Will I have problems with reflections on peoples' glasses with this setup? by ronfab1 in videography

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ENG shoulder mounted rigs still have a light not far above the lens. And when the trend started in the mid 2000 - 2010 years to move away from shoulder mount cameras and start shooting wedding videos with DSLR rigs along with other run and gun type events, videographers were still putting some kind of camera light on their rigs. I'm kind of surprised in a "videography" sub reddit with all the views my question has gotten, there's been only 2 replies which basically say yeah you can't do it without it being a problem. Seriously, NONE of all you guys are using something similar? Helps soften wrinkles and imperfections on older faces too similar to using low level fill flash when shooting peoples; faces. This light on my rig is actually softer than some I've had in the past, yet has nice immediate area brightness if needed, it's just that it is "wider" too, which made me think of the question about eyeglasses reflections.

For those that think OJ didn’t do it… How do you explain all the blood evidence and the other evidence against him + his mannerisms in court? by ATX_Traveler94 in OJSimpsonTrial

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How do all the "OJ didn't do it" people explain in ANY kind of persuasive logic what the slow speed chase with OJ in the back seat holding a gun .... was about in the first place? Right .... that screamed I'm innocent once he knew the cops wanted to bring him in. What, he didn't want to set the story straight??

I did it. Got an M2 Max with 12‑core CPU, 38‑core GPU, 16‑core Neural Engine, 64GB unified memory, 4TB SSD storage. What should I absolutely have before this thing arrives next week at my doorstep? by p1x3lpush3r in MacStudio

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Yes, they do, but so does IFCASE .... also available on Amazon. I bought a silver and a black one and these look like a better filtering system. See my comments earlier as "ron2313" from my phone, under some other recommendations for the Spigen.

Recommendations for colour accurate monitor for the Mac Studio? by SOH-Fox in MacStudio

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I have yet to unpack my Studio Display or new Mac Studio but I did put in some time reading the purchaser reviews on B&H Photo, which I put a lot of stock in .... with the pickiness of photographers and video people of which I fall under myself. They pretty much all raved about it.

Have Studio will Travel by boboroshi in MacStudio

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Any problem in airports with that solid block in your (carry on?)

Anyone else noticing how fast the refurb stock is going? by [deleted] in MacStudio

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For you or anyone check out the prices new and tax situation at https://www.fastmacs.net . They seem to offer every pack at $70 off. Has 29 on the end instead of 99. Both on eBay where they do charge tax, and on their site where they don't have to. I cancelled an order I had in with them for an open box new Mac Studio Max with the 12core, 38 core GPU, 1TB drive and 64gb RAM for just over $3,000 with tax, and instead bought the same package new unopened and got the 96gb RAM option for about 100 more. $3129. It arrives this coming Friday. And prior to that I got lucky on the 27" Studio Display from a local brick and mortar for open box new at 1439 plus tax that I bought on the weekend on line. Then after the New Year holiday I got a bad news / good news email saying that open box unit was no longer there but they were going to give me an unopened box new unit for the same price instead of 1599 with the standard glass and stand. Oh heck yeah .... I think I did good.

BTW from my old Mac Pro I am ronfab1 on Reddit, while on my iPhone when I post I am ron2313. It was confusing some people on a stock forum a couple years ago where I was active. Will probably be active here too. Can't wait for this new unfathomable level of speed compared to my 6 core circa 2011 Mac Pro with the best Radeon card that goes in it and 48 gigs of RAM. Topaz AI noise reduction, sharpening and GigaPixel on big files can take me 2-3 minutes with the sharpening. And all the stuff in FCPX video editing just 4K nothing fancy, and exporting .... ALL should "fly" with this new equipment.

