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Pac-12 college football preview 2019: Talented quarterbacks to spark teams
Conference features quality passers for 2019 season
Oregon quarterback Justin Herbert throws a pass on Sept. 8 against Portland State in Eugene, Ore.
By Brian Howell | howellb@dailycamera.com | Boulder Daily Camera
PUBLISHED: June 26, 2019 at 8:39 am | UPDATED: June 26, 2019 at 9:19 am
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The Pac-12 has struggled to get itself in national title contention lately and the conference has had its share of bumps in the road on the gridiron.
What the conference isn't lacking, however, is talent at quarterback.
National publications listing the best quarterbacks in the country for the upcoming season include several Pac-12 passers near the top, including Oregon's Justin Herbert and Stanford's K.J. Costello.
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Colorado's Steven Montez is among those listed. Coming into his final season with the Buffaloes, Montez is one of the most experienced quarterbacks in the Pac-12, with skills to be among the best in the country. Phil Steele's annual preview magazine lists Montez as the 12th-best draft eligible quarterback this season (Herbert and Costello are both in the top seven).
CU's success this season will depend largely on how Montez plays, while Herbert, Costello, Arizona's Khalil Tate and others hold the key to their teams' fortunes. With quarterbacks likely to play a key role in deciding the conference, here's a look at how each team stacks up at the position.
Arizona Wildcats (5-7, 4-5 Pac-12)
Projected starter: Khalil Tate, Sr., 6-foot-2, 215 pounds (2018: 170-of-302, 2,530 yards, 26 TD, 8 INT; rushing: 74 att., 224 yards, 2 TD).
Others to watch: Grant Gunnell, Fr., 6-6, 190; Jamarye Joiner, Fr. 6-1, 210; (3-of-4, 17 yards); Rhett Rodriguez, Jr. 6-0, 200 (43-of-83, 516, 3 TD, 2 INT; rushing: 11 att., minus-3 yards).
Outlook: In 2017, Tate proved to be one of the most explosive running quarterbacks in the country. Last year, Tate adjusted to a new head coach (Kevin Sumlin), new coordinator and position coach (Noel Mazzone) and was hobbled with a bad ankle. He didn't run much but he did, at times, prove to be deadly with his arm. If healthy this year and more comfortable in the offense, he could be one of the most dynamic players in college football. Rodriguez, who filled in for the injured Tate last year, leads the group of backups.
Arizona State Sun Devils (7-6, 5-4)
Projected starter: Dillon Sterling-Cole, Jr. (0-of-2, 0 yards; rushing: 2 att., 22 yards)
Others to watch: Jayden Daniels, Fr.; Ethan Long, Fr.; Joey Yellen, Fr.
Outlook: ASU goes from having one of the most experienced QBs in the conference (Manny Wilkins, who started three years) to having virtually no experience at the position. Sterling-Cole has thrown only 17 career passes, but he knows the offense. Still, he's far from secure in the starting role. Three true freshmen enrolled early and Daniels had a strong spring. Sterling-Cole and Daniels could battle throughout fall camp for the job.
California Golden Bears (7-6, 4-5)
Projected starter: Chase Garbers, So., 6-2, 205 (159-of-260, 1,506 yards, 14 TD, 10 INT; Rushing: 98 att., 420 yards, 2 TD)
Cal's Chase Garbers figures to help the Bears gain some consistency on offense in 2019.
Others to watch: Devon Modster, Jr., 6-2, 215; Jack Newman, So., 6-1, 190.
Outlook: Garbers was in a time-share early last year with Brandon McIlwain (who is now in more of an "athlete" role on offense), but took over the main duties late in the year with mixed results. Cal's offense was often stagnant last year. Now a sophomore, Garbers is hoping to be better and he came out of spring atop the depth chart. He'll continue to battle in the fall with Modster, though. In 2017, Modster threw for 671 yards and four touchdowns as Josh Rosen's backup at UCLA.
Colorado Buffaloes (5-7, 2-7)
Projected starter: Steven Montez, R-So., 6-5, 220 (258-of-399, 2,849 yards, 19 TD, 9 INT; rushing: 94 att., 238 yards, 4 TD).
Others to watch: Tyler Lytle, So., 6-5, 215 (4-of-5, 55 yards, 1 INT; rushing: 4 att., minus-14 yards); Sam Noyer, Jr., 6-4, 215 (8-of-14, 60 yards, 2 INT; rushing: 4 att., minus-8 yards); Blake Stenstrom, Fr., 6-4, 215.
Outlook: Entering this season, Montez has the second-most career starters among Pac-12 quarterbacks, with 27 (Oregon's Justin Herbert has 28). He's started each of CU's 24 games the past two years and could become the program's all-time passing leader this year. When he's on, Montez is one of the best in the Pac-12. His consistency has to match his durability, however. Lytle and Noyer both have limited game experience and multiple years in the program, while Stenstrom will hope to move up the depth chart.
Colorado's Steven Montez has NFL potential and figures to be on full display with offensive coordinator Jay Johnson opening up the playbook.
Oregon Ducks (9-4, 5-4)
Projected starter: Justin Herbert, Sr., 6-6, 230 (240-of-404, 3,151, 29 TD, 8 INT; rushing: 71 att., 166 yards, 2 TD).
Others to watch: Cale Millen, Fr., 6-3, 210; Tyler Shough, 6-5, 210, Fr.; Bradley Yaffe, 6-3, 215, Fr.
Outlook: Despite being projected by some of the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft, Herbert elected to return for his senior year. He's the best QB in the Pac-12, if not the country, a possible Heisman Trophy candidate and potentially the No. 1 pick in next year's draft. The Ducks will lean on him as they pursue a Pac-12 title, and perhaps more. Behind Herbert, there's no experience, but Shough had a solid spring and is likely the top backup.
Oregon State Beavers (2-10, 1-8)
Projected starter: Jake Luton, Sr., 6-7, 225 (140-of-224, 1,660 yards, 10 TD, 4 INT; rushing: 28 att., minus-144 yards).
Others to watch: Jack Colletto, Jr., 6-3, 222 (23-of-47, 201 yards, 3 INT; rushing: 31 att., 16 yards, 5 TD); Tristan Gebbia, So., 6-2,195.
Outlook: Back for a sixth year of college football, the oft-injured Luton is favored to earn the starting job, but Gebbia will continue battling in the fall. Luton, who played at Idaho and Ventura Community College before coming to OSU, torched the Colorado defense in the second half last year, but that's really been the highlight of his two seasons with the Beavers. Gebbia is a transfer from Nebraska who sat out last season. Colletto got some quality game time last year and will be in the mix.
Stanford Cardinal (9-4, 6-3)
Projected starter: K.J. Costello, Jr., 6-5, 215 (269-of-413, 3,540 yards, 29 TD, 11 INT; rushing: 42 att., minus-20 yards, 1 TD).
