![]() ![]() And global oil and petrochemical prices are driving up the cost of PVC pellets that are melted and pressed into the vinyl discs. ![]() Nickel shortages due to the war in Ukraine - which has knocked Russia, one of the top high-grade nickel suppliers, out of the market - are affecting record stamper electroplating. Paper shortages reportedly caused by paper plants switching to cardboard during the pandemic, according to Seavers at Memphis, are affecting center labels, sleeves, jackets and other packaging. These supply issues promise to continue to plague plants long after launch. Press manufacturers are meanwhile waiting for things like $12 switches to finish 99% complete machines, says Chappell, and are scrambling to find alternate suppliers for standard parts. For both Copycats and Vinyl Me, Please, unloading delays at port and supply chain disruptions have delayed both companies’ presses - despite ordering them almost a year ahead of time. ![]() Global supply chain issues are only compounding the matter. Memphis Record Pressing Courtesy Memphis Record Pressing And in Nashville, Nashville Record Pressing recently opened with a $13.3 million investment from parent company Czech Republic-based GZ Media, Europe’s largest vinyl record manufacturer while United Record Pressing is currently expanding with an additional 48 presses that will bring the manufacturer’s count to just under 100. Memphis Record Pressing, where CEO Brandon Seavers says they’ve “quite literally been out of space for about four years,” is investing $28.8 million to expand its output to 125,000 records a day. Subscription club Vinyl Me, Please is opening its own 14,000-square-foot plant in Denver, where an environmentally-friendly plant called The House Plant is currently underway as well. Among them, in Minnesota, the ADS Group-owned Copycats Media is opening one of two new plants in Minneapolis with five record presses in a 65,000-square-foot building, along with the smaller, indie-focused Outta Wax plant nearby. ![]() The scarcity is creating business opportunities, and nearly a dozen new and expanded pressing plants are coming to the rescue for labels like Brassland. Vinyl Prices Might Seem High Today, But They Were Worse in 1978 Switching from the label’s normal pressing partners to other pressing plants could speed up the timetable to between four and six months, but at twice the cost and more logistical hassle. And as appetite for vinyl far outstrips the infrastructure’s capacity to supply, that lack of investment is now coming back to bite the industry.Īlec Hanley Bemis, managing partner at the Brassland record label, the indie label he co-founded with The National’s Dessner brothers, says that plants are so busy that they have quoted him lead times of nine to 18 months to press a record. Now that modest growth has turned into a boom, with sales up over 60% between 20 and up another 22% at the 2022 midyear raking in $570 million, according to the RIAA, and vinyl plants are running at full capacity across the country. Postage is by Tracked service to Europe, get in touch if you require this service to the rest of the world.As vinyl sales started turning around in the past decade, Doug Chappell, vp of sales & technical service at press manufacturer Viryl Technologies, says everybody was “worried that the house of cards going to implode on itself at some point.” As such, no one wanted to invest in new equipment. If you’re not happy with your record then you can return it complete for a full refund. Prices include a polylined inner sleeve, a plain white cardboard outer sleeve and SUBSIDISED P&P. If you require longer audio lengths, please use the contact form to ask. Each size has a limit on the length of audio that can be recorded, please check the panels below. You can choose from 3 record sizes, 7 inch, 10 inch or 12 inch. We now offer double-sided picture discs at very affordable prices! Also we now have Red, Green and Blue Transparent vinyl! Check the shop for more details. We can also provide full colour printed sleeves (260g/m² high quality photo paper) and printed colour centre labels using your own artwork on request, please use the contact form to let us know your needs. Get in touch using the contact form if you have any other requirements. There are many websites which will give you information to help you to provide suitable audio. On receiving your audio files we will inspect them to ensure that they are suitable for recording onto vinyl. Vinyl records have various audio limitations. By keeping overheads to a minimum, we keep prices low, but never provide anything less than top quality.ĬamCuts has a Recording Studio on site, so if your audio requires any tweaking for the transfer to vinyl, the studio mastering facilities are on hand. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Your chronotype is what determines your best sleep schedule. “It’s not like you can choose, ‘I want to join the 5 a.m. The almighty chronotype: why no sleep routine is complete without itĬan you get six hours of sleep and still have a productive, energized day? As it turns out, the answer is hiding in your genes some people wake up early or sleep late because of their natural coding. He chalks it up to sleep efficiency, which can shrink the number of hours you spend in bed. So even as a sleep doctor-someone who might champion the eight-hour rule-Breus got what he needed in six hours. He didn’t use an alarm clock to wake up, and he never experienced insomnia. But as the experiment went on, he started rising earlier: 7 a.m., 6:30 a.m. In the beginning, he woke up naturally at 7:15 a.m. That’s what we’re shooting for, for entrepreneurs.”