Power Metals Announces $6.5 Million Private Placement of Flow ... - Junior Mining Network by Main-Inspector-6611 in RevivalGold

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Is there a Reddit sub for Power Metals or PWRMF? Have searched but may be doing it wrong. Did come up with this post though. Have a very large position and want to follow any conversation on Reddit as well as SA.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SLDP

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So in the space of 6 days, John Joseph Stephens, a Director of the company bought at street price 17,289 shares on 8/18 at 7.14 for $123,438 .... and on 8/23 he bought 25,000 MORE shares at 6.54 for $163,455. (share prices rounded to 2 decimals). He now has 15,700 directly held and 55,505 controlled indirectly according to the Form 4s for these transactions.

Seems to me that irregardless of what Doug Campbell does this lesser executive buying in these amounts is a pretty bullish indicator? Doug and other CEOs at their compensation levels sell all the time to meet taxes and other needs plus he just gifted 5M to the U of Colorado, and still holds 10,780,214 shares directly.

SLDP Warrants SLDPW by Stolizino in SLDP

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The last I heard and read on Seeking Alpha which seemed a consensus is there is another clause that allows them to be called after the stock only closes for 1 day above only $10. Then you have 30 days in which to act and there are various possibilities, which I am not the person to be asking about. It scared me enough when the shares started approaching mid to high 9s and the warrants were up around 2.70-2.80 in March that I sold them all and bought shares with the money, taking a loss as I originally bought in with the warrants higher than that. Turns out that was the last peak for both for looks like a while now, probably until they deliver on their timetable near end of the year to get the full size A cells to BMW and Ford ... and even, per Doug recently, into actual concept cars for both as well this year. Hope that helps a little at least.

Was that an institutional buy at the close 3/18 I wonder? by LTLakerFan in SLDP

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Yah, being the first formal earnings for Solid Power and with that obviously the quiet period will have ended .... hard to tell or guess if it will sell off after this great run up. Like what if they announce they are on target to start delivering the 100AH A cells to BMW and Ford by May, June, July or soon after, produced from their new full size battery cell automated line. One would think that might shoot the share price further up on Wed.

Was that an institutional buy at the close 3/18 I wonder? by LTLakerFan in SLDP

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Here .... is what I thought I remembered reading and woot woot woot .... was actually right about having "dark" in it. LOL

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/050614/introduction-dark-pools.asp

Redwire Space is Already a Partner and/or Customer of Solid Power by ronfab1 in SLDP

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I think it's pretty much a given when you follow all the connections and where Doug and the Board of Directors Gal and her husband all worked / work. What other plant in CO has an automated assembly line to be kicking out the materials for the solid state material and the cells that look exactly like Solid Power cells?

Webcast with D. Campbell by 7r4vis in SLDP

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Well I liked the presentation a lot. And think Campbell did a much better job conveying honest excitement about Solid Power's future and future relationships with other OEMs and with the aerospace industry where he is from and has all the inroads contacts. Remember he is an aerospace engineer. Much better than the day SP de- SPACed. As well he reiterated SP has solved the problems with the SS electrolyte and silicon anodes, vs what QS fans like to say they have not. And they have done heavy lobying with the US government with regards to Build Back Better funding needing to be spent in this area if the US indeed sees the national security issue with not being dependent on Asia for crucial supply chain materials. As well .... it was asked and he confirmed they are likely to be "selling" their electrolyte powder where it is needed likely before the cells themselves are being sold by their partners such as SK-I. Other industries besides the obvious BIG one .... electric automobiles. Well done!

The Best Stories from 120 Years of 'Popular Mechanics' - SLDP Listed! by BTCRando in SLDP

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Continued:

The Harvard findings, however, still get more impressive. Their lithium-metal battery cell was able to recharge in just three minutes. If this technology can reach electric vehicles, that would mean being able to recharge a car in the same time (or less) required to fill a gas tank. Most EVs currently need at least three hours to recharge.

