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Over at Patheos, Tim Dalrymple asked his readers to try to explain why they are voting to their candidate to that rarest of all political animals, a reflective undecided voter. Our society is so partisan and left + right so rarely really talk to each other, to say nothing of the great multitude of opinions and approaches that don't fit on that either-or paradigm. He had my attention.
I'm a bit skeptical that Americans reasoning together should limit themselves to "convince me to vote for your guy in two weeks." By the time we are this close to an election, most people, even most undecideds, are shaped enough by their past experiences and interactions that it's incredibly unlikely they will actually switch sides. I think the real political work comes from community- and relationship-building, where through my life and words I show my more conservative friends (or my more liberal, or libertarian, or whatever) why I find their approach unconvincing and how mine plays out into an ethical, eudaimonistia-filled life. And it works both ways. My friends of different political views stretch me to reconsider my own. Recently, Dwim has given me much food for thought on whether the Democrats really are the lesser of two evils in our two-party system, and Michelle has prompted me to appreciate more how the libertarian's distrust of large government can appreciate a more locally-driven approach. Granted, the latter point has pushed me more toward Jill Stein than Gary Johnson which may not have been her point. But the thing is, these conversations do have an impact. Even if I still consider myself a progressive who will most likely vote for Obama over Romney (in fact, I already did), I'm a very different type of progressive than I would be without these edifying conversations.
Anywho. Tim posed a series of questions on behalf of his undecided reader, so I thought I'd take them on.
First, from his reader: It seems like this election is focused solely on the economy and getting America back to work. Which candidate will be more effective at accomplishing this goal?
I've always been a bit skeptical of this approach because I don't think it's the government's job to control the economy. There are so many factors that control prices and jobs and all that. I do believe it is the government's job to give people, particularly the working poor and those who are looking for work but can't find it in the present economy or are disabled so they can't work, the resources necessary to meet their needs when the market doesn't do this. Part of the picture is regulating businesses so they provide a decent product at a fair price produced the right way for both the citizenship + the environment. Another part is setting conditions (taxes, trade laws, etc.) that grow the economy so there's more good stuff to go around. But that's not the same as saying you should vote for the opposition because gas prices are too high at election time.
Now on to the questions Tim asked his readers:
• Obama's approach possesses direct concern for all people. His plan seeks to provide immediate relief to people. Romney's approach provides indirect concern for all people. His plan seeks to provide eventual relief to people. Which approach is more sustainable in the long-run?
I have always been of the "teach a man to fish" approach here. If providing "indirect relief" really will help people support themselves more, I'm all for that. But we should not confuse indirect relief for abandoning the vulnerable. I believe there are dangers that poor- and middle-class people face from corporate America and the nature of life in general, that none of us can fight on our own. Take health care; it is one thing to say we should be getting people off Medicare where possible so they can make health decisions that meet their needs better than a one-size-fits-all approach. But there will always be some people without the economic resources to meet their needs, and as a member of a society that has failed to provide said resources while profiting off their labor, I feel an obligation to provide that help directly. There are also large-scale systemic problems (medical waste, lack of transparency, lack of prevention + education) that I am not in a position to address myself. So while I tend to prefer the conservative model of increased self-reliance (the historical approach, not so much the slash and burn approach I see these days), I don't think we'll ever completely erase the need for that direct action.
• Obama's approach leans more on the government to create (and sustain) jobs. Romney's approach relies on the free market to create jobs. Should the government be more (or less) involved in creating jobs?
I believe in the free market, for all I sometimes sound like a first-class pinko around here. I don't believe in the unrestricted free market, and I don't believe market/utilitarian approaches are good ones when it comes to ethics. But I think that, given a basic good distribution of wealth (which we don't have at this point, but setting that aside) the market is a good way of motivating people to help others meet their needs. Because of this, I'm skeptical of the government trying to set priorities. So I'm in favor of less government prodding when it comes to job-creation. But I'm also in favor of the government setting up conditions so businesses cannot profit from America without contributing. This involves education + training policies so there are skilled American workers, infrastructure that makes it easier to do businesses, robust tax policies that force rich Americans to help support their neighbors through welfare if the free market isn't doing it, etc.
• Obama seeks to protect people by regulating the market. Romney seeks to curtail market regulations. Market regulations protect people, but also make the market inefficient.
Market efficiency is overrated, though important. Regulations when done well keep one individual from acting selfishly. They serve a crucial counterweight against the essential moral blindness of markets. So while there's no question directly stated here, I think on the implied question –which approach do I favor– I definitely favor more regulation. At the same time, I favor being smart about those regulations to streamline them so we end up regulating the market rather than just setting up bureaucratic hoops for people to jump through. I am more supportive of enforcing the regulations we have, including with criminal prosecution where relevant, than I am in adding new regulations that will just lead to loopholes the rich will exploit.
• Romney offers a fiscal plan with (some) details that I can at least agree or disagree with. Obama does not offer much of a fiscal plan except to keep on keeping on with what we are doing. I understand that Romney's plan has flaws, but what is Obama's fiscal plan?
I wish I knew! I honestly don't on this point. (Anyone reading this want to offer some links?) But I think you're overstating the level of detail we've seen out of Romney. While he has offered broad goals like lowering taxes without driving up the deficit, he hasn't offered much explanation at all on how those broad goals will be accomplished.
• Obama seems to be unable to effectively work with Republicans. Romney seems to have been effective in working with Democrats. Romney's potential for activity seems more promising than Obama's likely inactivity.
There's another side to this. It's not that Republicans have been reasonable and Obama has simply refused to sit down to the table. On health care, on the deficit, on so many other things Obama has offered up accommodations and compromises that I personally felt went too far. Republicans have refused to compromise, even when the ideas were commonly approved of before Obama offered them as with the health insurance mandate. (Whether that's actually good policy, I'll leave for another day.) You don't get to shoot out the tires and then complain that the driver can't keep the car on the road. The fact that Romney can work with Democrats but Obama – a centrist pragmatist if ever there was one – can't work with Romney is a sign that the Democrats are being reasonable while Republicans aren't. In general, of course; there are exceptions.
• Romney offers some semblance of a plan/direction. Obama fails to provide a clear vision of where he will take us. I want to vote for Obama, but I would like him to give me something to vote for.
