Some picture houses, such as Dublin’s Princess in Rathmines mentioned the restrictions in its advertising that week. A promise had, however, been given him that no children would be admitted to such places of entertainment” (“Success of Preventative Measures”).ĭublin’s Princess cinema advises patrons of its new opening hours under the Lighting Order Dublin Evening Mail 28 Oct. This was very tentative and not as explicitly stated as it might have been in the letter, but he expanded it when interviewed by saying that “In America during a somewhat similar epidemic, he understood that churches, cinemas and theatres had been closed for one week, or until the more acute stage had shown signs of passing away, and if the disease continued in Dublin in its present active form it would be desirable to follow the example set by the American authorities in this matter” (“Influenza Epidemic: Outbreak Still Serious”).Ī meeting then took place between Cameron and a delegation of the cinema and theatre owners, the full details of which weren’t published but some details emerged in a report in the Belfast News-Letter in which Cameron remarked that “a deputation representing over 50 cinema theatres had assured him, none of the employees of those houses had been attacked by the malady. He advised that “places where for hours large numbers of people congregate” should be avoided and possibly closed, as were theatres, music halls and even churches in America and as were children’s cinemas in Liverpool (“Sir Charles Cameron’s Advice”). 1918: 4.Īnd on 24 October, he again wrote to the papers, and his advice again mostly focused on children, pointing out that they should not only be kept out of school but also have their play monitored, including perhaps avoiding cinema. The first wave hadn’t had time to really register in relation to cinema – the resurgence of outdoor pursuits typically made summer cinema’s slow season, in any case – and the third wave’s impact in spring 1919 was very similar, albeit with regional variations, to what happened in the autumn of 1918.Ĭameron offered further advice on protecting children Irish Times 25 Oct. While other parts of the country were hit harder by one wave more than others, Dublin, which will receive particular attention here, was hit by all three waves, and particular hard by the second and third (Biener, Marsh and Milne 58-9).Ī focus on the second wave of influenza in Dublin in October and November 1918 doesn’t give the whole picture but it does give a good indication of what was happening with cinema in this pandemic. The first cases of the disease were reported in Belfast, and the city and contiguous areas of the north had a relative severe outbreak in summer 1918. But not all parts of the country were equally affected. ![]() The flu pandemic struck in three waves: the largely unheralded first wave in the summer of 1918, the second wave – the most virulent of the three – in the autumn of 1918 and the almost-as-deadly third wave in the spring of 1919. With COVID-19, we have heard about and may be experiencing a second wave of the infection as during the summer, many countries relaxed strict lockdowns and attempted to return to more normal business. Patricia Marsh’s graph comparing deaths in Belfast and Dublin during the three waves of flu in 1918-19. In a way, I think that this business as usual now looks stranger and more worthy of attention than it did two years ago because of the changed perspective that has come as the world experiences another pandemic a century later. Many cinemas already dealing with the hardships of World War I, remained open despite the deaths in the community around them, from which they drew both their audiences and their staff. Of course, I have been regretting now that I didn’t pursue that earlier piece to research to conclusions several things conspired against it, including a lack of sources, because the issues of Irish Limelight, Ireland’s only cinema magazine of the time, are not extant, and the usually informative “Irish Notes” column in the London-based Bioscope did not appear often during the height of the pandemic.Īs well as this, it looked two years ago like Irish cinema as a whole continued largely unchanged by the pandemic, despite cinema closures in some places. So this is the second wave of my research, prompted by 2020’s COVID-19 pandemic and an invitation to contribute to a webinar panel on the flu pandemic organized by members of HoMER, a network of researchers studying cinema history. ![]() In October 2018, I started a blog about flu, but I never finished it. The title of this blog refers to the fact that this is a second attempt at writing about the killer influenza pandemic and how it impacted on cinema in Ireland in 1918-19.
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Typical use accounts for missing a pill or two, being a bit late with a new pack, or some other incident that prevents someone from taking the pill every day at the same time. ![]() But progestin-only pills must be taken within the same daily 3-hour window.Īccording to Planned Parenthood, birth control pills are 99 percent effective in preventing pregnancy when taken as directed. Even though there aren’t any inactive pills, you may still have a period during the fourth week of your pack.įor the highest efficacy (and to help you get into a routine), try to take birth control pills at the same time every day.