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Warrant: Man who made fake calls on Litchfield County Dispatch was firefighter wannabe
Man who made fake calls on Litchfield County Dispatch was firefighter wannabe
BANTAM >> He'd show up at fire scenes in Great Barrington, scanner in tow, and equipped his black Dodge pickup with sirens and a megaphone piped into a speaker.
Adam Perrelli, the 35-year-old Massachusetts man accused of making fake emergency radio calls on the Litchfield County Dispatch system, wanted to be a firefighter so badly he allegedly turned vigilante, gloating about his alleged crimes making national news, according to the arrest warrant affidavit filed by state police.
Perrelli, a Great Barrington resident who is originally from the New Haven area and has other ties to Connecticut, was arrested Friday in Pittsfield, Mass. He was extradited to Connecticut to face several charges, including first-degree reporting a false incident, first-degree reckless endangerment and third-degree computer crime, after the unauthorized broadcasts interfered with and interrupted calls for service for both ambulance and fire departments during the period from Dec. 25, 2013, to Jan. 6, 2014.
The calls dispatched ambulances to fake calls and canceled firefighters en route to actual emergencies.
Perrelli appeared in front of a Judge Richard Marano at Superior Court in Bantam on Monday wearing a plain-gray sweatshirt and crew neck with blue sweatpants. Perrelli, who was shackled, was held on $125,000 bail. A bail commissioner pointed to Perrelli's extensive record, which dates back to 1997 and includes convictions of sexual assault, burglary and larceny, court records show.
His public defender asked that bail be set at $25,000 because Perrelli doesn't have the "means" to post bail. If he makes bail, he will be under electronic monitoring.
Litchfield County Dispatch, which has radio towers spread across the northwest corner of the state and is 32 miles from Great Barrington, Mass., reported the fake calls to state police and the investigation was handled by detectives from the Western District Major Crime Squad.
Copies of the radio transmissions were seized by detectives, and later distributed to the media, which assisted in the investigation by releasing the audio recordings of four of the transmissions.
Perrelli met with authorities on March 6 and admitted his voice was the one on the calls, according to the affidavit, written by Trooper Holly Wrightson, of the Western District Major Crime Squad.
Perrelli told police he was "screwing around" on the radio. He said he had been asked to test out portable radios by a former roommate, whom Perrelli accused of transmitting three phony calls. The roommate says he was out of the state at the time of the incident and provided the Register Citizen receipts that he claims prove he was at a Connecticut casino at the time the calls were made.
Perrelli claims he was drunk when he transmitted, using the Sharon and Watertown aliases, at the pair's former address of 89 Christian Hill Road in Great Barrington.
State police have said they're continuing the investigation and additional arrests are possible, but it's unclear if the roommate, who flaked on a meeting with investigators after agreeing to meet with them at a friend's house, will face charges in connection with the fake calls.
A radio possibly used to make the dispatches was found in the trash rubbish after one of Perrelli's acquaintances told authorities she believed she saw him dispose of something in a dumpster behind a Great Barrington club on Feb. 28, the warrant said.
According to the warrant, detectives received more than 40 tips and emails from the public. Four people, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal, provided Perrelli's name to authorities. One informant told police Perrelli confessed to making the calls; another said Perrelli abused alcohol and drugs, such as crack cocaine. Perrelli had told one of the informants he was going to bury his radio equipment to avoid being tracked.
Another informant said Perrelli was "laughing and gloating" about making the fake calls and making national news.
Perrelli had inquired about joining the Great Barrington Fire Department and applied to become a volunteer firefighter in June 2013, police said, but he didn't pass a background check.
Perrelli taped firefighters responding to calls and put them on Facebook and YouTube. Perrelli would also show up at scenes, Fire Chief Charles Burger said. Burger asked Perrelli to remove the videos. Burger told police Perrelli had equipped his truck with emergency lights and radio equipment.
Perrelli's ex-girlfriend told police he often listened to fire and police scanners and it was his "dream" to become a firefighter. She told police she recognized his voice as the one on the transmissions after he used the phrase "be advised" -- something he often invoked. Perrelli was known to use firefighter lingo, such as "roger and "be advised."
He often carried radio, microphones and scanners with him and his black Dodge pickup truck was equipped with emergency lights and a public announcement system, which enabled him to speak over a microphone connected to a speaker.
Police said Perrelli used a lost or stolen portable radio or programmable electronic device to send out fictitious calls for service and other emergencies.
Perrelli is accused of making a trio of transmissions on Dec. 25, under the aliases "Sharon Car 1," "Goshen Car 2" and "Litchfield Car 2." Perrelli reported a person walking in to the Sharon Fire Department in need of medical care and requested an ambulance, which was dispatched by Sharon. When paramedics arrived on scene, there was no one there.
Transmitting under the name "Warren Car 2," Perrelli allegedly told all units, called to chimney fire in Morris, to "stand down." Perrelli, transmitting as "Sharon Car 2," contacted an LCD dispatcher, who responded. After that, the calls ceased until Jan. 6.
This time using the name "Watertown Car 1," Perrelli allegedly requested an ambulance for a walk-in. A dispatcher asked for the address, and Perrelli told the dispatcher smoke was billowing from the roof at 235 Main St., in Watertown. LCD doesn't service Watertown, so the dispatcher called the town's dispatch to confirm the structure wasn't ablaze.
Experts told police Perrelli's Baofeng transmitter was capable of receiving and transmitting LCD's frequency.
Police said Perrelli used the LCD radio frequency to role play as a fire official. In one transmission, Perrelli, allegedly playing the role of a dispatcher and fire official, had a conversation with himself, using New York City-based addresses.
William Trisler, director of certification for the Connecticut Fire Academy, told police Perrelli failed a test in 1999 and wasn't a certified firefighter.
He was briefly employed at the Clinton Fire Department in 1999, but he didn't make it through his sixth-month probation period and was let go after a pair of incidents, one in which he got in a fight with another firefighter.
Members of the Massachusetts state police, along with Connecticut state police Western District Major Crime Squad, executed a search and seizure warrant on Perrelli's 179 Main St. apartment in Great Barrington.
According to the affidavit, the search turned up two laptops, a Uniden scanner, a lapel microphone, loud speakers for a siren or PA system, a strobe light and radio and scanner antennas, and two pages of handwritten notes of radio frequencies, including those for Litchfield County Dispatch.
According to the affidavit, detectives sifted through trash from a dump truck and found the packaging for a Baofeng radio, which was inside.
In a statement Litchfield County Dispatch said the arrest will hopefully put an end to the malicious calls.
"The person or persons who did this threatened the safety of every fire and EMS responder in Litchfield County," the statement read. "The recent fire in Torrington and the deaths of 2 firemen in Boston show the importance of a secure radio communication system. LCD takes this responsibility very seriously and the Connecticut State Police were notified as soon as the transmissions occurred each and every time."
Perrelli, who was also charged with interfering with an officer and tampering with evidence, is due back in court April 30.
Tom Cleary contributed to this report.

