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I'd say that, after last night, all eyes are on what both director Steve McQueen and actress Lupita Nyong'o will do next - unquestionably 2 of the more interesting talents in the business at the moment, both still relative newbies (although he'd already achieved success and acclaim as a video artist, 12 Years A Slave is McQueen's 3rd feature directorial effort; and Lupita only recently graduated from Yale Drama School - class of 2012; with 12 Years A Slave being her feature acting debut).
We've given lots of virtual ink to Lupita's potential Hollywood (and non-Hollywood) acting career. She's unquestionably the woman of the hour. And at the other end of that conversation is Steve McQueen, who I'd say is a contender for man of the hour today, with his big win last night. Although he may have to wrestle the title away from Matthew McConaughey.
Years ago, after his feature directorial debut, Hunger, McQueen was attached to helm the Focus Features long-in-development Fela Kuti biopic, with Chiwetel Ejiofor starring. This was in 2009/2010, thereabouts.
That project is still in Limbo, although McQueen has long since moved (he went on to direct Shame), and Andrew Dosunmu is now attached to direct.
In a January 2014 report by The Hollywood Reporter, McQueen told the magazine that "the movie is dead," referring to the Fela Kuti biopic, adding that "they didn't have the money. It's just one of those things that happens in this business."
He of course went on to direct 12 Years A Slave after Shame. Although, in an email exchange I had with Dosunmu on the Fela project, he said that, as far as he knew, the project was still alive. But he couldn't share anything more than that - understandably so.
In my fall 2013 interview with McQueen, as 12 Years A Slave was about to open commercially, a question I was thankfully able to squeeze into my 12 minutes, was what we can expect from him next. His response then: a musical. Although, as shared, he hadn't yet decided on what that potential musical would be.
But, soon after my chat with him, an announcement revealed that the much-talked-about director's next project may not be a musical after all. And, in fact, it won't be a project that will be released in theaters.
Last October, McQueen set up a project at HBO, with World War Z co-writer Matthew Michael Carnahan, as well as Russell Simmons (yes, that Russell Simmons), and the Oscar-winning producers of The King's Speech, Iain Canning and Emile Sherman.
Details were (and still are) sparse on the drama project, but it's being described as "an exploration of a young African American man's experience entering New York high society, with a past that may not be what it seems."
I was instantly intrigued when the news broke, needless to say. I immediately began considering all the potential themes a concept like this could explore. And knowing that it will be in McQueen's hands, and on a cable TV network like HBO, was (and still is) very encouraging.
As I told him during our conversation, I think he's in very rare air right now, as a filmmaker of African descent who has the industry's full attention, and is probably in a position to do almost anything he wants. At the very least, he's in demand, and he'll definitely be heard. How many other black filmmakers can say any of that today? And he's been able to accomplish this with just 3 films.
The still untitled HBO project is expected to be in his signature provocative style, and is further being described as "Six Degrees Of Separation meets Shame."
I loathe those reductive industry comparisons, but I understand why they are commonplace.
HBO was said to be fast-tracking the project, meaning it'll likely be McQueen's next directorial effort, with casting underway. But we've heard nothing new since the initial report in October 2013.
The concept definitely intrigues, and I'm curious to know more about what McQueen's cooking up for us next.
3 months after that project news, the 44-year-old filmmaker told the UK's Daily Mail in an interview, that he was working on a drama about the lives of black Britons for the BBC - a second TV project.
The drama would be "epic in scope" and follow the lives of a group of friends and their families from 1968 to 2014.
"I don't think there has been a serious drama series in Britain with black people from all walks of life as the main protagonists," McQueen said in the interview, and he wants to do something about that.
He added that the project, which is still in its early stages, would be developed over the next year with a writer and group of actors. He said it would be set in London, adding: "This isn't a black Our Friends in the North", referring to the 1996 BBC drama which followed four friends from Newcastle.
The BBC is teaming up with McQueen and Rainmark Films on the project, sharing that it was "incredibly exciting to be working with the hugely talented British director who has rapidly become one of the finest directors in the world."
And he'll be taking all that talent to the small screen it would appear, likely with the HBO project first, given that it was fast-tracked. Although, I certainly won't be surprised if it's announced sometime over the next month or 2 or 3, that McQueen is attached to some other feature film that he'll make before either of the 2 TV projects.
I can only imagine the kinds of offers he's been getting, in Hollywood and outside of it. I'd assume he has his pick of projects.
McQueen, who was born in London but now lives in Amsterdam, first found fame as a video artist, winning the Turner Prize in 1999. His mainstream movie career began with 2008's Hunger (I think his most interesting film to date) about the Northern Irish hunger strikers, followed by the 2011 sex addiction drama Shame - both starring Michael Fassbender.
No we wait with anticipation to learn what he will do next... it just might be that musical after all.


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Petaluma telecom startup Cyan Optics, which sells a next-generation system for handling network traffic, has raised another $22 million in venture capital.
"It's our largest round to date," said Mike Hatfield, Cyan's chief executive.
Cyan, founded in 2006, rolled out its optical communications technology last September. It is aimed at phone companies, Internet providers and cable networks struggling to deliver a flood of digital services.
Cyan's platform is attracting industry attention because Hatfield and his partners have held top positions at Cisco Systems, Calix, Cerent, Advanced Fibre Communications and other telecom equipment makers.
The $22 million infusion, which was listed in a Dec. 30 regulatory filing, brings Cyan's venture backing to nearly $50 million since 2006. The investors include Norwest Venture Partners, Azure Capital Partners and Tenaya Capital.
Cyan wants to capture a share of $7.2 billion in U.S. economic stimulus money aimed at extending broadband service to rural and other "underserved" U.S. markets. The program offers grants and loans for communications providers to upgrade their networks. About $4.8 billion was released by the program last week.
Cyan said its technology makes it easier and cheaper for carriers to manage the flow of voice, video and data traffic. It features 3-D software that allows network operators to see different "layers" of traffic on their systems.
Cyan has about 60 employees in Petaluma, where it does engineering, marketing, testing and other functions. Production is outsourced to Flextronics, a Singapore-based contract manufacturer with locations in North America, Asia and Europe.
Hatfield declined to say how Cyan plans to spend its latest infusion of cash, but the company is hiring communications engineers, according to its Web site.
Hatfield founded Calix, a $250 million Petaluma company that has filed plans to stage a public stock offering later this year. He was co-founder of Cerent, another Petaluma startup that was acquired by Cisco in 1999 for a Telecom Valley record $7.3 billion.
Hatfield also was vice president at Advanced Fibre Communications, which was sold to Tellabs in 2004 for $1.5 billion.

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The winners were presented with the 2012 Jack Packard Quality Champion Award. Of the 14 nominees Nurse Specialist Pat Fett and Dr. Bruce Peterson took home the trophies. Nurse Fett was away at a conference but accepted her award via FaceTime.


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Wow that is Amazing dude , you learned real quick with fantastic results congrats mate on a job well done (repped )
Well here is my first complete map since coming to the Cartographer's Guild. I have spent most of my spare time over the last four weeks working on this (though admittedly much of that time was spent learning PS and reading the many brilliant tutorials on this forum).