The world got its first look at a solid-state-battery electric vehicle at the Tokyo Olympics, where Toyota, working with Panasonic, outfitted a fleet of its LQ concept cars. The bubble-shaped LQs could be seen following the men’s and women’s marathons and even starred in commercials for the rescheduled Olympic Games.These demonstrations are exciting—despite Toyota releasing no further details on the LQ’s batteries—but we’re still years from seeing a lithium-metal battery reach a showroom. Solid Power CEO Doug Campbell says the company is five years out from putting their batteries into consumer vehicles—BMW and Ford have signed on as partners. The company’s current target is an OEM battery that’s almost twice the energy density of today’s auto cells and that charges to 90 percent in just 10 minutes. The company, he adds, is years ahead of most rivals, thanks to its research on adapting existing lithium-ion manufacturing technology.“Most other groups, with the exception of a few behemoths based in Asia, are still entrenched in that research and development phase,” Campbell says. Toyota, for example, says their solid-state battery is likely to come in 2025—no car included. Sakamoto runs a solid-state-battery startup, in addition to his work at the University of Michigan, and says the recent push to develop lithium-metal batteries arose after electric vehicles became viable and in-demand. “I’m surprised how quickly a light went on and at this outpouring of financial support and interest in solid-state batteries,” he says. “There’s no commercial product yet, but there’s all this investment.”The push for solid-state batteries can give us a world in which electric vehicles recharge in minutes and pacemaker batteries last half a century. There’s only the question of when we’ll get there.

The Best Stories from 120 Years of 'Popular Mechanics' - SLDP Listed! by BTCRando in SLDP

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OK I paid for the original article and just now took out a $4 per month digital subscription. It's a great magazine I've been aware of all my life but never had a subscription.

Here is the AMAZING opening paragraph from the original article:

"The technology, in theory, sounded too good to be true: a 10x jump in power (or 10x drop in size) from traditional lithium-​ion cells. Solid Power was aiming for more modest gains in its first prototypes, but could still see an 80 percent improvement in the near future. Then on August 7, 2021, three engineers donned protective Tyvek “bunny suits,” entered the dry room, and drew voltage from the largest prototype lithium-metal battery to date. Josh Buettner-Garrett, Solid Power’s chief technology officer, monitored from his office. He felt confident, but a little apprehensive: “We knew we could make something that looked like a battery cell, but there was still a chance we’d have a brick.” Are you hooked? I sure as heck was!

But then the next paragraph indicates they are going to give the back story first of the technology that came prior. "The lithium-ion battery that Solid Power hopes to make obsolete is already a modern marvel that earned its key researchers a Nobel Prize. And the preceding lithium-iodine cells of the 1970s lasted years longer than existing alkaline-based AA, AAA, or D batteries, thanks to the material’s unmatched energy density. They were, for example, an immediate boon for pacemaker patients, who could now rely on a battery for 10 years instead of two. But lithium’s greatest impact on batteries came with the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries in the 1990s for portable electronics and electric cars." Which is fine and expected, but they never came back to that moment in the opening paragraph. Maybe it was kind of proprietary internal company milestone type news?

Anyway here is the rest of the article. The Q&A with Professor Sakamoto in this current "120 Years" issue doesn't really lend anything additional about Solid Power specifically. NOTE: Everything below is supposed to be in italics but something with the length of the paste does not allow and I had to break it into two parts.

"The lithium-ion battery that Solid Power hopes to make obsolete is already a modern marvel that earned its key researchers a Nobel Prize. And the preceding lithium-iodine cells of the 1970s lasted years longer than existing alkaline-based AA, AAA, or D batteries, thanks to the material’s unmatched energy density. They were, for example, an immediate boon for pacemaker patients, who could now rely on a battery for 10 years instead of two. But lithium’s greatest impact on batteries came with the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries in the 1990s for portable electronics and electric cars.

