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On a late summer day in the southeast corner of Virginia passersby got a brief glimpse of agriculture in the future, as researchers from Virginia Tech University and the University of Florida mapped a soybean field using a low-flying drone, equipped with high tech cameras.
The test run was repeated the following day at the Virginia Ag Expo, held at the Fields of Hope Farm near Virginia Beach.
The combination of high resolution pictures from the previous days' flight and a close up look at the drone piqued the interest of numerous farmers and crop consultants.
Virginia Tech Scientist Jim Owen says technology for the small, battery-powered aircraft has come a long way in the past couple of years, but regulations for their use remains a little cloudy at best.
"Right now, as we understand FAA (Federal Aeronautical Administration) rules, if you are flying this aircraft on your property, you can be classified as a 'hobbyist', which require no Federal license," Owen says.
"However, if you are flying the drone for profit and flying it over someone else's land, you have to have permission to be there and an FAA license, something akin to a pilot's license," he explains.
"Therein lies a potential limitation to the practical use of these machines for agriculture. The most likely use of a scout drone is by crop scouts or agricultural consultants. And, as we understand the law right now, that require an FAA license," the Virginia Tech researcher says.
Uses virtually unlimited
Uses of the drones are virtually limitless.
In about 30 minutes, Owen and his colleagues set up flight points, flew the drone and mapped a 100 acre or so field of soybeans at the Virginia Ag Expo site.
Clearly, this could be a huge timesaver for crop consultants and could make their job more efficient and timely.
No longer would a consultant have to drive through and around a large field, stopping frequently to check for stress points such as disease, insect or weed pressure.
Not only would their scouting be quicker, but potentially much more efficient, because they would have a bird's eye view of different areas of a field where they are likely to find stress points in a crop.
(You might also like Unmanned helicopter puts farming up in the air. Other useful information can be found at Unmanned aerial vehicles have bright future in precision farming).
Operation of the Virginia Tech drone is simple. It runs off a single RC battery, which requires frequent charging. The length of the flight is limited by the weight of the battery that powers it.
The drone flown at the Virginia Ag Expo can stay in the air about 15 minutes. The drone can be quickly landed, new batteries attached and be airborne in a few seconds.
Flight points are programmed into the computer guidance system and the drone then flies on auto pilot. The pilot who flies the drone essentially has to take off and land the machine.
The camera mount on the drone is gyro-balanced using a GPS system that keeps it perpendicular to the ground, regardless of the movement of the aircraft.
The high resolution cameras take video, which can be broken down frame by frame into high resolution photographs.
The drone typically flies at about 300 feet or lower. This allows it to take high resolutions pictures as the aircraft hovers over pre-set areas of a field. It also keeps the small aircraft out of the way of other manned aircraft that must legally fly at least 500 feet above the ground.
Though the drone has a range of about one mile from the controller, the Virginia Tech researchers set the range at 250 meters, or about 275 yards.
"The drone is highly stable, and even if you take your hands off the controller, the GPS system will hold the drone in a hover position, until you tell it what to do, or it runs out of battery power," Owen says.
Keeping the $10,000 drone closer than a mile, he adds, makes it much easier to be sure it gets up and down safely and without damage.
Detect areas of stress
Initially, at least, the most practical use for farmers will be to detect stress, regardless of the its cause. Growers can look at things like drainage, cover crops and various field conditions without actually getting into a field.
With all the rainfall this year, having that capability would have been a big help throughout much of the Southeast for much of the growing season.
In addition to the questions about licensing for flying one of these drones, another restriction for growers may be the cost, which can push $50,000. However, the cost is likely to come down, as is the case with most new technology.
And, there are plans in the works to have an online written test to acquire a license to fly a drone for crop scouting.
"Right now, I would say scouts are likely to be the first to put these drones into practical use. In the future, larger farming operations may have their own drones, but it's likely that most will still rely on scouts to fly the planes, download the information they obtain and use that information to help growers put together farm plans," Owen says.
The concept of using unmanned aircraft for agriculture isn't something new. Unmanned aircraft have been used to spray crops in Japan for at least a decade and in parts of Australia for nearly that long.
The use of drones in agriculture is bolstered by the continued proliferation of farm size and the corresponding reduction in numbers of farmers.
No longer can a large acreage farmer know much about what is going in every one of their fields, Drones could change all that.
One possible application is to pin-point early damage to crops, giving growers a head start on correcting stress related problems, like early insect outbreaks or a disease occurring at an unusual time of the growing season.
Stress can be easily detected by low-flying drones using infra-red and near infra-red cameras. The same concept is used by a number of ground devices, like GreenSeeker.
Early plant damage
Early signs of plant damage show up in chlorophyll, the energy-making factory for plants, which could be captured in drone airplane imagery.
Drones are also a potentially major component of the expanding Green Industry in agriculture.
More precise imagery could also allow farmers to tie aerial imagery to GPS guided sprayers and better target pesticides just to the plants that need them, reducing how much ends up in the environment or even our food and water supply.
Drones are the most likely vehicles to acquire remote sensing information that companies like DuPont Pioneer are promoting.
A recent corporate release from DuPont Pioneer defines remote sensing as "collecting information about objects (e.g., soil or crop surfaces) from remote platforms like satellites, aircraft or ground-based booms."
"Remote sensing involves the collection and analysis of reflected light and is a potentially important source of data for making site-specific crop management decisions," says John Shanahan, DuPont Pioneer agronomy research manager.
He adds that remote sensing tools can provide information not only about spatial variability within fields, but also changes in crop conditions throughout the growing season.
This year DuPont Pioneer is providing remote sensing imagery services to growers though Pioneer Field 360 services.
Images in this program can be used to develop management zone-directed soil samplingschemes, validating hybrid tests or evaluating other agronomic practices on your farm. Imagery does not replace the need for crop scouting. Instead, it directs growers to areas of the field that require ground evaluation.


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Turn to the "Troubleshooter's Guide" in The Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia, and the very last entry will tell you what to do when a wine has oxidized: "Use it for salad dressing." Most wine experts are similarly dismissive of wine that's been significantly exposed to air. True, in most cases, oxidized juice is the last thing you want in your glass. It can cause a wine to turn brown; worse, it can make wine lose its vibrancy and primary aromas. Left unchecked, it will eventually turn a wine into vinegar. So it's easy to see why oxidation is commonly considered a winemaker's nightmare. But when it's an intentional part of the winemaking process, some winemakers believe you can end up with a bottle of such complexity that it borders on the taste of that elusive, savory "fifth taste," umami.