As I stated in my WIP thread credit for this map goes to Ramah for his beautiful brushes, Vhailor for extracting them, and the many talented tutorial writers who inspired me (all of whom have been duly repped).
I have been gone from this forum for far too long. The birth of my second child has kept me quite busy and unable to put as much time into my extracurricular activities as I would like. I continue to work on my second map from the same world as this one but it is going very slowly. Since I have been unable to devote large amounts of time to my new map I have been able to address some of the issues that have been bothering me about this one. After much agonizing over this map, which I am immensely proud of, I feel I have finally finished it.
- I decided to change some of the place names I was struggling with. In my haste to post my first finished map I settled for some names I was less than pleased with. I believe I have rectified that.
- As stated in a past post I added roads which I am quite pleased with.
- I ditched the previous texture I was using for a more parchment-like one. I was displeased with how the previous texture showed some banding when zoomed out. I am very happy with the new texture.
- I edited the compass and went with a style I have seen used on this forum many times and have been in love with.
- I also changed up my cartouche slightly, the name change reflects more accurately the time-frame in which my story is set (the Empire of Galladorn no longer exists and the previous map, although labelled Galladorn really depicted the borders of the nations that grew out of its ashes. Yet another error made in haste.)
- I also change my scale. At my previous scale I realized my continent was far smaller than I had intended.
- And the final change I made was to give the landmass a whitish glow to create some contrast against the dark ocean colour.
I hope you enjoy it!
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Wow that is Amazing dude , you learned real quick with fantastic results congrats mate on a job well done (repped )
Very nice, looking forward to see what you come up with next.
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Very nice. And I see you did adjust the lighting on the hills, well played sir
Clean, crisp, believable, the works!
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This is a look I was trying to capture. Your map rocks! Good job.
Very nice indeed, well done!
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Thanks everyone for your kind comments. I plan to begin work shortly on the second continent of my world but it will likely have to wait until after the Christmas season. I plan to use the same brushes for that map as well for consistancy but I will be trying my hand at other styles in the future. Hopefully if I can get my hands on a tablet I will begin to do some of my own artwork as long as I don't get to discourage by how much I suck
Very nice...very clean and easy to read. Well put together all around.
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That's a very clean, pretty map. Lots of detail in there. I like the simplicity of the style and the subtlety of the colour palette. Beautifully done.


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Okay, so let's just run down the roster here, shall we? The Princess and the Frog had Oprah Winfrey, Terrence Howard, and John Goodman doing voices; this week's How to Train Your Dragon will offer Jay Baruchel, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, and Jonah Hill; Toy Story3 has Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, natch, plus Michael Keaton, Joan Cusack, and Bonnie Hunt ... and others too numerous to mention. And that's just a handful of recent releases — go back over the decades and you'll see how rapidly animated movies have become the domain of legitimate actors.
And that's okay by us. Aside from triggering an audience's "Hey, it's..." reaction when a celebrated voice is heard, letting an established star loose in a cartoon can bring a level of depth and nuance to creatures who are frequently little more than drawn scribbles or computer constructs. But while some actors may feel free to shuttle at will between the physical soundstage and animated realm, others, for various reasons, might want to consider lingering in the virtual world. Here, then, is our list of 10 stars who might fare better with a permanent move to Toontown:.
10. Billy Bob Thornton
No, you can't take the Boxmasters into the booth with you.
He's out there, somewhere, playing his music and pretending he wasn't an actor. And if that's the way he wants it, so be it — every person has a right to seek his/her dream, even if it leaves us mourning the absence of a unique and commanding screen presence. But if it's getting increasingly hard to lure Billy Bob back before the cameras (his next role appears to be "Cop" in the Dwayne Johnson vehicle, Faster), maybe we can more frequently coax him into the recording studio, where he can bring his unique take to such characters as the canny and duplicitous monk Jigo in Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke. Hey, "Bud," you don't even have to shave!
9. Larry The Cable Guy
Either way, he cleans up quick with a simple run through the car wash.
Ever since Jim Varney's death, animated movies have suffered a serious deficit in affable rural goofs. And while we admit that we can find occasional laughs in Larry's stand-up work, getting the guy into the chassis of the loveable, good-hearted tow truck Mater not only means that we can forgo the "Get them furr-ners offa my lawn" portions of his redneck shtick, but that we'll never again have to endure another Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector.
8. Nicolas Cage
Last time we saw your nephew, Mr. Coppola, he'd reached escape velocity and was pulling into orbit around Saturn.
Where ya taking the role this time, Nic? You going to be somber and serious, or are you going to bounce off the walls, ripping up sets, co-stars, and audience psyches with the sheer fury of your performance? You're the Daffy Duck of acting, and just to be clear: we're talking the Bob Clampett, unrepentant anarchist Daffy, not the Chuck Jones, desperate egoist Daffy. That's good, we think — every art needs its bomb-thrower, and you embrace the job with a passion. We're down it, mostly, but sometimes we wonder if you're better fitted for a 'toon body, like Speckles, the brainy mole of G-Force.
7. Mark Hamill
Now just imagine if Obi-Wan had given him his father's whoopee cushion.
Luke Skywalker has his partisans, Nevertheless, who's going to argue that the kid isn't callow and just a tad whiny? But as everybody knows, within every nascent Jedi rests the Dark Side, and for every icon of ultimate good in the universe, there apparently also exists the voice of unrepentant evil in Gotham City. Hence, Luke becomes the Joker, and Mark Hamill, in stepping up to the mike for such films as Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, manages to find the bridge between Jack Nicholson's clowning criminal and Heath Ledger's psychotic terrorist. Honestly, we find scary and dangerous much more compelling than pure 'n' good, so Mark, redeem your father if you must, but every now and then, have a good, malicious laugh on us.
6. Ellen Degeneres
And you didn't think fish could dance.
Oh, she's so upbeat, so perky! Even when fending off insane suitors (male suitors, at that), Ellen Degeneres is so sprightly and idiosyncratic that, frankly, it's maybe a bit too much. Let's shrink her down to a manageable handful, get her into a package that suits her energetic, darting persona, and let her cut loose as Finding Nemo's memory-challenged Dory. Yeah, that's better — sometimes it pays to be smaller than life.
5. Eddie Murphy
Four legs, big ears, and giant teeth. What a stud!
Time was when we relished Eddie's appearance on the screen, when his presence meant we'd be watching the versatile comedian/actor stepping into characters both smartly observed and sharply sketched (see next week for one such example). More recently, his star turns have been more wince-inducing than laugh-provoking. At least we still have Donkey, the four-legged embodiment of Murphy's best comic impulses. Given the choice between watching a few minutes of Shrek's smart-ass (sorry) sidekick sweet talking a dragon and having to endure the entirety of Norbit, we'll side with the beast every time.
4. Jon Heder
We can't tell if he's fully baked or extra crispy.
There may be a little bit of Napoleon Dynamite in all of us, but you'll forgive us if we find that a pretty frightening notion. John Heder nails vacant obliviousness cold, but sooner or later one looks at a character with no apparent there there and — as will happen when staring directly into any void — one begins to ponder the potential abyss at the heart of all humanity. Better to wrap that persona up in a creature that we already understand to be not too quick on the uptake, like Surf's Up's Chicken Joe. A change of species goes a long way towards preventing an audience's existential meltdown, and at the very least makes for an easier drive home.
