![]() Interviews, television spots, and magazine articles followed. Heinemann and Pan, prestigious publishers, eagerly fell on the book and when it was published it won the famous Times Information Book Award. At the age of 15 he decided he'd write an information book about collecting. Richie, her elder son, had always been nuts about natural history and had a huge collection of animal skulls. Her switch into writing came about in a peculiar way. She loved teaching in Sussex but after 12 years she became frustrated and dissatisfied with new rules and regulations, which she felt turned her into a drudge. During her degree course she met her present husband, a kind, thoughtful, attentive man who is her friend and soul mate. From being rendered nervous, uncertain, and cabbagelike by her dominating ex-husband, she soon became confident and outgoing again. A new life opened up with an offer of a teacher training place. She ran an all-day playgroup and was a seaside landlady at the same time, catering for up to 11 people - bed, breakfast, and evening meal.įinally she realised that she and her husband were incompatible! Divorce lifted a weight from her shoulders. Married at 21, she had a son by the age of 22 and another three years later. Sara won a rare scholarship to a public school, but university would have stretched the budget too far, so she left school at 16 and took a secretarial course. From him she learned that working hard brought many rewards, especially self-respect. ![]() ![]() Sara's father was one of four fostered children and never knew his parents, hence his joy with his own family.īirthday parties were sensational - her father would perform brilliantly as a Chinese magician or a clown or invent hilarious games and treasure hunts. Her parents were desperately poor but their devotion to family life gave her a feeling of great security. Sara has wonderful memories of her childhood.
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![]() The e-cigarette industry continually developed "new and improved" versions of their product in order to expand their market and increase sales. Fast forward a decade and a lot has happened Astonishingly, e-cigarette manufacturers were never required to demonstrate that their devices were safe, or even safer than combustible cigarettes - the idea that a product could be more health-harming than tobacco seemed so unfathomable as to be not worthy of serious consideration. Remember those barriers from earlier? Create coping plans.E-cigarettes burst onto the scene in the 2010s and were quickly embraced by the public as a solution to the problem of smoking, even heralded by former Surgeon General Richard Carmona as having "very meaningful harm reduction potential" for adult smokers. Your teen will likely have some trouble quitting. They may need extra help weaning off e-cigarettes. Next, if your teen has been using nicotine vapes – and many vapes contain nicotine even if they are not labelled as such – they may be addicted.Ĭontact the Quitline (details below) or see your GP to discuss support for your teen. Make sure you reward your teen or they reward themselves for achieving their goals, even the small ones. Once achieved, these goals can be made more challenging until gradually, your teen has succeeded in quitting vaping. This might mean “This week, I will only vape on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.” But your teen may need to set smaller goals first. That goal might be to quit vaping by a certain date. Work with your teen to develop a SMART goal that is Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, with a Timeframe. Once your child is motivated, it’s time to set a goal to quit. ![]() It might also help to tap into their values and use these to highlight that their vaping isn’t aligned with who they want to be.įor example, if they are skipping class to vape but are usually a diligent student, discuss this discrepancy and the longer-term impact of their dependence (for example, not getting into uni).Ī parent's guide to why teens make bad decisions ![]() For example, if they have been using vapes to relax, help them find other ways of reducing stress. ![]() Once you have an idea of the costs and benefits your child perceives, you’ll be in a better position to help them. What is your teen worried will happen if they try to quit? Have they been using vaping to relax and are worried they will become more anxious? Are they worried about losing friends? Do they think they won’t be able to quit? You can do this using a practical exercise.ĭiscuss potential barriers that might get in the way of quitting. Use that knowledge to balance the benefits of quitting with the costs of not quitting. You can both use those reasons to help motivate quitting. Ask them what led to them wanting to quit and their reasons for wanting to give up. What should I say? 3 expert tips on how to approach 'the talk' We know motivation is critical to behaviour change.