New kindle oasis 202310/31/2023 Amazon is including support for wireless speakers, headphones or earbuds to listen to audiobooks purchased from the Kindle Store. However, with the bigger battery, you should get a month out of it.Īll of the new Kindles have Bluetooth, so the new Oasis will have it too. This will make a big difference, the 2019 Oasis, only lasted two weeks before needing a recharge. The Oasis battery will be increased from 1130 mAh on the 2019 version to 1,700 mAh. The Scribe needs the extra RAM, due to it needing the power for the note taking and PDF editing, which is always hardware dependent. The Paperwhite and Signature Edition both have 512MB of RAM and the upcoming Scribe will have 1GB of RAM, so the Oasis, since it is a premium e-Reader will likely have 512MB of RAM. Given that Amazon has already integrated the processor in existing models and made the Linux software jive with it, it doesn’t make sense to use something else. The processor for the upcoming Oasis 2022 edition will likely have the same one that the The Paperwhite and Scribe employ, which is a 1GHz MediaTek MT8113 processor. This is why the new 6.8-inch Paperwhite is so damn fast and responsive, even with the new animated page turn engine. It basically increases page turn speed by 25% and overall performance by 30%. ![]() Does Carta 1200 really matter? Yes, of course it does. The Kobo Sage, Kobo Clara 2e, Pocketbook Era and a few other models use it. We have only seen e-readers employ this technology in late 2021 and in 2022. The Paperwhite, Signature Edition and the upcoming Scribe all have E INK Carta 1200 e-paper displays. However, we can extrapolate a few other details, based on the current generation hardware, which has just been refreshed. It does state that it will have an USB-C port, instead of Micro-USB found on the 2019 model. What new features will the 2022 Kindle Oasis going to have? The are a few reference specs on the website, but they don’t really tell us much. You can view it when going to the trade-in page for the Kindle Scribe and there are other places. ![]() There are various placeholder images, and references to the All-New Oasis 2022 model all over the Amazon website. Amazon plans on announcing a new Oasis model sometime in the next few weeks. ![]() This leaves the Kindle Oasis has the only model, which hasn’t been updated since 2019. The Kindle Scribe is their newest device, which is an 10.2-inch e-note and e-Reader. The Amazon Kindle Basic 2022 will be shipping out in the middle of October and the 11th generation Kindle Paperwhite and the Signature Edition came out in November, 2021. Amazon has refreshed their entire Kindle e-Reader lineup and have introduced an entirely new device.
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Monsoon gorilla10/31/2023 ![]() At times, their calling of the action on the mat seemed secondary to their bantering and bickering, with Heenan – wrestling’s Don Rickles – firing off an endless stream of one-liners and insults at the grapplers in the ring and, especially, at his broadcast partner.īy all accounts, the men were close friends when the cameras were off, and Heenan, fighting back tears, broke kayfabe to salute Monsoon on air on WCW Nitro after his death in ’99. Monsoon, born Robert James Marella, and Heenan had a Martin-and-Lewis like chemistry behind the mic. As fans were quick to point out in online remembrances, pro-wrestling’s greatest color-commentary team was finally reunited. The Path Less Pedaled - The supple life.When WWE Hall of Fame manager Bobby “The Brain” Heenan died on Sunday at age 73, the name of Gorilla Monsoon, who died in 1999, was invoked alongside that of the fallen heel. Global Mountain Bike Network - Mountain bike focused channel beginning to dabble in adventure biking content Global Cycling Network - Road bike focused channel with increasingly plentiful and relevant adventure/gravel content Super Nice Blog - My own blog-style website featuring related xbiking content, an AMA catalog, and other resourcesīike Radar - General biking channel with increasingly plentiful and relevant adventure/gravel content Riding Gravel - Gravel grinding news, updates, and reviews Rad biking culture magazine with a focus on xbiking themes The Paceline Forum - Expansive forum covering a wide range of biking topics, with increasingly prevalent xbiking related content ![]() Off the Beaten Path - The heavily opinionated and thoroughly enjoyable blog of biking personality Jan Heine (Bike Quarterly, Compass Tires) Gravel Cyclist - Gravel grinding news, updates, and reviews Find cool rides and routes, and add your own recommendations!