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So it's a week away from Christmas Eve. No time like the present to start asking for gifts right? (that pun killed me) Me, late? Dramatic? Discombobulated? Freaking out? Never! (If you could only see me before I run a marathon. I'm quite the mess) So without further ado, I give you what I want for Christmas. Choose to purchase anything off this list and I'll send you my mailing address, no questions asked!
So, most people would expect me to say, "Oh I want all running stuff," but right now, my running closet is pretty stocked up on wonderful gear and we all know I can't eat Gus so those are a lost cause. I just got a huge tub of Vaseline… so no need for Body Glide, and I just recently got new shoes, but if anyone is asking, I wear Nike Vomeros in size 7. I prefer the pink ones or the yellow ones. I could always go for more booty shorts, but it's almost depressing thinking about how long it will be until I can wear them again. Since I do have a life besides running, this list pretty much caters to that.
So besides begging for acceptance to Grad School. (Hey! I want to go to your school! I will pay for classes! I will go to class! I will wear your school sweatshirt with pride and look cute in your colors! I will adorn my car with a sticker of an awkward mascot, since I'm going to a 'creative' school, most of their mascots aren't desirable…. But come on! Let me in!) Here are some other things that I think would be cool to find under my beloved 3 foot tree. Which, is smelling quite wonderful and has brought Christmas cheer to the two residents at the pueblo.
So we all know I have a small, nay, large obsession with Uggs. Judge me all you want Ugg Haters. Since I got my first pair a few years back they have become a winter staple for this sun-loving, so-cal living, cold weather hating girl. I have a pair of the taller Uggs that I got two Christmases ago, that are the light brown color. Then I have my shorter version that I got last Christmas which are a chestunutish brown, if that is even a color. Then I found these and about DIED when I saw them. They left my heart beating so quickly I thought I just finished a 10k. It was glorious and without the whole, "I'm going to throw up feeling." For some reason they are so beautiful and I want them so badly that I've even had two dreams about wearing them with different outfits. Obsessive much? I give you the Ugg Cardy in Grey. Size 6.5 and I will most likely cry tears of joy if I see them Christmas morning.
Then, because I'm a complete freak and paranoid about my computer crashing at any given moment (knock on wood) I would like an external hard drive to back all my stuff up from my Mac that I use for my music and pictures and also I would also like to try to revive the laptop I used in college to get some pictures off of the hard drive. This would be another tears of joy moment because that means I could get back some pictures of my mom and I that I think might not be recoverable. So over Christmas break I hope to back, back, back it up!
If money wasn't an option at all. I would simply die for this Marc by Marc Jacobs purse. As in probably have a heart attack on the spot and die. It might be the most beautiful thing I've laid my eyes on in quite some time. Well, this may be the most glorious thing besides my height-challenged Christmas tree and my blue snuggie. Even though it's color is "Spinach", and we ALL know I don't eat any lettuce or spinach, I will forgive Marc for the horrendous name. It would be nice to be a socialite sometimes, alas, college applications fees are sucking me dry, but that's okay. One day I'll write a book and put it in my Marc by Marc Jacobs purse, or maybe I'll carry it to class where I can mold the young minds of students to help them realize that writing is not the devil incarnate.
Since I'm obsessed with ANYTHING that has a bow on it. Yes, I often gasp at stores when a shirt has a bow, and any thing with a bow is almost certainly snatched up. I also have a small love for headbands. How I love a good headband (I have 29 headbands). It's like an ornament for your head! I just recently bought this beast of a clip I wouldn't mind getting this in more colors (I already have pink and taupe) and for $3.80, I'm in love. Forever 21 has the best headband options and they are so inexpensive. I love getting headbands there that I wouldn't normally buy because they are a little strange, and then one morning when I'm feeling adventurous (or just have horrible hair) I'll wear them to work for fun. Since I work with all guys, I sometimes get strange looks but headbands make things much more fun!
Nor would I be sad if I got a cute beret or beanie. That would make up for some bad hair days as well. It also makes wearing pigtail braids completely acceptable as you look like a Swiss girl from the alps and everyone thinks you're cute. Notice I need warm clothes, because perhaps I'm cold all the time.
Then I wanted some mittens because A. they are adorable and B. super functional. Well these ones aren't since you can't move your fingers, but still! Who doesn't want to wear mittens.
Then we have the scarf that I found online, which I LOVE for some reason. Probably the heart detail, I may be a mushy person underneath my sarcastic and cold exterior. I am a sucker for little things like this, and double bonus is the great color that is pretty versatile. I can totally see this being paired up with a white tank and some jeans, or maybe a grey v-neck. Spring and fall scarf along with winter scarf? Score!
I also need a new camera, since if you know me in real life, you've heard me talk about the 'dots on the back of the screen.' For some reason my camera has two huge dots that show up on the screen when trying to take a picture. The pictures turn out fine but the dots are super annoying and when asking people to take pictures they don't get why the dots are there. Also, you can't review pictures on my camera. Alas, it still takes pictures so hopefully I can put off buying one for a while. Plus, I can keep using the child aka my iPhone for pictures, which the child could also use a new case, but I have one that works right now for that as well.
So that leads me to my last idea of a materialistic thing that I might be wanting come Christmas morning. It seems that I have been invited to go to the snow this winter. THE SNOW. As in I was invited to snowboard. I am going to try to attempt to SNOWBOARD. I have never done this before, or skied before. I usually sit on the plastic dish and slide down the hill at relatively slow speeds, and am completely content with this. So get the splint for my body ready, because broken bones here I come. Well I don't know where we are going to the snow, and I'm borrowing all my brother's wonderful girlfriend's snowboarding stuff when I go up, so I'm already super thankful for that, but whatever warm clothes I can conjure up before the trek up there would be helpful. I do like sweaters and long sleeves of all colors. I am not completely sure about this snow thing. I haven't been to the snow since I was a sophomore in high school, which was a long, long time ago. I am super excited, and super scared. That will be quite the post recap I'm sure. Most likely I'll take video, hopefully not from the hospital.
So this morning, I RAN! I was so excited I almost tripped about 12 times along the cracked sidewalk but I did it! I'm back! I ran four miles and felt great. It was a brisk morning, but I haven't ran in over ten days. Once I got going I was reminded why I love running so much. It's like meeting up with an old friend or something. So we are back on the running path and next week I'll be sharing the training plan for my next race, the Surf City Half Marathon that will be taking place in February. I am going to be reunited with my love the half marathon! I can't wait. I also got this the other day.
Do you see what that says? And what color is it? That's right, it's a PINK NIKE SWIM CAP in my hands. So I have no more excuses. Not having a swim cap was a good excuse for a while, but now I have one. The week of Christmas also will be the week of me attempting my first swimming session. It shall be… interesting and I'm sure that will lead to some funny posts as well. All I want for Christmas is not to drown.
You know what getting up early and swimming and morning workouts means? MORE COFFEE ON THE WAY TO WORK! Red cups unite! Though I look crazy in this picture, I am just very excited for my non-fat sugar free extra foam vanilla latte.
and I totally realized that my shirt is the same color as my snuggie, but wanted to point out that no, I'm not wearing a snuggie as every day attire. SNUG LOVE!
So since I'm having such a snugtastic holiday with my new tree, and hopefully at least one present under it, I wanted to give you guys the opportunity to enter an upcoming race. I was contacted by the 13.1 series of half marathons to run their race in January. Since I'm not racing at all in January, I really wanted to pass along the opportunity to one of my readers in the LA area who was looking to run this race! It's obviously a half marathon and it's going to be a BLAST! If I was racing I would have totally signed up. You can find out more about the race at this website. And, if you would like to enter the contest to win a free entry just leave a comment on this post! Make sure that you are willing to run the race, a half marathon, in Los Angeles on January 10, 2010! Get a second entry by tweeting about the giveaway as well. Just include @chicrunner somewhere in your tweet. Good Luck! I'll draw the winner on Wednesday of next week!
Tomorrow I have a jam-packed post full of music. Gosh, another pun. I slay myself with my own humor.


