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i'm off to attack the grass now, have a great day!
we went out for a birthday dinner at ninja sushi. i love that place.
my sweet nephew is 1 year and 7 months old now. the cutie-pie.
we went out to dinner with jeff's old roommate and it went surprisingly well.
anyways, since i did nothing of crafty noteworthy-ness yet this week i decided to start a detailed look at some of my studio organization, i'll try and feature a post in this series once a week. (until i run out of stuff to show - it is a little room that i'm now sharing with my husband!) today i'm sharing my alex drawer unit from ikea. i can't begin to accurately describe how much i love this thing. i wish i had room in my studio for 4 more of them. love it.
it's to my right and behind me as i sit/stand at my desk; i can easily reach it which means that my cameo is always within reach which means that it actually gets used!
the next drawer has all of the ink that i still want to own but don't need every day. my papertrey ink, um, ink and my ink essentials are on my desk in my harbor freight spinner and my distress ink is mounted on the wall to my left. this drawer has my adirondack inks, my jenni bowlin inks, my distress stains, and my chalk inks.
the next drawer down holds my border punches, which i use less and less with my cameo and my papertrey ink dies so handy!
and the last drawer holds my papertrey ink ribbon. sigh. ain't it purty?! i keep my ribbon spools in this drawer organizer from target. i love them.
i used my martha stewart fringe scissors to make the grass after i stamped it, and then i took my regular scissors to the grass like a mad scientist hair stylist, to give it some grass-y character. green confetti now covers my studio.
so i'll be back tomorrow with a real post.
i used papertrey ink dies and stamps with some baker's twine and studio calico mist splatter and i love how it turned out!
I crabbed, fished a teensy bit (as in i just reeled in a line for my aunt, i wasn't particularly interested in fishing on my own!), scrapbooked (and caught up with my Project Life album!), read, tanned, went out in the boat, played games with my family, and ate. alot. my aunt did all of the cooking and it was lovely to be spoiled all week.
i used the border stamp from the SC mama's porch add on as a template to stitch. kind of love it and i'm sure i'll be doing it again.
sorry about the rock star flipping the bird.
that really is the best sticky bun ever. the top is pure southern pralines. it's delicious.
jeff and i dragged out the tripod to the beach a few weekends ago for this shot. i'm so glad he puts up with me.
we saw the new spider-man movie. which was awesome.
i painted my bedroom, studio, and our bathroom. and then since the room was already in shambles i decided it was the perfect time to bring home my new expedit shelf from ikea!
and of course any trip to ikea includes a delicious lunch of meatballs.
we went to visit mom's old dog waldo, he's so cute and sweet and i'm so happy that he does not live here with me. that dog has energy. and he's huge.
i love that spiral notebook page die cut from papertrey ink. it's awesome for when i have a lot of journaling i want to type but still want it to look fun. love it.
sorry about flooding my blog with project life pages but i'm almost caught up now!
made some more awesome progress on my cross stitch!
did a massive purge of my studio and took 4 boxes to my lss to sell at the consignment sale.
Jeff made fried spam sandwiches. i should think that's gross but they're kind of delicious.
i took kerri bradford's silhouette class and now i can weld shapes into frames to make my own pl frames!
look. at. my. hydrangea! isn't it gorgeous!?
i was a slacker and waited until the last day to pay local taxes. the line was long.
s'mores on the grill are delicious.
sorry for the half naked picture of jeff. molly is definitely a mama's girl and hardly ever snuggles jeff so i had to snap a picture of them.
studio calico happy mail. love it. i'm not the only one that collects the "packed by" business cards from my boxes right?
Jeff and i finger painted a canvas together this week. it was fun but i didn't plan the colors well and now i don't know where to put it.
Jeff got some Marvel Legos. his favorite character is Deadpool and he was super excited to find him in a lego set.
we went to see brave and abraham lincoln vampire hunter. brave was great. abraham lincoln not so much.
another dinner with my dad and rosalie this week. we went to rockafeller's in virginia beach.
today i'm checking in with some more project life catch up posting.
week 8 took forever to finish because i had to do some extra budgeting to be able to order my race pictures from my princess half marathon race for the inserts. i love disney pages.
week 13 is a little embarrassing. absolutely nothing happened.
week 14 was easter with lots of stamping, splattering, and some stitching.
week 13: aside from going out to eat once, absolutely nothing happened this week. seriously.


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Pollution-Sniffing Robofish to Scour Thames
By Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
They're a lot like Robocop "" except instead of patrolling the mean streets of Detroit in a fictional future, they could be patrolling the mean waters of the Thames. Researchers at the University of Essex at Colchester, working with a £2.5 million grant from the EU, are currently developing pollution-sniffing robofish to help detect harmful chemicals in the Thames and other bodies of water.
The robofish are each armed with internal GPS systems, artificial intelligence software, and sensors capable of detecting levels of pollution. They move, much like real fish do, by undulating their faux-scaly bodies. The pollution-detecting robofish's movement is based on an existing battery operated working model on view at the London Aquarium, which employs an internal motor in a watertight compartment and moves eerily exactly like a real fish. Here's a video of an early model:
The robofish will be deployed in schools of five and can communicate with one another using wi-fi; when one robofish has detected a contaminant, it sends a message to the others, which will then motor on over and take readings of the area. The fish will swim about the Thames, or another body of water, unmonitored by humans unless they find pollution. Researchers plan to have a working prototype, jam-packed with sensors, ready in as little as 18 months.
The Dirty History of The Thames
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In 1878, the pleasure steamship the Princess Alice collided with another vessel on the river and sank "" just north of the section of the river that supported the industrial waste of two cities and an open sewer drain from another. More than 600 people died in the accident, though identifying the victims proved to be a monumentally difficult task because the river's pollution had so disfigured them.
In the 1950s, British scientists declared the river a biological deadzone, incapable of sustaining marine life.
Still, incredibly polluted though it was, the river has made a substantial comeback in the last 50 years, as the result of the closing of the docks, legislation, and concerted efforts to clean up. In 1974, salmon even made their way back up the river. It enjoys a reputation now as one of the cleanest rivers to flow through a metropolitan city, although that standing suffered a few blows this decade after surveys found high levels of illness-causing bacteria present in the water caused by sewage overflow after heavy rains.