Again, this is a tough one. I do find Obama's lack of policy ideas frustrating and wish he'd give us more details. I do believe he has some ideas that aren't being talked about, like the Buffett rule and job training programs. But the Romney/Ryan plans are forcing him to make the more fundamental case that the public good (as opposed to each individual's private benefit) is worth fighting for. It's not like America has an accepted starting point that the government can do things to help, that we have an obligation or even an interest in doing things like saving the planet, caring for the poor, educating people as more than just corporate technicians, etc. as a people. Without that understanding, it's really hard to set up specific policies in a way that will be useful. So while I feel your pain, I think the more theoretical politicking is necessary given the fact that Americans no longer speak the same political language.
Doesn't mean it's not frustrating, of course! And those policies we have are shameful from a Christian standpoint. (I mention this because Tim's site is an evangelical one.) The focus on who's doing what's best for the middle class is hardly the metric Jesus would use. This is not surprising in American policies, but it's disappointing nonetheless.
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In Murrow's world, anything on the ground is fair game to crawl over, including his Poppa. Since I'm a fat lazy bastard (just ask my doctor) our hyperactive, newly mobile child has plenty of opportunities to use me as a speed bump in his explorations of the house.

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CO2 GRO Provides a Summary of its Participation in the GFIA Conference
TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / April 10, 2019 / Toronto based CO2GRO Inc. ("GROW") (TSX-V: GROW, OTCQB: BLONF, Frankfurt: 4021) attendance at the GFIA Global Ag Tech Conference April 1-2 in Abu Dhabi was successful and productive. GFIA stated there were over 7000 delegates from 122 countries this year. This Middle East based Conference is the largest global showcase of Sustainable Agriculture Innovation.
GROW's objectives in attending the conference were two fold.
To meet with potential Middle East and EU Agri Industrial Partners/Distributors which resulted in the following;
Aaron Archibald, COO, CO2 GRO Inc. attended the GFIA conference on behalf of GROW. Aaron's presentation on CO2 Foliar Spray was very well received. GROW had a well-attended trade booth at the conference.
GROW will take the next step with a major EU greenhouse manufacturer concerning how to work together.
To meet potential Middle East, EU and other international customers the result of which is below;
Aaron identified numerous quality revenue opportunities at the Conference. In addition, Aaron visited major indoor greenhouses that had expressed interest in the CO2 Foliar Spray technology, reviewing initial installation requirements and terms. Currently, none of these facilities can use CO2 gas due to excessive heat that has to be vented. This leaves CO2 Foliar Spray as the only logical value added CO2 gas service that can be integrated into existing spray racks.
Aaron Archibald, COO, commented "we were fully booked with one on one meetings with potential Ag customers and clients. A very clear message from the conference is the great importance the Emirates government is placing on food security and sustainability, areas where we believe GROW can make a significant contribution. The GFIA Global Ag Tech Conference was tailor made to showcase our CO2 Foliar Spray technology".
About CO2 GRO Inc.
GROW's mission is to accelerate all indoor and outdoor value plant growth naturally, safely, and economically using its patent pending CO2 Foliar Spray technology. GROW's global target retail plant markets are food at $8 trillion per year (Plunkett Mar 2017), non-food at an estimated $1.2 trillion per year with retail tobacco at $760 billion (BA Tobacco 2017), floriculture at $100 billion by 2022 (MarketResearch.Biz estimate). Legal cannabis at $52.5 billion per year by 2023 (Statista) and legal US hemp CBD at $22B per year by 2022 (the Brightfield Group).
GROW's CO2 technologies are commercially proven, scalable and easily adopted into existing irrigation systems.
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Indoor CO2 gassing has enhanced plant yields for over 60 years but 60% of the CO2 gas used is typically lost from ventilation. Current greenhouse CO2 gassing levels of up to 1500 PPM are not ideal for worker health and safety. GROW's safer infused CO2 Foliar Spray can be used by both indoor and outdoor plant growers with minimal dissolved CO2 gas lost and much greater CO2 plant bioavailability resulting in higher plant yields than both CO2 gassing and no gassing plant yields.
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We have a system here that recently had a hard drive failure. I was able to use recovery software to get most of the files off of it, but it was not able to retrieve folder names for the most part. Instead, it dumped most everything (some 200,000 files!) into one folder. This is death for the Windows file system.
Can anyone recommend a good (preferably free) program to automatically sort these files into new folders?
In this case, the files are at least already grouped by type. I was thinking to sort by either name, or creation/modified date and then name.


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During her second last year of the program, Kate was awarded the RNABC Nursing Education Bursary through RNFBC. Without the financial support Kate received from RNFBC, she would not be able to attend her final year, let alone complete it. "I would not even be able to do it", explains Kate. Thanks to support from RNFBC, Kate is now in her final year of the program and anticipates graduating from the program in the spring of 2014. When asked what receiving the bursary means to Kate, she explains "it felt like a weight off my shoulders". Kate did not always know she wanted to be a nurse. She earned a philosophy degree and then a science degree while contemplating careers as a teacher, a counselor, a social worker, and a doctor. It was not until the night before she gave birth to her son, that she decided a career path as a nurse would be her calling. "The labour and delivery nurse stayed up with me all night", Kate remembers. Five years later, Kate still thinks about that nurse and the connection she formed with her that inspired her to become a nurse. Kate believes that nursing affords her the opportunity to foster relationships with the patients in her care. "The best thing about nursing is how powerful and rewarding it is to support people when they are sick and to do the little things to make them feel so important."
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Sooooo Sprint has held my money for the iPhone 5s hostage for almost 2 weeks now. Why am I annoyed? I've seen more than ten people who've received their devices in less time FROM SPRINT! Lol! Seriously, I HATE this company right now. I haven't re-started service yet, and if canceling didn't mean that I'd have a nightmarish experience it'd be over already! I've never quite had such an experience. To top it off, I ordered the phone 12 days ago, and I got a bill 2 days ago saying that I owed them money. When they took all of the money for the phone upfront. Their Facebook page warns new customers to beware. I'm backing out while I still can. When I get this phone, I'm gonna see if I can get my money back instantly at a store so that I can be done with this company. This is absolutely horrid. Never ever again! I understand that they can only fulfill orders with what Apple gives them, but COME ON! People have ordered and received in 2 weeks or less. FOR THE SAME DEVICE!
For the Representative who will see this post and try to help: I'll warn you. You cannot help me if you cannot provide with the timeframe of the delivery my order. I am not speaking of your standard "4-8 weeks from order date" If I hear or read that again, I will scream at every Sprint employee I ever see again. Lol! I am rolling my eyes in the back of my head every time I chat with someone about this.
