various engineering sessions...including an interesting history of the broadcast masts on the Empire State Building (fun fact, there was never a dirigible mooring point up there - that's a persistent myth), and a history of the most famous microphone in history.

Sunday is an "off day" in theory, but I filled the time by attending the Nautel Users Group (NUG) at the Riviera, and Logitek Users Group (LUG) at the Flamingo. Nautel makes the V7.5 FM transmitter RIPR uses for 102.7 WRNI-FM in South County, and this year's NUG boasted a record turnout of over 300 engineers and managers. They also demo'ed the really impressive new GV series of transmitters. Plus stepping into the Riviera is like stepping back in time. You really feel like you'll see Frank SinatraNova York
o colocou a uns 23 m de altura
próximo ao Central Park desde 1892.
Fundei a organização Movers and Shakers,
sem fins lucrativos,

English: 
These memorials are a physical
representation of a system
that is actively working
to define whose lives matter
and whose lives do not.
If we are going to disrupt the narrative,
we have to start at the origin.
Genocide, slavery and patriarchy
started in the Americas
with Christopher Columbus.
Most people in the United States
know about his voyage of 1492.
Fewer people know that an estimated
250,000 indigenous Arawaks were wiped out
within two years of his arrival.
Even fewer people know
that Columbus admitted in a letter
written to Doña Juana de la Torre
that "nine and 10-year-old girls
were in high demand,
and for girls of all ages
a good price must be paid."
Yet New York City's Columbus Circle
has had him perched 76 feet high
next