![]() Consequently, there is a growing trend of local agencies transitioning away from the traditional level-of-service measures to vehicle miles of travel (VMT) measures. Policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels are expressing greater interest in promoting and funding sustainable transportation infrastructure systems to reduce the damaging effects of pollutive emissions. Recently, an urgency has developed in the United States to address outdated policies and approaches to infrastructure planning, design, and construction. Transportation planning has historically relied on statistical models to analyze travel patterns across space and time. ![]() These include: collecting new data and establishing performance measures that better capture the benefits of active travel modes and their unique contributions to broad policy goals coordinating across a region to bundle pedestrian projects into larger funding packages that can meet regional significance criteria and creating regional pedestrian plans that demonstrate how smaller pedestrian projects contribute to regional goals. In addition to identifying the need for additional funding sources, the regions we studied used other strategies to address these challenges that may offer lessons for other regions. Our analysis revealed three systemic barriers at the regional level that perpetuate the underfunding of pedestrian infrastructure: (1) overall transportation funding shortages made worse by the substantial and growing burden of operating and maintaining aging regional mobility systems (2) performance and evaluation metrics used in funding decisions are biased toward regional mobility rather than accessibility and (3) the relatively small scale of individual pedestrian projects often keeps them from being considered regionally significant or scoring highly on metrics related to regional impact. We analyzed interviews along with each region's transportation plans, fiscally constrained budgets, and other policy and planning documents. To understand why this gap persists, even as attention to pedestrian issues grows, we conducted 50 interviews about pedestrian funding with transportation professionals from different levels of government in three regions that have prioritized active transportation: Chicago, Illinois Denver, Colorado and Portland, Oregon. But extraordinary gaps exist between pedestrian infrastructure needs and what is funded and built. Finally, we show that the vehicle capacity constructed to mitigate LOS may contravene the goals and aspirations of many communities in California, as well as the state's goals for GHG reductions, and is unlikely to solve the congestion problem caused by misplaced land use development.Īfter decades of inattention to the issue, cities and regions increasingly recognize the role of pedestrian infrastructure to improve safety, public health, air quality, accessibility, travel choices, and economic development. We find that a switch to VMT metrics may lead to streamlining for projects that reduce travel demand because of their location or design, whereas LOS metrics have led communities to build expensive, capacity-increasing mitigation measures to ease vehicle delay. Our analysis of LOS mitigation shows how the CEQA process per se impacts the built environment, often in ways that increase vehicle capacity and thus VMT. ![]() We compare the LOS impacts analyzed in the environmental impact reports for the projects to forecasted VMT impacts that we quantify using several available VMT estimation models. This study compares these two metrics – VMT and LOS – and their implications for a sample of land use projects located in Davis, California. California has taken the bold step to replace LOS with VMT as the metric of transportation impact in the environmental review process for land use and transportation plans and projects under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The focus on VMT reduction represents a dramatic shift for the land use and transportation planning fields, which have traditionally prioritized auto mobility by reducing vehicle delay, measured as level of service (LOS). Although these policies mostly promote technological innovations, some policies aim to reduce GHG emissions by reducing the amount of driving, measured in vehicle miles traveled (VMT), through land use and transportation planning. Concern about climate change has led to policies in California that aim to decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transportation.
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I do not think that Skloot was reflexive enough in the parts where she was present. This is the reason why I docked one star from my overall review. She also acknowledges that she is a white, educated woman who is seeking to uncover the history of a poor, black woman. To take away from anyone's accents or mannerisms detracts from the authenticity of the book. ![]() It's important for me to note that Skloot adds a disclaimer in the beginning of the book that the dialogue she puts down on paper is exactly as spoken. She talks about how hard she worked to track down members of Henrietta's family, the great lengths she went to in order for them to trust her. I respected Skloot's accuracy in representing Lacks' symptoms and medical condition (even if a little grossed out).Īnd then Skloot threw herself into the mix. I was torn by the motivations of medical researchers versus the ignorance they showed about the African American communities they were also supposed to serve. ![]() I was thrown back into the 1950s, into Lacks' hometown of Clove, Virginia. Granted, the first half of the book revolved solely on historical facts and events. Race and community, the politics of medical care and practice, the legibility of scientific research and the accessibility of this important research in underserved communities. It touched on so many social and ethical issues that are still relevant today. But if you're still wary of these possible spoilers, skip all the way to the bottom of this blog post for my rating!