3. Susie Essman
When you wish upon a %?!@in' star...
We've all seen Susie do her stuff on Curb Your Enthusiasm, and most of us are heartily grateful that there's a TV screen between us and the foul-mouthed dervish she portrays, a woman who (not without justification) uses her virtuoso command of invective to emotionally incinerate the rest of the cast. In the televised flesh, she's a horror, but as the street-smart cat Mittens in Bolt, she can safely unleash the vitriol and, maybe, allow a glimpse into the internal ache that necessitated such defense mechanisms. You might even want to pet her, if you don't mind risking the rabies shots.
2. Don Knotts
We just heard from Lou Reed, and, sorry, Valium won't help your bash.
Knotts made a career out of hyperactive nervousness, braying insecurity, thoughtless braggadocio, and blind fear, very often in the same character. And as skilled a comic actor as he often was, the accumulation of flaws could get somewhat discomfiting. Somehow, though, as a human transformed into a fish in The Incredible Mr. Limpet, Knotts leveraged the abrupt change in environment to pull all the foibles into context. The fish out of water played well, the human into water played even better.
1. Kathleen Turner
The ladies already have Ned Flanders, so it's only fair.
Okay, we can't argue that we had no problem watching the actual Kathleen Turner successfully battle cinema air conditioning in films like Body Heat. Working her seductive ways on William Hurt. Or deep in the throes of creative coitus, the real woman is certainly hot enough. Nevertheless — and we don't want to put too fine a point on this — HOLY CRAP, TAKE A LOOK AT JESSICA RABBIT! There's no law against wishing that real-world sex appeal could be permanently fused to its cartoon ideal, but there probably should be.


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Top Chef Recap: You've Got Crabs
A seafood challenge reminds one cheftestant of his STD.
Last night's Top Chef gave us the flirtier side of the contestants. Ed and Tiffany channeled Hosea and Leah, giggling together, trusting each other, and telling each other when they were going to shower. Angelo and Tamesha looked like they had a thing going, too, but Angelo immediately moved things to the creepy side of the spectrum by commenting, "There's an inner passion, but she holds it in. That's something I'd really like to extract from her." Like a lemon?
The Quickfire presented the chefs with a table full of wriggling crabs, causing our boyfriend to swoon and us to shudder (we prefer to see our crabs in cake form, rather than waving their claws meekly as they slowly die in a hot oven. Also, last night we learned that crabs still move around after you've chopped them in half). Angelo, a big fan of the overshare, told the audience that he once had crabs — not the Maryland kind. That's nice.
Shockingly, no one made crab cakes, aiming mostly for chowders and salads instead. Our hometown boy Ed grabbed the win for his jumbo lump crab with Thai basil, mango, and cucumber salad, while Angelo, who made blue-crab broth with lemongrass and ginger, stood to the side, flabbergasted that someone would make something more Asian than him. You may have the monopoly on STD sharing, Angelo, but you're not the only one who can cook with Asian flavors. Ed remarked that he was just happy that he was coming out of his shell, oblivious to his fantastic pun.
For the elimination challenge, the chefs traveled to Virginia's first certified organic and humane farm, where they had to work as one to serve family-style dishes to 40 local farmers and chefs. But first, they had to go back to the house and plan their meal. Kenny and Angelo both took charge and began arguing the second the group sat down, surprising absolutely no one. Tim looked distraught; Andrea called it a train wreck; and Tiffany just leaned back and said, "Lord mercy!" "We're grown up enough that we should act like civilized human beings," Tamesha told the camera, a reality-show contestant who has clearly not watched a reality show.
Even rural farms are not free from product placement the chefs commented about how awesome the Toyota Mobile Pantry was numerous times. Angelo took time out of the three cooking hours to be creepy, calling
Tamesha Tamesha's cherry compote "tart, luscious, super sexy" as well as referring to his cooking technique as "making love to that duck." However, making love to his food didn't put him in the top four — that honor was reserved for Kevin (whose fallen cauliflower and fear of cow pies led him to make broccoli couscous with lemon zest), Kenny (hot-and-sour curried eggplant with peppers and carrot tops), Andrea (garlic and five-spiced grilled pork, which was cooked perfectly despite her many, many fears about over- and undercooking it), and Kelly (five-spice-roasted apples and beets to go with the pork, plus a strawberry-rhubarb crisp). Guest judge Patrick O'Connell of the Inn at Little Washington thought Kevin's fallen veggies were fortuitous, and Tom loved Andrea's sauce, but the win went to Kenny and his curry that even Padma praised. Kenny also earned several nicknames this week, including (but not limited to): Isaac Hayes, Big Daddy, Black Angus, Black Magic, and the Beast.
Tim's roasted turnips and asparagus with honey, Amanda's country-vegetable minestrone, and Stephen's farm salad with balsamic onion, egg, and apple landed in the bottom, which wasn't a surprise considering Bravo's love of foreshadowing (Stephen: "I'm showing how many different components you can fit in a salad." Amanda: "I feel totally confident. Progresso, eat your heart out." Tim: "The bottom never came to my mind. They can't be serious"). The judges pointed out that Stephen's wet, overseasoned salad shouldn't have been served in a tiny bowl, but the ultimate burn went to Amanda, who received a serious cooking-school lesson for her minestrone:
Tom: When we cook, why do we cut things uniformly?
Amanda: So they all cook the same way.
Tom: Why did you not cut things uniformly?
And don't even get Eric Ripert started on the fact that her soup didn't have pasta, a main ingredient in classic minestrone. But despite Amanda's talking-to, Tim took the loss for his flavorless turnips. Sorry, Tim; looks like they were serious about you being on the bottom.
Next week: Angelo plays favorites! The others get suspicious! Alex sabotages Amanda! The guest judge is
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Things To Do and See – Novato, CA Tourist Attractions near Inn Marin
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Sonoma Raceway (formerly Infineon Raceway) at Sears Point
Sonoma Raceway is located 30 minutes north of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and serves as the gateway to the beautiful Sonoma Wine Country. The track hosts several nationally televised events, including NASCAR NEXTEL Cup, National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) drag racing, the American Motorcycle Association (AMA) Superbike tour, and the IRL Indy Car Series. Infineon Raceway is a year-round motorsports complex with events scheduled 340 days and 50 weekends a year. More than one-half million fans passed through the gates during the 2005 season.
Six Flags Marine World
Discover the wonders of wildlife at Six Flags Marine World with tigers, dolphins, sharks, elephants, giraffes and other amazing animals. Experience the best in wild rides with Vertical Velocity, the new tallest, fastest skyrocket of a thrill-coaster in Northern California. Seasonal Operation. See our special package offer.
Indian Valley Golf Course
Indian Valley offers one of Northern California's most scenic 18-hole golf courses. Designed by Robert Nyberg, this challenging course features many rolling hills and trees. The course measures 6,253 yards from the championship tees, 5,842 from the regular tees and 5,238 from the women's tees. Indian Valley Golf Club also features a driving range and practice greens. Lessons are available from the Professional Staff of Indian Valley. Indian Valley comes equipped with a coffee shop, clubhouse facilities and a full service pro shop.
