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The writing was too good from pages 41 to 43 that I couldn't decide what I wanted to tab. But I couldn't bring myself to care much so I decided to go with the vibes and use whatever colours without attaching a meaning to them.īut my annotations kicked off only from page 41. It wasn't the same as the one I used before. I was so absorbed in the story and gripped by the words that I picked the wrong coloured sticky tab. My next annotation was on page 18 when I came across a profound line. It takes a while to explain the entire set up but we are also kept engaged so we don't feel confused or bored. It is almost as if the main character was made to be very simple in the beginning so that readers don't have a hard time grasping the world-building and the main character's position in that world. It was really easy to understand the setting and the main character's thoughts. Once I started reading the story, I was hooked on it immediately. The above quote is definitely going into the dump.Īfter learning that the story was first written in about 9 days in a feverish haze, I was super intrigued to get into it. I want to pull all of these pieces together into a quotes dump one day so that I can simply read them when I need motivation. I've been reading a bunch of books about creativity this year so when I find any good line about it in any book, I highlight it. ![]() The grand thing is to plunge ahead and see what your passion can reveal. He also gave an insight into his writing process-how he often doesn't know what he's writing until he is actually writing. He spoke about how he wrote the book in 9 days, the circumstances them, and how a bunch of his previous short stories came together in this story. It was in the author's special foreword for the book's fiftieth anniversary. I tend to choose the set first and decide on the exact colours based on what I wanted to highlight while reading. I didn't choose exactly which colours I would use. I also chose a set of sticky tabs that matched the book cover in some way. I planned on selling the book back to the second-hand bookstore I frequent so I didn't want to make permanent marks. Whenever I pick up a new book, I make some flexible decisions about annotation based on my expectation of the book, my mood, and whether I want to unhaul the book soon.įor Fahrenheit 451, I decided that I would use only sticky tabs. My copy is blurbed by Barack Obama and has a special foreword and afterword by the author where he talks about how the book came to be and what it has led to. Surprisingly, I picked this book up mere weeks after buying it instead of procrastinating for months (or years) like I generally do. ![]() Somehow, I'm a little more open to trying new books-especially ones out of my comfort zone-when I come across them in the bookstore. On my next bookstore visit, I passed by the book and impulsively picked it up. my review & moreįahrenheit 451 was never a big spot on my radar but someone I follow spoke highly about it a few weeks back which made me intrigued. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.Ĭontent Warnings: brainwashing, violence, suicide, murder, war, injury, oppressive government. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. ![]() Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before. Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. ![]() ![]() Some areas have now become a bit complex, but it’s still pretty darned easy, especially compared to the full-featured image editors like Photoshop or GIMP. Over the years, Google has added more and more features. When we started teaching Picasa about 7 years ago, it was drop-dead easy. The free price certainly has something to do with that, but Picasa also gives you the greatest capability for the least effort. Why we Still Like Picasa the BestĪs you can see from the crowd of over 700 people in one of our Picasa Seminars for FMCA, Picasa is very popular. On Windows computers, the gold standard photo editing program is Adobe Photoshop ($700!) or Photoshop Elements ($99.) There are also several free programs, including Microsoft’s offering – Windows Live Photo Gallery, and a full featured, Photoshop workalike called GIMP. ![]() Many people with Macintosh computers are very happy with iPhoto which comes preinstalled on their Macs – even though Picasa does have a fully compatible Macintosh version. We teach several seminars on it, produced over 60 tutorial videos, have a website dedicated to Picasa, and wrote a book on it! But, we know it’s not the only game in town. It’s a free program that you download to your computer from Google. At Geeks on Tour, we’ve been evangelists for Picasa over 7 years now. If you put your pictures onto your computer, which we think you should, then you have lots of choices for what software to use for managing and editing them. For RVers, like us, you can quickly rack up thousands of pictures! I’ve been known to take over 100 pictures in any given day when we’re traveling thru beautiful countryside. You can see right away if you captured the image you wanted, and take more shots if you didn’t. You can subscribe to our free e-newsletters, or become a paid member and be able to view all of the videos in the Learning Library.īy Chris Guld, Aren’t digital cameras great?! Just snap away to your heart’s content, no worries about wasting film, or costing more money, or taking up more space. Geeks on Tour is a membership website with hundreds of Tutorial Videos on topics of interest to travelers, such as managing digital photos with Picasa, Route-Planning with Streets and Trips, and sharing your travels with a website using Blogger or with friends on Facebook. Try it – you’ll like it! This tip brought to you by Geeks on Tour ![]() And, ‘Teeth whitener’ may be gone, but you can accomplish the same thing with ‘Face Paint’ using the white color and a high level of transparency. But, other things, like ‘Wrinkle removal’ have just changed names … it’s ‘airbrush’ now. For example, I know a lot of people liked the special redeye removal for furry friends – I can’t find that feature anymore. It doesn’t have all the features that Picnik had. (5/17/12 note: I just downloaded the latest update to Picasa and the button now correctly reads “Edit in Creative Kit” – that’s build 136.02) The surprising thing is that the Picasa desktop software still has an Edit in Picnik button – and it works! It sure looks exactly like Creative Kit to me (the 3 stars is the logo for creative kit), but all the labels still read ‘Picnik.’ So, if you have resisted upgrading to Picasa 3.9 because you didn’t want your ‘Edit in Picnik’ button to go away – fear not! It is still there, and it works better (faster) than ever. They’ve reorganized it, streamlined it, and made it faster. And, if you use Picasa Web Albums, or Google+ to share your photos online you have the online editing features called ‘Creative Kit.’ Creative Kit is Google’s reincarnation of Picnik – for Google photo products. Picnik is now Creative Kitīut wait … reports of Picnik’s death may have been greatly exaggerated! Have you noticed the extra 2 tabs of effects in Picasa 3.9? Most of those features were taken from Picnik. No more could you enjoy the special tools it brought to the table like framing your pictures or adding ‘stickers’ (little clip art) or wrinkle removal, or shine-be-gone. Last month it was announced that Picnik – the online photo editing software that Google bought in 2010 – was closed. ![]() Holmes has crafted a clever rom-com romance, even if it does fall into familiar trope territory.Īlone Together is Holmes’s second directorial feature. Anyone who’s seen a rom-com will probably roll their eyes at the heavy foreshadowing pointing towards June and Charlie’s likely reunion at the end. When Charlie and June go on a bike ride through town, Charlie stops in front of a quaint inn and comments if the world were ending, that’s where you’d find him. Charlie and June are opposites – he prefers Mcdonald’s while she’s used to Michelin-star cuisine – who can’t help but fall in love. Intriguing premise aside, there are some rom-com traps that Holmes can’t avoid. While many of us may not have been able to escape to a nice idyllic countryside Airbnb, who amongst us didn’t also engage in at-home karaoke, card games, or art projects like June and Charlie? She also doesn’t shy away from the trauma, as the daily news briefs from former NY Governor Cuomo can be heard playing in the background in many scenes. It’s also a bold choice to make a rom-com about two stranded strangers set during one of the most traumatic times of Covid-19. It’s a clever premise that Holmes evolved, taking inspiration from those viral stories of stranded travelers who forged bonds with other stuck travelers during the pandemic. The two houseguests occupy their time with games, booze, and socially distant fast-food runs, and soon find themselves falling for each other. John decides to stay in the city, leaving June to ride out the pandemic with Charlie. She arrives at the countryside house to find it’s been double booked by another guest, Charlie ( Jim Sturgess), a rugged mechanic. She’s setting out to meet her boyfriend John ( Derek Luke) on a brief escape from the city as it shuts down due to Covid-19. It’s a strong second directorial feature from Holmes, even if her script leans on some overused rom-com tropes.Īlone Together follows June (Holmes), an uptight NYC food critic who makes the trek from the Upper West Side to a countryside Airbnb in the early days of the pandemic. Remember the early days of the pandemic? The times in March 2020 when the world was in denial of the catastrophe heading our way? That’s the setting of Alone Together, Katie Holmes’s newest film, which she wrote and directed in addition to starring in. At our early childhood learning center in CT, your child always has a secure place to play and learn, regardless of weather conditions. This allows abundant room for your children to stretch both their growing bodies and their developing minds!Īdditionally, the Stamford, CT preschool and daycare facility includes indoor gym space and a fully fenced outdoor play area with a safe, age-appropriate playground. Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) therapy uses a childs individual goals to establish lessons for growth in areas for improvement. This facility is 9,500 square feet, far exceeding the state requirements for an early childhood learning center in CT. 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BUILDING BLOCKS EARLY LEARNING CENTER CAMP AVENUE I've bought models of the light general aviation aircraft I fly in real life (Cessna-172, Pipersport Sportcruiser, Diamondstar DA-40), and would say they are modelled pretty damn realistically! I cannot attest to how true-to-life a 747 or SR-71 Blackbird is modelled in this game - but it seems to have A TON of buttons in the cockpit, and things like spooling up/down the APU are modelled realistically. The fidelity of aircraft - depends on where you get each aircraft from (they are sold separately). The _visual_ realism is so-so - meaning you get American-looking streets and trucks on the street in Russian cities -I guess they used one set of assets to fill the entire world. The world quality of Global Scenery mod is pretty damn amazing - I've tried flying in multiple areas, from Los Angeles and San Francisco area to a town in Siberia, Russia - the _practical_ realism (in terms of layout of the roads and terrain) - is amazing. The map weather editor has some GUI buttons become inactive, requiring an alt+tab from and to the application to re-activate the buttons. Both solutions are potentially feasible for semi-professional pilot training and practice. That, or you'll need to have a local hard drive set with all that data. A solution like that would likely be available, perhaps from MS Flight Sim 2020 - when they finally release it with streaming world data in real-time (as you're flying) from a server containing many Terabytes of Googe Earth data. Of course, if one comes in expecting GTA-V level of detail on a map containing the entire planet - they would be disappointed. Personally I was amazed how the Global Scenery mod contains the ENTIRE WORLD modelled within about a 50Gb download package. I cannot comprehend how R_pilotkostGR says that this game doesn't