īreus wanted to test this theory, so he decided to go to sleep at midnight consistently. “That measure will change based on your quality. ![]() “People are always like, ‘How many hours do I need?’ That’s a quantity measure,” Breus says. Otherwise, you could wake up feeling tired after a long night of sleep. Getting 7.5 hours of sleep is a good starting point, but the quality of your rest is just as important. “That’s not necessarily true.” Sleep quantity vs. “Stop thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, I’ve got to kill myself to get eight hours of sleep,” Breus says. Dividing 450 by 60 does not equal the eight hours of sleep most people are chasing it’s actually 7.5. Here’s the actual math behind sleep, according to Breus: If you consider the fact that the average sleep cycle is 90 minutes, and people average five cycles per night, that gives you 450 minutes of rest. But that’s a blanket statement that doesn’t consider a person’s age, gender or medical condition. We’ve all heard the warning that adults need eight hours of sleep, or else. How many hours of sleep do you really need? In this episode of Brilliant Thoughts, he discusses the basics of rest with SUCCESS People Editor Tristan Ahumada. In response, he conducted years of research to find the cause and help people regain control. “Skimping on the resource that can absolutely, positively make your day better in any way you can imagine appears to be a bit foolish.”īreus, a sleep doctor, sees plenty of exhausted patients-people who seemingly do everything right but still lack energy. “Everything you do, you do better with a good night’s sleep,” Dr. Plus, one of the most important facts is usually missing: The other tips are less effective if you aren’t sleeping well. Getting enough rest is on the list, too, but the quantity (and quality) you need isn’t always clear. You can take an adult multivitamin in the morning, do a light workout or eat nutritious foods to power up. There’s plenty of advice online about how to stay energized. ![]() ![]() Now, let’s dive into all these gorgeous colors! For reference, we’ve used the breed standard from the Cat Fanciers Association. The most common Persian cat colors are white, black, blue, grey, orange, silver, red golden, lilac, cream, and brown. Cats with white feet can either have pink, bi-, or multi-colored paw pads. ![]() The gray tabby cats can equally be male and female, while the orange tabby cats are almost always male. Red (Red Classic Tabby) Red stripes with red roots. Think warmer, milk chocolate tones Their noses and paws are a dark or cinnamon pink color, and their eyes are always a vivid, deep blue. The body of this scrumptious cat is ivory with points of chocolate brown. But unless your cat is dark in color, you probably won’t notice the silver strands. Silver (Silver Classic Tabby) Black stripes with white roots. Image Credit: CC0 Public Domain, Pickpik. As cats get older, they start getting gray hair just like humans do. The tabby pattern can consist of: lines, spots, stripes, and swirls. Blue (Blue Classic Tabby) Gray stripes with gray roots. But when we talk about the grey tabby cat, we know the coat color will be grey. ![]() Some colors are more desirable than others, though. The grey tabby cat’s look and size differ from breed to breed. To create this color, Siamese cats had to be crossed with tortoiseshells and red tabbies. Also known as flame point and orange point, these Siamese cats have distinctive chestnut red points and pale pink noses and paw pads. All of the hairs that would be black will instead be blue. Image Credit: Emma Boardman, Public Domain Pictures. Paw pads and nose leather can be almost any color or combination of colors, and these aren’t linked to coat color unless specifically noted. A gray tabby is actually a cat with blue/gray stripes against a lighter gray background. Cats with a large amount of white may have blue or odd-colored eyes. ![]() Unless otherwise noted, the eyes of a Norwegian Forest Cat will be shades of copper, green-gold, gold, or green. What you might not know about them is that they can be found in almost any color and pattern that you can imagine! While tabby might be the classic color that springs to mind when many of us think about this breed, you can find them in a rainbow of other shades too. If you’ve ever met a Norwegian Forest Cat, then you’ll already know that these magnificent cats are large, powerful, and full of personality. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since the adoption of the new Constitution of Mongolia on 13 February 1992, the official name of the state is "Mongolia" ( Mongol Uls). In the thirteenth century, the word Mongol grew into an umbrella term for a large group of Mongolic-speaking tribes united under the rule of Genghis Khan. The last head of the tribe was Yesügei, whose son Temüjin eventually united all the Shiwei tribes as the Mongol Empire ( Yekhe Monggol Ulus). ![]() However, their wars with the Jurchen-ruled Jin dynasty and the Tatar confederation had weakened them. The Mongolian word "Mongol" ( монгол) is of uncertain etymology, given variously as the name of a mountain or river as a corruption of the Mongolian Mongkhe- tengri-gal ("Eternal Sky Fire") or as a derivation from Mugulü, the 4th-century founder of the Rouran Khaganate, first attested as the 'Mungu', ( Chinese: 蒙兀, Modern Chinese Měngwù, Middle Chinese Muwngu ), a branch of the Shiwei in an 8th-century Tang dynasty list of northern tribes, presumably related to the Liao-era Mungku ( Chinese: 蒙古, Modern Chinese Měnggǔ, Middle Chinese MuwngkuX ).