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Late fall is the best time to winterize your home. Cozy blankets and hot drinks help, but insulating your home early can cut energy spending and keep you warm all winter. Vulnerable areas like windows, doors, and plumbing can leak heat, leaving you chilly all season. With a little maintenance, you can keep the warm air in and Jack Frost out. Follow this checklist to winterize your home, save money, and stay cozy.

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Looking for a fun way to improve your team's conditioning. Here's a drill to keep your team in baseball shape all year long.
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Whether you're throwing out base runners in Fenway Park or turning a 6-4-3 double play at a local Little League park, developing arm strength is a vital part of any player's repertoire.
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Every year coaches and athletes are faced with the same problem. For whatever reason (work, camp, pure laziness) athletes show up out of shape at the beginning of every season, especially after the summer.
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Sadly, youth shoulder-related injuries (and surgeries) have increased three-fold over the last decade. This number is certainly alarming and a cause for concern.
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What is a time stamp?
In the modern day, the usage of the word timestamp has expanded and is usually used in reference to the digital time and date that are attached to certain information related to any sort of digital data. So, the timestamp is basically a sequence of encoded information or characters that help in identifying the time of the occurrence of a certain event. A timestamp usually includes the date and time, but sometimes the timestamps are accurate so as to give the information about the millisecond too.
Hence, the computer records the current time of the occurrence of each event and the accuracy of the current time is maintained through mechanisms like Network Time Protocol (NTP) which calibrates the current time to minute fractions of a second. This precision makes it viable for applications and computers with networks to work and communicate effectively.
Uses of Timestamps
They have numerous uses. Some are mentioned below:
The mechanism of time stamp is mainly required for numerous synchronization purposes.
For example, in case of a multi-event transaction, timestamps are used to assign sequences so that in case of a failure, the transaction can be stopped.
Timestamps are also used for recording time in relation to particular starting points.
For example, in IP telephony the RTP or the real time protocol assigns timestamps in sequence to voice packets. This is turn enables the user to buffer, reassemble and deliver without any sort of error.
When programmers write programs, they are usually provided with an application program interface so that the operating systems can provide a timestamp for a program when it is being executed.
Timestamps are also required for tracking progress of different records over time. Accurate timestamps enable accurate comparisons.
The process in which actual data has timestamps recorded, is known as time-stamping.
What is UNIX time stamp?
Before we can start with what UNIX time is, it is essential to clarify what Unix Epoch is. Epoch is a term used in the field of chronology and is defined as an instant in time, which is chosen as the origin of a given particular era. So the UNIX epoch is January 1st 1970. Now the UNIX time stamp is a way in which time is tracked as a running total of seconds and this count has it's beginning from the UNIX epoch i.e. January, the first of 1970. So, the UNIX timestamp is the number of seconds between a date that we need to look up or mark and the UNIX epoch. This method of time stamping is very essential for computer systems to sort and date the information which is present in distributed and dynamic applications both online as well as on the client's side.
Timestamp formats
There are many timestamp formats that are commonly used. Log analysis by certain IT companies is capable of annotating a huge number of these timestamp formats. Time stamp annotations are also called date-time annotations and are constructed using two base formats-
A date format
A time format
The date-time annotations work in the following manner-
The date patterns are identified by an annotator in a text and are then annotated with date annotations.
The same process is repeated with time annotation by another annotator.
Finally, specific patterns in date and time are identified by the timestamp annotator in which the occurrence of date and time annotation contiguously is found in text.
The various time stamp formats are-
Binary format - 101100100000010111100001111100011011
Octal format - 13102714657
Hexadecimal formats - 590b99af
Hexatrigesimal format - opg5nz
Barcode format - the ones we see on the labels behind different products.
Timestamp convertors
Current timestamps are available in various formats like PHP time (), Python , Ruby, Perl, Java, C#, Objective-C, C++11, VBScript/ASP, AutoIT, Delphi, R, Erlang/OTP, MySQL, Oracle PL/SQL, IBM Informix, JavaScript, Visual FoxPro, Go and many more.
Human readable date can be converted to timestamps of various formats too.
The various types of timestamp formats can also be converted to human readable date.
The year 2038 problem
We know that the UNIX epoch is January 1st 1970, which is the point from which the Unix time stamps are calculated. However, on January 19th 2038, the Unix time stamp will stop working. This will happen due to a 32 bit overflow. Hence, before this moment two things can happen-
One, millions and millions of application will either need to find and adopt a new convention for time stamps.
Two, they migrate to 64 bit systems. This can buy a little more time before the time stamp expires.
Limitations of time stamps
One major limitation as we already discussed is the 2038 problem.
Secondly, timestamp values are stored as epoch seconds and hence the timestamp value of 1970-01-01-00:00:00 is reserved as the second #0 and represents 0000-00-00 00:00:00
Thirdly, previously there could be only one timestamp column per table in Maria DB 5.5 and this had the current timestamp defined as default value. This limit, however, does not apply anymore to MariaDB 10.0.
Disadvantages and advantages of Time stamps in SQL servers-
Timestamp as Datetime - The data type of a timestamp is merely an incrementing number and it actually doesn't preserve the date or time. A datetime data type is to be used in order to record a date and a time.
Timestamp as data base timestamp- there is a counter for each database that increments for each update operation or insert, which is performed on a table containing a timestamp column in the database. This is the database timestamp. This does not track the actual time but the relative time.
Timestamp as primary key- a timestamp column should not be considered as a primary key owing to the fact that the value is changing. Whenever an update is made to the row, the timestamp value changes.
Timestamp can be used as value changes identification.
Timestamps can be duplicated. However, Microsoft would definitely not recommend using the timestamp that way.
There are much more that we can talk about. The basic idea is that timestamp can be really useful but there are situations when it would be best to consider date and time instead of timestamp.


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Rod Blagojevich was supposed to be political gold for Illinois Republicans in 2012.
Congressman Bobby Schilling and other "tea party babies" from 2010 were supposed to change the nation's political landscape for the next generation.
And the tea party revolution of 2 years ago was supposed to create momentum to help Republicans capture the U.S. Senate this year.
Welcome to the reality of political cycles.
And to Illinois politics.
And the curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.
LOYAL READERS OF this column might recall that the editor's entry of Nov. 6, 2010, ended with those closing words of Bob Dylan's anthem of inevitable social change.
As we suggested then, Dylan's lyrics give little heed to short-term American political cycles.
That's why the 2004 election, despite what some conservative pundits predicted then, failed to establish a "permanent Republican majority" in Congress.
The Republican Party was pronounced dead 4 years later after Democrats, in two election cycles, took back the White House, Senate and House.
But that lasted only 2 years, when another "historic" election gave the GOP control of the U.S. House and put them on track to take the Senate – and, some thought, the presidency – in 2012.