īut if you’re a parent of a teen who isn’t ready to try quitting, you need to work on boosting their motivation to quit first. So, what do you do?įirst, acknowledge it’s a great sign your teen wants to quit and is asking for help. But you know criticism and lecturing don’t work. You might want to reprimand your child, or say “If your friends jumped off a cliff, would you do it?”. You’ve seen the news and you know e-cigarettes are harmful. Even we were surprised at the marketing tactics we found Sex and lies are used to sell vapes online. ![]() They reasoned that the town would earn more in sales tax revenue that they would lose from coins in those meters. When the downtown merchants found out that there was going to be a traffic signal and realized that it might stop some traffic and tourists could actually cross the street without getting run over by a log truck, they asked the town to remove the parking meters. Later, fill dirt was brought in and compacted and that parking area was added. It sloped right off to the river back then. There were meters on that side of the street in that block also. The parking area that no w overlooks the river and hot springs was not there. There were parking meters on the downtown block of the main street. Some of the newcomers protested that they could no longer tell their urban friends and relatives that they lived in a place where there was not even one traffic signal in their entire county. and Highway 160, it was so the students could get across more safely. When we finally got the traffic signal at the corner of 4 th St. The teachers would march their classes to the corner and try to cross the highway. Football games were played there and physical education classes were held there when the weather was suitable. The only playing field for both the high school and middle school was across the highway from where those two schools were, across Hermosa Street from the town park. The first one was placed by Goodman’s Store. There were no traffic signals in the entire county. Ranching and hay production was a distant second in the local economy. An inversion layer of smoke would hang over the river valley and town especially on cold winter mornings. There was a teepee cone burner at the sawmill where they burned the slash until the EPA made them quit. (Sorry!) Actually some of them sped through town and along many of the county roads and on a lot of national forest access roads. Log trucks lumbered through town at all hours. It employed 300 workers at the peak of each year. This will be more of a narrative rather than a story more informative than entertaining or humorous.Īs I mentioned in my first story – “Moving to Pagosa” – the San Juan Lumber Mill on the corner of Highways 160 and 84, was the dominant force in the local economy. ![]() Perhaps this walk-about will help all of us to recognize what the older natives have experienced and endured already in the past 33 years. Obviously, mine relates to 1975, on how I first immersed myself into this community. That point will be different for different people. Change is inevitable, but the idea of “Keeping Pagosa – Pagosa” is necessarily linked to a point in time. I hope this will give the newcomers and some not so new, a feel for the area in earlier times. ![]() Afterward, the Terminal should display this message:.In the Terminal, type the following command:. ![]() Launch the Terminal application by selecting it from the Utilities menu. When the menu bar says: “macOS Utilities,” you are booted into Recovery mode.Keep holding the keys down until the Apple logo appears (this may take up to 90 seconds). Restart the computer and then press the Command + R keys simultaneously, once you hear the startup chime.Steps to Change NVRAM so That Hangs Are Prevented Instructions for Preventing the Hang in macOS 10.15.4Ĭhanging the NVRAM setting requires that you disable SIP. I recommend that after you disable SIP and change the setting in NVRAM, you attach a sticky note to your monitor, reminding you to revert these changes once Apple fixes this problem. The instructions at the bottom of this post show you how to revert NVRAM to the original (default) settings and how to re-enable SIP. By disabling SIP, you could be making your Mac more susceptible to malware infections. SIP is a feature of macOS which offers advanced protection from malware. Note: To enable this setting, you will have to disable SIP ( System Integrity Protection). This could result in a 5 – 10% slower read and write performance but will prevent the hang from occurring. One of these debug