Historic Old Town Novato and Vintage Oaks Shopping Center
Discover the charms of Old Town Novato's great shops and stores located along Grant Avenue in Novato. The tree lined streets and historic buildings make for an unhurried and enjoyable shopping experience. Vintage Oaks is the one-stop shopping place! With merchants like Target and Costco, customers can easily find all the essentials on their shopping list and still have time to browse around the center with over 50 stores to choose from.
Blue Waters Kayaking
For over 20 years Blue Waters Kayaking has shown 1000's of visitors the glorious nature of Tomales Bay and the Point Reyes Peninsula. Blue Waters Kayaking is the only company with shoreside facilities on Tomales Bay. We are happy to serve you at either of our two locations on beautiful Tomales Bay.
StoneTree Golf Course
StoneTree Golf Club, located in scenic Marin County, features a public 18-hole championship golf course, the exquisite Black Point Bar & Grill and an elegant craftsman style clubhouse in Novato. Situated amongst oak forests and pristine wetlands, StoneTree provides an unparalleled aesthetic richness. See our special package offer.
Mt. Burdell Open Space Preserve
The mountain which dominates the northern Novato skyline was called Mt. Olompali for many years. The name was changed to Mt. Burdell sometime after Dr. Galen Burdell, a San Francisco dentist, acquired the land in the mid-1800's. Although much of the area is composed of vast oak woodland and open grassland, Mt. Burdell Open Space Preserve also has a spectacular display of wildflowers in spring. In addition, Hidden Lake, a vernal pool with a variety of unique specimen, provides habitat for 10 species of rare plants. Mt. Burdell is one of the few open space preserves that permits limited grazing of range animals.
Buck Institute
Explore the biological mysteries of aging; experience the architecture of I.M. Pei; and discover what scientists are learning about Alzheimer's, cancer, stroke and other age-related diseases. Enjoy one of the Buck Institute's free, docent-led Institute tours, which take place Thursday mornings at 10:30am. Reservations are required.
The Novato Arts Center at Hamilton Field
The Novato Arts Center at Hamilton Field provides a campus setting for artists at the historic airfield, once called the "Hollywood of military bases". The facility has been recently renovated, retaining its original 1930's Spanish architectural style. The campus consists of three buildings connected by pathways and an interior garden area. A small café on-site offers indoor and outdoor patio seating.
Marin French Cheese Factory for picnicking
Marin French Cheese Company is the oldest cheese manufacturer in the USA and a unique part of American history. Visit for a tour and picnic in over five acres of landscaped park! Selection of fine soft cheeses, single cheeses, gift boxes, and souvenir items are available for purchase.
Pacheco Ranch Winery
Estate Marin County Cabernet Sauvignon. Grown, produced and bottled at historic Pacheco Ranch established 1834, the oldest land grant property in California. Situated just below Napa and Sonoma Valleys, Pacheco Ranch's elegant winery and adjacent vineyards have produced a small quantity of uniquely hand crafted wine through a process that has taken over a quarter of a century to perfect. Tasting by appointment.
Napa, Sonoma Wine Country
Renowned for its wines and beautiful countryside. Many of the wineries offer wine tasting as well as winery tours and delicious food. In addition, there are also many cafes and bistros for lunch or snacks. You can explore new and different wines, and learn where to find these special tastes of the Wine Country. See our special package offers.
Napa Wineries
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Simraceway Performance Driving Center
The Simraceway Performance Driving Center, the worlds first driving school, is located at famous Sonoma Raceway (formerly Infineon Raceway) in Northern California's beautiful Sonoma Valley, the heart of California's Wine Country.
Audi Sportscar Experience
There is only one place in North America to enhance driving skills while discovering what Audi performance models like the Audi R8 and the rest of the S-Model lineup can do under ideal conditions and the expert supervision of top racing drivers. The place is the Audi Forum Sonoma at the Raceway in Sonoma, home of the Audi sportscar experience.
Novato History Museum
Located in the restored home of Novato's first postmaster, the house was built in 1850. This unique building has been the home of the Novato History Museum since 1970 and contains many interesting displays: historical photographs, records, deeds, descriptions and maps, antiques, exhibits of bygone household goods, tools, toys, costumes, reference books and Hamilton Field memorabilia.
Group tours are by appointment. Free admission, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday 12 noon to 4 pm, donations accepted.
Marin Museum of the American Indian
Novato's 35 acre Miwok is a large, shady park built around the Marin Museum of the American Indian. The Marin Museum of the American Indian offers group tours, nature walks and "hands-on" programs available to all ages by appointment. Drop in visitors are welcome during Gallery hours. The gallery primarily houses exhibits of Coastal Miwok and Pomo Indian Cultures. There is also a museum store which features Native American gifts and books.
Muir Woods
Relax at Muir Woods, the coast redwoods are the tallest living things. The Bohemian and Cathedral groves contain the biggest trees in Muir Woods–one 252 feet tall and one 14 feet wide. Most of these trees range in age of 800-1000 years old! There are 3 walks, from one-half hour to 1.5 hours, and much longer hikes if you wish. The forest park is actually paved to make it easy for wheelchairs and mothers with strollers. The longer hikes are unpaved. The 560 acre park includes six miles of paved, mostly level trails on the canyon floor.
Hang Gliding
Get into air sports with an introductory tandem hang gliding or paragliding lesson over the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area. Make your visit to the Bay Area an unforgettable one! Specially trained in tandem hang gliding instruction, the San Francisco Hang Gliding Center provides one of the most unique experiences available in adventure sports.
San Francisco Sightseeing
Located 30 minutes south across the Golden Gate Bridge. San Francisco, CA The City is situated on a 46.6 square-mile peninsula bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the north by the Golden Gate strait and from north to east by San Francisco Bay. The last provides it with one of the world's finest land-locked harbors.
The Bay is spanned by two landmarks, the Golden Gate and San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridges, and graced by four islands — Alcatraz, Angel, Yerba Buena, and Treasure.
Its principal attractions are the century-old cable cars, Fisherman's Wharf, Alcatraz, Chinatown, and Golden Gate Park among so many others. sfvisitor.org
Stinson Beach
Visitors to Stinson Beach experience the pleasures of this quiet beach community. Whether hiking, enjoying a picnic, exploring the town, or relaxing on the beach, people continue to find Stinson Beach a great place to escape from the frantic pace of everyday life, just as it has been for over a century.
Stinson Beach is open year round every day. The entrance gates open at 9:00 a.m. Closing times vary depending on season. Check the posted sign when you enter the parking lot.
Marin Art & Garden Center
The spectacular gardens which include ancient trees, rolling lawns, a butterfly habitat, medicinal herb garden and native plant garden, the Center provides a venue for many educational programs for all age groups including classes for professionals as well as the home gardener.
Point Reyes National Seashore
In 1579, Sir Francis Drake, sailing his Golden Hind, explored this treacherous and windy coastline that had been home to the Coast Miwok people for hundreds of years. Today, this harsh region is home to more than 470 species of birds that thrive in the 70,000-acre park. The park is also home to the historic Point Reyes Lighthouse, built in 1870.
In the park are the Morgan Horse Ranch, a replica of a Coast Miwok Indian village called Kule Loklo and three easy, self-guiding trails. The Earthquake Trail follows the San Andreas Fault for 0.7 mile. Longer trails cross the pasturelands of Pierce Point and the Estero, chaparral ridges, California-laurel valleys, forests and meadowlands. Scenic roads lead to beaches, panoramic views, outstanding bird watching areas, and a tule elk grazing area. Visitors can watch bird-banding activities at the Point Reyes Bird Observatory and explore the fascinating tide pools.
