A group of current and former Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives employees has written to Congress proposing a way to change current law that would make bump stocks illegal, and pushing back against critics who said it was the ATF's job to ban the devices in the first place.
Michael Bouchard, president of the ATF Association, said he sent the letter to several key lawmakers on Friday, including Charles Grassley, a Republican from Iowa who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the legislators who introduced a bill to ban bump stocks in the wake of the mass shooting that killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more in Las Vegas this month.
On Thursday, Rick Vasquez, who was the ATF's chief technical expert when bump stocks were considered in 2010, told The Trace that his group's decision had been sound, and that they did not have the authority to regulate the devices.
Law enforcement officials have said they found at least a dozen bump stocks attached to rifles in the Las Vegas shooter's hotel room. The devices would have allowed him to fire more rapidly, wounding and killing more people in a short period of time.
Last week, as legislators began discussing changing the law to ban bump stocks, Wayne LaPierre, the National Rifle Association's executive vice president, said the responsibility of regulating bump stocks fell squarely on the shoulders of the ATF. The White House counselor Kellyanne Conway also blamed "Obama's ATF" for failing to make bump stocks illegal.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has sided with the NRA, calling this week for a "regulatory fix," not new legislation.
Under federal law, machine guns are strictly regulated, and have been out of production in the United States since 1986.
Bouchard said in the letter that the law is very clear: It defines a machine gun as any weapon that is capable of firing multiple rounds with the single pull of the trigger. A bump stock still technically requires the shooter to engage the trigger every time the gun is fired, which is why the ATF had previously determined that the devices were not subject to regulation.
Bouchard said that the ATF had made the correct decision, and that the agency did not have the authority to overturn the previous ruling.
"We … hope you will not allow the honorable employees of ATF, who followed existing law in their bump stock ruling, to be falsely accused of not doing their job by those who seek to exploit the situation for political gain," Bouchard said in the letter.
Bouchard said that one fix to the law, if legislators want to ban bump stocks, would be adding a new category to the National Firearms Act of 1934 allowing for the regulation of "multi-burst trigger activators," which are already regulated in New York and California.
"The new category of Federal law would encompass other accessories on the market that make semi-automatic rifles fire like a machine gun but are engineered in a way to avoid regulation under current Federal law," the letter said.
Bouchard said in an interview on Saturday morning that members of the ATF Association, a 400-member group comprised of current and former agency employees, began discussing what action to take about a week ago.
"Our language won't allow people to keep trying to skirt the law," he said.
Two pieces of legislation have been introduced so far with the aim of banning bump stocks. The first, by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat from California, would ban the sale, transfer and manufacture of bump stocks, trigger cranks and other accessories that can accelerate a semiautomatic rifle's rate of fire.
The second proposed ban, introduced by Rep. Carlos Curbelo, a Republican from Florida, would apply just to bump stocks.


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To keep rodents, deer, and different pesky animals away out of your natural backyard, use organic repellents. A sprig constructed from scorching peppers might be efficient. In any other case attempt a twig containing urine or rotten eggs. No matter what you employ, apply the sprays liberally and reapply repeatedly especially after a rain bathe. It is best to place human hair in netting around your garden to discourage animals from consuming your rising produce. The scent of people can deter animals from coming near an area. If you get a hair cut place the minimize hair into satchels comprised of netting. Cling the netting round your garden to chase away pests.
So, now that image of a dream garden isn't so distant. It is within your reach to have a stunning garden. Even if you happen to need extra help than perhaps others with a inexperienced thumb, little question you might have discovered a tip or two that can come in useful! Apply the sensible recommendation given in this article to see your backyard develop! A large amount of people assume that gardening would be difficult to perform, however it's not true when you already know what to do. Using some fundamental advice, most people will be great gardeners. You possibly can drastically enhance your gardening abilities by making use of the strategies you'll learn on this article.
To make nutrient fertilizer from stuff you've got around the home, look at what you will have for breakfast. Both previous espresso grounds and tea bags make a superb fertilizer, particularly relating to vegetation that love acid. Eggshells add alkaline to your soil, and bananas are the perfect supply of the potassium that roses thrive on. Pay attention to the temperatures in your backyard. When it's early, or late, in the season there's a likelihood that your crops might be exposed to frost. Freezing temperatures will trigger many plants to die, and a few that live is not going to produce at the level they might have otherwise.
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Maintain your garden free from broad-spectrum pesticides. Broad-spectrum pesticides will kill bugs which are helpful to your garden as well as the dangerous ones. These useful bugs are usually extra sensitive to the chemical compounds than the pests, so if you find yourself in a state of affairs where the good bugs are dying out, you possibly can count on the pest downside to grow. If this occurs, you just fuel an increasing cycle of needing even more pesticides.
Plan your gardening accordingly to the weather. If you happen to stay in an space the place the ground freezes in the course of the winter, do not plant anything earlier than frost is expected. If you happen to dwell in a hotter area, take a break during the warmest months of summer season to avoid wasting an excessive amount of water. Plant barely more than you will need. Pests and poor weather can diminish yields from your backyard, especially if you're new to natural gardening. To account for this possibility, plant a little greater than what you'll need. Nevertheless, don't go overboard, if it is successful, you may have more vegetables than you possibly can presumably use.
Grow vegetation from seed fairly than purchasing vegetation from a nursery. If you are gardening in containers, make certain every container has a drainage system to stop water from pooling.


