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Gear of the Year: Barney's choice (part 1) - Fujifilm X100V
Published Nov 24, 2020 | Barney Britton
Please note: the images in this article are downsized from the original files. A link is provided below to our full samples gallery.
What a year. I thought 2016 was bad, but then 2020 barged in, ripped a room-clearing fart, handed 2016 its beer and went bananas. Hopefully you don't need me to list the many horrors of the last 11 months, because I would prefer not to.
It's surreal looking back now, but in the first six weeks of 2020 I flew roughly 15,000 miles, all of which was for work. The year began with the CES show in Las Vegas, then on to a video shoot in Texas, and another in California, followed by the launch of the Fujifilm X100V, in London. And that's where this story begins...
...I don't know why I did the dot-dot-dot thing there, this article is only one page long.
By early February, the novel coronavirus had been a blip on the outer edge of my mental radar screen for a while. In late January our video crew and I had shared some wry jokes about 'flying now while we still can, ha ha...', but it was the following month, at the launch of the Fujifilm X100V in London, that I started to sense a more general concern. Speaking to Fujifilm executives at the event (and, significantly in retrospect, those unexpectedly not at the event) it was clear that the situation in China (where Fujifilm has some manufacturing) had become grave, and in addition to the tragic human cost in Asia, COVID-19 was having a profound effect on production and supply chain logistics around the world.
The Fujifilm X100V was launched in February at an event in London. I added a few days to that trip to see family - my last opportunity to do so, as it turned out, for what may still be a long time.
1/60sec|F3.2|ISO 800
I was in the UK for a week, which included a few days spent with my family in London and the north of England. On the darkened plane back to Seattle, I remember wondering when I would see the old country again. Coincidentally, that was also the last outing for my much-traveled and now-expired European Union GB passport.
By early March things were getting serious all over the world (with DPReview's adopted home state of Washington an early hotspot). Partly to scratch the itch of my own growing panic, I spent a few days researching the impact of COVID-19 on the photo industry. Alongside many reasonable, thoughtful comments on the resulting article are several that have since aged like fine milk.
Oddfellows Cafe in Capitol Hill, Seattle, boarding up after the WA lockdown was announced in mid March. Cafes, restaurants and many other businesses put boards up over their windows and encouraged local artists to decorate the storefronts.
1/420sec|F5.6|ISO 160
We all know what happened next. After March 16th 2020, I didn't so much as hug another human being for more than 70 days. Things got weird.
Where does the Fujifilm X100V tie into all of this? Beyond the fateful coincidence of the timing of its launch in early 2020, it's the camera that's been in my hands almost every day for the past ten months.
It was a preproduction X100V that I took on my trip back home to the UK in February, and which I used to take the last (for who knows how long) photographs of my sister, my nephew and my parents. I subsequently bought one, and my personal X100V was with me all through quarantine. I carried it with me on my daily permitted walks and bike rides through Seattle's deserted streets, in that strangest, sunniest of springs, where normally busy neighborhoods looked like Edward Hopper paintings and everyone remarked on the sound of birdsong.
I also took a lot of mirror selfies, although in my defense it was a difficult time.
When I finally ventured out into crowds in late May and early June following protests after the killing of George Floyd, it was with X100V. When Seattle briefly became the focus of global attention following the establishment of the short-lived CHAZ/CHOP zone (a much smaller area than you might have been lead to believe, which began a mere block away from my apartment), I visited several times with the X100V, making sure that I had a personal record of what was going on. Even when the circumference of my world had shrunk to the handful of blocks around my front door, photography helped me feel somewhat connected.
Protesters gather near Cal Anderson Park in Seattle in early June – one of many protests that followed the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis.
1/60sec|F8|ISO 320
Sheer anarchy! Members of the local community paint a mural on the road (now preserved) near the SPD East Precinct, later in June.
The X100V is a near-perfect everyday camera because it's small enough to tuck under a light jacket when I'm out walking or cycling, fast, very simple to use and delivers great pictures. The new lens in the 'V' with its two aspherical elements, is far superior for close work to the original version on the X100/S/T/F and it performs much better with the 28mm wide converter attached. The X100V is one of those rare cameras that does exactly what I need it to, without a lot of fuss. It's as simple at that, really; a reliable companion in a most unsettling season.
A slightly misfocused grab-shot at a spontaneous celebration following the announcement that Donald Trump had lost Pennsylvania (and the 2020 presidential election) earlier this month. In the background to the left is Oddfellows Cafe. This may have been a technically better photo had I taken it with an ILC, but the X100V is the camera I had with me - which is the whole point.
For all the documentation that I've done this year with the X100V, I do not describe myself as a documentary photographer. I know several photojournalists personally, and I could never do what they do, especially in the current political climate here in the US, where personal safety is of increasing concern for members of the media. The pictures I take are primarily for me, for the purposes of creative practice, memory and reflection. And while there was much that happened in 2020 that I wish I could forget (and it's not over yet), there was certainly a lot to reflect on...
...I'm doing that dot-dot-dot thing again, which means I should probably stop before this all gets hopelessly introspective. I think we've all had quite enough of that this year.
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OKDM
A lovely article. Thanks for posting it.
Asinus
Great camera, but even greater article. Well written!
mhasman
I've got T for my daughter. I would get one for myself FF "b/w only" version
Corot2
Great camera. My favorite of all time. Sad how Seattle has been destroyed. As a native who left, very sad. Soon Joe can go home
Dec 9, 2020*permalink
Barney Britton
It's been destroyed?
Dec 9, 2020permalink
HI Barney
Yes, if you live there I am sure what you see has happened to this once great city.
Very sad, hopefully it will come back.
I've lived here more than ten years - it's changed, certainly. But 'destroyed'. No.
DPFranz
I was born in 1970, at University of Washington medical center ("University Hospital" at the time). I lived in Seattle and surrounding suburbs for the next 30 years. I live in DC now, but go back several times per year to visit family and friends. Seattle has certainly changed in 50 years, and in some ways not to my liking, but overall, it is still my favorite city in the world. I still love it deeply, and am excited by the growth, if a little annoyed at the traffic. I'm glad the viaduct is gone. I'm impressed by the train system that has gone in under downtown. There are problems - homelessness, traffic, etc. But Seattle, far from destroyed, is where I would choose to live over any other city in the world, and I have been to a lot of them.
The Saturnyne
I've never visited the USA, DPFranz, but you and Barney make me want to visit Seattle if i do.
Steve Swayne
Way back in 2002 I bought a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LC5 which was one of the first fixed lens digital cameras to adopt a retro appearance. At that time it was around the same price as the X100V is now. I really enjoyed that camera and took it all over the world. 17,000 shots over 3 months in Europe in 2002. The limitation of 4MP and pretty woeful low light performance was a product of the level of technology of the time. I am now considering moving back to a more simple camera arrangement - just an X100V - and re-selling all the other gear I have been lugging around...
Fluid and nice writing, ineffectual photos.
Samuraidog
What a great shot that family photo is. That is the kind of image you will look at ten or twenty years from now and get very emotional.
F-C
Thank you Barney. I profoundly enjoy how you integrate technical and human.
I am sorry for your 2016 and other losses.
Nov 29, 2020*permalink
Very nice review, showing the benefits of a camera that is small enough to be carried around everywhere while being super easy in operation and delivering excellent image quality.
I do vividly remember the very first iteration of Fuji's original X100 around 2012 or 2013. I used DPReview's old studio comparison tool and had me drooling, mouth and eyes wide open, over the quantum leap with regards to ultra low noise levels. The image resolution was not that high (12 MP IIRC) but those pictures just didn't have any noise when compared to other ILCs, let alone compact cameras.
One major drawback, however, was operability, the AF was sluggish and the camera was more often in the way of the photographer than not.
Fuji has come a long way in vastly improving all the shortcomings and making this an almost perfect fixed focal length camera in all relevant aspects.
Kudos to Fuji and I would love to see more reviews on the X100 xyz... in the years to come. Barney, you hear me... :-)
Nov 29, 2020permalink
WGVanDyck
A well written and entertaining article, Barney! If I wanted any more information about this camera I'd go to DPR's excellent review. You're personal experience, and context, were delivered in a very pleasant read.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
What about overheating and grinding complaints many people had?
Chris Dodkin
Internet hyped story
@chris dodkin you say it is a non issue?
I've seen complaints from many users which made me hesitant to purchase it.
Yep, Internet hyped story
So how do you explain the firmware update which targeted the overheating issue?
http://fujifilm-x.com/global/support/download/firmware/cameras/x100v/
mdb1974
Deep-state coverup.
DarnGoodPhotos
Anecdotal sure, but I bought a used one several months ago and it doesn't have any of those issues.
I purchased one and I love it, but it does overheat just with taking stills and going through menus.
Is there any benefit in image quality over the X100T with the TCL and the V withthe new version II lens?
Take care, stay safe and have fun
https://www.dpreview.com/articles/0120106839/fujifilm-x100v-versus-x100f-lens-comparison
Ben O Connor
That small notebook, written "passport" on it... What does it do ? Totally forgot since September 2019.
I've struggled with this camera mainly because of the Lack of IS. It's 2020 and not having IS for low light shooting is a major flaw. Everyone tells me the safe bet on the x100v is 1/60 to ensure sharp images. On the GRIII I can go down to 1/8 in low light. The GR III destroys the X100v for low light shooting. Barney, how slow can you shoot your camera and get sharp results 100% of the time?
I can shoot at 1/30sec pretty reliably, assuming a static subject. But I typically treat 1/60sec as my minimum.
wats0n
Learn good technique and you won't need to worry about IS. I didn't have IS on bodies for years and never had an issue capturing images even in low light.
Does it "destroy it?" It depends. If you need to freeze movement the GRIII's IS won't help you. The Fuji is one stop of a lens faster. And the AF in low light of the Fuji is better than the GR.
The GR is good but the IS it all depends on what kind of work you are shooting.
Photosection
Sony's RX1Rll is in a similar vein, it gets a little dicey below 1/60th, mainly because it's so tiny. The original Sony A7R's were even worse with the clattery shutter. IBIS helped a lot, on the version ll cameras, as did the refined shutters.
Camera size matters, I'd love to try the X-Pro3, bigger body, smaller more refined shutters.
A lot depends on how steady you are when shooting. I often do long exposure hand held shots where a steady hand is more important than the camera tech.
Sure, as is shooting a handgun. But, all things said and done, a larger frame and smaller caliber is easier to control. I think this is where the "lore" of Olympus IBIS being so much better than SONY's MILC originates. The Olympus is actually a larger body, better ergonomics and more purchase, with a much smaller (smoother) sensor & shutter.
unhappymeal
Watson, IBIS is a tool. Yes, you may have captured images in low light without stabilization, but your envelope would've been that much larger with the 6+ stops that something like E-M1 III affords. I have perfectly clean, 0.5 second shots with my E-M1 III.
Jimmmy
When we get to the x100vi, will it come with IS? The one shortcoming of my X100t is low light evening or indoor shots. I am not so steady-handed and even raising ISO I can have difficulty getting in focus pics in low light. Sony added IS to the RX100 a while back.
It might, but even with a compact IBIS unit (which Fujifilm has just made for the X-S10) it would likely be a larger, somewhat heavier camera. And inevitably more expensive, too. Which Fujifilm could do but that would require some redefining of what the X100-series is meant to be.
How good is my Fuji X100v? Well, it can match my Nikon D850 with a Sigma 35mm ART lens with a lot less to carry. It's engaging to use and it can fire the tiny fill flash with the leaf shutter at very high shutter speeds. The IQ is truly amazing as it has a crop sensor that is state of the art and Fuji's color science produces beautiful skin tones. If that wasn't enough, you get a hybrid finder and some lovely looking 4K video capability. I had the Zeiss Q2 for a week and ended up preferring the X100v overall. There's always another camera to buy, but I still love shooting with the Fuji and that won't change when my Z7 II comes in a few weeks!
EricWN
I'll be interested in that mysterious Zeiss Q2 you worked with.
LOL. Thought I corrected it to Leica, but I guess I didn't post it!
I really liked the Leica, but only because of the FX sensor. Other than that I preferred the X100v, which just gave me more control over the camera more easily. I wish the Leica had a built in flash for fill work.
X100V has been my Covid camera as well - purchased just before it all went t*ts up! I planned to carry it around the UK when visiting family in the summer, but that never happened. It's trip to Aruba also got canned. Instead it's accompanied me every day on my walks, and captured the daily mundane covid stuff that will be priceless to look back on in 10 years time. Couldn't wish for a better camera companion - never a pain to carry, always a pleasure to use.