Didn't happen.
The times, it seems, always are a-changin'.
BARELY 16 MONTHS ago, ex-Gov. Blagojevich was convicted of multiple counts of corruption.
And just 7 months ago, as a 2012 political gift to Republicans, Blago moved, amid much media fanfare, to a federal prison in Colorado.
How could all of that publicity, all of that public outrage over state corruption, not signal a Republican sweep in the Statehouse?
Well, you have to remember who the players are in this political playhouse.
Democrats controlled the Legislature when Illinois House and Senate districts got redrawn last year, and they know how to game the system to their advantage.
And Republicans in Illinois are ... how best to describe it ... the people who tried to keep Barack Obama from winning a seat in the U.S. Senate in 2004 by putting Alan Keyes (who?) on their ticket.
So instead of developing and articulating a coherent plan to solve the state's tax, budget and pension problems, state Republicans chose to center their campaign on attacking Mike Madigan (who?), the powerful speaker (what?) of the Illinois House (oh!).
As a result, Democrats not only avoided an electoral disaster last week, they actually gained seats in the Legislature. They now have veto-proof super majorities in the House and Senate.
Welcome to Illinois politics.
EVERYBODY endorsed the re-election campaign of freshman Republican U.S. Rep. Bobby Schilling.
That is only a slight exaggeration.
He had the backing of business (U.S. Chamber of Commerce) and labor (International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150).
He had the endorsements of every Illinois newspaper – from Rockford to Peoria – that bothered to weigh in with an opinion on who should win the 17th District race.
He had the snark machine of the National Republican Congressional Committee cranking out daily diatribes against the positions – real and imagined – of Democratic challenger Cheri Bustos.
He had big money from the NRCC and Super PACs blanketing the airwaves with attacks – deserved and otherwise – against Bustos.
But then, it was mostly a new district from which those creative Democratic mapmakers had dropped all or parts of 10 counties in west-central Illinois that had helped to elect Schilling in 2010. The new boundaries stretched north to Rockford to include all or parts of five counties where the Republican incumbent had never campaigned.
And there was the politically naive pizza-maker from Colona who signed Grover Norquist's "no new taxes" pledge and participated in all the Republican show votes on time-wasting bills (including 33 to repeal or defund the Affordable Care Act) that had no chance of becoming law.
That was before he made a Romneyesque move toward the political middle as his re-election campaign evolved. Alas, it was too little, too late.
Maybe he had no chance of winning anyway.
Welcome to Illinois politics.
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S re-election surprised a lot of "information disadvantaged" Americans.
That's how one observer described people on the political right who consume only news and commentary that reinforces their beliefs without giving credence to opposing views or to the possibility they might be wrong.
Maybe the U.S. is, politically speaking, a "center-right" nation, though the evidence is shaky, given the stakes of this year's election.
The Democratic candidate has won the popular vote in five of the past six presidential elections. Would you describe Clinton, Gore and Obama as "center-right"?
Obama this year won the vote of women by 11 points, young voters by 24 points, Hispanics by 40 points.
A regional executive of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce observed, during an appearance in Dixon this week, that "the Republican coalition is disappearing" as the white vote continues to shrink.
The history of political cycles in this country has taught us not to put too much stock in any one election.
But the country is ... well, it's a-changin'.
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he who gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is raging'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.


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Early Years Teaching Assistant, Chester Le Street
Contract type: Full Time
Contract term: Temporary
Vision for Education is seeking to appoint x2 EYFS Teaching Assistant to join our successful supply teaching support team and to work in a local primary school in Chester-Le-Street. This will be 2 full time, EYFS Teaching Assistant role commencing in January 2019.
The Head Teacher and Governors of this school seek to appoint two enthusiastic and highly motivated Teaching Assistants to work within their expanding E.Y.F.S. commencing January until July. They need individuals to support the delivery of teaching and learning activities of high quality and levels of interest.
To be considered for the position of EYFS Teaching Assistant you must:
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At Vision for Education we take our responsibilities to our practitioners seriously and our aim is to ensure you are well supported and rewarded for your efforts. As part of the Vision for Education team, and as a EYFS Teaching Assistant, you will receive:
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• Pension Contributions (subject to qualifying period)
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If you are a qualified EYFS Teaching Assistant who can enthuse, motivate and engage students and would like the challenge of working in a demanding and rewarding environment then we want to hear from you.
Apply today or for more information on this and other teaching opportunities across Vision for Education contact the Primary Education team, at the Durham Branch. Vision for Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All candidates will be required to complete our safeguarding checks and undergo an enhanced DBS check.
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'My Kind of Town' ✭✭✭ 1/2
"My Kind of Town," the fine new play at TimeLine Theatre by John Conroy, begins with a faux promotional video about the beauties of Chicago, circa 1990, and then leads us directly down into the basement of Area 2 police headquarters. There, confessions are extracted with the help of an electronic device that could be attached to the genitals of suspects. Conroy, whose years of reportage for the Chicago Reader reached a pinnacle with a 1990 story on allegations of police torture, is laying out the great Chicago paradox on a slab as surely as did Nelson Algren when he compared the city to a lovely woman with a broken nose. This is a skillfully staged, powerfully acted and long-in-the-works show that grips its audience. -- Chris JonesThrough July 29 at TimeLine Theatre Company, 615 W. Wellington Ave.; $32-$42 at 773-281-8463 and timelinetheatre.com
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A Sept. 20 wedding is being planned by Megan Sauter, daughter of Wendy and Dave Sauter of Mars, and Robert Stanton of Monroeville, son of Julie and Gary Stanton of Conneaut Lake.
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DiS brings you our regular new music fix, and three fresh musical DiScoveries.