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I kind of love this event, we've been a few times in the past.
No one looks at us like WTF here. No one wonders what is WRONG with those kids and why do they act like that?
Because it's full of a hundred or more families EXACTLY LIKE US. Siblings who do without, or constantly make concessions because of the special person in their family. Parents who always look slightly weary and worn out.
The fishing is free and there are horse back rides as well as a petting zoo and lots of other fun, sensory friendly and kid friendly things to do, plus a great day by a beautiful lake hosted by a lovely family who allows us to do this on their land every year.
Because today, we were just like everyone else.
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Snow flew sideways down the road. The cold winds of autumn blew the early snow into drifts deep enough to swallow a man.
Great clumps of cold, wet snow filled the glass on the windows making it impossible to see outside. A dark gloom settled within the house.
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New Catholic Dictionary – Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
(1090–1153) Confessor, abbot, Doctor of the Church, born Castle Fontaines, near Dijon, France; died Clairvaux, France. Particular care was taken with his education, because his great destiny had been predicted before his birth; he showed remarkable interest and talent in litcrature. With his father and brother and 30 noblemen, Bernard entered the Benedictine monastery at Citeaux, in 1113. He was sent, 1115, at the head of a band of monks to found the house at Clairvaux and was consecrated abbot. He practised such austerities that his health was seriously impaired. The perfection of the monastic life there became the model for the 163 monasteries of the Cistercian reform founded by Bernard. The fame of his learning spread and he became the defender of the Church against the erroneous teaching of Abelard, Arnold of Brescia, and Gilbert de La Porree, championed Pope Innocent II, causing him to be recognized as supreme pontiff in France, England, Ireland, and Germany, and preached the second Crusade, 1133–1137. His writings breathe the most tender devotion to Our Lord and His Blessed Mother. Many miracles are ascribed to him. Patron of bees and wax chandlers. Emblems: Holy Communion, pen, bees, and instruments of the Passion. Canonized, 1174. Relics at Clairvaux; skull in the cathedral of Troyes. Feast, Roman Calendar, 20 August.


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As the NYOC's Emerging Composer-in-Residence, James O'Callaghan has enjoyed a unique opportunity during the last two seasons. "I was able to not only hone my skills, but also experiment and try new techniques."
Though he had already had readings by the Victoria and Vancouver orchestras, this was a chance to take risks. "The most surprising thing was actually how little I was surprised by the result. Since I come from an electroacoustic background, where the composition of the sound is always direct and immediate, the process of writing for orchestra can be very abstract for me (especially with so many instruments to keep track of). The result was very close to what I had imagined. Either I got lucky, or I'm getting the hang of this."
Though the work has been performed elsewhere, hometown listeners may well have an edge in understanding the work's sound materials.
"Most of the sounds are transcriptions of field recordings," explains O'Callaghan. "Animal calls, water rushing, traffic jams, and other sounds of the environment. So, for listeners in Vancouver, what they will hear are 'relics' of this process."


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Hi Guys,
First post!!
I come from micro controller land where we speak RISC asm,
so C has been a little difficult to grasp when it comes to dealing with bits.
I was reading this thread:
Help! I am going crazy. Bit shifting a byte array
and got this function working:
The trouble I'm having is reversing it to make a new function to rotate right instead of left.Code:
void shiftl(void *object, size_t size) { unsigned char *byte; for ( byte = object; size--; ++byte ) { unsigned char bit = 0; if ( size ) { bit = byte[1] & (1 << (CHAR_BIT - 1)) ? 1 : 0; } *byte <<= 1; *byte |= bit; } }
I know that object is the beginning of the array and size is the size,
so to shift right I should begin from object+size to make the for
loop run backwards. I don't know what ++byte is for.
Also, does;
mean if size does not equal zero? or greater than zero?Code:
if ( size ) {}
I've never seen that before.
I see where the byte is shifted, but don't understand:
any help appreciated, thanksCode:*byte |= bit;


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Hultzen recovering from irritation in left shoulder
SEATTLE -- Danny Hultzen, the Mariners' No. 2 prospect, will remain shut down for about 10 more days as he continues recovering from irritation in his left shoulder, general manager Jack Zduriencik said Tuesday.
Hultzen, 23, is 4-1 with a 2.20 ERA in five starts this season for Triple-A Tacoma, but he has been shut down twice now with shoulder problems.
"We're going to have Danny shut down for about 10 more days," Zduriencik said. "He'll start a throwing program. I've talked to trainers, doctors and pitching coaches. We're going to make some adjustments to his routines. We're going to look at a little bit of his mechanics. You never want to overhaul anybody, that's dangerous with pitchers, but you might look at the programs he's doing and try to make some alterations and see if that helps him.
"We're prepared to do whatever it takes. Some of this is a process where you do one thing and see where that leads you and if it takes you to step two and step three. But we're hoping when he starts throwing we'll see positive results. What I've heard is the last couple days he's felt pretty good."
Zduriencik expects Hultzen to throw again this season, but Seattle is taking the cautious approach with the second player selected in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft.
"What we've been told is this isn't something to get overly concerned about, but it is something we need to address," Zduriencik said. "And we're looking at a lot of different things with it. His strength and conditioning program, exercising program, how he throws between starts, we'll look at all that."
Zduriencik also said that Taijuan Walker, the club's No. 1 prospect, will have an innings limit this summer, though he declined to get into specifics. Walker has thrown 100 innings so far, 84 at Double-A Jackson and 16 in three starts at Tacoma, where he's gone 2-0 with a 0.56 ERA in three starts.
"We have a target number for Taijuan," Zduriencik said. "He's a young kid and you have to be careful with him. We'll do what is in Taijuan's best interest, because ultimately that's in our best interest, too. We just need Taijuan to continue to pitch and we'll see how it all plays out."


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I believe AMSNP is the largest adjust in HSX history. on Jan 19, 12:25
Good record keeping! Thanks. I wonder how many of those had the 50k share cap vs. the current cap of 100k. {nm} on Jan 19, 12:27
I haven't been so SATISFIED since last Tuesday... smoke and sandwich time. {nm} on Jan 19, 12:28
Superb. A Tip 'O The Hat. {nm} on Jan 19, 12:40
Thanks for this; very interesting. Did you note the AVNGR adjust? Wasn't it also H$100+ ? {nm} on Jan 19, 12:40
AVNGR was +87.42 {nm} on Jan 19, 12:41
Thanks again. {nm} on Jan 19, 12:45
thx! {nm} on Jan 19, 12:41
Post adjust all the movies you listed? {nm} on Jan 19, 12:45
I do have delist numbers for each as well. {nm} on Jan 19, 12:59
Some of those were at 50K max shares for purchase. The good ol' days? {nm} on Jan 19, 12:51
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2003 HULK was only -9.57. 2008 HULK2 was -1.04. {nm} on Jan 19, 13:00
Maximum ownership of MovieStock shares went up to 75,000 on 11/1/2010 (more) on Jan 19, 13:07
Do you have the dates when the multipliers changed? I remember it was 3.1 when I started (2002), then dropped to 2.9 shortly after that. {nm} on Jan 19, 13:21
It looks like... on Jan 19, 13:44
I've been playing since May 1998, and I remember multiplier as being 2.9 back then {nm} on Jan 19, 16:48
Happy New Year !!! {nm} on Jan 19, 13:12
Jeez Louise !!! {nm} on Jan 19, 13:14
Thanks for sharing! {nm} on Jan 19, 13:39
Gotta love Clint and the American Sniper story.... To smaller ports: Another reason to play openers to build your port! {nm} on Jan 19, 14:01
Today's gain on AMSPN -> redemption from my short position on PASON {nm} on Jan 19, 19:19
Same here! I also shorted PASON. D'oh! Back then you couldn't flip positions after 10am Friday. {nm} on Jan 20, 11:29


