I moved back and living downtown. I love sports, watching and playing. I'm very active, but also love just staying in and watching games or movies.
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From August-February my weekends consist of football, and that's about it. Love summers in Ohio- cookouts, Lake Erie, bonfires Trying new restaturants and hot spots around CLE
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Billy Graham to Be Honored in INSP's Premiere of BILLY, THE EARLY YEARS, 11/10
Billy Graham, legendary evangelist and spiritual advisor to 12 U.S. presidents, will be honored in a feature-length film premiering on INSP this month. Billy, The Early Years will make its network debut this coming Sunday, November 10th at 2:00pm (ET). The announcement was made today by Doug Butts, SVP of Programming for The Inspiration Networks.
"The impact of Billy Graham's life is immeasurable," said Butts. "Now everyone, including the millions who grew up watching Mr. Graham's crusades on national television, will have the opportunity to glimpse behind the scenes during those early years. The people and events that shaped Graham's life and ministry tell a story that is sure to surprise and inspire audiences around the world."
The production boasts a star-studded cast. Armie Hammer (Lone Ranger, Mirror Mirror) plays the role of young Billy. Graham's mother is played by Lindsay Wagner (Bionic Woman). Martin Landau (Mission Impossible) portrays the elder Charles Templeton. And playing the renowned George Beverly Shea is singer/songwriter, Josh Turner, who performs two songs during the film.
Butts continued, "This film is an important work of historical significance. It captures a time in American history that needs to be remembered...and shared. INSP is honored to air Billy Graham's story during the celebration of his 95th birthday."
Billy, the Early Years is taken directly from the memoires and experiences of the Graham family and numerous friends who lived during his rise to national prominence. Immediately following the 2:00pm (ET) network movie premiere on Sunday, November 10th, INSP will air a 30-minute special produced by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association: "My Hope America with Billy Graham." The program begins at 4PM.
Viewers can find INSP channel information here. For quality dramas, positive entertainment and inspiring stories, celebrating the American spirit and honoring timeless traditional values, it's INSP. Welcome Home!
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Audio Processing
FM, AM, Mic & Internet Audio
Why Use Wheatstone Processing? Click HERE to find out!
Wheatstone Audio Processing: Deliver sound so good, you can feel it. Bring it on with Wheatstone's ultra high resolution Vorsis processors for voice, AM, FM on-air or streaming. Sound that's loud, yet detailed. Only Wheatstone offers processors with the surgical precision of 31-band processing for audio detail that sings! It's the Vorsis advantage and it's all inside: brilliant highs, articulate vocals, bold bass…ambience. If you need sound shaping for FM, AM, HD, television, webcasting, podcasting, mastering or live audio, this is the place.
Vorsis ultra-high resolution proessing technology is embedded in every Wheatstone processor to create the cleanest sound possible for the most decibels.
We've actually arrived at a whole new benchmark for on-air programming that severely lessens the tradeoff between loudness and quality. With Vorsis, you can have the best of both worlds.
Getting there required a completely fresh approach to spectral audio processing. Like dynamic compression and multiband AGC circuitries that work together, not against each other, to give that consistent spectral balance Vorsis processors are known for. We also add some oomph to the bass with our Vorsis Bass Management System (VBMS), which means you can deliver pristine, deep, distortion-free bass over the air. No other processor delivers bass this bold and clean. Then there's our superior stereo enhancement feature, which creates a smear-free perception of a wider sound field in the cleanest possible way. Our limiting and clipping are, bar none, the finest you'll ever use.
Did we mention that our AirAura and FM-531HD are the first and only processors with 31-band spectral shaping for the cleanest, loudest signal on the dial?
You're going to feel good about your Wheatstone Vorsis sound!
ACI: It's Wheatstone's DNA Needle and Thread
We have built into all of our audio processors a control protocol we call ACI, for Automation Control Interface. ACI is how Belar's FMHD-1 with new ADC algorithm tells our audio processors what corrections need to be made for a consistent and seamless HD blend to analog whenever HD Radio coverage is less than robust.
ACI operates over the locally connected network via TCP/IP and can touch any parameter on the processor, whether it's a setting for the diversity delay, recalling a preset, changing input sources, modifying output levels, or even lowering just the AGC band three threshold by 1.62dB during some externally triggered event. Most of the program automation systems can also talk ACI, as can our console surfaces, so ACI brings new possibilities to our audio processors as well as WheatNet-IP system.