Time for those that celebrate Easter to boil the eggs, break out the dyes and baskets and plan Easter dinner!!
This year I am off the hook for hosting – something that I am kind of happy about, however I will be bringing a number of dishes for Easter dinner. One of them happens to be these biscuits. They are a take off of my Goat Cheese Scones that I have been making a long time and am just crazy for.
In my last post, I shared with you my adventure to NYC and the Kerrygold event I attended. What I didn't say was that those wonderful folks from Kerrygold sent us each home with a roller bag full of cheeses and butter! That's right a roller bag people! That was some serious Irish Love and made me such a happy, happy girl!
As my mom and I spent the rest of the day and evening in NYC, a number of folks were eyeing up that bag as I rolled it into places we shopped at, a bar or two and the place we had dinner – I think they thought I was selling something – lol!
So, with a nice stock of beautiful Irish cheese and butter to enjoy I set out to come up with a biscuit for Easter. I think I added in the bacon because of the Friday's during Lent that I cooked up some for my son as I longingly stared at it, smelled it and wished for a bite…or two or three! This was my chance to get some of the bacon I missed out on lol! Okay…yes I did eat like…4 of them…right in a row, I couldn't help myself. Who can resist just out of the oven biscuits, smeared with butter – not this lass!
Kerrygold also sent me a few recipes you may enjoy for your holiday table or any table filled with your loved ones on any given day! Take a look! For more fantastic recipes from Kerrygold, visit their Facebook page or website!
Mix together the Kerrygold butter, capers, anchovies, parsley, rosemary, thyme and garlic. Season with salt and pepper.
Open out the boned leg of lamb on a work surface, fat side down. Spread the butter mixture over the meat, then lay the halved leeks to run along the middle of the lamb.
Roll the lamb back up and tie with string, or use butcher's elastic bands (ask for a few when you buy the meat).
Place the lamb in a roasting tin and roast for 1 ½ hours or until cooked to your liking, basting from time to time.
Remove the lamb from the oven and cover with a sheet of foil. Leave to rest for at least 30 minutes before carving.
Top tip: Why not try cooking this recipe with Kerrygold Lighter Unsalted butter and save 2.4g fat/20 calories per portion.
This recipe was made using Kerrygold block butter.
Now you all know how much I love cooking with and for kids…this is a fun project to cook up as part of your Easter festivities with yours!
In a mixing bowl, beat the butter with a wooden spoon until smooth and creamy. Add the sugar and beat for 2-3 minutes until light and fluffy add in the vanilla.
Sift in the flour, stirring to combine. Add the egg yolk and bring the mixture together with your hands, kneading lightly until smooth. Wrap and chill for 15-20 minutes.
Line 2 baking sheets with baking parchment paper.
Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface. Use Easter bunny or chick-shaped cutters to stamp into biscuits (or use a plain or fluted cutter). Carefully lift onto the baking sheets.
To decorate, mix the powdered sugar with a little cold water to make a thick icing. Use about ¼ of this to pipe thin outlines around the biscuits, and to pipe the bunnies' tails. Leave to set. Share the remaining white icing between 2 bowls. Add 1-2 drops of red colouring to one bowl, and 1-2 drops of yellow to the other. Add a few more drops of water to thin the icing, then spread the pink icing into the bunny shapes and the yellow into the chicks. Leave until set, then pipe details with the remaining white icing.
Store in a tin in a cool, dark place.
Top tip: Why not try cooking this recipe with Kerrygold Lighter Unsalted butter and save 1.2g fat/10 calories per biscuit.
Mix gently until it becomes doughy. Use a piece of parchment or wax paper as your work surface, scatter some flour and begin either shaping into biscuits or traditional scone wedges. Bake on a parchment lined baking sheet for about 20-25 minutes or until golden.
Don't forget to induldge yourself with some glorious butter smeared over top before you take a bite! Irish butter if you have it of course…heavenly!


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What is NASA doing in this place?
Astronomy Science ~ A mysterious NASA plane has been seen in eastern Africa, making people wonder if NASA has a secret mission. Wide white-winged aircraft was named WB-57 photographed by Digital Globe satellite companies in the Republic of Djibouti.
"I really can not give one the details. You know the plane is there, you see it in the pictures. But I really can not tell what he was doing there," said Jim Alexander, an official NASA research program WB- 57 High Altitude said in a statement.
According to NASA, there are three WB-57 aircraft are now back in the US with their status is listed as "inactive". According to the NASA website, WB-57 had flown in research mission "since the early 1970s and continues to be an asset to the scientific community with professional, reliable and customer-oriented service that is designed to meet all scientific purposes".
This aircraft can fly as high as U2 spy known plane and carry heavier payloads - including an array of high-tech imaging and communications equipment. WB-57 aircraft can also carry a number of sensor payloads. If this time the status is not active. so, what it is doing in Djibouti? NASA officials did not even know it.
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Monsters Of The Desert
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By Lowell & Kaye Christie, F47246
When most people think of lizards, they picture a cute little critter with a long tail and a lively disposition. But you'll need to conjure an entirely different image for this desert reptile — it's a real monster. Gila monsters (Heloderma suspectum) aren't cute, nor are they little; and they're not very lively except when hungry or threatened.
An adult Gila (pronounced hee'-la) monster grows to be 1-1/2 to 2 feet long. It has a stout body and fat tail, and is covered with pebbly scales. Gila monsters are predominately black, with pink, orange, or yellow markings. The color is somewhat subdued, so the animal isn't easily seen.
Gila monsters are one of only two species of venomous lizards. (The other is the Mexican beaded lizard.) The Gila has a generally sluggish behavior and benign disposition, and typically will flee from rather than attack a human. But if you make a pest of yourself, a Gila monster can bite quickly and hold on tenaciously. Unlike a venomous snake, however, a Gila introduces only a small amount of venom into the victim. Gila monsters don't inject the poison through hollow fangs like a snake. A Gila monster's teeth are grooved and allow the venom, which comes from glands in its lower jaw, to ooze through the grooves and into the victim.
Gila monsters don't look for trouble, but when it comes, they're ready to defend themselves. Unlike poisonous snakes, Gila monsters typically do not hit and run, but may bite down hard and hold on. An irate Gila monster actually will chew the venom into its adversary. Fortunately, the experience is rarely fatal to humans.
Although a bite isn't likely to cause death in humans, even minor bites are, at the very least, excruciatingly painful. A friend of ours, who experienced such a bite firsthand, works with poisonous animals as a museum curator. He admits that he was plain careless on one occasion.
Gila monsters use their venom primarily as a defensive weapon and seldom for catching food. The strength of their bite quickly kills their prey, which consists of young rodents, rabbits, and hares. They may augment their diets with small birds, other lizards, insects, and bird and reptile eggs.
Gila monsters can be found from southern Nevada and the southwestern corner of Utah south through the desert areas of Arizona and into Mexico. Extreme southwestern New Mexico and a tiny portion of California are included as well. Gila monsters range to approximately 5,000 feet in elevation, and they seem to prefer the wetter, rockier palo verde-saguaro scrub of the Sonoran Desert to the drier, sandier conditions found in the Mojave and Chihuahuan deserts. Even so, you are far more likely to see this monster in a desert museum than in the wild.
With all our time spent in the desert, we've spotted a Gila monster only twice. Lowell glimpsed one while driving through Saguaro National Monument, and we both saw one when it showed up at our campsite. It didn't stay too long, though, so we didn't have to figure out how we'd chase it away before we had to take the dog out.
That isn't to say that there haven't been any Gila monsters around during our travels. A Gila's keen vision and hearing will help it avoid being detected. That, coupled with its stay-at-home attitude and protective coloration, makes it hard to notice.
Gila monsters spend most of their lives hidden below the ground. They aren't lazy; they just don't need to spend much time making a living. These large lizards store fat in their tail and in their bodies. (A swollen tail indicates that a Gila monster is well fed.) And they can eat massive meals — up to one-third of their body weight. Gila monsters also have low resting metabolic rates. Clearly, they don't need to search for food very often. One source indicated that Gila monsters can consume enough calories to last them an entire year in just three or four large meals.
Most of their aboveground activity occurs in the spring. Not only is this the mating season, but it's the time when their main food sources are most abundant.
It was long believed that Gila monsters are predominantly nocturnal in habit and quite rare, because they are so seldom seen. But today, Gila monsters are known to be most active during the day (diurnal), particularly in the mornings and evenings, and more common than formerly believed. Otherwise, this shy and inoffensive creature is a homebody that prefers to stay in its burrow. Rumor has it that, when not foraging, a Gila monster will spend more than 98 percent of its time underground or lounging near the entrance to its den.
To no one's surprise, Gila monsters become more sociable during the breeding season, which typically begins in May. The males go through a combat ritual to determine who gets first choice of the ladies, but once the pecking order is established, they go back to their solitary lives.
Females don't beat such a hasty retreat. They have eggs to produce and lay. Unless it has been a particularly bountiful spring, the female will need to take on more food. No matter how much food she eats at this stage, her tail will actually decrease in diameter as she uses up her fat stores for egg production. The number of eggs a female will lay varies from as few as two to as many as a dozen, depending on the size of the female and the availability of food. Once the eggs are laid (in July or August), they incubate in her burrow for approximately a year. The young hatch in early or middle summer of the following year, already capable of fending for themselves. It takes a young Gila monster approximately three years to reach adulthood, and it may live for as many as 25 years.
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The Book of Mormon Studies Association (BoMSA) is pleased to announce its third annual meeting, to be held October 11–12, 2019, at Utah State University. The event is sponsored by USU's Department of Religious Studies and with thanks to both Philip Barlow and Patrick Mason, successive occupiers of the Leonard J. Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture.