harley13
Yup politics and Covid a blend of disease and stupidity
Is this article about the camera or about Covid??? Very boring!
Both!!!!!!!!!
Gaspar17
It's got human entrainment, technical interest and great photos.
My x100t is not my everyday choice out the door, but whenever I pack it I'm always happy with the results. Recently picked up the wide-angle add-on. The press says the x100v is a better camera but so far, I just can't justify the cost.
MarcosV
Your article got me to dig up my X100S --- the first Fujifilm camera I ever bought.
Using it still puts a smile on my face which in turn is getting me to look for a used XPro2 to play with. XPro2 with my Fujifilm f2 primes would be fun.
Pap38
You haven't convinced me. The images are, well what they are. Most one inch sensors produce like photos. Living with one camera doesn't make it the best, just the one you are familiar with.
You must be fun at parties.
I have a Sony RX100 VI in the same bag with the Fuji X100v. The Sony is an excellent and hugely versatile camera, but the 1" sensor is limiting and it cannot match the output of the Fuji, nor can it match the IQ of the redesigned Fuji lens, which is now world class.
Hubblefunk
A beautiful camera that produces beautiful images.
I'd like to pick one up but I think my money would be better spent on lenses.
Perhaps one day when I can find one for a great deal.
LAPoloPlayer
Just don't get it. I just didn't think the X100V took very good pictures. Color. Contrast. Really? But what really is strange is that it seems to require adapters according to most reviewers -I did not have the wide / tele / or weather adapters (the x100V is weather resistant... wait... that's with an adapter. Oh. OK.) And these adapters are like $300 a pop, right? But it's such a cute little camera. Small. Low profile. Good for street. Fits in a pocket. Ah. Then what about an A7C? Hmm. Haven't actually used one yet. But it's interchangeable lens and full-frame. Better autofocus for sure. DPReviews comparison? Oh please!
f2.8 or slower pancakes would be the only lenses with which an ILC would be as compact as the X100 tho... I'm not saying that's a roadblock, plenty of people like their 35/2.8 & 24/2.8 E mount pancakes... I've looked at the X100 a bunch of times myself, but I can go even smaller with a not much slower M4/3 pancake (by FF equivalency, f3 vs f3.4) and a substantially smaller body, and when I took the FF plunge I ended up preferring better lenses.
A low light comparison where the IBIS of those ILCs is taken into account would probably favor the ILCs too, OTOH none of those ILC pancakes are as reliably weather sealed as the X100V is and the Fuji still offers things (like the hybrid EVF) and quirks you wouldn't get on a compact ILC. It's pretty hard to make this comparison on paper and boil it down to a few specs IMO.
jaberg
The "weather adapter" as you refer to it, is a threaded ring and a filter. Even the "spendy" Fuji version is well south of $100. I originally got a slim metal lens hood that incorporated the adapter for about $US20 but have since upgraded to a square Leica-esque square hood that cost a little more — $US40. I liked the look. I did splurge for a B + H filter — I think it was $30.
The other two adapters, the conversion lenses, are certainly not mandatory but are, in my experience, excellent at what they do. Mine were "open box and used/excellent" purchases, indistinguishable from brand new, and both were procured with a little patience for approximately $450. I don't use them all the time, but I like knowing they're available to round out the kit when I feel the urge.
unrealObama
I wish Fujifilm weren't as expensive as FF mirrorless. I'd switch from Sony APS-C, but it's really the same price as switching to FF. Both directions are just for better sensor.
deednets
There is of course also the user experience which is often difficult to put a price-tag on.
But it's there! Aperture ring, shutter dial, optical viewfinder (X100 & XPRO), EC dial and fold out screen.
Where exactly do you get this in FF land? ;-)
The X100V is half the cost of the RX1.
Elliot H
which makes the RX quite reasonable vis a vi it's out put
Only gripe with this camera was FUJI's battery choice. Given the body size, it should've used the X-T4 battery, as should the X-Pro3. Otherwise, its a fantastic little camera.
x-Buff
Totally agree, but I suppose they really went the extra mile to keep the body as small as possible despite the weather sealing. But how could you be happy with an RXR then?
forest dream
It is fantastic camera if built-in OIS.
GeraldW
You just might have talked me into an X100V. For many years, my film SLR kits always included a 35 mm f/2 lens. But when digital SLR's came along with their APS-C sensors, where were the 35 mm equivalent lenses? It was like losing a good friend.
FujifilmXT3
I recommended this to a friend based on your reviews and she hated it. Sold it for a loss.
What didn't she like about it, out of interest?
Been a Sony RX1Rll shooter from the release, and was shocked how much an improvement the X100V was where handling/shooting speed are concerned.
Boss of Sony
I owned the X100S twice. The only thing I didn't like was the focal length. If it had been 20 or 24mm I might have kept it.
@Photosection I suppose those where the aspects I really hated about the Sony, plus the battery life. But what a lens and sensor. So win for the Fuji. For me anyway.
LeovilleBarton
After reading this article I ordered an X100V. With recent talk of monochrome-only Leicas for the wealthy, I'd been unsure whether to prefer the Ricoh GR III, noted for its B&W capabilities, but memories of printing from Acros film in the darkroom and the knowledge that the wide-conversion lens works well on the V, shifted the balance towards this lovely retro design. In preparation, I've been heading out with my venerable Nex-7 + ZA 24/1.8 which is still highly usable without having the latest bells and whistles found on the V. During the hopefully happier and less fraught year ahead, I look forward to being able to make a simple photography decision before leaving the house - just grab the X100V.
you will be thrilled. I am in awe since I picked up the X100T. They are so powerful.
Enjoy your camera. I got one to use alongside my M10R just to have an AF option and I end up using it more than the Leica now.
PortraitLover
@barney Britton pls put in an affiliate link so u get paid! wasted opportunity
@PortraitLover - don't worry, I get paid. But not by affiliate links (that would be logistically impossible and ethically highly dubious) :)
pidera
I recognize the reasons why I like the X-Pro + 16/2.8 combination
SpeedyNeo
Nice write-up and a fantastic little camera. LOVE mine so much.
Kiwisnap
"the dot-dot-dot thing"
or ellipsis as we call it in English.
To be honest, this year has not been all that bad for us at all, aside from not being able to leave New Zealand it's been pretty reasonable, fortunately.
Same in Australia. The major impact for me in Adelaide has been disruption to the possibility of unfettered overseas travel... Which is the scheme of things is trivial. We have been very fortunate down under to have better government responses to Covid-19 and the geographical isolation and lower populations of people more willing to accept restrictions for the common good.
biggercountry
Excellent article Barney. No apologies necessary for your introspective tone. It's just what a gear-centric site needs every now and then... a reminder of WHY, not just what or how.
jakester11
......a "gear-centric site" should be just that.
Many people have had to give up a lot more than global travel, and having to wear body armor suggests we have sunk to new lows. But it is what it is, because he is who he is.
Since you're the owner of a X100V, I'd be curious what the differences are between the pre-production camera and the one you purchased.
I think you meant to leave this in reply to a comment a little further down this page? But either way, in answer to your second question, my personal X100V delivers results that are indistinguishable from the pre-prod that I used in London. Which is normally the way, these days. It's rare to see substantial differences between late pre-production units and final shipping samples. The differences (if there are any) are in how they're put together and maybe a non-standard capacitor or two.
aerorail
i seem to remember last years gear of the year.... a disaster, perhaps it was a precursor to 2020
that aside...
DPR is getting to political for me. 2021 will be a step back to the future...
2021 is literally the future.
@aerorail: That's the world that we live in now, where too many things have become too political.
@aer - "too" not 'to'.
Sezano
Political?
Kudos to Barney for keeping it real.
And aerorail, we are all sorry for your loss, brother.
We don't know much about 2021. What we know, however, is what another brother of ours wrote more than 2000 years ago: - "He who suffers before it's necessary suffers more than it's necessary".
Chin up, it might be okay.
Photojournalists should be breathing easier stating in 57 days. Until then, be safe!
I hope so, I really do. I ran into a friend recently who used to work for one of the Seattle papers and now works for the NYT. He'd recently been issued with body armor.
As long as it doesn't go back to this: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/22/us/politics/photographers-protest-white-house-restrictions.html
Absolutely ! X100V ! Good pick !
Nice everlasting retroactive design ...
35mm ... my favorite ...
Excellent choice.
Not sure that I've ever even seen an X100V but having read the article it sounds like a perfect companion camera. Thanks for sharing.
I didn't take many pictures this year because I would be happy just to forget any of this ever happened.
Now I know what people mean when they jinx you by saying "May you live in interesting times". It was a very interesting year here in Philadelphia.
DanInJapan256
"Dot-dot-dot" a.k.a. an ellipsis...
Michaelr205
I'll have to dig out my old first series X100.
It is slow with a cumbersome operating system but it is oh so charismatic...
I laughed so hard when "but then 2020 barged in, ripped a room-clearing fart, handed 2016 its beer and went bananas."
That may be the most perfect encapsulating description of this year, ever. Thank you!
I hope you get to see your family again soon, Barney.
It'll be a while, I think - but that's what Facetime video is for! Yay....
shinndigg
I have a brother who is stuck in Botswana! He and his wife were supposed to come home in May. 2 days before their flight, Botswana shut everything down.
babart
Very interesting and personal article.
Yes, a reminder that photos are ultimately about what we as people value and wish to remember in images...the human element is always the most important.
Andrew Elliott
The X100v glass is half full now?
Sylvain G
a sensible article and a nice read Barney !
davidjlee
Love all of this. Nice piece and pics!
redisred
Loved this, thanks Barney. This mirrors my own experience this year with the same camera. It's been a weird ride, but the X100V has been my constant companion through it all, and it has been perfect. Not so much because of the technical whatever of it, but because it really begs to be picked up and used to document and make sense of my life, especially this year. It's inspired me to learn more about classic photographers like all the Magnum people as well, and thus I've been inspired to push myself in new directions. All of this is 1000x more uplifting for me than the gear reviews I'm such a sucker for, and for those experiences throughout this year I'm grateful to Fuji for making a camera like this.
With an expired passport, will the present administration send you back?
I'm confused by the question, but I have since renewed my GB passport.
Alastair Norcross
I feel your pain Barney. I renewed my GB passport last year, and was saddened to receive the now non-EU version. All my family and friends in the UK are living the nightmare that is Brexit, on top of the Covid-19 nightmare. I recently watched an episode of 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown (if you don't know it, look for it on Youtube) that was filmed a few months before the Brexit referendum. One of the contestants/comedians on the show suggested that no-one aged over 65 should be allowed to vote, because the world they would be deciding on wouldn't be theirs, but rather that of the ten year-olds, who weren't allowed to vote. That got quite a few laughs, but I suspect that he meant it seriously, because it was a spot-on observation. Like global warming, but even more immediate, Brexit is yet another example of the old screwing things up for the young.
Got my new one just in the nick of time - maroon *and* with the words "European Union" on it. A friend sent his off a day later and it came back without the EU bit. Another friend got hers a couple of weeks ago and it was black (sorry, Very Dark Indubitably British Navy Blue); she's a Brexiteer, so this makes her happy. Let's see how she feels early next year...
I love the irony that the maroon UK 'EU' passport was printed by a British company but the new blue UK passport that Brexiteers love so much is printed by a French company!
Fortunately my British EU passport is valid for another 6 years, so at least I can pretend that I'm European, and not a stupid nationalistic isolationist.
mring1
Your post was very real and personal, and summarizes what a lot of us have felt over the last year. The integration of the camera into your/our new normal was the strongest part of the piece. Not a review so much, we already have lots of those on the 100V.
I bought a 100T off Craigslist in February for $400 and have found it marvelous to work with as opposed to my ever-so-slightly larger m4/3s kit. I love the look and feel of the camera and the breadth of potential in its images. It kind of pushes me back to a simpler approach. Zoom with your feet and all...A very similar experience to yours.
Great and thoughtful post. Hope you get back to see your family in the UK in 2021.
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David, I strongly support using a jump drive to back up your docs. I would add one tiny bit of info to it though….hey, I'm an IT geek just trying to help.
-If you are backing up crucial, identity type information (SSN, Card numbers, account info, etc..), I would definitely recommend an encryption tool to protect all of the info stored on the drive.
It is as easy as encrypting the documents with a password. There are plenty of free tools for stuff like this.
And the best part is they are all free and are made for a USB drive!
Awesome tips…never thought about it because they just sit in our emergency kit, but they should probably be protected just in case. Appreciate the tips, will look into it tomorrow!


