dennis2146 wrote:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.brookings.edu/articles/five-myths-about-the-47-percent/ But what about the 47% group who pay little to sometimes no federal and state income taxes? What is their fair share?
Dennis
Fees, Social Security, sales tax, property tax, etc.
seems like she/he should be a doctor, but not necessarily a physician.
Bridges wrote:
Forget the speakers, no one wants to hear your music. Get a pair of Sennheiser HD820s and get better sound than what you would get from a set of speakers.
If you have some brands of hearing aids, you can get the best left/right separation by pairing them with your pocket computer. Pocket computers are sometimes called smart phones.
Are you saying (s)he was in the lane with her/his back to traffic?
Were there sidwalks?
What hints and or links can you give me?
I have access to a pair of ring lights on stands and a dark backdrop. I'll be taking amateur photos of residents in their 80s and 90s. The main purpose is for residents recognize each other. But I do not want to emphasize wrinkles. I would like to eliminate having reflections of the ring lights on eyeglasses.
I have a Nikon P900 on a tripod set to "portrait" with the flash off. It is about 15 feet from the backdrop to allow backing wheelchairs and scooters room to get in front of the backdrop.
When a resident is seated I raise the camera vertically on the tripod until it is level with the face. I then zoom so that the middle of the face is in the center of the 9 squares. I then take several shots from which one is later chosen.
Should I have people with reflections on their glasses lower their chins or what?
After the photos are on my PC, I have the best shot selected. In Photoshop, I rotate the image so the eyes are level and crop to a square format that fits in the handout of pictures. Sometimes I auto adjust the contrast.
What hints and or links can you give me?
I have access to a pair of ring lights on stands and a dark backdrop. I'll be taking amateur photos of residents in their 80s and 90s. The main purpose is for residents recognize each other. But I do not want to emphasize wrinkles. I would like to eliminate having reflections of the ring lights on eyeglasses.
I have a Nikon P900 on a tripod set to "portrait" with the flash off. It is about 15 feet from the backdrop to allow backing wheelchairs and scooters room to get in front of the backdrop.
When a resident is seated I raise the camera vertically on the tripod until it is level with the face. I then zoom so that the middle of the face is in the center of the 9 squares. I then take several shots from which one is later chosen.
Should I have people with reflections on their glasses lower their chins or what?
After the photos are on my PC, I have the best shot selected. In Photoshop, I rotate the image so the eyes are level and crop to a square format that fits in the handout of pictures. Sometimes I auto adjust the contrast.
What hints and or links can you give me?
I have access to a pair of ring lights on stands and a dark backdrop. I'll be taking amateur photos of residents in their 80s and 90s. The main purpose is for residents recognize each other. But I do not want to emphasize wrinkles. I would like to eliminate having reflections of the ring lights on eyeglasses.
I have a Nikon P900 on a tripod set to "portrait" with the flash off. It is about 15 feet from the backdrop to allow backing wheelchairs and scooters room to get in front of the backdrop.
When a resident is seated I raise the camera vertically on the tripod until it is level with the face. I then zoom so that the middle of the face is in the center of the 9 squares. I then take several shots from which one is later chosen.
Should I have people with reflections on their glasses lower their chins or what?
After the photos are on my PC, I have the best shot selected. In Photoshop, I rotate the image so the eyes are level and crop to a square format that fits in the handout of pictures. Sometimes I auto adjust the contrast.
markngolf wrote:
For Windows, there is an easy solution - other than forcing a shut down.
Press: CTRL/Alt/Delete. That will sign you out of Windows. You'll be able to sign back in when prompted.
This might be helpful to remember.
I hope you don't have to, but...
Good luck.
Mark
I would then run a Windows defender scan, even though it is started up at login. Then I would run Malwarebyte (the free version) which I have installed and only use "manually".
I have a PDF ready for a Pictorial Directory of a retirement community. It about 38 (8.5 * 11) page sides. Maybe 350 copies. The photos are 9 to a page. They are amateur head shots cropped to squares with some space below each person's photo for captions. The result should be decent but not extravagant. The whole set of photo pages would be replaced in about two years. So we do not need the kind of paper that would be used for studio portraits.
There are also PDFs for the front and back slots on the binders.
I am trying to figure out whether to (a) do it in-house or (b) push the managers to get bids from some companies.
What paper should be used? Weight? Matte? Glossy?
Is it more cost effective to print one-sided or two sided?
Does some photo paper come pre-punched with 3/8 holes? Or is it better to buy a heavy duty hole puncher?
The in-house printer (machine not company) routinely does runs of 350 copies with color 3 or 4 times a week. So it may be capable of this job.
*** What else should I be asking? ***
jerryc41 wrote:
"Give Peace a Chance" - not likely! It seems that humanity is programmed to engage in warfare.
. . .
see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seville_Statement_on_Violence
Humans have reflexes, but not instincts.
Overwhelmingly, human behavior is learned by imitation or or instruction. Consider 2 topics where from evolutionary theory one would expect behavior to be be built in, but is not.
1) other higher primates do not to copulate unless raised in a social environment.
2) midwives must teach women how to nurse their young.
IMO if any complex behaviors were hard-wired, surely copulation and nursing would be among them.
travelwp wrote:
What country is the biggest polluter in the world?
China
China, the world's biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, produces 12.7 billion metric tons of emissions annually. That dwarfs U.S. emissions, currently about 5.9 billion tons annually
China has more than 4 times as many people.
https://www.worldometers.info/population/china-eu-usa-japan-comparison/
Why do we still speak about "parking lights"? For many decades reflectors have been available. In the USA at least, jurisdictions do not require the parked cars show "parking lights". Renaming and rewiring them as running lights, would make the regular headlights available for all the signalling uses they had before headlights were used a running lights.
See if your local library has LIBBY. It is free for Android and Apple. A visually impaired person may have to work with a local librarian to get started.
https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby
jerryc41 wrote:
Radio communication is faster than any car.
186,000 miles a second. It's the law.