![]() ![]() However, there is a simple computational approach for computing resistance by multiplying air velocity squared by some values. Real world rolling resistance will be different, mostly because the actual road surface has a big effect.Īerodynamics is a fundamentally complex and difficult subject. There are big tables of coefficients you can find on the internet, yes, but those measurements are from tests conducted on steel drums. While this seems simple, there is a problem: it is difficult to make the measurements required to arrive at these coefficients. Everyone knows there is more resistance from a knobby mountain bike tire than a 23mm road bike tire - the MTB tire has a higher coefficient of rolling resistance. Rolling resistance is figured by multiplying weight by a number that gives the force, the coefficient of rolling resistance. GPS readings for elevation are highly inaccurate, however - the satellites are rarely in a good position. A good barometric altimeter can work well, too. Measuring grade with a ruler and a level is not such an easy thing, but the combination of a reasonably long distance and a topological map will provide a decent value. An inconvenient thing about "weight" is that kg is a unit of mass, not a unit of force, so it must be converted to newtons. For example, if you and your bike weigh 200 lbs and you are riding up a 1% grade, there is 2 lbs of gravity force holding you back. It turns out that the "grade" of a road - the rise divided by the distance traveled - is a quantity you can multiply by your weight to get the force of gravity. The only force in cycling that is easy to figure out is gravity, but I mean only the force you must resist as you climb, or the force that pushes you along when you descend. In the U.S., we all know that horsepower is a unit of power. It's more common in engineering to use a unit of power that comes from electrical units - watts. In metric units, we're talking about newtons (a unit of force) times meters/second. The sum of those forces can be multiplied by speed - this is the quantity known as "power". There is also some frictional force in the chain, gears, and bearings. The three major forces that must be overcome to maintain a certain speed are air resistance, rolling resistance, and gravity.
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![]() So many cookbooks now are becoming photographic show ponies rather than culinary work horses. Well done, I say! Though I love my Williams-Sonoma New American Cooking, with its close-up pictures of well presented delectibles, I find the photos can be distracting. ![]() He tells me about different types of beans and their flavors and "behaviors." This makes it an indispensable reference tool.Īnother part of what I like is what has driven many people away from this book: its lack of glossy color pictures. Say I've avoided.oh, maybe.beans for years, but now want to cook them myself he doesn't just throw a bunch of recipes at me, he talks about how to work with beans in general, noting specific exceptions and sticking points. Part of what I like so much is the pedagogic stance Bittman takes. If you want to make it more extravagant, you can but these recipes act as a guide on the route to culinary self sufficiency. ![]() As the Minimalist, Bittman has practice making good food simply. And the fact that the recipes and ideas contained within it are simple food makes it all the better. It has supplanted that venerable old institution, and presents the world of cooking in a way that can both engage the neophyte and interest the adept. This book is the "Joy of Cooking" for a new generation. It is true that I don't always find everything I want (yes, we all know the title is hyperbole), but what I find is just great. It is my standard starting point for any recipe search that I do. This could go on my "reading" shelf because I'm ALWAYS reading it. It's love in the way that you're important and valuable enough to deserve something that tastes fabulous and nourishes you. But it's usually something I love but that the rest of the family is ambivalent about-curry or sushi or pesto (THERE'S GREEN STUFF ON YOUR SPAGHETTI, MOM, WOW THAT'S NASTY.) And most of the time, when I'm dead-tired from work, it's still faster to make soup and muffins than it is to call out for delivery, or stop somewhere and get something.Īnd yeah, I subscribe to the Food Is Love way of life, but not in that psychotic, OMG, if you don't eat 5 helpings of everything she's slaved in the kitchen to make, you hate your mother/grandmother/crazy Aunt Sally way. Brush it off, let it dry and see how many more pages you can get dirty.