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Токка́та ( от toccare — трогать, касаться) — первоначально всякое произведение для клавишных инструментов, в современном смысле — инструментальная пьеса быстрого, чёткого движения равными короткими длительностями. Обычно токката пишется для клавира или органа, но встречаются также токкаты для других инструментов.

Характерная черта токкат состоит в том, что технические фигуры постоянно проводятся в пьесе то в левой, то в правой руке. Образцы фортепианных токкат — у Р. Шумана, Ф. Мендельсона, К. Дебюсси, М. Равеля, С. С. Прокофьева, А. И. Хачатуряна, Д. Д. Шостаковича.

В XVI—XVIII веках органные токкаты писалась в свободной импровизационной форме, близкой к прелюдии или фантазии; обычно они создавались как вступительная часть инструментального цикла (например, циклы токкат у И. С. Баха).

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The speed and complexity of urbanisation over the coming decades will demand radically new approaches to sustainability. The world's cities have grown from about 200 million people in 1900 to 3.9 billion in 2014 and will likely reach 6.4 billion people in 2050. Enter the concept of urban tinkering. It is a systems thinking approach inspired by evolutionary biology which the authors believe can help engineers, architects, ecologists, health specialists, and other urban stakeholders, in developing innovative solutions for reaching the UN global goal for sustainability of cities.
There are already a number of examples of urban tinkering. They include everything from the restoration of a river in Seoul and reuse of a train line as a public space in New York to the reclaiming of Mumbai's waterfronts and more inclusive conservation in Cape Town. Other cases include the conservation of "Satoyama landscapes" on the outskirts of cities in Japan, the redesign of public spaces in Dakar, and innovative use of infrastructure elements in the informal settlements of Kibera in Nairobi.
"We argue that a multidisciplinary, complex systems approach, inspired by evolutionary theory, can inform the strategic design of policies and interventions to deal with challenges of growing urban regions and uncertainties in various scenarios in reducing undesirable path dependencies," researchers write in an article published in the journal Sustainability Science.
Centre researcher Thomas Elmqvist is the first author of the article and he is accompanied by Erik Andersson, Julie Goodness and EllikaHermansson Török, as well as researchers from e.g. University of Cape Town, Australian National University, McGill University, Harvard University, University of Lodz, and University of Tokyo.
Global environmental change, especially climate change and land degradation, is already taking its toll in cities around the world. These challenges will continue to increase but can to some extent be averted and mitigated by traditional engineered design strategies. They are, however, unlikely to be able to meet the full social, environmental and economic goals of cities, most notably the need for healthy, sustainable urban environments which encompasses Sustainable Development Goal 11, the researchers conclude.
In the past, urban development strategies have tended to focus on engineering and investments in infrastructure designed to fulfil one function at the time. This have frequently created lock-in situations that persist over decades or even centuries. This is where tinkering comes in, as an alternative approach. The term was first introduced in 1977 by the French Nobel Laureate in medicine François Jacob. He was an evolutionary biologist and philosopher and described evolutionary tinkering as the modification and moulding of existing traits and forms in ways that can result in dramatic shifts in function in the context of changing conditions. This approach is very different from conventional urban engineering and design approaches that focus on tailor-made materials and tools to achieve well-defined functions.
The new study by Thomas Elmqvist and colleagues explore the application of such an evolutionary approach to urban design, engineering, management and governance.
"We define urban tinkering as a mode of operation, encompassing policy, planning and management processes, that seeks to transform the use of existing and design of new urban systems in ways that diversify their functions, anticipate new uses and enhance adaptability, to better meet the social, economic and ecological needs of cities under conditions of deep uncertainty about the future," Elmqvist explains.
The Cheonggyecheon river after massive reconstruction and removing of a highway in Seoul.
Urban tinkering can both guide the design of new, and redesign of existing, urban structures, as well as promoting innovative integration of grey, green and blue infrastructure in service of environmental and health objectives, they write.
In the context of cities, green and blue infrastructure is to be understood as natural and semi-natural elements, like hedgerows, parks, ponds, or water courses. Together they form a green-blue infrastructure which is an important component of the urban tinkering approach suggested in the study. Experimenting with different combinations of these natural elements and the human-engineered "grey" infrastructure to provide social, economic and environmental values to a city and its surroundings is an important part of the solution.
"Urban tinkering can function by promoting a diversity of small-scale urban experiments that, in aggregate, lead to large-scale often playful innovative solutions to the problems of sustainable development," Thomas Elmqvist says.
While urban tinkering is suggested to have huge potential, the authors emphasize that it is no panacea. "It is unlikely to completely displace conventional engineering from large-scale planned infrastructure, and all local and regional tinkering initiatives needs to be combined with a global perspective," co-author Julie Goodness explains.
Julie Goodness is a post-doc at the centre. She is broadly interested in the dynamics of urban social-ecological systems, with applications to management and governance for sustainability.


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Выборы в Конституционную ассамблею были проведены в Южной Корее 10 мая 1948 года, это были первые выборы в стране после японской оккупации (1910—1945). Выборы проходили в условиях американской военной оккупации, под контролем ООН. Среди партий, участвовавших в выборах, наибольшее количество голосов набрала Национальная ассоциация (НАБДНК), которая получила 55 из 200 мест в Конституционной ассамблее, на втором месте была Демократическая партия Кореи, при этом было избрано 85 независимых депутатов. Явка избирателей составила 95,5 %.

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Выборы в Конституционную ассамблею были важной вехой в истории корейской государственности, поскольку до начала XX века года Корея была монархией, а после русско-японской войны была аннексирована Японией.

