![]() Let me first say that Vanessa Redgrave's performance is spectacular. People have been recommending this book to me for a number of years, and I finally got around to listening to it. It is easier here because of the difference in time and the softer quality of Vanessa Redgrave's voice as she has aged. (and that is ok for them) This play was so devastating to listen to back in the theater. I think a lot of those who get hung up on her talk about her home in California or travel are just using that as a defense mechanism to avoid thinking about loss. Grief is the same whether you are rich or poor. Some people say they cannot relate to the story because Joan Didion talks about a privileged life. ![]() I give her a lot of credit for going on with it despite how much it cost her. That would have been THE performance to see. Her daughter Natasha Richardson had died in March of 2009 and the performance was rescheduled for late October. That was a hard bit of the story for a mother (or anyone else sensitive like me.) Vanessa Redgrave was scheduled to do the play for a benefit at the Church of St. Every mother tells a child they are going to be ok unless they know for certain the child is dying and some do it even then. The only time they were EVER on time in New York to pick me up had to be the very day I would have liked more time! The part of the play I remember feeling so emotional about was at the end when she is asking if she lied to her daughter about the medical tests and care making her well. She asked a woman how her mother was and asked that she tell her she was sorry she did not see her It was a very nice experience which was cut short by the arrival of my Supershuttle ride to the airport. He said the child was fine and back to everyday activities. She asked a man about his grandchild because the last time she saw him the child was very ill. ![]() ![]() I watched as she spoke to people who are obviously longtime fans. She signed my program and an autobiography of hers from years before. Someone I had talked to earlier told her I had flown up just for the play and she said she was touched that I had made that much of an effort. We were sad after the end of the play, but when she literally popped out of the theater and said hello we were immediately ok. Redgrave came out of the stage door after the performance she was wearing a VERY much washed and worn T-shirt and Jeans. The play was also different because she had an audience and she gets juiced because of them. I really wish they had recorded the original play for video and audio. Redgrave was 70 when she was in the play and now is 83 so there is a bit of a difference in her voice. There is a difference in the play and the recording. Sentences that begin with "if" are often magical thinking. That is a good example of magical thinking. In the early part she says she thinks he is still alive in California due to the time difference. I think people often do not understand what magical thinking is. It was very difficult to hear the pain and confusion. Redgrave sitting on the stage as if just telling us the story. I flew from Florida to NYC that morning so I was worried after hearing she had let the understudy take her place the night before. The evening before she had not been well and had canceled. She entered the theater looking really bad. I saw Vanessa Redgrave do the first run of The Year of Magical Thinking in 2007 on Broadway. The words here are from the one woman play of the same name. ** Important to know that this is a shorter version of the book by the same name available on Audible but not narrated by Vanessa Redgrave.
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![]() A few months later, we provided an updated version. The release was perfect to our great satisfaction. During preparation for one particularly release, the inexperienced tester, that is me, tested a version provided directly by the developer. However, team members were not using it consistently. Not using SVN consistently can result in version lossĪ few years ago, the team was still very inexperienced.The lesson is that adopting a good version control tool set will save time and energy. Later, after we adopted SVN, I came to realize that the diff command in SVN will provide the list simply in a few seconds. The process was tedious and error-prone, and often took me a few hours. As the team was very inexperienced and had not yet adopted SVN, I had to manually compare updates by Beyond Compare, export comparison results, and edit the difference list. I was responsible for providing the list. 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Ten years on from Worms™ Armageddon and the turn-based comic mayhem continues in Worms™ Reloaded, an all-new edition available for PC. ![]() If you brought your Office copy from an online store, you received the product key through an email. How to Find Microsoft Office Product Key Codes With Email Receipt or Printed Stickers Here are some of them explained in detail. If you’ve lost your keys there are several ways to find the product key for Microsoft Office. If you switched from Sheets to Excel, you might have uninstalled Office. 