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Search Problems
Maldistribution of private automobiles
Maldistribution of passenger cars
Incidence:
World statistics for 1980 indicate that the number of passenger cars in use was (in millions): 316.4 in the world, 5.8 in Africa, 7.3 in Oceania, 13.0 in South America, 31.6 in Asia, 115.3 in Europe (excluding USSR), and 135.1 in North America. In 1993, 8% of all humans owned a car. 89% of households in the USA owned one or more cars. Compared to their parents in 1950, people in the USA in 1993, on average, owned twice and many cars and drive 2.5 times as far each year.
Narrower Problems:
Lack of personal transport in rural areas
Related Problems:
Inappropriate transport policy
Aggravates:
Lack of transport vehicles
Inadequate transport infrastructure
Reduces:
Proliferation of automobiles and motor vehicles
Strategies:
Distributing private automobiles
Restricting private automobiles
Maldistribution
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems
Imbalances
Date of last update
01.01.2000 – 00:00 CET
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The Encyclopedia includes problems which such groups choose to perceive and act upon, whether or not their existence is denied by others claiming greater expertise. Indeed such claims and counter-claims figure in many of the problem descriptions in order to reflect the often paralyzing dynamics of international debate. In the light of the interdependence demonstrated among world problems in every sector, emphasis is placed on the need for approaches which are sufficiently complex to encompass the factions, conflicts and rival worldviews that undermine collective initiative towards a promising future.
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Attention: Due to the recent piping plover nesting, beach closures and other reasons, I must officially cancel this years Summer Fling on Assateague Island OSV.
This does not mean you can't gather and fish, but it can not be endorsed by AtlanticAnglers.com.
Well first of all welcome to the 3rd Summer Fling, what is it? I'll try and answer most of your questions. The members of this site got together in spring for a get together to meet others from Atlantic Anglers fishing forum to fish, talk and get to know everyone a little better. Since then we all have met some new friends and fishing buddies. And now get together for a Spring fling for rock fish and Summer fling for sharks. Now it's time for the Summer Fling in 2008 in the next few weeks you will see more post on this such as, Who needs a ride, What to bring to the fling, Who's coming or head count and so on. Don't feel left out, not all that come fish, some come just to talk and socialize.
Well, time for the 3rd Summer Fling so here's a list of things that would be nice to have, if any one can bring anything on the list just copy the list and repost it with what you want to bring or just post it and I will edit the list. And if you see something I have missed just go ahead and add it to the list.
Thanks again and see you at the Fling.
.Thanks to everyone for all their support.
OK I got my self down for plates etc.. but I don't think I will be able to make it down till after work, so if any one can pick up these things from me at some time in the morning that would be great.
I will Also Try and bring a case of Hot Halfsmokes (the kind you get from a DC street vendor) to supplement the hotdogs if dad ends up in DC for anything in the next couple weeks.
Not much time left hope to see some new faces this year.
By the way I don't think I will be able to bring my camper this time, it needs some work and I have not had the time.
Just wanted to bring this subject back to front. Is anyone able to bring out atleast one grill? Due to the price of gas, I am not leaning towards bringing the old truck, therefore i cannot haul a grill along as i was thinking. Looks like Snapper isn't making it out until later, and no camper.
If some one can pick up my grill it is available for the fling.
Well it looks like I will have three people.
Now I can/will bring hamburgers and I can bring a grill. My daughters boyfriend wants in on this and he makes a pretty good batch of shrimp that is cooked on the grill so he will bring that. Will have another good bottle of scotch too.
Only problem is we need a ride.
I hate asking for rides.
and I ll bring your cooler.


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REEL LIBRARIANS
Librarians + Movies = Reel Love
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Class VI (mistaken identity)
Category: Character Types
'City of' librarians
Bonus points for the angels in this film, as many like to hang out in the public library
City of librarians… not really! We only get to see one librarian in City of Angels (1998), a dramatic weepy starring Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan. Basically, an angel (Cage) becomes romantically involved with a doctor (Ryan). My memories of the film immediately bring to mind the following: 1. Cage and Ryan having almost no romantic chemistry, kind of a necessity in this kind of film, and 2. Meg Ryan having an overly fussy hairdo. Not a great movie, but I remember the soundtrack being really popular.
Although the film is set in Los Angeles, the library showcased in the film is the quite picturesque San Francisco Public Library. (And fun side note: I've actually been inside the main branch, which is quite breathtaking in real life, too.)
Below is a trailer for the film, which does include footage of the library scene!
"City of Angels – Trailer" video uploaded by YouTube Movies is licensed under a Standard YouTube license
Bonus points for the angels in this film, as many like to hang out in the public library (see above in the trailer). There are several short scenes set in the library, including one in which Ryan asks a young male circulation clerk about a particular book. She asks if he can tell her who it belongs to. The clerk can't tell her who, but can tell her when. The clerk is bald-headed, clean-shaven, and wears thick glasses. In a rare display of library technology (although he says, "Give me five minutes"), the clerk scans the book's barcode and looks it up in the computer system. He is your basic Information Provider, following the rules, no more, no less.
City of Angels. Dir. Brad Silberling. Perf. Meg Ryan, Nicolas Cage, Dennis Franz. Warner Bros., 1998.
Author JenniferPosted on October 19, 2011 April 8, 2019 Categories Character Types, Class IV, Information Provider, Public librarianTags Public library, San Francisco Public Library1 Comment on 'City of' librarians
A 'weird' librarian
Hell hath no fury… like a librarian scorned!
The 1944 film Weird Woman, directed by Reginald Le Borg, is a horror story, one whose title character could be either of the two main female characters in the film.
"Weird Woman – Classic Movie Trailer" video uploaded by Cliff Held is licensed under a Standard YouTube license
While on an expedition in the South Seas, college professor Norman Reed (Lon Chaney, Jr.) marries Paula (Anne Gwynne), a native woman who continues her superstitious beliefs upon their return to the U.S. His unexpected marriage angers his ex-girlfriend, college librarian Ilona (Evelyn Ankers, who starred in several horror films, including the classic The Wolf Man), who embarks on revenge.
Ilona is blonde, young, beautiful, and wears striking modern clothing. However, she does not seem like a dedicated librarian because she is never in the library; rather, she is always in her office, which appears as large as or even bigger than the actual library. Of the actual college library, we only get to see a glimpse of bookcases, a ladder, and a dictionary stand.
Her student assistant, Margaret, shelves books, and students always have to open Ilona's door in order to talk to her. Margaret, obviously intelligent and efficient, displays an eagerness to help. She is a brunette with shoulder-length hair, skirt suit, and no glasses. Ilona, of course, abuses her assistant's eagerness and stirs up trouble among Margaret, her boyfriend, and Professor Reed.
Ilona is a classic example of a Naughty Librarian who turns to violent and/or criminal manipulation when her love is unrequited or thwarted. She also uses her library's resources to create more mischief (of course!). She is the (deserving?) recipient of several nasty, unflattering comments, including the following descriptions:
"A jealous old cat"
"There's something about your smile right now that makes me think of Jack the Ripper"
An interesting note about the film's 1962 remake: In Burn, Witch Burn! (aka The Night of the Eagle), the librarian character is changed to a female professor. The character's name is also changed, from Ilona Carr to Flora Carr. The student library assistant's name, Margaret Mercer, is also changed in the remake, to Margaret Abbott; her occupation, other than that of a student, is unknown in the 1962 version.
