![]() Shinedown have always penned interesting lyrics and this album is no exception. To find out whether that is true you should go and read interviews with the band and not reviews. ![]() This might be an obvious interpretation, whereas in reality it is probably meant to be the protagonist being introspective. Some tracks have obvious targets, for example, Special takes shots at the internet generation seeking their ‘ fifteen minutes of fame’. The advantage of such lyrics is that they are massively open to interpretation and every listener will relate to them slightly differently based on their own experiences. They are more a collection of tracks about various states of being, mostly focused on mental wellbeing. I would revise the description to ‘loose concept’ as most of the lyrics are sufficiently non-committal that they do not really describe the story of a single individual. It would be a lapse in duty when reviewing an album such as this not to discuss the overall concept/theme itself. Brent Smith shows why he is one of the best singers in modern rock throughout, bringing power and emotion to almost every track. The band really shines on the heavier tracks like Pyro and The Human Radio but also on the slower, more emotional tracks like Monsters and Special. The ‘experimental’ songs on the album maybe? In true Shinedown fashion, both feature memorable lyrics and melodies, but the overall sound won’t be for everyone. However, songs like title track ATTENTION ATTENTION and Kill Your Conscience lean a lot more heavily on the electronic sounds and never really deviate from them. ![]() Another example is closing track Brilliant, which features gentle singing over a piano & keyboard backdrop before launching into one of the heaviest songs on the album, and possibly one of the most positive and uplifting songs you’ll hear this year. This works well on songs like Black Soul, where the powerful rock chorus has more impact because it is in sharp contrast to the tinkling keyboard riff of the verse. They are still there but have been more effectively combined with the traditional rock elements. The synthesised elements that made Threat to Survival so divisive are not as prominent on this album. Is has a fat, heavy rhythm with a riff to match, plus quirky little synthesised choir exclamations inserted between lines of a powerful vocal delivery from Brent Smith (listen to the song and that sentence will make a lot more sense…). Very much in the formula of Cut the Cord (from last album Threat to Survival) this track epitomises the Shinedown that many will know and love. All very suitable for starting in a meaningful yet vague way that makes sense in the music video but, let’s face it, on the album you will listen to it once and from then on instantly skip to track number two: Devil. There is a forty second introductory track called The Entrance on which we hear the sound of a door opening, footsteps and then a heavy sigh, that exhalation of air before a leap into the unknown. But Shinedown have never been one for the traditional and given the experimentation with different sounds on their last album (albeit with mixed success) it will be very interesting to see what they have come up with this time around.įrom the start you can tell that Shinedown are taking this story telling business seriously. Most people will associate concept albums with the more progressive side of the musical establishment: extended track lengths, complicated musical arrangements, songs flowing into one another… Not something you would expect from the writers of four-minute rabble rousers like Sound of Madness or Diamond Eyes. It is described by the band as a cohesive story, designed to be listened to continually from beginning to end as it tells the tale of the protagonist’s ‘ physical, mental, and emotional journey that stretches from life’s lowest lows to life’s highest highs’. With a title like ATTENTION ATTENTION the headlines for the 6 th full length album from Shinedown really do write themselves.
