Also, you may wonder why you didn't know that McHenry was the designated Speaker Pro Tempore. It's because the list is kept secret by the clerk until a replacement is needed.
So when they voted to get rid of McCarthy, no one (except McCarthy) knew who the temporary successor would be.
Last year's election of McCarthy as Speaker (with ten zillion endless rounds going into the night) was more procedurally urgent than this Speaker election will be. With the new congress, there was no speaker, and the House was basically unable to conduct business until they elected one. But now, mid-term, there's an acting speaker pro tempore (McHenry), and so the House can do other things if it chooses.
I believe that while it's constitutionally possible for the House to elect a nonmember as speaker (it's never actually happened), there would be no congressional salary or benefits for the person elected.
@8c1b1aad Yes, Marble Hill. (If you look at an aerial photo, you can make out the original route of the river.)
They get Bronx phone numbers (the realignment happened before area codes), but a Manhattan Zip code (even though Zip codes happened after the realignment).
And the Borough of Manhattan (New York County) tries even harder to be confusing. It consists of what we normally think of as Manhattan Island, plus all of several small surrounding islands (eg, Randall's Island) and PART of Ellis Island (the rest of which is in New Jersey). And a small piece of the Bronx (because part of the Harlem River between the Bronx and Manhattan was filled in and moved 125 years ago).
So if you get arrested at a crime scene in Marble Hill (the Manhattan neighborhood physically located in the Bronx mainland), you'll be taken into custody by a Bronx cop, taken to the 50th Precinct in the Bronx, but then booked in Manhattan and tried in Manhattan's Supreme Court (but which is not where you'll appeal your conviction).
(This is probably to your advantage if you can't make bail and end up being held pending trial, since the Bronx courts are notoriously backed up.)
So if you get arrested at a crime scene in Marble Hill (the Manhattan neighborhood physically located in the Bronx mainland), you'll be taken into custody by a Bronx cop, taken to the 50th Precinct in the Bronx, but then booked in Manhattan and tried in Manhattan's Supreme Court (but, remember, that's not where you'll appeal your conviction).
(This is probably to your advantage if you can't make bail and end up being held pending trial, since the Bronx courts are notoriously backed up.)
Confusing fact of the day: Trump's trial today was in NY County Supreme Court. Unlike in the federal system and most other states, in NY state the main trial court for most large civil cases and felonies is called a "Supreme Court". Each county has one. ("NY County" is Manhattan). The final appellate court of last resort in NY state is called the "Court of Appeals" (the NY State equivalent of the US Supreme Court).
Yes, this is confusing.
@d4e9c88e Yeah, I'm just not as young as I used to be. I can fit a 4-5 lens kit, camera, back, filters, etc into a Pelican 1535 roll-aboard (with tripod strapped to the outside). I use these modular insertsm, which I can put into a backpack if I need to hike somewhere, but mostly I just work out of the Pelican case (which can double as a platform if I want to be a little taller).
You may have noticed I post occasional photos I've made. I try not to be too overwhelmingly voluminous.
My photographic practice is mostly black & white fine art (and fine art adjacent), usually engaging with architecture or the constructed world, often with a mid-century modernist sensibility.
Many of my photos are stupidly high resolution and best viewed as prints. I don't currently sell prints, but you can freely download full versions from flickr and have prints made locally if you want.
Technical details: I've been pretty much all digital for the last decade or so. I shoot mostly with a technical camera or a view camera and a Phase One digital back. Almost every photo I make involves a tripod. I work infuriatingly slowly.
The senate finished voting around 9pm, which gives the president about 3 hours to receive, sign, and return the bill before funding for the federal government expires at midnight.
How does this actually work? I'm imagining there's some clerk on the Senate floor furiously re-installing drivers for a frozen-up printer, or perhaps searching for an unexpired cyan toner cartridge in time to get a printout ready to drive down to the White House in time.
So, an overwhelming, bipartisan majority of both houses of Congress evidently not only want to keep the government open, they’re actually voting to do so. Democracy is amazing sometimes.