Weird Woman. Dir. Reginald Le Borg. Perf. Lon Chaney, Jr., Anne Gwynne, Evelyn Ankers. Universal, 1944.
Author JenniferPosted on October 3, 2011 April 8, 2019 Categories Academic librarian, Character Types, Class I, Naughty Librarian (female), Spirited Young GirlTags academic library3 Comments on A 'weird' librarian
Mistaken identity in 'Spellbound'
A step backward for (real) librarians
How should a woman react when she is mistaken for a Spinster Librarian? To her credit, Dr. Constance Petersen, played by the beautiful Ingrid Bergman, takes it in good humor. The moment does inject a bit of comedy (although at the expense of librarians!) in the otherwise suspenseful and dramatic film, Spellbound (1945).
In this Hitchcock classic — which features a stunning dream sequence designed by Salvador Dali — Dr. Petersen (Bergman) realizes that the mental hospital's new director, Dr. Edwardes (Peck), is an imposter and suffers from paranoid amnesia. They go on the run to find out what happened to the real Dr. Edwardes.
Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman in 'Spellbound' (1945); image is in the public domain
While Bergman waits for Peck in a hotel lobby — remember, they are on the run, so recognition would be disastrous — she comes under the scrutiny of the house detective. He tries to guess her occupation, and by her conservative appearance (dark and conservative suit & hat), he guesses either schoolteacher or librarian! She is mistaken for a Spinster Librarian. A success for her character, as her real identity and occupation are safe, but alas, a step backward for (real) librarians.
Spellbound. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. Perf. Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G. Carroll, Michael Chekhov. Selznick International, 1945.
Author JenniferPosted on September 28, 2011 April 8, 2019 Categories Class V, Spinster LibrarianTags librarian mistaken identity, library references without librarians, no librarianLeave a comment on Mistaken identity in 'Spellbound'
It's an 'adventure'!
"Suzanne is a librarian who breaks with her stuffy New England background to live this… 'Rome Adventure'!"
In Rome Adventure (1962), Suzanne Pleshette plays Prudence Bell, an assistant librarian at the Briarcroft College for Women. The first scene sets the stage: Prudence lands in trouble for letting a young girl read Lovers Must Learn, a book considered "too adult" for this school. The board has banned the book (this also serves as a clever advertisement for the real book, which the film was based on, and its author, Irving Fineman, who is name-dropped in the first five minutes) and reprimands Prudence in the process. Prudence, however, stands up to them and defies their rules. She delivers a speech about the importance of love — what's hiding in every girl's heart, that need to be loved — and quits the library to follow the book's advice. She says, "This is Independence Day!" We are on her side for standing up to the board — and, in effect, standing up against censorship. [Plus, this week is the annual Banned Books Week, so this post is right on target!]
She is "going out to find love instead of waiting for it" (as apparently she has been doing as a librarian at a girls' school?). Part of this scene is highlighted (albeit a little misleadingly) in the film's trailer, below.
"ROME ADVENTURE (1962) Troy Donahue Suzanne Pleshette Angie Dickinson bas movie trashy trailer" video uploaded by TheViewMonster is licensed under a Standard YouTube license
This was Suzanne Pleshette's first leading role (although she gets 4th billing), and she was one of the loveliest actresses of her day. Her character is dressed in conservative but stylish suits, and her hairstyle and makeup are modern and fresh. Pleshette had a very direct kind of acting style — coupled with her trademark throaty voice — which works for this film, as it strengthens what might have otherwise been a very insipid role in lesser hands. Pleshette injects an intelligence and witty humor behind Prudence's (forgive me!) slightly prudent demeanor.
Prudence is a prime example of the Liberated Librarian character type, a woman whose "liberation" often becomes the major plot. Liberated Librarians may even seem on the path to Spinster Librarians, but are spared from this oh-so-terrible fate (tongue firmly in cheek). This is the case for Rome Adventure, and Prudence even says early on: "I have absolutely no talent for being a spinster."
So Prudence travels to Rome, to learn and to get a job — which the plot promptly serves up. Prudence begins work at The American Bookshop, befriending another American who fell in love with Italy (and Italian men).
This plot and setting is quite familiar, taking cues from the classic Roman Holiday (1953) and Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), both Best Picture nominees. The original title for both this film and the novel it's based on was Lovers Must Learn, but they most likely changed the film's name in an effort to capture a bit of borrowed glory from Roman Holiday. Even the packaging is similar. We get to see lots of iconic Roman sights, coupled with pretty girls in pretty dresses falling in love and learning "the ways of the world" along the way. Nothing wrong with that!
Prudence rapidly falls in love, saying those three little words on her first date with Don Porter, played by then-heartthrob Troy Donahue. Onscreen romance led to love off-screen, as well — Suzanne Pleshette and Troy Donahue were married, albeit briefly (8 months), after this film was released. In the film, Prudence goes on a trip with Don — just the two of them — but is concerned about what her mother might think of her affair. "I can't run away from my conscience!" But she valiantly battles with her rival in love, an ex-girlfriend in the shape of sexy Angie Dickinson. Romantic complications ensue, and she seeks lessons in love from the master, Rossano Brazzi (who is totally more swoon-worthy than Troy Donahue, in my opinion), who helps change her image to a sexier one. But this sexier image is one that Prudence — proving her namesake to the end — ultimately rejects, saying "I think first I better change back into me."
Prudence's liberation comes full circle. She decides to go back home because the cost to her freedom and self-respect is too much — and even if her choices at the end of the film may seem conventional, the point is that she did learn, but only by making her own choices.
After rewatching this film, I can't help thinking, WHY is Prudence a librarian? Her initial profession is certainly highlighted in the trailer — which was a surprise to me! — but why wasn't she a teacher or even a flower shop assistant? Was "librarian" a profession chosen at random? I haven't found a copy of the book yet to see if she's a librarian on the page as well as on screen (that is now added to my to-do list). That might be the easy answer, but again, why a librarian? I think a young woman in that profession lends an air of intelligence and, let's be honest, respectability — which she might need as support once she goes traipsing on long weekends in Italy! And, harkening back to my more cynical point-of-view, being a librarian provides a more solid contrast to the idea of "liberation" — that without this chance of a "Rome Adventure" to broaden her horizons, she will have to face a future of spinsterhood (and overbearing would-be censors, a sad fate indeed). There just isn't the same kind of contrast if she had simply been a salesclerk or a young lady with no profession. So when Prudence does explore her sexuality in the film, the audience might even be relieved for her, instead of condemning her more liberated escapades (perhaps a more serious issue in 1962, when the film was released?). Ahhh, the specter of the Spinster Librarian!
Rome Adventure. Dir. Delmer Daves. Perf. Suzanne Pleshette, Troy Donahue, Angie Dickinson, Rossano Brazzi. Warner Bros., 1962.
Author JenniferPosted on September 26, 2011 April 8, 2019 Categories Anti-censorship, Character Types, Class I, Liberated Librarian (female), School librarianLeave a comment on It's an 'adventure'!
'It's a wonderful'… stereotype?
"You're not going to like it, George. She's an old maid. She's just about to close up the library!"
It's a wonderful movie, truly. It's a Wonderful Life. One of my personal favorites, actually. And a personal favorite for many, especially as a TV staple at Christmas, thanks to its lapsed copyright in 1974 (although that was successfully challenged in 1993). The director, Frank Capra, is in top form, as is James Stewart, who displays devastating depth as George Bailey, an ordinary man who aches to be extraordinary. Both deservedly earned Oscar nominations, out of 5 total, including Best Picture.