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First, please look past any clutter you see on our room divider, and keep your eyes up. Um, yeah. See how that curtain rod is all crooked there? It's because we didn't anchor it properly (thought we had a stud), and now it's coming out of the wall. Sigh. So of course I've been thinking about curtains and curtain rods a lot lately. Our living room is one big room that used to be two (as you can see by the ceiling). Now it's the entire front half of our house, most of it comprised of windows : one huge picture window, a smaller window, and then a clerestory window on the side. As you can see, we have had the curtains all hung at the same level, and even though the windows are all different heights, we also have the curtains at the same length (right now it's "puddling on the ground").
Instead of just hemming the drapes and fixing the rod, I'm thinking of changing things up completely. Since we were lucky enough to get a house with fairly high ceilings, I'm thinking we take the rods to right below the crown molding and really accentuate our ceiling height. And even though I love our patterned sheer/curtain combo from IKEA, this post at Retro Renovation has me thinking a more traditional pinch pleat curtain is the way to go for our 1961 rambler. And better still, I'd like to cover those pinch pleats with a groovy cornice box running along the entire front wall, like this one in the poorly scanned photo above from the Winter 2010 issue of Atomic Ranch magazine. I can even see that cornice box working with our current textile situation nicely.
Or I could go modern-industrial, as it's nice to mix it up a bit, and Mary's conduit curtain rod suspended from the ceiling would be a fantastic option. And since I was fortunate enough to be in the room for it's installation, I have a pretty good grasp on how to do it myself (though I bet I could ask the expert for a hand). I'm even thinking that a copper plumbing pipe DIY might be a nice look… Thoughts? 'Cause it's obvious I need some help! — Megan B.
Center image by Nancy Nolan for Atomic Ranch.
I like the cornice box. Would not have thought of it for that style. Would you do one spanning across both the windows though or separate?
I like those pinch-pleats — they look so tidy. I actually really like the way draperies look, but I'm too much of a nut for any light we get living here, so I can't bring myself to cover up our windows more than they are currently. I like being able to pull things far out of the way. since you have the height for it though, the cornice boxes would look cool and tidy. I'm not sure about unifying the whole space, though — I love the idea of it, but since you're dividing the rooms now, it might not feel right.
I know, Mare. I don't want to build the whole entire thing just to hate it completely. The rods are going just below the molding and out about 2 inches on either side tomorrow. Something about Mark seeing the horror of our LR on the interwebs sets him into action!
And Mary — the thing I love most about your conduit rod is how you can pull the curtains totally out of the way. It's why I'd consider it for our place, too. But I can't stop thinking about that damn cornice box.
The beauty of pinch pleats on a traverse rod is that they really ARE easiest to open and close. To my eye, they are so tidy, as well. I am sure those are pinch pleats under the cornice in the photo shown.
p.s. As I discuss in my post, paint the traverse road the wall color — and it blends right in. Easier than a cornice.
have you ever thought about hanging with curtain tracks instead of rods? takes away this issue totally. i don't know my way around a hardware store, but i bought mine at curtain-tracks.com … just a suggestion!!


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…tonality of the paint work looks spot on ….and neutral at the same time. Good call of yours Iain! Brass plate offers a wonderful contrast. More clarity than the previous one, perhaps? Very very classy!


It's been a long, strange trip for Eric Corley, a/k/a Emmanuel Goldstein, the publisher of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly and subject of Hollywood's litigious ire. And if Corley's trip hasn't ended quite yet, at least the Long Island cyberjournalist will now have a breather so he can get back to work.
Last week Corley's defense team introduced its final witness, and in doing so closed the trial portion of the court case that has been the focal point of Corley's life since he was first sued last year for posting DeCSS, a now infamous program, on his Web site (2600.com). (DeCSS breaks the encryption system used by the film industry to keep people from making copies of their DVD movies.) And because this case has been broadly viewed as the first real test of the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, it has also become the focal point for groups ranging from entertainment insiders to cyberlibertarians and the open source community, which believes that programming code, like speech, wants to be free.
As the prosecution, the eight major motion picture studios have banded together, arguing that the utility runs afoul of the DMCA's provision prohibiting circumvention of technology used to protect copyrighted materials. For their part, Corley's team of defense lawyers insist that DeCSS—written as part of an open source project to allow Linux computers (an open source platform rapidly gaining in popularity) to play DVDs—merely provides consumers with the kind of "fair use" rights, such as taping a CD so you can play it in your car, that Americans have historically enjoyed.
They also argue that computer code is just that: code, a language like any other, capable of expressing ideas and therefore worthy of First Amendment protection. This principle came to the fore more than once during the trial, but never more poignantly than when Corley was asked under oath if he knew whether DeCSS would work when he posted it along with an article about the cracking of the movie industry's encryption scheme.
"The reason we posted the source code and the accompanying story is because it was already a story," said Corley, who wore his signature black pants and shirt throught the trial and was called as a witness for the defense. "We saw [it] as a fascinating story, and we printed that story, we printed what the story was about, which was our source, our primary source. Here is what they are talking about, here is the source code." Not to have posted the source code, Corley testified, would have been like publishing an article about a photograph without publishing the photograph itself.
Touretzky provided the grand finale in his Tuesday testimony. "I work in artificial intelligence and computational neuroscience, and my theories are expressed as computer programs," he told the court. If computer code is not afforded full protection as expression under the First, he says, "anyone who publishes a computer program is at risk." Touretzky walked the court through his "Gallery of CSS Descramblers" (found at cs.cmu.edu/dst/DeCSS/gallery/index.html), in which DeCSS is expressed in several different ways, from English to object and source code.
The key word in all of this is expressed. If you can use any kind of code to express an idea, argue Touretzky and Goldstein, then that code is a language.
If Judge Kaplan has indeed cottoned to this notion, it would mark a great victory for Corley and his defense team, which is supported by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a cyberliberties group. Frustrating the oddsmakers, though, the judge also noted that even if computer code, "object or source," were considered expressive, "which way that cuts is another matter." He pointed out that even once speech is recognized as expressive, it does not enjoy unlimited protection under the First Amendment. In other words, libeling a financial trader may be expression, but it's also illegal conduct, as is pirating copyrighted intellectual property.
Another witness, however, made clear that piracy was never the objective behind writing DeCSS. Jon Johansen, the Norwegian teen cracker who started this mess by crafting DeCSS, finally had his day in an American court. Johansen and his father became the center of a media circus back in January when Hollywood pressured the Norwegian Economic Crime Unit to investigate the pair. The Motion Picture Association of America painted Johansen as a marauding underage pirate.
Yet in testimony marked by a remarkable simplicity, Johansen told the court that, contrary to the studios' claims, he had written DeCSS only to allow Linux users to play the same movies available to Windows and Mac users. He also revealed that the authorities in Norway not only declined to pursue the investigation, but that the Norwegian government had awarded Johansen a prestigious scholarship for his "contribution to society." Far from demonizing its hackers, Norway, it would seem, lionizes them.
Both sides in the DVD trial have pledged to appeal a losing decision, with one member of the defense legal team noting, optimistically perhaps, that "the case could be before the Supreme Court as early as next year." At issue will be not only the legal protection afforded the decryption program, DeCSS, but, quite possibly, the future of online media.
Though the DVD trial was roundly upstaged by news of Napster's sudden demise and just as sudden recovery, close observers of the judicial system note that the DVD trial may set the more significant legal precedent.
The prosecution claims that DeCSS poses the threat of irreparable harm to film copyright holders, and is nothing more than a utility for piracy. A clause within the Digital Millennium Copyright Act specifically forbids the "circumvention of copyright protection schemes." The plaintiffs, then, occupy a distinct redoubt in the actual letter of the law. On its face, the program would seem to be in clear violation of the statute.
The rub of the case, as Judge Kaplan notes, is that "the horse may already be out of the barn." By all accounts, hundreds of thousands of copies of DeCSS are already in existence, which could make any injunction worthless. In the end, the courts may provide far less protection for the movie studios than they could provide themselves, simply by whipping up a means of protecting DVDs that isn't vulnerable to every code-happy grade-schooler with a keyboard.