После освобождения Корейского полуострова в 1945 году согласно договорённости между СССР и США американская армия контролировала полуостров к югу от 38-й параллели, а СССР — к северу от неё. После этого, в соответствии с резолюцией Генеральной Ассамблеи ООН 1947 года была сформирована международная рабочая группа по подготовке проведения всеобщих демократических выборов на территории Корейского полуострова. Однако Советская оккупационная администрация не пустила эту группу на подконтрольную ей часть территории Корейского полуострова. Рабочая группа после этого сделала доклад в ООН, в результате чего была принята резолюция Генеральной Ассамблеи ООН в феврале 1948 года, предусматривающая проведение всеобщих выборов на той части Корейского полуострова, на которой это было возможно, с последующим проведением всеобщих выборов в той части Корейского полуострова, где это в настоящий момент невозможно (на данный момент вторая часть резолюции не выполнена, что и привело к созданию Корейской Народно-Демократической Республики (КНДР)). В соответствии с этой резолюцией на 10 мая 1948 года в американской зоне были назначены выборы в Конституционную ассамблею. Отношение к этим выборам в мировом сообществе было неоднозначным — в частности, представители в ООН от Австралии, Канады, Индии, Сирии выразили свои сомнения в правомерности этих выборов. Некоторые представители стран — членов ООН полагали, что проводить выборы на Корейском полуострове можно не ранее чем после четырёх лет независимости. Против выборов выступили и некоторые южнокорейские политики, в частности последний председатель Временного правительства Кореи Ким Гу и вице-председатель Временного правительства Ким Гюсик, которые полагали, что это лишает страну перспективы воссоединения с Северной Кореей.

Подготовка к выборам проходила в условиях нестабильности и террора в стране, жертвами которого в период с марта по май стало около 600 человек. В апреле 1948 года власти северной части страны, по-видимому, стремясь задержать выборы на Юге, организовали в Пхеньяне конференцию по содействию воссоединению двух Корей, в ней приняли участие Ким Гу и Ким Гюсик, но эта конференция не смогла воспрепятствовать проведению выборов 10 мая. На Юге часть населения бойкотировала выборы; оппозиция выступала c заявлениями, что выборы навязаны американской военной администрацией с целью привести к власти проамериканского политика Ли Сынмана. Массовые выступления против выборов были, в частности, в апреле 1948 года на острове Чеджу, где полиция разогнала демонстрацию, при этом были человеческие жертвы.

Выборы состоялись 10 мая, на них было избрано 200 членов Конституционной ассамблеи, которая 17 июля приняла конституцию Первой республики Южная Корея, а 20 июля избрала президента, где из 200 голосов 180 было отдано за кандидатуру Ли Сынмана.

15 августа 1948 года была провозглашена Первая республика Южной Кореи с Ли Сын Маном в качестве первого президента.

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Urban Outfitters to Move Into Secondhand Apparel Market
Nuuly Thrift will be a place for the sale of clothing and accessories
By Natalie Kostelni | Philadelphia Business Journal • Published August 26, 2021 • Updated on August 27, 2021 at 10:00 am
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Fresh off of record-breaking second quarter results, Urban Outfitters Inc. is forging ahead with a new consignment app that looks to create a marketplace for previously owned products and boost sales for the Philadelphia retailer, reports the Philadelphia Business Journal.
Called Nuuly Thrift, the service will launch this fall with an app and sell women's, men's and children's apparel and accessories. As with any consignment store, Urban will receive a fee from any item that is sold on the platform.
Urban described Nuuly Thrift as the "sister platform" to Nuuly Rent, its subscription rental service that competes with Rent The Runway and other similar outlets, reports PBJ.com.
"Both Nuuly platforms, Thrift and Rent, will support its mission to be a curated destination for anyone who loves fashion and is exploring how to wear, buy and sell it in ways that are gentler on the planet and on their wallets," said Richard A. Hayne, CEO of Urban Outfitters, during a second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday.
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Los Angeles County's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 9.8% in September, down from a revised 10.1% in August, according to figures released today by the state Employment Development Department.
The rate in September 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, was 13%.
In Orange County, where seasonally adjusted numbers were not available, the September jobless rate was 5%, down from 6% in August.
Statewide, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 7.5% in September, the same rate as August, but below the September 2020 rate of 10.6%. The comparable estimates for the nation were 4.8% in September, 5.2% in August and 7.8% in September 2020.
According to the EDD, total nonfarm employment in Los Angeles County increased by 31,500 jobs between August and September, settling at about 4.28 million. The government sector added the most jobs, 19,000, most notably in educational services thanks to the return of in-person instruction at schools.
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La ligne 296 est une ancienne ligne du tramway vicinal de Bruxelles de la Société nationale des chemins de fer vicinaux (SNCV) qui reliait Bruxelles à Jodoigne et Tirlemont entre 1897 et 1959.

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Tableaux : 1931 296 (Bruxelles - Jodoigne) et 297 (Beauvechain - Tirlemont) ; 1958 587

 : mise en service entre Tervuren et la gare de Tirlemont ; traction vapeur ; exploitation par la Société anonyme pour l'Exploitation des Chemins de Fer Vicinaux (CFV) ; .

1920 : reprise de l'exploitation par la SNCV.

1931 : exploitation directe entre Schaerbeek et Jodoigne, la section Beauvechain Gare - Tirlemont Gare est exploitée en navette.

 : suppression de la ligne Louvain - Jodoigne / Tirlemont et remplacement par un service routier avec correspondance à Hamme-Mille, les sections Hamme-Mille - Jodoigne et Hamme-Mille - Tirlemont restent exploitées.

 : suppression de la section Beauvechain - Jodoigne et remplacement par un service routier avec correspondance à Hamme-Mille.

 : suppression entre la station vicinale de Vossem et Hamme-Mille.

 : suppression du service voyageur restant entre Hamme-Mille et Tirlemont.

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Dépôts et stations

Matériel roulant

Automotrices thermiques
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All-day battery life is based on 18 hours with the following use: 90 time checks, 90 notifications, 45 minutes of app use, and a 60‐minute workout with music playback from Apple Watch via Bluetooth, over the course of 18 hours. Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS) usage includes connection to iPhone via Bluetooth during the entire 18-hour test. Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular) usage includes a total of 4 hours of LTE connection and 14 hours of connection to iPhone via Bluetooth over the course of 18 hours. Apple Watch Series 3 models also provide up to 18 hours of battery life on a Wi-Fi connection. Testing conducted by Apple in August 2018 using shipping Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS) and Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular), each paired with an iPhone; all devices tested with prerelease software. Battery life varies by use, configuration, cellular network, signal strength, and many other factors; actual results will vary.
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Over one million drivers aged over 80
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The number of drivers over the age of 80 in the UK has now topped one million according to information obtained by the Institute of Advanced Motorists following a freedom of information request to the DVLA at the end of January.
DVLA figures show that there are now 1,012,399 drivers over 80. There are also 122 licence holders over the age of 100, including three 105 year olds, and one 106 year old woman. The age gap between the youngest driving licence holder and the oldest is 90 years.
But contrary to common assumptions, drivers in their eighties are not dangerous. The figures show that they are in fact much safer than their more youthful counterparts.
The rate of deaths and serious injuries in crashes among drivers over 80 is three times less than the rate for those aged 17-19. In 2010 almost one young driver aged 17-19 was killed or seriously injured per thousand licence holders.
The rate of deaths and serious injuries in crashes among car drivers aged 20 to 24 is 36.4 per cent more than the rate for drivers aged 80 or over. However, drivers over the age of 80 are more likely to suffer serious injuries in a car crash due to their frailty.
IAM chief executive Simon Best said: "Older people need their cars which give them better mobility and access to more activities and services. Those who wish to continue driving beyond the age of 70 should only be prevented from doing so if there are compelling reasons. Rather than seeking to prevent older people from driving, we should make them more aware of the risks they face, and offer them driving assessments to help them eliminate bad habits. Driving helps older people play a full and active part in society."
The number of older drivers will continue to rise as the Office of National Statistics predicts that there will be 8.7million people over the age of 75 by 2033. This will represent a increase of 81.1 per cent of over 75 year-olds since 2008 – some 4.8 million people.
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Avril
  : le cavalier allemand Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum sur Shutterfly remporte la finale de la Coupe du monde de saut d'obstacles 2004-2005 à Las Vegas (États-Unis).