features allows you to disable the part of macOS which is causing the hang. NVRAM settings are saved in a dedicated chip in your Mac and determines settings such as the audio volume your Mac starts from, the output volume for sound, and which, if any, debugging features are enabled. If you want to prevent this hang, there is a setting in the computer’s NVRAM, which can be changed as a temporary fix. ![]() We Discovered a Temporary Work-Around for macOS 10.15.4 We will update this blog post once we have confirmed that this hang has been fixed in a future release of macOS. I can’t say when Apple will release the fix for this problem, but in the past, when they have been alerted to a hang or kernel panic, they had it resolved in the next update to macOS. Once we proved the hang was not a problem with the SoftRAID driver, we alerted Apple engineers to the issue and collected further information to help them with their investigation. We then were able to reproduce the hang on an AppleRAID volume, using the AJA System Test Lite test application. Using a kernel debugger, we determined that the hang was not caused by an error in the SoftRAID driver. Anytime we hear about this type of problem, we immediately start looking for a cause.Ī day later, we were able to reproduce the problem 100% of the time by copying 300 GB of large (10 GB) files from one SoftRAID RAID volume to another. They were having their Macs stall when transferring hundreds of gigabytes of video from their 4K and 8K camera cards to their OWC ThunderBlades and ThunderBays. Investigating the HangĪ few days after the macOS 10.15 update was released, we began to hear of “Finder hangs” from DITs (Digital Imaging Technician) on movie sets. ![]() When you encounter the hang we are discussing, you can still move your mouse but are no longer able to copy files. If so, you may have already encountered hangs copying files after you upgraded to macOS 10.15.4. UPDATE: This issue was fixed in macOS 10.15.5Īre you working on a movie set, transferring hundreds of gigabytes from a camera card to a RAID array? Are you a photographer trying to copy a large project from one volume to another? ![]() This illusion starts to work at about 16 frame/s, and common motion pictures use 24 frame/s. This manifests itself in a number of ways, but the most important in terms of producing moving images is the way that a series of still images displayed in quick succession will appear to be continuous smooth motion. The eye has limited bandwidth to the rest of the visual system, estimated at just under 8 Mbit/s. However, post-processing of the optic nerve and other portions of the human visual system combine the information from the rods and cones to re-create what appears to be a high-resolution color image. This means that the eye has far more resolution in brightness, or " luminance", than in color. A typical retina contains 120 million rods and 4.5 million to 6 million cones, which are divided into three types, each one with a characteristic profile of excitability by different wavelengths of the spectrum of visible light. The human eye's detection system in the retina consists primarily of two types of light detectors: rod cells that capture light, dark, and shapes/figures, and the cone cells that detect color. While the changeover is complete in many countries, analog television remains in use in some countries. Color broadcasting in Europe did not standardize on the PAL or SECAM formats until the 1960s.īroadcasters began to upgrade from analog color television technology to higher resolution digital television c. Although the NTSC color standard was proclaimed in 1953 and limited programming soon became available, it was not until the early 1970s that color television in North America outsold black-and-white/monochrome units. In the United States, competing color standards were developed, finally resulting in the NTSC color standard that was compatible with the prior monochrome system. In August 1944, Baird gave the world's first demonstration of a practical fully electronic color television display. Monochrome transmission standards were developed prior to World War II, but civilian electronics development was frozen during much of the war. Development of electronic scanning and display made a practical system possible. ![]() A demonstration of mechanically scanned color television was given by John Logie Baird in 1928, but its limitations were apparent even then. Transmission of color images using mechanical scanners had been conceived as early as the 1880s. The invention of color television standards was an important part of the history and technology of television. Television broadcasting stations and networks in most parts of the world upgraded from black-and-white to color transmission between the 1960s and the 1980s. It improves on the monochrome or black-and-white television technology, which displays the image in shades of gray ( grayscale). A color television test at the Mount Kaukau transmitter site, New Zealand in 1970.