"These are not 'in-between' wines," says Joe Campanale, co-owner of the New York City restaurant L'Artusi, which stocks an impressive number of deliberately oxidized Italian wines. "Oxidized flavors can be difficult if you're not familiar with them. All the fresh fruit aromas and tastes diminish, making way for cooked or candied fruit; nutty, yeasty flavors; and a ton of complexity. Fans of these wines find their individuality and character is unsurpassed and, because of that, they are some of the most fascinating and compelling wines in the world."
Showing Its Age
The most evident example of deliberately oxidized wines is, of course, Oloroso sherry, an oxidized and fortified wine made in the Jerez region of southern Spain. "Oxidized or rancio [a term referring to oxidation or wines that have been exposed to heat or extraordinary aging periods] wines have been part of Spanish culture for a long time," says José Pastor, a San Francisco-based importer of Spanish wines.
But while sherry may get most of the attention, it's hardly the only oxidized wine in Spanish tradition. In Rioja, for example, María José López de Heredia's family has for four generations produced wines with an oxidized character—though they've done so through a much more subtle, time-intensive process that depends on starting with high-quality grapes. "Humans get wrinkles because we oxidize, but without oxygen, we cannot survive," López de Heredia explains. "Wine is the same: It needs oxygen for living, but an excess can kill or transform it. For maintaining its youth, we have to fight against oxidation, while making sure that the wine gets a gentle [dose of] oxygen."
Forty years ago, a lot of Rioja wines were oxidized—the region was actually famous for it—simply due to the fact that they were aged for many years in porous wooden barrels that let in a certain amount of air. But in the early 1970s, winemakers began vinifying juice in stainless steel tanks (where oxidation is virtually impossible) or replacing their large old wooden vats with small new oak barrels, known as barriques. The resulting wines were younger, fresher and fruitier—but, argues López de Heredia, they weren't better. "We believe that a well-made aged wine will remain young after many years," she says. "These wines show the fruit but also have more complex aromas and [tertiary] flavors."
By contrast to her competitors' young, sprightly wines, the current vintage release of López de Heredia's Vina Tondonia Gran Reserva Blanco is from 1987. The family-run winery aged this wine for eight years in old barrels and a further nine years in the bottle. The result: old-school Rioja. This "white" wine has turned an intense yellow, almost golden, hue. On the palate, it offers hints of nuts, mushrooms and spice. "We carry three of their white wines, and all of them come with a degree of oxidation," says Eric Pottmeyer, manager of Portland, Ore., wine shop Liner & Elsen. "It's not the main focus, but it's there, like a little seasoning."
Not-So-Mellow Yellow
But while López de Heredia prefers to take the subtle approach, some winemaking regions have used oxygen with what seems like willful abandon. Take Jura, a region flanked by Switzerland and Burgundy in southeast France. It's famous for its Vin Jaune—literally, "yellow wine"—made from the local Savagnin grape. After fermentation, the Savagnin is left to age in old oak barrels that are not filled to the top, giving it ample breathing space and allowing a special blanket of flor (film-forming yeasts) to develop on the wine's surface. It takes several years for the flor to fully develop, during which time the wine is kept carefully exposed to a controlled amount of oxygen.
The strangest part about visiting a producer of Vin Jaune is that your preconceived notion of cellar work is turned on its head. For one thing, it's not always "cellar work": Jacques Puffeney, a small producer in Arbois (a sub-region and appellation in Jura), keeps his Vin Jaune in barrels for seven to nine years, sometimes longer, in an airy upstairs attic space with windows splayed open—a stark contrast to the usual humid, underground cellar. "The facility where the flor develops has to be well aerated and the temperature should vary," he explains. "Upstairs, under our roof, the temperature goes from 30 degrees Celsius [86F] to minus 5 Celsius [23F]. It is a very dry environment, encouraging loss of water and concentration of alcohol and aromas."
Stéphane Tissot, also based in Arbois, makes Vin Jaune and several lesser-aged Savagnin and Chardonnay wines—all of which have been deliberately exposed to air in his dry cellars. "If you were to leave Vin Jaune in a wet cellar, the alcohol would reduce and your wines will be prone to bacteria," he says. "Also, in a wet [humid] cellar, the evolution of your wine is seriously slowed down."
Tissot's Arbois Blanc Selection 2004 is made from 70 percent Chardonnay and 30 percent Savagnin. Each wine ferments separately and ages in barrels that are topped up as normal, for nine months, until both wines are blended and then left in barrels for 15 months, this time without topping, which exposes the slowly evaporating wine to more air. "A lot of people are taught that oxidation in a wine is bad, but when it is a carefully monitored process, and something that producers have been perfecting for years, you have to rethink negative associations," says Pottmeyer. "Winemakers from the Jura, for example, are taking care of their barrels; it's not just some barrel of wine they forgot about."
Geek Chic
That deliberate process has earned the style some loyal fans in the wine world. It was recently poured as part of a wine flight at Blue Ribbon Downing Street Bar in New York City's West Village. "People in the wine business were especially stoked to see us offering a flight of three wines from Jura, which all had varying degrees of oxidation," says former bartender Oscar T. Hernandez, who included Tissot's Arbois Blanc in the mix. "It was a very geeky wine flight."
According to Hernandez, an oxidized-style Chardonnay, such as Tissot's and Domaine de Montbourgeau L'Etoile, stands apart from the ubiquitous kind. "You come across a lot of American Chardonnay that's either too buttery or oaky, but this is so different, so interesting, and it allows you to see how Chardonnay can express itself in a very unique way. Oxidation can give Chardonnay much more complexity," says Hernandez, referring to tertiary and secondary flavors, which are often described as earthy, mushroomy, sherry-like, spicy and nutty.
The Brits have long had a taste for oxidative wine. English ex-pat Bartholomew Broadbent, the founder of San Francisco-based Broadbent Selections Inc., imports several oxidized wines, including his family's Madeira and Port labels and the long-aged wines of Chateau Musar from Lebanon and Bodega Weinert from Argentina. Musar's wines are kept for a total of two years in concrete tanks and one year in large used oak barrels, getting ample oxygen throughout. "Musar is a household name in the U.K.," says Bartholomew, whose father is the renowned British wine critic and auctioneer Michael Broadbent. "Fifty percent of Musar's wines are sold in England, and it happens to be my absolute favorite wine. When I was brought up, I was told that if you can taste the grape variety in a wine, it is not ready to drink. … Without aging and an element of oxidation, it's just fermented grape juice."