Olompali State Historical Park
The entrance is accessible only to southbound traffic from Highway 101. The park overlooks the Petaluma River and San Pablo Bay from the east-facing slopes of 1,558 foot Mount Burdell. Several historic buildings are preserved within the park. Visitors may also use the hiking and horseback riding trail as well as shaded picnic areas.
Stafford Lake
Situated on the shore of Stafford Lake, three miles west of Novato, this 139 acre park offers lake fishing, a nature trail, picnic areas with barbecue facilities for groups of up to 500 people, a popular children's play structure, lawn areas, a softball field, volleyball and horseshoe courts. The lake and Novato hills make for some wonderful vistas, and the picnic and play areas are lovely as well. Day use fee required.
Bodega Bay
The approximately 8 miles of coast from the Bodega Bay Head to a little past Jenner is all Sonoma Coast State Beach property. Beach accesses trails and parking lots are regularly maintained. You can stop and walk down to any beach you see from the road! Further up Highway 1 lie historic Fort Ross and Salt Point State Park. In the town of Bodega Bay there is the fun Doran County Park with its jetties (great for crabbing and fishing) and big sandy beaches.
Bike Trails
Marin County is a paradise for outdoor recreation, with weather that allows visitors and residents to enjoy biking all year round. Marin County's lands represent outstanding examples of Northern California environments including oak-bay woodlands, savannas, grasslands and salt marshs. These habitats are managed and protected to enhance their natural, undeveloped character while accommodating educational activities and trail-oriented uses. Outdoor recreation is what Marin County is all about!
Start at Inn Marin to enjoy the Novato Loop and finish with a cold one at Rickey's.
Willow Tree Stables
Surrounded by interesting trails, Sunset Corral offers guided trail riding, horse rentals, instruction and boarding. Nestled in the western hills of Novato, and conveniently located at the base of Indian Trees Open Space where over 3000 acres of Marin County Open Space trails begin.
Open 7 days a week.


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This is the first autumn in a lot of autumns that I haven't been in graduate school — the last one was way back in 2006, to be precise! And before that, I was in undergrad every fall from 1998 through 2004. So … yeah. I'm totally psyched by the fact that I don't have papers due and midterms (to complete or to grade). Obviously I have professional shit to get done, but not having academic coursework in addition to my full-time job means that much more space to breathe and remind myself what I like to do for fun and giggles.
One of those things is fiction writing, which quite honestly I haven't done since I was an angsty teenager and I spent lots of time cranking out formulaic fantasy novels (retelling classic fairy tales was a favorite pastime … I have at least three different versions of Beauty and the Beast floating around my parents' attic in rapidly-degrading composition books). In my twenties I mostly did non-fiction, academic writing — which is a particular type of pleasure and one I don't ever want to give up entirely. But between school and blogging, I didn't have a lot of time or brain power to generate fiction.
Which is why, as a treat to myself, I'll be participating in National Novel Writing Month this year. For those of you who are unfamiliar with NaNoWriMo, it's a world-wide participatory project in which folks spend the month of November scrabbling to produce 50,000 words of fiction. Many people are attempting a novel-length story (50k comes out to roughly 175 pages of typed something), but all that matters really is word count. NaNo is all about the first draft, all about simply barreling passed the writer's block and the "I'm not good enough" thoughts and creating. You can be as social about it as you want: never show it to another soul, or join your regional NaNo writing group for write-a-thon events. Even if you don't get to the 50k goal by the end of November, you can still include your final word count to the overall stat pool and feel proud for having contributed to this giant burst of generative artistic energy.
To me, that's the point: not about creating something "good" or "literary" but being brave enough to create in the first place. I actually really like having some portion of my generative energy that's not directed toward something I wish to Mean Something or Change Minds — but instead, you know, to be a little bit of porny goodness to give my friends a smile. We're not trying to publish our work or build literary careers, so it's all about playfulness and goodwill — two things I think the world can never have too much of.
What about you, Harpies? Do any of you participate in NanoWriMo? Do you have other creative activities that you set aside time for in your lives that are for pure pleasure? Share away in comments!


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The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
by Frantz Fanon
No current Talk conversations about this book.
A very interesting study of the devastating effects of colonization on it's subjects long after the exit of the colonizers. The french in particular do not seem to have learnt a whole lot despite the inhuman slaughter of WWs I and II.
A very interesting study of the devastating effects of colonization on it's subjects long after the exit of the colonizers. The french in particular do not seem to have learnt a whole lot despite the inhuman slaughter of WWs I and II.
The classic anti-colonialist text, with foreword by Jean-Paul Sartre, explaining and legitimising violence against a colonial regime; the author was thinking particularly of Algeria to which he gave the last few years of his life, but also of the whole area dominated by European colonisation, particularly the rest of Africa. It's passionate and well-argued, and I can see why it has remained a key political text for the last half-century (and will endure much longer). He is particularly good on the psychological consequences of manipulation by unaccountable regimes for those governed by them.
However, I have several problems with Fanon's analysis. The biggest is that in justfying violence, he rather fetishises it - I've seen this with other commentators too, the assumption that a resort to violence is in itself evidence for the purity and legitimacy of its perpetrators. I'm not convinced by that. The IRA's supporters used to argue that violence was the natural outcome of the situation in Northern Ireland, and convinced a lot of people of the purity and legitimacy of their cause, before they settled for a deal which was essentially what had been on offer 25 years and hundreds of deaths earlier. Some politically motivated violence is really crime, even if perpetuated by the oppressed.
That's tactics, in a way; there's an error also of strategy, in that Fanon calls on internal differences in a country to be ironed out, or preferably just ignored, in favour of making common cause against the colonial oppressor. That's all very well; but it doesn't address the issue of sharing out power and other resources internally once the colonial oppressor has withdrawn (or even beforehand). Questions of regional autonomy, deals between ethnic and religious groups, and indeed emancipation of women, sexual minorities and other groups, can't simply be handwaved away by focussing on the national struggle. Privileging the national struggle above all else allows for discrimination against groups who are deemed insufficiently committed to the cause, and Fanon's arguments legitimise this.
He also gets wrong the economic and political trajectory of post-colonial states, though I don't think he can really be blamed for this as nobody else saw it coming either. And he rejects any connection between the Algerian war and the struggle for civil rights in the USA; which is one link that I'm quite happy to allow, given the parallels in power and wealth structures and the use of state coercion as a political tool.
Still, I'm glad I have now read it.
Fans of Conrad, Morrison, Friere. Lovers of [Things Fall Apart], [Les Misérables], [The Hunger Games]. Definers of postcolonialism, social justice, revolution. Members of the military, political parties, life itself.
Think on the lies you live by.
The parameters do not matter. Neither do your excuses. If you are for peace, you are for it completely, or you are not for it at all. If you condone violence in any amount, the memorial, the dramatizations, the history of your people, you condone it all. When it comes to crimes against humanity, there is no compartmentalization.