Totally get the rant, but I am curious (genuinely, not just to dismiss or anything!) What are you told on the phone when you call and make them escalate you to a supervisor? Of course online or with a normal phone rep you'll get nothing and nowhere, but when you get a supervisor here in the US, what do they say to you?
When I had a problem with my order, that was the only way I was able to resolve it. I got some rep from another country, who I couldn't understand and just kept trying to get me to buy one at the full upgrade price. Trying to tell me that I had attempted to upgrade for the cheap upgrade price and it failed, so I have to now buy it full price. (LOL What??) Called back several times until I got escalated to an American supervisor, and my issue was resolved inside 40 minutes (I was on the line the whole time, they were straight up and didn't transfer/place me on hold). Now the phone is on it's way, due today. It's not a 32GB Gold, just 16GB Space Gray which has the lowest wait time, but had I not done that I wouldn't even be expecting it at all at this point. If you get ahold of a supervisor (especially located here in the US) I see no reason why they couldn't give you answers if nothing else. I wouldn't expect them to give you an exact date though hopefully they could, but they should be able to explain the situation with you guys having ordered earlier and others getting them first, or what this situation is with the bills.
If you haven't already, I recommend you do the same on the phone. And if you have and had a negative result, what was it?
Well every single time I ask for the escalations department, I'm intercepted by them. They like to pretend to try and solve my problem, but essentially only say the same thing over and over again. They don't really want to put you through to anyone higher. They discouraged me with the time it will take to receive my refund. I've also read about horror refund stories. I've (of course!) ordered the 32 GB gold. Lol! You would think that because I've already paid for the phone through SPRINT that I can go and pick it up at SPRINT store, right? Wrong. Oh so wrong. I just really don't understand. So I decided to not chance not getting my money back in time enough to buy a phone before I leave the country and try to wait until the 2 week mark. If I have no tracking number at the least, I'm done.
I'm going to try the supervisor route. I just feel like they can definitely just give us more information about where we are in the cue, or a smaller window of time for the ETA of our devices. You know? It's their warehouse for Pete's sake. I'm sure it has a phone. They ARE a cellular company, after all. It just feels like they're picking and choosing who gets what first. In the stores, phones are only for brand new customers. I'm wondering if that's what's happening. I ordered on the 31st. So I have an 8 week wait. It seems like the people whom they've given that time frame to are the ones who will suffer while the other people get them sooner as promised. It just seems so unfair. If the refund was instant, I'd cancel and pick one up in silver. Lol! I don't even think I like the gold anymore. Isn't that a shame? Lol!
I like to see your post. You give very useful information. Thank you for that.
I understand completely, and it's confusing for sure! I don't understand why you can't just get one in the store either, that is a bit ridiculous. They should have no problem pulling up your account and saying "Oh, yes it shows here you already paid, so let me cancel that order and just give you one of these phones". I know that's NOT how it works, but I don't understand why, like you. Seems simple enough to me! Also, the refund deal... Do NOT let that scare you. They are right, it can take a period of time before it goes back in. something like 7-10 business days. But if it fails to do so in that time, you won't be stuck in a limbo of "where's my money". At that point, you drop Sprint, and go to your bank or credit card company immediately and resolve it through them as an unauthorized charge. At that point you had agreed to a phone. It didn't come. Then you agreed to accept the window (7-10 days or whatever it is) and that has passed, and once it passes, it then becomes an unauthorized charge and they cannot hold your money up any longer. You will not under any circumstance lose your money unless you don't realize that's an option
As far as calling... Some advice. It took me a LONG time to get someone useful. Again, shouldn't be that way, but it is. So I'd just calm yourself, know it's going to be a bit of a struggle, and plan at least an hour or two block to handle this. Call, and ask for a supervisor, and tell them you want to speak to someone in the United States, as you need someone local to handle this. Don't accept a no, or let them do the circle jerk of trying to "help you". Politely tell them you've been this route a dozen times, you're not interested, you need a supervisor here. If they keep playing, hang up, and call back. Do it as much as is necessary. Took me like 6 times.
When you do get someone at that level, calmly and as politely as possible explain to them the situation. Tell them you have been jerked around this far, and you would like if they keep you on the line as you work through this. I so very much wish anytime I had a problem I could directly reach the woman I dealt with, she was amazing. I'd go into it expecting they can't rush it or give you an exact date. Just so you don't get disappointed. But there is NO reason they can't explain the queue issue with fresher orders for the SAME model going out first. Maybe something is wrong in the system with your particular order and they don't even realize it. Maybe there's some other reason altogether. And if in the end you want to cancel, they should have no problem doing that. And again, don't be scared by the "possible" long wait time. Usually it's a few business days, not even 7. And if it's more than 7-10, deal directly with your bank or card company and let them handle it. Also ask about the billing thing and don't let them go until you FULLY understand what is happening there with the bill for the cost of the phone again. Sprint is different than other providers with how they do billing and sometimes it can be confusing, and sometimes they completely screw up like anyone, and need to fix it.
Biggest points - Plan at least a couple hours. Hang up and call back as much as necessary, don't get into the circle of "let me help you". Stay calm. It's reasonable to be upset, but keep in mind they are dealing with pissed off people all the time. A calm voice and understanding attitude even if you're faking it, calms them and makes them more willing to help you. In my case I even got the sense that she was doing extra work and trying to maintain the call because it was probably a rare point in that day with all the confusion that she wasn't being yelled at or talked to like she just stole a million dollars from someone. Even if that's how you feel, try to not show it. It gets you further, believe me. Please, thank you, yes sir/ma'am, I appreciate it, no problem, the whole nine yards It may well be that whoever you get doesn't have an answer to a certain question. Rather than getting furious and handling it in such a way, be calm still. Be like "I understand, but is there any way PLEASE that we can try to find someone that does? You guys have my money and I want to be your customer but I need to know what's going on or I have to cancel".