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In Pursuit of Secret Mapping Experiment
Imagine you are driving (top down, of course) along a pristine coastline.
The wind in your hair, the world at your feet. The sun is setting, the ocean is that perfect blue. The salty air is filling your lungs up with freshness.
You smile coz life is perfect and as you muse out into the water, you see this:
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Resolume Blog
This blog is about Resolume, VJ-ing and the inspiring things the Resolume users make. Do you have something interesting to show the community?
Send in your work!
- * Resolume 7.2.1 Maintenance Release
- * Resolume 7.2.0 Released! Clip Renderer, Recording & Conversion Improvements, 2 New Effects
- * New footage! toomuchlag, VJ Galaxy, Tomika
- * Visual storytelling with STVinMotion
- * Want Plugins? Get Juicebar!
- * A footage pack in memory of Jonathan Bernbaum
- * In Pursuit of Secret Mapping Experiment
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Resolume Video Training
Finally! Online video training for Resolume! We've worked with the wonderful Doc Optic and created 2 whole hours of in-depth video training.
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Resolume Arena 5 Point Ooooh
It's been 4 years since we introduced Resolume Avenue & Arena 4. In those 4 years we released many many updates which brought a lot of improvements, effects and new features. It was time for something new, and we are proud to present to you: Resolume Arena 5.
We looked at the most important features that needed to be improved and this was clearly video mapping in Arena. Video mapping has taken the world by storm the past few years. We wanted to make this even easier and even more flexible with Resolume Arena 5. With Arena you can take on any size mapping project. Projecting on DJ booths and cars and buildings, as well as pixel mapping giant stages like Ultra. Projection mapping has gone from an artsy curiosity to a requirement in the toolbox of all VJ's.
With stages becoming bigger and LED resolutions going up it's now easier to get everything pixel perfect by zooming in to your slices as far you need to make the final adjustment.
Undo (yes really)
In the advanced output you can now undo (and redo) all your actions. This is incredibly handy because video mapping can become quite complex and is not always an exact science. Sometimes you need to fiddle the sliders until it's pixel perfect. You can now work on a complex mapping with the ease of mind that you can always go back in time, like Doc & Marty.
Polygon slices (poly what?)
This new way of video mapping is so innovative we even had to think of a name for it We're calling them Poly Slices. Draw any shape you want and then warp each individual point. Triangles were just the beginning, young grasshopper.
Slices and points will jump into place when they get close enough. So you don't need to find that sweet spot twice.
Slice masks
You can now apply a mask to one specific slice by using the new input masking. You can even draw your own shape from scratch.
Multi Select
Lasso your slices like a cowboy and herd them dawgies to the corral in one mighty swoop.
Led There Be Light
You can now start thinking outside the (box) screen because you can now send your pretty little pixels to DMX fixtures. Let them light up in any color, at any time, in sync with your visuals. Better improvised synchronisation between music and visuals is the very first reason why we started on Resolume all those years ago. It's a very logical step to add the lights to that as well. This way your shows are even more coherent and integrated.
Output via BlackMagic Devices
Those fancy BlackMagic capture devices can not only bring images into Resolume. With Arena 5 you can also output via BlackMagic devices. This way you can easily output to another screen on a laptop that might not have multiple outputs. And output to professional SDI connections without having to buy a special expensive videocard that has SDI outputs.
Spout is the Windows equivalent of the hugely popular Syphon on the Mac. It allows you to output and input visuals from one application to the other, all in real-time. So create a sketch in Processing and send that to Resolume or send the Resolume output to the virtual Spout webcam and stream that to YouTube. Spout opens a lot of possibilities because there is already so much other Spout compatible software. Checkout their website.
New Arena 5 license: 799 Euro
Upgrade Arena 4 to 5: 269 euro
Upgrade Avenue to Arena 5: 500 euro
New Avenue 4 license: 299 Euro
Log in to your account to purchase your upgrade today.
Because most of these major new features are media server related and only in Arena there is no major update for Avenue. So you can continue to use Avenue 4 without a paid upgrade.
Grace Period
If you bought Arena 4 after September 1st, just contact us and we'll upgrade you to Arena 5.
Much, much, more
Besides all these major new features we have also fixed many small bugs and made many minor improvements. Read below for the full release notes or hit the download!
NEW - AV set and demo footage
NEW - Fixture editor
NEW - Virtual screen routing
NEW - Drag and drop output presets
NEW - Modifiers galore
NEW - Input slice rotation
NEW - Opacity and Bypass toggles on Layer Router
NEW - Preview available as source for Layer Router and Slices
NEW - Create slices and masks by drawing
NEW - Screen output delay compensation
NEW - Screen output opacity & color correction
NEW - Screen folding
NEW - Slice flipping
NEW - Slice Top & Left coordinates
NEW - Slice color correction
NEW - Slice force black background
NEW - New interface colours: Minty Pinky
NEW - Redesigned toolbar for better read- and click-ability
NEW - Windows large address aware for better memory management
NEW - 8 pixel grid on output
NEW - Improved crosshairs
Bug fixes
FIXED - Support more than one webcam of the same type on PC
FIXED - After re-locating a Source, Flash or QC file, any parameter changes are reset to the default value
FIXED - When toggling Mask 1, all other Masks toggle as well
FIXED - BPM Clock pause and resume flips out when using midi clock
FIXED - Audio Clip set to play once and playmode away continue does not restart when finished
FIXED - Multiselect reset param doesn't work when you click on name
FIXED - Noisy effect: Interpolate does not work until show UV is turned on and off
FIXED - DeckLink device with no inputs causes other devices not to load
FIXED - BPM set audio clip not responding to pause/BPM after deckswitch.
FIXED - BPM Synced parameter also occasionally flashes last 'frame' on Resync
FIXED - Blend Modes are not correctly displayed on Layer Panel
FIXED - Deadlock: Opening preferences with cmd + , while audio is playing and apc40mk2 is turned on
FIXED - DMX Invert no worky on buttons
FIXED - Retrigger and Continue modes are very confused on AV clips
FIXED - A clip set to 'play once and eject' should not eject the incoming clip during a transition
FIXED - Midi Note piano shortcut on slider should respect min value
FIXED - Add Close button to Timeline popup
FIXED - BPM pause doesn't work for audio clips that are active but in other deck
FIXED - Mask drag, drop and copy not functioning properly
FIXED - A clip set to 'play once and eject' should not eject the incoming clip during a transition
FIXED - When retriggering the incoming clip in a transition, the outgoing clip should not restart
FIXED - Cross-fader position is not saved in composition
FIXED - Mapping ccs to Crossfader
FIXED - Source duration spinner jumps to min and max when dragged
FIXED - Check for illegal characters in savefile name
FIXED - Alpha on a JPEG? What kind of witchcraft is this?
Upgrade FAQ
I have a Res Avenue 4 license but there's no Avenue 5! Do I need to upgrade to Arena 5 to get the new stuff?
No. Avenue 4.5 is a free upgrade for anyone with a Avenue 4.x license. It has all the bug fixes and comes with native Spout support.
I have a Res Arena 4 license but Arena 5 is a paid upgrade. Do I have to pay for bug fixes?
You don't. If you don't want to upgrade to Arena 5 just yet, Arena 4.2.2 is a free upgrade for anyone with a Arena 4.x license. It has all the bug fixes of Arena 5, just not the fancy new Advanced Output. Download Arena 4.2.2 for Mac and PC.
I just bought Arena 4 last week and now you bring out an update. This sucks!
Don't worry. If you bought Arena 4 after September 1st, just contact us and we'll give you an Arena 5 license, no questions asked. If you feel we've treated you unfairly in any other way, just drop us a line and we'll work something out.
What about feature X ?1?!?!. You said it was coming in Res 5. I really need feature X! I can't live without feature X!
Yeah, that sucks. We wanted to pack so much more features in this release. As it turns out, putting all of that in and getting it stable, would mean you'd have to wait another 2 years for the next version. And we couldn't let you wait that long. So just make awesome shows with all the cool new stuff that's in Arena now, and we'll continue working on all the other things. Comment »
Gorgeous & Playful Interactive Projection Mapping
Dalziel-Pow is a London-based agency with over 30 years' experience in brand and retail design, passionate about creating retail experiences that are unique and engaging for the customer.
A few days ago, they sent us the link to their amazing new project:
http://www.dalziel-pow.com/news/interac ... esign-expo
They were kind enough to expand a little about how the project works:
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Project Showcase: Landschapslumen by Beeldjutters
Between all the EDM LED screen madness and the onslaught of geometric projection mapping, sometimes it's nice to see something completely different.
Such a thing is Landschapslumen by the Dutch artist collective Beeldjutters:
Dwaallumen (pilot).
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Creating Projection Mapping Objects out of Paper
Here's how to get started with some crazy projection mapping paper objects in twelve easy steps. Because sometimes it's good to step away from the computer. Get your hands dirty with glue, scissors and paper.
Step 1: Watch this awesome video.
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The Light Cycle - Mobile Projection Mapping
From the wonderful folks at Urban Projections comes this lovely project using Tagtool, Arena and a cargo bike. What's not to love?
The Light Cycle.
The Light Cycle is a bike with personality. Housing a high power, 6000 ansi lumen projector, sound system, ipad and battery pack, it is a fully mobile, street art device. It aims to provide an innovative means for taking digital art into public spaces and out onto the streets.
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Argentina's Schneider beer markets itself as a slow-brewed draught that needs maturation time to reach its prime. Just like men.
The premise of this new ad could've been kinda cute — to quote Britney, everyone goes through that "not a girl, not yet a woman" stage of trial and error — but instead it features men unapologetically asking women who are 100x hotter than them to forgive them (in a "sorry I'm not sorry" way) for "outbursts of tacky compliments" (street harassment), "our hormones taking control of us" (um, rape?), "for taking a no as a yes" (more rape?), and some lesser foibles, like having a creepy browser history.
At the end of the ad, puppy-eyed men raise their glasses to the beer that's the "maturity of the man who's in the process." Seth MacFarlane, are you behind this?