A country colonizes another. The colonizer breaks down the people, breaks down the culture, and bleeds the country dry. The colonized develops a pecking order, a few imbibing the parasitic infection to an extraordinary degree while the rest succumb to violence, starvation, madness. The colonizer manipulates these unavoidable results of unholy oppression into an argument, a Western science proving the natural degeneracy of the colonized, this concept of 'science' having as much truth to it as this concept of 'Western.' Better to call it 'Atlantic', the northeastern corner countries of this seascape infecting every other country within reach.
The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.
Nor will we acquiesce in the help for underdeveloped countries being a program of "sisters of charity." This help should be the ratification of a double realization: the realization by the colonized peoples that it is their due, and the realization by the capitalist powers that in fact they must pay.
Independence! Independence? Independence is the colonial country making certain concessions to certain people in return for certain benefits. Independence is those colonized souls, infected with Atlantic ideologies and addicted to a level of life standards, choosing the bourgeois over their country as a whole, assuming a well paying part of the colonizers' remaining structure and descending into depraved senility accordingly. Rich is rich and poor is poor, and in times of revolution the contempt of urban academic for rural masses is just as misguided and virulent. The result is a stunted obscenity pandering at the colonizers' ideal; there is no true independence without the entirety of the people.
That famous dictatorship, whose supporters believe that it is called for by the historical process and consider it an indispensable prelude to the dawn of independence, in fact symbolizes the decision of the bourgeois caste to govern the underdeveloped country first with the help of the people, but soon against them.
Because it is bereft of ideas, because it lives by its heredity incapacity to think in terms of all the problems of the nation as seen from the point of view of the whole of that nation, the national middle class will have nothing better to do than to take on the role of manager for Western enterprise, and it will in practice set up its country as the brothel of Europe.
White is white and black is black, until you realize it is not a question of racism but an endemic of the comfort of the individual versus the blossoming of the people. What is at stake here is not "What do I have to lose?", but "What am I losing?". The question is not of violence or non-violence, unless you apply it to the whole spectrum of history and look just why exactly we have France and the U.S. and how morality is a pitiful question when put into the context of that next mouthful of bread. Neither is the former colonies catching up to the colonizers the solution, for the latter only exceeds in terms of capacity, in both speed and completeness, for obliteration of other and self.
In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.
The passion with which native intellectuals defend the existence of their national culture may be a source of amazement; but those who condemn this exaggerated passion are strangely apt to forget that their own psyche and their own selves are conveniently sheltered behind a French or German culture which has given full proof of its existence and which is uncontested.
Fact: countries that have progressed beyond Middle Age levels did so through brutal exploitation. Fact: countries that were exploited will return to near Middle Age levels if all colonizer influence is cut off. Fact: the fact that Germany is back on its feet while the 'Third World' continues to exist is not a matter of justice, but international economic dependencies. Fact: 'First World' inhabitants may have more nipples to suck, but that is a matter of luck, not sociocultural fortitude or their health as a human being. Fact: the slogan of the 'Western' world is torture, and torture includes brainwashing.
They find out on the spot that all the piles of speeches on the equality of human beings do not hide the commonplace fact that the seven Frenchmen killed or wounded at Col due Sakamody kindles the indignation of all civilized consciences, whereas the...massacre of whole populations - which had merely called forth the Sakamody ambush as a reprisal - all this is of not the slightest importance.
If your country has never been discredited on all levels of life, you don't understand. If your history has never been castrated and left to desiccate for centuries on end, you don't understand. If your existence has never been deemed by scientific communities to be a degenerate one in need of taming, you don't understand. If you have lived with hope longer than without, you don't understand. If you have given up your right to politically participate on any level due to middling inconvenience or panderings at anarchy, you will never, ever, understand.
To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach the masses that everything depends on them; that if we stagnate it is their responsibility, and that if we go forward it is due to them too, that there is no such thing as a demiurge, that there is no famous man who will take the responsibility for everything, but that the demiurge is the people themselves and the magic hands are finally only the hands of the people.
Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you really want them to understand.
If you don't understand that 'First World' and 'Third World' are labels signifying nothing but a world that likes to pit one lie against the other, if you don't understand the relationship between the oppression abroad and the violence at home, if you are willing to take the amputation of your individual satisfactions from the communal good lying down, you are doomed.
Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness, and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions.
A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.
Don't tell me you believe in the future. Tell me why, and how, and just what you are going to do about it.
"In your opinion, what should we have done?"
"I don't know. But you are a child and what is happening concerns grown-up people."
"But they kill children too..."
"That is no reason for killing your friend."
"Well, kill him I did. Now you can do what you like."
Well, I pity the poor revolutionaries who try to use this as a "handbook." It's not What is to be Done, or Kwame Nkrumah, or even Steal This Book. It's sort of J'Accuse, I guess, if we must compare it to a Western analogue (if I was less ignorant I'd probably be able to come up with something more appropriate), but what it is mostly is an unfocused and inspired multi-part essay that ranges over as much ground as the author needs not to prove the truth of an argument but to light you up, to drum up some fucking energy and point you in a direction. It's not what Sartre called it in the controversial introduction, a hymn to violence--the first section does insist, aggressively, on the need for violence in decolonization struggle--and given the experience Fanon had in Algeria, who can blame him--but he's not just pumping up the crowd, he has many real ideas, if broad and sweeping ones.
First deserving mention is the extended discussion of the peasantry and the intellectual returning to the hills, the rejection not only of the status of second-rate Western humans accorded Africans under Cold War postcolonization but also of the first countervanguard that came with Negritude, which is sort of eulogized as a beautiful rallying cry but one inadequate to the spirit of the times, incapable of making room in its subaltern and undifferentiated approach to blackness for the real particularity of national experience. From a twenty-first century perspective, when we're all hopefully getting a more sophisticated sense of how progressive movements everywhere need to reflect the tribal (conceived broadly and absolutely not excluding former colonizing societies) and the local, this seems important and true. But in Fanon, it descends ever so quickly into Pure Land proto-fascist stuff, and even if you understand how that comes to be and recognize that Black Star Africa was always a mirage, it doesn't seem clear if Fanon realizes that what he's talking about is precluding not only the good outcome but also the moderate one--that he's plumping for a Cultural Revolution at best and a Tutsi genocide at worst.
Part of that is maybe that he doesn't understand the important difference between the repression-for-profit that goes on while the Europeans are there and the repression-for-power-for-power's sake on the part of the homegrown elites that goes on after the Europeans go home. Fanon basically says that it's all the same repressive structures in place and a piratical colon class in a classic colonial arrangement or a frothy scum of local sociopaths in a neocolonial configuration with the former colonial power are six-one/half-dozen-the-other. And you can see how it would seem that way in the midst of the Algerian conflict. But the fact is the Europeans did cut and run when it got expensive enough, in blood and treasure but also in their precious precious humanistic image of themselves, and it just took them some years and way too much killing to get it through their heads. They do not deserve credit for this, but it is a fact. Whereas, as we've seen a lot of this year in the "Arab Spring," your Qaddafis, your Mugabes, your Amins, either hang on till the bitterest end or leave only when it's their ass on the line. When Tripoli is home, you stay in Tripoli and fight, even, or maybe especially, if you're the worst guy.