have good scenery and environment. It doesn't have typical "game" elements per se, and some might find it lacking in that regard. ![]() This is first and foremost - a flight simulator, most useful for training/practice piloting real aircraft. This I've recently got an actual Sport Pilot license and so I can compare playing this game with flying real single-engine light aircraft. I've recently got an actual Sport Pilot license and so I can compare playing this game with flying real single-engine light aircraft. I use the free ATC plugin that works flawlessly. I would do either of those options as the biggest problem with X-Plane has always been the built in ATC is awful and you are better off ignoring it in many cases. A very good ATC is available as a plugin free. Using some networks, you can fly with human ATC (or become one of those ATC). Want to explore the world from above? Want to find challenging places to land? Want to practice for real flight? This is for you. With addons it can be expensive, but amazing (some great addons are free too).I spend way too much time in X-Plane 11 using the PC edition without Steam. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can get addons for missions or challenges (I like Air Hauler 2 for missions and building a company). If you want pretty but not necessarily accurate and unrealistic flight, then go with MSF. If you want pretty but not necessarily accurate and unrealistic flight, then go with If you want realism and beauty, X-Plane 11 is for you. If you want realism and beauty, X-Plane 11 is for you. ![]() “We know there is more to do which is why we are consulting on a Major Conditions Strategy to tackle cardiovascular disease - including strokes and diabetes – and we have opened 108 community diagnostic centres that have delivered over 4 million tests, scans and checks including for those with cardiovascular disease. Professor John Greenwood, president of the British Cardiovascular Society, said the findings were “worrying” with Covid not only causing direct effects in increasing heart risks, but with the pandemic having a knock-on effect on NHS treatment and prevention of heart problems.Ī Government spokesman said: “We are cutting waiting lists, ambulance response times are falling, staff increasing and we are improving access to blood pressure and health checks. OHID now includes the broader disease category of “cardiovascular disease or CVD” which reveals for the first time how many excess deaths there have been involving all heart and circulatory conditions since the onset of the pandemic, with data taking account of an ageing and growing population. ![]() Last year research revealed more than 30,000 excess deaths involving coronary heart disease since the pandemic began, according to OHID data. Yet people are struggling to get potentially life-saving heart treatment when they need it due to a lack of NHS staff and space, despite cardiovascular disease affecting record numbers of people.” The associate medical director at the BHF said: “Long waits for heart care are dangerous – they put someone at increased risk of avoidable hospital admission, disability due to heart failure and premature death. Other major factors are likely contributing, including the extreme and unrelenting pressure on the NHS over the last few years.” “It can do this by prioritising NHS heart care, better preventing heart disease and stroke, and powering science to unlock future treatments and cures.”ĭr Sonya Babu-Narayan, a consultant cardiologist, said: “Covid-19 no longer fully explains the significant numbers of excess deaths involving cardiovascular disease. ![]() “There is no time to waste – Government must take control of this crisis to give heart patients and their loved ones hope of a better and healthier future. If little changes, we could continue to see a sustained rise in death rates from cardiovascular conditions that undoes decades of scientific progress to reduce the number of people who die of a heart attack or stroke. ![]() “For years now, it has been clear that we are firmly in the grip of a heart and stroke care emergency. “My heart goes out to every family who has endured the pain of losing a loved one, all too often in distressing circumstances. The figures from March 2020 to March 2023 show 839,467 deaths in England involving CVD – 13 per cent more than the 742,927 expected.ĭr Charmaine Griffiths, chief executive at the BHF, said: “It is deeply troubling that so many more people with cardiovascular disease have lost their lives over the last three years. The BHF also raised concern about a potential rise in heart problems linked to Covid, with separate research showing those who caught the infection before the vaccine rollout were five times more likely to die in the 18 months after infection. NHS figures show two million fewer people had their blood pressure under control in 2021 compared with the year before. Meanwhile, care of patients with conditions such as high blood pressure – which increases the risk of heart attacks and strokes – has deteriorated. Response times have been consistently above 30 minutes since the start of 2022. In December, average waits for ambulances for 999 calls involving heart attack patients breached 90 minutes, against a target of 18 minutes. While excess cardiovascular deaths in the first year of the pandemic were linked to coronavirus infections, heart deaths have remained high since Covid deaths fell.Ĭardiac experts said “severe ongoing disruption to NHS heart care” was among the factors driving the continued increase, with record delays for ambulances in recent months. The British Heart Foundation (BHF) analysis of data from the Government’s Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) revealed an extra 96,540 deaths of patients with heart conditions since February 2020. The study of government data revealed almost 100,000 extra deaths among people with cardiovascular disease (CVD) since spring 2020.Įxperts said NHS disruption to heart care and increasing ambulance delays for heart attack and stroke victims had left Britain “in the grip of a heart and stroke care emergency”. 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