3D system resulting from a collaboration between Idaho Universities and the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), scientists can explore multiple dimensions of data that, until now, could only be viewed two dimensionally.
A traditional IQ-Station (also known as CAVE™) is housed in a room with projectors displaying images on all surfaces, while cameras are used to track the movements of the user. The user wears 3D glasses and operates a controller to view and interact with data in a 3D immersive environment. ISU's IQ-Station displays images on a large screen instead of on the walls. The user can interact and manipulate the data across a volume or area projected on the screen. IQ-Stations are portable and less expensive than full CAVE™ systems, and can be useful in many applications where full-featured CAVE™ systems are not needed.
The IQ-Station at ISU BCAL features a 3D 73-inch Mitsubishi LCD display and optical tracking system by NaturalPoint and relies on a high end computer to run Vrui, a virtual reality software developed by UC Davis that performs the 3-D rendering. In addition to remote sensing data, MRI and CT scans (medical imaging), CAD drawings (engineering), and complex molecular diagrams (chemistry) can also be visualized in the IQ-Station for scientific interaction.
The IQ-Station at ISU BCAL is currently being used for several research projects. These include a multi-temporal study of an active landslide located in the Salmon Falls area 16 miles south of Hagerman, ID, and a line of sight study to aid visual studies under forest canopies for artificial intelligence and landscape modeling.
INL has also donated IQ-Stations to Boise State University and University of Idaho.