Time to Align: Belar and Wheatstone
We went live in New York and Detroit with a Wheat processor and Belar's ADC algorithm to determine the success of HD radio and analog signal alignment in blended areas.
Tests so far look promising, indicating a consistent and seamless HD blend to analog whenever HD Radio coverage is less than robust.
"We've had the system on since the beginning of May and the delay between the analog and HD has been within one sample. It was pretty close before, but now it's spot on," said engineer Brian Kerklan with WMUZ-FM in Detroit, a market chosen for its ties with the auto industry. Belar's FMHD-1 continuously measures FM/HD time alignment and transmits closed-loop diversity delay corrections back to the Wheatstone on-air processor via our ACI interface. (See related article in this edition of Wheat:News: ACI: It's Wheatstone's DNA Needle and Thread).
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Initial Findings
Belar's FMHD-1 has a +/- 375mS correction window, so if alignment is within that error band, it can measure it and tell the processor what correction to make. Our processors can adjust over their entire diversity delay range. "Because the correction scheme is 'closed loop', there are normally no large jumps in delay as correction is applied. With a closed loop system, delay correction is typically on the order of a few samples at most, once the target delay value is met. If I were to go and purposely enter a 300ms offset at the processor, the Belar would see it, order the processor back to the correct value, and then keep it there - probably in one or two or perhaps three correction jumps from what I have observed," explained Jeff Keith, Wheatstone's Senior Product Development Engineer for the Vorsis line.
Also being field tested is a new Wheatstone "ramp delay correction" feature that if the time offset error is larger than "x", the correction ramps the delay towards zero offset in user-definable small increments steps over "x" time; both variables are user-definable.
These new developments will eliminate the need for yet another box in the air chain to correct for diversity delay errors between the HD digital and FM analog signals. Wheatstone processors AirAuraX3, FM-531HD, VP-8ip and FM-55 support the automatic diversity delay correction.
Super Duper Mic Processing
In the M1, M2 and M4-IP mic processors, the A/D converters and all the processing run at 96kHz (or 88.2kHz in a 44.1kHz context). This is done for three reasons:
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- Reduced latency. This is the time delay through the processor, end-to-end. An unfortunate aspect of digital systems is that such delays are endemic and cumulative, so any opportunity to reduce them must be seized. It is particularly crucial where presenters are involved: any significant delay can be seriously disturbing to them, and even short delays can produce comb-filter coloration when the talent's own voice, heard via bone-conduction, mixes with the headphone audio. This colors their perception of what they sound like. Mess with an artist's self-perception at your peril. In short, running at a super-rate halves the conversion times - the major source of latency in a processor - shaving a big chunk off the delay.
- Improved high-frequency EQ. Not generally appreciated outside the lab is that the top octave (say from 10kHz on up) in a 48kHz system is dominated by the tyranny of inevitable "zeroes" (notches) at 24kHz, half the sample rate. These zeroes affect the calculation for and accuracy of digital filters in this upper range, taking some questionable heroics to beat them into acceptable sonic shape. Alternatively, running the EQ at 96kHz blows right past the problem (the nettlesome top-octave is now in inaudible-land). Subsequent reduction to 48kHz does not meaningfully affect the now wholly accurate EQ characteristics.
- Accurate dynamics behavior. Certain spot frequencies (sub-multiples of the sample rate) can suffer serious detection inaccuracies, particularly with peak-sensing detectors found in limiters or fast compressors. In some cases, such as a protection limiter, these can even render the device useless. Running these dynamics at super-rate forces the worst of these "black holes" an octave up and generally out of harm's way, with any remaining stragglers far easier to contain.
These three results of high-rate processing confer obvious operational benefits and superior sonic performance. An adjective commonly used about the M1 or M4-IP's sound is "sweet." High-rate processing is a large part of the reason.
Here's some other stuff you probably didn't know about Wheatstone M-1, M-2 and M4-IP mic processors.
Banish the PC from the Studio. Virtualize IT.
Which one of these doesn't belong? Microphone. Console. Monitor. Or, that noisy, lump-of-a-box that is the PC workstation in your on-air studio?
The PC workstation obviously needs to go, and we don't mean to the equipment room where all the other noisy things end up. "KVMing" it from the TOC to the on-air studio just adds cabling and complexity that can mess up touchscreen controls.