Still, even oxidized wine's staunchest advocates will admit that the style has its challenges. For one, it's an expensive and time-consuming process, so the resulting wines tend to be pricey and hard to find. It's also an acquired taste, and one that American palates aren't familiar with. "It is not the kind of wine I can recommend right off the bat," Pottmeyer acknowledges. "I need to become familiar with a customer's taste before I can suggest a López de Heredia or an oxidized-style wine from the Jura."
Also, since the polyphenols (tannins, color pigments and flavor compounds) in red wine and dark-skinned grapes help protect against oxidation, it's a style mostly reserved for white wines. There are exceptions, of course: In the Alicante region of southeast Spain, vintners make a rancio wine called Fondillón from the local Monastrell grape. "This wine is made in the solera system [a fractional blending system from different age-scales of stacked barrels] but without fortification," says importer Pastor. "It has beautiful and complex aromas, such as fruit preserves, almonds and dried flowers; it tastes nutty in a sherry-like way but without the alcohol and bite of Jerez, because it isn't fortified."
Meanwhile, in the Collio region of Friuli in Italy, Stanko Radikon keeps his own country's oxygenating tradition alive and macerates his white wines like red wines, with long skin contact. Like Lopez de Heredia's wines, they go through a very slow oxidative process by spending a long time in large, used Slovenian botti (extremely large barrels that can hold up to 6,000 liters of wine). New York restaurant L'Artusi offers a handful of these Slovenian-style Friuli wines (Collio is situated on the border of Slovenia), including such producers as Damijan, Josko Gravner and Radikon. "They are [either] avant-garde or insanely traditional winemakers, depending on how you look at it," says L'Artusi's Campanale. "I like the fact that these are dry white wines that offer something you wouldn't expect. An element of surprise, for me, makes for a memorable wine experience."
Happy Accidents
Sometimes, the most pleasant outcomes are unintended. Exhibit A: Abe Schoener, founder of the cult-wine producer Scholium Project. Schoener didn't mean to make oxidized wines; he was just really busy. "I didn't have time to top barrels regularly," says the ex-philosophy professor turned winemaker, referring to the common practice of adding more wine to a barrel as aging wine evaporates. "I was also inclined to mess with the wines as little as possible. At first I didn't count topping as intervention; I was just poorly organized. But I noticed that the wines were not spoiling, not even in the most extreme cases of leaky barrels with lots of headspace. At the same time, I started learning about white wines that had been exposed to oxygen in Collio and Burgundy. I decided that oxygen exposure could be a positive factor to be encouraged, not an effect to be avoided."
Schoener isn't a traditional California winemaker. He eschews fruitiness in favor of wine that exudes secondary tastes and aromas. Most of the Scholium Project whites are made in an oxidative way. "The wines are made in 60-gallon barrels with about five gallons of headspace," says Schoener. "It's a crazy amount of breathing space, but it makes the wine so intense."
His wines have gained a cult following in New York (David Chang's Momofuku restaurants are big fans), and the buzz is growing on the West Coast as well. In conjunction with several grape growers, Schoener made a 100-percent Chardonnay wine called Maldonado from the 2006 vintage. This wine experienced a single top-up during its two years in barrel, at which time the wine was given generous airspace and moderate pools of surface flor were formed. It's the kind of élevage (the cellar work from fermentation to bottling) that is unheard of in the U.S. According to Schoener, a conventional Napa winery will top its barrels about every three weeks, or 12 to 14 times a year. Some top less often, but at least six times a year. Like the wines of the Jura, Maldonado offers pure secondary flavors, showing brilliant salinity and hints of mushrooms on the palate. It's hard to believe this is Chardonnay. And since oxygen accelerates the aging process, Maldonado tastes like a wine beyond its three years.
It is risky winemaking, and these are not mainstream wines. But Schoener believes Americans are learning to appreciate wines that go beyond the norm. "There is a hip element to favoring these wines: avoiding, maybe even disdaining, clean, fruity wines," he notes. "These wines are being introduced to more people all the time, and my sense is that they're catching on. You don't have to be hip to enjoy them—maybe only to understand what is atypical about them."
And slowly, Schoener is gaining not just fans, but colleagues. "A few more winemakers are experimenting with these techniques," he says. "There is spreading interest in Italy and France, but I have to say, to do what I'm doing, it helps not to have a family to support; otherwise, I would have to be completely crazy."


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Hellforge posted an editorial about how the Fallout 3 main plot recycles much of the plots of all previous published Fallout games: Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel:
- The Brotherhood Of Steel
- In both Fallout Tactics and Fallout 3, the player is forced to join a splinter faction within the Brotherhood of Steel in order to continue the storyline. In the first Fallout, joining the Brotherhood was simply optional. They barely played a role in Fallout 2, and in the unreleased Van Buren, they declined in power due to an on-going war with the New California Republic. It should be noted that Fallout 3 takes place many years after the events of Fallout 2, so their presence in Washington D.C. is confusing.
- Similarities to FOBOS
- Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, or FOBOS as it is known is an immensely unpopular action game that took apart the Fallout setting for the purpose of making Interplay a quick buck by being released as a generic console title.
- That being said, the game shares similarities with Fallout 3's plot, in that both games feature a Vault full of FEV, which by all accounts in the original RPGs are a rare, classified substance, and both games feature a Brotherhood of Steel elder forming a splinter faction in a location remote from the organization's headquarters, against council orders, in order to deal with a Super Mutant threat.
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There are many reasons, I find the most likely one is because some functionality exists in the very latest build but not in the version you are currently running. Also there are build options you might want to change on the current version such as enabling highmem on the current kernel to allow use of the full 1Gb of RAM on the PandaBoard (currently disabled because of compiler segfault issues).
The reasons boil down to trying something new, tweaking something to run better or fixing an error. There are others of course.
The following assumes you are running Ubuntu natively on a PandaBoard, you have several gigabytes of free space available to the Pandaboard, a reasonably fast Internet connection to the PandaBoard and hours of time to let it compile.