In the film's nightmarish second half, George gets a rare second chance to see how life would have been without his presence — a concept that's been seen time and time again, but it still feels fresh and raw every time I rewatch this movie. And I still find tears in my eyes toward the end when everyone chips in to save good ol' George Bailey, and when James Stewart whispers, "Attaboy, Clarence" and winks after the bell rings on the Christmas tree. Oh, who am I kidding?! I'm tearing up right now even typing about it!
But…. how do you solve a problem like Mary?
Mary is George's wife and one true love, played with intelligence and warmth by Donna Reed. We see lots of her in the film's first half, through childhood adventures and young adulthood until George finally realizes he's in love with her. Throughout these scenes, she is quite lovely and open and trusting and displays a great sense of humor. She is his equal in every way. And she MUST be believable as his one true love in order for the second half of the film to work, because what she becomes is the straw that finally breaks George. Throughout the nightmare he witnesses in the second half — his brother dying, his mother withdrawing into a bitter old woman — it is the scene with his wife that finally gets to him, that breaks him.
And what does Mary become if George is out of the picture? A Spinster Librarian! Sigh.
Her scene as the Spinster Librarian is only about 30 seconds long, but that image continues to haunt librarians. Just look at the physical before-and-after:
Mary in the first half of 'It's a Wonderful Life' (1946). This screenshot from the film is in the public domain.
Mary as the Spinster Librarian in the second half of 'It's a Wonderful Life' (1946). This screenshot from the film is in the public domain.
In the first half, she looks lovely. Modern hairstyle, flattering clothing, fresh and clean. But without George, she suddenly loses her sense of style?! Glasses, sensible clothes, hat, hair pulled back, gloves, no makeup. She is so covered up, almost hiding, with the hat and the gloves and the buttoned-up clothes. This image is the stereotypical prototype for all Spinster Librarians. This does make sense, as the Spinster Librarian is one of the character types that heavily rely on stereotypical visual cues: the severe hairstyle, glasses, and prim clothing.
But worse than that is the change in Mary's personality. In the first half, she is warm and funny and sweet. In the second half, she has become shy, furtive, non-trusting, and scared of men. A typical Spinster Librarian, right? (Sigh.) Mary clutches her purse, and finally screams and faints when he declares her to be his wife.
Clarence telegraphs the change in Mary: "You're not going to like it, George. She's an old maid. She's just about to close up the library!"
"Clarence…Where's Mary?" video, uploaded by plurp7, is licensed under a Standard YouTube license
What's so disturbing about this scene — again, only about 30 seconds long! — is the uncomfortable undertones of this scene (at least for librarians). That without men in our lives, the ultimate nightmare for women is… to become "old maid" librarians?! That if we get married, we are spared from this oh-so-terrible fate? Again, sigh.
I know this scene is taken to extremes for the sake of the plot. George is near breaking point, and he needs a shock to get him to appreciate life again. And Mary becoming an "old maid" highlights the point that they are each other's true loves — that without the other, they are not truly whole. Plot-wise, this scene makes sense. But emotionally, as a librarian, it is hard to swallow.
So this movie will continue to be a personal favorite — but a personal favorite with an asterisk.
It's a Wonderful Life. Dir. Frank Capra. Perf. James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers. RKO, 1946.
Author JenniferPosted on September 21, 2011 June 23, 2019 Categories Class I, Favorite posts, Public librarian, Spinster LibrarianTags Public library2 Comments on 'It's a wonderful'… stereotype?
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Bloomberg Promises To Spend At Least $100 Million To Help Biden In Florida
Billionaire Mike Bloomberg announced Sunday that he plans to spend at least $100 million to help Democrat Joe Biden win Florida, a state which allows early voting to begin in late September and will be crucial in determining who is elected president.
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg addresses the virtual convention on August 20, 2020. The … [+] convention, which was once expected to draw 50,000 people to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is now taking place virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by DNCC via Getty Images)
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Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, abruptly dropped out of the presidential race in March but promised to pour some of his fortune into efforts aimed at helping Biden defeat Donald Trump in November.
Bloomberg's advisers said he decided to focus his election spending on Florida last week, after Trump claimed he was considering spending as much as $100 million of his own money.
"Voting starts on Sept. 24 in Florida, so the need to inject real capital in that state quickly is an urgent need," said Bloomberg adviser Kevin Sheekey. "Mike believes that by investing in Florida, it will allow campaign resources and other Democratic resources to be used in other states, in particular the state of Pennsylvania."
On Thursday, an updated Cook Political Report showed it had shifted its prediction for Florida from "leans Democratic" to "toss-up," after several polls showed the race tightening.
According to the Washington Post, an average of public polls since August finds Biden up by one percentage point in Florida, well within the margin of error.
Bloomberg's spending will reportedly focus mostly on television and digital ads, in both English and Spanish.
Key Background:
It's difficult to overstate Florida's importance when it comes to determining the winner of November's election, with the state carrying a massive 29 electoral votes. The last Republican to win the White House without winning Florida was Calvin Coolidge in 1924. If Biden held all the states that Hillary Clinton won in 2016 and also flipped Florida, he'd reach the 270-electoral vote threshold (even if he also lost swing states Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and North Carolina). No candidate has won Florida by more than five points in 20 years. In 2016, Trump beat Clinton by 1.2% in the Sunshine State.
Big Number:
$54.9 Billion: That's Michael Bloomberg's current net worth, according to Forbes.
Crucial Quote:
"The bottom line is when you have additional resources, you can solidify your voters and then communicate with those who are still on the fence for some reason," Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) said. "One hundred million can do just that."
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This show fell during a legendary co-headlining tour that Okkervil River did with The New Pornographers in 2008 and it is maybe the definitive mid-period Okkervil River concert recording, a frenetic ripper of a set with scarcely time to breathe and with ornate guitar contributions from Charles Bissell of The Wrens, who was a member of the band at that time. The only existing live recording with Bissell in the band, Wren among the Pornographers was multi-tracked by Phil Palazzolo, the New Pornographers' soundman, fresh off producing that band's album Challengers. Phil would go on to work in some capacity on every Okkervil River project from 2008 until today. Liner notes include a lengthy back-and-forth interview between Will and Bissell, A.C. Newman, Palazzolo, The Stage Names co-producer Brian Beattie, and longtime Okkervil bassist Patrick Pestorius.
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The death of cellular (and the common carrier?)
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We used to call it the 'Elephant in the room" way back in about 2010. Even then it was apparent that WiFi had arrived and smartphone users were using it, not just as 'offload' but as a preference - in their offices, in the home and increasingly at emerging public hotspots in cafes and the like.
When these numbers were flagged up (one analyst estimated, even at the time, that some users were up to 90 per cent WiFi usage) the response in telecoms circles was often a short, embarrassed silence, and then the discussion would continue like nothing had happened. It would be explained that WiFi had nothing to do with cellular data usage... really. And anyway it would go away when LTE was turned up. WiFi was just a band aid for some operators who hadn't sized their networks properly.
So the elephant stayed in the room. In fact he or she settled in, occupied a sofa, took charge of the remote control and ordered a beer.