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City helps Bourkevale mark anniversary
Coun. Scott Fielding presents Bourkevale president Gary Kristiansen with a commemorative plaque
Bourkevale Community Centre celebrated the 60th Anniversary of the official opening of its clubhouse this month. The main clubhouse officially opened Dec. 5, 1952. Coun. Scott Fielding (St. James-Brooklands) was on hand to present the club with a commemorative plaque Dec. 14 to mark the occasion during Bourkevale's monthly board of directors meeting.
"I'd like to congratulate Bourkevale for 60 years of service, it's fantastic," said Fielding. "We should be proud of all the hard work volunteers have done over the years to keep the centre going."
River sliding a tradition at Bourkevale
Bourkevale celebrates 60th Anniversary of clubhous...
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Beyond Air, Inc. Announces Closing of $11.5 Million Public Offering and Private Placement of Common Stock and Exercise of Option to Purchase Additional Shares
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GARDEN CITY, N.Y. and REHOVOT, Israel, Dec. 12, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Beyond Air, Inc. (XAIR), a clinical-stage medical device and biopharmaceutical company focused on developing inhaled Nitric Oxide (NO) for the treatment of patients with respiratory conditions including serious lung infections and pulmonary hypertension, announced today the closing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of 2,620,199 shares of common stock, including 295,199 shares sold pursuant to the underwriters' partial exercise of their option to purchase additional shares, at a public offering price of $3.66 per share.
Paul Arndt
Paul Arndt is an investor relations and corporate communications executive with 20 years of corporate and agency experience. Previously, Paul was Sr. Manager of Investor Relations for Spectrum Pharmaceuticals during which time the company saw a more than 23-fold growth in its market capitalization, an increase in sell-side analyst coverage from two to seven and an increase in institutional ownership from 25% to more than 70% through proactive investor targeting. Prior to Spectrum, he led investor relations and corporate communications for NeoPharm, Inc., where he was responsible for executing long-term investor, corporate, employee, and media relations programs designed to develop and refine core messages to optimize value creation, contributing to a more than 500% increase in market capitalization and a doubling of analyst coverage through several corporate events. Paul also served as an IR consultant at Hill & Knowlton and David A. Noyes & Company. Paul earned his MBA from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management in Chicago and his Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Quincy University in Quincy, Illinois. He is also a NIRI-National and NIRI-Chicago chapter member, and a recent Officer of the NIRI-Orange County, California chapter.
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Extinct habitat, extant species: lessons learned from conservation recovery actions for the Pedder galaxias (Galaxias pedderensis) in south-west Tasmania, Australia Academic Article
The Pedder galaxias (Galaxias pedderensis) from Lake Pedder, Tasmania, Australia, is one of the world's most threatened freshwater fish. The flooding of Lake Pedder in 1972 for hydroelectric power generation caused a major change to the ecosystem that initiated an irreversible decline in the Pedder galaxias within its natural range. The flooding inundated another headwater catchment and native and introduced fish from this catchment colonised the impoundment. Numbers of the Pedder galaxias declined markedly as the impoundment matured and as colonising fish proliferated. Surveys in the 1980s confirmed the parlous state of the population, highlighting the need for conservation intervention. Several urgent conservation actions were undertaken to save the species from extinction. Translocation was considered the most important recovery action, given the critically low numbers in the wild. The species is now extinct from its natural range and is known from only two translocated populations. The conservation program, and specifically the translocation recovery action, saved the Pedder galaxias from extinction. The conservation management was extremely challenging since rapidly declining fish numbers needed timely and critical decisions to underpin the future of the fish. Recommendations are provided arising from this case study to guide conservation of freshwater fish in similar circumstances.
Chilcott, Stuart
Davies, Peter E
Crook, David A
Fulton, Wayne
Hamr, Premck
Sanger, Andrew C
Marine Biology & Hydrobiology (Science Metrix)
Marine and Freshwater Research Journal
ALIEN SALMONIDS
FRESH-WATER FISH
Galaxiidae
THREATENED FISHES
TRANSLOCATION
TRUTTACEUS
critically threatened
galaxias conservation
threatened freshwater fish
10.1071/MF12257