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Ontario court to hear Black Lives Matter defamation case
Canada will have its first court hearing involving allegedly defamatory statements made against a business by a former employee who was critical of the company's stance on the Black Lives Matter movement.
An Ontario court will see the case after a shoe cleaning business sued an ex-employee for slander after the former worker posted numerous tweets criticizing the "Caucasian people" that owned Sole Cleaning Inc. of Toronto as being unsympathetic to Black Lives Matter.
The ex-employee Margaret Chu, a self-identified Asian-Canadian woman, described her former bosses as "white males" who did not care about "black culture" or "give a f—k about Black Lives Matter" while encouraging a boycott of the business, according to a report from Blacklock's Reporter.
Justice Lucille Shaw of the Ontario Superior Court dismissed the company's appeal for a court order requiring Chu to delete the social media messages, saying that "the public has an interest in knowing about a company's stance on matters of social and political importance such as the Black Lives Matter movement."
Chu felt her remarks were lawful, citing the statements as fair comment.
"For the defence of fair comment to succeed, the comment must be based on proven fact and on matters of public interest," Justice Shaw said. "The defendant must also prove that, objectively, any person could honestly express the comment based on the proven facts."
Sole Cleaning filed the defamation suit on July 25, and as of yet no trial date has been scheduled.
Social Justice Warriors Black Lives Matter Racism


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4. B DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE : FAIR.
BEING FOUND IN A FAVOURABLE ENVIRONMENT.
Looks near or at hurricane intensity.
Upgraded to Moderate Tropical Storm Anja.
12H: 2009/11/15 06 UTC: 13.3S/70.5E, MAX WIND=050KT, SEVERE TROP.
24H: 2009/11/15 18 UTC: 13.5S/70.0E, MAX WIND=060KT, SEVERE TROP.
60H: 2009/11/17 06 UTC: 16.1S/66.2E, MAX WIND=060KT, SEVERE TROP.
72H: 2009/11/17 18 UTC: 17.5S/64.9E, MAX WIND=045KT, MODERATE TROP.
THE LAST ANIMATED SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS A BUILDING HOT SPOT.
Yep, I agree. Looks to be about 55 kt right now. Pressure likely around 995mb.
142100Z POSITION NEAR 13.2S 70.4E.
12H: 2009/11/15 12 UTC: 13.3S/70.3E, MAX WIND=060KT, SEVERE TROP.
72H: 2009/11/18 00 UTC: 18.3S/65.2E, MAX WIND=060KT, SEVERE TROP.
THE SYSTEM IS DEEPENING RAPIDLY AND IS QUASI-STATIONARY.
CENTER MOVING JUST SOUTH OF THE SYSTEM.
LEVELS OUTFLOW EQUATOWARDS AND POLARWARDS.
SST BECOME COOLER, LIMITATING INTENSIFICATION.
That raw T number is skyrocketing.
12H: 2009/11/15 12 UTC: 13.3S/70.3E, MAX WIND=060KT , SEVERE TROP.
72H: 2009/11/18 00 UTC: 18.3S/65.2E, MAX WIND=060KT , SEVERE TROP.
150300Z POSITION NEAR 13.0S 70.4E.
IMMENSELY, WHICH HAS ALLOWED CONVECTION TO DEEPEN NEAR THE CENTER.
90 KNOTS AND A MORE CLIMATOLOGICAL RATE OF INTENSIFICATION.