And why not? Most wireless devices tend to be only episodically 'mobile' in the old-fashioned sense of moving about and requiring mid-session handoff from one cell to another. Increasingly they aren't used as 'mobiles' at all but are nomadic. They shut down, move with their owner and re-establish another wireless connection at a destination because they're not only smartphones: they're tablets, phablets and laptops as well.
Business Week has been crunching some WiFi numbers offered up by Adobe Systems which monitors more than 10,000 websites. It reports that "well more than half of the online activity produced by smartphone users happens over WiFi… Adobe's research found that Wi-Fi had already surpassed Web browsing via cellular networks by early 2013."
Businessweek thinks these numbers and the underlying trend may soon represent an existential crisis for mobile carriers as WiFI's use scales up, the ecosystem builds and the supporting WiFi underpinnings get more and more powerful and cost effective. In this scenario, WiFi, having dominated the nomadic takes over what's left of the mobile functions as well and does so at a cost that existing cellular networks, and their business models, can't match.
On of my favourite analysts, Francis McInerney, Managing Director of North River Ventures in New York, thinks it's much worse than that. He thinks the IT-isation of the telecoms industry (of which trend WiFi is only a small part) means that the 'cloud' and the technologies which feed it simply sweep everything before them in the longer run.
Francis has a good record on predicting disasters. He correctly assayed the dotcom boom of the late 1990s and predicted the 2000 crash while giving astute reasons as to why it was going to happen.
Most recently he and his colleagues have been doing some more thinking and industry modeling.
"We realized that we had been very stupid," he says. "We had always — like for nearly 40 years — assumed that common carriers like Verizon were just part of the furniture and never asked a simple question.
"Carriers came in with Theodore Vail [the man credited with inventing the telephone business in the US] because information costs were so high they were the only efficient way to deliver communications. But what happens when the costs of information fall so low that we have clouds - ubiquitous access to unlimited computing power at marginal costs - and the architectures that support cloud access for consumers?"
Answer: no carriers.
"At least none that look like what we have today. We wind up with a series of shared assets structured like Equinix [the colocation/data centre specialist]. Nothing remains of today's world. Well, that's not quite true. Cell towers and data warehouses are already shared assets. Fiber backhaul is going the same way. Small cells can be structured that way easily. Much of the future is now."
So according to Francis, everything changes, from the assets themselves to the ways that they are owned and financed.
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#20001 johnu
mikeh, on 2022-June-25, 12:19, said:
In the US the political reality has been that there has never been and still isn't sufficient support in Congress to make enabling abortion access the statutory law of the realm.
There has been support for a pro abortion bill in the US before, but because the Senate still has an undemocratic filibuster bill where 40% of the senators can veto any bill they don't like. The obvious problem with passing a bill is that when the political winds change, that bill can be nullified by a new Congress and president. The other problem is that because of gerrymandering of house districts, and the over representation of small population states, a minority of the people frequently controls legislation.
#20002 Cyberyeti
johnu, on 2022-June-27, 02:37, said:
It's been reported in the news here Biden was looking at what he can do by presidential decree, no idea what powers he actually has.
Cyberyeti, on 2022-June-27, 04:21, said:
If there is something Biden can do by himself you can be sure that there will be lawsuits challenging his actions, which, surprise surprise, will eventually end up in the Supreme Court where there are the same 5-6 QOP justices. You can be assured that the QOP majority will make up any reason necessary to rule against any Biden Executive Orders.
#20004 Winstonm
Not much at all concerning this ruling. He can tell the Executive Branch of government what to do but not the country or the states.
#20005 kenberg
pilowsky, on 2022-June-26, 18:26, said:
I haven't watched movies or TV in years (I gave it up when a show called gogglebox appeared where I was supposed to watch people watching other people on television).
The fact the Trump was born on the day that John Logie Baird died was the nail in the coffin.
Something I recall distinctly is that in the shoot-em-up genre the villain in US productions is commonly a foreigner.
German, South African, Russian, English whatever.
Productions where a typical WASP defeats a typical WASP were rare.
Think of Die Hard, Lethal Weapon etc., Who are the villains?
In one of them they scored a twofer with Jeremy Irons playing a German.
I'll comment, mostly for the fun of it but also I do think our culture is screwed up so it might be relevant.
You don't much watch this stuff you know more about it than I do. I believe I saw all of or part of the first Die Hard but no subsequent Die Hards. I am pretty sure I saw no Lethal Weapons. These are both in the late 80s. Bruce Willis is in Die Hard, I cannot think of anything that I have seen him in that I liked. Mel Gibson was in Lethal Weapon (I looked it up). I did enjoy Gibson in Conspiracy Theory although I thought of it more as a romantic comedy crazily set within a political thriller. I think the bad guys were in the US government but I can't really recall.
The Wild Bunch, a 1969 film with Willaim Holden, gets generally high reviews. I have never seen it all the way through. The first time I did not make it through the initial extended shoot-out, I just turned it off (I was watching it on tv). Then I heard it was supposed to be a really good movie so I tried again. I patiently sat through the long initial shoot-out, watched for a while, got bored, and turned it off.
I liked The Bridge on the River Kwai. I very much liked Unforgiven with Clint Eastwood.
Sometimes I do not want to re-see a movie that I really liked. Unforgiven falls into that category. Knowing in general how it goes would mean I would not find it as interesting and since I was almost spellbound the first time through I want to leave it at that. By contrast, I enjoy watching The Third Man, I can watch it over and over. I think Holly Martins is a great character, I enjoy watching the single named (Alida) Valli, Orson Welles is perfect for the part of Harry Lime, the zither music is great. The closing scene is perfect. Besides all that, I read the Graham Greene novel and I believe it was the first novel I ever read that was intended for adults. Laura is another movie I never tire of, another movie where the villain is hopelessly bad at killing, but fun to watch.
The shoot-out movies that I like have interesting stories, or at least so I think. It's beyond me to understand why anyone over the age of 10 or so would enjoy a movie that mostly consists of a lot of people shooting at a lot of other people.
I know on leaving office he can pardon people, is this only for federal crimes and is it only on leaving ? Can he say I will pardon anybody charged or convicted under any of these laws for example ?
#20007 mycroft
First: a horrible week for our neighbours and my occasional co-workers. I wish I had anything to say that hasn't been said more times by more relevant people than I.
I also wish that the "democratic party ratchet" image didn't have the ring of truth.
Keep safe my friends - and all I don't know as well, as well.
Because I live in extremely north Texas, we have serious candidates for Premier saying "great idea - we should do this too" for our Courts, and elected members of the government publicly celebrating. And a parade with an actively racist "float" that somehow "wasn't agreed to by anybody" despite a week of public organizing on the parade's Facebook page. And was condemned - 24 hours later - by another leadership candidate who was there, and publicly really enjoyed it yesterday. Interesting, that.
If it's helpful for anybody, I present two links - one straight satire, one frankly straight up black humour (as in, if the quotes from the ruling were actually real, I wouldn't be surprised any more) - from our version of the Onion:
https://www.thebeave...erican-problem/
https://www.thebeave...o-be-gun-owner/
The pardon powers are virtually unlimited but only for federal crimes. The only pardon that would not work is one proved to be given to prevent exposure of a crime - like a bribe to keep a mouth shut-kind of like what Trump did for Manafort and Roger Stone.
PS: only a current president can pardon and it can be one at any time during his stay in office
kenberg, on 2022-June-27, 07:58, said:
I'll comment here, also, to see if anyone else views or senses things my way. First, I am a fan of story. I have always preferred reading to watching and when young disliked books with pictures as it spoiled the vision of my imagination.