Ħ50b Google Group - Google forum for discussion surrounding 650b and related topicsīike Counterculture - The self-described "third-best bicycle website on the internet." A collection of bike enthusiasts with interesting opinions about relevant xbiking topicsīike Insights - A powerful tool for understanding and comparing bike design and fit, with an appreciation for the sorts of bikes you'll find in this subī - Bikepacking focused website with relevant adventure biking contentĬyclingAbout - The expansive project of "Allee," a perpetual bike tourer and bike-travel enthusiast Ride Recommendations - An editable resource for ride recommendations created by the xbiking community. Find a solid LBS, and add your own recommendation! LBS Recommendations - An editable resource for LBS recommendations created by the xbiking community. Gear Recommendations - An editable resource for gear recommendations created by the xbiking community. Toolshed - An editable xbiking resource for all things related to DIY bike mechanics, repair, modification, etc. Xbiking Strava - The Strava for all the interested chillers in xbiking What is xbiking? - A thread addressing the sub's most frequently asked question PM u/RipVanBinkle to swap for your own stickers! Stickers - Cop xbiking / Super Nice stickers here. IRL Riding Chat Room - This is a chat room designed to facilitate IRL meet-ups and rides among xbiking members. General Chat Room - The general chat room for all the chillers in xbiking Scheduled Discussion Archive - An explanation & archive of the Scheduled Discussion posts made sporadically in the sub Scheduled Discussion Prompt Submission - Submit topic ideas for scheduled discussions in r/xbiking here! Discord Server - xbiking Discord server created and run by a sub memberĪMA Schedule & Archive - The schedule of upcoming & archive of previous xbiking AMAs Roboform extension for comodo dragon browser10/31/2023 Now I always use complex passwords and don’t even bother trying to remember any password, any longer. ![]() Sometimes on the phone, where there is no browser add-on, I just open the app, use the option to copy the password and just paste it, to login to a website. I have yet to find a situation where LastPass has failed me, and this includes using the mobile version to access some websites from my phone. ![]() LastPass allows you to use it in multiple ways, from a completely automated login scenario to a totally manual situation, which other options in between – such as the option to copy username and copy password, that you can then paste wherever you need. Maybe you didn’t know about these options, but they are there and they aren’t really that hard to find. So, I am sorry, I can’t agree with your comment at all. You can use any of them to gain easy access to your login data. If you have a problem with a site, like the one you reported here, the LastPass add-on has the site at the bottom of it’s dialog, so you just have to click it to access the Edit, Copy Username and Copy Password options. choose edit, to edit the login details, which allows you to change the password or simply view it, by clicking the icon that mimics an eye. use the option to copy the password and then paste it wherever you need.Ģ. If you use simple passwords, or re-use the same one at multiple sites, you put yourself at risk of being hacked.Īre you aware that you can use the LastPass browser add-on, browse the sites list, choose a site, right click it and then have several options to access the password (and the username):ġ. If you get too fancy with them in an effort to achieve ultimate security, you put yourself at risk of losing access to your data. I think passwords are a terrible measure for security. But if something happened to LastPass or its site, I would be barred from Syncplicity forever. At this stage, I could go to my “vault” on the LastPass site and look up the password. If I had used one more difficult to remember or, heaven forbid, allowed LastPass to create one for me, something truly random-looking, I would be totally at the mercy of LastPass. I am happy that I have used a low-level password there that I can remember easily. After entering my ID manually, the screen is redrawn and asks for my password. LastPass doesn’t recognize the new logon screen and fails to enter anything. Now it asks only for my ID on a first screen. However, suddenly, Syncplicity changed their logon screen. ![]() Normally LastPass would enter my ID and password automatically. Every once in a while I come across a situation in which I breathe a great sigh of relief knowing that I didn’t commit myself completely to a password manager. I’ve long been puzzled by the enthusiasm many people have for password managers such as LastPass, which is my choice. Knights of columbus apparel10/31/2023 ![]() The winner of the Championship Game will receive a 3% goal reduction and will be declared Q1 Champion, while the loser will receive a 2% reduction and be declared the Q1 runner-up. For the consolation bracket in August, the jurisdictions on the winning teams will receive a 1% goal reduction.