This is an exploration in the deliberate and intentional use of language to change peoples minds. You might consider this post as a potential vaccine ( like Jenners way of eradicating the virus small-pox ) as in it may make you a little sick before becoming resilient to deliberately manufactured thought viruses.
The campaign line 'Strong and Stable', you may have read or heard recently has been used and repeated in sufficient quantity to have become both a talking point and a point of serious contention. It's meaning we can question.
In 2003, I first read Lakoffs and Johnsons book Metaphors We Live By. A brilliant book that provides a physically grounded account ( what there is and how it can be known ) of the nature of language and more importantly, a proposal on what goes on under the bonnet, that comes well before conscious thought and reasoning.
To really be aware of how words and slogans can be used to manipulate us, I feel it is necessary to get a deeper understanding of what words do to us by way of effects in our unconscious processing and reasoning. How our very first experiences are linked into concepts and language we all use and respond to.
For example when we are infants we have no discernment between sensations and concepts. This is a period know as conflation. As infants being held by parents we experience the sensation of warmth. So as concepts develop we have a physical grounding, Primary Metaphor : Affection is Warmth.
In no particular order there are three ( actually there are many more which are implied ) Primary Metaphor ( Grady/Lakoff and Haser ) which seem to me most applicable in unearthing both the intention and deeper meaning in this slogan.
Let us explore briefly what Morality, Certainty and Persistence mean withing public serving organisation. eg an elected government.
Morality is doing the right action. Here an elected government serving the public ( the electorate ) first. Government serving the people, before themselves and certainly before private and corporate institutions. Reading Lakoffs Political Mind a well functioning government is about Protecting and empowering people to live freely and be able to access affordable public services ( financed via taxation ). This is not selling public services under the guise of efficiency or cost saving to private enterprises whose prime concern is making money, charging as much as possible.
Certain means both being correct in what is know, be reliable source and an accurate credible prediction of some future event. This is highly related to the predictability.
Persisting means a deliberate and constant effort to reach some goal or prevent some unwanted goal being reached. It means consistency over time in relation to specific values being upheld.
How to Ideas and Behaviours become Habits?
This is very simple. Any action, be it a thought a physical action or response will become a habit when repeated enough times over and over again. A habit is in essence an unconscious response. Something that happens all by itself. Additionally a phobia or PTSD can be 'learned' in just one event involving high stress which can be described as a trauma.
The 'Strong and Stable' meme is being repeated again and again and let's face it it feels like a pretty traumatic time here in Blighty. Uncertain Brexit, uncertain of which party will get in at the upcoming election, Jobs, NHS, Inflation, Food Banks; Uncertain and Stress are linked. One party will be for the people and one will be 'government' by corporations who will kill the NHS, schools and universities and continue with the Austerity policy, which does not benefit the public but serves the IMF really well.
So ideas and behaviours become unconscious and automatic under conditions of high stress and potential trauma.
Media, hacked or cyber targeted and newspapers have their own political agendas. By forging and shaping stories of how one party ( their enemy ) will create bad events, bad times and uncertainty they activate your stress system.
This will make you worry and/or become fearful by design. Such media will then highlight their chosen ( friend ) party as hero's, saviors, competent managers of control and predictability. They, the media ( if you read and believe without thinking ) are shaping your brain.
Repeatedly creating biased, unpredictable and misleading articles ( Take D.Trump ) where these are read by people with really strong original views such articles will either strengthen their views or polarize them more completely. The people in the middle will be more likely to look to the media for their clues because this is least effortful and simplest. Its the default option.
Hence a slogan like 'Strong and Stable' is an excellent psychological weapon aimed at those undecided voters who will take the default option portrayed mostly on the media they absorb. Remember the more people seen to support one side the more predictable/certain ( sadly ) that outcome may well be.
An authority who is seen to be strong, seen to be a leader or seen to demonstrate a certain set of values will attract followers. This can become very powerful when there is uncertainty involved. Think of the strong leader Jim Jones who murdered his followers or everyone's favorite dictatorial Roman Imperator.
Social proof can both be maximised through media reporting their perspectives and showing lots of people agreeing with policy. Any article that is emphasising one part dominance over another is actually influencing this more and they know it. Do you know that copycat-killings, road incidents and airline crash statistics increase when they are on social media?
Consistency and commitment indicate a steady and focused way being in the world as in individual or as a company. What needs to be explored is the direction and sensibility of such a 'quality' when the direction and values are incompatible with the public good. Consistently and with commitment flogging public services ( by constant and steady defending ) to corporations who want to charge the most the market can bear, pay minimum wages and have a few regulations as possible.
Lets explore the implications and meanings of 'Strong and Stable'. Take a mountain or a building. It's stable and its' strong. We expect it to last spatially and temporally and usually it wont me moving anyplace soon. This means that we have a certain and concrete predictions of these qualities. Building and mountains will provide the physical support for its inhabitants and likely even a good environment of relative safety.
Good parents will undoubtedly carry their children, safely around for a sizable portion of time during infancy. They are persisting carrying ( which takes effort and strength over time ) their children [ creating their warmth is affection too ] to places that are conceived as destinations or goals.
They are doing the right thing, caring for, nurturing; being moral. Children 'know' they are safe ( apart from the odd pop star dangling them out of windows ) and cared for. They become certain of this experience. They can rely on their parents. Good parents are strong and stable and of course know what is best for their babies.
'Strong and Stable' implies, safety, persevering, certainty and doing the right thing ( moral ).
Moral means putting people before themselves ( think of bedroom tax, disability cuts which have raised rates of death in claimants, cutting corporate tax while people in the UK are forced to use Food Banks, subsidising the banks, destroying the NHS … ). This is highly immoral in the context of public service for the public.
Certain about what happens in Brexit when 'one' may be bloody difficult in negotiations? No. Its a mess there is no cogent plan. Certain corporate-business funded academies will help to educate and improve? No. Certain that inflation, utility bills and cost of living will be fair? No. There is a great deal of highly unpredictable and uncertain futures for the general public.
Persisting means you are being carried along. One implication of this primary metaphor is deeply rooted in being carried by loving parents who were putting our needs first. But Politicians and Governments are not our parents, we are adults now and can realise fundamental immoral acts being perpetrated against ourselves and the other not so privileged masses that are our family, friends, neighbors and fellow citizens.
If you wonder or think we are being manipulated or 'nudged' into thinking and acting and behaving in certain ways you will be dead right. This is in essence true for all attempts of persuasion or influence.
What feels very important to me is to have some sense of the mechanisms which can be used ( quite effectively) to steer us into acting in ways that are grossly against our own interests as well as against the interests of decent people and the environment we will leave to our children.


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Hopesay is a small village, and civil parish, in south Shropshire, England. The population of the parish at the 2011 census was 561.

The name 'Hopesay' derives from "Hope de Say", the valley of Picot de Say, a Norman baron who held the manor of neighbouring Sibdon Carwood and whose power base was the nearby Clun Castle. Though most of the Norman influence has been lost, the church tower does date back to Norman times.

The 13th-century church of St Mary, restored c.1880, is a Grade I listed building.

The village has an active community though in recent decades has suffered from depopulation, leading to the closure of both the village shop and Post office, and the school (closed in 1989).

Within the parish lies the larger village of Aston on Clun, and the village of Broome which has a railway station on the Heart of Wales Line. The hamlet of Basford, in the north of the parish, straddles the boundary with Edgton parish.

The writer and adventurer Vivienne de Watteville (Vivienne Goschen) is buried at Hopesay.