I think the issue with movies today is wrapped up in our same problems with the current form of capitalism practiced and preached in the U.S. It requires real talent and real work to first produce a book or script with a strong, appealing story. Once the computer programs are written, though, it is not that costly to creates superhero flying zipgun spewing flame-throwing car-crashing crap over and over. The idea is to buy low, sell high, or make cheap, make a lot.
There is still something to be said for quality. "Still Alice" is quality as a movie. So is "To Kill a Mockingbird". The problem is in 2022, there are about 10 million car crashing flying superhero bang and shoot movies for every 1 Still Alice.
In reality, I think Huxley was right and we are already in a Brave New World.
Btw, does anyone know where to go to update your passport to Gileadean?
#20011 Gilithin
Is it time to take a vote on who the candidates will be in 2024 and who will win?
JB vs RdS and RdS will win.
We are in the same ballpark at least. I loved comic books when I was young and when I moved on I missed having pictures, but that was only for a short bit. I followed what I think of as a standard evolution. Comic books, then Horatio Alger, Tarzan etc then on to more adult books, but with detours, Caves of Capistrano for example. I regret not reading some of the assigned books in high school but I was an adolescent going through adolescence. Having a book assigned was sufficient reason for me not to read it.
An amusing aside. I read Peggy Covers the News. I see it was written in 1948, that would make me 9 but I think I was 10 or 11. I liked it but I kept it hidden. I did not want anyone to know I actually liked a book in which the main character was a young woman.
At the moment I am reading Vanished, a Danish detective story with flashbacks to the late 1960s and early 70s. One thing that happens in the flashbacks is a woman gets an illegal abortion. I gather the Danes followed a legislative path in legalizing abortion. https://en.wikipedia...tion_in_Denmark
Gilithin, on 2022-June-27, 13:44, said:
Or, as they say now at the SCOTUS, "It would be a shame if for some reason. God forbid, Joe Biden didn't win a single swing state. Capiche?"
#20014 PassedOut
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The NRA definitely encourages people to buy guns. So far so good? The idea, at least implicitly, is that having a gun is useful for problems a person encounters in life. Still in agreement?
For me, the consequences of this are predictable and clear. Take me. I am not the strongest nor toughest guy in the world, nor am I the weakest. But what the hell, give me a gun and it doesn't matter. All I have to do is pull the trigger. So you get a lot of people thinking that way and then, maybe in the heat of the moment or maybe with planning, a lot of triggers get pulled.
I could tell various stories, some pretty personal, but I'll skip that. The consequences of widespread gun ownership, coupled with the idea that a gun can be a good solution to a problem, seem obvious enough. You speak a lot of the good guys and the bad guys. I have never thought it to be that simple. A good guy can suddenly do something stupid, something he would not do if he did not have a gun, and then he becomes a bad guy. Or he becomes a dead guy. Or both.
I thought of Ken's post when I read this news story today: Man killed Subway worker over 'too much mayo on his sandwich,' police say
A man fatally shot an employee and injured another at an Atlanta Subway restaurant over the weekend because he had "too much mayo on his sandwich," police said Monday morning.
The shooter fired a handgun at two workers, a 26-year-old woman who died of her wounds and a 24-year-old woman who was in critical condition, Deputy Police Chief Charles Hampton Jr. told reporters. The injured woman's 5-year-old child was in the restaurant at the time.
Willie Glenn, a co-owner of the restaurant, said the women were "model employees" who had started working there about three weeks ago, WSB-TV reported.
"It breaks my heart to know that someone has the audacity to point a weapon and shoot someone for as little as too much mayonnaise on a sandwich," he told the news station.
Hampton told reporters that he was "frustrated" by "gun owners who don't make the right decisions" and by momentary impatience that can hurt families forever.
Evidently the man had a hair-trigger temper and should not have been trusted with a firearm.
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists — that is why they invented hell. — Bertrand Russell
#20015 Chas_P
Location:Gainesville, GA USA
PassedOut, on 2022-June-27, 16:53, said:
Which prompts the question once again, "Who's fault was it?" A 36 year-old male lunatic goes into a Subway and blows away a 24 year-old female whose only indiscretion (in his view) was putting too much mayonnaise on his sandwich. It's heart-rending. It's sickening. But I still don't view it as the NRA's fault.
#20016 mikeh
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Chas_P, on 2022-June-27, 18:30, said:
That reveals a very simplistic worldview: one in which there is no such thing as multiple causes, or subtlety in any form.
Nobody says that the NRA was responsible for that man being so unbalanced that he killed somebody because he didn't like the mayo and only an imbecile would think that was the point.
Equally only an imbecile would miss the point that the easier it is to obtain and carry firearms, the more likely it is that some unbalanced individual (whether due to illness, personality disorder or substance abuse) will find himself (and it's almost always a male) in a situation in which he has possession of a gun and uses it.
The NRA has spent millions and millions of dollars lobbying against any attempt to restrict the number and availability of firearms in the US. In doing so they have persuaded politicians to ignore the wishes of the majority of Americans who support stricter gun laws than have generally existed…including the wishes of many gun owners.
Only an imbecile would assert that the NRA's lobbying has not resulted in the current sad state of affairs in terms of ready access to guns that exists in the US.
Thus, the NRA has contributed to the prevalence of this sort of gun violence even if it cannot be said to have directly caused this incident or, indeed, any particular incident.
But fewer guns, and making carrying guns outside of one's home or a firing range or a hunting trip (or on other legitimate occasions) more difficult would undoubted reduce the chance that any particular individual, caught up in momentary rage, would have a gun on him. He might punch the other person, or just yell obscenities. I suspect the Subway server would have preferred that outcome.
The irony is that you post your stupidity on a bridge website. Bridge is a game of probabilities. The argument that the NRA bears some degree of responsibility for the prevalence of seemingly random gun violence is based upon probabilities. Imbeciles, being incapable of understanding anything other than concrete reasoning, often can't follow this sort of reaoning.
As I say…only an imbecile would argue against this
You argue against it
I do not mean that I think this guy is literally an imbecile. I'm expressing my frustration with the sort of thinking reflected in his posts. I don't know him other than from his posts here, which imo do not reflect well upon him.
Further edit. An honest pro NRA argument might be that 'I see the right to own and bear firearms in public as more important than the costs of so doing. Yes, unfortunately there will be more deaths and injuries of and to innocents, but that's a price society should pay to preserve these rights'
I'd disagree but at least we'd know where our differences lie. In contrast, the argument that an organization dedicated to fighting efforts to control gun violence through limiting gun rights has no responsibility for gun violence seems to me dishonest as well as patently false.
'one of the great markers of the advance of human kindness is the howls you will hear from the Men of God' Johann Hari
#20017 y66
From More Guns, More Unintended Consequences: The Effects of Right-to-Carry on Criminal Behavior and Policing in US Cities (June 2022) by John J. Donohue at Stanford Law, Samuel V. Cai at Stanford Law, Matthew V. Bondy at Stanford Law and Philip J. Cook at Duke:
We analyze a sample of 47 major US cities to illuminate the mechanisms that lead Right-to-Carry concealed handgun laws to increase crime. The altered behavior of permit holders, career criminals, and the police combine to generate 29 and 32 percent increases in firearm violent crime and firearm robbery respectively. The increasing firearm violence is facilitated by a massive 35 percent increase in gun theft (p=0.06), with further crime stimulus flowing from diminished police effectiveness, as reflected in a 13 percent decline in violent crime clearance rates (p=0.03). Any crime-inhibiting benefits from increased gun carrying are swamped by the crime-stimulating impacts.
y66, on 2022-June-27, 19:54, said:
I always think caution is advisable regarding research into emotionally charged topics, but the conclusions cited are, for me, totally expected conclusions.