Others to watch: Davis Mills, So., 6-4, 220; Jack Richardson, Sr., 6-5, 213 (1-of-1, 6 yards); Jack West, Fr., 6-4, 210 (1-of-5, 4 yards)
Outlook: Like Oregon, Stanford was relieved when its quarterback put the NFL on hold. One of the top quarterbacks in the country, Costello is a talented pocket passer who threw for over 300 yards seven times last season. Although his top three receivers are gone, Costello is expected to put up big numbers again. His backups have very little experience, so the Stanford season could get interesting if Costello were to miss any time.
UCLA Bruins (3-9, 3-6)
Projected starter: Dorian Thompson-Robinson, So., 6-1, 195 (112-of-194, 1,311 yards, 7 TD, 4 INT; rushing: 50 att., 68 yards).
Others to watch: Austin Burton, So., 6-2, 200; Chase Griffin, Fr., 5-11, 185
UCLA has Dorian Thompson-Robinson back at the helm in 2019.
Outlook: Thompson-Robinson took some lumps as a true freshman last season and split time with graduated senior Wilton Speight. This year, he's the man and the Bruins are banking on him showing some growth. UCLA will need Thompson-Robinson to stay healthy (last year he dealt with a shoulder injury), because there's no game experience behind him. Former Legacy High School star Matt Lynch, who has been a backup the past three years, is now playing tight end.
USC Trojans (5-7, 4-5)
Projected starter: J.T. Daniels, So., 6-3, 210 (216-of-363, 2,672 yards, 14 TD, 10 INT; rushing: 45 att., minus-149 yards)
Others to watch: Matt Fink, Jr., 6-3, 200 (7-of-9, 46 yards, 1 TD; rushing: 7 att., 24 yards); Jack Sears, So., 6-3, 205 (20-of-28, 235, 2 TD, 0 INT; rushing: 10 att., 10 yards).
Outlook: As a true freshman last year, Daniels came in with a lot of hype and had an up-and-down season. The talent is clearly there, however, and it's expected he'll get much better with experience. Under new coordinator Graham Harrell, Daniels could have a big year. The Trojans have the luxury of returning their top backups, as well. Fink returned after originally intending to transfer.
Utah's Tyler Huntley is an explosive option for the Utes as they look to battle for the Pac-12 South title again in 2019.
Utah Utes (9-5, 6-3)
Projected starter: Tyler Huntley, Sr., 6-1, 210 (150-of-234, 1,788 yards, 12 TD, 6 INT; rushing: 108 att., 304 yards, 4 TD).
Others to watch: Drew Lisk, Jr., 6-1, 205; Jason Shelley, So., 5-11, 200 (98-of-168, 1,162 yards, 5 TD, 6 INT; rushing: 63 att., 192 yards, 3 TD)
Outlook: Huntley was having a solid season until a broken collarbone against ASU on Nov. 3 ended his year. Shelley started the last five games and played well, for the most part. Although Huntley was the better player in spring, Shelley is sure to push him for the job in the fall. Either way, the Utes are in good shape at the position, as Huntley and Shelley form the best 1-2 combo in the Pac-12.
Washington Huskies (10-4, 7-2)
Projected starter: Jacob Eason, Jr., 6-6, 225 (transfer from Georgia).
Others to watch: Jake Haener, So., 6-0, 195 (9-of-13, 107 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT); Jacob Sirmon, Fr., 6-5, 220
Outlook: The Huskies lost their all-time leading passer and four-year starter (Jake Browning) to graduation and might be better at quarterback. Eason earned the starting job at Georgia as a true freshman in 2016, throwing for 2,430 yards and 16 touchdowns, but lost his job to Jake Fromm after an injury in the 2017 opener. Now back near his home town of Lake Stevens, Wash., Eason is one of the most talented passers in the Pac-12. Haener and Sirmon were both top recruits out of high school.
Washington State Cougars (11-2, 7-2)
Projected starter: Gage Gubrud, Sr., 6-2, 205 (transfer from Eastern Washington)
Others to watch: Cameron Cooper, Fr., 6-4, 210; Anthony Gordon, Sr., 6-3, 205 (3-of-5, 17 yards, 1 INT); Trey Tinsley, Sr. 6-3, 210 (7-of-9, 63 yards, 1 TD)
Outlook: After transferring from East Carolina for his final season, Gardner Minshew was sensational last year for the Cougars. To replace him, head coach Mike Leach found another graduate transfer, bringing Gubrud in from Eastern Washington, where he was a two-time finalist for the Walter Payton Award (FCS player of the year). A toe injury sidelined him for the final 10 games last year, leading to him getting another year of eligibility. Although he has yet to be named the starter, Gubrud threw for threw for 9,984 yards, 87 TD and 32 TD in 32 games – including an upset of Wazzu in Pullman – at Eastern Washington. Gordon and Tinsley have experience in the program and will battle, as well.
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Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa's (KDZA) move into retail has long been on the cards and the timing couldn't be better. Consumers will now be able to order Kyocera printers, which are known for their robust and innovative technology, from online store Takealot.
"We have a strong portfolio of printers and multi-function printers (MFPs) for all markets ranging from the SOHO to large corporates," says Greg Griffith, Hardware Product Manager of Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa.
"We want to be able to service all sectors of the market and we have been looking to expand into retail for a while. The current global crisis has made it imperative that we are able to sell directly to people who now need to set up their office at home or need to cater for home schooling."
Griffith says the expansion into retail will encourage the growth of new market opportunities. "The rationale for the move is the result of much analysis of internal sales data and external channel data, confirmed by external market research. The decision was made long before the pandemic, however with the massive growth of working from home, we are excited about being able to support this new trend."
The move from a business-to-business (B2B) into business-to-consumer (B2C) offering will introduce the brand to a broader market, elevating overall brand awareness within this broader market.
In the first phase, consumers will be able to choose from eight products suitable for the small office home office market. These are the Kyocera FS-1060dn, P2040dn, P2040dw, P2235dn, P2235dw, P5021cdn, M5521cdn and the M5521cdw. Whether mono or colour, these A4 laser printers have a sufficient range of features needed for the home office user. We believe we bring a competitive range of printers to the market, the overall running costs are lower than many other units, which means that consumers save more in the long term.
It is important to note that while we are entering this new route to market, that these Working from Home devices are also available via our national dealer channel network as well.
"Kyocera has attained 1st place in Southern Africa market share for A4 Copier/MFPs for the last 2 years only operating on a B2B basis. However, the route to the B2C market is online, especially at this time," says Griffith. "We partnered with Takealot because the company has a solid track record and it's a trusted online purchasing portal in South Africa that offers consumers speed of delivery and the convenience of shopping from the safety of their home."