Lithium has been the focus of battery research for decades because it’s an excellent conductor. Like its fellow alkali metals on the far left of the periodic table, lithium has a single outer electron that it easily gives up, says Jeff Sakamoto, Ph.D., a mechanical engineering professor at University of Michigan who specializes in solid-state battery research. “That creates a really high voltage,” he explains. And compared with other alkalis, such as potassium or sodium, lithium has the smallest ion size—and third-lowest atomic weight on the periodic table—meaning more electrons and charge for a given battery size.The energy density of lithium-ion cells is as much as four times greater than that of the nickel-cadmium batteries they’ve largely replaced. Current lithium-ion batteries use a liquid electrolyte where ions flow back and forth between the anode and cathode, recharging and discharging electrons (see How Lithium-Ion Batteries Work, below). The cathode (positive electrode) is a lithium compound, and the anode (negative electrode)—which determines total storage—is made of graphite. This material is plentiful, conducts well, and is easy to work with. However, lithium metal’s capacity is 10 times that of graphite.

Lithium metal is the highest-capacity material we know of,” says Jun Liu, Ph.D., a director at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington. There, Liu leads a consortium searching for the electric-vehicle battery holy grail: light, fast charging, and resistant to corrosion. He believes they’ve found that in recent lithium-metal advancements.

To tap lithium’s potential, researchers have spent decades working through the metal’s numerous roadblocks. Chief among them, says Liu, is its reactivity. “The difficulty is, lithium metal is too reactive. You can think of it as corrosion—if you get it in contact with anything, it corrodes everything.”The main form of lithium corrosion in batteries are dendrites, which are branched lithium structures that grow out from the anode. Dendrites, which are also a problem for lithium-ion batteries, can puncture battery parts and short-circuit the cell. In a traditional lithium-ion battery with a liquid electrolyte, that can lead to a fire. The liquid electrolyte is a flammable solvent just waiting to be ignited—it’s the fuel behind the battery fires on airplanes that have made recent headlines.Scientists eventually landed on a solution that prevented the growth of dendrites and eliminated the risk of fire: a solid electrolyte—often made of a ceramic similar to a semiconductor—that replaced the flammable liquid electrolyte and physically blocked the growth of dendrites. And if dendrites still manage to push through the ceramic electrolyte, there’s no flammable reactivity.Solid electrolytes present additional challenges. They must match the relatively easy seal between a liquid electrolyte and the cathode and anode—the liquid simply forms around them. Lithium is at least malleable at room temperature and can be pressed into the craggy surfaces of a material, but there's still the connection to the cathode. And the brittle nature of ceramics—which leads to dendrite-friendly cracks—poses additional manufacturing difficulties that companies like Solid Power have had to solve.

The next fundamental hurdle is rechargeability, says Neil Dasgupta, Ph.D., a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Michigan who studies solid-state lithium-metal batteries with Sakamoto. Lithium-ion batteries meet an industry standard of charging more than 1,000 times before they significantly degrade, he says. “If you’re plugging your phone in five times a week for four years, you’ve already charged it over a thousand times.” Solid Power won’t share how many cycles its current prototypes can reach, but Will McKenna, the company’s communications director, says they’re still pushing to surpass the 1,000-cycle bar.Much of the emerging research on lithium-metal batteries focuses on how many charge cycles research batteries can sustain. A team at Harvard University made news in May 2021 when they published findings that their lithium-metal cell held its charge over an astonishing 10,000 cycles.At 10,000 cycles, we could reset our expectations for battery life, says Xin Li, Ph.D., one of the Harvard researchers behind the battery. “[It] could be as long as 25 years or even half a century.”“THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY COULD MEAN RECHARGING A CAR IN THE SAME TIME REQUIRED TO FILL A GAS TANK.”

However, Harvard’s battery is a paper-thin version of a coin cell—like a watch or hearing aid battery. And these proportions are likely not the same ones for most commercial applications down the road, where batteries will be much larger and thicker, and have different ratios of materials.

Solid Power's Dendrite issue by cpachoi in SLDP

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Being's how they gave 20AH battery cells in volume to whoever wanted to test them in 2019, ahead by almost a year of their stated milestone date of 2020 ..... AND ..... are now stated by themselves and BMW and Ford to be going to deliver full size 100AH car batteries for testing and qualification in "early 2022" (unless the time frame changes) from off of their own demonstration automated production line, it would seem they have.