See also
Listed buildings in Hopesay

References

External links

Civil parishes in Shropshire
Villages in Shropshire

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Exchange Inventory Levels Don't Tell the Whole Aluminum Story
by Stuart Burns on October 20, 2011
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We compared the relative positions of Alcoa and Rio Alcan in an earlier post, along with their respective readings of the future. Where Alcoa saw opportunities, Rio Alcan clearly saw if not problems, then at least lackluster growth.
Much will depend, of course, on global aluminum production and price levels. Growth forecasts are bullish, particularly in China, but also elsewhere. Alcoa's own predictions are for aluminum demand growth even in mature economies at well above GDP over the medium term.
As the above graph shows, exchange stocks have been falling recently; at the end of September, some 4.564 million tons were held in LME-registered warehouses, down from 4.633 million a month earlier, suggesting Alcoa's growth forecasts are indeed sopping up rising production.
According to a Reuters article, total visible stocks of aluminum, including the latest International Aluminium Institute (IAI) stocks, were estimated in September to be around 6.13 million tons, down from 6.32 million a month earlier, while aluminum stocks at the Japanese ports of Yokohama, Nagoya and Osaka at the end of September fell 4.1 percent from a month earlier to 231,400 tons.
Exchange inventory falls support the case put forward by some analysts that the market is in structural deficit, but a recent report by Reuters suggests there is more to the story than what is happening on the LME. The same article carries another post advising stocks of aluminum have almost doubled at the port of Rotterdam in the last three to six months.
Jouke Schaap, director of break-bulk at the port, is quoted as saying this week: "We have got 2.0-2.5 million tons of stocks of aluminum lying around the port right now, and that's never a good sign," adding that this compares with levels of around 1 million to 1.5 million tons usually. The flows have gathered pace in the last three months, suggesting up to a million tons of aluminum are being produced in excess of global demand, but are disappearing from the figures into long-term financing deals, held not on the LME but in private stores.
The worry is not that this metal will suddenly flow back into the market, but more that it shows the market is in significant oversupply, much more than official figures are suggesting. If the forward curve flattens and new financing deals become less attractive, this supply of surplus metal will wreak havoc on prices.
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Q: Bulkify a Trigger I have written a trigger on Tenant_Details__c object which has a lookup relationship to Room_Details__c object. Every time a new record is inserted, I want to update a field in Room_Details__c and also a field in all the Tenants present in that Room in which that tenant has been added. My trigger is working when I insert an individual record, but when I try to enter multiple records simultaneously, then it throws an error. The reason is that it is not bulkified. Con someone please help me bulkify this code.
trigger addTenant on Tenant_Details__c (after insert)
{
    List<Tenant_Details__c> tenantDetailList = [select Contribution__c, Stays_in__c from Tenant_Details__c where id in :Trigger.new];

    List<Tenant_Details__c> tenantDetailListToUpdate = new List<Tenant_Details__c>();
    List<Room_Details__c> roomDetailListToUpdate = new List<Room_Details__c>();

    for(Tenant_Details__c tenant : tenantDetailList)
    {
        Room_Details__c rooms=[select Rent__c, Sharing_Capacity__c, Present_Tenant_Count__c from Room_Details__c where id = :tenant.Stays_in__c];

        System.debug('Trigger.isInsert');
        System.debug('Previous tenant count:'+rooms.Present_Tenant_Count__c);
        if(rooms.Present_Tenant_Count__c<rooms.Sharing_Capacity__c)
        {
            rooms.Present_Tenant_Count__c=rooms.Present_Tenant_Count__c+1;//3. updating tenant count

        }
        else
        {
            System.debug('Maximum tenant count reached');
            Trigger.oldMap.get(rooms.Id).addError('Cannot add tenants to this room.');//4. add error on max capacity
        }

        //5. increase rent of each tenant
        System.debug('New tenant count: '+rooms.Present_Tenant_Count__c);
        Double contri = rooms.Rent__c/rooms.Present_Tenant_Count__c;
        tenant.Contribution__c=contri;

        for(Tenant_Details__c allTenants:[select Contribution__c from Tenant_Details__c where Stays_in__c=:tenant.Stays_in__c])
        {
            allTenants.Contribution__c=contri;
            tenantDetailListToUpdate.add(allTenants);
        }

        roomDetailListToUpdate.add(rooms);
    }
    update roomDetailListToUpdate;
    update tenantDetailListToUpdate;

}

A: Beyond bulkification, I think you are likely to have an issue with this line:
Trigger.oldMap.get(rooms.Id).addError('Cannot add tenants to this room.');

Because it looks to me like you are trying to retrieve a Tenant_details__c record using the id from a room_detail__c record.
Regarding bulkification, your updates are outside of the for loop, you could also pull out the SOQL query -
You can make a list with all of the ids you are going to query on, make a WHERE id IN :list query, put that into a map with the list id as the key, then within your for loop retrieve the relevant record from the map rather than from a SOQL query.
List<Id> tenantRoomIds = new List<Id>();
for(Tenant_Details__c tenant : tenantDetailList){
     tenantRoomIds.add(tenant.Stays_in__c);
}
Map<Id, Room_Details__c> Room_Details__c rooms= Map<ID, Room_Details__c>([select
 Rent__c, Sharing_Capacity__c, Present_Tenant_Count__c from Room_Details__c where
 id IN :tenantRoomIds]);

for(Tenant_Details__c tenant : tenantDetailList){
    room_detail__c room = rooms.get(tenant.Stays_in__c);
...

You've also got a nested SOQL for loop :
        for(Tenant_Details__c allTenants:[select Contribution__c from Tenant_Details__c where Stays_in__c=:tenant.Stays_in__c])

I think you'd be better off retrieving the child objects from your query on room, and then looping through those child objects so rooms query becomes -
Map<Id, Room_Details__c> Room_Details__c rooms= Map<ID, Room_Details__c>(
[select Rent__c, Sharing_Capacity__c, Present_Tenant_Count__c,
(SELECT contribution__c FROM Tenant_Details__r)
from Room_Details__c where
 id IN :tenantRoomIds])

Then you can replace your SOQL for loop with:
for(tenant_details__c tenant :room.tenant_details__r){
    tenant.Contribution__c=contri;
    tenantDetailListToUpdate.add(tenant);

}

You might also have an issue with updating tenants within a tenant trigger - could get into infinite loop, so watch out for that.