ĭuring September, the two August winners in the Winner’s Bracket will compete in the Championship game, and the losers will compete in the consolation game. The four losing teams will advance to the consolation bracket.ĭuring August, jurisdictions on the winning teams in the Winner’s Bracket will receive a 2% goal reduction, while jurisdictions on the losing teams in the Winner’s Bracket will receive a 1% goal reduction. In July, jurisdictions on the four winning teams will receive a 1% goal reduction and advance to the Winner’s Bracket. ![]() In addition to the financial incentive, jurisdictions will participate in an eight-team, bracket-based intake-based incentive where they will compete for the opportunity to earn reductions to their Circle of Honor Intake goal. and Canada $7 per new member recruited between July 1 and September 30. To encourage jurisdictions to get off to a fast start, the Supreme Council will offer jurisdictions in the U.S. District deputies will be able to select from a catalog of promotional and apparel items on the KnightsGear site by achieving their goals. ![]() They will also compete against one another for the opportunity to earn reductions to their Circle of Honor intake goal, and prime seating at the 2023 Supreme Convention. Jurisdictions will be eligible to earn cash by getting off to a fast start in membership intake. For the 2022-2023 fraternal year the Supreme Council is offering a variety of incentives for jurisdictions, district deputies and grand knights. Planet audio 4 channel amp10/31/2023 ![]() It has smart protection to safeguard your headphones (and itself). It’s quiet enough for super-sensitive headphones. It delivers nearly 5W into 32 ohms through either the ¼” TRS or 4-pin XLR connectors with near state-of-the-art measurements. Halo or no, Midgard is completely over the top in terms of value and performance. We’ll also go further: if you have an acoustic measurement rig and want to publish your results (positive or negative, we don’t care), contact us and we’ll get you a Midgard to measure. Compare to the front panel TRS, which doesn’t have Halo, because Halo requires separate ground returns. ![]() Want to try Halo? Plug in to the front panel XLR. However, since confirming that would require years of research and still have everyone arguing about it, we decided to do something crazy: introduce this amp at a great price and let you decide. Introducing Halo: Breakthrough or Illusion? Halo is a mixed-mode feedback topology that incorporates your headphone driver into the feedback loop, offering the potential for better control at driver resonance and improved acoustic results. Midgard’s new Halo™ topology also offers the potential for higher performance where it matters-at your ears. Just do your wiring right and match your ohms.Midgard is simply the best measuring, highest power discrete headphone amp we’ve ever made. In the summer I just turn my Ac on and it's fine, Great great amp. This is not for powering subwoofers!!!! It's 4 channel, meant for 4 speakers, that are lower rms like door speakers! Make sure there 2 ohms or you'll have problems, I have it under my seat currently til I mount it, and it's never overheated and I only listen to my music loud enough to feel the mids bump in my chest. If your running 2 ohms to each channel it'll work like a champ. If you tuned this right to your music and speakers and get your ground and power lines good this guy is absolutely amazing. I knew it could push hard if it had the watts it says it did it's a pretty hefty amp. I used 8 gauge awg for power and ground and some decent RCAs and I had a lot of issues with it going into protection mood at a higher volume. At first I had some hiccups but I hadn't tuned it to my liking. I'm using the 1600 watt 4-chan to power 4 door speakers, all kickers 300 watt Max. It has exceeded my expectations and performs better than my friends kicker amp even. I give it 3 stars because it does a decent job for its price. And the other thing that ticked me off was the positive terminal screw for Ch 2 was completely stripped out. This means too many lows are making there way into the components, which can cause distortion with too much gain or too loud volume. Not much audible difference between full and high. The LPF works excellent for the subwoofer and just a touch of bass boost (1/4) turn gives the sub enough kick to fill out the music. I don't think this amp is pushing anywhere close to its rated power. I have the gain on 1-2 set half way and for the sub slightly less. It supplies enough power to listen at moderate volumes, but you'll need to carefully set the gain to match your receiver so you don't blow your speakers from distortion, and not from too much power, but the opposite, not enough power. I'm running an Infinity PR6500cs component set on Ch1-2 and a Pioneer TSSWX2502 10" sub on 3-4 