Mike, in the post above yours, says "An honest pro NRA argument might be that 'I see the right to own and bear firearms in public as more important than the costs of so doing. Yes, unfortunately there will be more deaths and injuries of and to innocents, but that's a price society should pay to preserve these rights'". I think that's the situation in a nutshell. Free and easy access to guns preserves the right to arm oneself to the teeth and it leads to a lot of people getting killed. More restrictive gun laws, roughly something that allows home defense and hunting but forbids walking the streets with a concealed weapons, intrudes on the rights of the gun enthusiast and lowers the number of violent killings.
There would be other pluses, some substantial. I recognize that police sometimes behave badly. I also recognize that they have a dangerous job, one that I would never take on. Better gun control could do two things. At least some cops would be less trigger-happy, and the job would be more appealing to people who could accept moderate danger in enforcing the law but who are wary of taking on a job where a traffic stop might result in a wild-west shoot-out. So it would improve the current situation and attract more nuanced people to the job.
Basically, more gun control would solve a lot of problems. The cost would be that people who would like to walk down the street carrying a machine gun would not be allowed to do so. Well, maybe a bit more of a cost. But home defense would not be affected. Reasonable hunting would not be affected. No RINO hunting.
It's hard to know how to respond to claims that "the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" That may well be accurate, but what if you start with the premise that there are no guns? Wouldn't that provide an alternate method?
Chelsea Handler, guest hosting "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Monday night:
I will be here all week long, or at least until Republicans make it illegal for women to talk.
Jimmy is off right now doing whatever the [expletive] he wants with his body.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mitch Marner extended his point streak to 16 games with a goal and an assist, and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-1 on Saturday night.
Auston Matthews became the seventh player in team history with 200 career even-strength goals, William Nylander scored his 12th of the season, and Pontus Holmberg his second for the Maple Leafs, who have points in eight straight games and 14 of their last 16 overall. Marner's goal was his sixth of the season.
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Nylander scored his 149th career goal, surpassing Hockey Hall of Famer Borje Salming for the second-most by a Swedish player in Maple Leafs history. Salming, who was living with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, died Thursday at 71.
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Населённые пункты Тарбагатайского района (Восточно-Казахстанская область)

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A co-worker of mine had recently acquired a used Super 8mm film projector with a burned bulb. Having a reputation of being somewhat of a tinkerer/mad scientist, he asked me if I could help him figure out a way to replace the bulb without buying a new one because, as it turn out, they are quite expensive and it would have costed more than what he paid for the projector. My plan was, as you might have guessed, to replace it with a LED! The project interested me as I remembered that my family also had a bunch of old Super 8mm film reel that has been stored for several decades waiting to be transfered. I had briefly attempted to digitize them around 2007 but cancelled my effort when I realised that the projector I had would constantly jam and tear up our very delicate film. So this was the perfect opportunity to jump back in.
I saw a few people online replacing those proprietary bulb with regular conical (MR8/MR11) type bulb that are readily available in store but we would still be dealing with bulb replacement and danger of burning the film if it get stuck during projection if we were to replace the orignal bulb with one of those. So I figured that the best way to proceed would be to experiment with high-power LED. I had an idea that COB LED would be the way to go for this but the only one I had were way too powerful and would get extremely hot so I went ahead and ordered a few LED of different package/type so I could experiment and hopefully find the perfect one for this application. I tested a few differents types of LED package and color temperature and ended up using a 10w Cold White COB LED. If you are not familiar with COB type LED, they are a fairly recent type of LED package that are composed of several hundreds of very tiny and bright LED assembled in a thin flat package with an aluminium backplate. They are suprisingly bright and easy to use but they do tend to heat up quite a bit. You might be surprised to read this as LEDs are usualy known to generate very little heat but this does not hold true for high power LED module and many of them run so hot that they require some kind of heatsink to dissipate the heat they produce.
While the LED I chose to use is very bright (look at it a few seconds and you'll have a nice red spot in your vision for a good hour), it might not be as bright as some halogen build. but it is actually what made it possible to transfer the movie that way as I did some test with the stock halogen bulb of another projector I acquired later on and it is simply too bright for the camera to capture anything but a bright blob of light. You could always use a higher wattage COB LED for this mod but it would only be usefull if your goal was to use the projector normally to project film and not to digitize them.
Here's a sample of how it looked like using a regular projector halogen bulb. It was simply too bright to give any visible picture.
The 10w COB 12v LED ended up being the perfect fit as the LED surface would fit really well with the projector's light plate opening. The only problem was, even with a 10w LED (which really isn't one of the more powerful module available), it would heat up so much that it would burn your finger even with different type of heaksink mounted on the back of it. I did a few prototypes to test, first using plate of aluminium mounted to the back of the LEDs module, then mounted to and motherboard chipset heatsink and even tried mounting it to an old laptop CPU heatsink that is using copper tubing and a small fan to disssipate the heat. Even the laptop CPU heatsink module would get extremely hot, which was very surprising considering it was made to cool off fast computer processor... Something had to be off as this didn't make any sense.
I ended up figuring it out that my issue was that I was driving the LEDs at 12v with my bench power supply and I am not sure if it's because I'm using cheap LEDs module from China but running the LEDs at its full capacity would make it heat up to a worringly high temperature, even when using a fairly big heatsink. I lowered the supply to around 11v and the LED cooled off significantly. The next issue I had was that the LED's brightness would not be stable. The intensity would fluctuate up and down slightly and I wasn't sure why. I went to research and found out that this kind of LED is not driven by voltage but by current. Connecting the power straight to the LED was not the best idea and using a LED Driver was much preferable. I ordered oen on eBay but I did not feel like waiting for week for it to arrive so researched on how I could built my own. I found a few designs online but ended up using a simple NPN transistor to regulate the current, which seemed to be taking care of the light flickering issue.
I wanted to limit the ammount of modification to the projector I would ahve to do and I had the idea of re-using the old projector's lamp's socket to mount the LED but I went an easier way and used magnet. This way, you could just pop-out the LED and replace it with the stock halogen bulb. I don't see why anyone would do that, but the possibility is there. I was able to drill small hole in an old passive motherboard chipset's heatsink and screw the COB LED moduel right on it but there was no way I could drill the magnet to mount them. Gleu wouldn't cut it either since the heatsink would heat up and the glue was bound to fail. So I bought some thermal adhesive paste on ebay, the same kind that is used to glue heatsink on smaller chip so I knew it woudl withstand the heat produced by the LED. And since I had the paste to glue the magnet, I added some under the LED backplate to aid in the heat dissipation and created a small mounting hole on the side for the regulator (sicne it also can generate a bit of heat).
I then soldered a barrel type power plug to make it easy to connect and disconnect the LED and my bulb replacement was complete!
The magnet are just strong enough to stick to the projector's plate and the LED module can be removed or repositionned easily.
Successful first test run with Woody Woodpecker!