Īfter the fall of the Liao in 1125, the Khamag Mongols became a leading tribe on the Mongolian Plateau. The name Mongolia means the "Land of the Mongols" in Latin. Mongolia joined the World Trade Organization in 1997 and seeks to expand its participation in regional economic and trade groups. Mongolia is a member of the United Nations, Asia Cooperation Dialogue, G77, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Non-Aligned Movement and a NATO global partner. The vast majority of citizens are ethnic Mongols, with roughly 5% of the population being Kazakhs, Tuvans, and other ethnic minorities, who are especially concentrated in the western regions. Islam is the third-largest religious identification (3.2%), concentrated among ethnic Kazakhs. Buddhism is the majority religion (51.7%), with the nonreligious being the second-largest group (40.6%). This led to a multi-party system, a new constitution of 1992, and transition to a market economy.Īpproximately 30% of the population is nomadic or semi-nomadic horse culture remains integral. After the anti-communist revolutions of 1989, Mongolia conducted its own peaceful democratic revolution in early 1990. ![]() In 1924, the Mongolian People's Republic was founded as a socialist state. Shortly thereafter, the country became a satellite state of the Soviet Union. ![]() After the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911, Mongolia declared independence, and achieved actual independence from the Republic of China in 1921. By the early 20th century, almost one-third of the adult male population were Buddhist monks. In the 16th century, Tibetan Buddhism spread to Mongolia, being further led by the Manchu-founded Qing dynasty, which absorbed the country in the 17th century. After the collapse of the Yuan, the Mongols retreated to Mongolia and resumed their earlier pattern of factional conflict, except during the era of Dayan Khan and Tumen Zasagt Khan. His grandson Kublai Khan conquered China proper and established the Yuan dynasty. In 1206, Genghis Khan founded the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous land empire in history. The territory of modern-day Mongolia has been ruled by various nomadic empires, including the Xiongnu, the Xianbei, the Rouran, the First Turkic Khaganate, and others. Ulaanbaatar, the capital and largest city, is home to roughly half of the country's population. Mongolia is the world's largest landlocked country that does not border a closed sea, and much of its area is covered by grassy steppe, with mountains to the north and west and the Gobi Desert to the south. It covers an area of 1,564,116 square kilometres (603,909 square miles), with a population of just 3.3 million, making it the world's most sparsely populated sovereign state. Mongolia ( / m ɒ ŋ ˈ ɡ oʊ l i ə/ ( listen) mong- GOH-lee-ə) is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() Since darktable version 3.0 released on Xmas 2019, we can use LUTs as described in my parent post and don't need these styles any more. I am currently working with older raws that I had already edited in former darktable versions using styles to emulate Fuji film simulations. I just noticed that I had forgotten to mention this in my parent post. Note: the tone curve module should also be switched off when working with LUTs. Any issues on your end? I am on Ubuntu 20.04. 3.4 has been buggy for me in Lighttable view. I had trouble with those LUTs in Darktable and now I know why - keeping the base curve on. Some interesting links to forum contributions can be found here: darktable version 3 // Did you change your workflow for Fujifilm style emulation? Many thanks to my teachers in this forum in terms of darktable, His Dudeness, tokumeino, sluggy_warrior, CAcreeks, and many others. Many thanks to the darktable developers, to the Lensfun community, to Stuart Sowerby, to user prophotoshow for the Classic Negative LUT. A LUT for Fujifilm's Classic Negative film sim can be downloaded here: Fuji’s New Classic Negative look as free LR/C1/LUT presets for any Camera.Indicate the directory in darktable's settings under "Processing".Unzip and store the png files in a folder that is accessible to darktable.Make sure to download the png files ("Profiles ready to use in RawTherapee and Affinity Photo.") Use the png files directly.Stuart Sowerby offers the most important Fujifilm film simulations as LUTs for free download.When I don't use Fuji XTrans III - Classic Chrome.png, I apply a saturation of 1.05 in the color correction profile, it fits the colors better (e.g., Provia, Astia etc).LUTs: Classic Chrome is my preset but I can change to any other Fuji film sim with one click.Demosaic: I stick with the default, Markesteijn 1-pass - it is good for most of my raws.LUT 3D: Fuji XTrans III - Classic Chrome.png.