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There are third-party vendors offering applications which can locate and display your Windows 11 product key for you, but the techniques explained above seem to suggest those apps may not be worth the trouble or the potential security issues. (Note, this key may be different than the key revealed by the command prompt or PowerShell.)Įxit out of the Registry Editor when you are finished. Using the left-hand windowpane in the editor, navigate to this key:Ĭomputer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SoftwareProtectionPlatformĪs you can see in Figure C, the BackupProductKeyDefault key will reveal a valid Windows 11 product key. Open the Windows 11 search tool and type “regedit.” Select the Registry Editor application from the results and click the “Run As Administrator” link. ![]() The Windows 11 product key is stored in the Windows Registry File, so it is possible to find the product key there if you navigate to the right place. The command will reveal your original Windows 11 product key right there on the PowerShell prompt screen. Powershell "(Get-WmiObject -query ‘select * from SoftwareLicensingService’).OA3xOriginalProductKey" Open the Windows 11 search tool and type “powershell.” Find PowerShell in the search results ( Figure B) and click the “Run As Administrator” link.Īt the PowerShell prompt, type or paste this command, then press Enter: If you would prefer to use PowerShell, the process is similar, but the commands are different. The command will reveal your original Windows 11 product key right there on the command prompt screen. Wmic path softwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey Type or paste this command at the prompt and press the Enter key: Open the Windows 11 search tool and type “command.” Find command prompt ( Figure A) in the search results and click the Run As Administrator link to reach the command prompt screen. The most direct method for finding your Windows 11 product key is from the command line. The product keys for enterprise PCs are distributed differently and may not be revealed using these methods. 3 simple ways to find your Windows 11 product keyīe forewarned: These techniques are best used for Windows 11 computers running the OS since purchase or for Windows 10 PCs upgraded to Windows 11 through the patch process. This how-to tutorial will update how to find your Windows 11 product key using the operating system itself and not by relying on the sticker placed haphazardly somewhere on your PC. SEE: Quick glossary: Metaverse (TechRepublic Premium) The overall techniques for finding a product key are practically the same as they were for Windows 10, but there are subtle differences. However, with a few commands and a little know-how, you can use the operating system to reveal your Windows 11 product key. 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It would just worry him.” I chose a McDonald’s five towns away from where I live to avoid running into anyone I know. “Did you tell your wife about it, then?” Where does the history go when the relationship ends? I nod as I try to dab my glistening forehead with my sleeve. After that, we celebrated most of our big milestones at McDonald’s. ![]() He had muttered, “bullshit,” at the exact same time I had said, “I’m way hungrier than that.” So we left, took the train to a 24-hour McDonald’s, and shared big macs and milkshakes. But when we had arrived, waiting for our table, we sized up the portions: tiny, avant-garde shavings of fish, a lone carrot slice, two pieces of lettuce as either garnish or salad, it was difficult to tell. For our first Valentine’s Day together in the mid-1990’s, he tried to impress me by booking a swanky restaurant. The restaurant chain holds great significance for us. We sit, surrounded by glossy tables in the overlit McDonald’s. 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Without these, the oils in our hands constantly come in contact with the cabinet surface and the gleaming finish of the cabinets can become damaged. ![]() Other than this, using kitchen cabinet hardware is essential for the safety of cabinets. The installation process is simple and hardly takes 30 minutes. Perhaps, it wouldn’t be wrong to claim that adding new or replacing the existing kitchen cabinet hardware is the cheapest yet most effective upgrade.Īlso, you can do it all by yourself, without the need for any professional’s help. You can modify the aesthetics and give the kitchen a brand new look without spending a hefty amount. The kitchen cabinet hardware is the easiest way to lift your kitchen’s looks. Kitchen Cabinet Hardware Buyer’s Guide Why Use Kitchen Cabinet Hardware? ![]() Plus, you can also opt for cloud syncing-with a Binary Fortress account-to sync your clipboard text with other devices.Īs for advanced operations, Clipboard Fusion allows you to use hotkeys, create macros (using C#) to perform text transformation on your copied text snippets, and automatically set triggers to perform various clipboard actions.įor example, with macros, you can parse your clipboard text and get rid of invalid HTML tags, clear the clipboard at will, or convert text to some other format. All your clippings are saved and categorized accordingly to make it easier to access them. Using ClipboardFusion, you can save various kinds of items to your clipboard history and access them later when required. It manages to get the balance right between being an easy-to-use app and an advanced clipboard manager with features like macros and customizable triggers. 