![]() ![]() The study showed that the smaller, more isolated populations of zebras had lower genetic diversity, as would be expected. Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, led by biologist Brenda Larison, conducted DNA tests on 140 plains zebras, including seven with odd coat patterns, from nine locations across the plains zebra’s range in Africa. Speaking of the foal Tira, photographer Frank Liu told National Geographic, “At first glance, he looked like a different species altogether.” They also have the widest stripes, with coats more thoroughly covered in the pattern the further north in their range they are. Plains zebras are the most widespread of the three, appearing between the eastern African grasslands and southern African woodlands. Plains zebras are one of three species of zebras, along with mountain zebras and Grevy’s zebras. The foal, named Tira after the Maasai guide who first spotted it, has a dark coat and white polka dots instead of the zebra’s trademark stripes. In recent years, scientists have noticed more plains zebras with odd patterns on their coats, the most recent being a spotted foal in Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Park. But these stripes are not the certainty they once were. Zebras coats gain their color from the transfer of melanin from skin cells - the black stripes have melanin, whereas the white fur has none. It’s the pattern of stripes, vocalization, and scent that a baby zebra imprints on and uses to recognize their mother. Stripes are the unique identifier that humans and zebras use to distinguish between individual zebras, no two the same. The pattern develops in the eighth month of embryonic development, they’re born with brown streaks that darken to black with age. Despite living in areas of high fly activity zebras are not commonly targeted by these species, allowing them to avoid injury and diseases spread by these insects. When the horses were placed in striped coats, the flies landed less often. Experiments placed zebras and uniformly colored horses in similar enclosures, and though the flies circled and touched at similar rates, they landed on the horses far more often. The most promising theory though is that of protection from biting flies. Many theories have been proposed for the purpose of their iconic black and white stripes: camouflage, predator confusion, social recognition, thermoregulation. Why the zebra has its stripes is a question biologists have been puzzling over more than a century now. Terry is passionate about storytelling and its crucial role i. She helps to develop and write articles for AWF’s publications like the Travel Africa magazine, and other print marketing products such as the annual report. ![]() Terry Mukera is African Wildlife Foundation's Editorial Associate. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Michael Sarrazin excels as black-sheep hippie brother Leland reentering his estranged family’s orbit. Then, in an Oscar-nominated turn as cousin and family cheerleader Joe Ben, Richard Jaeckel’s sunny disposition perfectly masks the film’s shocking conclusion. In a body cast that holds his busted arm 90 degrees off his body, Henry Fonda leers and jeers unforgettably as the influential family patriarch, Henry. Where Sometimes a Great Notion unequivocally thrives, though, is in enlivening Stamper family dynamics, drenched in Olympia lager and 4:30 am maple syrup. (Granted, this didn’t stop Notion from being the first film ever shown on HBO in 1972.) What’s more, one can sense from the classical, painterly filmmaking why Notion eluded lasting fame relative to other 1971 films, which saw The French Connection, Klute, Shaft and A Clockwork Orange help shape New Hollywood aesthetics with hip, provocative urban settings. Composer Henry Mancini’s bluegrass score practically frolics, while Newman’s irrepressible charms endow Hank Stamper with righteous irascibility, as he chainsaws union desks in half and essentially leaves Wakonda to rot while on strike. The Stamper house, built by Universal Studios on the Siletz River near Kernville, is more attractive than the novel’s half-drowned monument to stubbornness. Meanwhile, Kesey bestows Oregon nature with an almost alien power to inspire and madden the Stampers.īy comparison, much of the film’s ambience is almost jaunty, as though the production couldn’t help but be impressed with its own riches of talent, source material and location. In the space of one page, the reader might plunge through three timelines of genealogy and perspective with unfilmable fluidity. In Kesey’s opus, both the setting and style are torrential. The film opens as though washed landward by the Pacific, an aerial shot combing the Central Oregon coastline while country music groundbreaker Charley Pride croons the gospel sentiments of “All His Children.” As establishing shots go, they seldom get more stunning, but we immediately see the movie veer in its own tonal direction. The Stampers have turned scab in the face of a timber strike, and one need only consult the family motto-”never give a inch”-to understand why they’ll keep on cutting, dammit. That, or maybe Paul Newman bought your uncle a beer in Newport during the summer of 1970, per the myriad boozy stories surrounding the film shoot.