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Volunteers seek clues in Midtown slaying
Josiah Humphreys beaten to death by 3 men
Sacramento's Guardian Angels canvassed a neighborhood on Saturday where a 28-year-old was beaten and left for dead on a street corner on St. Patrick's Day.
Volunteers hung posters seeking information in the slaying of Josiah Humphreys.
Sacramento police said Humphreys was found near the corner of 18th and P streets in Midtown just after midnight March 17.
"That's why we are doing this, so it doesn't fade away it doesn't go in someone's back pocket," Patrick Kent said.
Kent said the victim's family asked the Guardian Angels for help seeking new clues.
Police have not been able to name any suspects in the two months following his death.
Investigators believe there were three men between the ages of 25 and 30 who were wearing long white T-shirts. One of the men may have been also wearing a dark blue New York Yankees jacket.
Eyewitnesses were not able to tell police why the trio attacked the man.
There is a $15,000 reward for information.


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The theme of the evening series will be "Science Impacting Health and Society" and will focus on diabetes, obesity, heart disease and cancer. Sponsored by the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM), the Friends of NSM Distinguished Lecture Series will feature leading scientists and physicians addressing breakthroughs in science that are altering the prevention and diagnosis of disease, treatment modalities and delivery of medical care. All lectures are on the UH campus and are free and open to the public.
The first lecture, "Toward a New Generation of Therapies for Diabetes, Obesity and Muscular Disease," will be led by Bruce M. Spiegelman, a professor of cell biology and medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School. Spiegelman will discuss his research team's recent discovery of a novel hormone secreted from muscle cells that triggers some of the key health benefits of exercise. The protein, given the name irisin, is a promising candidate for development as a treatment for diabetes, obesity and possibly other disorders.
"Each year, the series will focus on a central theme and include five to six lectures delivered by leading experts and eminent scholars," said Mark A. Smith, NSM dean. "Through this annual lecture series, we want to share science breakthroughs with the community and give Houstonians a front-row seat to developments impacting medical care, energy, the environment and daily living."
The other lectures in the inaugural 2012 series will be held at the Rockwell Pavilion in UH's M.D. Anderson Library:
- Tuesday, May 15: "Heart Making and Heart Breaking: New Strategies for Heart Repair" by Eric N. Olson, professor and chair of molecular biology at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Tuesday, Sept. 25: "Hormones in Health and Disease" by Dr. Jan-Åke Gustafsson, biochemistry professor and director of the Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling at the University of Houston
- Tuesday, Oct. 23: "Improving Prediction of Heart Attack Risk" by Ioannis Kakadiaris, computer science professor and director of the Computational Biomedicine Lab at the University of Houston
- Tuesday, Nov. 27: "Regenerating Damaged Heart Muscle: Using Stem Cells and Systems Biology to Discover Drug Targets" by Mark Mercola, professor and director of the Muscle Development and Regeneration Program at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
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Melatonin is a hormone produced by the pineal gland which serves to synchronize and coordinate biological functions of the body. This hormone appears in foods in only trace amounts and, therefore, supplementation supports the natural functioning of the pineal gland. Melatonin is important in regulating sleep, circadian rhythm and the body's natural time clock. Melatonin is also an important antioxidant, rapidly taken up by the brain, which acts as an effective scavenger of highly toxic free radicals that induce DNA damage. The amount of melatonin produced by our bodies seems to decrease with age.
Due to melatonin's relatively short half-life in the body, a sustained release formula may be more suitable for those who experience difficulty staying asleep through the night.
- Melatonin - hormone whose main role is in the control of the circadian (day/night) rhythms. Its production should peak at night and is instrumental for maintaining quality sleep patterns. Melatonin production declines significantly with age, often causing sleep difficulties associated with age.
- 5-HTP - Precursor to serotonin; supports further melatonin production during the night to help with staying asleep
- Vitamin B6 - When using 5-HTP for enhancing serotonin and melatonin production to promote healthy mood and sleep, the addition of pyridoxal-5-phosphate, an activated form of vitamin B6, helps to catalyze the conversion of 5-HTP to serotonin (5-HT)
- Inositol - Supports overall relaxation and helps maintain the proper metabolism of serotonin
- L-Theanine - Supports calming neurotransmitter production; helps reduce stress and improve the quality of sleep
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Intelinyze API MASTER RECORD
The Intelinyze API provides businesses and individuals with customer identification tools. This API can determine the validity, risk, and person (or business) behind a phone number. Additionally, this service can assess Email addresses, and determine the risks involved with an IP. The Intelinyze API uses API Keys for authentication, and responds in JSON format.