2009 hasn't really had enough stoner-style My Bloody Mary Chain type bands, has it? Thank God, then, for Crocodiles, who are here to fill a Wavves/Crystal Stilts/School Of Seven Bells shaped hole in the music scene. Jokes aside, Crocodiles might not be the most unique act in the world right now but they are a more polished and dancefloor-friendly version of the aforementioned. Named by No Age as one of their top tracks of last year, Crocodile's 'Neon Jesus' takes fuzzy guitars and dirty feedback and feeds it through a disco beat and fluorescent synths to create the sort of music that makes people who 'don't dance' want to cut a rug immediately. The duo (Charles Rowell and Brandon Welchez) recently released their debut album Summer Of Hate through Fat Possum (Dinosaur Jr, Andrew Bird). In nine tracks and 33 minutes it features the likes of new-wave stomp 'Soft Skull', the Cramps-esque 'Flash Of Light' and the JAMC melody thieving 'I Wanna Kill'. Some would call it a homage to the Reid brothers' Automatic single 'Head On'; others might want to see the band turned into designer handbags for their thievery. Crocodiles are currently touring their reverb-drenched dream pop across America with Holy Fuck before releasing a mouth-wateringly exciting split 7" with Pens, Graffiti Island and Dum Dum Girls Stateside. UK fans can look forward to a small run of dates next month including two in London at The Old Blue Last (July 12th) and Barden's (August 4th) with shows in Dublin and Cardiff in between. Are Crocodiles next in the line of great bands we've been lucky enough to experience this year? Or are they symptomatic of an overly saturated genre revival that we might all look back on next year and cringe? Internet debate rages over Crocodiles - why not go discover them for yourself, and see what you think. David Renshaw
12 London Old Blue Last
24 Brighton Freebutt
25 Sheffield The Cremorne (Tramlines)
27 Derby The Royal
28 Glasgow Stereo
31 Manchester Chorlton Irish Club
1 Cardiff Buffalo Bar
4 London Bardens Boudoir
It seems that rarely a week passes without a call being made for Manchester to return to its triumphant glory days, where one top 40 hogging local band could often be seen charting alongside another. Though the current top layer is near bare, focus the eyes on what is currently festering away below this surface and bands such as the hard hitting Kong prove that the city has much more to offer then long past it musical veterans embracing tired clichés. Intent on etching a long lasting impression on everyone's mind, Kong are a band it's difficult to remain indifferent too. Made up of ex-members of Oceansize and Fi-Lo Radio, they mix noisy math rock tendencies with abrasive stoner-rock tinged riffs - a formula which is rich on previous single 'Leather Penny', where they emit a heavy occasionally sludgy sound over precise rhythms that will have fans of mclusky, The Jesus Lizard and Shellac pining for more. With the release of album Snake Magnet on the horizon and having already built up a fierce live reputation, partly through playing many gigs with Future Of The Left and touring with Nine Black Alps, they take their uniformic red clothes and clear face masks to venues across the UK in July. Nathan Westley
15 Preston Mad Ferrit
16 Manchester Ruby Lounge
17 Cardiff Buffalo Bar
18 London The Macbeth
19 Brighton Freebutt
22 Birmingham The Flapper
23 Nottingham The Chameleon
24 Leeds Brudenell Social Club
25 Aberdeen The Tunnels
26 Glasgow Nice & Sleazy
You Animals
Derby six-piece You Animals are a bright and breezy breath of fresh air amongst what is increasingly becoming a fairly stagnant and predictable UK indie-flavoured pop scene. Hailing from the not-so-idyllic or musically proficient backwater of Derby, the six-piece eschew an underlying energy to both transfix and entertain via their mesmerising live performances, and soon-to-be-released debut single, 'Halfway To Heartbreak'. Look closely and the members of You Animals may be vaguely familiar to those of you with a good memory, for in a previous lifetime under the guise of Komakino they helped create a little piece of history for a certain record label not exactly DiSassociated with this very website. However, their only concern is the present, and with an armoury songs such as the aforementioned single, 'Theme From You Animals' and future 45 in waiting 'Your Own Worst Enemy', their sprightly three-minute punk-orientated compositions look set to make "pop" a by-word for all things exciting and entertaining rather than dull and dreary. Their recent double billing at last month's Great Escape brought both the Freebutt and the Honeyclub to its knees, while next month sees them embark on their biggest headline tour to date. You Animals are:- Ryan Needham (vocals), Stuart Samuels (guitars), Martin Samuels (guitars), Mark Stone (drums), Liza Violet (keyboards), and Matthew Spalding (bass). Dom Gourlay
'Halfway To Heartbreak' released on Monday July 13th by Fear And Records.
1 Nottingham Bodega
2 Birmingham Flapper & Firkin
3 York City Screen
4 Leeds Cockpit
6 Glasgow King Tuts
7 Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire
8 Newcastle Academy 2
10 Liverpool Barfly
11 Middlesborough Uncle Alberts
13 London Old Blue Last
14 Southampton Talking Heads
15 Bristol Lousiana
16 Cambridge Portland Arms
17 Derby Old Bell
25 Blackburn Live Lounge
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8 Sheffield The Harley - Here We Go Magic
9 Manchester The Deaf Institute - Maps / The Phenomenal Handclap Band / Jupiters Heroes
24 Sheffield Tramlines The Harley - Errors / Maps / Munch Munch / Navvy
12 Sheffield The Harley - Johnny Foreigner
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by Mike Masnick
Fri, Dec 11th 2009 8:44am
Filed Under:
business models, dvd rentals, dvds, hollywood, kiosks, movies
big box dvd, redbox
So Hollywood is all concerned that Redbox DVD rentals at $1 per day are going to do serious damage to the Hollywood economy -- except, of course, that the actual numbers say exactly the opposite. Still, if they're all freaked out (and some are in court) over $1/day rentals, you'd have to imagine they're not particularly pleased about rentals that could be even cheaper. Rose M. Welch points us to the news of a new DVD rental kiosk operation, called Big Box DVD, which is moving forward with a business model of charging a whopping 6 cents per hour for a new release (4 cents per hour for an older release). For folks willing to just rent the video, take it home, watch it and return it, that can be quite cheap. Of course, if you keep it for a full 24 hours, it'll be a bit over a dollar. How long until we hear about how much damage this is doing to Hollywood?
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moore850 (profile), 11 Dec 2009 @ 8:50am
costs reviewLet's suppose that it costs 6 cents per hour to rent video content. Now let's suppose that everything that's not pay-per-view already on cable is available at this rate. A lot of cable services are in the ballpark of $25-$50 per month. How many hours of video would this get you? 416-833 hours of video per month. That's 13-27 hours PER DAY. Count me in! This would save us all so much on our cable bills... here's to a $10 or less monthly video service bill thanks to this rate someday.
hegemon13, 11 Dec 2009 @ 10:05am
Re: costs reviewHowever, the plan would likely never take off. Most people are not good at even simple math, and the mental transaction would drive them away. The thought that "watching this is costing me money" would make a lot of people more reluctant to watch TV. Not that that's a bad thing...
taoareyou (profile), 11 Dec 2009 @ 10:41am
Re: costs reviewAt .06 cents an hour, for my ATT Uverse with 300 channels:
30 days x 24 hrs = 720 hours
300 channels provided * 720 hours = 216,000 hours of potential content
216,000 hrs * .06 = $12,960 a month.
In reality I am paying about $0.0007 an hour for available content.
taoareyou (profile), 11 Dec 2009 @ 10:45am
Re: Re: costs reviewAnd thinking about it, my Uverse bill also includes fiberoptic high speed Internet access, so technically I am paying slightly less for content than I first calculated.