Step 1: Setup
This will likely result in a about 500 MB of downloads and about 800 MB of space being used up. It will also take a while (hour) for the process of downloading and installing to complete.
Step2: Download Kernel Sources
Then find a location which has several gigabytes free (I would guess ~2GB is a minimum), chdir into that location and pull down (clone) the kernel source files for the official Ubuntu kernel:
Now checkout the working directory with:
git checkout -b working origin/ti-omap4
Step2A: Change the Build Configuration Options
This step is purely optional. If you want to edit the configuration files which control what is included in the built kernel (ie which drivers, which file systems are supported etc) run the following command:
Step3: Build the Kernel From Source
Then chdir into that directory, into /ubuntu-maverick/ and generate the kernel package with these commands:
fakeroot debian/rules clean
export $(dpkg-architecture -aarmel)
do_tools=false fakeroot debian/rules binary-arch
The final result of this will be many *.deb files in the root directory where you cloned the git repository to.
After a successful build the root level of your kernel directory should have the follow *.deb files in amongst many *.udeb files:
linux-headers-2.6.35-25-omap_2.6.35-25.44_armel.debStep4: Install the Kernel
Once this process has completed successfully you will need to install the new kernel. To do this you will install the following *.deb files (change for your version):
It is important to install these deb files in the right order to avoid subtle errors.
To install these *.deb files type the following command, note you will have to change the version numbers if the version numbers in the files names have changed (ie they have to be the same as the files in the directory.
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-2.6.35-903-omap4_2.6.35-903.22_armel.deb
The final step is to copy the kernel to the correct parts of the SD Card so that uBoot can find it on the next bootup.
The command is:
Now to explain this "sudo flash-kernel" is the command to execute flash-kernel which copies vmlinuz from /boot/ to the boot up file system.
[Lachlan rightly points out: "The "flash-kernel" command writes the uImage, uInitrd and boot.scr files to the boot partition of your SD card, usually /dev/mmcblk0p1."]
Normally it would guess the correct file to copy but in this case we explicitly ask it to copy the file "vmlinuz.2.6.35-903-omap4" by specifying 2.6.35-903-omap4 after the command.
flash-kernel will append the "vmlinuz-" part to the file name and automatically look in /boot/ for it.


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Consider an elliptic curve $y^2=x^3+ax+b$. It is well known that we can (in the generic case) create an addition on this curve turning it into an abelian group: The group law is characterized by the neutral element being the point at infinity and the fact that $w_1+w_2+w_3=0$ if and only if the three points $w_j$ are the intersections (with multiplicity) of a line and the elliptic curve.
Groups can be hard to work with, but in most cases proving that the group is in fact a group is easy. The elliptic curve is an obvious exception. Commutativity is easy, but associativity is hard, at least to this non-algebraist: The proof looks like a big calculation, and the associativity seems like an algebraic accident rather than something that ought to be true.
So this is my question, then: Why is the group law on an elliptic curve associative? Is there some good reason for it? Is the group perhaps a subgroup or a quotient of some other group that is easier to understand? Or can it be constructed from other groups in some fashion?
I gather that historically, the group law was discovered via the addition law for the Weierstrass $\wp$-function. The addition law is itself not totally obviuos, plus this approach seems limited to the case where the base field is $\mathbb{C}$. In any case, I'll elaborate a bit on this shortly, in a (community wiki) answer.


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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. – A physical, touchy encounter at a rainy Dick's Sporting Goods Park on Saturday afternoon resulted in a scoreless draw between the Colorado Rapids and San Jose Earthquakes.
The result kept San Jose winless through their opening five games of the season and pushed Colorado's unbeaten streak to three games.
But perhaps the bigger story was Adam Jahn's 86th-minute red card after a late challenge on Rapids rookie Jared Watts, resulting in the Colorado coaching staff barking at Earthquakes head coach Mark Watson. Jahn caught Watts with his shoulder, leaving the rookie on the ground and the Quakes forward with a straight red. But the Rapids were unable to exploit the man advantage and saw their two-game winning streak come to an end.
Chances were rare as both sides struggled to get any sort of offensive momentum on the rain-soaked field, although an Alan Gordon header in the first minute nearly opened the scoring for the Earthquakes (0-2-3). Dillon Serna's second-half introduction helped Colorado some on the offensive end, but it was too little, too late for the home side.
Gordon nearly pulled the visitors ahead 38 seconds in when his header from a corner kick clanged off the crossbar.
The Rapids started to work their way into the match though, nearly scoring in the 25th on a Deshorn Brown shot, but Jon Busch made a diving save to deny the Jamaican. A downpour midway into the first half didn't help the choppy play. The Rapids did get a good look when Watts, making his second MLS start, ripped off a long distance shot in the 34th that required another Busch save.
On the other side of the half, chances were also relatively few and far between as elbows outnumbered corner kicks. Serna's home debut in the 70th minute appeared to breathe a little life into the mostly absent Rapids attack, but San Jose's defense was able to keep Colorado off the scoreboard relatively easily – even after Jahn's expulsion – thanks to a number of gutsy clearances by center back Victor Bernardez.
The Earthquakes head home for a California showdown with Chivas USA on Saturday night, while the Rapids hit the road for a trip to CenturyLink Field to face the Sounders on the same day.
MLSsoccer.com Men of the Match
|What We Saw
|Victor Bernardez
|The big defender turned the Rapids' attack away time after time
|Dillon Powers
|The young midfielder continues to be the straw the stirs the drink for the Rapids
|Vicente Sanchez
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Remember baseball cards? Those cardboard collectables that came packaged with a stick of gum, which you'd flip, trade and store in your stock drawer? With the release of two new Apple apps, Topps, the iconic card company, is now trying to take card collecting into the future.
One of the new apps—Topps Bunt, available on the iPad— allows you to collect virtual cards, each assigned a point value depending on the player's performance, and play fantasy baseball against friends and online neighbors. The app is social; you can interact with—code for "talk smack to"—your opponents, and trade cards, just like you used to do on the stoop. "Baseball is weird. Be weird," is the tag-line for Topps Bunt. We don't think of baseball, or this app, as being all that weird, but whatever. We see how tech-savvy kids, in particular, will enjoy moving cards around the touch-screen, instead of sticking them in their bicycle spokes.