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Minding Ag's Business
Debate Rages Over APH Forgiveness
Great Plains wheat growers were howling over USDA's decision to postpone a big promise in the 2014 farm bill, as DTN's Chris Clayton and Jerry Hagstrom reported last week (see "Vilsack Resists APH Update" http://online.dtn.com/…).
Growers victimized by years of severe Great Plains drought had fought for a provision to update their crop insurance Actual Production History, or APH, to exclude years in which county yields fell more than 50% below the 10-year average. Under such dire countywide conditions, growers were supposed to be able to delete their own low performance year from their APH history and divide their averages by nine. This was a way for grain producers with near zero yields to retain some semblance of insurance coverage, but prevent fraud since the county would need to suffer a disaster before an individual could erase low yields. Growers in adjacent counties would also be eligible for yield forgiveness.
That county trigger assures there's not an individual management issue or a some moral hazard trying to game the system, points out Kansas State University economist Art Barnaby. At the same time, he thinks it's fair to forgive yields when there's a widespread weather disaster. "If you've made crop insurance the national safety net, you can't drive it so low that as [Iowa State University's] Bob Wisner used to say, it's 2 inches off the floor," Barnaby argues.
Failure to implement the rule in 2015 will affect both crop insurance coverage and the new Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO) available to producers who elect Price Loss Coverage, he adds. SCO is triggered by county yield but payments are then based on the individual's APH.
USDA counters it didn't have enough resources to implement the crop insurance rule for 2015, and calls the county and individual calculations "complex" and IT intense. Barnaby suspects crop insurance companies objected that insurance rates would need to be adjusted to take the relaxed APH formula into account, something he thinks could have been accommodated administratively.
What's more, it's not just Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska that have suffered significant yield osses, he argues. More than 40 Illinois counties would have triggered the provision after 2012's drought, he says. Excess heat and drought at pollination meant near-zero corn yields in some southern Illinois counties.
Compare that to Finney County, Kan., a bellwether of the Great Plains. The county's nonirrigated wheat has experienced below average yields the last four years, but none slipped below a 50% loss. In fact, the last time yields fell that low was 1996, Barnaby says.
Steve Griffin, a West Des Moines, Iowa crop insurance expert with CVision Corp. and a frequent expert witness in legal suits, believes the calculations in APH forgiveness should be relatively simple. "If RMA sits on its hands, there could still be a lawsuit to force crop insurance companies to comply with the Federal Crop Insurance Act, as amended by the Farm Bill," he says.
So I welcome your opinion: Is there good reason to postpone the APH provision for another year? What difference does that make to your farm safety net?
Note: This entry was corrected to reflect that Bob Wisner is from Iowa State University, not the University of Illinois. My apologies.
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Debt is also a useful indicator of a community's financial health. One long accepted general warning signal for potentially burdensome debt to a municipality is the debt margin percentage. The State of North Carolina closely monitors all debt incurred by municipalities. Overall net debt should not exceed 8 percent of the assessed taxable valuation. The Town of Mathews is well under that percentage. As of June 30, 2017 our assessed valuation was $3,601,347,353. Eight percent of the assessed valuation totals $288,107,788. The Town's debt at the close of FY17 was $7,419,214 providing a debt margin available of $280,688,574.
Fund Balance is defined in general terms as "the cumulative difference of all revenues and expenditures from the government's creation."
A suitable fund balance provides a source of working capital to meet cash flow needs, offers a cushion against revenue shortfalls and unanticipated expenditures, provides an accumulation of funds that some municipalities use for capital projects and contributes to a favorable bond rating.
The Town of Matthews Board of Commissioners adopted a fund balance policy on March 10, 2003. The Board of Commissioners adopted a revised policy on March 26, 2018. Fund Balance information can be found in the Town's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports.


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All I can say is "Holy Carp Batman"
Stopped in at Bentonville BMW today, and was drooling over the new Demo on the showroom floor. Bob came over and said you want to take it for a demo ride?
My response was, Bob, there is no way I can afford to buy that. He said that it was there for demo rides and that BMW would not even let him sell it -it was strictly a demo bike. At that point my arm began to hurt from him twisting it behind my back, and my knees were getting weak. Finally I relented and agreed to ride it. Bob pushed it outside, and went over the controls (new designs) with me, and told me that it really didn't hit it's powerband until about 11 grand, and that it was redlined at 18, but ran out of steam at about 17 so there was no point pushing it past 17,000. OK.......He insisted that I try it past 11 however, to feel the afterburners kick in.
The Bike is absoutly the finest machine I've ever driven, including Ferrari's, Cobras, BMW's, MBZ, Massaratti's and Audi's. It pulls like a tractor from 2,000 rpm in any gear, reminisent of the K-bikes, but geezus! From 11K-17K you better be holding on! I passed a car running about 50 in 2nd gear and just hammered it.
I didn't even realize I was carrying the front wheel until it set back down!
I got really lost twice on the backroad twistie road-map that Bob had given me, and wound up being gone 2 hours, and about 3 times the distance of the test route. I never entered a corner that felt uncomfortable, even at about double the speed that I would have attempted on my R11RS. All it takes is some throttle to pull you around any corner. I remember thinking "I didn't realize I could ride this good!"
I've never been more glad to get off of a motorcycle in my life. It is definatly not a touring machine, and there seems to be no way to sit comfortably for anything over about 20 minutes. I was sore, my knees hurt, my wrists hurt from holding my weight up, and my heart was pounding like a war drum.
My God, what a sweet machine! I'm buying more tickets!


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"I just called Lucali to confirm their hours for tonight and learned that they had a fire last night and will be closed for repairs. The fire was apparently in the chimney and no one was hurt. They were awaiting more details on the length of the closing—possibly one to two weeks."
Slice is trying to get through to Lucali's Mark Iacono for further details. Stay tuned.
Sadly, this isn't the only celebrated Brooklyn pizzeria to get hit by a fire lately. Coney Island's Totonno's caught fire in mid March.
Update/Confirmation, 7/7/2009, 4:02 p.m. ET
I just spoke with Iacono. He says the fire started in the flue from the oven to the roof. Apparently a clean-out cap had fallen off—he doesn't know when—and its absence affected the draft in the flue and the heat build-up in it, causing creosote within the flue to catch fire.
Iacono says it may take as little as 3 to 4 days to install a new flue, but he'll probably keep the pizzeria closed for one to two weeks to ... drum roll, please ... set up the long-awaited garden space. Every cloud has a silver lining, no?