Could longer life expectancy be the death of pensions?
Matthew Craig asks whether old age could be the death of pensions, as widly varying longevity scales muddy the accounts.
For finance directors with a defined benefit (DB) pension scheme to think about, rapid increases in longevity are causing scheme costs to skyrocket.
It is estimated that each extra year of life expectancy adds 3% to scheme liabilities. Even worse, many organisations have been using outdated mortality tables, and moving to more realistic assumptions can steer the figures towards the 20% mark.
At present, mortality or longevity projections are based on the generation born between 1926 and 1935, as there is enough data here for valid conclusions to be drawn. One view is that this golden generation are enjoying an exceptional longevity due to special circumstances. Firstly, their parents were the hardy survivors of the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1919. Then, in their youth, this generation benefited from rationing and abundant outdoor exercise. As they grew older, they had better health care and better housing than previous generations. Financially, they benefited from huge increases in property prices and are often recipients of good workplace pensions.
Subsequent generations, some argue, will be less healthy and less financially blessed. Driving the debate is higher obesity rates as we choose virtual activities over physical ones and as adults accompany this with a culture of binge drinking. Mark Wood, chief executive of pensions buy out specialist Paternoster, assumes the rapid acceleration in longevity will continue, based on factors such as the public smoking ban, the increased use of blood-thinning statins to prevent heart attacks, and non-invasive surgery which reduces post-operative trauma. "Medical care is extending life; men are no longer dying in significant numbers in their early sixties. It was quite common in the past not to make it to retirement," says Wood.
Can insurance products assuage worry?
For FDs worried about the impact of longevity on scheme liabilities and their financial statements, one option is to buy out liabilities with an insurance product. This can be expensive, but new entrants in the market have made it more competitive.
If longevity is a concern for FDs, one issue that could then turn the screw is the recent International Accounting Standards Board's guidance, IFRIC 14, on the treatment of accounting surpluses under international accounting standard IAS 19.
This guidance comes into effect in January and its exact implications are still the subject of debate. But it could mean that additional funds paid into a pension plan, perhaps because of increases in longevity, could be trapped, or could create an additional liability on the balance sheet.
"If you have a deficit, that's a liability that a company must disclose. But if you have a surplus, is it an asset that can be disclosed? IFRIC 14 is trying to answer that question," says Peters.
In the past, companies could take advantage of a surplus by reducing contributions or obtaining a refund, but IFRIC 14 states that a surplus can only be considered an asset when a company has an "unconditional right" to it, or "sufficient scope to reduce future contributions". As the Pensions Act 2004 gave scheme trustees and the pensions regulator greater powers over scheme funding, it may now be harder for companies to show that either of these conditions exists.
One interpretation of IFRIC 14 is that if a surplus is available to a company when the last pensioner in the scheme dies, then that could show that an unconditional right exists. "Companies should investigate how the scheme rules work. Is there something that the trustees can do before the scheme finishes as an entity? If yes, that may impact on whether the surplus can be recovered," comments Peters.
IFRIC 14 also raises issues over the interaction of accounting and funding rules, which could cause FDs a real headache. Basically, where a company does not have an unconditional right to a surplus and has an existing deficit, if a funding plan has been agreed that creates a surplus under IAS 19, this will create an additional balance sheet liability in addition to a current IAS 19 deficit.
The use of contingent liabilities, according to Grant Thornton's Cook, is one option where companies don't want to commit capital. "A few years ago contingent assets were comparatively rare, but this is changing," he says. Charges over property or other assets, parent company guarantees and letters of credit are all possible options.
IFRIC 14 is guidance on pensions accounting standard IAS 19 and is effective for financial periods beginning on or after 1 January 2008. If it is not adopted for the 2007 accounts, its impact must be disclosed, as if it had been used.
Under IFRIC 14, companies must have an 'unconditional right' to a refund, or 'sufficient scope to reduce future contributions' for a surplus to be included on the balance sheet.
An 'unconditional right' means that the company does not need third party agreement to a refund, for example from the trustees or pension regulator.
Where companies do not have an unconditional right, they may need to make an additional provision due to the interaction of funding and accounting rules. Where companies are funding for a surplus under IAS 19, it is possible under IFRIC 14 that an additional liability should be shown in addition to the current IAS 19 deficit.
For companies accounting under FRS 17, different rules apply; surpluses are restricted to reductions in future contribution and refunds already agreed with the trustees.
IAS 19 applies to listed companies and FRS 17 to unlisted companies, including subsidiaries within a group structure.
Many organisations have been using outdated mortality tables, with projections based on the 1926-1935 generation.
Each extra year of life expectancy adds an estimated 3% to scheme liabilities, and moving to more realistic assumptions can increase liabilities to between 10%-20%.
An option is to buy out liabilities with an insurance company. And reinsurers and banks are working on products that can hedge against longevity.
Other developments include mortality catastrophe bonds, which protect against extreme mortality event risk, and longevity swaps, where payments are exchanged between counterparties depending on actual mortality versus a defined benchmark.
IFRIC 14, which comes into effect in January 2008 could mean that additional funds paid into a pension scheme, perhaps because of increases in longevity, could be trapped, or could even create an additional liability on the balance sheet.


