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Very excited to announce the rollout of my very first debut novel.
My friend Kevin Creighton just released his debut novel. It's mystery/suspense. Check it out. amazon.com/dp/B0G315DG3P
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I have Microsoft Office installed on my Mac.
A perpetual license. Bought outright.
So last week, Microsoft pushed an update which essentially bricked it. Couldn't create new documents, only read existing ones, with a banner saying "upgrade" to 365.
Well, no.
There was a way around it. Delete it all, reinstall, then rip out all of the code enabling updates. Working fine.
But this criminal stupidit probably upset someone a bit more vindictive than me. Today we see the result.
It's also a dead end because each film in the trilogy specifically destroyed the one before it. Awakens said ROTJ didn't really matter, Jedi rewrote Awakens and Skywalker ignored pretty much everything in the whole series.
One of the reasons Star Wars is struggling to figure out where to go next is that the sequel trilogy was a creative dead end. It introduced virtually no compelling new characters worth building spinoff movies around, no particularly memorable new planets or civilizations worth exploring, and did very little to expand the mythology of the galaxy.
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One of the reasons Star Wars is struggling to figure out where to go next is that the sequel trilogy was a creative dead end. It introduced virtually no compelling new characters worth building spinoff movies around, no particularly memorable new planets or civilizations worth exploring, and did very little to expand the mythology of the galaxy.
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Star Wars 50 aniversario es la película original, tal cual se estrenó en el año 77. Sin nuevas escenas, sin retoques digitales, sin alteración alguna del material original. ¿De dónde ha salido esta copia?
En los años 90, el estudio británico y distribuidora Rank, donó al instituto fílmico británico (BFI) una copia nueva en Technicolor IB de la original Star Wars. Las copias en este formato se conservan mucho mejor y no tienden a la degradación de color con el tiempo como en el celuloide Eastman. Esta copia se criogenizó (has leído bien) a -5 grados en los archivos del BFI y ahí ha estado durante 30 años para garantizar su preservación (con muchas otras películas y material fílmico). En 2025, los conservadores del BFI encontraron la película con el añadido que se hizo posterior de Episodio IV, pero también los rollos originales previos incluso a ese cambio: una copia original en dos rollos del material que se estrenó en el año 1977.
Tras comprobar la increíble calidad, el celuloide ha pasado por un transfer digital, escaneado en 6K y masterizado en 4K. Se usó software especializado para alinear fotogramas, eliminar imperfecciones (polvo, suciedad…) pero no se ha pasado un proceso DNR (reducción de ruido) y se ha conservado intacto el grano original y la estructura del celuloide.
Es la primera vez, desde 1993 con la copia en LaserDisc, que se dispone del master original inalterado y que además, se consigue a tal calidad. La película tendrá estreno en salas IMAX, también en IMAX de 70mm, salas 4K láser… y conservará su relación de aspecto original 2:40:1. El objetivo de este trabajo llamado SW77 era ser lo más fiel posible y tener la copia en mejor calidad del film original.
El sonido, que tenía varios masters uno de ellos de 70mm con 6 canales, ha sido restaurado y reconstruido desde 0, pudiendo trabajar con las cintas magnéticas originales con cada elemento aislado y se ha creado una mezcla en Dolby Atmos a partir de este material original. Incluyendo todos los diálogos originales y todos los efectos originales de Ben Burtt. Sin retoques.
La música de John Williams ha sido transferida nuevamente desde las cintas analógicas originales de la grabación en 1977 con la London Symphony Orchestra, usando el multipista original que ha dado la mezcla para incorporar, con limpieza de audio, la mejor calidad posible.
Lo que se ha hecho con esta copia es una auténtica obra de orfebrería, donde cientos de personas han trabajado para traer la mejor calidad posible a la película original, en un esfuerzo que merece la recompensa de volver a vivir aquello que hace 50 años muchos vivieron. Y aquello que muchos como nosotros no hemos podido vivir en años por la obsesión de George Lucas de modificar el material original.
¡Gracias a todos los implicados por este trabajo y por traerla a todos los países! Allí estaremos para disfrutarla.
A 50 días del 50.º aniversario de Star Wars en 2027, Lucasfilm y Disney informan de que el 19 de febrero estrenarán una versión restaurada de La guerra de las galaxias (1977) en miles de salas de cine de todo el mundo, incluida España.
#StarWars50🚀
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May I suggest you hold your Pride Night and Muslim Night on the same day next season so we can see what happens?
“I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then were beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. Watergate was 12 men who couldn't keep a lie for three weeks." - Chuck Colson (abr.)
If a man rose after 3 days in a tomb, the whole world would have talked about it. The silence of history is the loudest evidence against the RESURRECTION!
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Monster was R.E.M.'s last acceptable album, but I gotta go with Ill Communication here.
which one of these 1994 albums are you selecting? 🎸
ALT Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies (1994) Green Day - Dookie (1994) Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (1994) Soundgarden - Superunknown (1994) Pink Floyd - The Division Bell (1994) Live - Throwing Copper (1994) Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album) (1994) Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (1994) Stone Temple Pilots - Purple (1994) Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994) Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1994) R.E.M. - Monster (1994) The Cranberries - No Need to Argue (1994) Bush - Sixteen Stone (1994) Tom Petty - Wildflowers (1994) Pearl Jam - Vitalogy (1994)
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Hay muy pocos grupos del canon oficial del rock que hayan tenido una caída como U2. No es ya por el escaso nivel artístico que tienen desde hace décadas, pero es que absolutamente nadie les reivindica, ni siquiera sus años dorados. Han desaparecido, no existen, la nada total.
Most rockets throw away everything except the payload. Imagine how costly it would be to fly New York to London if you had to build a new 747 every time you did it. That was spaceflight up until Falcon 9.
Today might turn out to be one of the most consequential days in spaceflight history.
Here is a brief explainer of why (it’s about rocket reusability):
Modern rockets are usually made of 2 main parts: the booster(s) that gets you into space, and the second stage that makes you go fast enough that you can stay in space.
For the vast majority of history these were single use, so they weren’t recovered and you needed to build a brand new rocket for every launch. That is still the case for most rockets today.
The space shuttle tried to fix this, but it fell short of its ambition: the main tank would be lost with every flight, and the shuttle (second stage) + side boosters (part of first stage) needed so much maintenance after being recovered that it would have been cheaper to build new ones.
SpaceX changed that when they managed to successfully land the booster of Falcon 9, and reuse it. since then they have done this flawlessly hundreds of times, and this has enabled them to become the cheapest most prolific launch provider in history.
The reason they focused on the booster is that the second stage needs to go much faster to get you into orbit, and it makes it much harder to enter the atmosphere to come back, because at these speeds the atmosphere heats you up so much that most things including metal just melt and turn into dust.
With this new Starship rocket they are aiming for FULL REUSE, where the entirety of the rocket will be recovered and relaunched, with minimal refurbishment.
They have already recovered and reused the Starship booster (also called superheavy), and they have shown that they can land the Ship second stage with great precision in the ocean. Now for the first time they will attempt to land both on the launch tower.
Starship is going to usher the beginning of a new era in spaceflight, where going to space doesn't require building a massively complex rocket every time, but just a simple refueling.
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So you're still throwing away part of the plane when you reach London.
Starship means you can keep the entire plane and reuse it for the London to New York flight.
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Martin County, FL (2020–2026):
Population: +5.6% (158,431 → ~167,300)
County adopted budget: +53% ($498M → $763M)
Spending grew nearly 10× faster than the population.
Martin County has a spending problem, not a money shortage.