It's frustrating. It always is when we order the latest phone or device from such an "in demand" company like Apple. Especially through a third party. But when you finally have it in your hands you won't even remember
Thank you for all of that. I do, in fact, speak to the representatives with the utmost respect and consideration. I know that they can only do and tell us what they've been instructed to. I make sure to let them know that I understand that, but I'm having a hard time not knowing when I will receive my phone and ask if there's any way that anyone can decipher when I could even POSSIBLY expect it. I was getting the 4 week expected day at first, then it turned to 8 weeks. I was like, "Oh yeah, soooo great!" The only things I haven't been able to do is 1) get through to a supervisor 2) speak to someone whose first language is English. I have nothing against the other people, but I can't understand them a lot of times. So I'm going to prepare myself for this and give it a go. I'm just tired of chatting and all of that. Whenever I check my order, and then chat, the person's name is always either "Angie" or "Brandon". Lol! Thank you so much for all of your help. You're really a great person.
Oh I wasn't trying to say you've been rude at all! But some people who may come later, may not realize it It just always gets us further even if we are completely enraged and furious. I'm sure you've been completely polite!!
But I would really just set aside time and ask specifically from the start for an American supervisor. If they play, just say "Are you trying to tell me you won't forward me to an American Supervisor?" and if they say no or keep playing, just hang up and call back It is extremely annoying but it's just what we have to do these days it seems with any company, they all send work overseas like that. Oh right, it's just a matter of understanding. Half the time it wasn't even that I didn't understand them, it seemed they were the ones not understanding what I was saying to them, lol.
Yeah, online seems automated or near it, I wouldn't even bother with chat. The forum staff are helpful when you get them, but they don't seem to often respond to threads much, and even if they do, you really need a supervisor here.
You're welcome! thanks! You too!
Edit: And boom, you got a staff member here to reply Hope they can help you!
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Thanks for posting. Please private message me with your Sprint number and pin and we will see what can be done to assist you.
Andrew B.
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Girl please, there are people who have been waiting six weeks plus. Be grateful you ordered your phone later and will get it in less than four weeks.
I am trying to be patient. Have you not seen in other posts where people have been quoted time frames and they've been exceeded? Fear that I will meet that same fate is what brought on my rant. I found some very helpful answers here, unlike yours. There's no need to disregard how I'm feeling just because you THINK I will receive my phone faster than the aforementioned early orderers. I appreciate the opportunity to come here and get some positive feedback. EnBlaHimmel is an example of one of the people that can be depended on for that. You saw the title of the link and decided to click on it and just be rude. Next time, just pass it up. K? Thanks.
Again I say girl please. There was nothing rude in my post. You are ranting and raving because you didn't get your pone in two weeks flag. Did YOU not see the countless posts of people you have had to wait six plus weeks? Again I say you should be grateful. Sprint has been shopping newer order ls first which you would have also seen if you had read. Until you wait 4+ weeks, you really can't say anything. Especially if you ordered a gold. And calling them is not going to do anything to speed up your order. Sorry, not sorry.
Sorry, but that's incorrect. Calling can help immensely. It did in my case. Online status is often extremely delayed or flat out wrong. Chat is automated, and useless. Forum posts from staff can be helpful, but are exceedingly rare and for something like this usually end up resulting in telling you that you have to call. When you call, if you do it right, don't act like an idiot, and get to a supervisor, it can indeed help speed things up or correct problems, or at the very least get answers to questions.
In my particular case it was the difference between getting the order or not getting it at all, as online showed it to be fine (as did chat, and one of the low level phone reps) and just be a matter of waiting, and it wasn't.
Never listen to people that make calling (and taking the time to get a high level rep) seem useless. Ever. They've got exactly NO idea what they are talking about.
I know this to be true. I've chosen to not respond to the other poster anymore. I spoke with someone who gave me some clarity on the situation. I do know that a lot of people got tracking numbers yesterday, and the latest date that I saw was the 28th. I ordered on the 31st. They must have run out of stock or something, so I guess I'll get mine with the next shipment. Who knows. Thanks for all of the encouraging words. Sprint called ME this morning to clear up an issue that I was having! I was like "Hey!" Lol!
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In most cases, websites that block users due so based on their location. Whenever a television show, music video, or movie is released by an entertainment company, it is done so in specific countries. A country that has not licensed the material, forbids the material, or simply has no connection to the material may not have permission to stream and view the content live. If you are living in a country that blocks various types of media due to location, using a VPN can eliminate any geo-restrictions you encounter when you are online.
When you want to bypass geo-restrictions that have been put in place by your ISP (Internet Service Provider) or even by your location, use a solid VPN, for example, FrootVPN (click to read more). Once you have a VPN in place, you have the ability to choose where your location originates from as well as your IP. Rather than showing your personal IP address and location to websites, mobile apps, and services you attempt to access, choose the location and region of your choice to help with bypassing the geo-restrictions you encounter on your preferred platforms or streaming sites.
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Hike: 2 mile loop Level: Easy
Dog-Friendly: Yes Kid-Friendly: Yes
History: Poway's transportation history parallels that of early California. In 1888 the first stagecoach began to service the towns from San Diego to Escondido, including Poway. The stage made one stop in town, at the Poway Post Office, and also delivered mail to the farmers who would wait along the road for its arrival.
Eight to ten passengers could accompany the stagecoach on its three-day journey for a modest $1.00 fee, or purchase a round trip for the bargain price of $1.50. The route itself, though not treacherous when passing through Poway, did pose a significant challenge to the team and driver at various points. Windy mountain trails often caused the stage to turn over, spilling both mail and passengers onto the rocky turf. The city of San Diego discontinued the stage line in 1912, when the advent of the automobile facilitated an easier and less time-consuming method of mail delivery. The road station remained in operation until 1961, when Poway achieved an 80% paved road rate. Portions of what is currently Pomerado Road were once US Route 395 in California.
Most of these photos were taken in the springtime when everything was in bloom. Keep in mind that depending on what time of the year you explore here, it can be either green and colorful or rather bland with a lot of dead plants. If you are hiking for photography and bright scenery, go in the spring!
Personal Experience: Old Pomerado Rd. has so much historical background that it is nice enough to possibly visit just for the history alone. Sadly there is not much that remains today to back up its past. If you head west of the road into the woods though, there is a whole world back there for exploring complete with a secret lake! To the left of Old Pomerado Rd. on Stage Stop Dr. are some old ruins worth investigating, but please view from the road as this is a residence. Stage Stop Dr. used to be one of the stops for the stage coaches to refill. At the end of the road are some old historical buildings and a well but I've been told this is all on the owner's property and he is not okay with visitors so please stay off!