TheStupidOne, 11 Dec 2009 @ 10:55am
Re: Re: costs reviewBut if you are charged for what you actually use, not what you have access to ... It should work out to be cheaper for you (which is why it won't happen) unless of course you actually do watch 216,000 hours of TV each month in your household ...
taoareyou (profile), 11 Dec 2009 @ 11:07am
Re: Re: Re: costs reviewIf I rent a video for .06 an hour and I watch it and return it 24 hours later, I only used it for 90 min or so, but I am still charged for every hour in which the content was available to me, whether or not I actually used it.
Jaws4theRevenge, 11 Dec 2009 @ 11:11am
Re: Re: Re: Re: costs reviewERROR: Logic Fail (0x000F8822)
Nobody is making you drop it back after 24 hours, you could drop it back after 110 min (counting a short trip to and from the kiosk) and pay 12c.
taoareyou (profile), 11 Dec 2009 @ 11:34am
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: costs reviewI do not disconnect my cable when I am not watching it. Therefore the 300 channels are being made available to me 24 hours a day. When you rent something by the hour, you are paying for every hour it is available to you. Bringing it back after 110 min is certainly an option. But then the movie is no longer available. This is the same as calling the cable company and having them turn it off.
However, they are not going to reconnect my cable every time I feel like turning on the telly.
Anonymous Coward, 11 Dec 2009 @ 12:53pm
Re: Re: Re: Re: costs reviewAnd the reason you assume that you're charged for the usage and not the availability is...?
Huh, 11 Dec 2009 @ 11:19am
Re: Re: costs reviewHow do you watch all 300 channels at the same time?
taoareyou (profile), 11 Dec 2009 @ 11:48am
Re: Re: Re: costs reviewWhen you rent a video for .06 an hour, you are paying for the availability of that content, not just the time spent consuming it. Imagine if you rent 300 movies at once, all being charged by the hour. You are paying $18 an hour even though you are not watching all 300 movies at once, because you have the content available to watch.
When I subscribe to cable and have 300 channels, I have 300 hours of content available to me per hour. I have the ability to jump around and consume bits and pieces of that content however I want. Obviously I can't watch it all, but it is available.
If I rent a movie by the hour, say .06, I am paying for the availability of the content. Under that premise, taking my $150 a month for TV, 300 channels available 24/7, my cost per hour is fractional and considerably less than .06 cents.
Anonymous Coward, 11 Dec 2009 @ 8:51amIt's causing $6 billion in damages per hour! I know because I pulled a number out of a hat.
senshikaze (profile), 11 Dec 2009 @ 8:56am
Re:I'm pretty sure you pulled it from another place.
Matt, 11 Dec 2009 @ 9:00am
Re: Re:Was it his pocket?
An0n, 11 Dec 2009 @ 9:15am
Re: Re: Re:Close enough
Designerfx (profile), 11 Dec 2009 @ 9:37am
Re: Re: Re:I think it's the place the RIAA and MPAA store their versions of reality.
Anonymous Coward, 11 Dec 2009 @ 12:19pm
Re: Re: Re: Re:That's Asinine.
Some Other Guy, 11 Dec 2009 @ 9:39am
Re:You can't do that! I own Intellectual Property relating to virtual hat-pulling!
The Infamous Joe (profile), 11 Dec 2009 @ 10:16am
Re: Re:Prove he didn't actually pull it from a real hat. Then we'll talk. :)
senshikaze (profile), 11 Dec 2009 @ 10:43am
Re: Re: Re:you don't need proof anymore, joe.
Chris (profile), 11 Dec 2009 @ 10:45am
Re: Re: Re:don't have to just have to accuse you 3 times and then you cant' do it anymore.
A Dan (profile), 11 Dec 2009 @ 9:11amMaybe when they realize that it's not significantly affecting their sales, the studios will realize that rentals and purchases are different markets, where people buy to possess the movie instead of just to see it.
No? Nobody thinks so?
Arbus, 11 Dec 2009 @ 9:16am
Re:This is a joke. Maybe not a joke-joke but rediculously funny nonetheless. This service is obviously counting on its ability to capitalize on people who'll hang onto their movies for days saying "it's only six cents an hour," and run up decent charges.
Some will of course, but given how hard a time other movie rental places have making enough money to satisfy themselves, this business won't make enough off the the average customer to pay for their costs, much less to generate any profit. It's going to burn through any venture capital funds and close in the blink of an eye.
hegemon13, 11 Dec 2009 @ 10:07am
Re: Re:Er...wrong. Most people will have it out for at least 18-24 hours, meaning that they are getting the same rates that make Redbox profitable. If, however, a person does return it within 4 hours, so what? The movie is now available for someone else to rent.
Griff (profile), 11 Dec 2009 @ 2:16pm
Costs depend on number of viewsWhether I bring it back aftre 4 hrs or 24 hrs I've probably only watched on once. DVD wear is the same. Kiosk has to dispense it the same number of times.
So I think their business model depends on hoping people DON'T return it after 4 hrs. If there is a business model...
Derek Reed (profile), 11 Dec 2009 @ 10:11am
Re: Re:I think you underestimate the laziness of the average consumer of these products. The brick and mortar rental stores are dying because of the huge overhead of retail space and all the costs associated with that. An unmanned electronic kiosk doesn't have that problem. I don't think Redbox or this 6 cent deal will fail due to not bringing enough money to cover the current costs of the operation. However, they might fail due to having to pay exorbitant fees to Hollywood, or due to their currently limited selections.
Hephaestus (profile), 11 Dec 2009 @ 9:16am
Interesting thought ....I like the whole "The company has three locations at University of Wisconsin campuses" what a great place to put them ... LOL ... the places that MPAA and RIAA fear most. I predict someone going to the machine with a $20 cash card, and a linux box set up to rip DVD's.
A Sys admin at local university said to me file sharing is down 95% but our encrypted traffic is up the same amount ... I wondered why? ... local encrypted VPNs on campus for movie and music sharing ...
yet another RIAA induced unintended consequence to watch happen large scale ... GRIN
Curious, 11 Dec 2009 @ 9:18am
Double Standards are the norm...With the studios flipping out over the $1 rentals from Red Box it is interesting that my local Blockbuster (Rochester, NY) has $1.99 one day new release rentals and $1 One day rentals on all other movies. I don't remember what the late fees are, if it's $1 a day or their regular fees.
Sounds like $1 devalues movies only if your not paying the studios.
Jose Burgos, 11 Dec 2009 @ 9:23am"...except, of course, that the actually numbers say exactly the opposite."
To: except, of course, the numbers actually say exactly the opposite.
a-dub (profile), 11 Dec 2009 @ 9:30amF Hollywood
Anonymous Coward, 11 Dec 2009 @ 9:37amSeriously, fuck these people, where talking about renting movies that have paid for them selves several times over already.
Its free fucking MONEY
sheinen, 11 Dec 2009 @ 9:41amOnce they've sold on the copy to the renting agent why the fuck should they care what they choose to distribute it for? It's not up to them, surely?