An all new classic tale of Thor unchained by the hot creative combo of Mike Carey (X-MEN LEGACY) and Mike Perkins (THE STAND)!! Hela lays siege to Asgard, and demon hordes are loose on Earth. Weakened and alone, Thor must make a dangerous bargain with a mortal woman in order to launch a last assault on the forces of death and chaos - as his enemies were hoping he would. Valiant Vikings, grotesque goblins, and lascivious ladies-what more could any thunder god ask for?


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using System;
using Piglet.Parser.Configuration;
using Piglet.Parser.Configuration.Fluent;

namespace Piglet.Parser
{
    /// <summary>
    /// The parserfactory is the main way of obtaining parsers from Piglet.
    /// </summary>
    public static class ParserFactory
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Create a code based configurator
        /// </summary>
        /// <typeparam name="T">Semantic value type of tokens</typeparam>
        /// <returns>A configurator, ready for use</returns>
        public static IParserConfigurator<T> Configure<T>()
        {
            var parserConfigurator = new ParserConfigurator<T>();
            return parserConfigurator;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Create a fluent configurator object.
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>A fluent configurator</returns>
        public static IFluentParserConfigurator Fluent()
        {
            return new FluentParserConfigurator(new ParserConfigurator<object>());
        }
    }
}

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The cube-shaped nesting box twitter turns every tree into a design hotel for architectural orientated birds.
The outer covering made from stainless or rusted weatherproof steel serves as rain shelter. Inside the birds find a cosy, species-appropriate room made entirely from wood. The steel cover does not lie against the wooden interior, so that the air can circulate well in between.
1,5 mm thick stainless steel sheet or Corten steel, 3-ply sheet.
The coated models are varnished weather-proof and eco-friendly .


The National's tour behind the excellent Sleep Well Beast has been a freewheeling one thus far, with guest appearances from the likes of Bon Iver mastermind Justin Vernon and an exciting mix of covers. Previously the band covered New Order's "Vigilantes of Love" in the new wave band's hometown of Manchester as well as the Talking Heads' "Heaven". This week, The National unfurled out two more intriguing covers in the form of Queen's 1984 hit "I Want to Break Free" and Cat Power's "Maybe Not".
Check out both covers below, read our interview with The National here, and check out the tour's itinerary here.


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A broken model
By Frances Coppola - June 19, 2013
My latest article at Pieria is on the contradiction at the heart of banking:
"In my article on the slow death of banks, I suggested that banks maintained on life support would eventually become redundant as new forms of financial intermediation took their place. This is the first of two posts in which I discuss what those new forms might look like.
The key change that we are seeing is what we might call "disintermediation" - flight of both lenders (depositors) and borrowers from traditional deposit-taking lenders to other types of financial intermediary, many of them specialists in particular aspects of financial management networked to other providers that do different things. This has already happened to a large extent in the US, but the UK and European models of banking are founded on universal banks and it is difficult for many people even to imagine what a banking system deconstructed into its component parts looks like. But when you break down the traditional banking model, it becomes apparent that there is a fundamental conflict at the heart of universal banking that makes it untenable as a business proposition in the current climate....."
The remainder of this article can be found here.
Lessons from the Long Depression
A version of this post appeared on Pieria in December 2013.
In my post "The desert of plenty", I described a world in which goods and services are so cheap to produce that less and less capital is required for investment , and so easy to produce that less and less labour is required to produce them. Prices therefore go into freefall and there is a glut of both capital and labour. This is deflation.
There are two kinds of deflation. There is the "bad" kind, where asset prices go into a tailspin and banks and businesses fail in droves, bankrupting households and governments and resulting in massive unemployment, poverty and social collapse. America experienced this in the Great Depression and narrowly avoided it in the Great Recession. More recently, at least one European country has felt the effects of this catastrophe.
But there is also another kind. This is where falling costs and increasing efficiency of production create a glut of consumer goods and services. In other words, supp…
The Case for People's Quantitative Easing
By Frances Coppola - July 10, 2019
Last night, the Resolution Foundation hosted a debate to launch my book, "The Case for People's Quantitative Easing". A great panel consisting of Jagjit Chadha, Director of NIESR; Fran Boait, Executive Director of Positive Money; and James Smith, Research Director of the Resolution Foundation, debated my ideas with immense verve, ably moderated by Torsten Bell, Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation. You can watch the debate here.
In 2008, QE did a great job of supporting asset prices and preventing the disastrous deflationary spiral of the 1930s. But since then, enormous quantities of asset purchases by central banks around the world have proved unable to raise aggregate demand and kickstart growth.
Although central banks didn't do a bad job in the last recession, many of the tools they used won't work in the next one, not least because the legacy of the tools themselves has not yet dissipated. Interest rates are on the floor, central bank balance sheets …
The high price of dollar safety
By Frances Coppola - August 27, 2019
The world is saving like crazy. Corporations are building up cash mountains that they can't or won't invest in expanding their businesses. Individuals are building up pensions and precautionary savings. Governments, especially in developing countries, are building up FX reserves. The "savings glut," as former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke dubbed it, shows no signs of dissipating. It is sloshing around the world looking for a productive home. But there isn't one - or at least, not one that offers the safety that fearful investors desperately crave. That, fundamentally, is what is driving down the returns on assets.
It is also the primary cause of the wide US trade deficit. The President likes to think that the reason for the US's persistent trade deficits is unfair trade practices and currency manipulation. And for some countries, these are undoubtedly contributing factors. But the biggest reason by far is the global dominance of the dollar, and above all, the pre-eminence of dollar-deno…
May links
Mortgages are dangerous beasts
Financial dislocation
QE myths and the Expectations Fairy
In the countries of the old
The zero-sum trade in people
The creeping desert
The movement of people (and its consequences)


Wholesome Hide Rawhide Chips 16 oz.
Wholesome Hide rawhide chips 1 lb. bag- These Made in USA beef hide chips are the perfect treat for rewarding your dog without emptying your wallet.
With these rawhide chips your dog will notice the difference. And you will know that you are providing a chew treat that is processed fresh and does not contain harsh, potentially dangerous chemicals.
fresh rawhide sourced here in the USA. Their hides are refrigerated, cut and sent to drying ovens immediately, making them absolutely the freshest rawhides.
Each bag has different sizes of chips.
without the chemicals that other companies use.
Will only give my dog wholesome hide rawhide & always buy from Mickey's because of reliability, price, great customer service & speedy shipping!
My 30lb cattle dog mix loves these chips. He can eat the entire chip without choking whereas I have to stop him with his beloved bully sticks before they get too short. It also allows the sticks to go farther because he enjoys the chips so much.


The Bride's Kimono – loudlatinlaughing – Euge! Euge!
Another improbable and slightly idiotic mystery from Sujata Massey, but I've chosen my drug of choice to end the year on, and I continue to dose with her dumbed down stories. This one focused on Japanese historical item: kimono, with Rei traveling to the U.S. to deliver a lecture while accompanying 10 priceless kimono, one of which goes missing/stolen. A woman who sat beside Rei on the plane from Japan gets killed, Rei hooks up with her old British/Scottish boyfriend again, her Japanese boyfriend shows up and she breaks things off (he dramatically lurching from the restaurant intent on humiliating her), her parents fly in from California, she's accused by DC police of being a prostitute. It's all very muddled and only reaches fever pitch in the last 20 pages when the assistant director of the Tokyo museum where the kimono are on loan from is busted almost killing Rei. Meh.