Ī test pattern with color bars is used to calibrate the signal.Ĭolor television ( American English) or colour television ( Commonwealth English) is a television transmission technology that includes color information for the picture, so the video image can be displayed in color on the television set. Row names are Ensembl_IDs, with each sample included as columns. Supplementary_files_format_and_content: Read count quantitation file was generated by counting reads using Rsubread, normalisation with RUVseq package (k = 3, with model.matrix ~d$sex +d$group) followed by vsd normalisation using ‘varianceStabilzingTransformation’ within DESeq2 package. BAM files were imported to Seqmonk v1.45.0. They were mapped to the human GRCh38 genome assembly including ERCC spike-ins using HISAT2 2.1.0 (no soft clipping). You can also download Visio Viewer for iOS to view and interact with the. Reads were trimmed using Trim Galore v0.4.4 ( ) using default parameters to remove the standard Illumina adapter sequence. From Redmond, they want to preach by example and today the tool Visio has. Libraries were sequenced on the Illumina HiSeq 2500 platform, with 6 samples pooled per lane. Library quantitatation was performed using Agilent Bioanalyser, KAPA qPCR and Qubit High-sensitivity kits. Libraries were generated from amplified cDNA using the NexteraXTDNA library preparation kit from Illumina, with nexteraXT indexes. Quality of cDNA was confirmed using an Agilent Bioanalyser. Between 16 and 18 PCR cycles were used for each sample, depending on cell input. ![]() Cells from day 7 after vaccination (cTfhTet) were also sorted on the basis of expressing PD1 and CXCR5 markers.ĬDNA was prepared directly from cells (40-1000 max) lysed in 1x lysis buffer, and amplified acccording to the protocol for the SmartseqV4 Ultra low input RNA kit for sequencing from Takara Clontech. Live CD3+ CD4+ CD45RA- TET+ cells were sorted on a BD Aria Fusion sorter directly into 1x lysis buffer as per the SmartseqV4 Ultra low input RNA kit for sequencing from Takara Clontech. Before sorting, ~10-30 million PBMC cells were thawed in culture media and rested for 2 hours at 37 degrees C, after which influenza HLADR tetramers (TET)added along with a panel of cell surface antibodies. After downloading and installing Microsoft Visio 2016 Viewer, when double-clicking the drawing file (.vsd) in Windows Explorer, it opens Internet Explorer and Visio Viewer renders the drawing in the browser window. ![]() PBMCs were isolated at the Babraham Institute by density gradient centrifugation and cryopreserved in liquid nitrogen. vsd files using Microsoft Visio 2016 Viewer 64 bit. GEO help: Mouse over screen elements for information. ![]() During most of the game where you can use this item, you won't have any more than four Antlions at one time however, once in Nova Prospekt, expect the number to go way up. Alternate fire allows you to call them to you to defend yourself and regroup. Think of the them as shields and defenders for you, as you'll need them throughout the entire Nova Prospekt chapter. You'll have an infinite supply of Bugbait (and of course, an infinite supply of Antlions). That's right, The Pheropod is actually used to summon Antlions to attack any enemy in the vicinity of the Bugbait's range in other words, whereever you throw the Bugbait, they'll go there and attack anything in sight. However, Gordon uses it for a much better cause: to summon Antlions. Like the Gravity Gun, the Bugbait isn't really a weapon at all. Doors with windows, if positioned well when picked up, can act as shields without completely obstructing your view, as can radiators. Exploding items are useful, but remember that if it gets shot, it will blow up in your face. Oil drums (not the exploding kind) appear almost everywhere and have a lot of mass, although they obstruct your view more than some items. Cinder blocks are common in urban areas, and they fly well, don't obstruct your view much, and almost always kill instantly. in the event that you get the big, helicopter-like blade, it is useful, but not as good at a range. Bladed items usually kill in one shot, and saw blades fly fast and accurately. those things are Mass, size, how much it blocks your view, how well it flies, and special abilities such as blades or explosions. When choosing Gravity gun ammo, take a few things into consideration. You can distinguish this Gravity Gun by the blue hue it gives off instead of the normal orange one. Towards the end of the game, the Gravity Gun