I'd like to see this shit happening in any other market. Oh you wanna sell on that necklace I sold you? Well you'd best be able to find someone who'll pay more than £1 Trillion for it, because I'll sue you if you try to sell it for any less!
fogbugzd (profile), 11 Dec 2009 @ 9:47am
How long will they complain?
fogbugzd (profile), 11 Dec 2009 @ 9:48am
How long will they complain?They will complain until it becomes an established part of their business model, and then the next new thing will come along, and they will complain about how this will utterly destroy the highly profitable 6cent and hour rental market.
Mechwarrior, 11 Dec 2009 @ 10:17amIll start charging $.059 an hour to undercut their prices.
Anonymous Coward, 11 Dec 2009 @ 10:19am>>
OMFG!!! This is going to completely destroy and obliterate all of Hollywood and lay waste to every single actor, actress, director, producer, executive producer, hair stylist, key grip, best man grip, dolly grip, special effects guy, animator, caterer, wardrobe maker, carpenter, lead carpenter, sculptor, lead coordinator, coordinator, apprentice coordinator, lead painter, painters, standby painters, apprentice painters, apprentice coordinator, storyboard artist, art department lead and staff, graphics coordinator, illustrator, payroll accountant, second accountant, lead accountant, accounting assistant, production accountant, key grip accountant, carpenter accountant, caterer accountant, production office lead, production office staff, production office assistants, production office assistant apprentices, production office assistants' accountants, dolly grip accountant, accountants' accountants, accountants' assistance accountants, accountants' assistances' apprentice accountants, pre-recording mixers, recording mixers, re-recording mixers, grip mixers, concrete mixers, prop mixers, mixers' accountants, sound design, key make-up artists, assistant costume designers (and of course their acocuntants also), vehicle supervisors, vehicle drivers, security guards, stand-ins, and pretty much everyone else with their assistants, apprentices and accountants, and any other title, position, representative and individual involved in the movies.
All of this takes money!!! How can they possibly pay all those people with 6 cents an hour!!! That's sacreligious, communistic wages that are so far under any possible pay wage that the actors couldn't possibly afford their four 125,000 sqft. manions, fifteen Bentleys, 350 flat screen 96" plasma televisions, 892 custom purses, 2,000 suits, and custom flooring made of marble only found in the deepest recesses of the Himalayan mountains that can only be dug out by 12 year old children and a goat with a gimp horn.
Jon, 11 Dec 2009 @ 10:21amI highly doubt this company with 4 whole kiosk is a blip on anybodys radar. Much less have them actually make any money at this price point. Another example of why the studios are trying to put an end to these cheap rentals because look where they lead to. I don't understand why they just don't give it away there's no need for making money anyways.
Anonymous Coward, 11 Dec 2009 @ 10:36amAnyone else thinks it's just retarded that actors make the crazy money they make for movies. And what Hollywood is perfectly fine with the views paying for it.
senshikaze (profile), 11 Dec 2009 @ 10:58amI think redbox and this new deal needs to push back the movie studios saying that they are helping less well to do families to be able watch movies.
then it makes it look like the movie studios hate poor people (which i am sure they do, it just isn't politically correct)
V2COMP, 11 Dec 2009 @ 11:09amWho Cares?
cc, 11 Dec 2009 @ 11:19amWhy can't they apply that sort of pricing to online streaming, then? (if they have, I haven't seen it)
Pay-per-view for 6p an hour of streaming + ads... their margins will probably larger than physical stores that way.
Anonymous Coward, 11 Dec 2009 @ 12:15pmAssuming payment is made via credit/debit cards (I may be wrong), wouldn't they have to rent it for at least a few hours to make back the transactions fees paid for processing the credit/debit card?
Andrew D. Todd, 11 Dec 2009 @ 1:57pm
Two-Hour Reserve, Where the Film Studios Will Go.I've seen something like this before. When I started graduate school (Anthropology, then History), university libraries commonly put scarce books on two-hour reserve. This applied especially during the critical first year, the "boot camp," when people were being put through the wringer. The situation was that fifteen or twenty people would all be trying to read the same book, of which the library had only one copy, over a period of two or three days, before the next class session, so it had to be put on two-hour reserve in the interests of fairness. Of course you couldn't read a book, at least, not the kind of book I'm talking about, in two hours, but you could make photocopies. Then, if you rationed yourself to four hours sleep, you had just barely time to read the book in time for class, write a reading note, and to be able to orally answer the professor's oral questions. Being in such a program was incompatible with any kind of part-time job, of course. The professor and the library turned a Nelsonian blind eye to the photocopying. They couldn't ask starving graduate students to spend fifty or a hundred dollars a day on books, even if particular titles were still in print, but they could, by God, require them to _read_ that many books. Even if the books were in print, unless the professor had pre-ordered them through the bookstore, there simply would not have been time to find copies, this being before Borders Bookstore took off. The professor was in the position of either saying that graduate students were either required to buy a book, or required to photocopy it. The professor decided what the poorest member of the class could afford, and acted accordingly. Of course, photocopying cost about as much as mass-market paperback books would cost, but these weren't mass-market paperbacks. This kind of copying did not have much economic implication, because it involved only a tiny elite of hardcore liberal arts graduate students, compared to whom both law students and MBA students were both affluent and lazy. The difference, this time around, will be that automation will supply the place of labor. When people rent movies by the hour, they will, of course, rip them, return the originals, and watch the ripped copies at their leisure. The only practical defense the movie industry will have will be to sell movies outright for rental prices.
Hollywood is not going to find a painless marketing formula which allows business as usual. It will have to get its costs down. Hollywood will go to Bollywood, that is, it will move its operations to India. As "Anonymous Coward" (Dec 11th, 2009 @ 10:19am) notes, the vast majority of the people involved in making a movie do not appear on screen. They are cameramen, gaffers, grips, soundmen, lighting men, carpenters, electricians, costumers, make-up specialists, film editors, and a hundred other specialized trades. However, this means that it does not matter if they are Indians. The Indian film industry is one of the most vibrant ones in the world, producing huge numbers of films in multiple languages, and distributing them to Indian audiences who are film junkies in ways which American have not been since the 1930's. At some point, American directors and leading actors will tap into this system.
Now, as for the extras, walk-ons, etc., the largest category of actor, such people have traditionally moved to Los Angeles, registered with casting agencies, and then found themselves ordinary jobs to live on while waiting for screen calls. They have worked as waiters or cab drivers, or the like, dead-end jobs where the employer expects a high turn-over, and doesn't particularly mind people leaving without warning or notice, and will hire someone on a day's notice without references. Allowing for precariousness of employment, bit-part actors have been paid approximately minimum-wage for the net time lost from their table-waiting jobs. Of course, an expatriate cannot do that kind of thing in India, but living expenses are much lower, and someone who is stage-struck can work in the United States for a couple of years, in the kind of job for which one does need references, eg. teaching school, and save up enough money to live in India for a couple of years. Indian producers and directors will discover that they can make movies for the American market, working with Americans who are not affiliated with the American film industry.