ĭo I still eat take-out? Oh, hell, yes. Don't worry if the butter splatters on the page or the tomatoes drip. Leave yourself notes that you really can't stand capers but everything else in this recipe rocked. Put a post-it note on the ones that actually do turn out to be yummy. Pick something that sounds too delicious, just one thing, and make it. I read cookbooks for fun, but that's an entirely different post.) (If your mother *did* cook this way? Contact me immediately I'm not too old for adoption.) He's clear and easy to read and he explains things and he generally makes me way less crazy than the Joy of Cooking (I own four copies of three different editions of that one, because people keep buying it for me, and I never use it. One of the good things about Bittman is that he doesn't cook the way your mother cooked. Since I can't come into your kitchens and show you how few steps it takes to make something that tastes fifteen times better than takeout and is so much better for you and costs half as much, I'll point you to Mark Bittman, who wrote the Minimalist column for the New York Times. If I could teach all the people I know and love how easy it is to have real, good, actual food, I'd be a very happy woman. I know so many people who tell me they can't cook, they don't know how, it's too hard, and it's not. Okay, so, October is National Book Month, and there's a meme going around: what book do you want everyone to read, fiction and non-fiction. ![]() Para la comunidad latina yo tengo un espacio donde muestro mis trabajos, pero me gustaria encontrar o formar una que unificara a la comunidad. MFG's Character of the Month: February 2023 Voting. Give me a place in his community for my projectĭue to my inexperience with palettes i have to disable them.(when you do any specials or hypers, the colors will revert to the default palette) Join the official MFG Discord Server Here's where you can always find the latest official release of HDBZ check out this brand new interactive stage: BUDOKAI, exclusively for IKEMEN. MFG: any screenpacks for mugen 1.0 with 5000+ character slots The Mugen Fighters Guild Help M.U.G.E.N Configuration Help any screenpacks for mugen 1.0 with 5000+ character slots any screenpacks for mugen 1. Give me the oportunity to bring this project to MMV Los Mejores Screenpacks para Mugen Parte 1 - YouTube Skip navigation 0:00 / 6:34 Los Mejores Screenpacks para Mugen Parte 1 Jeff 8. Thanks to Mach3 for the help in the beginning of the code The BATTLECRY:Retribution Screenpack project (Commissioned by. Volzilla, AX, Red hood, chuchoryu and all the people from Mugenmultiverse site COMPLETE COMMISSIONMugen 1.11080p BATTLECRY: RETRIBUTION SP part 2 - TAG MODE. It can be considered to be very well made, with professional-looking animations on menu, select and battle screens. The Select Screen is also numbered to keep track of the 300 slots in each category. The screenpack is bundled with the M.U.G.E.N 1.0 core engine. The Screenpack comes pre-installed onto 1.1 and includes 1 KFM in each category for quick testing of the Select Screen. The sub-genre originates from the gameplay highlight reels showcased by major e-sports organisation Major League Gaming, or more accurately, the videos of YouTubers who tried to replicate this editing style with limited success. Thanks for all the people who believe in this project: International Mugen Tournament is a set of screenpacks created by the Infinity Mugen Team. Meme Stars is a screenpack that is based on the MLG montage parody sub-genre of YouTube. a BIG THANK because you help me to perfect my skills in the mugen world. but some others dont believe in this project "JLA VS AVENGERS", well this superman is the proof that when you want to do something just do it, forget about the negative people and finish what you do.įor those who believe, thanks because you help me to finish this char.įor those who dont believe. When logansam enter in this mugen char making thing, i found some nice people and make great friends. With this char, i learned how to make a sprite,how to code and the most important thing how to have fun with it. ![]() They are now essentially a media company.”īut The Last of Us, said Macquarie analyst Damian Thong, marks an important next step in the transformation, in which Sony is able to leverage its different media businesses to better profit from its intellectual property. “They’re making all the right moves in video #games, animation and #TV. “In terms of owning the IP and distribution for animation, Sony owns most of them,” said Jefferies analyst Atul Goyal. ![]() Analysts expect that ratio to climb to more than 56 per cent in the financial year that ends in March 2024.Īmong Sony’s strongest new suits is its globally dominant position in the distribution of Japanese #anime cartoons - a business that has been significantly expanded both financially and geographically by the advent of streaming services.īolstered by the $1.2bn purchase of AT&T’s anime streaming service Crunchyroll in late 2020, which now has 10mn paid subscribers, the group has built what is generally understood as the world’s largest portfolio of anime.