For more information on our Working from Home range, go directly to Takealot.
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Q: jquery cannot get response from perl I want to use jquery to implement ajax response from perl script on the server.But when I use such code, I got nothing. I can get the result from the url in a browser, so I don't know where is wrong.
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A: If url field contain http://server.domain/ and if you try to access a server from a webpage located elswhere than http://server.domain/ (like in your desktop for sample, accessed via file:///), probably you need to add a field Access-control-allow-origin: * in the header sent by your perl CGI:
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A: Try running the following diagnostic :
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Somewhere amongst the alerts (or lack of them) you should get a clue as to to what is failing.

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The rule-of-thumb is 8-12 months, but there may be exceptions. It's important to check with your lender at the time of initial application to make sure there aren't any short-term penalties for refinancing withing the first year.
Some people say ½ % , 1% to never. Every mortgage is different.
For Example: A no cost loan can have a 1 month breakeven point with only a .25% drop in interest rate. Now that you know how to calculate your net benefit you are able to figure out what is best for you.
If everything else is the same interest rate, loan amount ect. except for the amortization your interest savings per month would be $0 but, you are going to show a cash flow savings because of the longer amortization.


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Pele, King of Football, is no more. From World Cup wins, goals to personal life, all you need to know.
Pele thought of football as a beautiful game, hence it becomes important to trace his life history full of success and failures.
Brazil's all-time leading scorer Pele possibly was the best player to ever play the game with 77 goals in 92 international games. The peerless, three-time World Cup champion personified the beautiful game, a sport filled with talent, quickness, and inventiveness.
On October 23, 1940, Pele was born into a low-income household in Tres Coracoes, southern Brazil. Given that electricity had only recently been given to his village, his full name, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, was in honor of US inventor Thomas Edison, as he stated in a tweet from 2014.
PELE IN FOOTBALL WORLD CUP.
Pele has remained the only player to win the world cup thrice. He won the coveted trophy in 1958, 1962 and 1970 and scored 12 world cup goals.
At the age of 17, Pele scored twice in the World Cup final in 1958 as Brazil defeated the host Sweden 5-2. He was the youngest to score a goal in the history of the World Cup and was the only player under the age of 17 to do it.
However, injury limited his participation in Brazil's victory in 1962 in Chile, and in the 1966 competition in England, he was closely watched and subjected to several, at times severe, fouls.
A inspiração e o amor marcaram a jornada de Rei Pelé, que faleceu no dia de hoje.
Amor, amor e amor, para sempre. . Inspiration and love marked the journey of King Pelé, who peacefully passed away today.
He won the award four years later, when Brazil put together one of the best teams ever and won the Jules Rimet medal in Mexico.
The team, which included players like Jairzinho, Tostao, and Rivellino, defeated Italy 4-1 in the championship under the direction of Carlos Alberto.
CLUB CAREER.
Pele spent 18 years at Santos football club. Pele holds the record for most goals scored for Santos. He aided them in winning six league championships, including five straight in 1961, as well as two Copa Libertadores triumphs, widely regarded as South America's answer to the Champions League.
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This Expandable Structure Could Become the Future of Living in Space
A Nevada real estate magnate has poured $290 million into a wild dream of being a landlord in outer space. His first tenant: NASA
Charles Fishman; Photographs by Dan Winters
A mini-module, called a BEAM, is slated to be attached to the International Space Station in late May. There, it will undergo testing. Dan Winters
Robert Bigelow is rocked back in a sleek office chair. He's in a dark room with a double-high ceiling, his face illuminated by the glow from two walls of video monitors, each wall three screens wide and three screens tall. This whisper-quiet space is Bigelow's mission control. The real deal. Four of the nine screens on the front wall are tracking his first two spacecraft as they orbit Earth—each more than 300 miles high, each moving 4.7 miles a second, a brisk 16,990 miles an hour. Those two spacecraft are unlike anything launched before they went into orbit a decade ago—or since.
To go with his mission control, Bigelow has a network of ground tracking stations. He's got an immaculate factory with room for three production lines, ready to crank out spacecraft.
Bigelow has a mane of swooping silver hair, a face well-worn by seven decades of living in the Nevada desert, and a quietly nurtured obsession with space. Bigelow has hundreds of millions of dollars to spend, and he's got technology that's so proprietary his staff keeps active sections of the factory curtained off so visitors don't walk off with any secrets.
And as of Friday, April 8, Bigelow has a first-of-its-kind spacecraft in orbit, ready to be bolted into place on the International Space Station.
Robert Bigelow is ready for you to live in space.
He's even got a rack rate: Want one-third of a Bigelow space station for a month? $30 million, a million bucks a day. If you want more than a month, if you want the whole module, he can give you a better deal. In fact, Bigelow lacks just one thing. "Right now," he says, "we have no customers. None. And that's very frustrating."
Bigelow is a step ahead of much higher-profile space entrepreneurs, a step ahead of Elon Musk and SpaceX, of Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin, of Boeing and even a step ahead of NASA. He's ready to create space destinations—laboratory? observatory? factory? transit hub? resort? What he lacks is a good way for people to get to those destinations. So he's waiting. "I do have patience," he says impatiently. "I can exercise substantial patience when I need to."
There's a lot of talk about how Musk or Bezos will soon revolutionize space, but two things are true: They're just working on the transportation part, and their technology isn't going to fundamentally change the way we go to space. It will just change who we pay for the ride, how much it costs, and—Bigelow is sure hoping—who can afford to go for a ride. Bigelow is a better bet to trigger a much more fundamental revolution—changing how we live and work in space, who can afford to set up an outpost, what there is room to do.
Bigelow knew he wanted to go into the space exploration business by the time he was 12 years old. Although he has no formal scientific training, in the last decade he has been awarded about ten patents related to aerospace technology. Dan Winters
Bigelow is a surprising character to shake up the half-century-old world of space travel. He's not an engineer or a scientist. He was born in Las Vegas in 1944, around the time the city was opening its first casinos, and he's lived there ever since. He's got a sinewy self-sufficiency that carries an air of the frontier. He seems more likely to be introduced as a sheriff in rural Nevada than an aerospace innovator.
As a young man, Bigelow began building a real estate empire focused on short-term lodging for the waves of people moving west. He founded a low-priced extended-stay motel chain called Budget Suites of America, and he owns thousands of apartment units across Nevada, Arizona and Texas. His real estate business is still active, though he sold 4,500 units in 2005, 2006 and 2007, cashing out of a huge slice of his portfolio just before the crash, which hit Nevada particularly hard.
Why'd he get out right then?
There is the hint of a smile. "People were going berserk trying to throw money at you and buy your properties. It tore me up—I just couldn't bear the distraught expressions on their faces. I sold out of the goodness of my heart."
