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Justin
I remember learning about a huge community somewhere in the south west possibly. Where there was a big lake and lots of homes, then the lake dried up and every left, and it is now a big wasteland and looks scary like a nuke went off and the houses and cars and everything is rotting away. What was this town called? Its like wicked cool and was on a podcast on itunes like 5 years ago, long gone. Just wondering where it is and what the place is/was called.
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http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060624/NEWS/606240370/1039
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1499477
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More on the lake that dried up. What the owners did in the 70s.
I wrote about this dried up lake previously. It has been closed off to the public for many years.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/...
But I did not know about this 70s event and had a modicum of sympathy. What they are going to try to do again now, which of course they will have to get state permission to do, is just overboard for a private lake. I saw red when I read this article. I had no idea all this was going on then. I had sympathy, but after reading this I lost it...at least for today.
They tapped into other water resources, they bought their own pump which ran 24 hours a day until they pumped their lake back again. I will fight them if they want to do this again. Our Florida underground system is too fragile to do this for a private lake that has now drained for the second time.
Are webcams inappropriate for radio transmissions?
grayure
I understand that John Barrowman is alleged to have exposed himself to a webcam on air while being interviewed in a BBC radio programme. Whereas this is not good if it happened, do people not feel in any case that a sound medium really shouldn't have a video or other visual element anyway? If you look at the BBC website for various Radio 4 comedy and drama programmes, you see images of the characters or settings. Does this undermine the nature of the medium? Does it mean the pictures are no longer better on the radio?
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I think that radio programs, broadcasted on the web, by adding an webcam, are only proving that radio can adjust. I don't think that there is the need to change the medium.
It's just like newspapers (though I'm not sure that newspapers will last for decades), their websites have all sorts of multimedia, videos, photos, sounds, and, of course, text.
Radio, once it got on the web, did the same. We can listen to podcasts of our favorite programs, but we can also see videos, photos and even text news.
By being videocasted on the web, a radio program is only adding a little extra. The fundamental is still sound. And as long as there is cars, portable audio devices and the ability to broadcast sound, then the radio will last.
Seeing a program host, because there is a webcam pointed at him is just a way of having a glimpse of the backstage - it's not about adding images because moving images are essential. In radio, even on the web, images are just a bonus.
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