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Some people have been asking about the overall progress on Legend, particularly regarding the special leather-bound printing for some of our Kickstarter donors. The short version is that right now, we are focused on finishing a set of updates to the current release version of Legend, including a series of typographical errors and a couple of strange cases where a line or two was accidentally deleted from the 1.0 version. At this point, we are in the process of typesetting a new release candidate including the fixes that Legend needs to be a game we feel comfortable setting down in hard copies. Once the release candidate has been proofed and finalized, we will arrange to have leather-bound copies printed and sent to the Kickstarter donors we promised them to.
We are continuing to work on the Legend Monster Guide, and will continue to update all of you on our progress over the next few months.
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It is quite obvious that the advantages which the VESPATRONIC ignition provide to racing scooters will also be a welcome improvement and update to the engines of earlier VESPA models. To satisfy these potential customers Max and Tino have developed a range of VESPATRONIC ignition kits to suit vintage VESPAs. The main advantage these modern ignition kits have over the original PIAGGIO setup of the earlier models is that they are completely electronic. These ignition systems are virtually maintenance free as opposed to the existing points ignition setups on the older machines. Another advantage of the VESPATRONIC system is that the ignition point varies according to the RPM of the motor. More power in the lower end of the rev-range combined with lower combustion temperatures are advantages to every cylinder, tuned or not. Machines equipped with a 6v electrical system will benefit especially in the lights department from the extra power available..
Conclusion: An ideal and reliable supply of electrical current, improved torque in lower revs coupled with more stability in the higher end of the rev range: a definite improvement and upgrade for all vintage VESPA motors.
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Flywheel weight varies between 1400 and 1850 g according to version (light flywheel – tuned engines, heavy flywheel – original engine), kit also includes a stator plate, CDI unit, electronic regulator, mounting tools and again according to version, with or without cooling fins on the flywheel.
SIP-TIP: for VESPA models with an existing 6v electrical system all bulbs must be upgraded to 12v items and a conversion wiring harness is also necessary for safe and successful use of this conversion kit.
"The Vespatronic is most useful for road riders"
Assembling tips from Tino Sacchi, Lambretta Guru and co-designer of the VESPATRONIC ignition system, Milan – Italy 2008:
- A false connection can lead to damage within the CDI unit, always stick to the circuit diagram. Attachment of the earth connection is especially important.
- Do not alter any of the components contained within the assembly and take care to mount the electronic units where strong vibrations can be avoided -
- The flywheel nut must be assembled using the correct original PIAGGIO shake-proof washer. A loose nut due to a missing or incorrect washer being used can lead to expensive damage of either the crankshaft and/or the flywheel itself.
- Before you include this kit in your motor setup make sure that the crankshaft bearings are new and that the spark plug and spark plug cap are also of sufficient quality.
- If you are also increasing the width of the rev range of your motor the screws that fix the fan to the flywheel should be treated with a LOCTITE thread lock (or similar) for safe and enduring use of this conversion kit
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ACF National Culinary Team USA gave an outstanding performance at the 12th annual Villeroy & Boch Culinary World Cup 2014 in Luxembourg, Nov. 22–26. Garnering two gold medals and the highest score in the cold-food competition, the team placed third overall in the world at one of the largest international culinary competitions.
"I am extremely proud of ACF Culinary Team USA's performance at the Culinary World Cup," said Joseph Leonardi, CEC, team manager. "This is the team's first international competition together, and to watch them grow as chefs and see their hard work and dedication recognized by some of the best chefs in the world is inspiring. To win a gold medal in both competition categories is a great accomplishment and proves that American cuisine and products are among the best in the world. We look forward to bringing our best to the American Culinary Classic in 2015 and the 2016 'culinary Olympics' in Erfurt, Germany, and representing America's world-class cuisine to an even larger international audience."
Congratulations are also in order to the individual U.S. competitors at the Culinary World Cup. ACF members competed in culinary arts, pastry arts and cold food in Luxembourg and many went home with gold, silver and bronze medals. We're proud of these chefs for their hard work and dedication to culinary excellence!
"These chefs practiced for hundreds of hours for the chance to compete in the Culinary World Cup and we are so proud of them for their commitment to this profession," said Thomas Macrina, CEC, CCA, AAC, ACF national president. "The time, patience and hard work it took to participate in this competition is something to be admired, and I hope they have inspired others to follow in their footsteps. Congratulations chefs on all you have achieved."
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Collector's Weekly is never dull. A few weeks ago it gave us an entertaining article about the art of the fairground shooting arcade target. Who would have thought those dismal little bits of tin, so hard to hit with a carefully unsighted airgun, could be so beautiful when their rusting, bullet-battered shapes are treated as works of art?
In its latest edition CW serves up another dose of the unexpected, this time wartime posters from both the First and Second World Wars, exhorting servicemen to stay away from loose women.
CW had come across a 2014 book, Protect Yourself, by Ryan Mungia, featuring a collection of VD posters found at places like the US National Archives and the National Library of Medicine. Mungia had been visiting the National Archives looking for photographs of wartime Honolulu when he chanced on a folder marked "VD posters".
'Inside,' says Mungia, 'I found a stash of 35mm slides of these posters, most of which ended up in the book. I guess you could say the subject chose me, since I didn't set out to make a book on venereal disease, but became interested in the topic because of the graphic nature of the posters. The designs were really reminiscent of film noir or B-movie posters from the '40s, those pulpy-style poster designs, and they also reminded me of the Works Progress Administration artwork, which I love.'
'On any given day during World War I, there were approximately 18,000 men who were taken ill with VD," Mungia explains. "So when we started gearing up for the next major war, the U.S. military launched a pretty aggressive propaganda campaign including posters, pamphlets, and films to try to curb those numbers and keep soldiers healthy and able to fight.'
Before the discovery of penicillin and other antibiotics, syphillis and gonorrhoea were serious illnesses that could kill as could some of the treatments prescribed for them. According to Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523), a German knight who wrote about his trials with syphilis and its treatment with mercury. Patients were shut in a "stew", a small steam filled chamber, for up to thirty days on end, having first been smeared from head to toe with a mercury-based ointment. Many died, but it was mercury poisoning rather than syphillis that killed them.
Less extreme but no less dangerous methods of administering mercury to syphillitics was to use the liquid metal stirred into hot chocolate, although one doctor warned that chocolate was too risky. A genius whose ideas today would almost certainly find their way onto crowdfunding websites was the doctor who sold underpants coated on the inside with mercury ointment. These fascinating facts come from a book The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present by Peter Lewis Allen, which I thoroughly recommend.
Pre-sulfonamide Gonorrhoea treatments were scarcely less hazardous, utilising metallic compounds of arsenic, antimony, bismuth, gold, and mercury. Having become less of a threat since the invention of antiobiotics, resistant strains of Gonorrhoea have now emerged and some doctors warn it is now on the verge of becoming incurable.
But we digress. In its efforts to inform servicemen about sexual health, the US government first used advertisements created by the Works Progress Administration, mentioned by Mungia above. But these were easy to ignore, so they turned to comic book styles and realistic public service announcements.
According to Mungia, 'In the beginning, around 1941 or '42, they hired a lot of artists through the WPA who had produced public-health posters a decade earlier," says Mungia. "But there were several studies done to determine what kind of poster would be the most effective in delivering this message, and they concluded that people really responded to those which were more realistic and struck an emotional chord.
'The WPA created beautiful posters that used a lot of bold shapes and colors, but they relied on symbolism. These studies showed that some guys were actually confused by the WPA-style posters. The military's solution was to go to Madison Avenue and consult some successful ad men, and they had those guys produce VD posters. The style of the posters changed over the course of the war from bold and symbolic to more realistic, almost magazine-style advertisements.'
Although venereal diseases affect both men and women, and in general cannot be caught unless a member of one sex passes it to another, in these posters it is usually woman who is depicted as the seductive temptress (misogyny, of course, comes packaged with Genesis) and sometimes even depicted as an agent of the enemy powers, a toxic handmaiden to Hitler and Hirohito.
Only one ambiguous image, perhaps not daring speak to its message out loud, seems to hint that men can catch VD from other men.