The first test was a success and the iamge was clear and bright. But I noticed though that, when the image was white, there was a very suttle yellow hue going vertically near the center of the projection and it wouldn't go away no matter how I would move the LED. I remembered that I read online in a forum for 8mm fan (there's more than you think:P) that someone had an issue with their projection being completly clouded/yellowed and another user suggested she remove the plastic plate where the film get projected. They were saying it was made of some type of plastic and that they sometime get cloudy/yellow over time. I figured it might be the part I needed to investigate. It came with a warning that it also help stop the heat a bit in case the film get stuck in front of the bulb but since I replaced it for LED it wouldn't be a problem.
I dissassembled the plate near where the film passed and found that my plastic piece was not damaged at all and was still crystal clear, but it had a separation in the middle. It seem to be intentionnal in its design but I figured that the LED light path is probably not the same as the old halogen builb was and the light beam might be getting caught up in that little plastic separation and get redirected like light going through a prysm. I removed it fairly easily by unbending the metal flap holding it in place agains't the metal plate, screwed the plate back where it was and voila, clear projection with no yellowish hue!
I know frame by frame transfer where each frame get capture and then animated provide better quality transfer, but I wanted to have a decent transfer done without spending any money on buying equipment or paying for a transfer service so I experimented with a few things to see if I could get decent result that way. I bought an old school video transfer box on ebay thinking it would be the best way. If you are nto familiar with those transfer box, it's a special box with a mirror inside of it and a mat screen on the other side. The idea is that you project your film inside the box opening, the image get transfered with the mirror to the small mat screen and you film that screen with a camera. To give you a better idea, here's how it look like.
I was very dissapointed with that method as the little screen would give a very grainy image. It might not have been so noticeable with old school camcorder that people were using back when those transfer box were sold but it was almost unwatcheable for me using a modern HD camera.
I tried a few different things and camera and I couldn't get decent enought result to warrant starting to transfer the old family movie. I don't have a DSLR only my point and shoot camera that usualy take very decent high definition video and my iPhone 8. The problem with point and shoot camera that most people have is that they are very easy to use at the cost of control. What I mean by this is that there is no way to customise any settings. The one I have can't even manually focus in filming mode so my 8mm movie transfer would turn out super blury. Also, since 8mm projector speed can vary between 16 to 24 FPS, I woudl get bad flickering on the transfer. I tried with my iPhone 8 since it had a decent camera for a phone but it was the same problem with lack of control. I was about to give up when I found out that there is some advanced camera apps available on the app store that give you more control over the iPhone camera. They were made to give similar control over setting similarly to what you would be able to do on a DSLR camera like playing with shutter speed, taking picture in RAW format and playing with exposure and such. It is not free but it was under 10$ so I decided to try one of the more popular one called ProCam. It allowed me to adjust critical settings like the number of FPS to try and get closer to the FPS of the projector, remove the flicker by playing with the shutter speed, adjust the white temperature and such. It was a game changer for this project and made my transfer very whatcheable.
My transfer setup was very simple, projector on a table positionned about 30cm from the wall where I taped a white sheet of paper. I then took a car phoen stand I had laying around and screwed it to a plank of wood. I adjusted the playback speed of the projector to the slower mode, adjusted the shutter speed setting until the flicker went away and shot with my iPhone at 24FPS.
Then it was a matter of closing the light and making the room as dark as possible, starting the recording on my phone and starting the projection. I couldn't just put my phone dead in the center to shoot the movie as it would block the projector beam so I would position the phone slightly on the right and move it as close as I could without obstructing the beam of light of the projector. Then I would make sure that the phone and projector were straight so I would nto end up with a skewed movie (ProCam has a grid option you can enable that help alot for that part). After I was done filming, I would just transfer them to my computer and load them up in Adobe After effect so I could reframe them properly and cut the unnecessary part when the reel start and such. I also tried removing a bit of the grain with Neat Video's filter and then save it as the final video. For some reason, After Effect refuse to load my iPhone 8 .MOV file stating they are not compatible but I found out somewhere on the internet that you could renamed them to .M4V and After Effect would then happily open the same video file and work with them after. Go figure.
All in all in my opinion, it was a success. The LED is bright and give a nice projection and it barely heat up so there is now zero chance of your precious film burning if it ever get stuck in front of the lamp like it used to with the stock bulb. I tested it runnign for a good hour and the heatsink is more than enough to cool it. On top of the heatsink, projector have fan that were built in to help cool of the burning hot halogen bulb they were using so it remove any heat build up that your LED module might have. The LED modification allowed me to transfer all my dad's old 8mm movie that were gathering dust for decade in his wardrobe.
Here is a sample of all that work.
It is obviously not comparable to a proper frame by frame professionnal transfer but It was mostly free and the people that have seen the transfer seem to have no complain and enjoyed them on big screen HD TV. I'm sure I could make it better by playing with setting and After Effect but I find them good enough for now. And an OK transfer is better than no transfer at all! Those films degrade every day and now I know my family can watch them for the first time and enjoy them until the day where I get proper equipement to do a better transfer.


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El picaflors de Maugé (Dicaeum maugei) és un ocell de la família dels diceids (Dicaeidae).

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Viu als clars del bosc i vegetació secundària de les terres baixes de Wallacea a les illes del Mar de Flores i les Illes Petites de la Sonda, a Bali, Penida, Lombok, Sawu, Roti, Semau, Timor, Romang, Moa, Damar i Babar.

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Whether she's at Greenfield Lake or near the N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher, Terri Chabot knows a tail slap means she's found herself a little too close to an alligator.
Earlier this month, Chabot, who lives in Kure Beach, was walking near the pond behind the aquarium when she heard the familiar "thwap." After spotting the gator, which promptly fled, Chabot dubbed it "Aquarius" because of its proximity to the attraction.
"I've never been threatened by one," she said. "Any time where I've been anywhere near one, if I haven't seen them with my own eyes I've heard the tail slap. I've always been given a fair warning."
With population sprawling across much of the state's area known to shelter the American alligator, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission wants to better understand when and where people spot alligators. And, said Allen Boynton, the organization's Wildlife Diversity Program coordinator, it wants the public's help.
Residents or visitors who see alligators in the wild can snap a picture on their smartphone and upload it to the N.C. Alligators section of the iNaturalist app or website, www.inaturalist.org. North Carolina is the northern edge of the American alligator's habitat, with the reptile seen most frequently in the state's warmer southeastern corner and around the Croatan National Forest.
"As our human population grows, we are building homes in new areas … areas that are rural and have alligators in them," Boynton said. "So people are interacting with alligators more."
Employees who help members of the public asking for help with wild animals have, Boynton said, reported spending more time with alligator calls.
Such calls included a 2016 incident in which a family found an alligator in their garage on Coree Way off Catfish Lake Road just west of Havelock. A large gator was spotted off U.S. 17 near the Craven-Jones county line. It was disrupting traffic, and wildlife officials relocated it to a more remote location.
Also last year, a 6-foot gator was spotted outside the West End Fire Station in Havelock, and another large gator was spotted roaming parts of western Havelock for about two weeks in 2014 before wildlife officers caught up with it in the Hickman Hills area, captured it and relocated it.
"We've been getting information from people that are having problems with alligators," Boynton said. "A lot of people see alligators, are interested in them, want to go take pictures and they don't ever call us about it because they don't have a problem. We want to get information from them, too."