*Base ISO = 3200: radius 1 - amount 1 - threshold 0.5 Defringe activated (standard parameters).Exposure +0.5 EV (with this, I get an exposure equal to jpeg OOC with Fujifilm X-trans III sensor).Lens correction activated (need to select the lens manually in case of manual lenses).Denoise profiled activated (standard parameters).Base curve deactivated (since I work with LUTs).My darktable presets that deliver me a decent baseline For how to accomplish an update, see my Linux thread.Lensfun is an open database of lens correction profiles.I am currently using Mint Ulyana and darktable 3.4.0.See Experience sharing - Setting up a photo management system with Linux Mint.Meanwhile, my photo management system is under Linux.Since I have an X-T20, it is Fuji focused. This workflow delivers me a decent baseline for possible further actions in darktable. Having already shared parts of my workflow in the Fuji-X forum, I'll now do a brief overall description here. I am grateful to the DPReview community for interesting posts and discussions around darktable. I started to work with this raw converter about two years ago. To learn more about presets and styles, watch the video below.When it comes to darktable, I am still learning and would not call myself an advanced user. You can edit them, export them and also import new ones. In the Styles module in Lighttable, you also have the ability to organize your styles. In the Darktable GUI, styles are available both in Lighttable and Darkroom views. On you can also upload your own styles if you create some good ones. You can exchange styles with your friends, or you can go to websites like or to download styles. This is also an easy way to share settings with others. Styles are the settings of multiple modules put together to create a quick way of applying more complex edits, involving more than one module. Presets are also available in som modules in the Map and Print views. In Darkroom, however, all modules on the right hand side can do so, but none of the modules on the left hand side. In Lightroom view, only a few modules have the ability to store presets. Some modules, like the Tone Curve and Equalizer already have a collection of presets built in. ![]() Just adjust the module to your liking, click the Presets icon in the module header and choose “Store new preset”. ![]() Most modules in Darkroom and some in Lighttable can have their settings stored as presets. Presets are stored in each module, containing settings from that module only. ![]() In Darktable, there are two ways of storing these settings, called presets and styles, respectively. This may apply to both complete or partial edits and individual settings for the different tools. A massive time saver in photo editing is the ability to save settings for reuse on other images. ![]() ![]() ![]() DartPad is a great, no-download-required way to learn Dart syntax and to experiment with Dart. You can then use the recovery image files and deploy them locally or to a remote partition or a recovery partition.ĭaRT 10 is an important part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), a dynamic solution available to Software Assurance customers that helps reduce software installation costs, enables delivery of applications as services, and helps manage and control enterprise desktop environments. DartPad IDEs and editors Command-line tools Debugging. And it’s why we are passionate about what we do for our customers. Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) lets you diagnose and repair a computer that cannot be started or that has problems starting as expected. When it's necessary, you can also quickly restore important lost files and detect and remove malware, even when the computer isn't online.ĭaRT 10 lets you create a DaRT recovery image in International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and Windows Imaging (WIM) file formats and burn the image to a CD, DVD, or USB. As the Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART), our job is to respond to compromises and help our customers become cyber-resilient. ![]() By using DaRT 10, you can recover end-user computers that have become unusable, diagnose probable causes of issues, and quickly repair unbootable or locked-out computers. By using DaRT 10, you can recover end-user computers that have become unusable, diagnose probable causes of issues, and quickly repair unbootable or locked-out computers. Based on the Windows Preinstallation Environment, DaRT (Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset) is an official Microsoft toolkit that includes a registry editor, file explorer, crash analyzer as well as tools for recovering files, repairing disks, scanning for viruses and more. Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) 10 lets you diagnose and repair a computer that can't be started or that has problems starting as expected. You can download the entire Sysinternals Suite as a compressed archive file. First, download the MDOPISO file from Microsoft's Volume Licensing Center. Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) 10 lets you diagnose and repair a computer that can't be started or that has problems starting as expected. Download DaRT Documentation Downloads from Official Microsoft Download Center Skip to main content Microsoft Web browsers All Microsoft PCs & Devices Downloadable DaRT technical documentation. DaRT is basically a set of troubleshooting tools helpful in diagnosing. ![]() ![]() ![]() “This guy killed four people,” Brauchler said. “It makes it impossible for a judge to fashion a sentence that fits the particular crime and particular defendant.”