Once an industry moves offshore, its political influence diminishes. It is no longer a source of steady high-wage employment for Americans. The political base of the movie industry is someone like a cameraman. The cameramen, etc. are not like actors-- they are craftsmen. Within reason, a good cameraman can film any kind of movie, which means that the cameraman can work steadily at high wages, filming whatever is being filmed. He votes for whoever favors the film industry, just the way autoworkers used to vote for whoever favored the automobile industry. As the movie industry moves offshore to cut costs, it will leave the union cameraman behind. It will no longer have its own congresscritters like Howard Berman or Mary Bono.
Ryan Diederich, 11 Dec 2009 @ 3:06pm
Credit CardsThese companies, Red Box and the likes, must make special deals or set something up for credit card fees. I work in retail, and fees are upwards of 25 cents per transaction plus 6ish percent. I am sure that Red Box doesnt pay 25% of their revenue to credit cards.
And no one has brought up the security issue. For example, I rent a movie and never bring it back, how do they get their money? Do they take the credit card info to start with?
Gene Cavanaugh, 12 Dec 2009 @ 3:07pm
Fees for DVDsMost of the stuff isn't worth six cents an hour. I am not watching any of the 240 odd channels I get on TV now because it isn't worth my (leisure) time.
Even so, if they find a way to stream it to my home for six cents per hour, perhaps pay per view will start to make some sense. Right now, we don't do pay per view (and movies? My wife sometimes does the Netflix thing, or finds something worthwhile on TV, but we recently turned down a free current movie.
Steve, 12 Dec 2009 @ 9:54pmCorrect me if I'm wrong, but why the hell does hollywood get to decide what another business gets to charge for it's product?
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Queer Rapper Le1f Lashes Out At Macklemore, Claims "Thrift Shop" Is His Stolen Song
Most of my Facebook and Twitter feeds on Sunday night displayed an outpouring of support and pride over the attention Macklemore's "Same Love" brought to equality at the 2013 VMAs.
Out rapper Le1f was not one of those effusively gushing gays.
Instead, the NYC-based artist used his Twitter feed to put Macklemore and Ryan Lewis on blast, claiming that the two straight men don't speak for the LGBT community. Oh, and they stole his song, or something.
Here's the t and shade Le1f served on Twitter this week:
Here's the song Le1f claims "Thrift Shop" is lifted from:
To clear up some of Le1f's confusion and to be fair, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis have both been tireless outspoken advocates for LGBT rights and fundraisers for the LGBT and ancillary communities, including, most recently, a pre-VMA benefit concert that raised money for HIV/AIDS awareness.
This upsets me to no end. As we continue to fight for acceptance and sometimes our lives in our very safe space gayborhoods, don't we have bigger targets to criticize than heteroseuxal allies who are rolling up their sleeves and getting to work for our civil rights? Oh, and Le1f, get over it: you don't own synth horn section samples in hip-hop tracks. This is a particularly frustrating story for me because I used to count myself a fan of the up-and-coming gay rapper.
With that out of the way, what do you think of Le1f's claims? Did Macklemore & Ryan Lewis steal the gay rapper's "Wut" and turn it into "Thrift Shop"? Do gays not care about "Same Love" or the peerless work for the community exhibited by the hottest duo in hip-hop?
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Chad Gaudin: Allows only seven baserunners, but gives up a homer to Josh Willingham to leave with the score tied 1-1. His record is 2-3 over past seven starts despite 2.85 ERA.
Luis Rodriguez: Drops an easy toss at second from shortstop Everth Cabrera in the eighth inning on an apparent double-play grounder, leading to the eventual go-ahead run.
1: Times since the Nationals moved to Washington that the Padres have dropped a series to the Nationals. The Padres had won the first eight series between the teams.
12-1: Padres' record in Washington, D.C., until the Nationals won Saturday and Sunday.
2: Losses by reliever Greg Burke in a span of four appearances.
46: Strikeouts by Chad Gaudin in his past 44 2/3 innings.
WASHINGTON – Chad Gaudin can read a lineup card.
So when the right-hander glanced at the bulletin board outside the Padres' clubhouse Sunday morning, he had to know he was in trouble.
Adrian Gonzalez was getting a much-deserved start off – although he entered the game in the bottom of the seventh for defense, thereby breaking the Padres' record for consecutive games played.
Even though Gonzalez is in a slump, he remains a threat, one of the few the Padres possess – especially with David Eckstein and both varsity catchers remaining on the disabled list.
Yesterday's lineup numbered four starters batting below .200 – not including Gaudin.
Going into the game, the eight starting position players were hitting a collective .227 with 29 homers and a total of 132 RBI.
The margin of error for Gaudin was going to be small. Runs were going to be few.
And eventually, the Padres dropped a 3-2 decision to the Washington Nationals with two out in the 10th inning – an outcome which in itself was historic.
Going into this weekend, the Padres had not lost a series to the Nationals since the franchise moved south from Montreal in 2005.
The Padres were 8-0 in series' against Washington and were 12-1 against the Nationals in Washington (and 20-5 overall) after Friday night's 6-2 win.
Then the Padres lost two straight to the worst team in baseball to place themselves on a 100-loss pace for the first time this season.
Still, Gaudin came so close to pulling off the almost impossible – picking up a win despite the moribund Padres offense.
Thanks to sixth-inning doubles by Will Venable and Kevin Kouzmanoff against Nationals starter John Lannan, the Padres and Gaudin took a 1-0 lead into the bottom of the seventh.
But Gaudin left a 1-and-2 breaking ball up in the strike zone to Nationals right fielder Josh Willingham, who drove the ball into the left-field stands to tie the game 1-1.
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"One pitch shouldn't decide a ballgame," Gaudin said shortly after Austin Kearns' two-out, run-scoring single off Greg Burke in the 10th gave the Nationals the win.
"I made a mistake. You are going to make mistakes. But you can't give up a hit like that in a tight ballgame."
From the start of the game, it was clear that runs were going to be scarce for both sides on a hot and humid afternoon.
Gaudin, who is 2-3 over his last seven starts despite posting a team-best 2.85 ERA since June 23, was hitting his spots and hadn't allowed a National to reach second until Willingham's homer.
"He held his stuff throughout the game," Padres manager Bud Black said of Gaudin. "Even his misses were good."
As for Lannan, the Nationals' most consistent pitcher had retired 11 straight Padres before Venable's one-out double short-hopped the fence in left center in the sixth.
Through five innings, Lannan had thrown only 47 pitches with 39 going for strikes.