@a29fa4e4 thanks. As soon as I saw the view I knew there there was a photo paying homage to early/mid century modernism. As an added bonus, Georgia O’Keefe’s NYC apartment is in the frame.
@f102de63 I would be very surprised if that were the case. The towers have been pretty well documented at this point, with no sigint role ever mentioned. And a high powered microwave relay would be a TERRIBLE place for an intercept station, with lots of local RF to interfere with wideband receivers.
In addition to the density advantage, cash has a significant liquidity benefit, especially if you're going on the lam in a hurry. While it might raise some eyebrows if you show up at the airport and use a bag full of cash to buy a ticket to some country without an extradition agreement, trying that with gold bars is definitely going to require some serious explaining.
So what's the best way for an entrepreneurial senator to stash their ill-gotten gains? You probably want *some* cash for laming-it level liquidity, but not so much that it looks inherently incriminating in the post-indictment press conference if things go bad.
I'd probably go with moderately valuable art (but nothing TOO rare or recognizable - no Vermeers, etc.). Lots of well off people have art, and sometimes it appreciates in value. Just make sure you have time to sell it in a pinch.
Now, this is less useful than it seems, because while 4724X1873 is a common aspect ratio for film, it's not a common delivery size. It would be scaled down to 4096x1716 to conform to 4K DCI cinemascope format.
None of the above takes into account interactions with the Bayer filter, which would considerably complicate the analysis. But my experiments today with a resolution chart suggest that the effect there is very modest.
Short answer: Let X be the anamorphic squeeze factor (e.g., 1.33, 1.66, whatever). Scale the width of your sensor up by SQRT(X). Scale the height of your sensor down by SQRT(1/X). That's the largest size you can scale that uses all the information the lens captured.
So if you're using a 1.33X anamorphic lens with a 4K sensor (4096 x 2160), you can scale the result up to as large as (approximately) 4724x1873
Both the sensor and the final image have 8,847,360 pixels, just in a different shape.
Now, this is less useful than it seems, because while 4724X1873 is a common aspect ratio for film, it's not a common delivery size. It would be scaled down to 4096x1716 to conform to 4K DCI cinemascope format.
Short answer: Let X be the anamorphic squeeze factor (e.g., 1.33, 1.66, whatever). Scale the width of your sensor up by SQRT(X). Scale the height of your sensor down by SQRT(1/X). That's the largest size you can scale that uses all the information the lens captured.
So if you're using a 1.33X anamorphic lens with a 4K sensor (4096 x 2160), you can scale the result up to as large as (approximately) 4724x1873
Both the sensor and the final image have 8,847,360 pixels, just in a different shape.
Spent the day experimenting with anamorphic lenses to figure out how much resolution you can actually squeeze out of them with digital sensors.
Tl;dr: The theory is pretty simple and actually works in practice, but almost every discussion of it on the Internet gets it wrong.
In addition to the density advantage, cash has a significant liquidity benefit, especially if you're going on the lam in a hurry. While it might raise some eyebrows if you show up at the airport and use a bag full of cash to buy a ticket to some country without an extradition agreement, trying that with gold bars is definitely going to require some serious explaining.
And the Borough of Manhattan (New York County) tries even harder to be confusing. It consists of what we normally think of as Manhattan Island, plus all of several small surrounding islands (eg, Randall's Island) and PART of Ellis Island (the rest of which is in New Jersey). And a small piece of the Bronx (because part of the Harlem River between the Bronx and Manhattan was filled in and moved 125 years ago).
@11521741 I don't think that's right. I believe the position was created specifically to allow Congress to continue to efficiently conduct urgent business of the speaker is incapacitated or killed.
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Confusing fact of the day: Trump's trial today was in NY County Supreme Court. Unlike in the federal system and most other states, in NY state the main trial court for most large civil cases and felonies is called a "Supreme Court". Each county has one. ("NY County" is Manhattan). The final appellate court of last resort in NY state is called the "Court of Appeals" (the NY State equivalent of the US Supreme Court). Yes, this is confusing.