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Juillet

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  : l'Italie remporte le Championnat d'Europe de polo 2005.
  : au terme de la dernière épreuve à Barcelone (Espagne), l'équipe américaine remporte la Coupe des nations de saut d'obstacles 2005

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Simsbury Runs on Dunkin'
By AdministratorPublished July 11, 2011 Category Franchise Owners News
Stephanie Riefe reports at SimsburyPatch.com that the new Dunkin' Donuts — located at 142 Hopmeadow Street in Weatogue — is open for business.
When construction broke ground several months ago the idea was to be open this summer. Mission accomplished. It has been open just under a week.
The donut shop is 1,800 square feet and has seating for 24 patrons (tables and chairs and counter seating). The new Dunkin' has Wi-Fi, a flat-screen television set on the wall and a modern café interior, all with the Dunkin' Donuts colors and logo. In fact, the door handle is a giant D. There is also a drive through.
The building next door at 138 Hopmeadow Street was taken down and rebuilt on the same footprint in a saltbox style. It will house retail of some kind. Tom Evans is the owner of the properties.
The site of the Dunkin' Donuts was where Wasabi was located. That building was taken down in February.
This is the town's fourth Dunkin' Donuts. There is one located in the same plaza as Andy's Supermarket, one near Antonio's Restaurant and another close to Staples on Route 44.
The Dunkin' Donuts is run by Great American Donut Inc. out of Plainville, the franchisee for this and the three other Dunkin' Donuts in town. This Dunkin' marks the group's 50th site in the state, said Scott Fanning, president of Great American Donut, when the site broke ground.
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If Muggle Musings has taught me anything, it's that you need to know where you stand in the Harry Potter Universe. How would you act in certain situations? What house would you be in? What better way to find out than doing a little Harry Potter Personality Quiz!
Have to go shopping in Diagon Alley! What store do you go to first?
It has to be the apothecary! I am big into science so what better way to branch out than into potion making. Let's cook up a storm in a bottle, or maybe a little liquid luck! I always loved the idea of Diagon Alley – it is one of the first things we encounter from the Wizarding World and I loved it's vibrancy and interesting little details!
You're on the train! What are you getting from the trolley?
I would opt for some sugar mice I think – but only because I'd be pocketing them for my boyfriend. (They're his fave!) I did a review of 5 of the Harry Potter sweets available from the Warner Bros studio tour as one of my first ever posts on this blog – Check it out here!
It's time for the welcome feast! Which house table are you at?
Of course, it has to be Ravenclaw! I was so proud when I got sorted on Pottermore into Ravenclaw when it was first released (but I think I'm more of a Slytherin in my old age…!) I have so much Ravenclaw merchandise that it fills my whole room!
You get an elective this year! What will it be?
This is quite an Americanised term but I guess it means, what lessons do you opt for! If I were to pick one I would definitely say Astronomy. Space is where it's at and to analyse it from a magical perspective… That'd just be pretty incredible!
You've got a break between classes! What will you be doing?
Probably exactly what I did in real school; sitting in the library with my friends. I mean, it's pretty clear I would be a prefect (or even better… Head Girl!) I'd have to get my blog ideas down onto paper – better get my quick-quotes-quill out!
You get to go to Hogsmeade this year! Where do you go first?
Oh I'm going to go with the majority here and head straight to Honeydukes! The way it's written about in the books just makes your mouth water! Although a butterbeer is always appealing. You can get a delicious bottle of butterbeer from MagicAlley!
You're meeting up with friends to hang out! Where in the castle are you all going to chill?
I seem to have a lot of Slytherin and Ravenclaw friends so, I would think we would all flock together somewhere in between at a half-way point between the tower and the dungeons! I've never really thought about how you could co-ordinate if you have friends in other houses. I wonder how Albus and Scorpius would have coped!
The end of year exams are coming up. What test will you do the best at?
Spell-wise I bet I'd be excellent at transfiguration – my imagination is so strong that I'd easily be able to turn anything into anything else. I'd probably fail flying – I've no balance whatsoever! You definitely wouldn't find me on the Quidditch team!
This Harry Potter Personality Quiz was made by the A Geek Girl's Guide! If you'd like to do it yourself, you can find the blank questions on her blog!
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The apothecary would be cool, but I would probably go to Ollivander's or the book store.


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William F. Davis, 95
WAREHAM — William F. Davis, 95, of Wareham, passed away Thursday, April 2, 2009, at Tobey Hospital. He was the husband of the late Lucille (Cook) Davis.
Lovingly known as "BILL" he permanently settled in the community shortly after WWII, when he met his beloved wife Lucille. Interestingly Bill and Lucille had grown up in adjoining small towns in Vermont, Bill going to Lucille's dentist father as a child.
A WWII Army veteran, Bill served in India and attained the rank of Staff Sergeant. After his discharge Bill returned to his Engineering position with the Army Corp of Engineers Stationed on the Cape Cod Canal. This work was his second love, spending hours on the water and providing him many opportunities to be creative in his field. He is credited with patents and testified as an expert witness in shipping accident cases. He often shared interesting stories of his activities and adventures during his 30+ years at the Canal Post. He is also an accomplished machinist and carpenter. His third love was his axe collection. It is extensive and includes several hundred classical and ornate examples. During his retirement he remained active in his church and community.
A church deacon and choir member of the First Congregational Church of Wareham, he volunteered for the town of Wareham regularly working the local polls on election days.
Bill is survived by: His son Danforth Davis and his wife Marilyn of Las Vegas, Nevada. His daughter Virginia Davis and her husband Dr. Reza Jarrahy of Los Angeles, CA. Loving grandfather of Alizeh, Kian and Kaiis Davis-Jarrahy. Brother of the late Fredrick Davis and Elizabeth Davis-Clark. Visiting hours are Tuesday, April 7, from 4-7 p.m. in the Wareham Village Funeral Home, 5 Center Street, Wareham. Relatives and friends invited. Funeral Service is Wednesday April 8, at 1 p.m. in the First Congregational Church, 11 Gibbs Ave., Wareham 02571. In lieu of flowers memorial gifts may be made to the First Congregational Church. Interment Long Neck Cemetery, Onset. Online guestbook www.warehamvillagefuneralhome.com