Directions: Start at Bette Bendixen park. Look for the bridge. Walk over the bridge and then head to your left. You will see a trail:
There are wild, climbing roses along part of the hike:Keep taking the trail. You start off along the back of houses. Eventually you will come upon Rabbit pond:
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2nd prize Golden Globe 2014 Peer Review Maeslant Barrier
The Golden Globe is an annual award for colleagues of Rijkswaterstaat who best use international opportunities. The team of the Peer Review Maeslant Barrier received their prize from the hands of Director General Jan Hendrik Dronkers during the International Network Day Rijkswaterstaat in Rotterdam. The team was represented by Marc Walraven, Babette Lassing, Arjan Verhaar and Tycho Busnach, but the honour obviously extends to the whole team.
Knowledge from abroadInternational Peer Review Maeslant Barrier was awarded the 2nd prize for the clever way they brought in knowledge from abroad. Knowledge of storm surge barriers is highly specialized. In June 2014 this team invited barrier managers from all over the world to perform a review to improve the maintenance and management of the Maeslant Barrier.
HighlightsThe DG highlighted in his opening speech some of the events that occurred last year, like the crisis operation after the December storms in the UK, the involvement in the NSS-summit and the reinforced position of Rijkswaterstaat in Brussels. Looking ahead he sees 2015 especially as the year in which the Netherlands will prepare for the Netherlands chairing the European Union in 2016. Again a big challenge.
This 14 minute video will give an idea how the Peer Review is carried out
This 14-minute long movie shows the process of a Peer Review. The film was created during the Peer Review at the Maeslant Barrier in June 2014.
A Peer Review is a powerful instrument. It is a review by colleagues of the organisation, processes and technology in order to advise a manager in improving its management and maintenance.
It is undertaken by a dedicated team of professionals from management and maintenance organisations around the world to examine the daily operation. The result is a frank, but confidential report containing strengths and areas for improvement.
The objective of the Peer Review is to promote the highest level of excellence in the operation, maintenance and support of operating storm surge barriers. Peers will use primary, or first-hand, observations of the asset, of maintenance and operation activities and of barrier management as a whole as the basis for the review. Underlying, but important, objectives of the Peer Review are getting to know other managers, exchanging views and experience on different aspects of management and identifying best practices.
Within I-STORM 4 Peer Reviews have been carried out for Storm Surge Barriers: Thames (2010), Eastern Scheldt (2011), Ramspol (2012) and Maeslant Barrier (2014).
Special foreign guestsThe Network Day was attended by some 200 people form Rijkswaterstaat and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment. It was a special edition due to the attendance of two special foreign guest: Steve Phillips, the secretary general of CEDR, the Conference of European Directors of Roads, and Pete Fox, the director of Strategy and Investment of the British Environment Agency. They travelled to Rotterdam to give in their keynote speech their vision on 'dry' and 'wet' European developments.
They shared their vision on Europe specifically naming the power of collaboration with Rijkswaterstaat. Working together in Europa pays off and brings much more than trying to solve everything on your own. Pete Fox talked about the wettest winter starting with the December storm and going on until February this year. After Prime Minister David Cameron asked Brussels for help the Dutch were brought in to help and advise in the Somerset region. In this period the Thames Barrier closed 50 times, a quarter of all closures in it's lifetime of 30 years. Pete mentioned Andy Batchelor, the barrier manager and with Marc Walraven one of the founding fathers of I-STORM. He proudly acknowledged that a part of the 2nd prize of the Golden Globe was Andy's.


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Fallout 4 VR is huge, technically impressive, and gimmicky
S.P.E.C.I.A.L. edition
Fallout 4 VR is almost exactly what the phrase 'Fallout 4 VR' implies. Which is to say, the entirety of Fallout 4 rendered in giant-scale gogglevision. It's funny – for some time there was this expectation that VR needed a full-fat mainstream game to truly get its wings, but now that's finally happened, it just feels like the most normal thing in the world.
Fallout 4 VR is a significant technical achievement, but I'm not talking about the underlying, pratfall-prone Creation Engine there. I'm talking about the fact that this is entirety of Fallout 4 (review) from a new perspective, a whole wasteland to bodily traverse, with motion-controlled shooting (or physical punching), a Pipboy interface that activates by raising your wrist and the option for full, pad-style analogue movement.
There's something almost casual about the whole shebang – it's just there, the entire game, and it just works, NBD. Even though it was almost certainly an enormous deal to get a game of this relative size and complexity working in virtual reality.
At the same time, it's hard to shake a feeling that I'm playing the world's most expensive gimmick. It's Fallout 4, but more awkward and cumbersome to play! Hooray? Sure, it's nice, I guess, to watch the world burn at life-size proportions, splatting radroaches into the ground offers a certain amount of catharsis and the whole raise arm to boggle at Pipboy thing makes me wish we had something quite that joyfully ridiculous instead of smartphones.
But, when I move from F4VR to F4, I breathe a sigh of relief. Though F4VR does offer an almost-full suite of controls and options thereof – i.e. it isn't mandatory to use the hobbled likes of teleport-based movement – the combination of trailing headcables, Wii-esque controllers and limited buttons and bodily movement does make it a bit of a pain in the bum. There's always something hindering the straightforward act of going over there and doing the thing.
To fire it up for an hour or two nosing curiously around a familiar (and, for some, beloved) scorched earth is one thing, but it's very hard to imagine all but the staunchest VR preacher 'finishing' Fallout 4 in this form. Once the initial awe – already somewhat minimal if you're a long-term goggle-jockey – has worn off, it's just a bit of a faff, really. More involved interface stuff like crafting threatened to make me gnaw my own virtual hands off.
This being Fallout 4 rather than a new Fallout made from the ground up in VR, a lot of the interactions are essentially menu-based rather than physical. You don't reach out to slap a door open button, for instance, but raise your wand and click a text option to do it. In other words, you're regularly checking your own actions, going against the psychical intuition that a VR world encourages. All told, I never felt at home with the controls, and wished I could just play it on a gamepad instead – or could just sit with a mouse and keyboard, in front of a nice, crisp monitor.
Speaking of how it looks – well, it's Fallout 4 in VR. In other words, outside of 3D wraparound-o-vision, it looks like Fallout 4 but lower-resolution. There was some initial hoo-ha about it looking extremely blurry for many players, which I was lucky enough to not suffer from, but in any case there is now a fix. It's definitely decent as VR games go, without too much very obvious hobbling, but for me, it was the intrinsic limitations of both VR and Fallout 4 that kept it from looking truly jaw-dropping.
