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lead actor. Michael Kaleta boomed and Karl Wasserman was my utility person. Both did an outstanding job. Andy Hay CAS has had a busy year supervising and mixing at Formosa Group. Projects completed this year include the Netflix supernatural series Chambers, independent feature films Corporate Animals for Patrick Brice, and Endings Beginnings for Drake Doremus. Streaming features includes Stargirl for Disney+ and Let It Snow for Netflix. Finishing out the year is Summertime for Carlos Lopez Estrada, director of Blindspotting. Steve Nelson CAS is very pleased to be reunited once again with the "Rock of Gibraltar" of boom operators—but don't be fooled by the geographical nomenclature, he is still yet nimble and stealthy beyond belief—it must be Tom Hartig telling me what to do. Keeping my cup overfull is the incomparable John Sheridan, filling in all the gaps; he will throw himself under the bus if that's what it takes. I'm so grateful to have such a crew on our latest outing, the first season of ABC's Stumptown, starring Cobie Smulders. (Yes, network broadcast television is still a thing! The family gathers 'round the glowing tube at the same time every week to watch together—such a cozy image. However, this network has just stopped using Live + Same Day ratings; so much for family togetherness!) Anyway, the show is doing well, we're having a blast, and doing great work. Still, don't get complacent! Keep fighting for better sound and a better world! And use rechargeable batteries! (It's the least we can do.) Jon Ailetcher CAS and awesome crew Jason Johnston, Mike Capulli, and Mike Murrie have finished off summer and a very short fall on Chicago P.D. and head into a very cold winter. We shoot rain, shine, snow or any mix of it to make good television. By mid-July, Aron Siegel CAS and his Season 1 Ambitions TV series crew of boom op Jorge Del Valle and utility Erin Martin finished up the feature film Waldo, a present-day Chinatown- style detective story, starring Charlie Hunnam and Mel Gibson. Meanwhile, across town, mixer Aaron 'Cujo' Cooley CAS manned the helm for most of the first episode of CW-TV DC comics' Black Lightning with boom op Steve Young and sound utility Nik Waddell, which began production in early July. After wrap of Waldo, Aron Siegel then relocated to Black Lightning to continue the season. CAS Associate boom op Allen Williams rejoined the team after completing work with mixer Michael Wynn on P-Valley for Starz… Special thanks go out to everyone that helped out on Black Lightning episode one that garnered three double-up days. Boom op Matt Derber and utilities Jules Strahl and Erin Martin completed the double-up teams for both mixers, Chris Mills and Aaron 'Cujo' Cooley. From Daniel Vasquez Velez CAS… I wanted to share that I had two nominations for Best Sound at the Macondo Awards (Colombia's Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences' Awards). For the fifth time I was nominated, this year with the films: The Smiling Lombana, a documentary film (highlighting the importance of sound, not only in fictional films, but also in documentary, where sound can contribute effectively to the storytelling and emotion), which also won Best Documentary Film and Best Original Score; the other film was The Silence of the River, a drama of a kid following a corpse down a river, surrounded by the jungle, the night and the river, making it a great canvas for great sound work. I am proud of the work my team at Clap Studios and I did and am encouraged to keep working hard in making sound an important element of the Latin American film industry. The JB-1 features a display and menu system, which allows for ease of use and display of timecode and settings. It reads, generates and jam syncs to all standard frame rates including 23.976 for High Definition shoots. The JB-1 features an automatic jam sync capability, which senses the incoming timecode rate. Cross jamming of different rates can be accomplished as well.