įifty years old this month, this Paul Newman-directed drama unravels the pathological grit of the Stamper clan, a family of loggers in the fictional coastal enclave of Wakonda, Oregon. With One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (based on another Kesey novel, of course) ranking among the state’s most famous film productions, only devotees of Oregon film history or ‘70s cinema likely recall much about Notion the movie. While Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion is regarded as perhaps the quintessential Oregon novel, its 1971 film adaptation is more like a forgotten little brother. Newman’s directing was well received by critics.Sometimes a Great Notion (Biggest Trailer Database) By Chance Solem-Pfeifer Decemat 9:00 pm PST The film's theme song, "All His Children", with music by Henry Mancini, is performed by Charley Pride and was nominated for an Oscar. As co-executive producer, Newman considered replacing Colla with George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy fame), who declined the offer, so when filming resumed two weeks later, Newman was directing as well as acting. At the same time, Paul Newman broke his ankle, and the production shut down on July 29. Colla left the project after 5 weeks shooting due to "artistic differences over photographic concept," as well as a required throat operation. Sam Peckinpah and Budd Boetticher had expressed interest in bringing Ken Kesey's novel to the screen but Richard A. Filmed in western Oregon during the summer of 1970, it was released over a year later in December 1971. The screenplay by John Gay is based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey, the first of his books to be adapted for the screen. ![]() The cast also includes Richard Jaeckel in an Academy Award-nominated performance. Never Give An Inch (also known as Sometimes A Great Notion) is a 1971 American drama film directed by Paul Newman and starring Newman, Henry Fonda and Lee Remick. Original Australian Daybill Poster Never Give An Inch ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As far as further Magento specifics go, please feel free to ask, but I don't know a whole lot about it, so you may be better off seeking advice from seasoned Magento users (e.g. Hopefully that gives you a bit more background. I don't know anything about it, but I suggest you give that a go for migrating data from older v1.x Magento sites. Perhaps you might have better luck following those instructions?įWIW if you check the appliance page that includes links to the "official" Magento v1.x to 2.x migration guide and they note that there is a data migration tool. Upgrading via composer), the proper instructions for updating (as per the way we installed) is instead this page. v15.0).Īccording to that doc page you linked to (i.e. If you wish to see how it was installed, please check the build code (conf script is likely the logical starting point) at the relevant version tag (e.g. If you are using TurnKey v14.2 or later appliance, then we download the code via a shallow git clone, then install with Composer. Good luck with it all and please feel free to share any more thoughts you have. We really appreciate it and I hope to at least include documentation for usage of composer and note the Magento admin url. Whether we'd move to pre-integrate it with other appliances, I'm not sure. ![]() In the near future, we'll likely provide a standalone Redis server. I'm sure it provides advantages and we probably should consider including it with some apps. Redis I'm not so familiar with personally. The interesting thing about that is that it caches the static content, so likely would boost Apache performance much more that Nginx, although again real world results would depend on your specific use case. Your suggestion for Varnish is a good one. So to be able to use Apache as a common component with decent default config reduces our maintenance overheads. htaccess files, we do have PHP apps in the library which do. Whilst that doesn't necessarily have any direct impact for Magento or other projects which don't rely on. It also has fantastic documentation and a Webmin module that makes it quite newb friendly. Most of them are packaged for Debian, so we can leverage the auto security updates. Now that PHP7 has implemented many of the improvements that PHP-FPM provided, you should find that Apache using mod_php should actually be able to process PHP faster! Admittedly, any advantage in PHP processing is often lost several times over because of the resource overhead of mod_php being loading into memory when serving static content, so in the real world, it's rare to see significant improvement, but it's worth mentioning.Īpache also has a range of module and plugins which makes it very flexible. So for a PHP web app such as Magento you have to run a separate PHP processor (usually PHP-FPM). First thing worth noting is that it's actually only better at serving static content, it actually can't serve dynamic content. I quite like Nginx and I know that it is hugely popular, but we do have reasons why we don't use it by default. Then you're running as the user: www-data! :) At the very least we should clearly document how to use the Even though www-data user does not have a shell by default, that doesn't mean that you can't run as that user with a shell! So to open a shell session as the www-data user, try this: su -c /bin/sh www-data su - www-data -c /bin/sh As far as I understood it, the biggest issue with using composer as the root user is that it will affect the file permissions (stuff will be owned by root, rather than However, a quick read here actually alerted me to the real potential security issues! I was aware that there had been noises about security concerns, but I was under the impression that that was the usual "Ubuntu user" type noise about "shouldn't ever run as root" and the only real world issue was permissions. I've opened a new issue.Ĭomposer running as root: Thank you for raising this. Regardless, we shoudl document it for now. ![]() If it's on install, then perhaps we should ideally be regenerating it on firstboot (and display it on the confconsole). My bad! Also, I'm not sure if that's setup on install, or on launch. I recall noticing that the admin URL used a random string when I did testing, but I didn't note it at the time. I'll try to respond to your points in order: So "getting it right" by everyone's standards, is near impossible. Having said that, we have a huge array of users with different desires, needs and preferences. We really appreciate and always try to take stuff on board. Thanks for your feedback on our Magento appliance. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm left feeling horrified for all the wrong reasons. ![]() Using real-world tragedy as an easy prop is bad enough, but The Medium's prehistoric perspective on mental health has the potential to do real harm. Needless to say, that's an unbelievably irresponsible message to drop into a mainstream videogame. ![]() It ultimately hinges its entire finale on the idea that the only solution is suicide. It displays a bit of sympathy for such people, but its overall thesis is that there is no true recovery, no way of processing or moving on. There's truth to the idea of toxic cycles of abuse and violence, but the way The Medium approaches that concept is totally alienating to any player who has themselves suffered traumatic experiences. These monsters traumatise other innocents, who become monsters themselves. Trauma makes monsters out of innocents, The Medium asserts-both figuratively and, in its world of the supernatural, literally. The throughline, such as it is, is trauma, as all of these things exist in the plot in order to provide damaging moments for each of our key characters. Whether trying to shock or affirm its own seriousness, it becomes completely incoherent in its rush to throw out as many edgy topics as it can muster-and blunders into such gross narrative beats as a lengthy sequence exploring the life and motivations of a serial child molester. With no focus, care, or sensitivity, the game invokes domestic abuse, rape, alcoholism, the Holocaust and Nazi experimentation, Soviet authoritarianism, and more, in rapid succession. Warning: big spoilers ahead.Ī flashback scene that puts you in the shoes of a different, rather less endearing protagonist serves to kick off a grim deluge of hot button topics. But at about the two-hour mark, the story takes a baffling turn that leads it down more and more uncomfortable paths. It seemed to be spinning a fairly standard but still compelling yarn about a mysterious series of killings at a remote holiday resort, and the conspiracy that may be behind them. I was intrigued to see where its horror mystery would take me. Over its first couple of hours, I was quite charmed by The Medium-I liked its throwback fixed camera angles, its grim post-Soviet atmosphere, and its endearingly worn-out protagonist. ![]() ![]() But we never played it, not even once, so now I have a whole bunch of pristine Doomtrooper cards from the original set and the first expansion just sitting there in a plastic case. That's how I got my entire Doomtrooper collection, I think they were going for $10 for a box of boosters so three of us bought sizeable collections for almost-free prices. It seems highly unlikely that I will ever get to play them anymore, and it also seems unlikely that they really have much after-market value (except maybe the Magic cards).įor a time, I was interested in buying out-of-print CCGs because you could get them dirt cheap. ![]() None of these cards have been out of the case in many years, though. I was pretty much out of CCGs by maybe 1998, although I have a few more recent offerings such as Spycraft, Conan, and City of Heroes (at least, I think those are a little more recent).įast forward to today, I have several plastic cases full of cards for games such as Magic (4th Edition), Doomtrooper, Wildstorms, Rage, On The Edge, Legend of the Five Rings, Netrunner, Battletech, Overpower, Doomtown, Star Wars, and many others I'm forgetting offhand. ![]() I played a bunch of them, bought starter decks for many but never went further than that, and was left wondering about others. ![]() It was an exciting time, with this entirely new gaming platform exploding onto the scene. I didn't get into collectible card games from the very beginning, but I was front and center for the big CCG craze beginning around 1995. ![]() ![]() The second tab searches the iTunes library and displays any missing tracks there might be. When the process is complete, a list will be displayed containing all duplicate files grouped together. Before you start the search process you can change the search criteria to make it more precise or broad. The first tab is for finding duplicate audio files in your iTunes library. Tune Sweeper’s interface is split into 3 tabs: Duplicates, Missing Tracks and Not in iTunes. Supported operating systems are Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 (32/64-bit editions). The setup package is clean from any type of additional 3 rd party item (spyware, toolbars, etc.). The main installation process finishes quickly let it be known though that for a successful installation you must have Microsoft. The installation procedure consists of nothing more than a few steps with simple settings. ![]() Tune Sweeper is a software designed to search your iTunes library for duplicate files and then let you decide what to do with them. ![]() Looking for them manually isn't an option since sometimes you have to search folders with tons of files and not even be able to tell whether two files are the same, so using a program like Tune Sweeper is what you should do in these cases. ![]() Among the things that eat up space in your hard drive are duplicate files, which exist in almost any computer that’s been used for long enough. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These items from the BoE recolor set will do, though. Kerisa farmed up the Ulduar 25 Druid Tier set, but it seems that she never got around to collecting the 10s version. This works well from a lore perspective because the Tauren priesthood is a relatively recent offshoot of Tauren druidism, but it doesn’t work so well for Transmogrification. The Sun Priests at the Horde entrance to the Legion Priest Order Hall (also found within) are wearing the cloth Whisperwind Spaulders with the leather Valorous Nightsong (Ulduar 10) robe and gloves. Unwavering Stare, Living Wood Spaulders (N), Phaelia’s Vestments of the Sprouting Seed, Grips of the Unbroken, Ogre Mage Staff I was very surprised to discover that the twin totems on the back are not a cloak item but rather part of the chestpiece item. Highmountain’s Heritage with Thunder Eagle Staffįour years after Allied Races were introduced and nearly two years after I created the character, I finally got Kasheena leveled up enough to earn her Allied Race Heritage Armor. Items that are no longer obtainable are marked with an asterisk (*). Outfits are listed from most recent to least recent. A collection of Transmogrification Kits actually worn in-game by my Highmountain Tauren Druid. ![]() ![]() ![]() But if you into recording tutorial or something similar to that, Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder will be your best pal. Being software based, the performance of Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder is not great for games. You can choose between recording the complete screen, a single window, or any part of the screen, according to your convenience. The recording can even be exported to different formats like MP4, MOV, WMV, and many others. Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder offers you the option to record the screen and capture audio from both microphones, and your system, at the same time. But if you just want to record the screen, the free version will work great for you. The Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder is a free screen recording software for Windows record screen windows 10, 8, & 7, which is available in a free as well as a paid variant. Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder (Free / Paid) Thus, if you are not into so much of webcam recording, iSpring Free Cam will surely serve the purpose for you. But even after being a free screen recorder, it is free from advertisements. There isn’t a webcam recording option, making it not so good for streaming. With iSpring Free Cam, you can even record and share video to different websites like YouTube. ![]() In case you need a specific format, you will need a video converter tool. The only disadvantages are that the output video format will be WMV. iSpring, even after being a free screen recording tool, comes with the option to remove background noise, and different parts of the video easily. ISpring Free Cam is a screen recording utility, which offers more than it is supposed to. If you keep your eyes open during the setup process, that isn’t a deal breaker for you. Another problem is that the setup file, even from the official website, comes packed with unwanted programs and malware. But, if you are looking for a highly customizable user interface along with a number of functions, CamStudio is really a great tool for you. With CamStudio, you can export the video files only to AVI, and that is kind of limitation. Just like Apowersoft Screen Recorder, you can even choose the area of the screen to record, apart from recording the window or the complete screen. The CamStudio review is quite great, as well, and offer a plethora of options to customize your process of screen recording. See also: How to use OBS tool to record Screen and Audio on Windows 7/10/8 CamStudio (Free)ĬamStudio is another great lightweight capture screen program, which is open-source. OBS Studio even comes with customizable hotkeys, which again make sense, if you want to personalize the program for your needs. Moreover, if you are looking for numerous functionalities, it is worth the time to set up the tool. That isn’t a problem though, for power users. The situation is just similar to other open source programs. The only con is that OBS Studio might be a little complicated to set up. With OBS Studio, the open source screen recorder Windows, you can even take the advantage of multiple cores, while streaming and recording. ![]() With OBS Studio, you can stream games and other contents live on YouTube and Twitch. With OBS Studio, you can record the screen, and stream, at 60 FPS. If you are into gaming and do a lot of streaming, OBS Studio (Open Broadcaster Software) can be the best tool for you which is also open source. Windows 10 screen recorder (Free) Top free & best screen recorder for Windows 10, 8 & 7 tools. So without further delay, let’s get started with… In case you need post-processing features, free screen recording tools might not be that powerful, but if you are looking just for screen recording, the tools I will mention here will serve your purpose. You can go for the paid or premium version if you need more functionalities. But I am keeping only those tools on the list, which can give you a good set of functionalities without charging you a penny. But here I will be discussing the top 9 free screen recording tools for Windows those can be used by anyone– beginners, experts or students.Īpart from being free, some of them can even be open-source or paid. ![]() If you are a power user, it will not be a big difficulty for you to handle advance screen recording tools. But there are even some others, which are meant for expert users. You can find a number of great screen recording programs for Windows, and most of them will do your work seamlessly. I am talking about gamers, video streamers, YouTubers and for those, who make video tutorials. But there are users, those need it extensively. Screen recording is something, which we do not need every day. ![]() ![]() While equipping your weapon you can type ‘Sword’ in the search bar and see all the sword type weapons you own! There might be very few missions where you rather have another Corrosive Projection in your group, but the extra melee damage is usually the best choice here.