will be "supercharged" so that it is more powerful and can pick up organic materials - the Gravity Gun can just about pick up anything that's not nailed down at that point. Objects too distant to be picked up outright can sometimes be pulled towards the user with secondary fire. Alternate fire uses a tractor beam that grasps objects (provided they are light enough), allowing them to be thrown with greater accuracy using primary fire, or dropped into place by pressing alternate fire again (this also works on manhacks and pulse rifle alt-fire shots). Primary fire projects a powerful beam of energy (often called a 'punt') at objects that knocks them away (this also works on headcrabs, ant lions, manhacks, and scanners). This is useful for all kinds of things, ranging from physics puzzles to actual combat. While technically not a weapon, the Gravity Gun allows you to pick stuff up and blast it away at high speed. Best used against: Obstacles, headcrabs (all types), zombies, Combine soldiers, manhacks, ant lions.Max damage: Zero-Instant kill/Instant kill. ![]() ![]() But nothing he’s made before has been, strictly speaking, political. His films tend to celebrate traditional gender roles (“Bone Tomahawk”) and have uncomfortable conversations around abortion (“Brawl in Cell Block 99”), race and corrupt cops (“Dragged Across Concrete”) or school shootings (“Run Hide Fight”). He is not afraid of making people uncomfortable. Sonnier’s brand has always been hard R-rated material with deeper messages and themes. And it's not my aesthetic - it's not my brand, anyway. And that is such a neutered way of making movies. And it’s just so typical Hollywood, because they're trying to appeal to everyone and offend no one. ![]() … At one point there was even an evil dog put in the script. All the really icky, dangerous stuff in the movie, like kids (in) danger or a a sexual predator in the house, got removed. All of the stuff about Nana's apple butter. So at one point, everything – all of the religious iconography - got removed. In an exclusive interview with, Sonnier described how hard it was to bring a movie like “Shut In” to the big screen in today’s Hollywood: ![]() He is the producer of “Shut In,” as well as “Run Hide Fight,” “Bone Tomahawk” (starring Kurt Russel and Patrick Wilson), “Brawl in Cell Block 99” (starring Vince Vaughn) and “Dragged Across Concrete” (starring Vince Vaughn and Mel Gibson). “We’re not making ‘Christmas Romance in the Rockies’ or ‘Hillary’s Hard Drive Part III,’” he told Axios. Jeremy Boering, CEO of the Wire has insisted that he and his team are not interested in making explicitly religious or political movies but rather movies that resonate with the values of their audience in ways that mainstream Hollywood is increasingly reluctant to make. It has already bought and distributed the Bonfire Legend-produced “Run Hide Fight” and produced a handful of comedy specials by Adam Carolla under the umbrella of “Truth Yeller,” but this is its first “Daily Wire Original” feature film. This is part of The Daily Wire’s overall push to diversify its platform from the political commentary that has made it a $100 million company. “Shut In” is produced in collaboration with Dallas Sonnier’s Bonfire Legend production company. You could say the context of the film is more important than the film itself. Hollywood has known this forever and wielded the power of story like a weapon. Stories express values, and values shape culture. “This film is going to be the first step in producing content that you are going to love,” said Ben Shapiro, editor emeritus of The Daily Wire and host of “The Ben Shapiro Show.” “It reflects your values rather than the values of Hollywood. “Shut In” is a solid home invasion horror film that seamlessly integrates faith with its claustrophobic thrills - and “solid” is exactly the bar it needed to clear to be a potential game changer for entertainment produced by religious conservatives for religious conservatives.Ĭonservatives - religious and otherwise - have long railed against a perceived anti-conservative and anti-religious bias in mainstream entertainment. (REVIEW) In a push to create a conservative alternative to Hollywood, the conservative news outlet The Daily Wire produced its first film, premiering Feb. The film centers on a young couple (played by unknown actors Micah Sloat and Katie Featherston – whose characters share their names, to emphasize the film’s attention to realism), and the unnatural goings-on at their suburban San Diego home. Much like the original Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity cut costs to the bone by weaving the low-budget production into the story, and acknowledging that fear is in the eye – and the mind – of the beholder. Written and directed