The point is, you don't need it, as Greg Armstrong, the DOE for RadiOhio, will tell you. He recently installed thin client replacements no bigger than a laptop that snap onto the back of the studio monitor, doing away with all PCs for his group's six WheatNet-IP studios and four edit booths in Columbus, Ohio.
EDGE Network Interface to Wireless IP Links
You know those inexpensive wifi IP radios everyone's talking about for short studio-transmitter hops or for getting the signal back to the studio from the ballpark?
We have something for that, and it even won a Best of Show award from Radio World and Radio magazine.
We call it the Network EDGE, a cost-effective solution for interfacing between high-quality, low-latency studio networks such as WheatNet-IP and low-bandwidth STL connectivity options such as IP wireless radios.
This single rackspace unit can come in handy for any Part 15 wifi link, or any half-duplex system. In fact, our own Jay Tyler has found the Network EDGE to be quite useful for running audio from his covered boatlift to the gazebo at his house.
Network EDGE wins TWO NAB Best of Show Awards!
We are EXCEPTIONALLY excited to have won BEST OF SHOW awards from both Radio Magazine AND Radio World Magazine for our brand new NETWORK EDGE!
Network EDGE is a designed specifically as a translator between high-quality, low-latency studio networks such as WheatNet-IP and low-bandwidth STL connectivity options such as IP wireless radios.
Wheatstone-Eventide Handshaking
In celebration of Wheatstone's partnership with Eventide, Richard Factor, (left) Chairman of Eventide, and Gary Snow, (right) President of Wheatstone Corporation, did a bit of handshaking of their own at booth C755 at NAB 2015 in Las Vegas.
What are these two up to? WheatNet-IP integration into Eventide products, that's what. Eliminating one more network box in the studio chain, Eventide's BD600W delay unit is now available with an optional WheatNet-IP network card for easy and seamless integration of profanity delay into the WheatNet-IP audio network. You can see this integration in action, live and up-close, at Eventide's booth #C2848.
Wheatstone At NAB
Jeff Keith delivered his presentation session on FM Receivers at NAB. He knocked it outta the park!
We also managed to win FOUR Best of Show awards!
Here are a few images of our first day on the show floor:
Want to see more? The full photo galleries are here, updated as the show goes on: NAB 2015 Photos
Checking in with iHeartMedia Portland
We dropped in on iHeartMedia in Portland recently to revisit a WheatNet-IP audio network that has been in operation since the seven-station cluster moved to Tigard, Oregon, in September 2012. Director of Engineering Chris Weiss showed us around the 17-studio, 25,000-square-foot facility and talked about life with audio over IP.
He recalled a recent remote at the Rose Quarter stadium for the Portland Trail Blazers (basketball sportscast) that involved all seven stations at the same time – an impossible feat before IP audio networking. "It was more a staffing issue; could we have enough promotion and programming staff to handle all this? But from an equipment standpoint, it was easy," he said.
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At the center of the operation are the audio network's core Cisco switches, which are bonded together on a backplane in the TOC, with gigabit/second connections to every other switch and element in the network. "Everything works better at a gig, especially NexGen (automation)," commented Weiss, who monitors network traffic on a regular basis. Normal NexGen traffic hovers around the 100 Mbps mark, whereas on the fiber connection to the hub point for all the cluster's transmitter sites, Weiss routinely sees steady traffic at about 150 Mbps. "150 megabits. That freaked me out at first because you never see that kind of bandwidth solid on a circuit. But that's what it takes because it's running all this AoIP back and forth, and we run a video feed for the Trail Blazers over that," he said.
The operation includes 56 WheatNet-IP I/O BLADEs, 49 audio drivers, 23 Wheatstone M2 dual-channel mic processors to handle 46 microphones, and 13 control surfaces all connected through a WheatNet-IP audio network.
Look for details in the recent issue of Radio magazine, which features the iHeartMedia Portland facility as its cover story in the February issue.
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Gigabit Ethernet. Just the Facts.
Numbers don't lie. That's what your friendly police officer will tell you when he clocks you going 70 in a 35 mph zone. But, this isn't entirely true when it comes to the speed of Gigabit Ethernet networks.
Most of us assume that Gigabit Ethernet links transfer data at one gigabit/second, or 10 times faster than 100Mbps Fast Ethernet.
