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This is only possible on dedicated ANPR cameras, however, and so cameras used for other purposes must rely more heavily on the software capabilities.

dedicated here?

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Dedicated (when used in this way) means it is used only for that purpose.

I think with Automated Number Plate Recognition it is commonplace. The camera is set up for the optimum distance and correct settings to take just one kind of photograph and also collect information which is usually sent automatically to a single specific site.

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dedicated, got it, thanks you Piffka Smile

btw, where is Kitten and Francis these days? Confused

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^JB^ wrote:

btw, where is Kitten and Francis these days?

Francis is trying to erase the marks you made on his picture Laughing

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Sometimes I really feel not good when my teachers leave me for quite a long time. Smile

Hey Francis I intend to host a thread in Art & Photography named: "Let's see what Francis looks like", in which everyone can draw their own "Francis" on the basis of your partly concealed (that very part!!) picture(Take it easy, Porn or Violence is definitely unacceptable). And you'll the judge the rate each face (You are the only incompetence candidate for this judge :wink: ).

OK? Rolling Eyes

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No

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sorry sir, forget it...

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Thank you ^JB^ :wink:

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You are welcome monsieur Smile

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http://www.paulsimon.com/images/photo14.jpg

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Kitten is around, JB!

I just started a new job this week, so have been very busy...

I'll be preparing my "What does Francis look like?" picture once I have a bit of time off. What a handsome ear he has, eh?

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^JB^ wrote:

Just a little fun, ^JB^ -- my idea of what Francis looks like: a young version of the singer/songwriter, Paul Simon.

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Sorry my buddies, my computer has has some serious trouble. Something like "explosion". I am now using other's laptop. I think I may see you in weeks.

Try your best about your job Kitten, we are always supporting you Smile

Panzade, will our thread be moved out of feature when I am off? Confused

Francis, I will eventually got your face, I swear Smile

either the real or by imagination Very Happy

Piffka, I still have some photos left to post in my "Vision, China" My time is not enough, would you make a brief announcement for my absence, please? Thanks Smile

Wait for me please! I will be back!
Cya. Smile

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Hooray! My PC has become great again! Very Happy

And I can't wait the ask the question :wink:

Yesterday when I was reviewing the movie Schindler's List (the second time), I heard Mrs. Schindler said a word, "charade", to his husband.
How to understand it? Confused

Thanks

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Hooray! JB is back.Your absence was a charade to make us miss you more.Hee Hee
A charade is an act of pretense to fool another.
And no, your thread will stay featured now that you're back.

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Hooray... your computer is great again!!!

Oh, oops. Embarrassed

I forgot to make the announcement, ^JB^ but I'm happy to have you back. I was wondering how much longer you'd be!!

Probably in the film the definition Panzade gave is what was meant, I don't know. I think for your learning of English, you should know that there is a game called Charades that people sometimes play for fun.

The person who is "it" has to get everyone else to guess something based on their acting it out... no words can be used. Usually the guessing is for a title of a book, movie, or TV show.

For a movie, you'd hold one fist in front of your face as though it were a lens, and with your other fist make circles next to your ear or the side of your face -- it's very funny looking.

Here's a website with a good description of Charades with some of the common pantomimes (but lots of people play this without having teams, pencils, and all these rules!): http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/misc/charades.html

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Thanks for you all. Smile

But lets look over the movie:

(Mrs.Schindler Knocked at the door of Mr.Schindler's apartment in Poland, but is shockingly greeted by a woman disorderly dressed)
Mr Schindler: Klonowska, Who is it?

(In the rooms, Klonowska is packing things, Mrs. Schindler is standing with pale face, Mrs Schindler is walking around)
Mr S (looking at Klonowska who is to leave the house): Look at her, she is so embarrassed. You know something? You would like her.
Mrs S: Oskar, please.
Mr S: What?
Mrs S: I don't have to like her, just because you do.
Mr S: You would, though.
Mrs S: It doesn't work that way.
(Mr S sit on a chair, while Mrs S is examining the house)
Mrs S: You've done well here.
Mr S: You look wonderful.

(Mr S and Mrs S step out of the house, the car driver is standing at the door)
CD: Be careful of the step, Miss...
Mr S (interrupt the driver): Mrs Schinder, Marek.
(the driver smiled in amazement)

(In the bar, Mrs and Mr are talking at the table)
Mrs S (with beaming smile on the face): It's not a charade, all this?
Mr S: How could it be a charade?
Mrs S:The clothes, the car, the apartment...
Mr S: Wait a minute. Take a guess how many people are on my payroll.
...........

I maybe have caught the idea but could you do it first? Smile

Thanks

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Neat... you've got part of the screenplay. Well, I found some too and this helped explain the "charade" to me because I didn't see the film. Embarrassed

(It sounded too dark... too sad, so I avoided it. )

My reading of the following is that although his wife is surprised by the girlfriend, she is more surprised that he has so much visible wealth -- fancy apartment, furniture, clothes, and a limousine with a driver. She wonders if it can be real -- how could he be faking this life, that is, creating a charade of wealth where there is none? He says it isn't fake... it is real, he's finally made a lot of money.

(To me, this is a sort of symbol or theme of the real charade... that he puts so many Jews on his payroll to save them.)

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(Start of scene: Schindler's girlfriend, Victoria Klonowska (Malgoscha Gebel), wearing his silk robe covering her slip, answers the door of his apartment early one morning. She feels embarrassed to see Emilie Schindler (Caroline Goodall), Schindler's estranged wife from back home, standing there. The humiliated mistress of the evening hurriedly leaves, thoroughly self-conscious. With self-deprecating innocence and charm after being caught as an unfaithful adulterer, Schindler flatters his wife: "You look wonderful." That night, they emerge from his apartment building in formal clothes to go to a fancy restaurant. With his reputation for women, the doorman can't quite believe that the woman on Schindler's arm is indeed "Mrs. Schindler.")

During dinner, Schindler explains that his wealthy accoutrements (car, apartment) are "not a charade" - he has 350 workers on his factory payroll.

Schindler: Three hundred and fifty workers on the factory floor with one purpose...to make money - for me!...They won't soon forget the name Schindler either. I can tell you that. Oskar Schindler, they'll say. Everybody remembers him. He did something extraordinary. He did something no one else did. He came here with nothing, a suitcase, and built a bankrupt company into a major manufactory. And left with a steamer trunk, two steamer trunks, full of money. All the riches of the world...There's no way I could have known this before, but there was always something missing. In every business I tried, I can see now it wasn't me that had failed. Something was missing. Even if I'd known what it was, there's nothing I could have done about it, because you can't create this thing. And it makes all the difference in the world between success and failure.
Emilie: Luck.
Schindler: War.

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As a sidebar Piff, I urge you to see the movie. Sure it's dark at times for it's a dark subject but the essence of the movie(or book if you prefer) is that there is a light of human kindness in the darkest hours.

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