īrauchler said the laws ensure that perpetrators of violent crime who harm multiple victims are held responsible with prison sentences for each victim, since the terms must run consecutively. “You can, in the way you charge the case, predetermine what the sentence is going to be, and put an extreme amount of pressure on the defendant to plea,” he said. The laws give tremendous power to district attorneys, Garnett said. There were concerns that sentences for the same crimes varied dramatically depending on the judge and perhaps on the defendant, Brauchler said. Mandatory consecutive sentencesĬolorado’s mandatory minimums largely were established in the 1990s as a tough-on-crime response to rising crime rates and a perception among conservative politicians that the state’s judges were handing out light sentences, said Stan Garnett, former Boulder County district attorney. “I have little sympathy for someone who turns down a reasonable plea bargain offer, and then goes to trial and bemoans the fact that the worst thing that could happen to them happened,” he said. George Brauchler, former district attorney for the 18th Judicial District, disagreed. “It’s out of line for the prosecutor to blame the defendant for exercising his constitutional rights,” Silverstein said. Silverstein said King’s statement suggests the district attorney’s office overcharged the case to try to pressure Aguilera-Mederos into pleading guilty rather than taking the case to trial. Aguilera-Mederos wasn’t interested in pursuing those negotiations,” she said.Īguilera-Mederos’ attorney, James Colgan, would not discuss what sort of plea bargain was considered, except to say that the discussions “were not fruitful.” “My administration contemplated a significantly different outcome in this case, but Mr. ![]() Prosecutors decide on the charges to file, and they decide what plea bargains to offer.” They have the power to decide who goes to prison and for how long. But I think calls for change also need to be directed at the seldom-criticized but largely unchecked power of prosecutors. “It cries out for the reform of sentencing laws. “This is a grossly excessive sentence,” said Mark Silverstein, legal director for the ACLU of Colorado. One family member of a man who died in the fiery 28-car pileup in Lakewood said he did not want a life sentence for the truck driver.Īnd the day after the sentencing, First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King - who pursued the convictions that led to the 110-year sentence - said in a statement she would “welcome” a reconsideration of the prison term.Īguilera-Mederos’ sentence stretched to more than a century because under Colorado law, first-degree assault and attempted first-degree assault are so-called “crimes of violence” in which prison sentences must run consecutively, and not concurrently, when they spring from the same incident. The judge said during Monday’s sentencing hearing that he had no discretion to set a lesser prison term, though he would have liked to. ![]() Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, 26, was sentenced to a prison term twice as long as some Colorado murderers after his convictions triggered provisions in state law that forced District Court Judge Bruce Jones to lay down a minimum 110-year sentence. The 110-year prison sentence meted out this week to the truck driver who killed four people when he lost his brakes on Interstate 70 put a renewed spotlight on Colorado’s mandatory-minimum sentencing laws and on district attorneys’ ability to use such laws to ensure convictions lead to prison time. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu ![]() ![]() ![]() IBMJOY - Joystick driver which replaces the emulated number-pad joystick. (Thanks to the author for the description of the emulator appearing above. Windows 3.1 (Windows 3.1 requires Win32s).įURTHER REFERENCES: "README.TXT" (Text file included in the archive). MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: 80486 or better running Windows 95, Windows NT 3.5, or ROMS: AppleWin comes with the necessary Apple ][+ and //e ROMs, stored inĭISK-IMAGE FORMAT: DOS3.3, ProDOS and nibblized orders (auto-detecting). Version 1.00 requires Windows 95 or NT (not Versions 1.00 and 1.10 are faster and includes speed control, modem support, and On your system, click on the Configuration button (on the bottom) and turn off If you would like for it to run as fast as possible Remember to calibrate your joystick using the WindowsĬontrol Panel before using it in AppleWin.īy default, AppleWin controls its emulation speed so that it runs exactly asįast as a real Apple //e. If you do not have a joystick driver for Windows, you can obtain "ibmjoy.zip"įrom the FTP site. Install "patch2.zip" which is available from the same FTP site. With your video driver, or trouble formatting disks under AppleWin, obtain and It is recommended that you switch your video card to 256-color mode for best ![]() You must also install the Win32s 32-bitĮxtensions, which are available from the same FTP site.Īpplewin.exe Use this version if you are running Windows 95 or Windows NT. There are two versions of AppleWin, both included in the ZIP file:Īpplew31.exe Use this version if you are running Windows 3.1 or Windows for It supports emulating an Apple joystick using Including double high-res and mixed mode. "Platinum" model enhanced Apple //e with 128k RAM. SHORT DESCRIPTION: AppleWin is a 32-bit Windows program which emulates a STATUS: Source code released for public modification. 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