Īnother important thing you should know is the passive ability of Excalibur: You do get 10% increased damage and attack speed as long as you are using a sword weapon in your melee weapon slot. When it comes to choosing the aura mod, you almost always want to go with the Steel Charge, since it will increase the damage output of your abilities by a lot. Just use Umbral Intensify, Umbral Vitality and Umbral Fiber instead of the normal versions. The Best Excalibur & Excalibur Umbra Buildsįor the sake of this guide we will mostly focus on the normal version of Excalibur, but you can always try to find similar builds for the Umbra version. ![]() Modding this Warframe early on might feel a little bit problematic, but we are trying to show you a beginner build as well as late game builds here. If you picked one of the other starter Warframes ( Volt or Mag), you are able to get your hands on Excalibur by beating the boss on Mars until you have all the blueprints needed to craft Excalibur. The Great Swordsman is also one of the three starter Warframes, which is why a lot of newer players already use him pretty early on. The Chinese server even got a special release with the Excalibur Umbra Prime. Nowadays you are not able to get your hands on Excalibur Prime, because he was only obtainable by purchasing the Founder Package back in the day.įor a long time you were only able to play with his normal version, even though he was one of the original Warframes released.Īnd while Digital Extremes said multiple times that they will never ever release Excalibur Prime (as a special ‘gift’ to people that purchased the Founder Package), they added Excalibur Umbra with the quest line ‘The Sacrifice’. For multiple reasons he does have a very special role for Warframe and Digital Extremes, beginning with his primed version. One of the oldest and most beloved Warframes in the game is Excalibur. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are running macOS 10.10 or lower, you will need to upgrade your computer to 10.11 El Capitan first. To see if your computer can run macOS 11 Big Sur, check Apple’s compatibility info and installation instructions. If you are running macOS 10.11 or newer, you should be able to upgrade to at least macOS 10.15 Catalina. If you are upgrading from an older version of macOS, you may need to also upgrade some of the applications installed on your computer. The process of upgrading your computer varies depending on which version of macOS is currently installed on your computer.Īs of 10.15 Catalina, macOS does not support 32-bit applications. ![]() If this is the case, you will need to replace your current computer with a newer model. If your computer does not meet the minimum requirements for Catalina or Mojave, you will not be able to install a supported version of macOS. If you are running an older OS, you can look at the hardware requirements for the currently supported versions of macOS to see if your computer is capable of running them: If your computer is running macOS 10.14 Mojave or older it will need to be upgraded – make a note of your installed macOS version and your computer’s model and year as that information will be helpful when upgrading macOS.You’ll see the macOS name and version number, such as macOS Catalina 10.15.5 as well as your computer model and year.From the Apple menu in the top left corner of your screen, choose About This Mac.Older versions of ProPresenter are 32-bit applications and will not work with the new OS in any way.All UVM-owned computers running macOS 10.14 Mojave or older must be updated or replaced as soon as possible to comply with the University Information Security Policy. Previous ProPresenter versions: Please note that OS 10.15 Catalina offers support for 64-bit applications only. ProPresenter Stage2 App: At this time, we recommend waiting to update the iOS and staying on the current iOS you are on. ProPresenter Remote App: At this time, we recommend waiting to update the iOS and staying on the current iOS you are on. ProPresenter-Scoreboard: At this time, we recommend waiting to update the OS and staying on the current OS you are on. ProVideoServer: At this time, we recommend waiting to update the OS and staying on the current OS you are on. PVP3: At this time, we recommend waiting to update the OS and staying on the current OS you are on. We do have some further directions that we would recommend following in the OS upgrade process. ![]() These changes specifically involve your Registration file and ProPresenter Cloud. Please note that we do recommend updating to 6.5.3 prior to installing the OS update due to changes in the infrastructure of the new OS that made our team have to make some internal changes in the software. ProPresenter6: As of December 10, 2019, the 6.5.3 update of ProPresenter fully supports the new macOS update of 10.15 Catalina. We will update this article when we know more. (For major operating system releases this can sometimes take several weeks after the operating system is officially released.) As updates become available, we will post more information below for each individual program we offer.Īs with any software updates, we recommend waiting to update until we officially support our software on that version of the operating system. We are working with the new OS to certify our software for support at this time. Our team has been working with the developer betas of the new OS and iOS and continue to make sure things should operate smoothly when moving to the new OS for each of our programs. We are excited about the Apple announcement of macOS 10.15 Catalina and iOS 13 and are looking at what these new operating systems will mean for our software in both small and big ways. ![]() |