bridged. WARNING: Cancer and Reproductive Harm - So far, this has been an amp (TRQ4.800) worth it's price, but don't kid yourself into thinking that it is going to be spectacular or great. ![]() The warning is part of our ongoing effort to comply with the California Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (known as "Proposition 65"). Why do you see the warning on our packaging and website? Proposition 65 warnings can be seen for a wide variety of everyday consumer products, including electronic equipment, and warnings can be seen posted throughout California in a variety of establishments such as buildings, hotels, restaurants, coffee shops, and stores. The list includes naturally occurring and man-made chemicals. There are over 800 chemicals on the Proposition 65 list, which is administered by California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), a part of the California Environmental Protection Agency. Businesses are required to provide warnings to comply with Proposition 65. Proposition 65 is not a product safety law, but rather a "right-to-know" law. Proposition 65’s warning standards are among the most stringent in the world. Proposition 65 requires warnings if a product contains any listed chemical present above very low levels. Proposition 65 is a California law that applies to companies selling products in California. Microsoft script debugger10/31/2023 ![]() Logical ErrorsĪ logical error can be the most difficult bug to detect. 'This statement generates a run-time error.īugs that result in run-time errors must be corrected for your script to execute without interruption. For example, the following script contains a function that divides a variable by zero (an illegal mathematical operation) and generates a run-time error: ĭocument.Write ("The answer is " &Result) Run-time errors occur after your script commences execution and result from scripting instructions that attempt to perform impossible actions. Syntax errors can prevent your script from running. For example, a misspelled command or an incorrect number of arguments passed to a function generates an error. Syntax ErrorsĪ syntax error is a commonly encountered error that results from incorrect scripting syntax. Some of these errors can cause your scripts to execute incorrectly, halt the execution of your program, or return incorrect results. While debugging your server-side scripts you might encounter several types of errors. If the file contains a bug or an intentional statement to halt execution, Script Debugger will automatically start, display your script, and indicate the source of the error. Open Script Debugger and use it to run and debug your ASP server-side scripts. WScript.Echo("After: AppAllowDebugging = " & IIsWebVirtualDirObj.AppAllowDebugging)Īfter enabling Web server debugging, you can use either of the following methods to debug your scripts: IIsWebVirtualDirObj.Put "AppAllowDebugging", True ![]() 'IIsWebVirtualDirObj.AppAllowDebugging = True ' There are multiple ways to set a property: WScript.Echo("Before: AppAllowDebugging = " & IIsWebVirtualDirObj.AppAllowDebugging) Set IIsWebVirtualDirObj = GetObject("IIS://localhost/W3SVC/1/Root") ' In this case, we're connecting to the root virtual directory of the Default Web Site. To enable server-side debugging programmatically using ADSI in a VBScript script, use the following code example: ' Connect to an object for the Web service, Web site, virtual directory or Web file. Select the Enable ASP server-side script debugging check box. An application must be created for the button to be active. Under Application Settings, click Configuration. In the Properties pages for any Web site or Web virtual directory, click the Home Directory or Virtual Directory tab. To enable server-side debugging using IIS Manager: Enabling Debuggingīefore you can begin debugging your server-side scripts, you must first configure your Web server to support ASP debugging. To fix bugs, you must edit your script with an editing program, save your changes, and run the script again. You cannot use Microsoft Script Debugger to directly edit your scripts, only to locate bugs. ![]() Trace procedures while running your server-side script. Set pauses to suspend execution of your server-side scripts (using either the debugger or a script command) at a particular line of script. Open a command window to monitor the value of variables, properties, or array elements, during the execution of your server-side scripts. Run your server-side scripts one line at a time. You can do the following things using the features of Microsoft Script Debugger: The Microsoft Script Debugger is a powerful debugging tool that can help you quickly locate bugs and interactively test your server-side scripts. For this reason, debugging, the process of finding and correcting scripting errors, is crucial for developing successful