Next week, the wildlife commission will likely release draft recommendations from its N.C. Alligator Task Force, which hosted a series of meetings across the state last fall. Among the topics the group was tasked with addressing were developing the framework of an alligator management plan, identifying where alligators may be over populated, and identifying unanswered questions about the state's alligator populations.
Chris Moorman, the coordinator of N.C. State University's Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology Program, headed the research team that conducted the most recent survey of the state's alligators.
The counts, conducted in 2012 and 2013, showed alligator populations had remained stable or increased since the previous effort was published in 1986. Some hot spots included the Lake Ellis Simon, located west of Havelock in the Croatan National Forest, where researchers found 53 gators, up from 33 in the last study, and Brunswick County's Orton Pond, which had increased from 40 to 79 alligators.
"Alligators are most abundant in the south and eastern portion of the state and in those bodies of water where they're protected," Moorman said, adding, "In other areas, they're just absent over huge expanses."
Even with the estimated improvements in the population, Moorman and his team said managing alligators is tricky because the state represents the northern-most border of the species' range, resulting in lower densities. Alligators do remain on the threatened species list because of their resemblance to the American crocodile.
"We have to be careful about how we treat alligators in North Carolina," Moorman said. "We know from research that was conducted about 30 years ago that alligators grow more slowly in North Carolina than further south."
Many questions about North Carolina's alligators remain unanswered, he added, including what happens to them when they are relocated, whether the cooler climates in North Carolina lead to more females since temperature can determine the animals' sex, and how long it takes the state's gators to become reproductive.
Amid the lingering questions, one piece of advice remains universal — don't feed an alligator.
"It's a really bad idea," Boynton said, "because alligators, the way they catch prey — and they're carnivores — is they appear relatively slow or lethargic but are capable of moving very quickly to catch a raccoon or a fawn or turtle or a bird or something. ... (If they're fed,) alligators lose their fear of people and they'll come closer."


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Q: RegEx for matching different types of quotes I write small scripting 'language' for my game.
I would like to allow for every JS string literal strings(`"').
I figured out how to check everything inside those using:
(?<e1>""|'|`)(?:\$\k<e1>|(?!\k<e1>).)*\k<e1>)

It works.
But now, I have a different trouble. I need to remove all tabs, that are not inside those types of quotes.
I looked up here how to match everything, that is not inside quotes:
\t(?=([^"\\]*(\\.|"([^"\\]*\\.)*[^"\\]*"))*[^"]*$)

And I got trouble connecting those two worlds so that "a`\t`" does not remove this middle tab as
\t(?=([^"'`$]*(\$.|['`"]([^"'`$]*\$.)*[^"'`$]*["`']))*[^"`']*$)

does. I know, I have to check for the last not-escaped (with $ not \) quote, but how do I do that?

A: You could match what you don't want and keep what you want using a capturing group.
In this case you could wrap your first pattern in a capturing group and add an alternation using the pipe | after it to match 1+ times a tab.
In the replacement use the first capturing group:
((?<e1>""|'|`)(?:\$\k<e1>|(?!\k<e1>).)*\k<e1>)|\t+
^                                            ^^^^^

See a regex demo

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EVENT COACHING
I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends
"I'm still standing, yeah, yeah, yeah," proclaims my friend and event management colleague, Marcus White, in this blog post. It's his victory shout about dealing with the changing world of events management, and life in general, since COVID-19 hit. He offers brilliant...
Navigating the Tricky Waters of Virtual Events
The world of event management has gone full virtual. I think it's safe to say we're now in full swing with virtual experiences. Over the last five months, we've all watched and experienced how companies, non-profits, government agencies, and more have shifted their...
Airport Survival Tips
My life often circulates around airports these days. Getting there, waiting there, and finally, getting away from there. Airports are the main downside of being a frequent flyer, so I've learned to make the best of them.
How I Explore a City
I love to explore. And after of lot of exploring over the years, I've come up with my personal approach to fully experiencing cities—cities that are new to me or my old favourites. I can enjoy a city purely as a visitor or work to see it from a local's perspective.
In My Bag of Tricks
I travel a LOT. Both to manage client events and for fun. And in this nomadic lifestyle, I've come up with a packing list that does it all. It gives me the supplies I need to stay healthy, energetic and calm when working events and taking what are usually hyperactive vacations.
Dyslexics of the World Untie!
As a person with dyslexia, I've always found it funny—and frustrating—that the word "dyslexic" is so hard to spell! Whoever comes up with medical terminology should have consulted with someone who deals with it everyday…
Table for One, Please…
Managing events in far-off locations means long, hectic hours. So when I'm on the road, I work to find ways to fully enjoy the scarce downtime I get. One of my favourites: a leisurely meal in a destination restaurant that I haven't tried. I'm a foodie and love to explore new places.
C.KAY International's First Anniversary!
It's hard to believe. It was just one year ago that I ventured into the world of entrepreneurism and launched C.KAY International to produce private and corporate events all over the globe. What a wonderful, gratifying, topsy-turvy year it's been!
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During the past several years, more and more "high performance" houses have been built, reducing the energy bills of tens of thousands of homeowners. As this new construction model continues to increase in popularity – for obvious reasons – it also carries risks that can be minimized by planning and installing effective insulation and duct work.
The intent of a high performance home is to completely seal the structure to keep outside air from the inside of the home. We do need some fresh air in the house, but the idea is to bring in the exact amount needed, filter it, and mix it with conditioned air. From a standpoint of energy efficiency, this is the best way to build a home today.
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Report: Shooting of N.E. man justified
Brian Rathjen
The shooting death of a North English man in June, while officers were called to his home in response to a domestic disturbance, has been deemed a justifiable homicide.
Robin Blaylock, 53, was fatally wounded in the June 10 incident, in what authorities described as a domestic disturbance.
The announcement was made by the Iowa County Attorney's office Tuesday afternoon, July 25, in response to the investigation of the events at Blaylock's home at 108 S. Walnut St.
Officers from several departments responded to a domestic disturbance involving a gun at a residence, later identified as Blaylock's residence. The incident led to an officer involved shooting of a man who was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a news release from the Iowa County Sheriff's Department. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation was contacted to take control of the investigation.
Robin Blaylock died as a result of a gunshot wound inflicted upon him by Williamsburg Police Officer Blake Heller, a full-time deputy with the Iowa County Sheriff's Department who was working as a reserve officer with Williamsburg when the shooting occurred. He was on paid leave but has since been cleared to return to work, said Williamsburg police chief Ray Garringer.
County attorney Tim McMeen referred to Iowa Code 704.1 defining reasonable force, or that force and no more which a reasonable person, in similar circumstances, would judge to be:
* Necessary to prevent an injury or loss and can include deadly force if it is reasonable to believe that such force is necessary to avoid injury or risk to one's life, or
* The safety or the life or safety of another, or it is reasonable to believe that such force is necessary to resist a like force or threat.
Following a review witness statements, reports, and recordings authorities came to their findings.
"In this case, the actions of Robin Blaylock pointing his firearm not once but twice at officers, while refusing to obey officer commands, justified the use of deadly force against Robin Blaylock," McMeen said. "The officers could have on more than one occasion on June 10, 2017, feared for their own safety or the safety of the other officers such that the use of deadly force by Officer Blake Heller was justified under these circumstances.
"As a result, the Iowa County Attorney's office has made the determination that the shooting of Robin Blaylock, while being a homicide, was a justified homicide on the part of Officer Blake Heller," he concluded.