But, in fact, a Gigabit Ethernet cable contains four twisted pairs of wires that are each clocked at 125 Mbps. What the "Gigabit" actually means is that a gigabit of information (data payload plus overhead) can travel across the cable in one second. Because of the efficiency of the modulation scheme and the use of all four pairs in both directions, instead of a pair each way as is the case for Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet is effectively 10 times faster than 100BaseT (Fast Ethernet).
At an order of magnitude improvement over Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet allows the audio network to deliver many more packets that much faster and therefore mitigate some issues.
The Gig on Latency
Take latency. Latency in an IP audio network is the delay between when audio enters the system and when it comes out. Every audio network has some latency because it takes a small but measureable amount of time to take analog audio in, convert it to digital, construct the AoIP packets, transmit them across the network and then reverse the process at the other end. In any IP system, the transit time across the network of an individual piece of data is not guaranteed or predictable. Ethernet networks are designed to avoid data collisions (which happens when different bits of information try to occupy a wire at exactly the same time) by squeezing out packets in between other packets in a multiplexing process controlled by the network switches. You just don't know when "your" packet is going to get there. The IP audio network deals with this by using temporary storage in buffers on each end. It fills up a pool of information on the transmit side so there is a ready source of data whenever the switch is ready to send a packet. Likewise, it fills up a pool of data on the receive side so there is enough data to carry you over the breaks when the network is busy sending someone else's packets.
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As long as the transmit and receive buffers fill and drain at the same rate there is no interruption in final data delivery. The buffers absorb the variance in packet delivery. The catch is that for this scheme to work, the buffers are designed to be half full of data on average, so as to be deep enough that the data in the buffer never runs out or overflows during the worst-case variance in packet timing. This means that the receive data can't start playing out until its buffer is half full or the scheme won't work. The length of time it takes to fill the initial buffer half full is a main part of latency.
What does this have to do with Gigabit Ethernet, you might ask? Just about everything, actually.
Because a gigabit link is 10 times faster with 10 times the throughput of Fast Ethernet, packets can get to their destinations faster. Furthermore, the large capacity of the link allows for many more packets to traverse the network without risk of congestion and collisions and delays by the switches trying to find an opening on the wire for a packet. Because there is less concern with congestion, packets can be made smaller and more of them can be sent more frequently. Thus, buffers can be smaller and therefore, latency can be decreased. On the flip side, less link capacity often means larger data payloads, which can be necessary to ease congestion in lower bandwidth environments but at the unfortunate expense of increased latency.
Big Capacity
From the system perspective, the capacity of a link is all-important. As advertised, Gigabit Ethernet can reasonably handle 10 times the capacity of Fast Ethernet. For example, whereas you might push the upper limit of your Fast Ethernet link at 16 stereo audio channels, a Gigabit Ethernet link will be able to easily do 160 stereo audio channels.
One hundred sixty audio channels might seem like overkill in your studio, however it doesn't take long for signals to add up. The more you ask of your audio network, the more it will need capacity to handle busses and foldbacks, backup sources, mixes, and headphone streams -- not to mention control and monitoring signals. If you want to automatically switch between live assist and dayparts, for example, that takes something like a utility mixer (which is part of our WheatNet-IP BLADEs) to switch them at the right time and level – plus the capacity to handle that switching. Put a few I/O devices in a studio and pipe their audio over a link to your rack room and the channel count goes up quickly.
It's a given that you will probably need to run more than 16 audio channels through a link at one time. Any time you add more capability onto the system beyond a basic input or output channel, that's when you need capacity. It's also nice to have enough of it available for when you want to add something like an audio clip player or multiband audio processing to a network I/0 unit (which we did recently with the introduction of our new BLADE-3 I/O units). Having the available channel capacity allows us to add in the new features and functions that enhance the power and flexibility of the system without running out of network resources.
There's also the flip side of capacity, or what happens when you run out.
As you add more channels to a link, the possibility of dropouts is increased until they are commonplace and you hear them routinely. It's a logarithmic function up to the final cliff, not linear.
In fact, there's a lot at play in the audio network that affects the quality of the end result. IP audio networks are highly stressed, running much more traffic than initially expected. That's why it makes sense to use a topology (Gigabit Ethernet) that is more tolerant of the workload IP audio puts on it.
For example, the bigger the switch capacity, or what is referred to as switch fabric, the more packets it'll be able to move. Just as on the Ethernet link itself, IP audio network switches should be sized and configured to handle the amount of traffic you're going to throw at them -- both today and five to 10 years from now when you'll ask your system to handle the new features we haven't even dreamed about yet.