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This Louisville Startup Developed a New Life Source for Electric Vehicles
This month, Solid Power will open the first factory in the country capable of churning out solid-state batteries for cars.
By Jason Plautz • 5280 July 2019
For years, car companies have vied for position in a race to find a battery that can provide a longer charge for electric vehicles. Being the first to discover this holy grail—a power supply with enough range to make fully electric automobiles a practical option for average car shoppers—would potentially be worth billions. In 2018 alone, investors such as Toyota and Nissan sunk more than $500 million into battery-focused startups. This month, Colorado's Solid Power is set to zoom to the front of the pack.
Elon Musk has already pushed the boundaries of what's possible for eco-friendly cars. Teslas' potentials are limited, though, because they have lithium-ion batteries under their hoods. Decades of innovation have made these energy sources—which also power most electronic accessories, including smartphones—efficient and easy to mass-produce. But safety concerns limit their strength. To put it simply, lithium-ion batteries utilize a liquid electrolyte that serves as a sort of highway for charged particles moving between the anode at one end of the battery and the cathode at the other, with a polymer separator between the two. That liquid is flammable, though; if manufacturers pack too much energy into the device or the polymer barrier breaks down, a fire could occur.
The alternative? Batteries that replace the liquid electrolyte with a solid one, which can't catch fire, making the product safer. In these solid-state batteries, the anodes are also made of lithium metal, which can stock more power than the graphite used in lithium-ion anodes. But early versions hit a snag: The chemical recipe caused the solid electrolyte to degrade immediately, diminishing the batteries' ability to hold a charge after one trip.
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Finding longer-lasting components that weren't excessively heavy seemed like a difficult proposition—until University of Colorado Boulder mechanical engineering professors Sehee Lee and Conrad Stoldt began researching the technology in 2010. After three years of testing designs, they found that adding a sulfide-based material to the solid electrolyte kept it intact for about a thousand charges, making solid-state batteries a more feasible transportation option. Intent on commercializing the idea, the university transferred ownership of the research to startup veteran Doug Campbell, who formed Solid Power in 2013.
Now, Campbell's Louisville-based crew is on the verge of making batteries it claims will extend a car's range by up to 50 percent. For a Tesla Model 3, the country's best-selling electric vehicle, that means going from 310 miles per charge to 450. Not surprisingly, backers such as Ford have collectively invested more than $20 million in Solid Power. "The significant amount of money they've raised," says Sam Jaffe, a battery-industry analyst with Boulder-based Cairn Energy Research Advisors, "shows that automakers think they have something special."
Investors' bets start paying off this month, when Solid Power opens the country's first factory capable of churning out solid-state batteries for vehicles. When fully operational, the Louisville facility could produce about 200 a year. That may not seem like much, but Solid Power plans to scale up at a responsible pace, especially as it continues tweaking its manufacturing process. When it's perfected, Campbell intends to license the secrets to automakers so they can make solid-state batteries at their own plants. Campbell already has partnerships in place with BMW and Ford—meaning the company is on its way to powering the industry's power players.
This article appeared in the July 2019 issue of 5280.
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Persons who want to pursue a career in the hospitality and tourism sector have been encouraged by the management of Hotel, Catering and Tourism Training Institute (HOTCATT) to enroll in the institute's academic programs for the year 2020 to build their capacities in the tourism and hospitality industries in Ghana and beyond.
It said enrollment start in January, 2020, stating that, whilst the focus on admission was Junior and Senior High school leavers, graduates from tertiary institutions had also been trained in the fields of foods production, house keeping, food and beverage services, tour guiding, tour operation including front desk services.
In a press release copied to GhanaNewsOnline.com.gh, the management of the school says, its mandate is to provide skills at the basic, intermediary and supervisory levels to upgrade the competences of all levels of personnel in the hotel, catering and tourism sector to help transform Ghana into a competitive tourism destination.
It said, its courses are in high demand all over the world, noting that, the hospitality and tourism industry is really huge and holds a wide range of job opportunities for a budding career. A certificate in hospitality management according the management of HOTCATT would open doors to an exciting career with tremendous opportunities in numerous areas with a very promising salary range.
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Given the emphasis placed on the tourism sector as a drive for socio-economic and environment, the Government decided to maintain the institute to train a pool of personnel to work in the tourism and hotel industry.
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Q: Java | how can I use multiple methods to print out grade scores? import java.util.Scanner;

public class BA4 {

public static void main(String[] args) {
    Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
    System.out.println("Hello Drews, how many total grades do you want to process?");

    int numberOfGrades = keyboard.nextInt();
    int[] storeGrades = new int[numberOfGrades];

    for (int i = 0; i < numberOfGrades; i++) {
        System.out.println("Please enter grade " + (i + 1) + ": ");
        storeGrades[i] = keyboard.nextInt();
    }

    System.out.println("Total score is: " + (getTotalScore(storeGrades)));
    System.out.println("Lowest score is: " + (getLowestScore(storeGrades)));
    System.out.println("Highest score is: " + (getHighestScore(storeGrades)));
    System.out.println("Average score is: " + (averageScore(String.format("%.2f", storeGrades))));
}

public static int getTotalScore(int[] storeGrades) {
    int sum = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < storeGrades.length; i++) {
        sum += storeGrades[i];
    }
    return sum;
}

public static int getLowestScore(int[] storeGrades) {
    int getLowestScore = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i > storeGrades.length; i++) {
        getLowestScore = storeGrades[i];
    }
    return getLowestScore;
}

public static int getHighestScore(int[] storeGrades) {
    int getHighestScore = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < storeGrades.length; i++) {
        getHighestScore = storeGrades[i];
    }
    return getHighestScore;
}

public static double averageScore(double[] storeGrades) {
    double averageScore = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < storeGrades.length; i++) {
        averageScore = (double) storeGrades[i];
    }
    return averageScore;
}

public static int printGrade(int[] storeGrades) {
    int printGrade;
    if (printGrade > 89) {
        String gradeSoFar = "A";
        System.out.println("Your grade so far is an " + gradeSoFar);
    }
    else if ((printGrade > 79) && (printGrade < 90)) {
        String gradeSoFar = "B";
        System.out.println("Your grade so far is a " + gradeSoFar);
    }
    else if ((printGrade > 69) && (printGrade < 80)) {
        String gradeSoFar = "C";
        System.out.println("Your grade so far is a " + gradeSoFar);
    }
    else if ((printGrade > 59) && (printGrade < 70)) {
        String gradeSoFar = "D";
        System.out.println("Your grade so far is a " + gradeSoFar);
    }
    else if ((printGrade > 0) && (printGrade < 60)) {
        String gradeSoFar = "F";
        System.out.println("Your grade so far is an " + gradeSoFar);
    }
    return printGrade;
}
}