"He throws only 88-90," Venable said. "But his stuff is just funky enough and I don't think gets the credit it deserves."
"The way they were going, it was going to come down to a pitch or two," Black said.
Or a play or two.
In the bottom of the eighth, Luis Rodriguez, who has been subbing for the injured Eckstein at second, dropped a toss at the bag from Everth Cabrera, negating what should have been an inning-ending doubleplay. Two hitters later, Adam Dunn singled home the go-ahead run.
The Padres countered in the ninth when 6-foot-6 rookie Kyle Blanks drove a 97-mph fastball from Mike MacDougal into the left-field stands for his third homer in six games.
But two runs aren't going to win you many games. Ask Gaudin.
Sunday marked the fourth straight game that the Padres failed to score as many as three runs in his support. In three of those four games, Gaudin allowed one earned run. The result was four Padres losses.
These days with the Padres, one mistake can beat the starting pitcher.Copyright © 2019, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 4:46 am
Post subject: point-source enlarger theory?
1) I chose this forum because it was the 'least wrong'.
2) I chose this site because it's an old tech question and I'm not getting any bites on other sites.
Anyone know enough about mechanics/optics of point-source enlarging to discuss it?
Basically I'm interested in knowing how critical the lamps are, condenser location and behavior relative to a 'conventional lamp' condenser enlarger.
Lastly, if an enlarger is missing condensers, how critical is specifying/locating replacements? In other words, does a condenser simply have to spread out the light and would pristine generic or surplus ones work (if they fit) ?
I know point-source illumination is fraught with difficulties, but I'm just looking for info beyond all the caveats.
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Post subject: Re: point-source enlarger theory?
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Basically I'm interested in knowing how critical the lamps are, condenser location and behavior relative to a 'conventional lamp' condenser enlarger.
Lastly, if an enlarger is missing condensers, how critical is specifying/locating replacements? In other words, does a condenser simply have to spread out the light and would pristine generic or surplus ones work (if they fit) ?
I know point-source illumination is fraught with difficulties, but I'm just looking for info beyond all the caveats.
Hi Murray,
that's a lot of questions to unpack; perhaps I'll only comment on a few of the issues.
Most of my experience comes from using a diffuser head, and the light source (fluorescent tubes); height from the negative etc are less critically important than for a condenser source. With a condenser source, the type of lamp and its location from the negative plane introduces more printing aberrations relative to a diffuser head for any change in a specific variable.
If a condenser enlarger is missing its lenses and derives its light from a point source, then it follows that a negative cannot be illuminated evenly across its diameter without the condenser lenses. The resulting diffusion effect, with the wrong type of lighting source, introduces its own printing defects (such as loss of contrast in the printed negative) in addition to the above. The function of the condenser lens in most modern enlargers, tends towards condensing (or reducing the diffusing effect of the light source) of the light source, thereby increasing contrast (a characteristic of condenser enlargers), rather than maintaining a standardised and reproducible diffusion of light (such as that from a cold cathode head).
Although it might be onerous experimenting with a broken enlarger (that is, one without its original condensing lenses), any non-factory replacement for condenser lenses will at best, be marked by illumination problems across the diameter of the negative format for which you would print.
Hope that helps.
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 7:20 pm
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Murray, what brand enlarger? There are parts available for a few of the old-line jobs like the Beseler. You might even be able to pick up a junker for parts that match yours.
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:35 pm
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No brand. No enlarger. I do things a step at a time, sometime 1 forward & 2 back.
I just started acquiring enlarger lenses. I was looking for 90-100 mm lens & saw an Ektar lens from a 'color printer' with fixed iris. Reading led me to the point-source concept.
It seemed like it was as much or more work to adapt an existing enlarger to point source than start from scratch, because of the lamp movement requirements.
I didnt know if it was possible to generically select a condenser or pair to cover a specific format like it's not hard to find a taking lens to cover a given format.
And it looks like any good enlarger lens could be pressed into point-source service if the rest of the system was there.
I won a 100 mm lens Saturday on eBay anyway (with iris :O).
My original plan was a horizontal one with cold head. Maybe an optical bench type construction will allow me to hack different light sources into the system.
I hope they still make paper by the time I have one running :O(
While R_J is here, back to the cold head idea...
Surplus Shed has inexpensive EK flashed opal glass in 4x5, 5x7 and 8x10. I thought I should hide a piece of each for someday when the next phase 'happens'.
I understand one wants one's existing enlarger condenser lenses to be free of defects or they may show. Does the inherent dififfusion in opal glass give one some leeway for imperfections in the glass or should I specify 'mint condition or never mind' on the opal glass?
If nothing else, this has been (another) educational adventure. Other than one hound lens I naively bought (Rodenstock EL-Omegar 75 mm) before I really researched, the others are good ones.
Thank you both (and any upcoming posters). Dan, too, in anticipation of any forthcoming harassment :O).
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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:44 pm
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Murray, why does a fixed aperture enlarging lens want a point source?
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Well, I'm told that an aperture has no useful effect with a point source light source and that exposure times are adjusted by varying light intensity (which has color temperature issues) or ND filters.
Because that 108 mm Ektar lens I saw was fixed aperture, some said one possible origin for it may have been a point source system. But someone else tod me that the color printers were sometimes for fixed sizes, sometimes had interchangeable fixed apertures.
But since people use whatever normal enlarger lens they have on things like Durst 138's when they go point-source, that Ektar is looking less attractive.
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Hi Murray,
Not sure why I'm finding myself thinking how remote cold head diffusion is, when compared to lensless point source light enlarging.
There is a marked difference in the final print from both methods: classically, a cold cathode enlarger endows prints with a contact print quality, with none of the harshness characteristic of condenser enlargers. The condenser-diffusers take a middle-ground compromise rendition between a diffuser and a condenser.
Perhaps most modern heads fall into this middle category, however the cold light cathode enlargement is an aesthetic which seems to be sidelined as more photographers assume that split-grade printing (which overcomes the inherent problems with variable contrast papers) is oddly superior in any way to a completely different printing technique with graded papers. The point source enlarging practice, fits on the same side of condenser-enlarging practice, away from diffuser-enlarging practice. Your project could come up with some fascinating results. I'm curious: how would a cold head diffuser, with the opposite extreme, of a single point light source alter print characteristics - what would the prints look like
I understand one wants one's existing enlarger condenser lenses to be free of defects or they may show.
Yes; the condenser lens accentuates visual characteristics of grain and sharpness and condenser lens aberrations will distort the focussed light at the nodal point of the enlarging lens.
Does the inherent dififfusion in opal glass give one some leeway for imperfections in the glass or should I specify 'mint condition or never mind' on the opal glass?