Bigelow likes to be immersed in the details of his business. Off the top of his head, he knows the average time people live in his 7,158 remaining apartment units: "One year and three months." The buildings, the facilities belong to Bigelow. The customers come and go.
Around 1999, Bigelow read a magazine article about the TransHab, a soft-sided spacecraft that had been defunded by Congress, apparently for a combination of budgetary and political reasons. Bigelow had been looking for a way into the space business. He tracked down the people at NASA who had worked on TransHab and started to figure out how he could license the technology. "I thought, my God, this is an incredible idea," he recalls. "All we have now are metal cans that are no larger than the rockets they were launched in. That is so antiquated by comparison."
At the moment he saw the technology, he also saw the business: an extension of the one he was already in. Here were spacecraft inexpensive enough but also robust enough to open a whole new vista: room for lease, in space. "What I understand," he says, "is the marketing of volume and time."
Bigelow is convinced that soft-sided spacecraft will play as important a role in commercializing space as rockets themselves. In the history of space travel, only a dozen nonprofessional astronauts have been to space, most rich businesspeople looking for a one-of-a-kind experience. Bigelow Aerospace's modules could finally make living and working in space so affordable that countries and companies would start sending up ordinary staff with a few weeks of training. The company is even planning to provide its own professional support-staff astronauts.
Courtesy of Bigelow Aerospace
These days, Bigelow spends 95 percent of his time on Bigelow Aerospace. He has 140 employees there. "I'm lucky," he says, "that the real estate business has been able to supply the money that the aerospace company requires."
As pragmatic as he is, a streak of eccentricity runs through Bigelow's story. For years, he quietly funded research into extraterrestrial experiences and other kinds of psychic phenomena. Today, he hands out Bigelow Aerospace coasters with the Bigelow Aerospace logo on them—a rocket substituting for the "i"—and much larger, the artful image of a classic extraterrestrial, the wide, lidless eyes, the noseless face, the perfectly round head. That alien logo also appears on the side of the security vehicles at Bigelow Aerospace and on the outside of some of the factory buildings. Bigelow calls it his "mascot."
It isn't quite serious and it isn't quite a joke, either. Bigelow genuinely believes in extraterrestrial visitors. In a story he has told many times, his maternal grandparents had an encounter in the Nevada desert with a fast-moving, oval-shaped, glowing red object that forced them off the road. From 1995 to 2004, Bigelow funded something called the National Institute for Discovery Science, employing researchers to study a range of unexplained phenomena, including UFOs. "I look at the extraterrestrial subject as phenomenally interesting," he says, volunteering nothing more. Does he know something about extraterrestrials that typical people don't? "I've spent a lot of money doing extensive research. I've spent a lot of time doing extensive research. I hope I have information the average person does not possess."
Does the federal government know what he knows? "Absolutely."
Why doesn't he talk more expansively about extraterrestrials? "Because I don't have an agenda to publish this information, to expose it. And I have information that people provided to me in confidence, and that has to be respected."
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Still, compared with his serious efforts to build space outposts, those interests seem like the avocations of a man with enough money to give his curiosity a little running room. Bigelow might well have been a billionaire—until he spent $290 million developing the space modules. He launched the first two, paying the Russians to put them into orbit aboard intercontinental ballistic missiles that may have once been aimed at the United States, and built a factory to be ready to make modules to meet demand.
"He didn't talk too much about the extraterrestrials," says William Schneider, an engineer who started working at NASA in 1962 and who led development of expandable space modules inside NASA. After he retired in 2000 to teach at Texas A&M, Schneider helped Bigelow develop the first flight modules, including the two that are still in orbit. Schneider is impressed with Bigelow's focus. "He zeroed in on getting the engineering done—he was absolutely serious about that."
Schneider hasn't worked with Bigelow for years, but he's convinced expandable space modules will become a key element of space life. "It's the coming of the future. And Bigelow is the one gutsy enough to get on it, to put money on it and make it go."
In the earliest days of the space program, long before TransHab came along, NASA launched two inflatable satellites, Echo 1 and 2, which brilliantly illustrated the virtues of what were then called inflatable spacecraft. At liftoff, the Echo satellites fit into a pod little bigger than a modern recycling bin. In orbit, they blossomed into sparkling spherical satellites 100 and 135 feet across, each wider than two city buses and easily visible from the ground. Small weight, small space on launch, big volume in orbit.
But the Echo satellites were made of Mylar, which has all the durability of a birthday party balloon. They lasted years in orbit, but they were reflective satellites—they didn't need to hold pressure and temperature to protect equipment and people. In the 1960s, fabrics as thin as canvas but as tough as steel were a decade or two away. NASA, and the Soviet Union, focused engineering and imagination on hard-sided spacecraft, and "inflatables" were left on the shelf with other not-quite-practical ideas.
Fifty years into the era of space travel, we have an image of space vehicles: Sleek. Crisp. Engineered. Even the International Space Station has a gangly geometry to it. You could draw it with a ruler.
So Bigelow Aerospace's soft-sided spacecraft—known as the B330—takes some getting used to. The exterior surface looks a little marshmallowy. Photos from orbit of Bigelow's first two spacecraft, Genesis I and II, show exteriors that look like rumpled white quilts. In the artist renderings and factory models of the B330, there's not an exterior edge anywhere—it's all curves and gleaming white fabric, with the look and feel of sailcloth.
Even NASA refers to the kind of spacecraft Bigelow is developing as "soft-sided" or as "soft goods." In fact, nothing could be more misleading. The spacecraft Bigelow Aerospace is engineering are pillowy the way a fully inflated football is pillowy. They are soft the way the tires on a 450-ton 747 gliding onto a runway at 180 miles an hour are soft. Says Glenn Miller, the principal investigator for Bigelow's technology at NASA, "It's 'inflatable,' but it's not like a kid's bouncy castle."
"If you were to float into one of these modules in orbit and rap on the interior with your knuckles, it would feel like you were rapping on the inside of a fiberglass boat hull," says George Zamka, a former Marine combat pilot who flew space shuttle Discovery in 2007 and commanded space shuttle Endeavor in 2010. He worked for Bigelow for 14 months, developing training and procedures for the people who might ultimately staff Bigelow space modules. If the Bigelow space modules don't look like what we think of as "space-age" habitats and vehicles, says Zamka, "it's just because it's not what we're used to seeing."