and robust ASP applications, especially as the complexity of your application grows. Regardless of your level of experience, you will encounter programmatic errors, or bugs, that will prevent your server-side scripts from working correctly. Darkroom kit10/31/2023 The 3/4-inch plywood will then be attached to the 1x2-inch strips. The construction style in our example is to attach 1x2-inch “furring strips” to the plywood to provide framework. You can change the dimensions to fit your space. You can further cut the pieces and fit them together as shown in the sketches and model. One design takes two sheets of 4x8-foot plywood and cuts them up into various pieces to make both the wet and dry “units.” Have the lumberyard cut the pieces of plywood into two pieces, each 2x8 feet (to fit into the car). Some say it can even determine the quality of prints.Ī plastic hanging closet clothes protector keeps film clean while drying, especially in a dusty basement environment. Printing can be enjoyed over many hours’ time, and good music soothes the savage beast. Some kind of flat workspace-it can be a borrowed kitchen or dining room table-for trimming and mounting prints.Ħ. Film and paper chemicals are toxic, so decent ventilation is a must.ĥ. Sufficient room for the enlarger and related accessories (paper safe, lenses, negative holders, canned air, etc.).Ĥ. ![]() A sink with automatic hot and cold running water is ideal, but many photographers accomplish wet tasks on a counter and go to a nearby laundry or bathroom to complete steps like film or paper washing, cleaning up utensils, etc.ģ. The “dark” for the remaining processes can have a small amount of light leaking in, but not much.Ģ. Ability to make your selected space dark, although a changing bag will make do for the critical task of loading film into tanks. Here, not necessarily in order of importance, are the requirements:ġ. A closet, guest room, garage, or basement can all serve as locations. The ideal setup is one where you have running hot and cold water, but lack of this is not a deal-breaker. Step one is to evaluate and measure your available space. Everything sits on two stainless steel kitchen work tables. An adjustable 11x14-inch easel is on the baseboard, and to the right are three 11x14-inch trays. In the center is an Omega B2 enlarger, which handles 35mm and 6圆cm negatives. ![]() At left is a radio, an enlarging timer, and a paper safe. The author’s current darkroom, in the basement of a small house. There are similar opportunities online or via your local newspaper or shoppers’ guides, tag sales, etc. The former owner even included several boxes of usable paper and dozens of reference books and magazines. I recently paid $125 for a complete set of darkroom equipment, including a Simmon Omega B-22 enlarger, a 50mm lens (for 35mm film), a 75mm lens (for 6圆 or 120 negatives), plus trays, easels, custom timers, etc. The cost of used darkroom gear has been reduced to bargain levels, mostly due to the explosion of digital photography. ![]() Unfortunately, many photographers think building a darkroom is expensive, time-consuming, and difficult. Nothing beats watching an image come to life in the developing tray. It’s a fun alternative to digital printmaking. The renaissance in film photography these days has created the need for a “wet” darkroom. This black-and-white print was developed in the darkroom in the photo. The enlarger is an Omega D2, capable of enlarging 35mm through 4x5-inch negatives. The room also served as an office, hence the desk and light box at left. ![]() The sink had hot and cold running water and a temperature control unit, plus it could hold four 11x14-inch trays. One of the author’s early darkrooms, using the plywood sink design. Jimmy buffett perfect margarita10/31/2023 Or that they'll choose to stay at one of 11 Margaritaville hotels or dine at some of the more than 60 restaurants during spring break. Maybe he's hoping that once they're of age, LandShark Lager (brewed by Anheuser-Busch under the name "Margaritaville Brewing") or Margaritaville Margarita Mix may be their drink of choice. Related: Tap the Millennial Market by Using Music as Your Medium By capitalizing on not only their relationship with his music but also on the lifestyle many college students and young 20-somethings long to live, he's driving brand awareness and loyalty as the next generation comes into their early earning years. These include Margaritaville swag, koozies and the potential for a free trip to one of the Margaritaville resorts.