These blind spots are perhaps a bit more suprising because Fanon's general class analysis is so good--the difference between the genuine national bourgeoisie fulfilling its historic mission with an excelsior-sense of great works and uncharted horizons, and a colonial pseudo-bourgeoisie that make s its money off transactions, finance; conversely, the difference between a genuine national working class that in developed countries has fought for certain rights and won with bravery and action the reapportionment of some of the misappropriated wealth of the colonies, and a colonial situation in which the working class is functionally a technocratic class with its factory jobs and its lathe skills or whatever, and the abused lumpenpeasantry are left excluded, without recourse except to be exploited or, perhaps, awakened. Which awakening is a huge concern for Fanon, as noted above.
Without trying to make any of the ridiculous comparisons that this analogy might otherwise be mistaken to imply: a bloodsucking upper class that doesn't even produce anything anymore; a middle class selling out the dispossessed in the effort to protect its own small privilege; a great mass of dislocated people with no prospects and no protection, who hate those above them but have to struggle even to put themselves in the headspace to understand the true struggle; what does that sound like to you? To me it sounds like North America and the global society, circa 2011. We're obviously much better off materially, much less subject to arbitrary detention or torture or fear; but in the total breakdown of the social compact and the total lack even of class solidarity within the oppressed class, because everybody's looking out for themselves, it's right on. It terrifies me to think that the difference between Algiers in 1958 and Vancouver in 2011 might just be that we can hide from the reality of the matter better longer because of the prosperity that keeps the food in our belly and the jackboot away from our door (impossible to say how much of said prosperity stolen from the African?).
For us, like for them, the trick is to keep reminding ourselves who the enemy is and grant them no quarter, no co-operation. But it's scary! And I guess that's the difference between colonialism and the downtrodden status to which we are reverting: we can buy basic safety with our acquiescence; they couldn't and can't. Fanon, who was a clinical psychologist working with revolutionary fighters suffering from post-traumatic stress, knows this very well, and one of the most fascinating sections of the book are the case studies he presents. The language of "dislocated personalities" and so on is easily translated, and we see that exploitation brutalizes everyone, even the people who stay out of the way and go about their business and feel so worthless and guilty that one day they take a knife to their neighbour for looking at their wife. The experience of oppression damages the oppressed, and so we're back to violence again--in a sick society, all violence directed against the structures of that society is self-defence whether you're immediately threatened or not, because it's official society that's damaging you. And then the violence you engages in damages you as well. The colonized is the one against whom war is by definition always being waged, and--Fanon asserts based on his clinical work--fighting back is the least bad option. That's the sick logic of empire: it always reaches the point where violence, revolutionary violence, is the best option if anyone, imperialists included, is going to avoid being broken to bits inside.
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Although socialism has seemingly collapsed in the years since Fanon's work was first published, there is much in his look into the political, racial, and social psyche of the ever-emerging Third World that still rings true at the cusp of a new century. --Eugene Holley, Jr.
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Installing 26mm outrunner into GWS EDF-55 fan
Here's how I installed a 26mm diameter outrunner (Turnigy 2627-3800Kv) into a GWS EDF55 fan unit.
There are many cheap high-Kv outrunners (most designed for helicopters) which would be suitable for the EDF55 fan, if only its motor tube was a little wider. Unfortunately the inside diameter is only 24.5mm, but most outrunner motors are just too large at 26~28mm diameter. Therefore the motor has to be mounted at the rear of the fan, with a longer shaft and an additional mounting extension to support the motor and shaft. A commercial solution is available, but it costs twice as much as some motors! My goal was to find a way to do it at minmal cost, and without turning up any parts on the lathe.
Parts required
- 3mm x 50mm drive shaft (I used a guide rail scavenged from an old CDROM drive).
- 2x 12mm long stand-offs, with 3mm threaded male/female ends (mine came out of an old PC).
- 15mm length of 3mm or 1/8" id (inside diameter) aluminum or brass tubing, eg. K&S 5/32" #11103.
- 2x short 3mm screws.
- GWADP003C, EDF55/64 impeller hub with D cut, for 3mm shaft. These are provided with the latest GWS NPS kits (eg. ME262, F15).
1. Remove the old shaft from the motor. First remove the circlip, take off the bell, and undo the grubscrew. The shaft will probably be a tight fit, so you will have to press it out in a vise or drill-press. Do not put any pressure on the outside of the bell. Instead, slide a length of tubing over the shaft to support the center of the bell. Then press the shaft out, using a 3mm flat-head screw (in the vise) or inverted drill bit (in the drill-press) to push on the rear of the shaft.
2. Cut the new shaft to length if necessary. You may also want to file a flat onto the shaft. Press the new shaft into the bell. Tighten the grubscrew onto the shaft.
3. Screw the stand-offs into the motor base (Be careful. You may need to file or cut off the ends of the screw threads, so that they don't hit the motor windings!).
4. Drill a hole in the side of the motor tube in the fan unit. Enlarge the hole using a modeling knife, so that the motor wires will easily fit through. NOTE: make sure to orient the hole so that the motor's mounting holes line up with the mounting holes in the fan.
5. Install the motor base into the fan. Enlarge the fan's motor mounting holes towards the outside, to line up with the stand-offs. Secure the motor base to the fan (via the stand-offs) with the 3mm screws.
6. Fit the motor bell back into the motor base. Slide the 3mm (1/8") id tubing over the shaft to prevent the front ball bearing from coming out.
7. Install the impeller hub onto the shaft (butted up to the tubing) and tighten its grubscrews. Mount the impeller onto the hub and secure with the front screw (don't tighten it too much, or it will strip the thread in the hub!).
As always, you should trim and balance the impeller to ensure smooth running. The motor shaft does not have a front support, so it is even more vital that the impeller be well balanced.
Hold a piece of 400 grit sandpaper between the blade tips and shroud, at the point where the gap is narrowest. Turn the motor over by hand to sand the blade tips down. When the blades stop scuffing you are done!
The EDF55 impeller is very light and usually doesn't require much (if any) balancing. However the hubs often have a bit of runout, which must be compensated for by adding weight to the impeller.
Run the motor up slowly, while checking for vibration and/or blade strike. If either problem occurs then you will have to remove the impeller. After removal, Mark the hub and impeller with a felt pen, so that you know which way around to reassemble them. First try reinstalling the impeller rotated 180º. Choose the rotation which gives the least vibration.
If it's still not good enough then you will have to add weight (eg. electrical tape) to the inside of the impeller. If a blade strike occurred then you may be able to see which blade tip(s) are worn, and add tape to the opposite side. Otherwise just add tape in a random location. Reinstall the impeller and try again. If it gets a little better then add more tape. If it gets worse then move the tape to a different location, or remove excess tape.
My EDF-55 with Turnigy 2627-3800Kv motor gave the following results on 3S lipo (fan installed in GWS A10 nacelle):-
10.6V, 22.4A, 238W, 36764rpm, 422g static thrust, 107mph efflux velocity, 74% motor efficiency.
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Washington — What do cameras, coffee, toothbrushes and perfume have in common? All of them trace their origins to the Golden Age of Muslim civilization, an era of scientific breakthroughs made possible because scientists and inventors were able to work in an environment of intellectual freedom.