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Rise up, voices! Speak truth to power. Bark orders to justice. Sing praises to the good. Beg alms for the poor.
Michigan Under Siege
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Curtain Down On The Trump Show Already. Please.
I've got that thing again where my heart races and my belly hurts and I don't know whether those tears are from laughing or crying. I'm craving chocolate, any kind will do, and I can't stop thinking the end of civilization as we know it is right around the corner or up the street or somewhere in Iowa.
I go to sleep stressing and I wake up stressing. Terrible things are going on in the world. I should be stressing over them, and it could be that that's what's going on, but it feels like it's Donald Trump.
He's doing this to me. I should stop listening to him. I should pretend I'm not living in a country where Donald Trump, of all people, could be a front-runner in a bid for the presidency. I should stop waiting for him to mess up so badly there's no going back. I should do that, but if I had that kind of self-control I wouldn't be a full-time self-unemployed political blogger on the liberal circuit. Now would I?
I'm a mess and it's all his fault. I have succumbed to the slump I call Trump. Donald Trump has entered my brain and if I don't get this down fast, my words will start sounding like a three-bean salad on a bed of spinach. (I have no idea! It just came out. I'm telling you. . .)
Just this week Donald Trump, the man who would be president (or Tony Soprano, depending on how he strikes you--not literally, of course, though that's not out of the question), told a Black Lives Matter activist/heckler at a public meeting to "get the hell outta here". This was after the man had been pummeled to the ground and then kicked by one of Trump's goons supporters. Trump then took to Fox News, and, in his best considered presidential tone, said the man was obnoxious and loud, so, "Yeah, maybe he shoulda been roughed up. Because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing."
On Sunday he told George Stephanopoulos he has no problem with waterboarding because "it's peanuts compared to what 'they' do". (Almost every Republican could be heard groaning. Cheers, though, from Dick Cheney, who, until that moment, hadn't even considered pushing for the job of choosing Trump's vice president.)
Then, with cameras still rolling, Trump assured Stephanopoulos that what he'd said the night before about seeing thousands and thousands of Arab people in New Jersey cheering as the World Trade Center came down was the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
George suggested in an adorably nice way that there are some--or maybe all--who can't find a single solitary bit of footage or eye-witness account that would make what Donald said even slightly true. Donald chalked it up to reporters wanting to be politically correct, and George, not ever wanting to be branded a politically correct reporter (oh gawd no!), thanked him ever so kindly for his time.
I watched that and breathed such a grateful sigh you wouldn't believe. At last! Caught in his own terrible lie! Hoist[ed] with his own petard! Stick a fork in him! He's done!
But you know what happened, don't you? Come on, admit it. You know.
Trump's poll numbers went up. The crowds loved him even more. Fifty five percent of likely Republican voters now say they would trust him over all other candidates to do the right thing about terrorism. (What would he do about terrorists? Namely ISIS? He would "bomb the shit out of them!" and take the oil. Yay!)
He is a serial liar and is the number one choice among Republicans for the next president of the United States. (These same people, so deathly afraid of refugee families fleeing for their lives, have no fear of a Donald Trump presidency. No fear! None at all! But there I go again.)
You know by now--because I keep telling you--I tend to take these things personally. My America is not a plaything. It's not a joke. Turning my country over to a non-politician with no government experience would be punking of the worst kind. But even thinking for one second of turning it over to a lying billionaire braggart who has a history of taking but not giving, who calls people ugly names and shuts up anyone who disputes him, who is such an embarrassment even countries with their own embarrassing characters can't believe we've topped them--that's insanity undisguised.
There are horrifying things going on in the world. Donald Trump's ascendancy into the heights of American politics isn't one of them. I know and you know that he'll never become president, (We know that, right?) but the people egging him on will still be out there, still wishing it had been Trump, and I will still have to live among them. Festering.
Once Trump is gone, the press, never ones to let an exploit pass, will be egging on Trump's people, pushing them to find someone equally entertaining. Because when it comes to American politics, there's no business like show business and, above all else, the show must go on.
Well, curtain down already. Footlights off. Come out into the daylight. It's a whole different world out here.
Posted by Ramona Grigg at 9:25:00 AM
Labels: 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump, George Stephanopoulos, journalists, liar, media, President, show business
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Q: Why does width apply to a button with display inline? According to MDN, a button is an inline element.
However, button elements have default styling with display: inline-block (See this question)
button, textarea,
input, select   { display: inline-block }

So far so good.
However:
If I now set the button with display:inline - width still applies!!
DEMO

button,
div {
  width: 200px;
  border: 1px solid red;
  display: inline;
}
<button>button</button>

div

Now, according to the spec: width does not apply to inline elements (which are non-replaced)

Applies to: all elements but non-replaced inline elements, table rows,
  and row groups

That being the case:
Why does width still apply to an inline button element?

A: As mentioned in the comments, I'm pretty sure this has to do with browser-specific rendering behavior as is so typical of form elements. What I believe is happening when you set display: inline on the button is... nothing. Effectively, it's the same as the typical browser default display: inline-block, on which the width property does apply.
Refer to section 10.2, which describes the width property itself. In particular it explains why exactly the width property does not apply to inline elements (or inline boxes):

This property does not apply to non-replaced inline elements. The content width of a non-replaced inline element's boxes is that of the rendered content within them (before any relative offset of children). Recall that inline boxes flow into line boxes. The width of line boxes is given by the their containing block, but may be shorted by the presence of floats.

In short, it's because the content of inline elements resides in line boxes. The width of a line box cannot be controlled directly; it is determined entirely by the containing block and any incidental floats. You can see an example of line box rendering in section 9.4.2, which describes inline formatting contexts.
If display: inline actually made a button render as an inline box, all its contents would spill over and it would no longer look, or function, like a button. It makes sense to want to prevent that from happening, and I think that's just what browsers do.
So what exactly do they do to prevent this? Is a button a replaced element? I can't say for sure. But note, in section 9.2.2, it says:

Inline-level boxes that are not inline boxes (such as replaced inline-level elements, inline-block elements, and inline-table elements) are called atomic inline-level boxes because they participate in their inline formatting context as a single opaque box.

Section 10 does not explicitly mention atomic inline-level boxes, but it does have sections for calculating dimensions for inline replaced elements, as well as inline-block elements whether replaced or non-replaced, all of which are considered atomic inlines as mentioned above. In all of these cases, the width property applies as normal if it's not auto.
So, while it's still debatable whether or not a button is a replaced element, it probably doesn't matter at all for the purposes of this question. But it is still some kind of atomic inline element, since it still participates in an inline formatting context. For what it's worth, though, it appears to shrink to fit its contents if you don't set a width, so its behavior is probably closer to that of an inline-block in that case. One could say then that the actual value of display becomes inline-block, although this is never reflected in the developer tools because the computed value does not change (again a side effect of browser-specific rendering behavior).

A: There are 2 types of element.