(MORE: Inside the Mind of Jamie Moyer, Baseball's Ageless Wonder)
The other app, Topps Pennant (which is available on both the iPhone and iPad) doesn't have all that much to do with baseball cards, but it preys on the feeling those cards invoke: nostalgia. With Topps Pennant, you can pull up play-by-play data from any baseball game from the last 60 years. So if you are curious about the opening day lineup of the first baseball team you followed closely—for me, for example, it would be the woeful 1983 New York Mets—and want to know how that game unfolded, have at it. The app will be great for settling silly bar-room debates, and for wasting terrific amounts of time.
"This is the first time we're making an earnest push into digital," says Michael Bramlage, VP of digital at Topps. "But we're doing more than just digitizing a physical baseball card. You've got to do more."
The new apps are promising, but I must admit, I was most happy to hear Bramlage say that the old-fashioned print cards are still in business. (He even called them "thriving.") You can still pick them up at Walmart, Target and hobby stores around the country. I want my kid to play around on these apps, and discover baseball history. But he should also see the cards I saw.
Plus, as someone concerned with any and all dental bills, they no longer come with gum.


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5G standardization
The 5G standardization process is complex and highly innovative. With pioneering research and early collaborations with academia and other industries, we have developed and contributed to a standard that meets the needs of different industries and the society.
Ericsson is deeply involved in all areas of the process, ensuring aggressive performance targets of the end-to-end system in the 5G standardization work. Now that we see wide-scale deployment, Ericsson is ready to advance industries and society on their digitalization journey. One significant proof point of our involvement is the foundation application that Ericsson filed in 2017. This patent application, which combines the work of 130 Ericsson inventors, is the largest in cellular communication in terms of number of inventors, anywhere in the world. Quite impressive.
The application includes everything an operator needs to build a complete 5G network. This shows Ericsson's innovative and collective approach in the standardization of 5G through a complete 5G network - rather than focusing on individual inventions. So no matter what the operator's needs are, Ericsson is here to create, assist and innovate.
How does 5G NR standardization work?
In this blog post Dr Stefan Parkvall, principal researcher at Ericsson Research, describes the work with the 5G New Radio (NR) standardization. Dr Parkvall is working with research on 5G and future radio access. He is one of the key persons in the development of HSPA, LTE and NR radio access and has been deeply involved in the 3GPP standardization for many years.
Standards that are anything but standard – 5G
In this blog post Ericsson' s CTO Erik Ekudden describes how our researchers already way back in 2010 and 2011 had a clear vision of what 5G could become. They threw themselves into their work, creating 5G testbeds with leading operators around the world. Without their passion for technology and its advancement, we wouldn't be telling such a compelling 5G story today.
Highlighted below are some of Ericsson's key contributions in the standard and that will have a great impact on the 5G system performance:
- 5G New Radio (NR) – will enable aggressive radio interface performance targets. This is made possible by our flexible and scalable numerology, which is compatible with LTE and ultra-lean transmissions
- The full 3GPP Release 15 New Radio (NR) - will enable stand-alone NR with user and protocol plane using the 5G next-generation core network
- 5G security – will improve subscriber untraceability, protection of subscriber identities and subscriber privacy. It also creates flexible identity management where different types of credentials can co-exist and function over a variety of access types
- 5G sustainability – will introduce a fundamental change of design principles from "always on" to "always available" resulting in high energy savings
- 5G core – will with the concept of network slicing and distributed cloud adapt to business environments that is significantly different from the business environment of today
5G radio access
5G wireless capabilities are expected to extend far beyond previous generations of mobile communication. And NR 5G standardization, along with the evolution of the existing LTE standard, will help achieve the same. The aim of 5G is much wider than enhanced mobile broadband and will have to meet aggressive performance targets. Some of the key technology components to reach these targets include flexible numerology and ultra-lean transmissions.
Flexible numerology with x*15kHz sub-carriers will result in good co-existence with LTE and NB-IoT, as well as very low latencies. Ultra-lean design enables future-proof and self-contained data transmissions as well as reduced interference to neighbor sites. The latter implies higher overall system capacity and enables higher end-user data rates as this would otherwise be limited by the interference from the "un-necessary" interference from the neighbor sites. The first version of NR was ready by the end of 2017, but the planning of the same started a long time ago.
5G core
Ericsson is driving next-generation core networks in the 5G standardization for business environments, making it noticeably advanced from today's networks. One example in Ericsson's 5G core is the concept of network slicing providing significant enhancements to address new business opportunities. Another example is the introduction of, what we call, distributed cloud infrastructure. Industries are changing and with that data-intensive applications are changing too. We see a need to create a more decentralized infrastructure with compute and storage closer to the end customer, or the device. There are many reasons for this, which are not only latency related but also about regulatory compliance, resilience, and network scalability.
Ericsson is a strong advocate and driver of the integrated model for 5G Fixed Mobile Convergence. It includes the extension of the control plane into the home, exposing new value to the consumer. Enhanced automation is another key to realize efficient 5G networks as well as digitalization of the operator's business. Ericsson is in close cooperation with leading operators on the journey towards zero-touch operation.
Operators and vendors are on a journey towards cloud-native implementations of the 5G core network. And Ericsson is one of the main proponents of the Rel-16 eSBA study, that aims to further adapt the 3GPP specifications to cloud-native implementation and deployments.
5G security
Better privacy and identity protection of subscribers is becoming more and more important for every organization that deals with personal date. 5G networks can further enhance security; one example is Ericsson's solution to improve subscriber untraceability, based on asymmetric encryption methods. By this, Ericsson laid the ground for improved privacy in the 5G standardization. We are also working to ensure that secure identities for IoT solutions become available to users and developers across different sectors and ecosystems. This we do by implementing flexible identity management, where different types of credentials suitable for constrained or more powerful devices can co-exist. Moreover, it will also function over a variety of access types – including secure storage technologies of credentials in devices.
5G sustainability
Ericsson is driving the shift from "always on" to "always available" in the 5G standardization for enabling high energy savings, without impacting other network KPI:s. To achieve this Ericsson has successfully pushed for ultra-lean design, where the basic principle is to avoid network transmission as much as possible when there is no data to transmit, and functionalities that can be dynamically activated on a per-need basis. This enables equipment to enter more extensive, or deeper, sleep-mode levels.