An artist's rendering of three interlinked B330s. Bigelow envisions joining these expandable modules together to create expansive space stations where people can live and work. Dan Winters
Bigelow wants to see his modules used to travel through space and then converted into habitats. This rendering shows a base created from B330 modules lowered to the surface of Mars. Dan Winters
The core of the never-launched Genesis III. "It was a backup," says Bigelow. "I wasn't expecting success with Genesis I and II." Dan Winters
A 12-foot slab of aluminum is carved into a bulkhead for a B330. Dan Winters
A completed bulkhead. Each B330 has 330 cubic meters of living space. Dan Winters
A detailed mock-up of a base on the Moon Dan Winters
For launch, a B330 can be compacted to ride on an Atlas rocket. How spacious is it? It took 41 shuttle launches to put into orbit the hardware for the International Space Station. The station has 900 cubic meters of interior space. Each B330 has a habitable volume of 330 cubic meters. In other words: Launch three, fully assembled, aboard inexpensive Atlas rockets, and you've got more working and living space than aboard the $100 billion station, which took a decade and 159 spacewalks to construct. That's the prospect that captivated Bigelow.
The holdup, for now, is finding rockets to launch paying passengers into space reliably and inexpensively. Except for the Russian Soyuz—which is dependable, but expensive, inconvenient and mostly booked—there are no rockets available to put people into orbit. The shuttles are in museums, NASA hasn't successfully replaced them, and SpaceX and Boeing have yet to launch astronauts on their new rockets. Is there any point building destinations if there is no way to get to them?
"At this point," he says, "Bigelow Aerospace is close to philanthropy." When he started the company, he was 55. The way things look now, SpaceX may not have routine crew transportation available until he's 75. Bigelow has brought onboard his granddaughter, Blair, a freshly graduated MBA from Southern Methodist University, to learn the business. "She's my retirement plan," he says.
Bigelow's impatience is visible in the sprawling 365,000-square-foot factory space of Bigelow Aerospace in North Las Vegas. Here's a robotic metal fabricating machine methodically cutting a space-rated bulkhead for a B330 module out of a disk of aluminum 12 feet across. Why is Bigelow making expensive, highly engineered components for a space habitat no one will need until at least 2018? Practice.
"We're going to make all these parts several times, so we know how to do it," says Bigelow. They make parts, they test them, they break them, they make more parts.
"When someone wants a B330," he says, "we will have made them. We'll know what we're doing."
The materials used to make the spacecraft hulls are high-tech, and the engineers at Bigelow Aerospace have spent a decade fine-tuning how to layer them to provide shape and structural firmness, and protection from micrometeorites and radiation, while they remain workable. The company has never released even a schematic diagram showing a cutaway of the layers in the fabric. "Proprietary," says Bigelow. "We know more about this material, these techniques than anyone in the world," he says. He's not giving those hard-won insights away.
Some of the layers of fabric—there are about 20 of various materials, he says—have to be stitched together by hand. And what about the packing? How do you fold all that high-tech fabric so it fits in a rocket and then unpacks into a fully ready space station when you get in orbit?
"I'm not going to talk about the folding," says Bigelow. "Proprietary." He's got the expression of a man who has tried to figure out how to roll up his high-tech tent and get it in the stuff-sack, unsuccessfully, many times.
"We've been working on the folding since 1999."
When NASA first developed the TransHab, it was tackling a very specific problem. "We were asked to develop something that could go to Mars," says Schneider. The requirement was 600 cubic meters of space, enough for six people and their supplies. The size was only part of the issue. Whatever you send into space has to be strong enough to endure the incredible forces of launch. That means giving walls a thickness and stiffness that add a huge amount of weight. "To make something that big out of aluminum, it gets so heavy, you need a whole other vehicle to launch it," says Schneider.
Schneider says it took his team of ten people about six weeks to come up with the expandable concept: An interior core, like a horizontal elevator shaft made of aluminum trusses, would contain all the spacecraft's vital electronics and systems, and an inflatable exterior shell would expand on orbit. The group's first testing at the Johnson Space Center showed that, even with the materials available 16 years ago, their layered fabric was more resistant to micrometeorite punctures than the aluminum skin of the current space station modules.
In the decade and a half since Bigelow Aerospace licensed the technology from NASA, its engineers have been awarded more than a dozen patents for their own development work. NASA is now paying Bigelow $17.8 million for a custom-designed mini-module called BEAM (Bigelow Expandable Activity Module) and launching it to the International Space Station on a SpaceX Dragon rocket. One of the big reasons NASA is docking this module to the space station is to find out exactly how durable it turns out to be in space—in terms of micrometeorites, but also in terms of radiation, temperature and pressure.
BEAM is about one-twentieth the size of a B330—its interior volume is about twice that of a Honda minivan. It will fly to space almost completely bare on the interior—no windows, no avionics, no electrical or life support systems, no pre-installed lights and no temperature control, just some air ducts, foot restraints and the insulation provided by BEAM's six-inch-thick layered hull.
NASA is very careful about flight hardware that will be used by people. For now, its scientists just want to see how the main structure performs under real spaceflight conditions. BEAM will be the only working module attached to the station in 15 years to be kept sealed—not to actually be used, just tested. "If something happens," says Rajib Dasgupta, NASA's BEAM project manager, "if there's a catastrophic leak, those two air circulation valves close automatically. And we could jettison it immediately."
Astronauts are set to visit the interior of BEAM to check sensors and download data twice every six months. They might, in fact, find BEAM to be an appealing, quiet hideaway spot—free of the noisy fans and the always-on video cameras in the rest of the station. And that would be fine, says Dasgupta, but it wouldn't be encouraged. "It's a temporary habitat," he says. "A demonstration habitat. It doesn't have any circulating fans, it doesn't have any fire protection."
According to Jason Crusan, the director of advanced exploration systems for NASA, "Our entire effort with BEAM is to bring our level of knowledge up on soft-sided structures as close to parity as possible on a single flight."
Already, BEAM has presented unexpected complexity. Space is the land of pure Newtonian mechanics and BEAM is being launched folded to one-quarter its flight volume. When air pressure expands it to full size, it will push against the International Space Station, potentially putting all that load on the docking port connection. "When we analyzed the rate at which the gas would come out of the tanks," says Dasgupta, "it was imparting a lot of load to the space station." Now, BEAM will be inflated more slowly and the module will be outfitted with shock absorbers.
For Bigelow, BEAM could be regarded as a step backward. The expandable space modules he launched a decade ago—the Genesis I and II—weren't designed for human use, but they were autonomous, with solar cells, and filled with avionics and equipment. Comparatively, BEAM is an empty shell—after a decade of work and waiting.
Except for two things. Bigelow says his engineers have reworked and improved the layering. The BEAM hull has layers of Kevlar, the fabric strong enough to stop bullets, and Vectran, another artificial fabric, which is two times as strong as Kevlar. Vectran was used for the airbags that cushioned Mars rovers when they landed on the Martian surface. BEAM's hull is six inches thick; the shell for the B330 modules is 18 inches thick.