With respect to a diffuser, the opal glass acts as a
and does not require the critical condition of the
lens. What you say also follows in relation to a diffuser vs condenser: even if the diffuser is in the plane of the light source and the negative, the diffuser's function is less critical than that of a condensing lens with respect to focussing parallel light onto the negative at the lens' nodal point.
I just started acquiring enlarger lenses. I was looking for 90-100 mm lens & saw an Ektar lens from a 'color printer' with fixed iris. Reading led me to the point-source concept.
As Dan comments, not all fixed aperture 'enlarging' lenses were destined for photographers' darkrooms. Printers' lenses do not require such refinements as f-stop aperture controls.Fixed iris' enlarging lenses seem to be more popular in printing houses than with individual photographers and some caution in acquiring these at relatively low cost might be required, since their purpose is alien to that of your project yet freely abundant.
The best of the 'fixed iris lenses', which mostly are iris-less lenses, can take modern 'waterhouse stops' i.e. a circular disc cut out sandwiched or screwed into a virtual space between the front and rear elements of the enlarging lens. Neither is there an absolute requirement for this disc to be circular either (most enlarger apertures are not, at the optimum aperture).
Rodenstock manufacturered it's top line of Apo-Rodagon-N lenses for LF work along this principle, however the cost for printers of these lenses were a mere fraction of the same lens in an iris.
The challenge with a small fixed aperture lens when used with a single point light source, is that the intensity of the heat must be overwhelming especially when focussed on a nodal point at a negative, particularly at the longer printing times required as a result of the decreased light transmission. Even if you undertake a modest 4x5" negative enlargement, pin-point heat burn effects on the negative from the heat, in addition to negative shape distortion/expansion and light intensity outclassing a 300 Watt bulb will all become issues to contend with. None of these issues are insurmountable, however the issues with single point light source enlarging does dissuade anyone but the most ardent enthusiast. It is hard work, Thus the results.
A plain incandescent light source may be more appropriate for your use than fluorescent cold cathode tubes, otherwise your enlarging printing times will run into the next century. Unless you plan to use graded papers?
I presume that this project of a single point light source intends for the final print output to be razor sharp and contrasty?
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Thanks for the detailed answers. Not that I'm qualified to gauge it, but you're obviously a skilled writer too.
I guess the short answer is that what I've read of PS performance makes it a 'must-see' if at all practical.
Burning the negative with a lamp sounds like my luck. Thanks for the warning.
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I got a dose of reality with the Durst Latico/Lacon condensers - I let an 85 and 130 pass, thinking they were on the small side; they closed on eBay at US$36 and 41 each & seller wanted $25.40 each to ship.
Next I saw a pair of Lacon 380's, and realized there were people with deeper pockets than me. They closed at US$301 + 48# shipping weight. Winning bidder had a Japanese name - I'll just imagine they have to be shipped to Japan.
I realized there were alot more issues that just getting the parts...
I found a Dejur condenser 6.5" diameter fairly cheap, bought-it-now, then realized the Dejur 4x5 has two lenses...and I do not
I >thought< I read somewhere that a second condenser allows the condenser ass'y to be closer to the negative to minimize enlarger height.
I hope a single condenser can be made to work and isn't just half the function...or I have another useless item to go with some of the others.
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You might PM Donald Miller on APUG. He converted an enlarger to a point source. IIRC, he used a 1000w bulb and had to build a fan to cool it.
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I've did a lot with "point source" ... about 30 years ago.
I don't recall the specific nomenclature, but the lamp that is/was used in Durst, Beseler, and Omega was literally a Volkswagen dome lamp (actually a 2" tubular l2V non-quartz amp that was used in many automobile brands)
There is/was an adapter socket that screwed in to replace the conventional light bulb socket in those three enlarger brands.
The 12V lamp naturally required a 12V source...that was available expensively from the enlarger manufacturer or cheaply from a junk store in the form of a variable voltage model train transformer (I used an ancient Lionel transformer). A fixed voltage 12V converter would be just as good because the variable transformer had to be used at full voltage to avoid strange optical effects as a result of the strange color that happens with lower voltage.
Aperture is crucial...it must be FULL aperture, eg. f2.8 with a 2.8 lens or f4 with an f4.0 lens. Stopping down produces crazy effects ...the diaphragm blades scatter light remarkably....presumably a waterhouse stop would be good...as you know, process lenses were never stopped down for the same reason, but they did use waterhouse stops...diaphragm blades do themselves inherently hurt resolution vs waterhouse stops.
Exposure is a matter of timing, not aperture...I don't recall typical exposure times, but I do recall them being critical.
Professional Dursts had excellent condenses for point source use.
Hobbiest Dursts did not, except for older versions such as 606 and my 609..I doubt subsequent hobbiest Dursts were comparably good.
Omega and Beseler had inferior condensers so they required optional condensers, part of their expensive point source kits (optically coated condensers, lamp, lamp adapter, transformer).
Focus is critical..slight out-of-focus is unusable...strange color effects are projected when slightly out of focus and the faintest abrasions on back of film become exaggerated.
I don't recall what film holder I used..I relied heavily on glass carriers that were standard with Durst..I used anti-newton on back and clear on the emulstion side (emulsion has its own texture to avoid newtons rings).
I also had glassless carriers, but rarely used them and the inevitable film curvature probably (don't recall) made strange effects away from the focus point...PERHAPS I focused off-center, just as I do with Nikon scanner, which is also focus-critical but not nearly so extremely.
What are the results? Remarkably high detail resolution..the best possible from any given lens. Strange print tonality...interesting...as "realistic" as B&W ever is, but startling, distinctive. Increased difficulty with dust and scratches, just as with 4000ppi Nikon scans without Ice.
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Avocado, Quinoa, and Edamame Salad
Serves 6
1 cup (225g) quinoa
1 pound (450g) shelled edamame (fresh or frozen)
2 medium lemons
2 small, ripe avocados
1-2 garlic cloves, crushed, according to taste
2 bunches radishes, halved
1 cup microgreens or basil
1 tablespoon ground cumin
1-2 tablespoons olive oil
1/4 teaspoon chile flakes
salt and black pepper
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Throw the edamame into a pan of boiling water, bring back to a boil, and immediately drain in a colander. Refresh with cold water and leave to dry.
Take the lemons and use a small sharp knife to slice off the top and base. Stand each one on a chopping board and cut down the sides, following the natural curve, to remove the skin and white pith. Over a large mixing bowl, cut in between the membranes to release the individual segments into the bowl. Squeeze the juice from the membranes into the bowl with the segments. (The goal is to get as much of the fruit and the juice—minus the peel and membrane—into the bowl.)
Peel and stone the avocados. Slice them thinly, then add them to the bowl and toss to cover them in the lemon juice.
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Variations: You can also use fava beans instead of edamame. Prepare as above, but remove the skins of each bean after cooking by gently pressing each bean with your fingers to remove the skins.
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