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Thursday, April 8, 2010
Makin' Whoopie
When my big son was quite small, I brought home a can of Crisco from the grocery store. To my puzzlement he was very excited about it and wanted to open it right away. Then when I did open it, he was quite disappointed. Unlike the enticing picture on the label, it contained no fried chicken at all!
I feel that way about shortening, too. It's deceitful. Going by looks alone, it should be creamy and delicious, but it's just grease. So why is it a major component in so many frostings? Because it makes them look creamy and delicious, although they're actually disgusting. If you're unfortunate enough to have to choke down a piece of "happy special occasion" cake from the grocery store, you'll know that it makes you feel wretched, too.
That's why I've put off making Whoopie Pies for so long. I love the idea of a big cookie, cakey in texture, filled with frosting. Basically, it's a piece of chocolate cake, to go. But if the frosting part is nasty, why bother? And all the recipes that I'd seen called for a lot of shortening in the filling.
But then, I saw a recipe in Martha Stewart's Cookies for Whoopie Pies with peanut butter frosting. Yes! Peanut butter deliciousness, and zero shortening! I dove face first into that one and came up with these delicious beauties. Can you resist?
(If you're a purist and really must have your black and white Whoopie Pie, check out this recipe for amazing, shortening-free Whoopie Pies. They're in my "to bake" queue.)
Peanut butter Whoopie Pies
- adapted from Martha Stewart's Cookies
3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1-1/2 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
1 Tbsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, room temperature
2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
2 cups buttermilk, room temperature
2 tsp vanilla extract
For the filling:
1-1/3 cup natural, creamy peanut butter
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
1-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
Coarse salt
1- Preheat oven to 400 deg. F. with shelves dividing the oven into thirds. Line two baking sheets with parchment.
2- Sift together the flour, cocoas powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
3- In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs, buttermilk, and vanilla. Beat until well combined. On low speed, slowly add dry ingredients; mix until combined.
4- Drop batter onto the prepared cookie sheets, 1-1/2 Tbsp at a time, 2-inches apart. Bake until set, about 8 minutes, rotating the sheets halfway though. The cookie is done when it feels soft on the top, but not wet. Cool completely on a wire rack.
5- To make the filling, place the peanut butter and butter in the bowl of an electric mixer. Beat on high speed until smooth. Reduce speed to low . Add confectioners' sugar and mix until combined. On high speed, mix until fluffy and smooth, about 3 minutes. Season with salt, if desired.
6- To assemble the cookies, spread 1 heaping tablespoon of the filling on the flat side of 1 cookie. Top with another cookie. Repeat with remaining cookies and filling. Cookies can be refrigerated in single layers in an airtight container up to 3 days. Bring to room temperature before serving.
23 comments:
- Jennifer Jo said...
I was going to title my whoopie pie post "Making Whoopie," but I chickened out at the last minute...'cause it means Other Things In Some Circles. I'm glad to see you went for it, and that you're not the chicken I am. (You might get some interesting hits from questionable google searches...)
I just made a peanut butter frosting this morning...to go on banana cake muffins. But my recipe called for the addition of cream cheese, plus a little more peanut butter. Good stuff, that peanut butter frosting!
- April 8, 2010 at 10:15 AM
- kickpleat said...
I've never eaten a whoopie pie, but the idea of shortening in frosting is kinda gross. This frosting looks perfect as I love a pb & chocolate combo.
- April 8, 2010 at 1:05 PM
- hobby baker Kelly said...
Oh man, I think I may have had a whoopie pie once in my life but these look infinitely more appealing than those plastic wrapped gut bombs! I bet you could change up the nut butter you use as well for variety. That filling looks divine - I love pb frosting/filling. I wonder if macadamia cashew butter would work as well...
- April 8, 2010 at 1:41 PM
- CookiePie said...
Oooooh - whoopie pies with peanut butter filling?? Yes yes yes yes. They look fantastic!!!
- April 8, 2010 at 2:56 PM
Oh they look SO wonderful! I don't need another excuse to bake with the peanut butter n chocolate combination, but you just gave me one. Crisco is kinda weird for me, too -- I honestly didn't really think it was edible, except for when you used it to grease the bottom of pans!
- April 8, 2010 at 5:34 PM
- Paula said...
They look delicious and remind me of a chocolate drop cookie my mom used to make only hers had no filling. Second time I've seen this peanut butter frosting and I swear I will get busy making it one day. I want to try it on a double chocolate cake!
- April 8, 2010 at 5:49 PM
- Katrina said...
Is there not a better combo? I don't use shortening anymore either, but grew up with all the baking recipes calling for it.
- April 8, 2010 at 6:09 PM
- Carol said...
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- April 8, 2010 at 6:26 PM
- Homemade Heaven said...
That's a kind of Whoopie I would be happy to make - peanut butter, yummy! I also had the greasy commercial cake frosting.
- April 9, 2010 at 1:07 AM
- grace said...
i'm not averse to using shortening (it's essential in my pie dough), but i SO agree with you on those disgusting grocery store cakes. i'd rather eat dirt i think. maybe.
that said, this filling sounds tremendous and perfect for squishing between two chocolate cookies. well done!
- April 9, 2010 at 3:49 AM
- Barbara said...
You are so right about those cakes in the market. The frosting tastes like Crisco. And nothing but crisco. (when my sister was young, she actually ate crisco by the spoonful!! Ugh.)
While I love peanut butter by itself and I do love PB cookies, I never cared for it in combination with chocolate. I know, odd of me. I don't even like Reese's. Your Whoopie Pies look yummy! However, I will go to the site you mentioned for another no-shortening frosting.
- April 9, 2010 at 4:13 AM
- Debbie said...
They look delicious. So good homemade. I know exactly what you mean when you mentioned the grocery store cake. They are just sickly sweet...
- April 9, 2010 at 4:27 AM
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
I couldn't possibly resist either.
- April 9, 2010 at 6:38 AM
I muccch prefer the sound of these whoppie pies compared to their shortening filled cousins. But I guess shortening is helpful for those who are vegan/dairy intolerant. Thank god for trans fat free ones!
Peanut butter just made these go from yum to super awesome!
- April 11, 2010 at 12:22 AM
- aforkfulofspaghetti said...
There seems to be a lot of noise over here recently about whoopie pies... Perhaps they're the 'next cupcake'? Still, looks like they're worth trying - particularly this delicious chocolate and peanut butter combo, possibly my favourite of all time!