Īs a result, Sony has adopted an “arms dealer” strategy - distributing titles across multiple rival streaming platforms to maximise profits. In the first nine months of the financial year ending next month, 48 per cent of the group’s operating profits came from games, music, films and television. It is the focus on the media business, say analysts, that defines the new Sony, a company that has built globally significant positions in a broad range of #entertainment genres at a time of wallet tightening and as the battle between rival #streaming services intensifies. “It has focused on being really good at a few things, rather than trying to be average at a lot of things,” said Gibson. ![]() This process, which veteran Sony analyst David Gibson at MST Financial describes as “remarkable”, has steadily converted #Japan ’s best-known consumer electronics brand into a less well-understood blend of specialist-hardware maker and international #media giant. It is a corporate transformation carried out under two successive chief executives and set to be entrusted to a third It’s a long read at 350 pages, but worth the effort, especially the final two chapters if you are time poor or more concerned about the present security and geopolitical dimensions.įor long-term Sony watchers, The Last of Us symbolises the culmination of a decade-long metamorphosis. “Jim Keller, the star semiconductor designer who’s widely credited for transformative work on chips at Apple, Tesla, AMD, and Intel, has said he sees a clear path towards a fifty times increase in the density with which transistors can be packed on chips” (p.348). “A facility to fabricate the most advanced logic chips costs twice as much as an aircraft carrier but will only be cutting-edge for a couple of years” (p.347) Establishing a cutting-edge all-domestic supply chain would take over a decade and cost well over a trillion dollars in that period” (p.323) China would have to replicate this spending in addition building a base of expertise and facilities that it currently lacks. The global chip industry spends over $100 billion annually on capital expenditures. “Domesticating every part of the supply chain would be impossibly expensive. One of Miller's most striking assessments is the centrality of Taiwan to the global (and immensely complex) supply-chain - something unlikely to change anytime soon.Īnother key point is the number of technology ‘choke-points’ that remain controlled by the US and its allies, such as lithography equipment and the software used to create chips. Price: Free/In-App Purchase: Up to $99.Just finished Chris Miller's brilliantly researched: 'Chip War - The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology'. The game has several tournament modes and offers free daily gold, lottery draws, and more.Īlso Read: The 10 Best Solitaire Games for Android Texas Holdem Poker Pro contains live chat and provides the possibility to create personal avatars. The game is appropriate for poker players of all levels and offers players the opportunity to play with people from all over the world. Texas Holdem Poker Pro is a fun game that lets you enjoy playing poker anytime, anywhere. Price: Free/In-App Purchase: Up to $99.99 Texas Holdem Poker Pro Poker Game: World Poker Club on Google Play Texas Holdem Poker Pro Through the game’s chat feature, players can communicate with other players. Prizes, collectibles, poker rooms, and other features are available in the game. With Poker Game: World Poker Club, players will have access to free chips and bonuses. Weekly and SitNGo tournaments are available in the game. World Poker Club is a superb poker game that involves popular poker games such as Texas Hold ‘Em and Omaha and is one of the best poker games for Android. ![]() To see how it's shaping up, read the full preview, and flick through our screenshot gallery. The game runs on a modified version of Unreal Engine 3, and is aiming to set new technical standards for MMOs. The studio is headed by Andrew Carter, formerly of Melbourne House, and formed around core talent from the long-lived Australian developer. To make Otherland, dtp has funded the creation of a new multinational studio in Singapore called Real U. ![]() Gameplay details are still largely under wraps, but the core of the game will revolve around your ability to gather information, and manipulate the "code" that dictates the appearance and properties of your avatar and the world around you. Sleeping Late on Judgement Day would definitly be an interesting nominee for best novel, in short fiction I say that even. There will be scope for co-operative gameplay and player-versus-player conflict, as well as a wide variety of casual and social minigames in a hub area called Lambda Mall. The appearance of players' avatars will alter as they go, and the game worlds will change dynamically around them. The game takes place entirely in virtual reality as players travel across a varied series of worlds, with themes ranging from mythology, science-fiction and fantasy, to historical, contemporary and cartoon settings. Up the corridor you have a room full of friends. Otherland