The second thing that is different now is NASA. If you're aiming to provide orbiting Moon stations, if you envision providing a soft-sided, roomy spaceship for the trip to Mars, NASA is going to have to be very comfortable with your competence and rigor. Robert Bigelow has no trouble being blunt—he thinks the nation's space program is adrift. "It's at a crossroads," Bigelow says. "It needs to acquire a strong direction." But asked about BEAM, he is nothing but grateful. "We got the opportunity to work with NASA on a spacecraft," says Bigelow. "We made a lot of friends, we worked with people we have come to highly respect. And we hope to be working with them on other programs.
"If things work out," he adds, "we're going to be the landlord on a lot of future systems. The point for us is to allow NASA to get comfortable with it."
Bigelow is hoping that expandable space modules prove to be a turning point—liberating people from what has for half a century been a frankly cramped, tunnel-like space-travel experience.
There is a perfect if slightly inverted comparison. A hundred years ago, steel girders permitted the construction of spacious skyscrapers. That's what Bigelow thinks expandable spacecraft will do for extraterrestrial landscapes—create structures that make it routine to live and work outside Earth's atmosphere. He wants us to finally stop camping in space and really move there. He has a very clear plan in mind. He's not planning to sell B330s. "We want to lease them," he says. "It's just like if you build an office building." He may launch them in linked units of two or three, running them like an office park. The key, he says, "is, we don't want you to have to write a big check."
In some ways, he imagines B330s being run like sophisticated research vessels. He'll provide the platform and also an onboard crew to operate the space station; you'll lease space to do whatever work you want to do.
Beyond NASA and the corporate world, Bigelow has his eye on the literally dozens of countries that would like some kind of presence in space, but don't have rockets or the money to create spacecraft. Seventy nations claim to have a space program, though "most of those have never flown anybody," says Bigelow. But at $1 million a day, almost any country could have a space presence.
And Bigelow has adopted the original goal of Schneider's TransHab development at NASA: He wants the B330, or its successors, to be used for transportation to the Moon and to Mars. Once there, he wants them to be immediately repurposed as initial habitats. "You get the modules into low-Earth orbit," says Bigelow, "and then you can assemble metal frameworks around them. You attach propulsion tugs to the metal frameworks, and you can send them to the Moon or to Mars as if they were rockets."
Getting the B330s safely onto the surface will require retro rockets and internal floors. But none of that requires technology, or even assembly techniques, that haven't already been developed.
Inside the Bigelow Aerospace buildings, for instance, the models of Moon modules have tubes draped across them. "Those tubes are filled with regolith," says Bigelow. Regolith is simply the sand on the surface of the Moon. He envisions astronauts filling the empty tubes with regolith, protecting the spacecraft like low-tech Moon sandbags. "They are a great insulator, and also provide radiation shielding," he adds. He has a patent on the idea.
All in all, the man who wants to be the first space landlord is frustrated but not discouraged. "I'm a businessman," he says. "The future of space is going to be commerce. It has to be. Like everything else in the world, if space is going to be sustainable, it has to be commercially viable."
The success of people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, he says, is the key. Space travel is waiting for the equivalent of its Model T Ford—or its minivan. "Then space can really be the kind of thing that writers have imagined for decades and decades, where we have thousands of people out there." All paying rent to Robert Bigelow.
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Dan Winters is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, TIME and more. He has photographs in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, and his work has been published in several books.
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FILE - New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, left, talks to head coach Bill Belichick as their team warms up before an NFL football game against the New York Jets in East Rutherford, N.J., in this Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, file photo. Belichick never was one to spent wildly in free agency. But after watching Tom Brady celebrate another Super Bowl in another city, Belichick and his boss, Robert Kraft, had seen enough. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger, File)
Bill Belichick never was one to spend wildly in free agency. Watching Tom Brady win another Super Bowl in another city sure changed that.
The New England Patriots doled out $175 million in guarantees in the first 48 hours of free agency following a 7-9 stumble in 2020 that ended their two-decade dominance of the AFC.
The jaw-dropping spending spree netted tight ends Jonnu Smith and Hunter Henry and receivers Nelson Agholor and Kendrick Bourne for an offense that went from proficient to pitiful without Brady under center.
The Pats also traded for a left tackle and got Kyle Van Noy back in what amounted to a stunning about-face for a franchise whose fans relished poking fun at the big spenders trying, usually in vain, to catch up as the Patriots piled on the points and parades.
After watching Brady, at 43, throw TD passes like he was 23 again, then nonchalantly toss his seventh Lombardi Trophy over the Hillsborough River waters during the Buccaneers' celebration of their dismantling of Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs, Belichick — and his boss, Robert Kraft — had seen enough.
Following the signing, re-signing or acquisition of nearly two dozen players last week, Belichick issued the following statement:
"We are excited about the additions to our roster so far this year. Whether by trade, free agency or re-signings, the group brings a good mix of offense, defense and special teams. It was great to see them in the building, including some familiar faces, and we are all looking forward to continue building toward the upcoming season."
Drab and droll as usual, sure. But there's nothing common about the Patriots' offseason maneuvering. With the makeover continuing with 10 picks in next month's draft, the rest of the NFL is about to see just how much Belichick and Kraft hate losing.
BRADY'S BUNCH
The Buccaneers, who won the Super Bowl with every one of their 31 points coming from players who hadn't been on the team in 2019, are big winners this offseason, too.
First, Brady signed an extension, freeing up $19 million in salary cap space that allowed the Buccaneers to re-sign linebacker Lavonte David, tight end Rob Gronkowski and linebacker Shaq Barrett (four years, $72 million).
The Bucs also franchised wide receiver Chris Godwin, and keeping all these stars in the fold might very well keep Brady & Co. atop the NFL in 2021 no matter how much his former team spends to play catch-up.
PATON'S PLACE
While the old-timers in New England restocked their roster, newcomer GM George Paton got off to a fast start in his quest to rebuild the Denver Broncos, which will go a long way in showing his worthiness as John Elway's front office successor.
After serving a lifetime as Vikings executive Rick Spielman's right-hand man, Paton has quickly made his mark as the main man in Denver.
In addition to keeping Von Miller, Justin Simmons and Shelby Harris, Paton filled his biggest defensive pothole by signing free agent cornerbacks Ronald Darby and Kyle Fuller.
"Well, George became my best friend this week," Harris cracked after signing a three-year, $27 million contract a year after he had to settle for a one-year, $2.5 million deal.
The haul helped fans start to get over Paton's decision to let hometown hero Phillip Lindsay leave.
Paton, who also signed former Vikings backup running back Mike Boone, agreed to rescind the right-of-first refusal tender he'd placed on the fourth-year running back and fan favorite who grew up in Denver and went to the University of Colorado.
Lindsay quickly signed a one-year deal with Houston, which has turned over its roster even more so than New England has this month.