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Kindle: Readwise can import highlights from Kindle, but it requires me to actually open a browser window so that they can scrape the Kindle site using a browser plugin. Again, this part is broken down by format. The meat of my “Review” phase is simply opening Anki every day and reading a group of highlights, presented at increasing intervals using Spaced Repetition, but there’s some menial labour I have to do when adding new highlights before I can do that. This makes flipping through to find all the marked up pages much easier later on. Physical Books: Generally I just draw a line in the margin next to the interesting part, then scribble a bit on the lower right corner of the right page. Unlike iBooks on iOS, Files supports highlighting and annotating. PDF: I save these to a directory named “Highlighted PDFs” in my iCloud Drive, then (on iOS) open them from the “Files” app. Instapaper: If I’m reading something on the web longer than a few paragraphs, I generally send it to Instapaper and read it there, highlighting anything that I’d like to be reminded of. In the Capture phase, I’m concerned with capturing highlights with the lowest overhead possible. Periodically, I work through Marked items and convert them into fine-grained question-and-answer cards in Anki, then suspend the Highlight note. Integrate: When I encounter a highlight with information that I’d like to remember more explicitly, I use Anki’s “mark” feature. Import this, as well as the PDF export, into Anki, with a special note type and template. Review: For physical books, use OCR and paste into Readwise’s manual entry. In the case of PDF, a custom script rips annotations from PDFs in a special location in my iCloud Drive. In all but the latter case, use Readwise to aggregate. So here’s my reading workflow, phase-by-phase: OverviewĬapture: Read in Kindle, Instapaper, dead-tree books, or PDF. Simon breaks this down differently, but the Readwise categorization resonates better with me. When I came across Readwise, and read the other two articles above, I was suddenly motivated to build a better reading workflow of my own.Īccording to Readwise, there are three fundamental steps in any good reading workflow: Capture, Review, and Integrate. How to Actually Use What You Read with Readwise.įor years, I’ve liked the idea of being able to easily mark passages in books I read and have them trivially resurfaced later, but Kindle’s locked-down ecosystem has made this difficult.It would be pretty rad if you could highlight a few lines on a page, click the Instapaper bookmarklet and have those lines saved as a highlight.I don’t remember the exact sequence of events, but a couple of months ago, I became aware of: Of course, I already have a feature request. It still needs a faster background update, and to play nicer with IFTTT, but highlights is such a killer feature that I just switched Instapaper back to my first home screen, and bought a three-month sub. I’ve always preferred the reading experience in Instapaper – it continues to amaze me that I can choose between more than one serif and one san serif font in Pocket, for example – but features-wise Instapaper has been lacking. This has worked OK, but now I get the advantage of having a proper library of highlights synced across Instapaper on all my devices, as well as auto-adding to Pinboard and Evernote. I’ve been rolling my own quotes highlights for a while now, using the description field of Pinboard as a place to keep the highlighted section, and having IFTTT send the result to Evernote. ![]() If you look down the right hand side of the interface, every adjustment is either a simple click or slider. The second thing I think people like is the level-and ease-of control over your adjustments. It’s also very easy to use Batch editing. It’s a breeze to browse through your whole collection, culling, rating, tagging, and adjusting as you see fit. This is key, since it allows you to really attack your photos with vigor. The first thing most people notice is that everything can be seen in one view. What do people like about AfterShot, what motivates them to use it? So it sounds like there’s a lot more in AfterShot than what I’ll find in Photos. They’re affordable, you can organize and find your photos however you like, and you have a ton of adjustment options, including free plugins and a plugin SDK to make your own if you are so inclined. AfterShot and AfterShot Pro fit the bill perfectly. Navigating huge image collections, doing batch adjustments, doing serious editing in RAW-these tasks take something different than Photos offers right now. Tools like AfterShot, Lightroom and even dearly-departed Aperture, go far beyond what’s possible in Photos or iPhoto. I think most Mac-based photographers and photo enthusiasts will end up using Photos in some way, much as generally we all used iPhoto in some way. With the demise of Apple’s Aperture, why should photographers (already invested in and familiar with the Mac ecosystem) consider AfterShot as their go-to photo editor tool over something baked into OSX, like the new Photos? AfterShot 2 does that in a really affordable way. On top of that, now we’re even dealing with how to store and organize the photos from our kids’ devices-so there’s a huge need for tools to help people get organized. An enormous number of photos are being shot on mobile phones alone, all in addition to the photos we’re taking on our DSLRs and cameras when we’re out shooting more seriously. ![]() We introduced AfterShot 2 late in 2014 because we’ve seen that it’s not just the pros who are amassing tons of photos. ![]() This kind of speed and simplicity can save a ton of time and effort, and lets you get back to the more