Inherently fuzzy, weird Harryhausen animations, dodgy textures and plasticine people here and there – again, exactly what I expected Fallout 4 in VR to look like. In other words, not really dramatic enough to make me want to play the game in this way, hampered by the busywork of controls, instead of the sharper and more fluid desktop version. I'll also note that the element of slapstick involved in a VR version of Fallout 4 only throws into sharper relief quite how dumb it is compared to Fallouts past (including 3) – i.e. this is almost exclusively an RPG about killing things. But maybe that's more appropriate for the slap-happy world of virtual reality anyway.
Much more positively, I found that the full movement controls didn't incite the expected sea-sickness. It uses a binocular effect when you move, in order to mitigate the brain-breaking effect of character movement and flesh movement not being in sync, and this both saved my lunch and looked surprisingly non-disruptive in practice. If you have an iron constitution, you can turn this effect off completely, or if you have a hair-trigger stomach, you can use the teleport-based controls that are less natural but avoid the lurching effect. They've really done the work in this regard, and it's turned out well.
All told, this is an impressively seamless transition from screen to gogs, and belated proof that there are most certainly not impassable roadblocks to getting big-boy games running well on a facebox. Whether it's actually worth it at this point in the technology's lifecycle is another matter entirely. It's grand to see The Commonwealth at this sort of scale, and I did have a greater appreciation of just how much have Bethesda built when I saw it from this all-encompassing perspective, but when I think of playing dozens of hours of Fallout 4 this way, I only feel tired.
Fallout 4 VR is out now, via Steam, supporting HTC Vive only (though it can be made to work on Rift).


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Jury selection is the procedure whereby persons from the community are called to court, questioned by the litigants as to their qualifications to serve as a juror and then either selected to or rejected to serve as a juror.
In Washington, either the defendant or the plaintiff may demand a jury to try the action that shall be composed of six good and lawful persons having the qualifications of jurors in the superior court of the same county, unless the parties shall agree upon a lesser number. When the jury has been selected, an oath or affirmation shall be administered to the jurors, in substance that they will well and truly try the matter and give a true verdict according to the law and evidence as given to them on the trial.[i]
When the action is called for trial, a panel of potential jurors shall be selected at random from the citizens summoned for jury service who have appeared and have not been excused. A voir dire examination of the panel shall be conducted for the purpose of discovering any basis for challenge for cause and to permit the intelligent exercise of peremptory challenges. Any necessary additions to the panel shall be selected at random from the list of qualified jurors. The jury shall consist of six persons, unless the parties demand that the jury be twelve in number or consent to a less number. The parties may consent to a jury less than six in number but not less than three and such consent shall be entered in the record.[ii]
The plaintiff and defendant challenges alternately until the peremptory challenges shall be exhausted. During this alternating process, if one of the parties declines to exercise a peremptory challenge, then that party may no longer peremptorily challenge any of the jurors in the group and may only peremptorily challenge any jurors later added to that group. A refusal to challenge by either party in the said order of alternation shall not prevent the adverse party from using the full number of challenges.[iii]
[i] Rev. Code Wash. (ARCW) § 4.44.260
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DescriptionThe Gelkis think our centaur mother, Theradras, protects us. They are stupid. No one protects the centaur. The Magram do not need protection! We are the strongest!
Show the Gelkis they are stupid. Go to the cave in their village. They hoard crystals in that cave, the tears of Theradras. Destroy the tears and bring me the broken pieces!
If you are not our enemy, then you will do what I ask!
You got the tears! Now the Gelkis will know that Theradras will not help them. She will not cry when we crush them! The Magram will rule!
You are smart to help us, <name>. We are the strongest.
You are smart to help us, <name>. We are the strongest.
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Job Prospects for Philosophy Majors: Perception and Reality
The number of philosophy majors in the U.S. is down 35% since its recent peak in 2007, and today, philosophy majors make up only around 0.137% of the student population.
These figures, based on data from Humanities Indicators, are among those discussed in a recent article in The Atlantic by Benjamin Schmidt, assistant professor of history at Northeastern University.
Over the past decade there has been a significant decline in the numbers of all humanities majors, as the following graph depicts.
And while the longer view (in the graph below) shows that the numbers in philosophy are less volatile than in some of the other humanities disciplines, there is the possibility that the recent steeper decline can be informative for those interested in the long term prospects of philosophy offerings in U.S. colleges and universities.
Professor Schmidt thinks that the culprit is not a general sudden decline in people being interested in the humanities, nor is it politics ("Do you think students are put off by liberal pieties in the classroom? It's difficult to square that argument with the two decades of stability that followed the beginning of the culture wars in the late 1980s").
Rather, he says: "In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, students seem to have shifted their view of what they should be studying—in a largely misguided effort to enhance their chances on the job market… Students fled the humanities after the financial crisis because they became more fearful of the job market."
The students are misinformed, he argues. The "actual career prospects of humanities majors" don't do the explanatory work:
Evidence does indicate that humanities majors are probably slightly worse off than average—maybe as much as one more point of unemployment and $5,000 to $10,000 a year in income. Finance and computer-science majors make more; biology and business majors make about the same. But most of the differences are slight—well within the margins of error of the surveys. One analysis actually found that humanities majors under the age of 35 are actually less likely to be unemployed than life-science or social-science majors. Other factors, like gender, matter more: Men with terminal humanities B.A.'s make more money than women in any field but engineering. Being the type of person inclined to view a college major in terms of return on investment will probably make a much bigger difference in your earnings than the actual major does.
In other areas of the economy, we view these kinds of differences with equanimity. The difference between humanities majors and science majors, in median income and unemployment, seems to be no more than the difference between residents of Virginia and North Carolina. If someone told to me not to move to Charlotte because no one there can make a living, I would never take them seriously. But worried relatives express the same concerns about classics majors every day, with no sounder evidence.
This suggests that efforts by philosophers, philosophy departments, and organizations such as the American Philosophical Association to provide more information about the employment prospects of philosophy majors could be an effective part of a strategy for increasing the number of students studying philosophy—especially since philosophy majors seem to do pretty well compared to other humanities majors.


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Dress for Success (September 15, 2018)
Consider that an interview or networking opportunity is actually an audition. So shouldn't you dress to impress? Whether on the catwalk or in an office, you are a brand. Your clothing is your packaging.
The benefits of having a professional, polished appearance can't be overestimated. The million dollar question is, what does your image project? When there's only one role to be won, you need to step up your game.