Some other teams that made an early splash are the New York Giants, Washington and Cleveland, which grabbed two of the Los Angeles Rams' secondary stalwarts in safety John Johnson and cornerback Troy Hill.
SPENDTHRIFTS
While the Patriots and Broncos had plenty of cap room available, most teams had their belts squeezing them pretty tight with the $182.5 million salary cap, an 8% reduction from 2020 because of the pandemic.
And some teams just didn't make the splash their fanbases expected in free agency.
— Panthers general manager Scott Fitterer got off to an underwhelming start by signing guard Pat Elflein and tackle Cam Erving before luring wide receiver David Moore from Seattle and reuniting coach Matt Rhule with former Temple linebacker Haason Reddick.
— The Bears had hoped to solve their decades-long quarterback quandary by persuading the Seahawks to part with disgruntled star Russell Wilson. When that didn't happen, the Bears had to part ways with Fuller, who landed in Denver, to clear cap room for new QB Andy Dalton.
— The Bengals added tackle Riley Reiff to protect Joe Burrow, but lost defensive stalwarts Carl Lawson and William Jackson III.
The Lions didn't do much in free agency but nobody in Detroit should be bothered. The Lions are focused on rebuilding through the draft after sending QB Matthew Stafford to the Rams and then letting star wide receiver Kenny Golladay walk in free agency.
Golladay joined Simmons and Barrett among the biggest winners this month when he signed a four-year, $72 million deal with the Giants.
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Harvey Weinstein resigns from Weinstein Co. board of directors
He was fired by his namesake studio a little more than a week ago
By Mike Miller October 17, 2017 at 05:27 PM EDT
Harvey Weinstein has resigned from The Weinstein Company board of directors, PEOPLE confirms.
Although Weinstein was fired as co-chairman of the powerhouse studio on Oct. 8, he had continued to hold a seat on the board until Tuesday. The disgraced mogul still reportedly owns 22% of the company's stock.
Earlier this month, the board fired Weinstein citing a violation of the company's code of ethics. The move came shortly following a series of bombshell reports alleged he had committed sexual harassment and abuse over decades. The producer's attorney, Patricia Glaser, has challenged the termination.
In response to the allegations, The Weinstein Company said in a previous statement, "We take extremely seriously the accusations published in today's New York Times about our Company's co-chairman Harvey Weinstein. It is essential to our Company's culture that all women who work for it or have any dealings with it or any of our executives are treated with respect and have no experience of harassment or discrimination."
The company has been under the leadership of Weinstein's brother and the company's co-chairman, Bob, as well as its Chief Operating Officer, David Glasser.
The firestorm was sparked after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment against the movie mogul came to light in an Oct. 5 New York Times exposé, in which eight women — including actress Ashley Judd — accused Weinstein of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior. The paper also reported that Weinstein reached private settlements with eight women, including actress Rose McGowan, who later accused him of rape on Twitter.
The allegations were compounded by an investigation by the New Yorker, and ever since, several more women have leveled allegations of sexual harassment against Weinstein, including Cara Delevingne, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Angelina Jolie.
Following the initial report, Weinstein said in a statement that he was working with therapists and planned to "deal with this issue head-on." He has since been fired from his powerhouse studio and kicked out of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. His wife, Marchesa designer Georgina Chapman, has announced she's leaving him.
Of the accusations, a spokesperson for Weinstein previously told PEOPLE in a statement that "any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr. Weinstein."
This article originally appeared on People.com


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A boisterous band of Allied troops makes merry in the face of an uncertain future.
This intriguing newsreel fragment from Pathé's Animated Gazette captures a poignant moment. As a new year dawns, a band of what look like Belgian soldiers, plus a dog and a small child, enjoy a raucous campfire gathering somewhere in open countryside. Despite the circumstances, the troops refuse to have their spirits dampened, ushering in the New Year cheerily in the face of an uncertain future.
Pathé's Animated Gazette, established in 1910, was one of the earliest British newsreels, presenting "a weekly record of the world's events in motion-pictures". True to their word, Pathé filmed fairly frequently in France and Belgium during WWI, delivering images from the Front to audiences back home.


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A candidate's voice must be included in a commercial in order for it to qualify for the Lowest Unit Rate (LUR). No exceptions.
The candidate does not have to pay for the spot, but if they authorize the spot and they knowingly contribute their voice to the spot, it qualifies for the LUR (e.g., they can't just be quoted from a speech, they must contribute their own voice).
All legally qualified candidates for office, regardless of the office, qualify for the LUR. They can be running for a city office, a county office, a state office or a Federal office, as long as they have announced their intention to run, are qualified by law to run and to appear on the ballot or as a write-in candidate.
The LUR is determined by the lowest rates on advertiser contracts in effect on the station the week before and the week following a candidate's schedule.
You may have what you "term" 'no charge spots' on a contract within the window as long as there is written documentation in your files (not your public files) that allocates a portion of the total cost of a contract to each spot. E.g., you may average spot costs. You may deduct costs from the rate on one spot to be allocated to a no charge spot. But whatever is the lowest rate, either printed on or documented elsewhere for a contract, is the effective LUR.
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Anytime a candidate makes a non-exempt appearance on your air, any other candidate for that office may make a timely request and must then be given equal opportunities to your airwaves. An exempt appearance is if they are part of a bona fide news story (e.g., Candidate A gets arrested for drunk driving, or Candidate B speaks at an event that is a recognized part of their job and is newsworthy). In other words, a story run based on a decision regarding its newsworthiness and not to advance the exposure of a particular candidate. If one of your air talent decides to run for office, their opponents can request equal opportunities to your airwaves in response to each appearance your talent on the air.
A candidate has 7 days to request equal opportunities after a spot for his opponent has aired. So, if candidate A has run a schedule for 5 weeks, candidate B can only request equal opportunity to match the previous 7 days of advertising. It cannot be claimed in advance. However, if the station knows that the 5 weeks are going to air, it often makes sense to go ahead and work out the schedule of the opposing candidate.
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Q: Zend Framework: Getting started with Zend_Gdata_ClientLogin I know this is simple, but I haven't used Zend_Gdata before, so I need some guidance. Please correct me if any of my assumptions are incorrect.
I am using Google Apps on my domain, so to get started, I would like to do something simple like listing all the users on the domain.
From what I understand, you need to use Zend_Gdata_ClientLogin instead of Zend_Gdata_AuthSub since I will be working with Zend_Gdata_Gapps. This is what I've got so far:
$client = Zend_Gdata_ClientLogin::getHttpClient('admin@mydomain.com', 'password');
$gdata = new Zend_Gdata_Gapps($client, 'mydomain.com');
$users = $gdata->retrieveAllUsers();

However, retrieveAllUsers() is throwing an exception with this message:
Expected response code 200, got 401   <TITLE>Token invalid</TITLE>
Token invalid

Error 401

What does that mean? What am I doing wrong? I don't know if it matters, but I am running this PHP script locally, but my Google Apps are running on a remote server. I am using Zend Framework version 1.7.5.