īuffett had toured well over two dozen times before today's college students were born, but he has deliberately chosen to create an on-ramp to his brand for his youngest consumers. While Ambassadors do have to show tangible results and have special forms and discount codes that can be tracked through email signups and purchases (enabling the company to determine ROI and make critical decisions about the program), there are a number of perks. The official duties are fairly simple: "Embrace Margaritaville" in your daily life, spread the gospel of island time and make the world a better place "in any way." If you're a college student that just so happened to be grandfathered into Buffett's music by your parents, you can join Margaritaville University, a College Ambassador Program that grew to over 200 ambassadors on 125 campuses in just one year. ![]() Plus, they have free time to keep searching for that lost shaker of salt. As large swaths of his fans retire, it's no doubt the perfect opportunity to capitalize on the large amounts of discretionary funds retirees have to spend on things like living, travel and other luxuries. Related: 10 Flaws of Conventional Retirement PlansĪt 71, Buffett is reaching retirement age himself but shows no sign of slowing down. This is all as they are breaking ground on a second development in Hilton Head, South Carolina, and as Buffett's One Particular Harbor marina - a state-of-the-art wet/dry slip marina on Harbour Isle - nears completion in Bradenton, Florida. ![]() Over 100,000 people have expressed interest in buying one of the 7,000 homes in the development, and more than 225 had sold within two months after they were available. ![]() This year, the very first Latitude Margaritaville - a community development for people 55 and older - will open in Daytona Beach, Florida. In Buffett's eyes, it is a perfect time to bring these fans even closer to his brand. Those who spent their 20s and 30s nibbling on sponge cake and watching the sun bake while Buffett rose to fame are now nearing retirement age. Appeal to your core customers' stage of life. Another key Buffett takeaway: if you're having trouble selling, it could be the audience, not the product. Buffett has found a way to reinforce his brand through just about everything - vacations, clothing, food and drink - the list goes on and on. Instead of making them yourself, you can order hundreds of branded food products for sale online at, Amazon or your local grocery store. As such, here are a few marketing insights from a pirate born two hundred years too late.Ī quick Google search of "Margaritaville Recipes" returns 1.2 million results, the majority of which are direct links to the Margaritaville website. That's something almost every marketer covets. Fans of his music have been converted into lifestyle consumers, known as Parrotheads, who even celebrate their own holiday (Parrothead Day is October 28 th). ![]() He's turned his hit songs and tropical, seafaring attitude into a licensing company of 50 categories with 5,000+ employees that contributed to $1.5 billion in sales last year. Today he's not only a successful musician, but Buffett may very well be one of the best marketers of the last century. Key takeaway: if you're having trouble selling, it could be the audience, not the product. After struggling to make ends meet, he left South Alabama to launch his career in Nashville and later moved to Key West in 1972, where his career took off. He grew up of modest means in Mobile, Alabama, and got his start performing in some of the many bars and restaurants up and down the Gulf Coast. Buffett is reportedly worth more than half a billion dollars today. If all of those "what ifs" are true, your experience wouldn't be possible without that son of a son of a sailor, Jimmy Buffett. If you are one of those people, the chances are pretty good that drink will be a margarita, and it's possible it may even be made with Margaritaville Margarita Mix. As the summer months heat up, thousands of families will be beachbound for a bit of sun, relaxation and possibly an adult beverage or two. Fanta fish gelatin10/30/2023 ![]() ![]() You also don't want to be swimming around with an empty belly. “You don't want to be swimming around with a glowing belly, right? That's just asking for trouble.” “It's either going to be startled and bioluminescent when it's in your belly because it's freaking out, or as you digest it, those chemicals are going to release and start bioluminescing,” says Osborn. As adults, once the threadfin dragonfish grow to over a foot long, they don’t have so much to hide from-they’re higher up the food chain.