By using Gigabit Ethernet links and switches you'll have the highest capacity, lowest latency, most future-proofed system available today.


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The conventional wisdom is that Federico Fellini went wrong when he abandoned realism for personal fantasy; that starting with "La Dolce Vita" (1959), his work ran wild through jungles of Freudian, Christian, sexual and autobiographical images. The precise observation in "La Strada" (1954) was the high point of his career, according to this view, and then he abandoned his neorealist roots. "La Dolce Vita" was bad enough, "8 1/2" (1963) was worse, and by the time he made "Juliet of the Spirits" (1965), he was completely off the rails. Then all is downhill, in a career that lasted until 1987, except for "Amarcord" (1974), with its memories of Fellini's childhood; that one is so charming that you have to cave in and enjoy it, regardless of theory.
This conventional view is completely wrong. What we think of as Felliniesque comes to full flower in "La Dolce Vita" and "8 1/2." His later films, except for "Amarcord," are not as good, and some are positively bad, but they are stamped with an unmistakable maker's mark. The earlier films, wonderful as they often are, have their Felliniesque charm weighted down by leftover obligations to neorealism.
The critic Alan Stone, writing in the Boston Review, deplores Fellini's "stylistic tendency to emphasize images over ideas." I celebrate it. A filmmaker who prefers ideas to images will never advance above the second rank because he is fighting the nature of his art. The printed word is ideal for ideas; film is made for images, and images are best when they are free to evoke many associations and are not linked to narrowly defined purposes. Here is Stone on the complexity of "8 1/2": "Almost no one knew for sure what they had seen after one viewing." True enough. But true of all great films, while you know for sure what you've seen after one viewing of a shallow one.
"8 1/2" is the best film ever made about filmmaking. It is told from the director's point of view, and its hero, Guido (Marcello Mastroianni), is clearly intended to represent Fellini. It begins with a nightmare of asphyxiation, and a memorable image in which Guido floats off into the sky, only to be yanked back to earth by a rope pulled by his associates, who are hectoring him to organize his plans for his next movie. Much of the film takes place at a spa near Rome, and at the enormous set Guido has constructed nearby for his next film, a science fiction epic he has lost all interest in.
The film weaves in and out of reality and fantasy. Some critics complained that it was impossible to tell what was real and what was taking place only in Guido's head, but I have never had the slightest difficulty, and there is usually a clear turning point as Guido escapes from the uncomfortable present into the accommodating world of his dreams.
Sometimes the alternate worlds are pure invention, as in the famous harem scene where Guido rules a house occupied by all of the women in his life--his wife, his mistresses, and even those he has only wanted to sleep with. In other cases, we see real memories that are skewed by imagination. When little Guido joins his schoolmates at the beach to ogle the prostitute Saraghina, she is seen as the towering, overpowering, carnal figure a young adolescent would remember. When he is punished by his priests of his Catholic school, one entire wall is occupied by a giant portrait of Dominic Savio, a symbol of purity in that time and place; the portrait, too large to be real, reflects Guido's guilt that he lacks the young saint's resolve.
All of the images (real, remembered, invented) come together into one of the most tightly structured films Fellini made. The screenplay is meticulous in its construction--and yet, because the story is about a confused director who has no idea what he wants to do next, "8 1/2" itself is often described as the flailings of a filmmaker without a plan. "What happens," asks a Web-based critic, "when one of the world's most respected directors runs out of ideas, and not just in a run-of-the-mill kind of way, but whole hog, so far that he actually makes a film about himself not being able to make a film?" But "8 1/2" is not a film about a director out of ideas--it is a film filled to bursting with inspiration. Guido is unable to make a film, but Fellini manifestly is not.
Mastroianni plays Guido as a man exhausted by his evasions, lies and sensual appetites. He has a wife (Anouk Aimee), chic and intellectual, who he loves but cannot communicate with, and a mistress (Sandra Milo), cheap and tawdry, who offends his taste but inflames his libido. He manages his affairs so badly that both women are in the spa town at the same time, along with his impatient producer, his critical writer, and uneasy actors who hope or believe they will be in the film. He finds not a moment's peace. "Happiness," Guido muses late in the film, "consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone." That gift has not been mastered by Guido's writer, who tells the director his film is "a series of complete senseless episodes," and "doesn't have the advantage of the avant-garde films, although it has all of the drawbacks."
Guido seeks advice. Aged clerics shake their heads sadly and inspire flashbacks to childhood guilt. The writer, a Marxist, is openly contemptuous of his work. Doctors advise him to drink mineral water and get rest, a lot of rest. The producer begs for quick rewrites; having paid for the enormous set, he insists that it be used. And from time to time Guido visualizes his ideal woman, who is embodied by Claudia Cardinale: cool, comforting, beautiful, serene, uncritical, with all the answers and no questions. This vision, when she appears, turns out to be a disappointment (she is as hopeless as all of the other actors), but in his mind he transforms her into a Muse, and takes solace in her imaginary support.
Fellini's camera is endlessly delighting. His actors often seem to be dancing rather than simply walking. I visited the set of his "Fellini Satyricon," and was interested to see that he played music during every scene (like most Italian directors of his generation, he didn't record sound on the set but post-synched the dialogue). The music brought a lift and subtle rhythm to their movements. Of course many scenes have music built into them: In "8 1/2," orchestras, dance bands and strolling musicians are seen, and the actors move in a subtly choreographed way, as if they're synchronized. Fellini's scores, by Nino Rota, combine snatches of pop tunes with dance music, propelling the action.
Few directors make better use of space. One of his favorite techniques is to focus on a moving group in the background and track with them past foreground faces that slide in and out of frame. He also likes to establish a scene with a master shot, which then becomes a closeup when a character stands up into frame to greet us. Another technique is to follow his characters as they walk, photographing them in three-quarter profile, as they turn back toward the camera. And he likes to begin dance sequences with one partner smiling invitingly toward the camera before the other partner joins in the dance.
All of these moves are brought together in his characteristic parades. Inspired by a childhood love of the circus, Fellini used parades in all his films--not structured parades but informal ones, people moving together toward a common goal or to the same music, some in the foreground, some farther away. "8 1/2" ends with a parade that has deliberate circus overtones, with a parade of musicians, major characters, and the grotesques, eccentrics and "types" that Fellini loved to cast in his films.
I have seen "8 1/2" over and over again, and my appreciation only deepens. It does what is almost impossible: Fellini is a magician who discusses, reveals, explains and deconstructs his tricks, while still fooling us with them. He claims he doesn't know what he wants or how to achieve it, and the film proves he knows exactly, and rejoices in his knowledge.
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It is not going to drop to half of its price after new years.
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All depends on how much more stock stores get, but they are technically all out of stock right now, at least in my area.
I have a feeling they won't be out of stock of the Wii U, unlike the Wii when it came out....
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I'll wait untill it drops to half price just after new years. heck I'll use it mostly to play old Wii games anyway since never bothered buying a non HD console, so then I can finally play some new Zelda.
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Shortly after it will, it's already being criticized as being over priced, and all the Nintendo fans will buy them from Christmas and as the supply of core Nintendo fans dries off after Christmas, Nintendo will drop the price to actual market price to keep selling, after all, their main audience is not the people willing to pay this much for a gaming console. And at this price they won't get their prime audience of millions upon millions of casual gamers that have even less money to spend on gaming machines after the so called economy crash.
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Viccenzo: Isn't there a possibility that everything I've said is accurate? That you can take my words as they're presented? That she's asexual. That there's no hidden intentional or otherwise agenda at play. That we're three people trying to muddle along as best we can in a new and entirely unfamiliar world?
The wife's response when reading your post?
*groan* ... Oh look, someone else who feels the need to read imaginary stuff between the lines.
One of the worst parts for her of discovering and dealing with her asexuality is the social view that she's somehow wrong. That she just hasn't met the right guy. That she had some deep-seated trauma that made her this way. The guy that she slept with has tried to make the argument that "He knows she wants it because she's a woman" and there's always some jerk out there who thinks he can plow into a woman hard enough to "fix her."
I love my wife deeply. We've spent more than a decade together and we were each other's first and on our wedding night no less. I hope that shines a brighter light on where we're both coming from as people, why we have viewed sex the way we have and the need for other experiences to eliminate any ambiguous variables.
It was hard, reading your post, not to take it as a cross between dime store analysis and a conspiracy theory that paints both myself and my wife in a quite unflattering light.
I don't mind critical analysis I'm INTJ, I dig it but I would also hope in the future that some weight could be given to the words of the people who come here looking for help, support and answers.
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Hey guys, I need a letter of recommendation for a few jobs I'm looking at. A professor roughly 2 years ago told me that if I ever needed one, he'd write it. I've read over some sites on how to request it. Most say I should ask in person but he's 1500 miles away. At first I was going to email, but that seemed rude. The sites also say I should get a SASE to him and so on. My first interview is november 11, so I'm wondering about the time involved. I want to try reaching him on the phone tomorrow to make the request, and to ask him how to proceed (should I mail him a SASE, etc.) Do you think that's the right approach or is there some other way I should work things? Thanks.
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That's right. Peanut Butter Cheeseburger.
I think it's a good idea to warn you that this post is a little unusual. It is far from healthy and possibly quite unusual to some. Let's just say you'll have to have a little extra trust that I wouldn't steer you in the wrong direction.
OK...moving on.
Brad grew up here in Colorado and I grew up in Minnesota, which often leads to the question, "So how did you two meet?" Long story short, we met in the lovely, picturesque town of Decorah in northeastern Iowa. We both attended Luther College and, after 3 years of failed relationships there, we had sworn off dating all together. As cliché as it sounds, that is when we found each other. Brad threw a frisbee that went astray on the library lawn. It landed at my feet. I threw it back. And that was the beginning.
Neither of us were looking to get into a relationship, but it happened.
I'm pretty sure peanut butter hamburgers have a similar story. Two things that come from two different places manage to come together to make something that, in the end, makes perfect sense. You might be concerned. Perhaps you think I'm trying to trick you into trying something for a TV show featuring crazy food. Please believe me when I say that this combination of peanut butter, ground beef, and a fried egg is nothing short of wonderful.
Here's the best way to think about it: Asian peanut sauce is made with peanut butter. Then, chicken or beef are dipped into it making a delicious dish from south Asia. So, really, this isn't that weird.
I had my first peanut butter burger at a little restaurant called T-Bock's in our college town of Decorah. All of my friends knew exactly what it was. One of them ordered the peanut burger topped with a fried egg and the restaurant eventually named after him, calling it the "Gilmore".
Brad and I often reminisce about the days when we would go to T-Bock's and eat a Gilmore burger with a tall, cool Blue Moon. One day we realized that we didn't have to wait until our next Iowa trip to enjoy the peanut buttery, beefy goodness. Duh. We could make it at home! We used natural peanut butter, sharp cheddar cheese, and of course added a fried egg. Here's the secret: you must use the cheese to hold the melty peanut butter in place. Yes, you could skip it, but you'll have a runny mess on your hands. And you're already going all out so you might as well add cheese. And maybe some bacon. Am I right?
I'm sharing this recipe with you because I don't think it is fair to keep such a delicious treat a secret any longer. Be brave. Be bold. Try this out the next time you grill. You won't be sorry!


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The prices Rob quotes are in Euros, which translates to $1400 to $1700 US. Is that a low cost range for Leica? Wow.
I very carefully composed my post to indicate that I wanted to know more - certainly more than a translated press release would tell me. Press releases are not known to be fully "informative". Oh, and "spin" is usually the name of the game with PR's.
Further, I am fully aware of the limitations of internet translators (in this case - Google's), which is why I added the post-script.
So, I really don't need, nor am I interested in, nor do I care about, nor would I ever care about what you have to say on this or anything else.
I really don't like to use the Ignore User function here - so won't. But how about this - you just never, never, ever, ever respond to one of my posts - and I'll give you the same courtesy?
But what's struck me as a bit "odd" is that these new Summarits are at the traditional film focal lengths - rather than "adjusted" for the M8's lens factor. (Best of all possible world's - or maybe compromise?)
This is why I think a secondary consideration is to "blunt" CZ's attempt to grab the mid-price range M-mount lens market.
I don't shoot M-mount so I'm only an observer. But M-mount folk are very "blessed" right now. They have the lower cost CV's, the mid-range CZ's (and these new Summarits) and then the top of the line traditional Leitz's.
Quite a renaissance of gear for RF photography.
Here is the Leica web page in English.
"...the red button on the lens mount is now true to the original color used on Leitz lenses..."
Leaving aside to return of the glorious "true" red button - this raises an interesting question.
If these new lenses are made in Germany, presumably by the same gnomes that make the "good stuff", how "compromised" are they in terms of materials and construction from the top of the line?
Since it means your labor costs are fixed, you don't come out with a "comparable" line of lenses at half-price, made in the same factory without some kind of compromises.
