<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>While much of the world's attention has been focused on Wall Street, Times Square, and the Gulf Coast... the flooding in Nashville has been getting little attention.</div><div><br></div><div>One of our 100+ list members is Bill Spencer out at Northstar Studios, east of downtown Nashville and north of the Opryland area.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">Bill Spencer</span></font><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">RF Engineering Supervisor</span></font><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">NorthStar Studios, Inc.</span></font><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">3201 Dickerson Pike</span></font><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">Nashville</span></font></st1:city><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">, <st1:state w:st="on">TN</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">37207</st1:postalcode></span></font></st1:place><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="3" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">Phone 615.650.6000 ext. 6610</span></font><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">Cell 615.445.5616</span></font><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">Fax 615.650.6027</span></font><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; ">email <a href="mailto:bill.spencer@northstarstudios.tv" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">bill.spencer@northstarstudios.tv</a></span></font><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">We visited Bill there on our 75-day sales trip this winter.</span></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="3" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy; "> </span></font></p></div><div>I'm hoping he didn't get hit with problems there or at home. </div><div><br></div><div>NorthStar is the program playback and uplink point for a number of networks... disaster relief backup point for others, and is the taping location for various programs. RFD-TV cable network is housed there.</div><div><br></div><div>On May 3, <a href="http://www.wsmv.com/weather/23430265/detail.html">WSMV-TV reported</a>:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">The historic Ryman Auditorium -- the former home of the Grand Ole Opry -- and the recording studios of Music Row were not in immediate danger, parts of other top Nashville tourist spots including the Country Music Hall of Fame and The Grand Ole Opry House were flooded.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">The weather service listed the two-day total as 13.53 inches at the city's airport, outstripping the old record of 6.68 inches from the remnants of Hurricane Fredrick in 1979.</span></font></div><div><br></div><div>Having been through flooding in Yuba County in 1997 and 2001 I can appreciate the mess people are facing.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope there's no major issues with any Nashville area Archives, either. Vanderbilt has a major TV news archive. </div><div><br></div><div>There was some damage reported at the Country Music Hall of Fame, which also has archival media materials.</div><div><a href="http://www.wsmv.com/video/23491578/index.html">http://www.wsmv.com/video/23491578/index.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>The Grand Ol' Opry is right along the Cumberland River and was trashed. </div><div><br></div><div>More about that here:</div><div><a href="http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/">http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/</a></div><div><br></div><div>WSMV-TV's website is here.</div><div><a href="http://www.wsmv.com/news/index.html">http://www.wsmv.com/news/index.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>There are links to make donations to relief efforts.</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0018ea" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "></font></div></div></div></span> </div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ted Langdell</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Secretary for the <a href="http://www.quadvideotapegroup.com/"><font color="#0018ea" style="color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "><u>QuadVideotapeGroup.com</u></font></a></font><font face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; ">: </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Preserving Tape, Equipment and the Knowledge to use them, in conjunction with the Library of Congress</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0018ea" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "><a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com"><u>ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</u></a></font></div></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>