I am trying to figure out where I am going wrong. I have a couple of errors which leads me to believe I really just don't understand methods as well as I thought I did.
The goal is to create 5 methods displaying to the user the total, lowest, highest and average scores, and then to print the letter grade. Thank you for your assistance to this noobie java coder! :)

A: You are passing in a String when you should be passing in a Double[] into averageScore function in this line:
System.out.println("Average score is: " + (averageScore(String.format("%.2f", storeGrades))));

and you did not initialize the printGrade variable inside the printGrade function, you need to give it an initial value if you are going to use it in a comparison.
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Nine-month-old girl dies after being left for hours in boiling-hot car at a Texas trailer home park
Baby was found alone inside her parents' car in Baytown, Texas, Monday, where temperatures outside were in the 90s
Parents told sheriff's deputies they had been taking their other special-needs child to medical appointments all morning
infant had been trapped in the car for at least three hours
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A nine-month-old baby girl has died after sheriff's deputies in Texas found her alone inside her family's scorching-hot car on Monday.
The Harris County Sheriff's office received a 911 call on Monday afternoon reporting an unresponsive infant inside of a vehicle parked at Baytown Country Place Estates on Jones Road.
Deputies who responded to the mobile home park at 2pm rescued the baby from the vehicle and rushed her to San Jacinto Hospital, where she passed away a short time later.
Harris County Sheriff's deputies on Monday discovered a nine-month-old baby inside this white vehicle parked outside her family's mobile home in Baytown, Texas
The infant died after spend at least three hours trapped inside the boiling-hot car
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Temperatures in Baytown were in the 90s on Monday, but the sheriff said it was much hotter inside the locked car.
Sheriff Ed Gonzalez (pictured) said the baby's death could have been prevented
When interviewed by law enforcement officials, the victim's parents said they had been going to various medical appointments for one of their other children, who has special needs, and they mistakenly thought someone had brought the baby inside the house.
The name of the infant has not been made public. So far, no charges have been filed against the parents in connection to the girl's death, but the investigation into the incident is still ongoing.
'I hate this,' Sheriff Gonzalez tweeted Monday in reference to the baby's hot-car death. 'These deaths are preventable.'
According to the website KidsAndCars.org, on average 37 children die in the US each year from heatstroke after being left inside vehicles.
Data shows that 43 children succumbed to vehicular heatstrokes in 2017, and there have been nine confirmed cases so far this year.
9-month-old dies after being left in hot car near Baytown | abc13.com
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CLIENT / Palais des Congrès s.a.
AREA / 52 000 sqm above ground - 16 000 sqm basement
PROGRAM / Meeting rooms, offices, exhibition halls, retail, restaurant, and car parks
MIPIM AWARDS 2010 – SPECIAL JURY AWARD
QUARTIER DES ARTS AWARD 2010
LE GRAND PRIX DES REGLES D'OR DE L'URBANISME 2010
INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY AWARDS 2010 – The Architecture Award /
RICS AWARDS 2010 : Shortlisted
WAN AWARDS 2009 : Shortlisted
SQUARE Brussels Meeting Centre, an audacious architectural proposition to the city, offers a new-found visibility to the former Palais des Congrès by means of a poetic emblem embodied in the glass cube that forms the principal entrance to the centre, the winning entry designed by A2RC ARCHITECTS for a competition held in 2000. Its tree-like structure and an aesthetic based on transparency and light, irresistibly evokes landscape architecture, takes root in history and projects the 'Mont des Arts' into modernity. This monumentality, mild and poetic, dialogues with the image of the garden. Present and at the same time melting into the surrounding architectural landscape, it changes in materiality as the light and time of day change. The main entrance, in the form of a large exterior auditorium, allows an access to the base of the cube, sliding along the exhibition hall under René Pechère's renovated historic garden created in 1958. This garden forms Brussels' largest green roof. On the opposite side a terrace leads to the upper access. The carefully articulated cube contains ribbon-shaped suspended stairs and catwalks which connect the different access levels to the complex of 52,000 square metres which optimally exploits the complicated existing structure and succeeds in the challenge of increasing the capacity and the efficiency of the whole. SQUARE now offers 27 meeting rooms with space for between 40 and 1,200 occupants for a total capacity of 3,538 square metres, an exhibition zone of 3,670 square metres divisible into two distinct entities with a free ceiling height of 6 metres, a restaurant, and a brasserie of 420 seats. The reorganisation fully exploits natural light in a building where the majority of spaces are underground. The meeting centre also benefits from the presence of prestigious works of art of René Magritte, Paul Delvaux, Louis Van Lint and Arne Quinze, which create an ambience specific to the site. SQUARE constitutes an attractive technological jewel at the heart of the Quartier des Arts and achieves the transformation of an important historic site with respect for its history and ambition for its future. The poetic emblem of the cube becomes the urban symbol of a new site of communication with the world.


The ultimate 2D Mario experience puts the creative reigns in your hands with a simple and satisfying level-building experience.
In this new game, a sequel to the original Wii U game, players can create the Super Mario courses of their dreams, with access to even more tools, items and features, including the new ability to create slopes for the first time. Super Mario Maker 2 launches exclusively for Nintendo Switch this June.
Nintendo confirms that a Super Mario Maker sequel will arrive on Switch in 2019.
This Black Friday, you'll be able to pick up a Nintendo Switch packed with a digital copy of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for $300.
My Nintendo members can trade their points for discounts on Super Mario Maker, Mario Kart 7, and other 3DS and Wii U Mario games, but no Switch ones yet.
Watch a video of the entire thing being played through or check it out for yourself.
Watch extended gameplay footage from Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS featuring the Giant Bomb crew.
The hit Wii U game is coming to 3DS very soon; watch a new trailer.
When Super Mario Maker comes to the 3DS, it won't feature any 3D capability.
It will come with 100 built -in levels and levels made on the Wii U version.
Waluigi finally gets his own amiibo, alongside new versions of Wario, Diddy Kong, and Rosalina.
Play a near-limitless number of intensely creative Super Mario levels from players around the world. Its easy enough to create your own levels with the Wii U GamePad controller that it may feel like youre simply sketching out your ideas on paper, but you can now bring enemies and objects into a playable course in ways you could only dream of before.