- April 11, 2010 at 1:19 AM
- Unknown said...
I hate shortening too! Always been on the lookout for a frosting that doesn't involve it. Thanks. It looks delicious!
- April 11, 2010 at 1:25 AM
- eatme_delicious said...
Oh my these look amazing and I'm sure were devoured quickly by all who were near them! I'm in love with the perfect dome shape of the cookies. So gorgeous.
- April 12, 2010 at 5:24 PM
- LetMeEatCake Eat With Me! said...
Seems like everyone is making whoopie :)! I have yet to try a recipe but peanut butter and chocolate might be the whoopie pie recipe for me! Those pies look darn tasty, great pics!
- April 13, 2010 at 5:12 PM
- CaSaundraLeigh said...
I've only made whoopies once, but it's been WAY too long since the last time--thanks for the reminder to get my butt in gear and make some whoops! :-)
- April 14, 2010 at 5:09 AM
- Julie said...
PB and chocolate together...my fave! I'll take 3 and an ice cold glass of milk please :)
- April 14, 2010 at 9:23 PM
- Susan said...
was wondering if these could be frozen and eaten later?
- April 15, 2010 at 8:01 AM
- cmm said...
Thanks for the recipe. I live in a place where there are numerous types of whoopie pies but this one matched two tastes that my family likes- peanut butter and chocolate.
The frosting mixed up easily. I made that the day before I baked the cakes. The dough was so fluffy and easy to scoop into little mounds for baking. A very good recipe and I will make them again. I found the cakes to be too strong flavor of the unsweetened chocolate . It over powered the peanut butter. I will decrease the amount of chocolate when I make them next time. I enjoy your blog.
- May 4, 2010 at 6:09 PM
- Freeza said...
Thanks for the recipe i will try it
- February 17, 2011 at 10:59 AM


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"[Nix] is going to be my utility player as long as he wants to. This kid is a great utility player. I think our plan is having [Gordon Beckham, Alexei Ramirez] and Getz at their positions for the future. [Nix] can help us a lot when we need him. He's playing very well, but am I going to pencil him in every day? Time will tell. Now we have three guys and we count on those guys for a long time."
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Now Baxter, who played the devoted hippie mom constantly butting heads with her conservative kids on "Family Ties," is making a public admission.
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Baxter, 62, though anxious, decided to come out on national television after her sexuality became tabloid fodder.
"I've always lived a very private life," said the actress, who's never even had a publicist. "To come out and disclose stuff is very antithetical to who I am."
The National Enquirer reported that Baxter was spotted last month aboard a Caribbean cruise sponsored by lesbian travel company Sweet, writing that she was seen "traveling with a female friend, and she seemed very relaxed and comfortable."
Baxter admitted that she did indeed take the vacation with her girlfriend, despite the threat that the couple would be outed.
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Saturday September 22nd, 2012
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Runners were greeted by angry clouds, intermittent rain, and raw temperatures in the lower 40°F range... but the annual "W3 Be Active Today! 5k & Fit Kid Shuffle" would not be dissuaded nor delayed, as intrepid runners took on the challenge to race the streets and trails of Whitewater, Wisconsin.
Congratulations to overall winner Andrew Vos of Fort Atkinson and multi-year repeat winner Jennifer Taylor of Madison for finishing first in their respective gender divisions of the 5 Kilometer road race.
Kudos to Race Director Jen Kaina, Rich Jazdzewski, and their army of volunteers for conducting the only race in Whitewater that has permitting privileges to close streets of Whitewater!
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Oh yea, as my partner Bill noted in his report, or as I myself might put it (borrowing from Gordon Lightfoot's most famous 'Edmund Fitzgerald' song) "the gales of November came early!" It was positively FREEZING on Saturday morning in Icewater (excuse me, Whitewater) Wisconsin. ;-)
Nevertheless, folks showed up, ran well, (walked a little, maybe :), and gathered round wishing to goodness, perhaps, for a campfire. No need! The warmth of fellowship prevailed despite the gales. Or the ice. Trust us, nobody but nobody got overheated in the race!
I'd just like to add here how very impressed I was--and always am--with the stalwart character of Whitewaterans (and Wisconsinites) in general. Everyone bundled up (except the amazing winner of the women's race ;) and had a great time despite the weather. (And I am pleased to note that Jen Taylor DID put on a sweatshirt afterwards. :) I had the privilege of meeting the men's winner, Andrew Vos, beforehand--as he was the FIRST to show up and register on raceday, also dressed for summer. I guess when you win races, putting on all the clothes in your closet isn't necessary. But the rest of us, to be sure, were wearing much of our closets!
It's also always a joy to see all the kiddoes. And there may even have been more of them than runners in the regular race. I was so pleased at THEIR stalwart character! It seemed to me those kids ran well--and quite far!--to win their medals in their event. Take a look at the photos Bill and I took. Those delightful children had no idea that they were supposed to be freezing!
And oh, in keeping with the host's theme of Working for Whitewater's Wellness, I was completely pleased to see the children in the first place NOT being at home in front of the TV. I'm thinking Whitewater (as well as the rest of America) just loves to see their kids active and excited and "out there" exercising, showing all of us "old folks" just how it's done. Thank you, kids!
One last note: I'm actually glad the course was changed this year, because this year The Train Did Come! Yes, it just so happens that the main entrance to Whitewater's lakefront park has a railroad crossing and, gosh, right before the children's start, here came the train! This year, however, no one involved in either race needed to cross the tracks, so everything was "cool" and we all waved to the smiling engineer. But last year? Whoa! The runners all started on one side of the tracks and finished on the other and oh my gosh! I recall how last year a nice orange extension cord went across those very tracks to bring power to the finish line.
Wow. If it was the same this year as last? Ha! That cord would've been sliced into three easy pieces just as nice as you please. ;-)
Good work, Director Jen and all volunteers, for saving the day (if not an extension cord or two, or three)!!!
And you know what? The weather did get a whole lot better afterwards! So the accompanying festivities in the park must've gone well, too. A splendid time was had by all!
Mark this one on your calendar for next year!!
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Have you always wondered what a drop 3 chord is? Join Sheryl as she demystifies the drop 3 chord voicings.