important things. From the beginning, it’s been designed to merge truly simple photo adjustment and management tools with speed and performance that’s borderline insane. The Bibble team used to describe it as “an ambitious project to revolutionize Digital Photographic Workflow”-so this isn’t your average photo editing software. We acquired the software a few years ago and renamed it AfterShot (it basically does everything you need to do after the shoot). The AfterShot story began back with the guys at Bibble Labs, where founder Eric Hyman and the team created a program called Bibble. It’s well suited to the task: AfterShot Pro is easily the highest-performance RAW software available anywhere. It joined the well-known PaintShop Pro (a Windows photo-editing software) in our photo lineup a few years ago when we saw a need for something different to address the huge numbers of photos being shot by both professionals and enthusiasts-a trend that’s only grown since that time.ĪfterShot and AfterShot Pro, the professional edition of the app, are designed to make it incredibly fast to edit and manage all of your photos. So, Greg, tell me a little bit about AfterShot … how did it come about?ĪfterShot is Corel’s photo workflow software. Now that Part 1 of our series has familiarized you with AfterShot 2, Part 2 sees us talking to Greg Wood, Corel’s Senior Product Director for photo software, about photography on the Mac, and why you should consider jumping to AfterShot to help take your photo-game to the next level. Photo editing on the Mac is changing-and the change has just begun! With the recent debut of Photos and its planned addition of extensions, it’s an interesting time for photographers to be on the Mac. ![]() You can’t gloss it over, but you accept the reality of the situation and get on with your everyday life.”Īfter completing her chemotherapy, and follow-up radiotherapy sessions, Aisha is now in recovery. Aisha was determined to face it straight on and then, as a parent, you do whatever’s necessary. “And we were lucky because we had such amazing family and friends and I can’t stress how important they were in being such a strength for both of us. There’s nothing nice about cancer but some of the situations it throws you into can be quite amusing and I think you appreciate those. We are very similar in personality and we laughed a lot, I have to say. “We had such a great, honest relationship. You’ve got to tell me if you want me to be here or not here or to give you some space because I don’t know.’. “I was glad of that,” she says, “Although I did say to her ‘you have to tell me how you feel. Living under the same roof meant Rita was able to go with her eldest daughter for treatment and take care of her. She just got on with it, so that’s what I did.” “It was such a terrible shock, but Aisha showed such dignity and I learned a lot from her. “It just goes to show that women must be very careful in checking themselves and going for mammograms,” she says. ![]() The pair were living together at the time, with Aisha working as a post-production supervisor in film.Īlthough her sister-in-law had had breast cancer 18 months earlier, so they had been touched by the illness, Rita says there was no history in their family at all. I had to make my way out of this restaurant where the party was, grab a cab and go immediately home.” “When she told me, everything went black. When I didn’t get an answer I called again and when I eventually spoke to her I said ‘I know there’s something the matter, what is it?’. I was expecting her to arrive at a friend’s party and when she didn’t I called her. “It wasn’t until she’d been given the diagnosis that she told me. She wanted to be totally focused on the consultant and what he was saying. “When she did go, she went on her own because she wanted to be able to take in whatever the news was without worrying about someone else being there. I suppose she didn’t want to hear the inevitable. ![]() “At first she delayed going to the doctor’s even though she knew she had to do something about it. “She’d found a lump when she was staying with friends at Christmas time, but she didn’t tell me,” she remembers. Now almost 70, the actress recalls the day six years ago when she discovered her daughter had an aggressive breast cancer. “But without the work of Cancer Research UK, who knows how many more lives would be lost?” “Aisha was treated at the Royal Marsden hospital in London, and they were absolutely amazing,” says Rita. She has become an active supporter for Cancer Research UK, and is currently lending her name to the charity’s campaign for legacy donations. So you sit there and you watch your child, their little face and the tubes in their arms, and you try to be as strong as you can possibly be for them.”įor Rita, who found worldwide fame at just 19 with the era- defining Sixties movie A Taste Of Honey, fighting the battle alongside Aisha has given her a new focus. “Any parent will tell you they would much rather it was them, but the fact is it isn’t. “It is painful to see someone you love going through that, but you know it’s necessary, so what can you do? “There were times when it was heartbreaking, but she would remind me over and over of what we’d agreed,” smiles Rita. ![]() Through six months of gruelling chemotherapy sessions, she sat by 33-year-old Aisha’s side, reserving the tears for when they were apart. The Liverpool-born actress kept her promise. “She showed remarkable bravery right from the start.” “When Aisha told me, the first thing she said was ‘no tears, no tears’,” says Rita. WHEN Rita Tushingham’s daughter broke the news that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, they made a pact. ![]() "Smultron, open source text editor for Mac OS X".