Cameras and other widely used items are just a few of the innovations showcased by 1001 Inventions: Discover the Golden Age of Muslim Civilization, a traveling exhibition that opened August 3 at the National Geographic Museum in Washington. Running until February 3, 2013, 1001 Inventions reveals how science and technology flourished in the Islamic world during a period that stretched from the seventh to the 17th century.
Islamic culture reached from southern Spain to China and drew on scholars of many faiths who built on the knowledge of the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans to make breakthroughs that paved the way for the Renaissance. According to Diane Perlov, senior vice president of exhibit development at the California Science Center, where the exhibition ran from May 27, 2011, through March 2012, 1001 Inventions "conveys the multicultural roots of modern science" and demonstrates strong links between Western and non-Western societies.
The show, which debuted in London and moved to Istanbul, New York and Los Angeles before opening in Washington, explores advances in engineering, navigation, architecture, mathematics and medicine, along with items of Islamic provenance now commonly found in households everywhere.
Exhibition curator Salim al-Hassani, professor emeritus at the University of Manchester in Great Britain, stressed the "historical amnesia about the scientific and cultural advancement that took place during the Middle Ages," which 1001 Inventions aims to correct.
Visitors can study a 5-meter-high working replica of the 13th-century Elephant Clock, named for the carved elephant that forms its base. Designed by a mechanical engineer called al-Jazari, who was from an area that is now southern Turkey, the cross-cultural emblem features Chinese dragons, an Egyptian phoenix and wooden robots wearing Arab turbans.
The exhibition's interactive displays include a computer game "where you travel an ancient trade route making decisions about which items to exchange in which markets," said Perlov. "Guests learn how not only goods and services traveled throughout the world, but how information and knowledge spread this way."
In addition, visitors can "direct a figure to walk through a modern house and find all the items that trace their roots back" to early Muslim civilization, she said. "A bell rings when they find each item such as perfume, soap, toothbrush, cosmetics and coffee."
Visitors learn about innovators from the classical Islamic world, such as Princess Fatima al-Fihri, who founded the first modern (multi-subject, multi-faculty, open to men and women) university in 859, located in Fez, Morocco. Another innovator — the Egyptian physicist Alhazen, born in 965 — laid the foundation for the modern understanding of optics. Alhazen also invented the camera obscura, a precursor to the modern camera.
The Andalusian physician al-Zahrawi (936–1013) was the first surgeon to systematically use catgut sutures (actually derived from sheep intestines). Al-Zahrawi developed sophisticated surgical instruments, including scalpels, syringes, forceps and surgical needles. Although similar instruments are now created from materials that far surpass those available to early surgeons, "the design and practicality of the tools remain the same," said al-Hassani.
"One of the most important messages from this exhibition is about the shared scientific heritage of humanity," he said. "We hope that [1001 Inventions] will inspire children of all backgrounds to explore careers in science and technology.
"Today, we live in a global age, with science and ideas shared across continents, and this occurred in the past, as well," al-Hassani explained. "Men and women of many different faiths — and none — worked together within Muslim civilization in order to advance our understanding of the world."
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"Part of the job of being a game designer is you have to study what's out there, and work out what worked and what didn't" says Perry. He continues to explain that students tend to play the games they like, they don't play the games that were most successful. While writing his book, David Perry on Game Design, Perry thought "a lot about game design and students, and how they can use the games and the knowledge out there to get jobs in the industry."
He then came up with a game analysis challenge for aspiring game designers and developers. You can see David give the details of 'The David Perry Challenge' here. The goal is to help students think critically about game design in the context of the industry, past and present. It's important to note that knowing development tools and being able to make games is imperative to becoming a game designer. The intention of the challenge however, is to "arm students to the teeth" regarding historically successful game mechanics in preparation for the interview and career at large.
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The Cape boys' basketball team faced off with Parkside in its first scrimmage of the season Nov. 27. The Vikings then rounded out the preseason schedule with the Smyrna Play Day and a scrimmage against Stephen Decatur. Cape's season opened Friday, Dec. 6, with a game at 7:15 p.m., at Sussex Tech. To view the Vikings' full schedule, go to www.capevikingssports.com.


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- [c6]Huan Li, Haitao Lin, Hee Lee, Prabir Das:
Optimizing the cost of migration from wireless tdm networks to next generation packet networks. WOWMOM 2008: 1-8
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Rate Allocation and Admission Control for Differentiated Services in CDMA Data Networks. IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. 6(2): 179-191 (2007)
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Wireless Networks Revenue Optimization through Overload Control with Priority Services. JCM 1(4): 22-30 (2006)
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Utility based service differentiation in CDMA data networks. Wireless Networks 12(5): 623-636 (2006)
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Non-Cooperative Games for Service Differentiation in CDMA Systems. MONET 10(6): 939-946 (2005)
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ARC: An Integrated Admission and Rate Control Framework for Competitive Wireless CDMA Data Networks Using Noncooperative Games. IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. 4(3): 243-258 (2005)
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Performance Study of Link Layer and MAC Layer Protocols to Support TCP in 3G CDMA Systems. IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. 4(5): 489-501 (2005)
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An econometric model for resource management in competitive wireless data networks. IEEE Network 18(6): 20-26 (2004)
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ARLP: an adaptive link layer protocol to improve TCP performance over wireless fading channels. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 4(6): 655-668 (2004)
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A framework for bandwidth degradation and call admission control schemes for multiclass traffic in next-generation wireless networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 21(10): 1790-1802 (2003)
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A game theoretic approach for utility maximization in CDMA systems. ICC 2003: 412-416
- [c4]Haitao Lin, Sajal K. Das, Hee Yong Youn:
An Adaptive Radio Link Protocol to Improve TCP Performance over Correlated Fading Wireless Channels. PWC 2003: 222-236
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ARC: an integrated admission and rate control framework for CDMA data networks based on non-cooperative games. MOBICOM 2003: 326-338
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Performance study of TCP/RLP/MAC in next generation CDMA systems. PIMRC 2003: 648-652
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TCP Performance Analysis of CDMA Systems with RLP and MAC Layer Retransmissions. MASCOTS 2002: 313-320
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Palm Beach County Commission candidate Andy Schaller is questioning why county administrators did not notify him about a community forum held Tuesday night to discuss issues facing the central-western part of the county.
Schaller has taken aim at county officials for notifying his opponents about a county-run meeting held late last year to discuss a road project in his neighborhood, Palm Beach Ranchettes.
In an email to county commissioners and administrators Wednesday, Schaller questioned why candidates weren't also notified of Tuesday's meeting, which was attended by nearly 200 residents. The proposed 6,500-home Minto West development dominated the discussion at Tuesday's meeting.
"I did not receive any email correspondence, telephone calls or postal mail to inform me of last night's Minto Property meeting," Schaller wrote in the email. "Why was I not given the same notification that other candidates received about the Ranchettes a much smaller project in the district and have far less impact to the entire district?"
Last month, Schaller accused county administrators of trying to block his chances of winning the District 6 race by inappropriately giving his opponents information about a road project that could affect voters in his neighborhood.
County Administrator Bob Weisman has defended the notification, saying possible extension of Lyon Road through the Ranchettes community is a big issue for the district.
Weisman authorized county managers to alert all of the four candidates who have announced they are running for term-limited Commissioner Jess Santamaria's District 6 seat about a community meeting held last month to discuss the road project.