Taught by Sheryl Bailey in Creative Chords seriesLength: 7:52Difficulty: 3.0 of 5
Jamplay welcomes Jazz virtuoso Sheryl Bailey with her series, "Creative Chords". Dive into the rich world of chord voicings and inversions that will help you understand harmony in a new way!
Lesson 1
Jamplay welcomes one of Downbeat Magazine's 2014 "Rising Stars", Sheryl Bailey! Sheryl's series "Creative Chords", takes you down a rich harmonic path of understanding a multitude of chord voicings and...Length: 6:21 Difficulty: 0.0 Members Only
Lesson 2
To get started, Sheryl first looks at the basic root position chords used in harmonizing the major scale. Getting your ear familiar with these sounds will be a great benefit for you down the road!Length: 6:55 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 3
On to the next set of chord voicings: Drop 2's in root position. It's a fancy name to be sure, but some simply put, these voicings will add some more colors to your chord palette!Length: 5:45 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 4
Continuing on with the diatonic 7th chords, it's now on to Drop 3's in root position.Length: 6:43 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Now Sheryl takes a look at some 2nd inversion chords (chords with the 5th on the bottom), starting with Drop 2's.Length: 9:33 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 6
Yet more colors to add to your palette! Here are the very rich, Drop 3 voicings in 2nd inversion.Length: 9:57 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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In this lesson, Sheryl gives us an overview of every voicing she's covered so far, only this time she organizes them by the type of chord instead of in the diatonic scale.Length: 11:14 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Now Sheryl explores one of the basics of rhythm guitar: shell voicings. It's amazing what you'll be able to do with these simple 3 note chords!Length: 5:01 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 9
The ii-V-I progression is straight out of Jazz 101! Sheryl Bailey shows you the shell voicings that will cover lots of mileage in your rhythm guitar playing.Length: 5:20 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 10
Playing rhythm guitar is about more than just playing the right chords. It's about finding "the pocket" and the groove. Sheryl gives you some practical advice and techniques for finding and keeping yourself...Length: 6:40 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Time to put all the shells you've learned into an actual tune! In this lesson, Sheryl shows you a blues in Bb and utilizes walkups and chromatic approaches to get that classic 4 to the bar sound.Length: 12:21 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 12
Giving the material more of a practical use, Sheryl now shows us a tune she calls "Smooth". She introduces more walkups and pushes within the context of a standard progression to expand your rhythm guitar...Length: 7:03 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 13
Have you always wondered what a drop 3 chord is? Join Sheryl as she demystifies the drop 3 chord voicings.Length: 7:52 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 14
The classic jazz technique of accompanying yourself with a walking bass line can seem daunting at times, but Sheryl breaks down the technique here by showing us a practical and demystifying approach with...Length: 5:45 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 15
Now, let's put the walking bass line into an actual chord progression. Sheryl breaks down each step in making this a reality!Length: 13:20 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 16
Now, Sheryl takes a look at another commonly used voicing - the Drop Two.Length: 8:47 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 17
Now that we know what a drop two chord voicing is, Sheryl now shows us the four major chord types: minor 7, dominant 7, major 7 and minor 7(b5). Starting in this lesson with the high set, she covers root...Length: 7:47 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 18
Join Sheryl as she continues her look at the four chord types of the drop two voicing. This time, she explores the middle set.Length: 7:38 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 19
Finally, Sheryl explores the low set of the four major chord types in the drop two voicing.Length: 10:23 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 20
The ii-V-I-VI turnaround or "turnback" progression is very common in the world of jazz. Using voice leading concepts and drop two voicings, Sheryl shows you how to get this progression under your fingers.Length: 5:05 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 21
Sheryl continues looking at drop 2 voicings within the ii-V-I-VI progression. This time, she uses the the middle four strings.Length: 5:47 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 22
Sheryl continues in this section of her series by looking at the low set of the ii-V-I-VI drop 2 voicings.Length: 4:14 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 23
Join Sheryl as she does a quick review of all the ii-V-I-VI drop two chord inversions we just learned!Length: 6:57 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 24
Now it's time to achieve some of those quintessential jazz sounds by exploring chord extensions on the drop two, ii-V-I-VI inversions!Length: 15:03 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 25
In this lesson, Sheryl takes a look at a technique used by the legendary Wes Montgomery that connects your minor 7 voicings with passing diminished chords. This techniques leads us closer to the idea of...Length: 9:17 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 26
This lesson could also be titled "Intro to Chord Solos"! Here, Sheryl gives you four usable chordal licks to play over a ii-V-I-VI progression.Length: 15:04 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
Lesson 27
This is the first in a group of lessons where Sheryl takes us through "Bossa Blues", focusing on voice leading on certain sections of the neck. Up first - Grip 1.Length: 6:51 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 28
Continuing up the neck, Sheryl looks at the next 'grip' of chords for "Bossa Blues".Length: 5:04 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 29
Using "Bossa Blues" to cover the whole neck with drop twos, Sheryl now looks at what she calls "Grip 5".Length: 4:13 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 30
In this lesson, Sheryl covers the 4th grip of drop twos using the standard, "Bossa Blues". After that, she puts all four grips together, showing us the entire range of drop twos over the whole fretboard!Length: 6:07 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 31
Now that we've learned to voice lead our drop two chords across the fretboard in "Bossa Blues," it's time to learn the melody! But not just the melody...We learn to harmonize the melody with our drop twos!Length: 12:17 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 32
Sheryl continues is this lesson with the Bossa Blues chord melody. Putting it all together, she reviews the shapes, then plays it with the track.Length: 7:18 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
Lesson 33
Finally, Sheryl shows us some of her personal favorite colors when playing the "Bossa Blues" chord melody.Length: 11:25 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
Lesson 34
Join Sheryl as she shares some of her favorite voicings and some of her philosophy in this blues comping study.Length: 9:31 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 35
The title is a mouthful, but the lesson lets you inside Sheryl's mind and how she organizes her fretboard, using 7 scale positions!Length: 10:54 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
Lesson 36
Sheryl continues showing us how she organizes her fretboard using minor 7, drop three voicings and their corresponding arpeggios. Join her as she puts it all together with a track!Length: 8:12 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 37
After exploring her minor 7 fretboard organization, now Sheryl takes a look at how she organizes the major 7ths.Length: 14:14 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 38
Sheryl wraps up her major 7 fretboard organization by putting it all together with the track!Length: 9:26 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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