takes place in a near future where the super-rich have their own private virtual worlds on the net, peopled both by AI, and unwitting humans who don't know that what they're experiencing isn't real. A fan subreddit for the stories and fantasy worlds imagined and written by Tad Williams - Memory, Sorrow and Thorn & Last King of Osten Ard trilogies, Otherland, Shadowmarch, Bobby Dollar, War of the Flowers, Tailchaser's Song etc. The game - detailed in a full preview on Eurogamer - is based on the series of science-fiction novels of the same name by American author Tad Williams. Clues point to a mysterious golden city called Otherland, but investigators all end up dead. ![]() ![]() Kids, including her brother Stephen, have logged into the net, and cannot escape. Urn:isbn:1101551259 Scandate 20110310220059 Scanner publisher dtp Entertainment has revealed that it's working on a new MMO set in a "multiverse" of virtual realities called Otherland. Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher in the South Africa of tomorrow, realizes something is wrong on the network. OL16026545W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 97.84 Pages 798 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1857236041 Urn:lcp:otherland00will:epub:33f273e8-e3d4-4acf-a1a1-387c8c83c5a1 Extramarc Yale Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier otherland00will Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t85h8c90b Isbn 0886777631ĩ780886777630 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary_edition Otherland is an epic Post-Cyberpunk novel series written by Tad Williams, comprising four volumes: The story is set 20 Minutes into the Future, where corporate entities are as or more powerful than governments and the Internet has become a Metaverse with its own private virtual reality environments. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:50:25 Boxid IA1399306 Boxid_2 CH105101 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, NY Comment Removing Scanfee from Billable Books scanned before June 2011 which appear to have manually set scanfees Donor At Hennebont she ordered the women of the town to "cut their skirts short" and assist in the defence. Jeanne la Flamme: Led Brittany to secure the title for her son after her Husband was executed by the King of France. Roll 2d10+20 for the stats, then take shallyas mercy and ranalds fortune.If I may, I'm a bit late but here are a few more Women from Brittany during the Hundred Years war will you survive and make your fortune aboard the craft, or desert and turn pirate? only time will tell youll all start out belowdecks after being coshed out and awakening on the briny widowmaker, a military ship hunting sartosan pirates. got no plan, got no prep, just winging it and being creative. Im looking for 3-4 people to try out a sailing ship game. anything else can be asked for, but i reserve the right to deny Are your Players restricted to particular rulebooks and supplements, or will you be allowing access to non-standard material? What sources can Players use for their characters? no puzzles exist that cant be solved with die rollsġ6. Does your game involve a lot of hack & slash, puzzle solving, roleplaying, or a combination of the above? Gimme skirt length, and how you ended up on the briny widowmakerġ5. the backgrounds all ending up with the characters in the same city)? Is a character background required? If so, how big? Are you looking for anything in particular (i.e. Are there any homebrewed or optional/variant rules that your Players should know about? If so, list and explain them, or provide relevant links to learn about these new rules.ġ4. Will you be doing all of the die rolling during the course of the game? Will die rolls be altered, or left to the honor system? If players can make die rolls, which ones do they make, how should they make the rolls, and how should they report them?ġ3. Do you allow multi-classing, or have any particular rules in regards to it?ġ2. Does your game use alignment? What are your restrictions, if so?ġ1. shallya's mercy and ranalds fortune are both allowedġ0. By what method should Players generate their attributes/ability scores and Hit Points? are allowed for your game? Will you allow homebrewed races or species? 'Prestige' races or species?ĩ. people who know their letters are usefulĨ. I want sailors and military men, with the occasional lightfingered person and ships wizard. or do not want? What are your rules on 'prestige' and/or homebrewed classes? Are there any particular character classes, professions, orders, etc. How much gold or other starting funds will the characters begin with?ħ. ![]() What is the characters' starting status (i.e. What's the gaming medium (OOTS, chat, e-mail etc.)?ĥ. ![]() How many Players are you looking for? Will you be taking alternates, and if so, how many?Ĥ. It will be set on a military ship hunting sartosan piratesģ. historic period, published or homebrewed campaign setting, alternate reality, modern world, etc.)