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*Non-replaced elements

*Replaced elements

Button belongs to replaced element category.
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So, for button, according to spec, it becomes right.
Inline, non-replaced elements
The width property does not apply. A computed value of auto for margin-left or margin-right becomes a used value of 0.
Inline, replaced elements (This section applies to button)
A computed value of auto for margin-left or margin-right becomes a used value of 0.
If height and width both have computed values of auto and the element also has an intrinsic width, then that intrinsic width is the used value of width.
If height and width both have computed values of auto and the element has no intrinsic width, but does have an intrinsic height and intrinsic ratio; or if  width has a computed value of auto, height has some other computed value, and the element does have an intrinsic ratio; then the used value of width is:
 (used height) * (intrinsic ratio)

If  height and width both have computed values of auto and the element has an intrinsic ratio but no intrinsic height or width, then the used value of width is undefined in CSS 2.1. However, it is suggested that, if the containing block's width does not itself depend on the replaced element's width, then the used value of width is calculated from the constraint equation used for block-level, non-replaced elements in normal flow.
If width has a computed value of auto, and the element has an intrinsic width, then that intrinsic width is the used value of width.
If width has a computed value of width, but none of the conditions above are met, then the used value of width becomes 300px.But, if 300px is too wide to fit the device, UAs should use the width of the largest rectangle that has a 2:1 ratio and fits the device instead.

A: Since like Boltclock, I don't think that there's a simple answer to this, this is as much a dump of my thoughts on the subject as an answer, but I hope it will be informative.
Although the CSS display property is superficially quite simple, it actually contains a multitude of aspects. The CSS level 3 draft spec css-display captures some of this complexity, but still doesn't seem to cover it adequately.
The HTML5 spec says for the rendering of <button> elements:

When the button binding applies to a button element, the element is
  expected to render as an 'inline-block' box rendered as a button whose
  contents are the contents of the element.

An inline-block box has a number of aspects to it:
1. An inline-level element
This means that it participates in a inline formatting context within a line box. It flows in sequence with other elements that are on the same line. The line box's content can be centre aligned with text-align:center property on its container, and the line box is shortened by avoiding floated elements.
2. Applies a width property and the auto value is shrink-to-fit
Unlike non-replaced display:inline elements, the width value applies. But also, if a width value is not specified, a shrink-to-fit algorithm is applied to determine the width. This is like floated elements, or display:table elements, but different from display:block elements which are as wide as possible if no width is specified. It's also unlike replaced inline elements and replaced inline-block elements which, if no width is specified, use their intrinsic width if they have one and a default value of 300px if they don't. Shrink-to-fit is a meaningless concept for replaced elements.
3. A block-container element
Block container elements are make up of a stack of line boxes. The content flows from one line box to the next and the height of the inline-block elements grows (subject to overflow) to fully contain all the line boxes.
4. The baseline is the baseline of the last contained line box
When the inline-block element contains multiple lines, its baseline is the last of those lines. This is unlike floats or display:table-cell elements which are also shrink-to-fit, block container elements. Floats are outside normal flow so they do not have a baseline, which display:table-cell elements have a baseline that is the baseline of their first line box. A button that has multiple lines does vertically align according this last line box rule.

Now, this is fine for the default display setting. and the HTML5 rendering requirement means that the used value of display for buttons is inline-block even when the specified value is inline. But it doesn't account for the behaviour when specified value is block. In this case, the element has a line-break before and after it, and margin:auto centres the box as a display:block element would, and is not what would be expected of inline-block.

However, its width for a specified value of auto is shrink-to-fit like inline-block, whereas the expected behaviour for display:block is as-wide-as-possible. As far as I know, the only display value that behaves like that is display:table, but there is nothing else to suggest that display:table is being used.
So there's nothing in the spec that I can find which matches this precisely. We can only hope that when the css-display spec gets completed, that it will cover this behaviour.