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Similarly, it also has another interesting feature, Text Translation, that lets you translate your text clippings into different languages with a single click. ClipClip employs a keyboard shortcut, which gives you a list of all your past clippings so you can easily paste them. We're using real-world locations as much as possible, because there's no substitute for the real world, that nuance that you get from Mother Nature. Then, we find a location that represents that arena. We then take those beats, we turn them into pre-vis, and use virtual cameras to create a virtual version of the arena-the location-and then we work out all the shots that we require. In this case, we feature Rapetosaurus, a large type of sauropod, and then we start to storyboard the beats out. We know, from the fossil record, which other animals were around Beelzebufo. We know from our experience that that type of animal will behave in a certain way. Let's say it's Beelzebufo, and we're going to see Beelzebufo try and attract a mate. With all of that in mind, we then storyboard a sequence out. We know that we need to create stories that reflect the natural world it's just 66 million years ago. We've got a really good fossil record from that period, so you can see which animals are around what the habitats were like, and then we start to build stories utilizing experience of being out in the field and looking at the kind of behaviors that animals do. We're in a relatively small window of geological time: the Maastrichtian, which is the last five or 6 million years of Late Cretaceous. Now add all of that together, and then look at the fossil record, and you see what animals were around at the time that we're depicting. So not just bones and stones, but paleoclimatology, paleobotanists, behavioral specialists. ![]() Everyone can talk to each other on the Internet and transfer data very, very quickly, and we've got a wonderful relationship with paleos across the world in loads of different disciplines. The paleontological world is moving at a faster pace than ever before. Of course, until you've seen a behavior on camera, it's hitherto unknown, isn't it? Then you put it on camera and everyone knows that it happened.Īdded into that, we've got our fingers on the paleo pulse. ![]() We work with a great team of wildlife filmmakers, people that have been out in the field filming every animal imaginable on every continent, so they've got vast experience in terms of how things look and how you capture things, but also the type of behaviors that you then see from animals. Now, that extends across into the rest of the production team as well. Working with Mike is a real privilege because Mike has spent 35 years making some of the most iconic blue-chip natural history documentaries that the world's seen, so we've got this incredible wealth of experience. What we've got to remember is at the heart of this is wildlife filmmaking. We've got an amazing collaboration here between ourselves as the BBC Natural History unit, and then Jon Favreau, and then the amazing team at MPC. Tim, can you talk about the process of putting together a single shot from start to finish? This can deliver." The level of authenticity, the level of nuance, the level of behavioral sophistication we can now reflect in these CGI animals is just mind-blowing. We did that as a test, and it was incredible, and we just thought, "Absolutely. In fact, it became the T-Rex swimming sequence where the T-Rex goes on the beach with the baby turtles and the baby T-Rexes. We knew that, yes, there'll be technology, but could it deliver? It was only when Jon joined us. So, the ambition was a theoretical ambition. He came into the sphere of the planners, and because he had just done Jungle Book and just done Lion King, which elevated the ability to make these hyper-real, hyper-accurate creatures, that was the technological thing that allowed us to realize the ambition. Suddenly, they clicked into alignment when we met Apple, met Jay Hunt, and at the same time happened to be talking to Jon about some projects. ![]() Luckily, it took a long time to get the right people together and to raise the resources and all the rest of it, and during that time the stars were never quite aligned. It was a shift in thinking, basically, "Could we do a classic natural history series like Planet Earth, but set it 65, 66 million years ago?"Īt the back of your mind, of course, it would have to therefore be in CG. So the idea is a bit older the idea really was about 10 years ago-maybe more, actually, now. If you go back to Walking with Dinosaurs, people have CG-animated creatures. Mike Gunton: In some sense, the technology has been around for a while. ![]() Did this idea predate the technology, or did the technology inspire you to use it in this unique way? Screen Rant: Mike, I believe you had the concept for this show, which was then made possible with the help of Jon Favreau and his work on the technology side. |
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