? "Shadow Chasers" or "Agents of Psi" for d20 Modern)? What is the setting for the game (eg. ![]() What 'type' or variant of game will it be (i.e. What game system are you running (D&D, Call of Cthulu, Palladium, GURPS, etc.), and if applicable what edition (Original, Classic, Revised, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 10th, etc.)?Ģ. ![]() One of the tricks we do, though, is we take pantyhose. And it looks like it's doing nothing, and all that's happening is we're filling in the pores. All we're doing is take the hot sponge, and we simply are rubbing the polish in. We get it, it's superhot water, and put a coat of polish on here. You see, the difference in color is pretty drastic for polished boot and unpolished boot. To get there, it takes a lot of polish.Ĭhris Darcy: We used to make them pay for it, but now Her Majesty decides she's gonna buy us polish. When you see them in person, these boots boast an almost otherworldly sheen. Narrator: They might look shiny, but these pictures don't quite do them justice. After the cadets are done polishing them, they look more three-dimensional. We do up to 32 pairs of boots in a week, and then they're issued to the cadet, and they begin to do the arduous task of putting 20 to 40 different coats of polish on them so that they no longer look one-dimensional. ![]() Once we reach that size by blocking them like that, then we put them in our drying booth, and they dry for about a week so that they will take that shape permanently. A block that mimics the calf, a block that mimics the shin, and then, depending on the amount we need to stretch them, we open them up to the appropriate size that we need for each individual. To stretch them, they are soaked in a tub and then we open them up with a series of blocks. Each pair of boots is fit to each individual cadet, whether that means stretching them or making them smaller. Rod Johnson: So, we look after all of the brown ceremonial leather. Each pair is handcrafted by the Alberta Boot Company before being sent to the leather shop at the RCMP Academy, where each pair is custom fit to each cadet. And about $500 of that cost is for the boots. According to the RCMP, the total cost of each cadet's uniform, including the Red Serge and their normal duty clothing, comes out to about 4,500 Canadian dollars. Narrator: If an officer outgrows his or her uniform, they simply request a new one at no additional charge to them. Narrator: Alterations for each tunic can take up to two days. We take them apart, we put them together, and do the alterations. Nila Filoteo: About eight of them are custom tailors, and the rest are general tailors, and general tailors usually do the pants and the breeches, and the custom tailors are the one that does the red tunic. Narrator: Here at the academy, a team of 20 tailors perform all the alterations for each cadet. Sean Lussier: Right now they're not as comfortable as you would think, but they are custom-made primarily for the look, so they're not gonna be as functional to do your everyday kind of job in them. They're made of wool and include a satin lining. The tunics are made by a company in Quebec before being shipped here, to the RCMP Academy in Regina, Saskatchewan. Along with the tunic, the uniform includes trousers known as breeches, a Stetson hat, a Sam Browne belt, and a pair of high leather Strathcona boots. It's part of what's known as the kit that's issued to the 1,000 cadets that graduate from the RCMP training academy each year. Narrator: While this is what you're likely to see Mounties wearing in the field, the Red Serge is worn at ceremonial events. It makes you very proud to be here.Ĭadet: When you put it on, you feel pride.Ĭadet: I cannot believe it when I saw myself in the mirror. Each cadet gets fitted for their tunic about halfway through their 26-week training program.Ĭadet: It's a really exciting moment. ![]() ![]() The RCMP is Canada's federal police force, known worldwide for their iconic scarlet tunics, referred to as the Red Serge. Narrator: These men and women are some of the newest members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, also known as the Mounties. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. Later, They won a Test series against Bangladesh 2-0. Pakistan tied a Test series against West Indies 2-2. Pakistan has played 6 Test series in the tournament. With a PCT of 38.10, Pakistangrabs the 6th spot in ICC World Test Championship points table. Recently, they won a Test series against West Indies 2-0, however, it was not enough to reach the WTC final.