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Remember the "megapixel myth" that has driven camera specs for the last decade or so? Yeah, it's still here; it's called the "HD hoax" now. I just made that up. But seriously. The idea behind the megapixel myth was that simply increasing the size of the output image didn't usually result in a better picture in any way. In fact, in addition to filling up the memory card faster, this megapixel bloat led to images that were noticeably less sharp and true to life. Similarly, so-called HD cameras and sensors are now being sold strictly on numbers and not on features or performance. But more data for the image is always better, right? Not quite.
What set this post off was that yesterday, Omnivision announced that they were packing 1080p onto a 1/6″ sensor. An admirable feat of miniaturization. But the reality is that this "high definition" is anything but.
First, a quick crash course in digital imaging. Forgive me if I gloss over or miss some of the more technical particulars.
1. Light approaches and hits the "event horizon" of the lens.
It's not actually called the event horizon, but it's the very outside of the lens, and the shape and placement of this determines the focal length of the lens — wide angle, portrait, telephoto, and so on. More bulbous, extruded lenses capture more light from a larger field of view. Lenses with physically larger surface areas collect more light, which is why lenses with low F numbers often have large front elements.
2. The light passes through a number of lens elements in order to be straightened and resized.
Light comes into a lens from a number of directions. Wider lenses can have light coming in from vastly different angles, and even telephotos have to deal with light hitting the lens at the "wrong" angle and creating flare and glow. Once the "right" light enters the lens assembly, it passes through a number of optic elements (discs of high-quality glass with various types of convexity and concavity), bending and re-bending the light to produce a projected image on the other side of the lens. Depending on the aperture selected, it will have a certain amount of the scene in focus, but the total light that comes out the interior end of the lens depends on the amount of light that came in the exterior end.
3. The light hits the sensor.
Where there was originally film, there is now a sensor, usually a CMOS in most cameras, though a few still use CCDs. Imagine a vast surface of little buckets made to collect light. The image seen by the lens on the outside is projected onto these, with a small amount of error introduced by flaws in the lens elements (there can be dozens in zoom lenses) or arrangement thereof. This creates things like chromatic aberration, vignetting, and softness at some apertures. The light is meant to be going as straight as possible into these buckets; a bit of light from a red dress must not end up in a bucket which is holding the light from the green grass beside the dress. If there must be overlap, it must be as small as possible — this produces sharpness and contrast. The distance between the buckets and the size of the buckets determines (to an extent) sensitivity and pixel pitch. And the buckets must be able to hold a lot or a little of light and dump it out accurately later; this produces correct exposure and dynamic range.
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Sorry, that ended up being longer than I expected it to be. But now, if you didn't before, you know the rudiments of the process. Now, let's get on with the news. Omnivision, an established creator of image sensors, has created a sensor that is 1/6th of an inch diagonally that records 1080p video. To give you an idea of how large a 1/6″ sensor is, here is a very handy little chart.
My Rebel XSi, the T2i I just reviewed, and many other DSLRs fall under the 1.5 and 1.6x crop factor (APS-C) squares. The image above is not to scale; APS-C, for reference, is about the size of a postage stamp. The new Micro four thirds are 1/1.3″, and a large majority of compact digital cameras and camcorders I've seen and reported use a 1/2.3″ sensor, a bit smaller than the 1/2″ one. The rugged cameras I reviewed recently, for example, all had 1/2.3″ sensors or thereabouts. I've added the 1/6″ in there (had to kind of eyeball it), and in reality is about as big as as the first letter of this paragraph.
Now, every camera that I've shot with, including the impressive T2i, has problems with HD. Somewhere along the line, in one of those steps I mentioned above, something goes wrong. And with imaging, it only takes one weak link to create a bad photo or video. High definition shouldn't just be a name for a resolution. It should mean that the level of definition in the image is high.
The pocket cams out there, for instance, can barely ape "HD." Under the correct circumstances, in good lighting and with no motion, you would look at the 720p image and think "yes, that's high definition." For the most part, though, motion is blurry, colors are mixed, edges are indistinct, and there's a weird sort of texture over the whole frame. What the hell? You paid good money for "full HD" (as the pocket cams are now advertising: 1080p in a phone-sized package). Why aren't you getting images like the ones you see on TV?
The reason is that although the technology in one area or another may have advanced (lately it's been sensors), the other bits of the camera are torpedoing the image quality all day long. Let's go through the problems that occur during the process described above, in a $200 camcorder or phone shooting at 1080p.
1. and 2. The lens of the camera is garbage to begin with.
Think about it: devices which need tiny sensors are almost guaranteed to have terrible lenses. First, they're tiny. You're not getting a lot of light in one end, which means you don't get a lot out the other end. Second, they're cheap. The elements even in the nicest autofocus phone cameras are extremely small and (I'm guessing) are ground down from pieces too flawed to be used for large elements. Even perfectly good medium-sized digital cameras get tons of fringing and CA. Third, you're losing a lot of detail through the plastic lens protectors and whatever oil and grime is on there. You can often tell a good camera by how well it picks up the flaws in the lens assembly, but in this case even microscopic flaws can affect the whole image.
Remember how we imagined a bunch of buckets next to each other? Now imagine those buckets are thimbles, and are expected to do the same job as buckets. This can only be done by using a boosted ISO to guesstimate from the thimble data how much light would have hit the buckets, but that creates a huge amount of error and noise. Not only that, but now that the buckets are thimbles, tiny things packed close together (high pixel pitch) there is even less tolerance for optic error! The tiny amount of error present even in a perfectly good lens is multiplied many times because the targets are so small — think what the shabby optics of a $3 lens assembly will do to the light. Now the red dress and the green grass are overlapping by a huge amount, resulting in a huge drop in sharpness and contrast. Even within stretches of a single color, the "sample size" for determining what color a pixel should be is totally distorted by boosted sensitivity, and color accuracy suffers as a result. These things can be minimized by predicting them and intelligently correcting for them, but only to a certain extent.
Granted, this issue is something that will only improve; RED One cameras, plagued by slow sensor offloading speeds, worked hard to produce firmware that fixed this, and now rolling shutter artifacts (while still present) are much reduced. Also, hardware encoding chips are getting cheaper and smaller, and will probably be featured in most video-shooting devices within a year or so. But now and for the next generation of imaging devices, you're looking at a lot of skew (vertical and horizontal). And on the encoding front: 1080p video from the T2i, at 30 frames per second, was about 340MB. It's a lot of space and takes a fair amount of data bandwidth to handle. It's pretty much guaranteed that these smaller devices, Snapdragon processor or not, are going to be throttling the data rate in order to make sure there are no missed frames, errors, or that sort of thing. This hurried processing results in a muddy look to the video, however high resolution it may be, because edges and details have been rubbed out by a single hasty encoding pass.
Now, I'm not trying to break Omnivision's balls here. Creating such a tiny sensor that is capable of producing such a high-res image however many times a second is a serious achievement. Mission accomplished. The thing is, unfortunately, said sensor doesn't really enable devices to do anything different. You're just going to magnify the problems that are already there, and fill up your SD card faster to boot. Will it take pictures and video? Sure. High resolution pictures and high definition video… of a low-quality image. It's a bit like taking a picture of another picture, and expecting the second picture to be better than the first.
So if it's not really high definition, why is it being recorded and stored in high definition? So they have a big number to sell you, of course, like 240Hz and 18 megapixels. My favorite is when camera makers refer to dot counts for LCDs, knowing that the average consumer has no idea how LCDs work. 230,000 dots? Sounds like a lot! Except it actually means 320×240 pixels — a resolution that's been kicking about since the 80s.
How can you avoid this? Well, just like the megapixel race, you really can't. Video recording devices are simply going to overdo it the way still cameras overdid it, and now we all have hundreds or thousands of dubious images which despite being 10 or 15 megapixels, if you look closely or print too big, have all kinds of weird artifacts in them. It'll be the same for video. You can choose to record at a lower resolution; 720p (often even VGA/640×480) is just fine, after all, and may even record at the same bitrate, meaning better image quality. And actually look at the lenses on the cameras you buy. Lenses that are bigger across are (generally speaking) better, and every lens has its F numbers printed on it or on its spec sheet. If you're trying to decide between a few cameras, look at their lenses: if one device maker is shirking on the lens, arguably the most important part of the camera, then you can be sure they shirked elsewhere too. Lastly, don't buy anything that shoots in 1080i. Interlacing is a monster deserving of its own post.
I'd like to say that my issue with inflated video resolutions (and megapixels) is something that will be alleviated by the passage of time, like some of Ebert's objections to 3D. But the cost of good optics isn't really coming down, and really, the size of the lens is a physical barrier not likely to be surmounted any time soon. The methods we have for collecting and measuring light aren't sufficient, and the improvements yet to be made for them will do nothing to help the fact that with bad components, it's garbage in, garbage out.


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Do you hear that sound? It's the clock ticking away the days with no recourse for many medical device startups during the government shutdown.
Things are coming to a head with certain milestones that require interaction with or clearance by the FDA. The agency has made this process increasingly smooth, but as of late December, the FDA has been suddenly hamstrung by the government shutdown. This means that near-term milestones involving the FDA are on-hold for many startups, and even when the government re-opens, it may take time for the process to get back in full swing.
The FDA Is Focusing on Mission Critical Endeavors
Currently, the FDA has furloughed more than 40% of its employees. The remaining employees are focused on "mission critical" endeavors. Unfortunately, those endeavors do not include the following:
Accepting user fees
Accepting any FY2019 regulatory submissions that require a user fee payment
The good news is that if you got your 510(k), 513(g), or similar submission and payment in (and processed) prior to December 22, 2018, you may have some traction in these intervening weeks. You may also be in luck if you are working on an IDE (for clinical trials). If not, you're most likely be waiting for the doors to re-open to continue your interactions with FDA.
What to Do During the Government Shutdown
Startups usually measure their available runway in months, not years, so a shutdown of a month will be a large setback to many projects. Just remember to be nice to the review staff at FDA when they get back. It's likely that many of those folks will have been without pay for the past month or so.
For pre-submissions, 513(g)s, 510(k)s, and Denovo submissions, we suggest using the extra time to review and refine the development timeline, design data, and test results that are going into your submission. Feel free to reach out if you'd like assistance in these or other development matters during this shutdown.
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