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Study: Medicaid Expansion Helped Colorado Economy
Colorado Economy
The expansion of Colorado's Medicaid program has resulted in billions of dollars in economic activity over the last two years.
According to a recent report from the Colorado Health Foundation, the expansion of Colorado's Medicaid program has resulted in the creation of tens of thousands of new jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity over the last two years. The results of the study show that Colorado could be leading the way in a national movement toward creative solutions for complicated state-debt issues.
"The impact of Medicaid expansion in the state is broad-reaching and demonstrates how health is more than just what happens at the doctor's office," Foundation President Karen McNeil-Miller said in a statement. "In addition to providing health insurance to nearly 400,000 Coloradans, expanding Medicaid has proven to be a fiscally sound decision."
In 2013, the Colorado state legislature approved an expansion of Medicaid under the provisions set forth by the Affordable Care Act. Governor John Hickenlooper signed the bill into law. This made Colorado one of a group now comprising 32 states that have expanded Medicaid coverage under the optional ACA provision.
In practical terms, the expansion gave low-income residents the option to enroll in Medicaid, which was formerly only available to those meeting certain age requirements and other limitations. As it stands now, Colorado residents who are living at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level may enroll in the state's Medicaid plan. According to the According to the CHF, that resulted in nearly 400,000 additional Colorado residents becoming eligible to receive health coverage under Medicaid. Despite a total cost of around $1.75 billion in the 2017-2018 fiscal year, the Medicaid expansion will be completed at no additional cost to the state budget.
In addition, the CHF projected that increased health care spending resulting from the measure meant an additional $3.82 billion was added to the state's economy in just two years. It's estimated that another $8.53 billion in additional gross domestic product will be generated by 2035 as a result of the Medicaid expansion. In terms of employment numbers, the expansion caused 31,074 new jobs to be added in the state. By 2035, that number will total over 43,000, a 1.35 percent increase from previous projections. Average household earnings are also $643 higher after the ruling took effect in 2013. In terms of employment numbers, the expansion caused over 31,000 new jobs to be added in the state. By 2035, that number will total over 43,000, a 1.35 percent increase from previous projections. Average household earnings are also $643 higher after the ruling took effect in 2013.
While members of CHF defended the plan as a long-term savings measure, some government officials were not persuaded by the study's findings, according to The Denver Post. Senate Health and Human Services Committee Chair Kevin Lundberg expressed discontent with the plan , saying that more Medicaid coverage would indeed cost the state vital tax revenue. However, according to the study's authors, the measure actually proved to have more positive results than initially anticipated. The CHF also explained that the savings incurred by the expansion of insurance stem from "improving value for every dollar spent on health care." It's hoped that with greater access to health and wellness programs, more Colorado residents will be able to lead productive, healthy lives.
However, according to the study's authors, the measure actually proved to have more positive results than initially anticipated. The CHF also explained that the savings incurred by the expansion of insurance stem from "improving value for every dollar spent on health care." It's hoped that with greater access to health and wellness programs, more Colorado residents will be able to lead productive, healthy lives.
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Q: Почему задача на алгоритм Кадане не проходит некоторые тесты? Я решаю задачи на code Wars. Просят найти максимальную сумму подмассива. Я почитал про алгоритм Кадене и, кажется, реализовал его. Моя функция проходит простые тесты, но не проходит некоторые из раздела attempt. Помогите понять в чем причина. Вот мой код:
let maxSequence = function(arr){
  // ...
  if (arr.length === 0) return 0;
  let result = arr[0];
  let sum = arr[0];

  for (let i =0; i < arr.length; i++){
    if (arr[i] === []) arr[i] = 0;
    sum = Math.max(arr[i], arr[i] + sum)
    result = Math.max(result, sum)
  }
  return result;
}

Он не проходит 17 тестов отсюда. Самым удивительным для меня является, то что реализация якобы не работает с отрецательными числами, хотя в простых тестах такие числа есть и алгоритм корректно находит сумму.

A: Исправьте:
let result = 0;
let sum = 0;

Вот питоновский код, проходящий тесты:
def max_sequence(arr):
    summ = 0
    ans = 0
    for x in arr:
        summ = max (summ + x, 0)
        ans = max (ans, summ)
    return max(ans, 0)

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Class IncomingHandler

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de.deadmist.deadSimpleHttp.handlers.IncomingHandler

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public class IncomingHandler
extends Thread

This class handles incoming connections and matches them to handlers that process
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                                Thread.State, Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler

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                                IncomingHandler(Socket socket,
                                    HashMap<String,RequestHandler> handlers)

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                                activeCount, checkAccess, clone, countStackFrames, currentThread, destroy, dumpStack, enumerate, getAllStackTraces, getContextClassLoader, getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler,
                                    getId, getName, getPriority, getStackTrace, getState, getThreadGroup, getUncaughtExceptionHandler, holdsLock, interrupt, interrupted, isAlive, isDaemon, isInterrupted, join, join, join, resume, setContextClassLoader, setDaemon, setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler,
                                    setName, setPriority, setUncaughtExceptionHandler, sleep, sleep, start, stop, stop, suspend, toString, yield

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IncomingHandler

public IncomingHandler(Socket socket,
                       HashMap<String,RequestHandler> handlers)

Creates new IncomingHandler

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socket - Socket of the connection

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Screenplay: Joseph L. Mankiewicz (based on the short story "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr)
Stars: Bette Davis (Margo Channing), Anne Baxter (Eve Harrington), George Sanders (Addison DeWitt), Celeste Holm (Karen Richards), Gary Merrill (Bill Simpson), Hugh Marlowe (Lloyd Richards), Gregory Ratoff (Max Fabian), Barbara Bates (Phoebe), Marilyn Monroe (Miss Casswell), Thelma Ritter (Birdie Coonan)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz's All About Eve is one of the great triumphs of classical Hollywood—a smart, insightful, and darkly humorous drama about the intersections of art and show business and that insatiable appetite we call ambition. It is both funny and ruthless, and it somehow manages to flaunt caricature while also digging deep into the human psyche and rooting out its characters' various desires, insecurities, and frailties. It is also a remarkably candid depiction of the double standards by which men and women are judged in the limelight and how fleeting stardom can be, which is why it is so fitting that the film functioned as a comeback vehicle for star Bette Davis. Davis had recently ended a nearly two-decade relationship with Warner Bros. after a string of box office flops, which is why she told Mankiewicz that her being cast as Margo Channing, a great Broadway actress who finds herself being usurped by a cunning starlet, "resurrected [her] from the dead."
The Eve of the title is Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter), and by the end of the film we will know quite a bit about her, if not "all" (as Citizen Kane, which was co-written by Mankiewicz's older brother Herman, made so clear, it is impossible to know everything about anyone, inside and outside of the spotlight). The film opens with the annual gala of the fictional Sarah Siddons Society, an insular, self-important group of theatre aficionados, where Eve becomes the youngest person ever to be given its coveted annual award. We are introduced to all the major characters here, including Margo, who smokes and drinks her way through the proceedings and has enough of an aggravated air about her to let us know she is not pleased with what is transpiring; Lloyd Richards (Hugh Marlowe), an award-winning playwright and his wife Karen (Celeste Holm), who are two of Margo's best friends; Bill Simpson (Gary Merrill ), a theatre director and Margo's husband; and Addison DeWitt (George Sanders), a supercilious theatre critic who is, at this point, providing the voice-over narration (at different points in the film Karen and Margo will step in as narrators, as well, giving the film a particularly complex perspective).
We then flash back to the moment when Eve first entered their lives. Karen spots her hanging around the back of the theatre and learns that she is such an avowed fan of Margo's that she has attended every single performance of the play in which she is performing. Karen, moved by her dedication, offers to bring Eve backstage to meet Margo, an offer she reluctantly accepts. Once in Margo's rarefied presence, she slowly works her way into everyone's hearts with a sad story about a miserable Midwestern life and a husband killed in the war. Margo, who at first is merely tolerant of Eve's presence, decides to give her a job as an assistant, which Eve takes to immediately. She quickly makes herself indispensable, which is initially appealing in that she makes Margo's life run more smoothly. But, she increasingly injects herself into Margo's personal affairs with a charming smile and a delicate lack of guile that, for a while at least, masks her growing ambitions. As Margo famously says at one point, "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night."
Eve's ambitions cannot stay hidden forever, and soon Margo is feeling the pressure of her constant and constantly invasive presence, something about which she had been warned by Birdie (Thelma Ritter), a former vaudevillian who now works as Margo's personal assistant and voice of reason (Ritter played a similar kind of role a few years later as James Stewart's no-nonsense nurse in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window). The conflict between the older, experienced star and the younger, possibly insidious starlet gives the film a great, twitchy, escalating tension that is heightened by both Margo's fundamental insecurity about the reality of her aging in a business that prizes youth and beauty and the general cluelessness of the men around her—with the exception of Addison DeWitt, the calculating, erudite critic who becomes involved because, unlike most others, he sees right through Eve's charade and recognizes her for exactly what she is. The hotel room scene in which he finally confronts her about her real identity and plans is a great moment of stark conflict, in which the two characters' utterly ruthless sense of ambition and desire for power run headlong into each other. They're both despicable and utterly fascinating.
As Andrew Sarris notes in his book You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet: The American Talking Film History & Memory 1927–1949, Bette Davis had become something of a caricature within Hollywood circles by this time: "the pop-eyes with the heavily mascaraed lashes, the highly bred cackling voice, the strutting, hip-heavy walk." There are elements of that caricature in Davis's turn as Margo, but what makes her so interesting and ultimately memorable is the way she often sublimates those characteristics to a deep and abiding insecurity that she is constantly trying to hide. There are moments of Bette Davis greatness all throughout All About Eve, to the point that it is often easy to forget that there are other performers on the screen (including Baxter, who is quite sublime in the way she plays Eve's seemingly innocuous surface against her much darker inner self). The party scene in which Margo, riven with jealousy about the attention Bill is paying to Eve, gets drunk and makes a spectacle of herself in various ways would seem to be another cliché of female histrionics if Davis didn't make Margo's conflicted interior so painfully obvious and true. We feel for Margo, even when she is in her greatest moments of power because we recognize how that power is fleeting and can so easily be stripped away by those circling beneath her; stardom, the film suggests, is essentially disposable because there are so many replacements waiting in the wings, something a smart, knowing woman like Margo would readily understand. The title of All About Eve suggests that it is primarily about Eve herself, but she is really just a symptom of a system—not just show business, but the American way of life—that is always looking for the next great thing and discarding that which came before.
All About Eve Criterion Collection 2-Disc Blu-ray Set
Audio commentary by actor Celeste Holm, director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's son Christopher Mankiewicz, and author Kenneth L. Geist
Audio commentary by biographer and author Sam Staggs
All About Mankiewicz, a feature-length documentary from 1983 about the director
Episodes of The Dick Cavett Show from 1969 and 1980 featuring actors Bette Davis and Gary Merrill
Video interview with costume historian Larry McQueen
Hollywood Backstories: "All About Eve" 2001 documentary
Documentaries from 2010 about Mankiewicz's life and career; "The Wisdom of Eve," the 1946 short story on which the film is based; and a real-life Sarah Siddons Society based on the film's fictional organization
Radio adaptation of the film from 1951
Promotion for the film featuring Davis
Essay by critic Terrence Rafferty and "The Wisdom of Eve"
The image on Criterion's Blu-ray came from a digital restoration undertaken by 20th Century Fox using a 35mm composite fine-grain print from the Museum of Modern Art that was scanned in 4K and then digitally restored. The results are duly impressive, with gorgeous depth, detail, and contrast. The image is clear and free of any signs of age and wear, and one must appreciate how the restoration has left the grain intact, giving it the feel of celluloid in motion. The monaural soundtrack was transferred from the same 35mm print's optical track and digitally restored, and all that delicious dialogue and Alfred Newman's excellent score sound fantastic. To maximize bitrate, Criterion has put the film on its own Blu-ray along with two audio commentaries that were recorded back in 2010, one by actor Celeste Holm, director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's son Christopher, and Kenneth L. Geist (author of Pictures Will Talk: The Life and Films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz) and one by film biographer Sam Staggs (author of All About All About Eve: The Complete Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Bitchiest Film Ever Made!). These are older commentaries that have been around for nearly a decade, but if you haven't given them a listen, they are well worth the time. The rest of the supplements, which are quite extensive, are housed on a second Blu-ray. The only truly new supplement is a 20-minute interview with costume historian Larry McQueen, which focuses primarily on Eve's wardrobe and how her clothing tells the story of her character's evolution. Several of the supplements have been culled from 20th Century Fox's 2010 Blu-ray release, including four featurettes: "Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz" and "Joseph L. Mankiewicz: A Personal Journey," both of which focus on the writer/director; "The Real Eve," in which film scholar Jonathan Kuntz and theatre critic Harry Haun discuss the character's real-life inspirations; and "The Secret of Sarah Siddons," which is about a real-life group formed in Chicago based on the film's fictional organization. One of the most significant additions is All About Mankiewicz, a feature-length documentary from 1983 in which film critic Michel Ciment interviews the writer/director about his career. Also from the archives is a brief 1950 promotional film featuring footage of Bette Davis on the film's set; a 1980 episode of The Dick Cavett Show featuring actor Gary Merrill and an excerpt from a 1969 episode featuring Davis; and the film's complete 1951 radio adaptation. For those looking for a quick and gossipy look at the film's production, the disc also includes a 2001 Hollywood Backstories episode. Finally, the insert booklet (which I feel compelled to mention was torn by the awful, sticky rubber knobs used to hold the discs in place in the Digipack—something about which many have been complaining ever since the sets started shipping) contains an insightful essay by critic Terrence Rafferty and the entirety of Mary Orr's 1946 short story "The Wisdom of Eve" on which the film is based.