We are especially pleased to welcome Senior Managing Partner & Personal Stylist at J. Hilburn Men's Clothier, Vicki Corrodi as our special guest presenter. Join us to learn how to combine your passion, experience, and expertise into the perfect recipe for success!
- Saturday, September 15, 2018 – Monthly Meeting
- 8:30am
- FREE! All are welcome.
- Expert presenters cover a new job search / career management topic each month.
- Address: St. Gregory the Great Church Community Parish Center (rear of the parking lot), 4620 Nottingham Way, Hamilton Square, New Jersey, 08690. Directions
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- December 15
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For 10+ years, the Career Support Group has been an active support group where job seekers and jobholders connect to move forward in their careers and where participants are willing and committed to providing help to one another in the job search process. We meet on the third Saturday of the month at 8:30am at St. Gregory the Great Church , 4620 Nottingham Way, Hamilton Square, NJ, 08690 (directions). Meetings begin at 8:30, are FREE to attend, open to all, non-denominational. Each month a new job search or career management topic is presented by a career expert that is geared towards professionals. Ideal for those seeking to manage and advance in their career, job seekers, recent graduates, those re-entering the job force, and those wanting to stay abreast of current employment / career trends. www.careersupportgroup.org
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NATO is ready to send troops to Turkey to defend its ally against threats on its southern flank, the head of the U.S.-led alliance said on Oct. 8 after violations of Turkish airspace by Russia jets conducting air strikes in Syria.
"NATO is ready and able to defend all allies, including Turkey against any threats," Jens Stoltenberg told reporters before a meeting of NATO defence ministers in Brussels that will be dominated by the Syria crisis.
"NATO has already responded by increasing our capacity, our ability, our preparedness to deploy forces including to the south, including in Turkey," he said, noting that Russia's air and cruise missile strikes were "reasons for concern".
He also said no decision had been taken on NATO troop levels in Afghanistan.


text: Though regarded as one of the most perceptive Chopin interpreters of his generation, Benno Moiseiwitsch, was somewhat choosy in the works that he included in his repertoire. Born in Russia in 1890, winner of the prestigious Anton Rubinstein prize at the age of nine, he was eighteen when he made his UK debut. It was a country he made his home in his later life, and with a dearth of pianist talent in his adopted home, he became regarded as the country's finest virtuoso. It was at London's Abbey Road Studio, between 1939 and 1952, that he made the recordings in this third volume of his Chopin discs. Unlike many other celebrated Chopin pianists, of which Cortot was the best known, Moiseiwitsch took a quite literal view, particularly in questions of dynamics, his only substantial deviation coming in a slowing at the end of decorative filigree passages. The major part of the disc is given to three Scherzi. These are outstanding, the mercurial pages dispatched with considerable brio and good humour, and I love the skittish approach to the First. Ever present is the element of drama, and when Chopin introduces outgoing virtuosity Moiseiwitsch never disappoints. He takes risks, and they are not note perfect, but it matters little, for they stand by the side of any other outstanding version in the catalogue. Recorded in 1949, the sound was good for its time, the lower octaves ideally caught.The disc opens with two versions of the Barcarolle in F sharp, one rejected and one authorised for issue, though without detailed scrutiny they seem much the same. The Nocturnes are rather plain, the second with a lumpy left hand, but I do like the sprightly ninth Polonaise. As an encore we have the Scherzo from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream.


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I have a student group that would like to show participants a big screen full of words, and then have the participant click on words to choose them. The words would be highlighted as they are chosen, and then MediaLab would record the words that were chosen.
Any guess on how to attempt this? If this can't be done, can you think of something similar -- another way for participants to view a big list of words and then choose some of them as their answer? Thanks!


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It's nearly Easter, which in my house means it's nearly time to eat an even more ridiculous amount of chocolate than usual, and spend some quality time with family over a long lazy weekend. I've been stocking up on some bits and bobs (mainly chocolate, I won't lie) from my local Homesense to use this Easter weekend. Here's a peek at what I picked up!
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate how freaking cute these chicks are? I bought them for no other reason than THEY HAVE CROWNS! Sparkly, sassy crowns. I don't actually know what I'm going to do with these or where I'm going to put them, but I just couldn't leave them on the shelf.
Since I'm a self confessed chocoholic, I couldn't wait until Easter for my chocolate egg fix, so I picked up some mini ones to tide me over until then. This little egg box full of foiled wrapped chocolate goodness was only a few pounds and needless to say, it did the job as our main Easter eggs are still in one piece!
Speaking of which, for Dan and I, I got these Monty Bojangles eggs that have the most amazing sounding flavours. I've actually spotted these in the likes of Waitrose for around £7.00, but these were a steal at around £4.00 each. I can't wait to tuck in to these on Easter Sunday! How gorgeous is the packaging?
Finally I got this adorable little mug complete with a bunny rabbit design, perfect for cups of tea in bed for a lazy weekend, and a huge bag of bunny marshmallows which have already all hopped away (ahem…)!
Thanks to Homesense for letting me pick out some goodies from the Easter range. If you're looking to get some Easter gifts with a difference, or just treat yourself to some sweet treats, I'd recommend taking a look in your local Homesense store!
What will you be doing this Easter weekend?
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NEP Selects V-Station®HD Studio4 For Use On CBS TV Show "The Talk"
Multi-Channel line-cut proxy recording of network TV show.
FutureVideo V-Station HD Studio4 Multi-Channel DVR System.
Broadcast engineering services behemoth NEP provides the production services for the television show "The Talk" airing daily on CBS. It's shot in a sound stage on the CBS lot in Studio City, California (once the home of Republic Pictures).
The Workflow Bottleneck
As one of his daily tasks, NEP engineer Jason Celek burned and distributed low-resolution SD copies of show episodes on DVD to various production and network departments. He sought a way to replace the inefficient optical-based system with an advanced yet affordable file-based proxy HD recording solution.
V-Station HD Solution
Celek's evaluation of FutureVideo's V-Station HD Multi-Channel/Multi-Stream DVR Systems convinced him the Studio4 model would meet his needs and provide additional capabilities that would be quite useful.
With NEP's newly acquired V-Station HD Studio4 system installed, Celek gained the ability to simultaneously record up to 4 video feeds, but uses 3 in the application at this time. He assigned Channel 1 to record the line-cut with a window-burn of LTC. Channel 2 records the same feed without the time code burn. Channel 3 was set to record the same "line-cut" signal at a low 6Mb/sec rate (for reduced file size) which is then shunted off to the network as the show's "return feed."