Īlso Read: IND vs AUS: Watch – Virat Kohli Overjoyed For Shubman Gill After India Opener Smashes Maiden Test Century At Home Against Australia Pakistan Pakistan team. South Africa lost a Test series to Australia 2-0. ![]() Later, they lost a Test series to England 1-2. South Africa defeated Bangladesh in a Test series 2-0 in March this year. Later, South Africa tied a two-match Test series against New Zealand 1-1. South Africa defeated India in a Test series 2-1. However, they cannot qualify for the final now. South Africa has moved to the 3rd spot in ICC World Test Championship points table with a PCT of 55.56. Sri Lanka has a thin chance to qualify for the final if they win the ongoing Test series against New Zealand 2-0. Later, they won a Test series against Bangladesh 1-0 and tied a Test series against Australia (1-1) and Pakistan (1-1). Later, they lost a three-match Test series to India 3-0. Sri Lanka defeated West Indies in a two-match Test series 2-0. ![]() Sri Lanka has played 5 Test series in the tournament so far. Sri Lanka has moved to the 4th spot in the ICC World Test Championship 2021-23 points table with a PCT of 53.33. Australia is currently wrestling with India in a Test series, which they trail 2-1 after three games. Australia defeated South Africa 2-0 in a three-match home Test series. Australia also defeated West Indies 2-0 in a Test series recently. Later, they also won a Test series against Pakistan 1-0 and later tied a Test series against Sri Lanka 1-1. Australia won The Ashes 2022 against England 4-0 earlier in January 2022. ![]() They have already qualified for ICC World Test Championship final. Australia has played 5 Test series and is playing its last series against India. Credits: TwitterĪustralia takes the top spot in the ICC World Test Championship points table with a PCT of 68.52. The 4th Test is underway.Īlso Read: IND vs AUS: Watch – Ravindra Jadeja And Steve Smith Burst Into Laughter After Colliding With Each Other During 4th Test Australia Australia cricket team. India is currently playing a Test series against Australia which they lead 2-1 after three games. India defeated Bangladesh in a Test series 2-0 in December last year. India lost a Test series against South Africa 1-2 and later defeated Sri Lanka in a Test series 2-0. Later, India won a 2-match series against New Zealand 1-0. India’s first Test series against England ended in a tie 2-2. India takes the 2nd spot in the ICC World Test Championship points table with a PCT of 60.29. Teams will be ranked on the percentage of points won. ![]() India vs Australia and New Zealand vs Sri Lanka are the last two series that will take place under ICC World Test Championship 2021-23.Īlso Read: NZ vs SL Live Streaming 1st Test- Where To Watch New Zealand vs Sri Lanka Live? NZ vs SL Live Telecast Channel Free, 2023 World Test Championship 2021-23 Updated Points Table Positionįor slow over-rates, teams will lose one championship point for each over-short. Bangladesh takes the last place with just 1 wins across 10 games, which gives them a PCT of 11.11. New Zealand won only 2 games out of 11 and lost 6, which gives them a PCT of only 27.27. IPL 2023 | India National Cricket Team | IND vs AUS 2023 | India vs Australia 2023 With a PCT of 34.62, West Indies take the 7th spot. At the bottom, there are teams like West Indies, New Zealand, and Bangladesh. England and Pakistan take the 5th and 6th spot in ICC World Test Championship points table with a PCT of 46.97 and 38.10 respectively. ![]() Ruin: It was how I sorted out that wheat from the chaff, frighten the fuckers away. The 25-year-old Irish woman with AIDS (no distinctions were made back then really). I think I was a semi-conscious bug-chaser, but also blindingly honest. Ruin: But it was so much not your demographic, that must have been bewildering somewhat. I had fevers, swollen lymph nodes and one night a pain in the left side of my neck like a piece of rebar had been jammed up from my clavicle. ![]() There was a rumour that some people were, and I had been such a slattern to that point, and always stayed negative, so I sort of allowed myself delude myself.īut I think that I might have wanted it too. I think before that day I thought that I might have been immune. Ruin: I remember reactions over that time, telling people, and getting that "well you were bloody looking for it" reaction. I am thinking I might make the perspective that of the doctor’s, to some degree, not entirely. I sort of discovered that in the act of writing, you start to remember even, to recapture memories. I have no idea what happened in those intervening days. But no, on re-reading, I see it isn’t the day I found out, it’s 12 days later. That's the day I found out, after a little search, but I will make it into a story. Having got to the ripe old age of 47, I haven't even managed to develop the acquisitional gene and imagine that will be a lack until the final shuffling off of this tired old coil.” It’s all about possessions and looking good. ![]() Who needs the ravings of an aberrational cock and cum obsessed dysfunctional unit? The world is about going forth and multiplying, about buying and selling. When I see what is acceptable and celebrated in the Art world it becomes immediately clear why I would not be. As usual I cringe at youth and beauty, but now in a more bitter and twisted way. Meanwhile the world seems even more inaccessible than ever, the art world in particular. That we both want or need to deal with it in totally different ways causes problems intermittently as we knock off each other (relative to Adrian). This acknowledgement of a new but inevitable state of being waxes and wanes, sometimes seeming unbearable and sometimes seeming very ordinary. You know the feeling, that in it but not of it, sort of thing. “I feel like I have dropped out of the world. (On discovering new HIV status Sent : Sun Apr 22, 2001, 9:17 am. Anyway, will stop writing about writing about it and will write it.