Ĭombination pills offer more flexibility - they’re effective as long as you take one every day. Progestin-only pill packs usually contain 28 days of active pills.During the week of inactive pills, you may have a period. Pill packs with combination pills typically contain 3 weeks of active pills and 1 week of inactive (placebo) pills. Combination pills contain two types of hormones: progestin and estrogen.ease symptoms of certain reproductive conditions, such as PMS and endometriosisīirth control pills come as combination pills and progestin-only minipills:.After that, another shot is required to prevent pregnancy.īirth control pills are a form of hormonal contraception. The hormone released by the shot remains in the body for 3 months. In the event that an egg is fertilized, this prevents it from sticking to the uterine wall ( implantation). Progestin also thins the lining of the uterus. And when the opening of the cervix is blocked by thickened mucus, sperm can’t travel through as well. ![]() ![]() When there’s no egg present in the fallopian tube, pregnancy is prevented because there’s nothing for sperm to fertilize. The birth control shot releases progestin into the bloodstream to stop an egg from being released from the ovary ( ovulation) and thicken the mucus around the opening of the cervix. That fertilized egg must then travel down the fallopian tube and attach to the uterine wall. The sperm must move through the cervix (the opening on the bottom of the uterus). How does the birth control shot work?įor a successful pregnancy to occur, an egg must be released into the fallopian tube and then fertilized by sperm. ![]() You should still use a barrier method of protection, like condoms, to help prevent contracting an STI and potentially developing a sexually transmitted disease (STD). The shot doesn’t protect against sexually transmitted infections (STIs). In some cases, typical fertility levels may take a little longer to return. It can take around 10 months on average for people to become pregnant after stopping the shot, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). If you have your shot on time without being late, there’s less than a 1 in 100 chance you’ll become pregnant during a given year.įor those who don’t take the shot exactly as prescribed - often called typical use - the efficacy rate slips to around 94 percent, which means 6 out of 100 people getting the shot will get pregnant each year. The birth control shot works similarly to the pill by preventing ovulation, thickening cervical mucus, and thinning the lining of the uterus.Īccording to Planned Parenthood, the shot is 99 percent effective when received every 3 months. It contains a synthetic hormone called progestin. Depo-Provera is an injection that prevents pregnancy for 3 months at a time. ![]() It's a little odd that you can only select male characters. For all but the spellcasters, though, leveling up after a certain point doesn't seem to do anything but give you additional hit points. Spellcasters can cycle through four different classes, learning new spells each time. Thieves are worthless fighters but necessary for trap-removal if you don't want to waste spell points. Hunters do very little damage but have a decent change of scoring a critical hit. For its time, the character creation system is reasonably advanced, allowing you to choose from a number of classes, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Even if you slay Mangar, monsters still roam the streets, and if you return to Mangar's tower you can slay him again! Perhaps the only unique thing about the game world is the implicit importance of bards in the society. Your actions do not effect any changes to the game world-not even completing the main quest. You learn nothing of the larger game world, nor how long Mangar has been a threat, nor where he came from to begin with, nor why your party suddenly appeared on the scene. It is set in a somewhat generic high-fantasy city called Skara Brae which the evil wizard Mangar has taken over, unleashing scores of monsters into the streets. The Bard's Tale's game world is not terribly imaginative. Ratings for each category is out of 10.ġ. Tonight, I'll apply the GIMLET for the first time to The Bard's Tale. ![]() It's highly subjective, dependent upon my own preferences and peeves (but hey, it's my blog). I'll try to develop better consistency in the future.Įarlier this week, I outlined a rubric for rating CPRGs in 10 categories. ![]() The space is not fully explored until the film’s end, when Lila Crane (Vera Miles) enters the house searching for Mrs. She kills the private investigator Arbogast (Martin Balsam), who only gets to the top of the stairs before she knocks him back down with the force of her knife. We enter a second time just before Mother’s second murder. But even then, we only get a glimpse into the house itself. The camera follows him there as a misdirect aimed to convince us that Norman played no part in what will soon happen in the motel bathroom. After Norman says goodnight to Marion, we journey with him up the nearby hill and into the first floor of the house, where he sits down at the kitchen table dejected and embarrassed by his inability to converse with Marion. Hitchcock waits to bring the camera into the interior of the Bates house until just before Mother murders Marion in the shower of her motel room. The change illustrates one of the core rules of Hitchcockian suspense: don’t show a space until it is dramatically necessary. Marion overhears the exchange and instead eats supper with Norman in the parlor attached to the office of the motel, safe from Mother’s ears. But in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film adaptation, Norman runs the idea by Mother, who chastises Norman for even thinking about bringing a young woman into her home. In Robert Bloch’s original novel, Marion accepts the invitation and eats in the house’s tiny kitchen with Norman, who spends much of their time together paranoid that Mother will overhear their conversation. When Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) first arrives at the Bates Motel in Psycho, Norman Bates ( Anthony Perkins) invites her up to his house for dinner. This time, we consider the ending of Psycho. Ending Explained is a recurring series in which we explore the finales, secrets, and themes of interesting movies and shows, both new and old. ![]() This enables me to print directly from my raw files. If you are printing yourself at home, there is no need to export the image at all, unless you will print from a different application than Capture One Pro – Note that I now do all of my printing from Capture One Pro, and I used to print from Lightroom when I was a Lightroom user.If they accept TIFF, it’s always going to be better than JPEG. You use it for the Soft-Proofing, and will generally export your actual files for printing with a third party printer in either JPEG or TIFF. If you are going to outsource your printing, create a Process Recipe for the required file format, TIFF or JPEG for example, and select the ICC profile for your media – Note that this is only for reference most of the time. ![]() Install the ICC profile for your media and printer combination, or the profile that a third party lab uses if you will be sending the photos out for printing.Show the Proof Margin, and make sure it’s relatively large so that you can see your image surrounded by white.Make sure you have the Viewer Color set to White under the Preferences > Appearance tab, to simulate a white paper border.I don’t go through all of these in the video, so I thought I’d list them here for your reference. When soft-proofing in Capture One Pro, here are the things you need to check. Here’s the video, and I’ve outlined some of the key things to keep in mind below too, so I hope you find this useful. I start the video by showing you the difference between a number of key color spaces too, to hopefully make it obvious that we really don’t want to cram our beautiful images, with many more colors, into these smaller color spaces. It’s often not necessary to bring all of the colors in your photographs within gamut, to still get a very pleasing print, but I explain how we can go about that in both Capture One Pro and Adobe Photoshop. But, I find that with modern printers doing such a good job of reproducing colors that the human eye perceives to be very close to the original colors in the photograph, even without being able to actually print some of those colors, means that the gamut warning has become a little too harsh. Soft proofing in Capture One Pro isn’t as useful as it could be, due to the lack of gamut warnings. I’d been meaning to do a video on soft-proofing in Capture One Pro for a while, so thanks for the question Chris! This week I’ve created a video to explain soft-proofing for print in Capture One Pro and Photoshop, in response to a question from Chris Moore. Due to this, the reviews of SoftPerfect WiFi Guard are getting better. Recently, the developers at SoftPerfect WiFi Guard have come with 2.1.2 on for the users of Windows 2003 / Windows Vista / Windows 10 / Windows 8 / Windows XP / Windows 2000 / Windows 7. This program lets you know who else is using your WiFi connection so that you can take the necessary actions. SoftPerfect WiFi Guard is a networking detection software that allows the user to see what devices are connected to their WiFi. This type of license is used for software or games that are intended for sale or commercial use. Along with time limitations, sometimes trial programs may also limit the features. Trial programs give the user a chance to use it for a particular time, generally 15-90 days, to check whether the software fits his/her requirements or not. However, in some cases, all features become unavailable if you do not get the program license. Demos are available for an unlimited period. If the user wants advanced features or an ad-free experience, then he/she needs to pay for it. Demoĭemo software offers limited features for free. However, if the user wants additional features, then he/she can pay for them. Free-to-play games can be downloaded and played without any charges. It is a license type used specifically for video games. Such software is free for both personal and commercial use. Open Source programs allow the user to check, change, or improve the software’s code. Such programs can be used freely in both personal and commercial environments for unlimited time. ![]() FreewareĪs it is evident from the name, freeware is software that is available for download without any charges whatsoever. ![]() Below are the commonly used license types. Every software has a unique license type that you can find on the program page, search, or the webpage of category. So blog owners can still access all the original files. The company says it only hides adult content from public view ( a slow, ongoing process), rather than deleting it from the database. Tumblr allows users to download all of their content to an archive file. Sharesome can also import old Tumblr blogs. “They’re all welcome on Sharesome to post both NSFW content (our bread and butter) and SFW content they may enjoy.” The site has about half a million users, says Bold. (Sharesome quoted me an estimate of 3 million visits for May.) “We have pornstars, cam models, illustrators, writers, amateur kinksters, cosplayers, and so on,” wrote Sharesome CEO Tudor Bold in a Twitter DM conversation with me. It’s reaped similar growth, from roughly 79,000 to 2.7 million global visits from October to April. In comparison, a startup called Sharesome has focused on adult content since its launch in January 2018. Sharesome’s top members often direct viewers to other sites where they can pay for premium content. (All of these sites make clear that posting illegal content, such as child pornography, is prohibited.) “But we know that right now, probably 90% of our users are here for adult content.” “We would like to be a complete site, from kittens all the way up to anything legal,” says Abramson. Like the original Tumblr, newTumbl isn’t meant to be exclusively for porn sharing. Site owner Andrew Kunkle tells me that the site has about 20,000 users, despite spending “$0 on advertising.” For instance, xstumbl, also founded in December 2018, had about 45,000 global visits in April, per SimilarWeb–down from its peak of about 109,000 in January. Still, it’s a long way from zero visits in December, and more than some other sites have experienced. Though billed as an NSFW Tumblr replacement, newTumbl intends to evolve into much more, says cofounder Dean Abramson. But at least three other sites appear to be blooming. Natural selection has weeded out many of them, such as the flopped Cumblr. Like a fire that clears out miles of forest, Tumblr’s porn ban has created an ecological niche for new not-safe-for-work (NSFW) friendly sites to take root. ![]() That’s despite Tumblr’s return to the App Store in December. and internationally, according to analytics firm SimilarWeb–from 558 million to 376 million monthly visits globally. ![]() From the pre-controversy month of October 2018 through April 2019, it’s dropped by about a third–both in the U.S. Meanwhile, Tumblr’s web traffic has–er, tumbled. (Imagery that just barely hides private parts seems to still be allowed.) The ban prohibited not just hardcore porn, but even the humble female nipple. But if you’re going to spend however many hours creating a space on the Internet, you might as well make it a decent one.That kick-started Verizon-owned Tumblr to enact a policy change it says was already planned: a blanket ban on virtually all “adult content” images and videos (but not text)–starting on December 17, 2018. I think you’ll draw more page views if you can be the first partisan to hack up a story-even if you get your facts wrong. And some of these definitely won’t make you a super-famous blogger. One of the best ways to get better at writing is practice. If somebody you want to be outraged with did something unbelievably outrageous, do some bare minimum of fact-checking to make sure it happened before believing it. Get the story right, even if it means you’re not the first person to get to the story. People will probably get outraged, but that’s okay. Every once in a while, it’s worth throwing in a post about something that most of your blogs readers don’t care about. And every time somebody writes anything about millenials, you can link to this Monty Python sketch. Any given word can become a link-which means it can have a multitude of different meanings. You’re not just putting words on the screen. Fix the formatting of that messy reblog chain. If you can’t find any, look harder (or look inward). Find people you disagree with who you nevertheless respect. Everything gets drowned out by the echoes. ![]() The accoustics on most of the Internet are terrible. The same thing applies with the thirteen-year-old who left a truly odious comment on a thread somewhere.Įngage other viewpoints. But nobody will be impressed and the goo won’t notice. If you get in an argument with some goo growing in the drain, you’ll probably win. In some cases, these might not be the same thing that will make your blog widely readĭon’t engage the slimemold. And, at the risk of sounding like the uncle who makes Thanksgiving awkward by being elderly and opinionated, I’d like to hold forth on what I think makes a blog good. I’ve been around Tumblr long enough to start believing that my longevity entitles me to some opinions. For example, experts whose opinions are considered unstable (such as if their correlation with average opinion is found to be low) may have their opinions rejected. Additional procedures can be used for averaging. Opinions of experts can be averaged and the average mark stated as, or accompanied by, a given confidence interval. The reason for measuring subjective video quality is the same as for measuring the mean opinion score for audio. A few of them have been standardized, mainly in ITU-R Recommendation BT.500-13 and ITU-T Recommendation P.910. There are many ways of showing video sequences to experts and recording their opinions. ![]() Subjective video quality tests are quite expensive with regard to time (preparation and running) and human resources. This is concerned with how video is perceived by a viewer, and designates their opinion on a particular video sequence. Press-releases and amateur forums may sometimes select sequences known to favor a particular codec or style of rate-control in reviews. So, in a given long clip, such as a full-length movie, any two codecs may perform quite differently on a particular sequence from the clip, while the codecs may be approximately equal (or the situation reversed) in quality over a wider sequence of frames. Other factors may also come into play.