![]() A success message will appear when you successfully add the Credit to your account.Select Redeem to add the Credit or Robux to your account.These are all the active working Roblox promo codes as of May 2021: WALMARTMEXEARS2021 – Steel Rabbit Ears. The crystal has a 1% chance of hatching the GLITCH: Awakened Nighthunter. This crystal is located behind the Eternal Boss arena, in the back of a small island. This pet can be obtained by opening the Secret Glitch Crystal, which costs 1Oc Chi per Crystal. How do you get a pet glitch in ninja legends? The pet is also the most powerful pet in the game without having to spend Robux to buy a pack. You have a 1% chance of getting this pet, The pet cots for 55Oc Chi. This pet can be obtained from the Secret Blades Crystal near Golden Master Island. Is inner peace Legion the best pet in ninja legends? Pets can boost how much coins, shards and element you get. They can be obtained by opening Orbs, buying Pet Packs and Trading. How do you get a mega pet in Ninja Legends 2? Currently, the weakest training area is Mystical Waters, and the strongest being Zen Master’s Blade. The higher a players light or dark skill is the shop will reward better training areas. Is light or dark better in ninja legends? The Glitch Pet could also be obtained on the night of The Game Awards 2020 by watching the event’s Twitch channel for at least one minute. DIY – Kinetic Staff (must be redeemed in Island of Move)įor players to obtain the Glitch Pet, they must watch a participating live channel on Twitch for at least 30 minutes.WorldAlive – Crystalline Companion (must be redeemed in Island of Move).100MILSEGUIDORES – Backback (NEW CODE July 23rd, 2021).What are the promo codes for Roblox 2020? Accounts with a membership can sell shirts and pants and get a percentage of the profit.Accounts with a membership receive a Robux stipend.You can purchase Robux in our mobile, browser, and Xbox One apps. ![]() There are a few different ways Robux can be earned or purchased: What is the code for 1000 Robux? Code: 232602620 – Copy it! How can I get Robux? ![]() Players will find the crystal located behind a mini island below the Golden Master Island on a small island towards the left for 55Oc chi. The Secret Blade Crystal is a limited time crystal in Ninja Legends, It was added to the game in Update 22 on July 17th, 2020. Where is the secret Crystal Ninja legends? The pet cloning Altar is used for players to duplicate their pets by paying master birdie a certain amount of chi. The Pet Cloning Altar can be unlocked by players unlocking the Dragon Warrior or a higher rank. Players can clone pets using this location with the help of the Master Cloning Birdie. It can be obtained by redeeming the promotional code “RIHAPPYCAT2021”. How do you get Ninja Cat on Roblox?Īrctic Ninja Cat is an hat that was published in the avatar shop by Roblox on November 20, 2020. You’ll train elements instead of ninjitsu. This sequel is an improved and updated version of the original game, it has different game mechanics and new features! The game is different from the original Ninja Legends. Ninja Legends 2 is a sequel created by Scriptbloxian Studios by Scriptbloxian. Players will find the crystal located behind the Eternal Boss on a small island towards the left for 1Oc chi. Where is the secret pet crystal in Ninja 2021? Redeem the codes one at a time, and the rewards will be automatically applied to your account.Ninja Legends is a ninjitsu training simulator Roblox game developed by Scriptbloxian Studios. To redeem Roblox Ninja Legends codes, you need to launch the game and click on the large button marked “Codes.” This opens a window with a textbox where you can type in the above codes. How to redeem codes in Roblox Ninja Legends autotrain15 – 15 minutes of Auto Training.Don’t try to redeem them because the rewards are no longer available. The following list contains all the codes we know have expired. It’s earned from battles and chests and is mainly used to buy yourself pets, training arenas, and shurikens. Chi is another form of currency in Roblox Ninja Legends. ![]() If thats not the case download the XML::Parser module from here and follow the instructions in the README file to install it)īefore we can install GLib we need to download the latest version of the GLib source. This assumes that you have the cpan module installed. To install the XML::Parser perl module issue te following command as root: The following packages are required to install GIMPShop: So if you have compiled GIMP from source before you should be able to skip this section without problems. Since this is a hacked version of GIMP the pre-requisites are the same as the official version. The GIMPShop package has a lot of pre-requisites that need to be installed before GIMP can be installed. ![]() He also made his modified source available so that others can port it to different OS's so I downloaded it to my computer and ported it to Linux.īelow is a step by step guide of what I had to do to get it to install on my Debian computer. He initially created GIMPShop for the Mac OS and the original package with a Mac Installer is available here. This modification makes it really easy for Adobe Photoshop users to switch to GIMP threreby saving a lot of money. On the other hand Scott Moschella actually decided to do something about it and spent a lot of time hacking the GIMP source to create GIMPShop where the tools, options, windows, and menus closely resemble Adobe Photoshop's menu structure and naming conventions. The same problem but over time I got used to the GIMP interface so didn't do anything about it. One of the most common complains that most graphics artists have when they try switching to GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation program) is that the user interface for GIMP is clunky and is hard to use. Please follow our site to get the latest lyrics for all songs. Totemo - Everything Happens Only Once (2019) Hi-Res Artist: Totemo Title: Everything Happens Only Once Year Of Release: 2019 Label: IMU Records Genre: Indie Pop Quality: Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks) / 24bit-44.1kHz FLAC (tracks) Total Time: 34:38 Total Size: 80.9 / 209 / 392 MB. 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If you want to keep all the changes you have made on Photos, then choose this option. Once you selected all your pictures, select the Export menu option.Įxport Photos – this option will export your photos with all the edits and metadata you have created in Photos. ![]() Now, we need to export all your pictures in order to complete your move from Photos. ![]() See my recommended software list for ideas. The good thing about organizing your pictures outside of Photos is that you can switch your programs later without losing any of your work.
![]() You can barely teach an old dog new tricks here. But Bond is, comparably, alone in his power. In Spectre, Blofeld leads Bond and Swann down a pathway in his lair, where computers, monitors, and cronies line the walls. Silva looks clean and tidy Bond, worn and broken down. On both sides, against the walls, are dusty computer servers, their newness juxtaposed with the aging, decrepit walls. Spectre actually presents a mirror image of Skyfall: in the latter film, Silva walks down a nearly empty walkway towards the camera, where Bond is seated, his hands tied. ![]() And Blofeld is the culmination of this, using SPECTRE as a dominant power to break down global democracy as we know it through digital technology, including global surveillance. Silva (Javier Bardem) presents his threat through cyberterrorism, leaking the photos of MI6 agents on the Internet, taking a torch to the Union Jack digitally. Dominic Greene’s (Mathieu Amalric) diplomatic tactics allowed him to cause a draught in Bolivia, raising the prices of water, thus funding SPECTRE’s future projects. Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) relied on money in a basic form of gamesmanship, but, as M mentions, he also played the stock market, taking advantage of impending financial crisis following the event of 9/11. But in these films, he faces a form of power that uses technology as an all-encompassing tool: money, geopolitics, terrorism, and, yes, world domination. His ability to go back and forth between Nationalist Hero and Rogue Gentleman Agent has made that aspect of technology all the more compelling. Everyone knows who he is, but the gift of being 007 is the illusion that he can disappear, go undercover, and become a part of the shadows like any other spy. The tech in Casino Royale is relatively lo-fi: no gadgets, save for a capsule that’s inserted into Bond’s arm that allows MI6 to keep track of him.īut part of Bond’s appeal is his ability to vacillate between iconography and faux-anonymity. He is at heart an anachronism, and those aspects begin to reveal themselves with each successive film. With the series’ reboot in 2006, the back-to-basics approach meant not only updating the character’s tone or even illustration, but also considering what place James Bond has in contemporary society. It sounds mad, yes, but what seems overlooked in Spectre is not how the film recontextulizes Bond’s love life and personal journey (however important that may be), but how it recontextulizes him as a character and as an icon in a modern world. But I have an idea for the next 007 film, which might sound borrowed from Blofeld’s blueprints: they should kill off James Bond. As he rides off in his spiffy Aston Martin DB5, there’s a tacit suggestion that maybe we don’t need James Bond anymore. It becomes a focal point of the most recent James Bond adventure, Spectre, a film that places Bond at the center of a changing world, where the fate of that world comes second to the fate of the character. Not unlike the classic noir films of the ‘40s and ‘50s, existential angst has always been the subtext of these films when the Berlin Wall fell (1995’s GoldenEye) and the Twin Towers fell (2006’s Casino Royale), subtext became super text. ![]() “You only live twice, or so it says,” croons Nancy Sinatra over the titles of You Only Live Twice, the fifth film featuring super spy James Bond - a character whose existential quandaries have, to some degree, become the subject of the entire franchise. |
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