Ĭries and Whimpers. I feel like I might have to resort to science fiction, a genre I’m not fond of. Peter tested after me and his were terrible. It's near the end of those emails I sent you, but I will contrive to pull it all together. I also have the writing about when we first got our t-cell count back, and mine being higher than his, and there being some guilt. But then what is fiction? Perhaps it’s the story we tell ourselves convincing ourselves that it’s true, those self-justifications we invent to make moving forward possible, that greasing of those wheels. Yes, I will write it, we can also find it in our exchange, and yes, it can include fiction, of course. There’s a similar feeling in it, that prison sentence, the air being drawn out of the room. My head was racing, but then, when is it not?Īmanda Knox writes quite well, relative to that link you sent me, about her ‘Red Letter Day’. I had gone in first, so I had to wait for him. I do remember the shock though, and coming out to discover that Adrian was in with another doctor. I can't even remember if I was sitting opposite a male or female doctor. I will re-build it around those messages, will find it out, write about not remembering it, even. ![]() I was working in the Civil Service at the time. Ruin: Mine is similar, remember very little, though I did write around it, both to you and to one or two others. If it goes in our book, it will have to be largely fictionalized as I remember very little. I’ve never fully described it to myself or anyone else. Rack: I will, but zero energy today and this will require some gusto. Did you go there alone? I went with Adrian, but we got the news separately. Ruin: so, tell me about the day you got the 'news'. Unbunging Selfie, de-freckled, de-gingered and de-aged (Trigger warning in every which way, in every possible direction in the text, not for public consumption, not at all, at all.) ![]() This can be really disconcerting, because the focus point will seem to move by itself-and usually at the wrong time. There have been times when I have changed the focus point by mistake with my cheek as it pressed against the back of the camera. On some cameras, you can also lock the AF point selection control so that it doesn’t move inadvertently, as illustrated on the Nikon D750 in Figure 4.6. Some higher-end professional models feature a dedicated AF point control that acts like a miniature joystick, enabling you to quickly change focus points, but you can still use the four-way rocker switch on these models as well. ![]() Figure 4.5 shows the rocker switch on the consumer-level Nikon D3200.įigure 4.5 The Nikon D3200 rocker switch on the rear of the camera controls the focus point. For example, if you keep pressing to move the point right, it will go across the viewfinder to the right edge, then reappear on the left edge to start over again. Press the switch to move the selected AF point up, down, left, or right, and you can even set it to make the point wrap around. The active, selected point will be highlighted in red. Nikon positioned it where your right thumb would naturally rest when holding the camera, making it easy for you to move the focus point while looking through the viewfinder. On the Nikon DSLRs, you control which focus point is used via a rocker switch on the back of the camera. For right now, however, set your camera to use a single AF point and practice changing which AF point is selected. In the next chapter, I cover using AF groups, which use one or more of the autofocus points. Read the camera manual for your camera on how to select which is the active point. To be a better photographer, you must be able to select the focus point you want, so you need to practice controlling which AF point is active. There will be a control on the back of the camera that will allow you to change which AF point is active. All you need to do now is place any of the AF points over your subject, make sure that the AF point is active, then press the shutter release halfway down to activate the autofocus.Įach camera model has a different way of moving the selected AF point, but the basics are the same. Having multiple focus points allows the photographer options in composition. Photographer's Guide to Focus and Autofocus, A: From Snapshots to Great Shots |
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