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Home » TV Shows » Black Lighting Is Coming To An End With Fourth And Final Season
Black Lighting Is Coming To An End With Fourth And Final Season
BY Meghan Hale November 21, 2020February 25, 2021
As if our hearts haven't been broken enough by television cancelations and movie delays over the past year, The CW is here to hurt us once more. It's a sad day out there for fans of Black Lightning, as we just learned that the upcoming season four will be its final season.
Black Lightning Ending After Upcoming Final Season
Three years after joining with the Arrowverse, Black Lightning, one of The CW's many superhero dramas, will be wrapping up. It tells the story of Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams), a high school principal who is in retirement from the superhero world after years of being known as Black Lightning. Though there is no rest for the powerful, and Black Lightning has to make his return when a notorious criminal gang takes over.
The fourth (and now final) season of Black Lightning is set to premiere on February 8th, 2021. In a recent statement, showrunner Salim Akil reminded fans of how important this hero has been for the superhero genre. Not only did it give us the genre that we all know and love, but it was able to focus on a "family of powerful Black Women" and proved that "Black people want to see themselves" properly and truthfully represented on screens. The series also garnered recognition for portraying the first Black lesbian superhero on television, which is a pretty big deal for the representation of LGBTQ+ POC everywhere!
Image via CW
It's Not The End For Everybody
Fortunately, this won't be the last we see of the Black Lightning universe. Painkiller, a.k.a. Khalil Payne (Jordan Calloway) is a character with cybernetic enhancements and powers of his own. The CW has already ordered a backdoor pilot, which could easily lead to a spinoff for Painkiller.
Our wait for the final season of Black Lightning will now be bittersweet. While we can't wait to find out what happens, we also aren't ready for it to end!
How do you feel about the news of the upcoming season of Black Lightning being its last? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!
Featured image via The CW.
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HomeHealthBreaking humanity's back with needles, bombs, and starvation – Dr. Sircus
Breaking humanity's back with needles, bombs, and starvation – Dr. Sircus
April 6, 2022 TFD Health 0
What you are about to read about what is happening in the world is tedious, depressing, terrifying, and infuriating. The world is falling apart at the seams, and it's not all Russia's fault though they are the spike plunging our flight path down. Just for starters, we see that the European Union (EU) apparatus is actively engaged in destroying their national economies on behalf of Washington's interests.
America is also suiciding itself and its privileged position of holding the world's reserve currency. As a result, the world order dominated by the United States is being ripped asunder, with Russia, China, India, and even Saudi Arabia leading the charge into a bipolar world. So is it goodbye to globalization, or is it globalized medicine with the World Health Organization jockeying to supplant national governments during the next pandemic?
We, the people of this planet, are sitting ducks caught in a crossfire. If we are not killed via a nuclear exchange, hundreds of millions of us will starve, and billions more will become malnourished. And that is only the beginning of our woes, for obliterating us is getting easier for the nasty monstrous types that inhabit our planet. We are being attacked on all fronts (even the chickens), with Pfizer and Moderna leading the charge into a special hell reserved for the vaccinated.
A full-scale war on humanity is in progress, and the bad guys are winning. The awful truth is that people like Bill Gates want as many of us dead as possible. His beloved Eugenics is a force and a mental attitude beyond evil, a nightmare. So a whole troop of people like Gates is working overtime to drag billions of us into an inferno of suffering, where, unfortunately, the living might end up envying the dead.
In Germany, the risks are clear. Martin Brudermuller, CEO of Germany's multinational BASF SE, the world's largest chemical producer, has warned that curbing or cutting off energy imports from Russia would likely spiral Germany into its most "catastrophic" economic crisis going back to the end of World War 2.
Brudermuller called this "A catastrophe, and we will feel it even more clearly next year than this one. Because most of the fertilizers that the farmers need this year have already been bought. In 2023 there will be a shortage, and then the poor countries in particular, for example in Africa, will no longer be able to afford to buy basic foodstuffs." He was talking about famine.
The point is that because of the economic and financial war against Russia, it could collapse the lives of millions of Germans. American politicians do not care, and it seems neither do Germany's leaders. It is a war against humanity though the ax will fall harder in some countries.
"If Europe refuses to buy Russian food, the net effect is that Russia has food…and the West doesn't. Increased food prices, decreased use of fossil fuels, lowering standards of living, public money poured into "renewables." This is all part of a very familiar agenda. Regardless of what you feel about Putin, Zelensky, the war in general or Ukrainian Nazis (and the American and European politicians; the Nazis who back them), it's time to confront the elephant in the room. We need to be asking: What exactly is the real aim of these sanctions? And how come they align so perfectly with the great reset?" writes Kit Knightly.
"The myopic and headline-grabbing sanctimony of Russian sanctions (freezing FX reserves, blocking SWIFT-dollar payment systems and access to IMF SDRs) ignores the otherwise massive and negative consequences for the West in general and the world reserve currency in particular," writes Matthew Piepenburg.
"Putin is turning up the pressure. The European nations have a difficult choice ahead: either they can play ball and demonstrate to the world that their efforts to wean themselves off of their dependence on Russian energy have been mostly in vain. Or they can face a "catastrophic" economic crisis as energy prices soar, leading to rationing, blackouts, and other measures that will make the 1970s oil crisis in the US look like child's play."
Genocide Via Food Scarcity and Price
Yesterday, Monday the 4th, a German retail chain announced it would raise food prices by 20-50%. So many people worldwide will be eating a lot less, and it could be a matter of time before food riots erupt across the Middle East. Even before Russia invaded Ukraine and disrupted the global food supply, menacing food inflation ripped around the world, crushing emerging market households the hardest.
A new report Thursday via the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) warns that a toxic combination of the conflict in Ukraine, economic disruptions due to COVID-19, and climate volatility resulting in bad harvests, are driving food prices to record highs as fears of shortages flourish. Today in Europe, you would not even know it's spring with hard frosts and record cold destroying crops. China has reported for similar reasons terrible agricultural conditions, their worst ever.
WFP said millions of Middle Eastern and North African families struggle to buy even the most basic foods to keep hunger at bay. "People's resilience is at a breaking point. This crisis is creating shock waves in the food markets that touch every home in this region. No one is spared," Corinne Fleischer, WFP Regional Director said.
Do you think Biden and his friends did not know the consequence of no peace at any cost policies? That the sanctions against Russia would directly boomerang on Americans, Europeans, and especially populations in the Middle East and Africa?
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"As the evidence continues to explode on a daily basis now showing how the COVID-19 vaccines are literally destroying people's lives with uninformed people willingly allowing themselves and their children to be injected with dangerous experimental shots that prior to 2020 would not even meet the accepted scientific definition for "vaccines," it is very important to understand what I have been saying for many months now, which is that the COVID-19 plandemic did not corrupt the medical system. The corrupt medical system gave us the COVID-19 scam now responsible for mass murder and genocide."
A report released by the UK government has confirmed that 9 out of every
10 deaths related to COVID-19 are found in those who are fully vaccinated.
FIFTEEN "fully vaccinated" players unable to finish Miami Open
"Think this is a major story? Think again. That FIFTEEN "fully vaccinated" players were too sick to finish the Miami Open can't be a big story in the World According to Bill Gates, because it so sensationally reconfirms that those "vaccines" are poison, having by now brought on the mid-game collapse of 769 athletes worldwide (or more, since that's the number as of March 30; and those are only the collapses that made news), writes Mark Crispin Miller.
Nuclear Consequences
Michael Snyder writes about the possible end of the world, saying, "I simply do not understand why so many on the left and so many on the right seem determined to push us into a military conflict with Russia. If we get into a shooting war with Russia, one side or the other will inevitably decide that they want to use their nuclear weapons before the other side conducts a surprise first strike of their own. But no matter who strikes first, the whole world would lose because the vast majority of the global population would end up dead within a few years."
C J Hopkins writes, "The vast majority of humanity is suffering from post-traumatic stress, having been terrorized, gaslighted, threatened, bullied, and otherwise systematically mindfucked by their governments, the media, and "health authorities" on a daily basis for the past two years, and we're all exhausted and at each other's throats, and many of our businesses and incomes have been ruined, and inflation is spiraling out of control, and a lot of us are still being gratuitously demonized, segregated from society, banned from traveling, and forced to submit to invasive procedures and wear medically-pointless symbols of ideological conformity on our faces."
Paul Craig Roberts writes, "Just as everything you were told about Covid by the media and health and government officials was false, so is everything you have been told by the same propagandistic liars about Ukraine. Americans have had nothing but lies since the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, of his brother, US Senator Robert Kennedy President-in-Waiting, Martin Luther King, the Vietnam war, 9/11, Saddam Hussian's nonexistent "weapons of mass destruction," Assad's "use of chemical weapons," Iranian nukes, the extraordinary lies about Kaddafi, Covid pandemic, Russian invasions. The entire Western World lives in The Mattrix, a world created by propaganda. The vast majority of people in the West have no idea of the reality in which they live."
Claudio Grass writes that, "Societies, communities, and even families, not just in Ukraine or Russia, but all over the world, are being torn apart over a conflict they most likely don't even understand. And, all the while, the most tragic victims of all, the Ukrainian citizens themselves, are being used as human pawns, losing everything, over the megalomaniac and misanthropic "strategic aims" of politicians and their "extended families and friends."
"The US (and many of its "partners," read lackeys) has imposed an unprecedented series of punitive economic sanctions. Who will become the big losers of these sanctions, the Americans who gave the orders or the Europeans who obeyed them?" continued Grass.
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What's the Difference Between Long and Short blocks?
Steven RuppAuthor
When you're shopping for a crate engine, it's important that you understand the terminology.
What's the difference between a long block a short block engine? Yeah, that may seem like a simple question to many of us, but to someone new to the game, and shopping for that shiny crate engine, it can get a bit perplexing. There are three basic configurations: short block, long block, and deluxe (or complete). As expected, each level is more expensive than the previous. Which way you go is a math equation based on your skill level, the thickness of your wallet, and how much time you're willing to invest in the project. Knowing the difference between a long block and a short block is the first step in buying that new engine for your hot rod.
What's Included in a Short Block?
When buying a crate engine, the smallest configuration is a short block. Many people like going this route since the short block is the toughest to do yourself if you are a novice at building an engine. It typically consists of the block, crankshaft, rods, and pistons. All machined, balanced, and assembled with the rings gapped and ready to rock. It could include a camshaft and timing gear, but that varies based on the manufacturer. By going this route you can pick the parts needed for your particular circumstances. Some would say the biggest difference between a short block and a long block is cash. We would say it's also convenience.
What's Included in a Long Block?
What is in a long block can vary depending on where you buy it, but the minimum parts installed in a long block package would be the block, crankshaft, rods, pistons, heads, and usually the camshaft and valvetrain. So, everything in the short block plus at least heads and usually the valvetrain including the timing chain. Sometimes you get a timing cover, valve covers, balancer/damper, and oil pan, but oftentimes not. This is a great option for someone who knows engines but has little to no experience building one. With a long block, all the hard work is done and the buyer only has to be concerned with choosing the right accessories and getting the engine installed in their car.
What Is a Deluxe Long Block?
There are also deluxe long blocks that include everything including the carburetor, intake, distributor, oil pan, and even the spark plugs and wires. Buying an engine like this, in theory, saves you some cash over going a la carte, but you need to do the math to see if you could do it cheaper on your own. But what it does save you is time, and going this route nets you the parts the engine builder feels are right for the crate engine combination. They would typically not include car-specific items such as headers, but factory crate engines, such as LS mills from GM, do include exhaust manifolds and a water pump along with most of the sensors. Usually there's an oil pan, but it may or may not work with the car you plan on dropping the engine into.
Is It cheaper to Rebuild or Replace an Engine?
If you're doing the work yourself, then typically it would be cheaper to rebuild an engine rather than replace it. If you're having it rebuilt, and assuming all the parts are in good shape, it still might be cheaper to have the engine rebuilt rather than buying new. However, this somewhat depends on what's wrong with the engine you're rebuilding. If it turns out your block is cracked, or you spun a rod bearing, then parts and machine work costs can quickly pile up. It can also take time, and as they say, time is money. This is one reason why short block cores are so popular. Just swap over all the parts from your original engine to the short block, and you can be back on the road much faster than going the rebuild route.
What Does Bare Block Mean?
Well, just like the sign says. A bare block is a block without any rotating parts. In some cases, like a new GM block, it will include cam bearings already in place, but everything else, such as head dowels, block plugs, and sensors, need to be added to the mix. Also, in many cases the cylinders will need to be bored or honed out to match your pistons.
What Is a Rotating Assembly?
The rotating assembly, or kit, always consists of the crank, rods, and pistons. Or, in layman's terms, all the spinny bits except for the camshaft. The assembly, for a charge, can come fully balanced and sometimes will include the rod and main bearings. Buying a rotating kit is easier than buying the individual parts since you're guaranteed they are all designed to work together. Obviously, kits consisting of cast parts will be less expensive than one with forged parts.
Key Differences Between Long and Short Blocks
Short blocks include, and fully assembled, the block, crank, rods, and pistons.
Short blocks may include other items such as the camshaft, timing chain, and covers.
Long blocks are short blocks with the heads and typically the valvetrain installed.
Deluxe long blocks will also include the intake manifold, oil pan, carburetor (or throttle body), distributor (or coil packs), and covers for the timing chain, valves, and an oil pan.
Bare blocks are exactly what the name implies: a bare iron or aluminum block that may need machine work before being built into an engine.
Rotating assemblies consist of the crank, rods, and pistons and may come balanced along with the necessary bearings.