Update: If anyone is wondering, there were a few more problems I ran into while doing this. I found out that in order to use Zend_Gdata, you have the enable the "Provisioning API" in the admin section of your Google Apps. I found out that I only have the standard (free) version of Google Apps, which means that the Provisioning API is not available to me unless I have a premier (paid) version of Google Apps.

A: You're missing the service parameter, for Google Apps it's 'apps'
$client = Zend_Gdata_ClientLogin::getHttpClient('admin@mydomain.com', 'password','apps');

A: I've been learning how to access google spreadsheets and I pass a $service.
$service = Zend_Gdata_Spreadsheets::AUTH_SERVICE_NAME;
$client = Zend_Gdata_ClientLogin::getHttpClient($user, $pass, $service);


To most people, all nights are just the same. Every night seems to be characterized by darkness and solemn sky, sometimes graced by the presence of the moon and stars.
However, any night is not just like every other to a professional photographer. At night, the appearance of the sky changes, and some nights are filled with stars or cloud movements while others look grey and gloomy.
Most photographers admit to capturing some of their best photos of the night through nurturing patience and exercising the right skills.
For instance, utilizing long shutter speeds has been the secret of most of these professionals in capturing beautiful and breathtaking night images of the expansive sky.
However, each photographer has his or her unique technique for capturing dynamic night sky photographs. What does a photographer require to capture the magnificence of the night sky at its best?
It goes without saying that you need the best tools to achieve the desired outcome. This rule also applies to night photography. If you want to capture a beautiful night at its finest, making use of the best cameras, lenses, and tripods comes in handy. Here is what you need.
Cameras that function manually are the best for night sky photography. You can as easily adjust them manually and independently to suit your needs. The aperture, exposure time, and ISO are all subject to your manipulation with such a camera. A camera with a full frame sensor offers you a larger surface area to capture the stars' light. Besides, it helps to reduce the noise evidenced in ISO images and improve the quality of the photo.
The secret to night sky photography is the amount of focused light. With a wide-angle lens, your camera's sensor picks up as much light as possible and in the shortest time.
Imagine trying to focus your camera with a shaky and unstable stand? It is practically impossible. Therefore, night sky photography requires a solid and well-built tripod to capture highly-focused images. Unlike those cheap stands, this one does not shake nor move over the exposure time necessary for night sky photography. In turn, the captured images are attractive and crystal clear.
Night sky photography blends perfectly with the countryside. Unlike in the city, rural areas do not experience light pollution. For a sharp focus on the stars in the sky, darkness is a paramount requirement. Therefore, you need to be as far away as possible from artificial lighting. The starlight captured during a pitch-dark night is enough for night photography.
A camera lens during night sky photography should have an infinity focusing mode. Moreover, your camera should also have the ability to do a mirror lock up. This way, any vibrations that may be caused by the mirror slaps are eliminated during the exercise. Besides, metering is vital for night photography, but it could present a problem at night. Spot metering is mostly preferred for an accurate reading during such night sessions. Use of flash is not preferred because it affects the image by creating an over-lit photography area.
To most night sky photographers, the application of the 500 Rule is opportune since it provides a sharp image for long exposures. It is utilized in the calculation of the maximum time that a photo can be exposed without showing trails behind the stars. As a result, you can select an exposure time that keeps your photos sharp.
Of all integral steps of night sky photography, photo editing is probably the most important. Making use of both light-room and Photoshop software ensures you get the best photos. When you master the art of using editing software, photo adjustment will become a second nature to you leading to an overall improvement in your night sky images.
Besides, you may opt to share your work with the world by editing and printing the photos and probably selling them or donating in a gallery for all to see and appreciate.
Night sky photography requires patience and tolerance. Not all nights are fit for photo shooting. It seems to be a trial and error process, and when it clicks, you capture some of the most breathtaking images of the star-filled sky.
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Walgreens 'maybe cried too much' about shoplifting concerns last year, executive says
A Walgreens executive said Thursday that the drugstore chain may have overplayed concerns about shoplifting at its stores in 2022.
"Maybe we cried too much last year," Walgreens' global Chief Financial Officer James Kehoe told investors on an earnings call. Walgreens and other retailers have sounded the alarm in recent years about the threat of organized shoplifting to their bottom lines as viral videos of brazen shoplifting raids have swept the internet.
Walgreens in 2021 said it shuttered five San Francisco stores, citing disputed claims about an uptick in theft.
A year ago, Kehoe told investors the company in 2020 and 2021 experienced a 52% increase in shrink – an industry term that refers to lost inventory, either by mismanagement or theft – compared to pre-2020 levels, attributing it to "organized crime."
"It's not somebody who can't afford to eat tomorrow," Kehoe said in a Jan. 2022 conference call. "These are gangs that actually go in and empty our stores of beauty products," adding that the issue was felt across the retail industry.
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But shrink at Walgreens recently has come down to 2.5-2.6% of sales from 3.5% in 2022, according to Kehoe, who said Thursday he was "quite happy" with current shrink levels.
Kehoe said Walgreens would consider rolling back investments it made to beef up its stores' private security, which he called "largely ineffective." It would instead look to further partner with law enforcement, he said.
Even as retailers tout a shoplifting crisis that threatens business, shrink has remained largely unchanged industry-wide in the last five years, according to the National Retail Federation.
The median retail shrink percentage was 1.2% in 2021, the same as in 2016, according to the NRF's 2022 retail security survey.
Still, 70.7% of retailers in the survey said stopping theft, including organized retail crime, had become more of a priority in the last five years. The survey found that shoplifting accounted for 37% of shrink in 2021, and retailers reported a 26.5% increase in "organized retail crime incidents."
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Overall, shrink accounted for a $94.5 billion loss industry-wide in 2021, according to the report.
While Walgreens signaled its retail theft concerns might be allayed, other big name stores have continued to portray shoplifting as a major existential threat.
During an interview with CNBC last month. Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said theft was "higher than it has historically been," and "prices would be higher and/or stores will close."
Rite Aid said it lost $5 million more from shrink in September than it did in the same period a year earlier, and weighed putting all items behind showcases or reducing store operations in some communities to offer pharmacy services only.
Target similarly reported a $400 million loss due to shrinkage in November.
Big name retailers had lobbied Congress to pass the INFORM Act, which aims to combat retail crime by requiring verification of high-volume online sellers who may offer stolen goods. President Joe Bidensigned the bill into law last month as part of a larger government funding bill.
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