8/2/2023 0 Comments Brave earth prologie![]() ![]() Most of them didn’t even want it.Ĭzechoslovakia was drawing to a close, and so was my childhood. The grand declaration must have seemed unconvincing at best. ![]() Bratislava would become a capital city again after all! But the crowds around her only paused on their way out of Dunaj and its nearly empty shelves to glance up and walk on, silent. On a July afternoon, strolling through Bratislava-long since demoted from its old glory as the coronation city of Hungarian royalty-she came to a halt in SNP Square just in time to observe a “Declaration of Sovereignty” by the Slovak National Council, broadcast live from Prague on a huge screen in front of a department store. ![]() Mom, an honorary Slovak by marriage and habit, had paid her first and only visit to Czechoslovakia in the summer of 1992. My parents had no inkling, when the idea of moving abroad started to sprout, that a brand-new country was sprouting, too, or that they’d arrive in its very first year. Things had happened, unexpected things, unimaginable things. This move was going to be different, though. It was only in my mid-teens, just as I was allowing myself to relax into a sense of belonging, that the inevitable next move was announced. In our first year I set about writing memoirs of the places that came before, bestowing upon each work such a grandiose title as Sarah of Jersey City, according to the hallowed template of Anne of Green Gables. The result was that I distrusted our eventual stopping point of Delhi, New York, a pretentiously named but phonetically pronounced township at the north end of the Catskills, inhabited by artsy-fartsy refugees from the City and down-on-their-luck dairy farmers who declared the soil to boast “three rocks for every dirt.” I was nine when we got there and permanently puzzled as to what qualified as home. Louis, Long Island, Manhattan, Jersey City, Garfield. I liked to tot up all the places I’d called home since birth: St. We had never lived anywhere very long, of necessity trotting along after the zigzags in my dad’s education and then career, pastors being nearly as itinerant as lieutenants and captains. There was something else I knew, of which Czechoslovakia was but one of several echoes reverberating back to me from afar: I knew how always to be homesick for somewhere else. Whereas I knew that if sentimentality for the lost motherland gripped the church ladies in my grandfather’s Slovak congregation, the sure result was to be cabbage rolls, boiled with an inch of their lives. American citizenship was a mere epiphenomenon, a fact that my classmates, most of whom hadn’t the faintest idea of their own ethnic heritage, seemed unable to grasp. I knew, moreover, that it made no nevermind that three generations of us had never actually been there. Ditto the equally opprobrious “Czechoslovakian” as a term for a nonexistent language. It was anathema to us Slovaks no one on the inside ever, ever said it, The New York Times notwithstanding. I also knew that the pseudo-word “Slovakian”-usurper, pretender, and offense against eye and ear-was our private shibboleth, the unerring indicator of an outsider. My people were not Bohemians or Moravians. I assumed they were ordered according to the principle of save-the-best-for-last. Czechoslovakia, like Gaul, was divided into three parts: Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia. I knew things about Czechoslovakia that other people didn’t, and not only how to spell it. The little orange strip, topologically ridged to represent the Carpathians, could barely accommodate its unwieldy moniker, in marked and modest contrast to the vast swath only a thumbprint’s width away, which fittingly named itself with a four-letter word: U.S.S.R. Fourteen letters, beginning with that peerless Cz cluster, hinged in the middle by a modest but muscular o flicking upward the long fishtail of the remainder. Surely Czechoslovakia had the most wonderful name of them all. Whenever I visited the red and gray farmhouse in upstate New York cobbled together by my grandparents’ meager construction skills, I would spin their globe, swiping the Atlantic Ocean out of sight, to locate the inverted circumflex amidst a crazy-quilt of countries small enough to be states. It was communist, though poor little Czechoslovakia couldn’t really be blamed for that. There was reason for its reticence, of course. It had been an odd sort of companion throughout my childhood, like an invisible mirror or rumored cousin, never quite real enough to manifest, never quite imaginary enough to vanish. ![]()
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JW: My parents owned a printing company when I was growing up and they worked very closely with Bruce producing lithographs of his art. LQ: How did you get involved with Bruce Garrabrandt? What drew you to his work? What began as a hobby is slowly turning into a small, but exciting side business. My background is in Graphic Arts and Printing, but I have a lot of skill sets that are in-demand more than ever since the advent of digital photography. Jeffrey White: For years I'd helped friends and family with photo retouching, video editing and multimedia DVD creation. LQ Graphics: What kind of work do you do? We interviewed Jeff on his background, his work, his passions, and how Photo to Movie aids his and Bruce's comic vision. Together, the two used Photo to Movie to create wry, witty slideshows of Bruce's drawings - sometimes slowly zooming out to reveal the perfect punchline. Jeff is a multimedia artist who struck up a partnership with comic Bruce Garrabrandt. Photo to Movie User Profile - Jeffrey White ![]() 8/2/2023 0 Comments Turn off windows 10 nag![]() The watermark will return after some period of time. Do keep in mind that this is not a permanent solution. You should immediately see that the Activate Windows watermark is gone even though you never had to enter a Windows 10 key. You need to restart your computer for the change to take place. Press the OK button, and then exit the Registry Editor. ![]() Here, double click on the Manual entry.Navigate to the following Registry key, or use the address bar and copy-paste the file’s location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SoftwareProtectionPlatform\Activation.Type in Registry Editor and click on the matching search result to launch the app.You can also bring it up with the Windows S keyboard shortcut. 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The only episode I truly dislike is "Raising Gazorpazorp". ![]() Makes sense since "Rick and Morty" was just hitting its stride. There were a few episodes which are at the top or close to the top - but most are towards the bottom. Season 1 is also the weakest season by far. The overall execution of this episode was perfect. It just has that perfect mixture of comedy and heartfelt moments. I have a hard time imagining any future episode beating this one as my favorite. My main comment though is that "The Vat of Acid Episode" is what I consider to be the perfect Rick and Morty episode. If anyone is curious about why I placed an episode somewhere, let me know. This is my ranking of personal favorites. I know this has been done before but wanted to share my own personal ranking of Rick and Morty episodes. Keep it to 2 posts in a 24 hour period.īreak the cycle.
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I have a top of the line brand new 5K 27inch iMac with almost all options maxed out: fastest CPU, fastest GPU with 4GB of RAM, SSD, etc. I loaded 3 bracketed exposures, ticked alignment and reduce chromatic aberration and clicked okay. It took a long time, seemed stuck at 75% of the chromatic aberration process though no sign of the app crashing, it was just chugging at 300% CPU. After 15 minutes I had to leave for a game of tennis. When I came back after 1h+ it was finally done, yay! (PS: I didn’t have that problem with other sets of images that I’ve tried, but if it did it once it will do it again). I reset the settings, it looked bad but less horrible than my first try with a first set of images. I zoomed in 100% and there I noticed also that Aurora isn’t that fast then: span around a big file at 100% and it’ll be no faster than Photomatix or other plugins. It’s certainly much slower than the HDR function of Lightroom on the same set of images. Yes, there’s layers and masking, but I have no incentive to go that far because I find the first part of the workflow vastly random.EasyHDR offers a standard set of presets that helps you achieve great HDR photography results. These tools vary from basic picture enhancements to artistic effects like retro color grading. ![]() ![]() That's less than the type of crowd that hits like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Valve's esports heavyweight Dota 2, and whatever this week's hot triple-A title tends to be. More than half a decade after Skyrim's debut, the two versions available on Steam (the digital distribution platform offers both the original version and a more remastered special edition) still average about 25,000 concurrent players at a time combined. In other words, Skyrim is remarkably popular, and it's no surprise that it's still one of the most-played games around. 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