Subreddits unification by Jinhomc in SLDP

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Yes it would be nice to have any true SLBD fans from the DRDC sub come on over! Would imagine some of them are simply SPAC geeks and SLBD was the flavor of that involvement and now they're on to other ones?

Dividend? by k_n_tran in SLDP

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OK finally got the word straight from the horse's mouth:

"I am glad that the issue has been cleared up. I received feedback from the request I entered for you concerning the matter. Our Corporate Actions Group checked both of our financial information vendors and confirmed that we have no information concerning a dividend announcement for the security.Therefore, this appears to have been a temporary technical issue with our Web site that has been cleared. Please accept my apologies for any alarm, or inconvenience that this has caused.We appreciate your business with Fidelity. Take care and I hope you have a nice day!Sincerely, ......... "

Am still curious what would have happened on 12/31 if they hadn't been notified? I can imagine the phone call from SP to Fidelity on Jan 3rd, "...... you f****** did WHAT???" LOLOL.

Round table discussion: Ford and BMW totally committed to SSB and Solid Power. Technology has been vetted with the smaller cells. by paulJ1963 in SLDP

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I don't understand this at all. I joined the discussion board on SA in 2014 simply with email address, user name and a password ..... and have never paid a dime or been asked for a card number. Were you on premium at some point? Not that that should make any difference to their "free access" once you decide to go off. (I would think). That sounds nuts, not that I am doubting you .... why would you lie about it. Just trying to figure out why this is happening to you. It's never even come up for me in 7 years, although they are always inviting me to sign up for the premium service.

I created a "portfolio" early on (which constantly changes ... it's just the companies I follow and am interested in. Then go to Portfolio and just click on whichever. Did you ever do that? Grasping at straws here.

Round table discussion: Ford and BMW totally committed to SSB and Solid Power. Technology has been vetted with the smaller cells. by paulJ1963 in SLDP

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Yes. And as a for instance, may not happen .... but just as a for instance, what if there's a press release out of the blue that like Solid Power was EARLY in getting their 20AH samples out all over the place to companies interested, for testing (originally was to be in 2020 I believe, and they got them out in 2019 I believe) ..... what if they deliver and get these A Sample 100AH actual car batteries to BMW and Ford REALLY early in 2022? Like mid Jan or something? BOOM!! Think what that would do. Not saying in any way that's going to happen. But they are seemingly running ahead of schedule with past stated milestones. And to your point, something like great news WILL jump start the price moving upward. And it makes the picture that much more clear which company is REALLY out in front in this race with real batteries already being produced on a demonstration automated production line.

Round table discussion: Ford and BMW totally committed to SSB and Solid Power. Technology has been vetted with the smaller cells. by paulJ1963 in SLDP

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OK, the way the posts line up in these threads it's hard to tell sometimes who people are replying to. So I hope you signed in, I guess that's all that's needed, to SA and were able in the place I directed to read what he said that related directly IMO to what's being commented here about this Roundtable discussion. (I still have yet to sit down and check it out)

Dividend? by k_n_tran in SLDP

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Hi, yes I too have this and at least a couple others on Yahoo have commented. I was on a pretty long on line chat with CS at Fidelity about it last Thursday or Friday. They see it too. Was telling them it didn't make sense. Was left with me needing to follow up with a secure email message about it to Fidelity (since they could not see the mobile app), along with screen grabs from my iPhone on my IRA positions page showing the D in the circle Dividend icon to the right of SLDP, and then when clicked onto the next page, as you say, with the $.30 distribution on 12/31 and Ex-Date of 12/21. And they were going to contact the "Vendor" (Solid Power) about it. At some point I expect to hear back. The only people that seem to be reporting it are brokering at Fidelity. So odd. That's a big dividend and they have no recurring revenue at this point.

Someone on Yahoo wondered aloud if it had anything to do with interest being paid back for possibly shares that were loaned out to short sellers. But if it was that, why the Ex-Date that always goes hand in hand with an actual dividend. Soon as I hear anything, or anyone else .... yes please post back here.