This is a good marketing move to "blunt" the CZ inroad to the mid-market for M-mount lenses - but it remains to be seen what qualities these lenses offer beyond an "official" red button over the competition. ;)
I think this is exactly what Leica needs. If Leica cameras and lenses cost $500 it would be hard to find a photographer without one. The problem is the price, and that problem dramatically worsened in the last few years. Reducing the prices will attract new customers. And of course the established Leica tifosi will buy a couple of these for their M8 as an impulse purchase.
I think the sales success of the M8 despite its high price surprised Leica, putting a bit of fight back into the company and making it realise that the game isn't up just yet. There is no natural law that says Leica must inevitably die a slow, graceful death, with prices spiralling and collectors replacing photographers. The 28 mm Elmarit-M Asph and these new lenses make the company once again interesting to the photographer of strong interest but moderate means.
It's also great for film lovers because, even though I assume most new Leica lenses will eventually sell to digital owners, the lenses will work fine with all those used and affordable M2/3/4/6/7/P bodies out there, of which there are enough to last us several lifetimes even if Leica pulled the plug on film camera production today. A $1k M6 and a brand new 50 mm Summarit-M would be a very pleasant introduction to rangefinder photography, and the price of that combo isn't wildly out of reach of the determined amateur.
My only concern is that the new lenses may cannibalise sales of the faster designs to the point that some of them become untenable. I don't think Leica has ever in its history had such a fat lens catalogue, and while that diversity is wonderful for us, I wonder if it is sustainable. It seems that Leica keeps adding lenses while rarely discontinuing old ones. In November there will be five 50 mm lenses alone!
Anyway, I'm looking forward to the MTF and distortion curves for these new lenses.
P.S. I would caution against viewing the nods to "heritage" -- the red button and traditional font -- as a lack of serious market intent on Leica's part. Similarly retro design elements form the basis of the entire high-street fashion scene and many other current successful products like the BMW Mini. I think the prices of these new lenses demonstrate that Leica means business this time.
Given the essentially hand-made nature of Leicas and Leica lenses, there's no real need to discontinue any camera or lens as long as it has its unique advantages: the sheer speed of the 50/1, the low cost of the 50/2,5, etc. They can just make a small batch from time to time.
In many ways the 50/1 would be the obvious candidate for the chop: modern fast films and an ISO 2500 equivalent on the M8 mean that there's less need for the speed, it's hellish expensive, there's some focus shift on stopping down, and inevitably quality suffers slightly when you build an f/1. It would be possible to redesign it and make a better lens, but I'd be surprised if they bothered. As long as people buy 'em, they'll make 'em: both Leitz and Zeiss say that very small batches -- 25 or fewer -- are feasible, as long as the lens costs enough.
And I'll second your comments about the red dot and the font. Why not go back to the original, after all?
As for collectors replacing photographers, before the M8 came out Leica reckoned they were selling maybe 50/50 to photographers and collectors. The M8 seems to be selling pretty much to photographers.
I suppose their big advantage is that for the rich amateur who wants the best point-and-shoot in the world -- and Leica sold to that market well into the 1960s -- the new lenses make a conveniently compact package and might even be impulse buys.
There's only one thing for it: I'll have to go to Solms again, and ask them. I reckon I can get there in a day on the BMW, but it won't be until September.


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Washington Redskins sensation Robert Griffin III has accomplished much in his first season as a starting quarterback. Add NFL offensive captain to that list. The team's offensive players voted Wednesday to name Griffin a team captain for the rest of the season. "You just know that everybody's looking at me to be the guy, to make everything work," Griffin told. "To me, that's not pressure. But I just echo it to everyone else that it's not just me. People will say it's me and I'll get all the blame and all the fame, but it's the guys around me that make me great." Griffin has been a leader almost from the day he joined the team. He has passed for 1,993 passing yards and rushed for another 529 this season. On Sunday, he'll likely become the third rookie QB in NFL history to eclipse 2,000 passing yards and 500 rushing yards. Griffin joins left tackle Trent Williams as the offensive captains. Barry Cofield and Stephen Bowen were added to London Fletcher on defense. Lorenzo Alex...
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"Ms. Berendsen, who lives in the eastern town of Zelhem, commissioned the small local Schelde brewery to make and bottle the beer."'Once a year we go to Austria to hunt with our dogs, and at the end of the day we sit on the verandah and drink a beer. So we thought, my dog also has earned it,'" Ms. Berendsen told the Associated Press."
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