Īnd get this: The researchers found some species had ultra-black gut linings, likely to keep them from glowing like lanterns when they eat bioluminescent prey. Why? Because tiny, defenseless babies need to hide from predators. Interestingly, one of the species, the threadfin dragonfish, is only ultra-black as a juvenile. But the species are using their ultra-blackness for diverse purposes, either as the prey hiding themselves from hunters, or as the hunters hiding themselves from prey. The skin of all of these fishes is specifically tuned to absorb blue and green light, which are the colors of the majority of bioluminescence in the deep. So there's these little, little differences in how they've actually accomplished this between the different species.” Some of them have really thick layers, some of them have thinner layers. “Some of them have three layers, some of them have two layers. “Some of them have just a big jumble,” says Osborn. The species evolved it independently, so they have slightly different ways of going about absorbing light their melanosomes are arranged differently in the skin. ![]() Incredibly, there wasn’t one common ancestor of these 16 Vantafish species-or at least the 16 that Osborn and Davis have discovered so far-that evolved this trick and passed it along to its evolutionary descendants. “Once it comes in, it bounces around between all of those little balls and doesn't come back out.” “It's kind of like a gumball machine, where all of the gumballs inside are the right size and shape to trap light within the machine,” adds Davis. “And so what they've done is create this super-efficient, very-little-material system where they can basically build a light trap with just the pigment particles and nothing else.” “But what isn't absorbed side-scatters into the layer, and it's absorbed by the neighboring pigments that are all packed right up close to it,” says Osborn. When you shine a light on a fangtooth or its peers, the melanosomes absorb most of the photons right away. Tons of melanin alone, though, couldn’t make these fish rival the darkness of Vantablack. The skin of these fishes is positively packed with a layer of organelles called melanosomes, themselves loaded with melanin. So how do these 16 species of ultra-black fish camouflage themselves so well? It’s all about melanin, the same stuff that gives us humans our skin coloration. “How is it that I can shine two strobe lights at them and all that light just disappears?”įrom an invisible gecko to a blorpie fish, these atypical animals are a testament to natural selection. “I had tried to take pictures of deep-sea fish before and got nothing but these really horrible pictures, where you can't see any detail,” she says. This wasn’t her first photo shoot with a deep-sea fish, so it couldn’t be operator error. “I was trying to take pictures of it, and I was just getting these silhouettes,” Osborn says. ![]() Yet when she put the fangtooth in front of the camera, it turned into a living black hole-the outline was there, but not the fine details, as if the fish was devouring light. Using her custom-built system of strobe lights and a camera mounted above a tank, she could capture the rare specimen for science. Osborn got her hands on a fangtooth, a self-explanatory creature with a mouth full of nasty, big, pointy teeth, attached to a stout, teardrop-shaped body. Bobbing along on the research vessel Western Flyer just outside California’s Monterey Bay, marine biologist Karen Osborn and her colleagues were hauling deep-sea fish to the surface for cataloging and a photo shoot. Gander mountain duck call neck holeder10/30/2023 ![]() On January 4, 2018, Camping World announced an official list of stores that will reopen under the new Gander Outdoors branding, where 69 stores will open.įrom 2019 to 2020, Gander Outdoors replaced its parent company Camping World as the title sponsor of NASCAR's Truck Series. Not all stores will remain closed if a new lease can be worked out with each landlord. The new owner, Marcus Lemonis, has clarified through his account on Twitter that the bankruptcy court has sold the inventory and is liquidating it. On May 5, 2017, Gander Mountain announced via its website the upcoming closure of all of its locations. On April 28, 2017, Camping World Holdings was announced as the winner of the bankruptcy auction of Gander Mountain. The company filed for bankruptcy in March 2017 with plans to close 32 stores. ![]() In 1996 it sold its mail order division and then later acquired the watersports company Overton's in order to relaunch its mail order business. ![]() In the 1990s the company sought bankruptcy protection and began to rebuild its business once it emerged. As of March 2017 the chain had 162 stores in 27 states, making it the largest chain of outdoors specialty stores in the United States. Wilmot is located near Gander Mountain, the highest point in Lake County, Illinois a short distance across the state line. Gander Mountain Incorporated began as a catalog-based in Wilmot, Wisconsin. Paul, Minnesota, was a retail network of stores for hunting, fishing, camping, and other outdoor recreation products and services. Gander Mountain, later known as Gander Outdoors and Gander RV, headquartered in St. 5,606 (2,325 full-time) (January 2009) Īrchived official website at the Wayback Machine (archived March 3, 2010) AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |