![]() ![]() The PBS initiative Reinventing Breaks recommended flow-building “sticky breaks” with some elements of what PBS is considering, but breaking into program content was still verboten ( Current, July 22, 2002). And for the broadcast schedule, PBS experimented with a version of the hot switch nearly a decade ago. PBS began inserting sponsor credits into online programs streamed from its website in 2009. Commercial networks have been hot-switching for years. In that way, “this is a better fulfillment of our public-service mission.” Ideas with pedigrees, notoriety ![]() “I think stations are just as interested as we are in creating a better experience for viewers so we can spend more time with them,” John Wilson, PBS’s senior v.p. If ratings look promising, it will add Antiques Roadshow Monday nights come winter. ![]() PBS will try the experiment first on Wednesday nights this fall with Nova. Thus the “hot switch” to prompt audience flow between shows. Program content that would keep viewers around for the lead-out and grab viewers sooner for the lead-in would stay at the hour. Promo spots, such as tune-in blurbs, would move into the hour, to 20 and 40 minutes. Formats for shorter and longer programs have not been discussed in detail. Funder spots would move to shorter breaks at the 5- and 55-minute marks of an hour show. Plans call for slicing up that clump of “business,” as programmers call it, and moving much of it deeper into the programs. Details were revealed in several sessions at the Orlando conference, May 16–19. PBS had been discussing, in general terms, its plans for revamping primetime at various meetings including round robins. Programmers - and sponsors - know how hard it was to win those eyeballs for the earlier show and don’t want to lose them if they can help it. The audience isn’t keen on sitting through the present hodgepodge of video snippets between shows: some eight minutes of national and local underwriting spots, promos, program credits, network and station branding and teases. And by clustering compatible programs, as PBS plans to do for the fall, stations can retain more viewers through the station break. They realize that the PBS schedule loses hundreds of thousands of viewers between shows and has for years. As one blogger quipped, “Even though it wouldn’t involve actual commercials, I honestly think that Fred Rogers wouldn’t be happy with this idea.”īut some public TV programmers have responded more with curiosity than with outrage. So the public reacted fairly predictably when PBS announced at this month’s annual meeting in Orlando that it’s considering internal promotional spots as part of its primetime revamp. Proportional chart by Current showing proposed rearrangement of PBS primetime hour. ![]()
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![]() The QA team may consider that there is no problem at this time. Therefore the probability, Q, that this standard score is due to chance is 42.3%. ![]() The QA team then reminds you that these measuring cups have a normal distribution. Your QA team assures you that the average of all the measuring cups is 1.00003 litres, and the standard deviation is 0.005. Is this a disaster? An anomaly? Acceptable? You check on one of these cups and find that it actually contains 1.001 litres.Ĭlearly, your measuring cup is wrong by 1 millilitre. Your quality assurance (QA) team tests each one and records what it really contains when filled to the "1 litre" mark. You and your customers expect them to be accurate. Let's say that your company manufactures measuring cups for household kitchens. What does the score mean for me? I mean, really? If you manufacture mirrors for Hubble-like telescopes, you would measure every one (several times). If you manufacture ball bearings, you probably don't measure each one. Statisticians like to point out that the "Student t-test" is more appropriate for incompletely-sampled populations. ![]() s = square root of ( ( S (xi – m )2 ) / n ), for all i = 1 to n in the total population.s is the standard deviation: the square root of the variance.This is the sum of all observations, divided by the number of observations.m is the mean of the population: the average value.x is the "raw" score, to be standardized.The mathematical formula is: z = (x – m) / s, where: The "standard score", is the statistical measurement of "how far is one particular observation away from the standard deviation". ![]() Compute four different areas under the standard curve based on the z-value you enter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. Anna Tingley, Variety, 1 June 2023 Paleontologists know this not from petrified bones but from marks left in the sediment by the living creatures. Whether the items fall to the ground around the creature being transformed to stone or end up embedded in the stone and have to be chipped/broken out (damaging the petrified creature if it is ever restored) is up to the DM to figure out.Recent Examples on the Web For Emden Plates, Set of Four Buy Now Balfern Petrified Wood Coasters, Set of Four Any wood-loving dad will appreciate these coasters constructed out of petrified wood, a fossilized wood from Indonesia over 20 million years old. which I had not noticed before answering the question above. Any magical items would appear to NOT be transformed into stone. It specifically states that only nonmagical objects that it is carrying or wearing are transformed. ![]() The description of the petrified condition says Why wouldn't the object be possibly incorporated into the stone? If you want to loot the magic items from a creature - change it to stone and take whatever falls to the ground :) Another interesting observation about the petrified condition - Only nonmagical objects are transformed. The only way to "end the condition" as described in the spell would be an alchemical solution made from the oil of a basilisks stomach (Thanks Kerrec! I didn't know this was actually in the text for the Basilisk in the MM), Greater Restoration, Wish or whatever else a DM decides to allow. However, since the magic of the spell has ended, dispel magic won't reverse the process. I usually interpret this to mean as still being petrified. So, when the Flesh to Stone spell ends leaving the creature "turned to stone". Its weight increases by a factor of ten, and it ceases aging."
![]() It therefore might well form an immediate entrance and exit to the palace while the grand Gate of Justice served as the entrance of state to the fortress. ![]() The antiquaries of Granada pronounce it the entrance to that quarter of the royal residence where the king's bodyguards were stationed. According to Swinburne the traveller, it was originally the great gate of entrance. ![]() It is famous in the neighborhood as the scene of strange apparitions and Moorish enchantments. The gateway is in the centre of what was once an immense pile, called the Tower of the Seven Floors (la Torre de los Siete Suelos). There was a mystery about it, and it had never been opened within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. I inquired for some time in vain for such a portal at length my humble attendant, Mateo Ximenes, said it must be one closed up with stones, which, according to what he had heard from his father and grandfather, was the gateway by which King Chico had left the fortress. Consintio en allo el Rey Fernando, y des de aquel tiempo no solamente no se abrio la puerta sino tambien se construyo junto a ella fuerte bastion.- MORERI'S Historical Dictionary. Pidio esta principe como por merced, y en memoria de tan importante conquista, al que queda**e siempre cerrada esta puerta. Fernando, y le entrego la ciudad con el castillo. * Ay una puerta en la Alhambra por la qual salio Chico Rey de los Moros, quando si rindio prisionero al Rey de Espana D. His prayer, according to ancient chronicles, was complied with, through the sympathy of isabella, and the gate was walled up.* With the melancholy caprice of a broken spirit, or perhaps with some superstitious feeling, he requested of the Catholic monarchs that no one afterwards might be permitted to pa** through it. ![]() I next sought the gate by which Boabdil made his last exit from the Alhambra, when about to surrender his capital and kingdom. As I paced the gallery, my imagination pictured the anxious queen leaning over the parapet listening, with the throbbings of a mother's heart, to the last echoes of the horses' hoofs as her son scoured along the narrow valley of the Darro. From this gallery, it is presumed, the queen lowered her son with the scarfs of herself and her female attendants during the darkness of the night to the hillside, where some of his faithful adherents waited with fleet steeds to bear him to the mountains.īetween three and four hundred years have elapsed, yet this scene of the drama remains almost unchanged. ![]() A narrow stone gallery, with a low parapet, extends along three sides of the tower just below the windows, but at a considerable height from the ground. The external walls of these chambers are of prodigious thickness, pierced with small windows secured by iron bars. In the Tower of Comares, immediately under the Hall of Amba**adors, are two vaulted rooms, separated by a narrow pa**age these are said to have been the prisons of himself and his mother, the virtuous Ayxa la Horra indeed, no other part of the tower would have served for the purpose. While my mind was still warm with the subject of the unfortunate Boabdil, I set forth to trace the mementos of him still existing in this scene of his sovereignty and misfortunes. Washington Irving - Mementos of Boabdil lyrics ![]() ![]() ![]() Its second half fails, in one way or another, to meet the expectations established by the first.It fails to meet the expectations established by its director’s previous films.It fails to meet the expectations established by its genre.In general, everyday and professional audiences rejected and continue to reject Night Moves for at least one of three reasons: Reichardt’s films have never been a hit with multiplex crowds, but it’s telling that her “most accessible film,” a film Rosenbaum characterizes as “conventional and predictable” and “an effort to do something commercial with popular young stars,” managed a dismal 41 percent Audience Score from more than 10,000 reviews. Affording the film just a single paragraph, he offers the familiar mix of measured acclaim and dismissal you’ll find across its Rotten Tomatoes page. Hindsight’s vantage has not, however, given Rosenbaum any more insight into Night Moves than most of its contemporary audiences had. He calls out several of the same “journalistic shortcuts” as Michelitch, most notably ahistorical terms like “slow cinema” and the facile comparisons between Wendy and Lucy and the work of Vittorio De Sica favored by eminent New York critics. He too argues that far too many critics have neglected to embark on this process of discovery or regularly wander off course in their attempts. At first, his 2020 career overview ecstatically supports a thesis not unlike Michelitch’s, that confidently inhabiting Reichardt’s worlds first necessitates a process of “discovering how not to watch” her films. No less than Jonathan Rosenbaum calls Night Moves both “impeccably realized” and his “least favorite” of Reichardt’s features - that backhanded compliment at least implies just how consistently excellent Reichardt’s films have been. According to a B+ TIFF dispatch from Indiewire’s Eric Kohn, the film was, as of 2013, Reichardt’s “most accessible film to date.” This despite the fact that it “frequently takes the form of an anti-thriller.” That term is as reductive and meaningless in the context of Reichardt’s film as “anti-hero,” another pre-chewed cliche employed in the name of mild praise by a critic who nevertheless chides Night Moves for its second-half forays in to what he calls “cliched territory.” What exactly is Night Moves? Well, according to The Guardian’s chief critic, it’s a “thriller that behaves as if it is a gentle, indie-arthouse film,” of course - whatever the hell that means. A positive write-up in The Guardian, for example, is continually cheapened by the kind of genre reductionism that Reichardt has so expertly defied since her feature debut. Critics hungry to continue chewing on conventional wisdom while professing a taste for Reichardt’s work must have salivated at the synopsis and its promise of digestible thrills. ![]() The film premiered in 2013 and follows a trio of radical environmentalists who plan, commit, and attempt to live in the aftermath of an act of terrorism: blowing up a dam on an Oregon river, just one of hundreds that, to paraphrase the film’s leads, is killing scores of salmon to help run iPods and keep Bend’s abundance of golf courses green. That even Reichardt’s ardent fans often miss the point has never been clearer than upon the release of Night Moves. All too often these writers become lost and wind up relying on “pre-chewed categories of genre and isms” to get their analyses back on track and help them reach their word counts. They begin to discuss the films in purely reductive terms, clarifying only what they aren’t, what their characters fail to articulate, and what conventional pleasures Reichardt neglects to offer. ![]() “Reichardt’s accumulated experiences,” Michelitch writes, “are made up of hundreds of tiny flickering moments of transformation.” When these aren’t immediately obvious, even seasoned critics are often left with nothing more than “minimalist plots and technical craft” to orient themselves. Some of the problems stem from a lack of imagination. Writing for Cineaste, Jason Michelitch spends several paragraphs cataloging the ways in which prominent critics have dismissed Reichardt’s work outright or, in praising it, betrayed an insufficient appreciation of its wonders. Even the one great exploration of her work that I’ve found can’t help but address this fact. Too conventional for some and too elliptical for others, Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves is too often dismissed as a lesser entry in its director’s impressive filmographyįew contemporary directors as acclaimed as Kelly Reichardt have contended with quite so many misapprehensions and misinterpretations. ![]() ![]() When I sat down at the bar for a drink and said I was a tech reporter, the bartender looked worried: “For every three I see here, two don’t make it,” he said, pouring me a very stiff drink. The 42 units, measuring 260 square feet, cost between $520 and $570 a month, and are at 100 percent capacity.īut how much has it really changed? Are these entrepreneurs so different from the troops of gamblers who used to come here, hoping to strike it rich? The third- and fourth-floor hotel rooms are now “workforce housing” (residents have to work for either Zappos or the Downtown Project). “Every once in a while, we reset it just to bring back that sense of discovery.” “The door code’s not posted, but people find out,” said Downtown Project planner (and “parking wizard”) Mike Stoll, who led me on a tour of the redesigned and repurposed Gold Spike. There are secret passcodes to certain rooms. The casino cage has been converted to a 3-D light room. There’s a bar, but half the people there had their laptops open. Today, the slot-machine floor has long co-working tables. Opened as the Rendezvous in 1976, it had become a neighborhood blight before Hsieh bought it.Ī lot has changed. “Where else can you get a prime rib dinner for $4.99?” asked someone with the screen name LasVegasPutter. “It’s smoky, dirty and small, but a heck of a lot of fun!” another wrote. ![]() “Although I did win $20.00 from a video roulette machine there, I felt like I needed a long hot shower immediately upon leaving the establishment,” one guest from Chicago wrote. “Workforce housing,” technically.įrom the old, pre-tech Gold Spike’s Trip Advisor reviews: The Gold Spike is now an entrepreneur dorm. Why - and how - has this dive-y old Vegas relic become some sort of adult playground? Who would possibly want an supersized hopscotch game?Įntrepreneurs, that’s who. Upstairs, where you might have rented a seedy hotel room for cheap ($30 a night, bathrooms at the end of the hall), you’ll find yourself in apartments shared by clean-cut youths toting laptops. Where there were floor plants and cocktail waitresses in torn white-tank-top uniforms, there are now terrariums and co-working tables. Where once there were rows of ring-a-dinging, blinged-out slot machines on the ground floor, there are now oversized cornhole games, a hopscotch setup and a human-sized Jenga game. If you visit the Gold Spike hotel and casino in Downtown Las Vegas, you might be in for a surprise. Since the Gold Spike is not directly on Fremont Street, you have a better chance of getting a quieter room there, since you are further away from the noise of Fremont Street. The Gold Spike is one block away from Fremont Street, so the distance between the two hotels is probably three or four blocks. “Although it seems obvious in retrospect, probably the biggest benefit of moving to Vegas was that nobody had any friends outside of Zappos, so we were all sort of forced to hang out with each other outside the office.” - Tony Hsieh, “Delivering Happiness” It is on Fremont Street, which is downtown. ![]() ![]() ![]() Proposed Solution: What about a badge or seal from a third party that offered: "It's not get rich quick. It's based on stoic philosophies (in my mind, anyway) that focus on decision-making processes, adding value to the life experience of others and giving of yourself." When I took note of the quick judgmental responses that I received just for mentioning this title to coworkers and family, I started adding my own explanation to tackle them preemptively: "It's not 'get rich quick,' it's Get Rich Hard. What does appeal to all readers is improved quality of life and knowing that their investments (time, effort, money) is rewarded in a meaningful way. But IT doesn't appeal to all readers, and it doesn't break away from the scripted "getting rich will never happen and anyone who says I can be is lying" response. When I read it, I assumed that this book would focus on Internet ventures, which turns out to be how DeMarco became wealthy. There is a subtitle: "Crack the code to wealth and live rich for a lifetime." This is ok. If DeMarco can't change the title, why not try and add something to the cover that clarifies the message. MILLIONAIRE FASTLANE FORUM WHITE LABEL HOW TO Hit the Fastlane, crack the code to wealth, and find out how to live rich for a lifetime.morenthony Kim My first main takeaway is this: the entire framework that financial gurus sell (get an education, job, invest in the markets, invest in your house, re more My first main takeaway is this. Fastlane is an entrepreneur discussion forum based on The C.E.N.T.S Framework outlined in the two best-selling books by MJ DeMarco (The Millionaire Fastlane and UNSCRIPTED®). In my experience, this is the result of its implicit association with "get rich quick" schemes. Pain Point: "The Millionaire Fastlane " title turns off prospective readers. He's heard the feedback, which meets the 3 strikes rule, but he feels strongly that this title is tied to the core message of the material and can't be changed. Or it could be the book's title.Īs DeMarco said in the Great Rat Race Escape, the title of his first book is a turn off for some people. Now, it could be their perception of who I am and what I fall victim to. When I talk to people about this particular book, most immediately give me that dubious stare that indicates they believe I'm getting duped and I'm trying to bring them down with me. I believe it is a barrier that can be addressed. This book has true value, but there's a barrier that prevents some from gaining it. I read to improve my mind, decision-making and leadership abilities. Reading is leading, and I've spent the last 22 years serving in the Air Force (retired in Oct 21). When I read something that I enjoy or find adds value to my life, I often share it, talk about it and try to get others to read it. Millionaire Fastlane is an amazing read and great road map for exponential wealth development. ![]() ![]() ![]() Red insists on fighting alone but Silver decides to follow him instead. Once there, Mighty Eagle confesses that Zeta was once his fiancée but he abandoned her due to cowardice before he flies away. As the team travels to Eagle Island by submarine, Red assures the other birds that they do not need to evacuate. A meeting in Mighty Eagle's cave gets disrupted when an ice ball from Zeta's super-weapon hits Eagle Mountain, which alarms the other birds living on Bird Island. ![]() They recruit Chuck, Bomb, Silver and Bird Island's retired hero, Mighty Eagle. Leonard visits Red and convinces him to form an alliance. Red's two best friends, Chuck and Bomb, surprise Red and ask him to join them in a speed dating activity, where Red meets Chuck's sister Silver, an engineering student whose inventions are very boring and deems Red incompatible. Zeta, the leader of Eagle Island, is angry with her frozen surroundings and wants to occupy the two islands by shooting ice balls from a super-weapon to force their inhabitants to evacuate. One day, a giant ice ball from nearby Eagle Island hits the sea near Piggy Island, forcing the pigs to seek a permanent truce with the birds. ![]() Three years after the events of the first film, Red protects Bird Island from the pigs, led by King Leonard Mudbeard, who are in a prank war against the birds. However, the film was not as successful as its predecessor, only grossing $152.8 million on a $65 million budget, but received generally positive reviews from critics, with many considering it an improvement over its predecessor. The film was theatrically released on August 2, 2019, in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and in the United States on August 14. Heitor Pereira returned to compose the film's score with artists such as Kesha and Luke Combs contributing tracks for the film. New characters for the film were announced in March 2019 along with new cast members. New ideas for the film were conceived with the premise being that the birds and pigs work together to save themselves, which typically does not happen in most Angry Birds games. Production on a sequel to The Angry Birds Movie began in August 2016. In the film, the birds are forced to team up with the pigs when an advanced weapon threatens both Bird and Piggy Islands. Brown, Eugenio Derbez, Tiffany Haddish, JoJo Siwa, and Brooklynn Prince joining the ensemble cast. Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Tony Hale, Anthony Padilla, Bill Hader, and Peter Dinklage reprise their roles from the first film, with newcomers Leslie Jones, Rachel Bloom, Awkwafina, Sterling K. It is the sequel to The Angry Birds Movie (2016), the film was directed by Thurop Van Orman and co-directed by John Rice (in their directorial debuts) from a screenplay by Peter Ackerman, Eyal Podell, and Jonathon E. The Angry Birds Movie 2 is a 2019 computer-animated action comedy film based on Rovio Entertainment's Angry Birds video game series, produced by Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, and Rovio Animation, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. ![]() ![]() ![]() The maps also provides idea of topography and contour of Port Charlotte,US. The elevation map of Port Charlotte,US is generated using elevation data from NASAs 90m resolution SRTM data. Latitude: 26.8946009 Elevation: 8m / 26feet Barometric Pressure: 101KPa Elevation Map: Satellite Map: Related Photos: Sunset View from Gilchrist Bridge Retail Sign Great Egret, Webb Lake My view for the day. Most of the information pertains to the unincorporated areas of Lee County since the incorporated cities/towns of Cape Coral, Bonita Springs, Estero, Fort Myers, Fort Myers Beach, and Sanibel all have separate information found on their respective websites.Ĭlick here to find your flood zone using the interactive tool for unincorporated areas of Lee County.įor more information on Sanibel specifically, check out our article: 2022 Updated FEMA Flood Maps on Sanibel Island. Tweet Below is the Elevation map of Port Charlotte,US, which displays range of elevation with different colours. We found a wealth of information regarding the map revisions on the Lee County website linked here. The revised maps might have changed your flood zone or base flood elevation requirements, and could also have an effect on your NFIP policy. Below is an explanation of the new LiMWA and Coastal A Zone that resulted from the study.įIRMs help determine building construction requirements and flood insurance rates for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). For the new coastal Risk MAP project, FEMA consultants used storm surge and wave analysis models to update flood zones and base flood elevations for coastal areas and the banks of the Caloosahatchee River. This new study was first initiated by FEMA back in 2013 and included areas of Lee, Charlotte, Collier, Desoto, Hendry, and Sarasota counties. Estimated Base Flood Elevation (BFE) viewer for property owners, community officials and land developers to identify the flood risk (high, moderate, low), expected flood elevation and estimated flood depth near any property or structure within watersheds where Base Level Engineering has been prepared. Wave runup above storm surge elevation (where present) Determined from storm surge model Charlotte County Effective vs. Wave height above storm surge elevation 4. The BFE is shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) for zones AE, AH, A1A30, AR, AR/A, AR/AE, AR/A1 A30, AR/AH, AR/AO, V1V30 and VE. ![]() ![]() Storm surge stillwater elevation (SWEL) 2. The elevation of surface water resulting from a flood that has a 1 chance of equaling or exceeding that level in any given year. Plus, newer technology also allows for better data gathering and analysis. Evacuation Zones are not based solely on the elevation of your residence. Base Flood Elevation (BFE) on FIRM includes four components: 1. lowest floor of the house on or above the 11-foot base flood elevation. We should note this update had no relationship to Hurricane Ian which hit Southwest Florida a few weeks prior to the new FIRM effective date.įlood hazards actually change over time due to erosion, storms, new construction, community development, and so forth. Punta Gorda, FL When Bob and Robin Leonard built their home in 2004 on a canal. In November 2022, a new FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) became effective. ![]() ![]() ![]() This error can happen when your version of Xcode needs to be updated as it been outdated by a semi or major update. You may also need to restart your mac and device in order to correctly detect compatibility. This operation can fail if the version of the OS on the device is incompatible with the installed version of Xcode. Make sure you install any outstanding MacOS updates and then run: xcode-select -installįailed to prepare device for development. Sometimes it will also give you the error: missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun This error usually happens whenever there is a semi or major update on MacOS. Change the path to match the new location: xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/DeveloperĮrror: invalid active developer path (/library/Developer/CommandLineTools) If you have multiple versions or need to adjust the path, you can switch it using the following command. If your Xcode installation has been incorrectly set, you can reset it to the default using the following command: sudo xcode-select -r Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer You can run xcode-select -p to print out the installation location of Xcode: xcode-select -p Simply click the version you want to open or manage. You can install it via Homebrew using the following command: brew install -cask xcodes ![]() This is something similar, but for Xcode. There is an excellent tool called Xcodes. Surely, you have heard of NVM (Node version manager) or RVM (Ruby version manager). How to install multiple versions of Xcode Unfortunately Apple doesn’t allow older, unmaintained versions of Xcode to persist and this is a common annoyance as major versions are released. ![]() Simply update Xcode to the latest version using the xcode-select -install command and it will be resolved. Apple provides a complete development environment for programmers named Xcode. When running a homebrew brew command, you may see errors related to the version of Xcode you have installed. Daniel Kehoe Developers need to install Xcode Command Line Tools before they can develop software on a Mac. Please update to Xcode 14.1 (or delete it). How to update your Xcode installation when using Homebrew Error: Your Xcode (13.4.1) is too outdated. You can install Xcode on a Mac by running the following command in the terminal: xcode-select -install ![]() |
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