by first-timer Oren Peli and produced by then-unknown Jason Blum (who used the financial leverage to establish horror hub Blumhouse), the film stands as an incredible success story for its makers, as well as an impressive movie all on its own. ![]() The film was shot on a shoestring budget of $15,000, yet earned over $100 million domestically, making it one of the most profitable films in Hollywood history. Just the utterance of those two words is enough to make a studio executive impulsively salivate. To explain how and why once-frightening concepts have grown homogenized and ineffectual, let’s look at one of the most successful horror film franchises in recent years – Paranormal Activity. That usually means greater levels of violence, and less focus on mood and atmosphere. This is especially true nowadays, when audiences have proverbially “seen it all,” and Hollywood is pressured towards making bombastic SFX-apaloozas in hopes that it will shock and frighten moviegoers. I’ve previously written about how the best horror films benefit from leaving the scariest material unseen no amount of blood or gore can compete with a viewer’s untapped imagination. ![]() Slasher films had audiences screaming in the ’80s, before Jason went to space and Freddy Krueger began terrorizing Rick and Morty. Zombies were frightening when George Romero was behind the camera, but today they serve as cannon fodder on AMC. Dracula was once considered terrifying, until his second cousin started smooching Kristen Stewart. One of the more crushing lessons in our franchise-fatigued world can be derived from horror movies: No idea is scary forever. ![]() poles) are detected and treated specially. For each function to be graphed, the calculator creates a JavaScript function, which is then evaluated in small steps in order to draw the graph. The interactive function graphs are computed in the browser and displayed within a canvas element (HTML5). Otherwise, a probabilistic algorithm is applied that evaluates and compares both functions at randomly chosen places. If it can be shown that the difference simplifies to zero, the task is solved. For example, this involves writing trigonometric/hyperbolic functions in their exponential forms. Their difference is computed and simplified as far as possible using Maxima. The "Check answer" feature has to solve the difficult task of determining whether two mathematical expressions are equivalent. For each calculated derivative, the LaTeX representations of the resulting mathematical expressions are tagged in the HTML code so that highlighting is possible. This, and general simplifications, is done by Maxima. For example, constant factors are pulled out of differentiation operations and sums are split up (sum rule). In each calculation step, one differentiation operation is carried out or rewritten. There is also a table of derivative functions for the trigonometric functions and the square root, logarithm and exponential function. The rules of differentiation (product rule, quotient rule, chain rule, …) have been implemented in JavaScript code. Instead, the derivatives have to be calculated manually step by step. Maxima's output is transformed to LaTeX again and is then presented to the user.ĭisplaying the steps of calculation is a bit more involved, because the Derivative Calculator can't completely depend on Maxima for this task. Like any computer algebra system, it applies a number of rules to simplify the function and calculate the derivatives according to the commonly known differentiation rules. Maxima takes care of actually computing the derivative of the mathematical function. This time, the function gets transformed into a form that can be understood by the computer algebra system Maxima. When the "Go!" button is clicked, the Derivative Calculator sends the mathematical function and the settings (differentiation variable and order) to the server, where it is analyzed again. MathJax takes care of displaying it in the browser. This allows for quick feedback while typing by transforming the tree into LaTeX code. The parser is implemented in JavaScript, based on the Shunting-yard algorithm, and can run directly in the browser. The Derivative Calculator has to detect these cases and insert the multiplication sign. A specialty in mathematical expressions is that the multiplication sign can be left out sometimes, for example we write "5x" instead of "5*x". ![]() In doing this, the Derivative Calculator has to respect the order of operations. It transforms it into a form that is better understandable by a computer, namely a tree (see figure below). For those with a technical background, the following section explains how the Derivative Calculator works.įirst, a parser analyzes the mathematical function. |