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Home / NEWS LENS / NIMASA is committed to capacity building, says DG
NIMASA is committed to capacity building, says DG
Posted by: mms plus in NEWS LENS December 2, 2020	0 107 Views
Bashir Jamoh, DG, NIMASA
He said as a knowledge-based industry with huge opportunities, there was the need to encourage research to enable the Nigerian maritime sector to reach its full potential.
The NIMASA boss stated: "You will agree with me that maritime is knowledge-based and we cannot afford to be left behind. This is why we have upgraded this library beyond physical books to the electronic ones. The virtual nature of the library makes accessibility of reading materials seamless from any part of the world just with a touch of the button on your phone.
"We believe this will help Nigeria to diversify its economy and reduce tremendously the oil dependency, as this library is equipped to bridge the knowledge gap in our industry."
Jamoh added: "By the official opening of the NIMASA Knowledge Centre E-library, we have once again shown beyond rhetoric that the agency is committed to bequeathing assets to Nigeria, Africa and the global maritime community."
He said the library would help to preserve the country's maritime history and advance the industry, as it would house a lot of reference materials.
The NIMASA DG also spoke on the NMRDC, which he said was designed as a training institution for the maritime industry. He likened the resource centre to the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna State, which serves as a training facility for the security services.
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This was my first "first-pager"
However I liked Solstice better.
haha yeah man. two different genres though!
I liked every part of this song. Since I would declare all of this perfect. There isn't much else to criticize. I don't even listen to trance that much, and yet still, it's just awesome. Keep it up.
It was pretty good but I didn't like the intro that much, but it was still good. The rest of the song was pretty good, 9/10 5/5. Overall I thought it was pretty cool.
and I do mean unpleasantly grating - it made me wince.
the piano is nice though - as well as the pulsey strings.
some parts sound a bit awkward but oh well. not a big fan of that synth around 1:15.. your ears eventually adjust to it though.. I still find it a bit too sharp though compared to the washed out piano and strings in the background.
it also needs another synth - for the most part you're coasting on a lot of background melody - 3:05 gets a little into that - but more complex melodyt would probably maintain the listener's attention :) - shake it up a bit!
Thanks for the review and the listen!
I used Edirol Orchestral for the piano+strings, a drum sample i downloaded and adjusted the bass, Zeta+ for the "weird high pitch thingy" lol and zeta+ again for the bass.


... running an octane via lightpipe to motu 896HD. When I select the tracks in Logic Pro (11 and 12) arm both (recording to two mono tracks) and select record, Logic hangs with the pizza of death ... eventually it starts recording (after about a 30 sec delay - no count in click can be heard) ... anyone experienced something like this?
Maybe I'm asking an unclear problem? I would find it interesting if I'm the only one to have experienced this?!? I have searched this group and the net and cannot find reference to a response lag after pushing the record button. To my mind it would seem like a memory issue, but do you think that there may be a 'setup' issue in Logic Pro that is causing this?
And/Or also: do you prefer chocolate or vanilla?
I tested with a 002r and the same thing. set up your project, arm your tracks and record (first record will SOMETIMES work normal) 2nd time you hit record and the system hangs for about 20 secs then starts recording .... no one ever had this happen? I've trashed prefs, made sure drivers are the latest ... etc.
It is a Logic Pro 9 bug. Logic Pro 8 works fine. I'll just stay away from Logic Pro 9 and use Logic Pro 8.
Thanks for the help guys, I hope you don't experience the same thing.
Try using the built in Mac core audio engine and testing it in a default empty project and see what happens. This will remove your Octane and any potential sync or driver related issues from the equation; as well as possible project corruption. What you are experiencing is definitely not normal.
Thanks Eli, I did as you suggested and the result is the same. I disconnected everthing from the macbook pro and selected 'built - in audio' for input/output. The first time you press the button is fine - the second time it hangs. You have to restart the program to get it to work (for the one time only). It does this in 9.1.1 and 9.02 .... Logic 8.02 works fine ... I don't know if a re-install is required here?
Have you tried trashing your preferences? And also - you didn't mention specifically if you did this or not - make sure to try the test from a brand new "Empty Project" from the factory templates.
Hi Eli, love the 'smiley' at the end of your post Yes, I trashed the prefs from my home/library/preferences/ ... I'm not aware of other locales? I am starting an 'empty project' from the 'new' menu of logic .... I don't want to remove Logic 8 (it works!) but I'll try re-installing Logic 9 and see how that works ... I'll keep you posted!
also be aware that if Logic 8 and 9 are on the same computer/user, they share preferences. I'm not sure to what extent, or if this has been modified since 9.0.
wow. Doug, I'm currently listening to you on 'music production in Logic 8' DVD! You and Eli do some great instructional work! There may be too much interplay with stuff on my macbook. Right now, Logic 8 works great. I'm going to clean my computer, reinstall the OSX and then clean install logic 9 to try to figure it out (I also recently upgraded to a larger hard drive (5400 rpms). I run both digi and motu hardware, in addition I purchased some soft drums (steven slate ..) and that may be the last time that I used logic 9 successfully ... ? ... Throw on an old copy of Reason (4) that I haven't really used, and I think the message may be to keep the system 'clean' and carrying only what you use. I'll keep you posted!
That's scary - I'm in two locations on your computer! Another reason to clean things up!!!
Actually - thanks for the kind words - speaking for Eli as well (if I may, Eli), we both work hard at these products and they really don't mean much if they can't help the end user.
Maybe wait to install the Steven Slate plug-in until you know things are working, then add it (maybe back things up first...). And, do post results, thanks - it helps everyone.
Like Doug says - glad to hear you are enjoying the videos! It really is very gratifying knowing on a personal one on one level when specific people are finding them useful and helpful.
Having said that - I thought of another thing for you to try before going to the all the work of a complete re-install. Why don't you try disabling all of your third party audio unit plugins temporarily. It's easy enough to do with the Audio Units Manager available under the preferences menu. And it will rule out the possibility of any third party plug in incompatibility relatively painlessly.
Good idea Eli, I actually also added a couple of Nomad plugs ... I'll try it and let you all know!
I reinstalled L9 along with the OS ... it now works. I'll carefully install my other software and check Logic after each (tedious) in order to determine a conflict ... if I find something I'll let you know. Thanks all, I appreciate your help much!
Good that it's working. Curious if you find a specific culprit. Thanks for updating events so far.