Though V-Station HD can record full 1080p 60fps HD at high bit rates, Celek opted to use its lower resolution and lower bit rate settings to make the proxies. These became immediately distributeable, without format conversion, thanks to V-Station HD's H.264 MP4 file-based recording technology and its FTP site uploader. Studio4's Project & Media Asset Management software enabled the entire process to be efficiently controlled and for desired content to be easily located.
The Bottom Line
NEP's V-Station HD Studio4 system enabled them to save time and reduce workflow steps, while speeding up access to the show's content. Plus, Studio4 provided them with a cost-effective way to record 4-cam HD rehearsals, which the show's Producers can access at will through DropBox.
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SouthWest Dealer Services Achieves Dramatic Video Training Productivity Boost With V-Station®HD
Multi-Camera/multi-Room training.
V-Station HD Studio Multi-Channel Production DVR System, 4 x Canon camcorders, Video Projector
Irvine, California-based SouthWest Dealer Services conducts specialized courses for retail automotive industry sales people. Role playing, an integral part of the week-long course, is captured on multiple video cameras in different training rooms. Upon completion, the students are each provided with a video of their course activity–including their individual practice sessions and critiques.
The Workflow Bottleneck
SouthWest needed a way to improve training results and overcome inefficiencies in their course-produced videos. Workflow was clearly a problem. A V-Station HD Studio Multi-Channel DVR System proved it could satisfy both needs. A test run convincingly demonstrated how unnecessarily convoluted their existing workflow of capturing, editing, and converting video truly was. Until then, Training Manager Peter Velau had been burning the footage taken from each of the 4 camcorders onto DVDs, then from the DVDs to a Window's PC editing system (Microsoft Movie Maker and Roxio, each for different purposes), then converted the video back to DVD format, and finally burned the edited version onto a new DVD. He would then mail the DVD to the student. All this took about two days of Velau's time and he was overdue for a more efficient solution.
The V-Station HD Solution
According to Peter, "We developed a top-notch training curriculum. But, I had to find a better way of handling the video observation & analysis aspect. It was tedious! V-Station HD seemed to provide the capabilities and features I sought–in one system. Once our V-Station HD Studio system was operational, I was amazed at how much time I saved. Now, I'm able to edit and process student performance during session breaks. When the course concludes, I'm able to place a USB thumb drive with the V-Station HD-produced content in the students' hands as they exit our facility. We then send duplicates to our field support team to guide them with student follow-up."
SouthWest Dealer Services Training Facility
The Bottom Line
With V-Station HD Studio, Southwest Dealers Services was able to radically simplify their workflow. Tasks that had taken days now take hours. Plus, the finished video content is immediately available to their students.
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USC Selects V-Station®HD Pro4 Plus For Facebook Live Event
Multi-Cam recording and Facebook live streaming of presentation.
FutureVideo V-Station HD Pro4 Plus Multi-Channel Production DVR System (HDMI), Teradek VidiU broadcast streamer
USC's Viterbi School of Engineering planned to shoot their largest on-campus event—"Discover USC!"—with multiple camera angles and broadcast the production to Facebook Live.
The Workflow Bottleneck
USC needed a way to enable those not in the auditorium to instant message questions to Undergraduate Admissions Director Paul Ledesma through Facebook. With support from Louise Yates, Sr. Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Affairs at USC Viterbi, Producer Daniel Druhora took up the challenge. Druhora was confident FutureVideo's V-Station HD Pro4 Plus Multi-Channel DVR System, combined with a Teradek VidiU broadcast streaming device, would accomplish the task.
The V-Station HD Solution
"V-Station HD made it possible to broadcast 4-channels simultaneously, including channels dedicated to sound and the presenter's deck," said Druhora. "Bringing all those elements together with the power to broadcast HD wirelessly was the magic formula."
Daniel Druhora operating the V-Station HD Pro4 Plus while monitoring the live stream on Facebook Live with his smart phone
With students Victoria Stein and Tiana Lowe on the Blackmagic pocket cinema, the Canon 7D, and the Canon Vixia; and Simone Attenni as audio engineer, Druhora directed the 90-minute production from the V-Station HD multi-view control panel.
The V-Station HD's built-in multi-cam switcher provided Druhora with the artistic freedom to direct the event by switching between camera angles during the live presentation. In addition, V-Station HD created a "line-cut" recording that later was uploaded to a ftp site immediately after wrapping. All the camera angles were recorded synchronously—giving Druhora the option of re-creating the shoot and re-editing the camera angles in his NLE software.
The Bottom Line
"Getting personalized attention from Team FutureVideo made all the difference," said Druhora.
V-Station HD Pro series models now feature built-in live line-cut streaming; V-Station HD Studio series models now feature built-in live multiple streaming and live line-cut streaming. Costly external streaming devices are unnecessary. Learn more: VS-HD Multi-Streaming Tech Brief.
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City of Chino Hills Selects V-Station®HD Systems To Record Community Events
Multi-camera recording of City Council proceedings and community events for upload to the city's website.
FutureVideo V-Station HD Studio Multi-Channel DVR System (HDMI), FutureVideo V-Station HD Field Multi-Channel DVR System (HDMI).
The City of Chino Hills is a young, progressive community located in south-eastern Orange County, California.
The Workflow Bottleneck
Community Relations Manager Valerie McClung and Video Production Manager Robert Wells, needed an efficient means to do multi-camera recording of City Council sessions, interviews, and community events. Their single-cam capability was mostly limited to recording City Council sessions. They envisioned one system being hard-wired into the city's new Community Events Center building. The other would be deployed in City Council chambers as needed and stored when not.
The V-Station HD Solution
McClung and Wells discovered V-Station HD while attending a Technology Showcase event put on by one of FutureVideo's local pro video resellers. FutureVideo had been asked to conduct a presentation about multi-cam video production at the event and had a demo V-Station HD Studio System on hand to provide immersion into V-Station HD's technology. It quickly became apparent to them that both V-Station HD systems' capacity to quickly upload a production to the city's website was a very important plus. After putting an evaluation system through its paces, the City of Chino Hills authorized the purchases.
Robert Wells operating V-Station HD Studio during an interview in the City Council chamber.
The Bottom Line
V-Station HD Studio & Field Systems provided the range of event recording capabilities the city needed configured around V-Station HD technology.