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"Think sustainable. Take care of your future – now" – this is the motto of this year's Master's-level study programme from the Summer University Green.Building.Solutions. . The course is targeted at architecture and engineering students and graduates with an interest in sustainability from anywhere in the world. The programme addresses the key ecological, economic, technical and societal aspects of sustainable planning and building. International participants will also have the unique opportunity of examining specialist content from an interdisciplinary perspective and experiencing it in practice.
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In 2373, the standard Starfleet uniform was again modified, maintaining the same basic shape and division colors, but swapping the colors on the shoulders and turtleneck. The blue-grey shoulder area was now quilted with vertical stitches. The division colors were also displayed on each wrist as a colored hoop.
A succession of other Starfleet uniforms based upon this modification were also phased into service during this time.
As Data's uniform was not liquified when he ruptured the coolant tank on the USS Enterprise-E, it appears these uniforms were created with non-organic fibers. (Star Trek: First Contact)
Standard duty uniform
While the standard, two-tone duty uniform introduced in the late 2360s remained in service (at least) until 2373, it was phased out of regular use aboard Starfleet vessels and space stations beginning in 2373.
Although the new duty uniform retained the same basic structure and style of the last standard duty uniform, the yoke/shoulder area usually displaying division colors was given a standard, blue-gray color and quilted. Cuffs were also added to the uniform, bearing a stripe of corresponding division color.
The uniform shirt and undershirt was also modified. (Star Trek: First Contact; DS9: "Rapture"; VOY: "Message in a Bottle")
Captain's variants
With this new wave of duty uniforms, so too came minor variants available to commanding officers. Similar to the so-called "Captain's jacket" variant worn in the 2360s, a new vest or waistcoat was introduced aboard starships and space stations. Bearing the same gray, quilted yoke as the duty uniform (extended lower, below the combadge), this sleeveless, low-necked vest allowed the wearer a more casual appearance. (Star Trek: First Contact; DS9: "Rapture")
While Picard seemed to switch between the standard duty jacket and the vest, Sisko was seen wearing it beneath his uniform, sometimes causing his uniform to seem quite bulky. Minor differences in the construction of the uniform notwithstanding (Picard's featured round openings for the arms, while Sisko's were squared off), the vests appear identical.
In addition to the vest, a more formal uniform was also available to commanding officers. Featuring only minor differences from the standard duty uniform, a variant uniform without cuffs and bearing a more formal collar was also in use as early as 2373. (DS9: "Rapture", "The Darkness and the Light")
Uniform undershirt
When compared to the previous design, the mock turtleneck shirt worn beneath the jumpsuit uniform was made of a heavier material, now displaying one of three division colors and opening in the front from a prominent closure. Beneath this, a blue-gray tee, or sleeveless tee, was worn, similar in style to the undershirt of the previous design. (Star Trek: First Contact; DS9: "You Are Cordially Invited", "You Are Cordially Invited", "Take Me Out to the Holosuite", "Strange Bedfellows", "The Dogs of War")
Flag officer uniform
First appearing in 2374, Starfleet issued a uniform for flag officers such as admirals reflecting the new duty uniform.
Again retaining the same basic form as the previous style, the next generation of flag officer service uniform incorporated the adjusted color scheme and quilted yoke. The cuffs were wider than present on the standard uniform, displaying admiral's rank insignia. A belt was also introduced to the uniform, with either a plain gold rectangular buckle or an oval buckle displaying the Starfleet Command logo. (DS9: "Behind the Lines", "Favor the Bold"; Star Trek: Insurrection)
Dress uniform
Again coinciding with the alterations made to the duty uniform, two distinct variations on the Starfleet dress uniform were introduced.
Type A
The first, used around 2374, closely resembled the preceding style of dress uniform, a standard two-tone long jacket and black trousers. New to this version, which retained the previous coloration of black with one of the three division colors, was the quilted yoke, cuffs with gold trim, and belt displaying the seal of the United Federation of Planets. (DS9: "You Are Cordially Invited")
Type B
In 2375, the second dress uniform variant was introduced, this time a stark departure from previous styles. Throwing out the old color scheme and long jacket, the new style favored a white, short jacket with gold trim and a quilted gray center section, worn over black trousers which were also trimmed in gold.
Division colors were less prominent than in the preceding style, appearing as piping around the collar and wide bands on the cuffs and side seams of the trousers.
While this uniform was standard to all duty officers, captains and flag officers wore white in place of blue-gray in the center section. Flag officers had a wider cuff braid with a solid white line running threw it upon which rank insignia was affixed.
Members of the Starfleet band at the Riker-Troi wedding worn a solid gray uniform, which featured a longer, looser jacket than the standard uniform. The gold and division color trim on the standard jacket was replaced with white, and the collar, now distinguished by white trim where it meet the shoulders, sported a thick band of white running the center of it where rank was displayed. The division color strip on the pants was also white. (Star Trek: Insurrection; DS9: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"; Star Trek Nemesis)
Desert robes
For harsh or desert conditions, specialized robes were worn to protect against sunlight and provide comfort in hot and humid conditions.
Consisting of off-white-colored robes and hoods, pants and short-sleeve shirts, trimmed with division colors, this particular uniform served when the standard duty uniform may have proved uncomfortable or inappropriate for some environments.
Specialized boots were also part of the desert uniform, also off-white, with treads better suited to mountainous or more rugged terrain. (DS9: "Shadows and Symbols")
Combat uniform
Retaining the same general appearance as its predecessor, the uniform used by Starfleet personnel in combat situations was a black tunic with a division color stripe running across the chest.
The division color mock turtleneck was worn beneath the rubber-like body armor. (DS9: "The Siege of AR-558")
Utility uniform
As with the previous generations of Starfleet uniforms, a plain, operations mustard-colored jumpsuit used by technicians and utility workers was available as late as 2379. (Star Trek Nemesis)
Cadet uniform
Some time around 2372, a corresponding alteration was made to the uniform worn at Starfleet Academy and by Starfleet cadets serving aboard starships.
While essentially the same design as the preceding style – gray jumpsuit with division colored shoulders – quilting was again added to the yoke as were cuffs bearing division colors. Instead of being a one-piece uniform, however, it was split, now sporting a gray mock turtleneck beneath.
As with the earlier style, the uniform was gray (rather than black worn by officers) and featured pockets running down the trousers. (DS9: "Valiant", "Field of Fire")
Section 31 uniform
In use since the mid-22nd century, the distinct, black uniforms worn by operatives involved with Starfleet's secret organization Section 31 remained basically unchanged in the 2370s. Made from a black, leather-like material, the Section 31 uniform consisted of a long, black coat worn over a black mock turtleneck tunic and black trousers. (DS9: "Inquisition")
Other uniform features
Depending on their various circumstances and traditions, some Starfleet officers were allowed to augment their uniforms with the addition of cultural items.
Klingon Starfleet officer Worf wore a baldric displaying various family emblems throughout his tenure in Starfleet. (Star Trek: First Contact)
Bajoran Colonel Kira Nerys was allowed to retain her culture's traditional earring when given a field commission of commander. (DS9: "Tacking Into the Wind")
Ferengi cadet, and later officer, Nog wore a headdress traditional among his people. The headdress matched the color and texture of the shoulder material on his uniform. (DS9: "Homefront", "Favor the Bold")
Medical doctors and other scientists also adorned their Starfleet uniforms differently than other officers, wearing lab coats over their standard uniforms. (DS9: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume")
Rank insignia
Senior chief petty officer
Lieutenant junior grade
Lieutenant commander
Deputy Director
Rear admiral
Vice admiral
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Background information
The Starfleet uniforms introduced in the 2370s were designed by TNG, DS9 and VOY veteran costume design Robert Blackman, based upon William Ware Theiss's designs from The Original Series.
In an audio commentary for Star Trek: Insurrection, Jonathan Frakes revealed that he hated wearing this style of Starfleet uniform for the TNG Star Trek films.
Though these uniforms were not seen in canon until 2373, the final issue of the IDW Comics miniseries Spock: Reflections shows Picard wearing this uniform in 2372, after Spock has taken Kirk's body from Veridian III and re-interred it at the Kirk family farm in Iowa.


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