įor a sufficiently long clip, it is possible to select sequences that have suffered little from the compression, and sequences that have suffered heavily, especially if CBR has been used, whereby the quality between frames can vary highly due to different amounts of compression needed to achieve a constant bitrate. Third, quality depends on prefiltrations, which are included on all present-day codecs. Second, some codecs differentiate between different types of frames, such as key frames and non-key frames, differing in their importance to overall visual quality and the extent to which they can be compressed. A difference between variable bitrate (VBR) and constant bitrate (CBR) creates a trade-off between a consistent quality over all frames, on the one hand, and a more constant bitrate, which is required for some applications, on the other. First, all codecs have a bitrate control mechanism that is responsible for determining the bitrate and quality on a per-frame basis. Numerous factors play a role in this variability. ![]() Prior to comparing codec video-quality, it is important to understand that every codec can give a varying degree of quality for a given set of frames within a video sequence. Each encoder implements the specification according to its own algorithms and parameters, which means that the compressed output of different codecs will vary, resulting in variations in quality and efficiency between them. The decoder component of a codec that also conforms to the specification recognises each of the mechanisms used, and thus interprets the compressed stream to render it back into raw video for display (although this will not be identical to the raw video input unless the compression was lossless). So long as the encoder component of the codec adheres to the specification it can choose any combination of these methods to apply different parts of the content. But quality/size ratio of output produced by different implementations of the same specification can also vary.Įach compression specification defines various mechanisms by which raw video (in essence, a sequence of full-resolution uncompressed digital images) can be reduced in size, from simple bit compression (like Lempel-Ziv-Welch) to psycho-visual and motion summarization, and how the output is stored as a bit stream. A codec is not a format, and there may be multiple codecs that implement the same compression specification – for example, MPEG-1 codecs typically do not achieve quality/size ratio comparable to codecs that implement the more modern H.264 specification. The quality the codec can achieve is heavily based on the compression format the codec uses. Price (value for money, volume discounts, etc.). ![]() Supported interfaces (VfW, DirectShow, etc.).Type of license (commercial, free, open source).General software characteristics – for example:. ![]()
![]() “ If I told you a man could shoot lightning from his fingers now, would you believe me? If I told you a man could hoist a one-ton stallion straight into the air, would you believe me?” ― Vigor Barker at the fair The game's Vigor wheel with all eight Vigors unlocked. On your way to Comstock house you will go through a area called beggars alley.An advertisement showing one of the uses for Shock Jockey. This is a shield vigor that will take extra damage for you or if you charge it, it will absorb damage and shoot it back at enemies! This one is got during the side quest Investigate the Bar, Side Quest Guide. Check on the floor right before it and wash your enemies away with a surge of water! This Vigor is got after you take the elevator up from the factory and before you use a lock pick to open the door. ![]() This will let you dash towards enemies and hit them, even at a far distance. Before you go out into the open where a sniper is go into that little room and in the center you get this power. This vigor is gotten after you use the tear in the police station and exit Shantytown. You can also use this Vigor to power up various Shock Jockey points around Columbus. This is the electric type of Vigor and like the others you can either use it as a burst attack or as a trap. This Vigor is acquired after you defeat Slate in the Hall of Heroes. This move knocks them in the air leaving them helpless for you to do as you wish. This is found in the Hall of Heroes on the way to find the Shock Jockey, it can also be bought very early in the game from a vendor if you had the money. This one basically makes it so your Murder of Crows will set a trap on any corpse created by the crows, also quite expensive. As you saw before you entered the room with Crow the birds basically just rip people apart.Īlso found at the vending machine inside the Gondola station. I used my gun to kill him but if you lay some fire traps around he will burn himself out and you can save ammo. This cannot be missed and is acquired after you beat Crow. ![]() It is pretty pricey but makes your fire burst into clusters kind of like Cole’s electric grenades from Infamous.Īfter Elizabeth gets captured again you will end up in a room with jail cells and two vending machines, one of the vending machines has the damage upgrade. This can be found at the vending machine inside the Gondola station. When using this vigor be sure to keep an eye out for oil spots you can set on fire. This is just like a fire grenade you can toss it and it will explode after a couple of seconds, you can also place it as a trap. This is acquired after you kill the fire man, loot his body for the power. This one is very useful because the possession Vigor takes a TON of salt. This upgrade allows you to possess humans who will kill themselves after it expires.Īfter you have Elizabeth use her tear for the first time you will enter room with a Vigor vending machine, that vending machine has the upgrade. This ability is used to make certain machines cooperate with you like vending machines or the ticket machine in the case of the story.Īfter you get the pistol and sky hook you will pass by a vending machine near two cages, in this vending machine you can get the upgrade for 50$. Talk to the woman talking about charming people and you will drink a potion she has and after you trip a little you will have the power. 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