Īs I started reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, I thought for sure this was going to be a 5-star read for me. I mention a few details from the book below, and I don't consider them spoilers because this is all nonfiction and you could easily stumble upon them on Wikipedia or otherwise. Interspersed between historical events, Skloot talks about the "present-day," where she is interacting with Lacks' family members, acquaintances, and medical professionals who worked on her case. For the majority of the first half of the book, Skloot objectively records how Henrietta Lacks first entered Johns Hopkins Hospital, how her immortal HeLa cells were discovered and then reproduced, and the scientific impact of them. The book talks in two separate timelines, and each chapter helpfully tells you which year it takes place in. So, I'll instead be reviewing Skloot's writing- not the Lacks story. In this case, journalist Rebecca Skloot took it upon herself to research Henrietta Lacks and her history, to write this book. Like I said in my review for Red Azalea, how do you critique someone's actual experiences and history? No one will disagree that the story of Henrietta Lack deserves recognition. It's always difficult to review a nonfiction book. The dark history of experimentation on African Americans helped lead to the birth of bioethics, and legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of. Today are stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells, East Baltimore children and grandchildren live in obscurity, see no profits, and feel violated. The journey starts in the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s, her small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia - wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo. Yet Henrietta Lacks was buried in an unmarked grave. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping and have been bought and sold by the billions. Cells descended from her may weigh more than 50M metric tons. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells were taken without her knowledge and still live decades after her death. Henrietta Lacks, as HeLa, is known to present-day scientists for her cells from cervical cancer. ![]() I took particular notice with the author's writing style, and that's what I'll be reviewing today. It's a story that deserves to be told around the world, in medical ethics classes, the social sciences, teacher's colleges, and on and on and on. I'm glad that I finally got around to reading the book. My interest in reading the book as first piqued when I heard that Oprah would be producing a movie based on it (and duh, it's OPRAH!). Good afternoon, friends and followers! Today, I talk about The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a biography written by Rebecca Skloot. ![]() Mac and iPad Compatibilityįirst up, Universal Control requires iPadOS 15.4 on an iPad and macOS Monterey 12.3 on a Mac. ![]() Check each one to ensure you have everything set up correctly. ![]() Many of the solutions listed below are requirements that need to be fulfilled in order for Universal Control to work. But getting it to work can sometimes present issues, especially the first time you come to try it. With Universal Control, you can use your main Mac's trackpad and keyboard to control additional Macs and/or iPads nearby, which means you don't need a desk cluttered up with more than one set of input devices. This article offers solutions to the most common problems encountered when getting Universal Control to work. A stable release is coming in Fall.In iOS 15.4 and macOS Monterey 12.3, Apple introduced Universal Control, a feature designed to allow you to control multiple Macs and iPads with a single trackpad/mouse and keyboard. MacOS Monterey will be available to developers today, while a public beta is coming next month. However, Apple is dropping support for some of the older machines, including some of the older iMac, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and MacBook models. Live Text will use machine-learning to detect text in photos, including phone numbers, websites, addresses, and tracking numbers, so you can copy and paste, make a phone call, open a website, and easily find more information.Īpple claims that macOS Monterey will support the broadest range of Macs in history, including both Intel and Apple Silicon-based models. 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The new Portrait mode will automatically blur your background. Voice Isolation will let you eliminate background noise and Wide Spectrum will allow all of the ambient noise to come through. This includes all the new improvements to FaceTime, including spatial audio, which makes the sound of the people you are talking to appear from where the person is positioned on the screen. Shortcuts is integrated throughout the OS so you will be able to launch your workflows from anywhere, including Siri.Īdditionally macOS Monterey gets many of the new features found within iOS and iPadOS 15. You can also import your existing workflows from Automator to Shortcuts or just continue to use Automator. The OS comes with a set of pre-built actions and you can create your own with a simple interface. Just like on the iPhone, Macs can now automate commonly performed tasks and you can launch them with a single click. MacOS Monterey is also getting Shortcuts, a feature that first debuted on the iPhone. Safari can now also seamlessly adjust its UI colors to match the current webpage design. MacOS Monterey also gets a fully-redesigned Safari with a brand new tab bar that integrates the address and search box within the active tab, and tab groups to keep frequently opened tabs arranged in custom groups. This will allow you to use the display of your Mac to show videos or presentations from your phone or also play any audio that may be playing on the phone. With this feature, you can AirPlay audio and Video from your iPhone or iPad to your Mac, just as you would with an Apple TV. You can then just move your mouse across all of your Mac and the iPad and also drag and drop documents across all of them. This requires no setup and the you just have to place your iPad next to your Mac. With this feature, you can control your iPad with the keyboard and mouse/trackpad of their Mac. One of the first major features in macOS Monterey is Universal Control. The new update comes with several new features, some exclusive to macOS and others borrowed from the new iOS and iPadOS 15. Apple today announced the next update to its desktop operating system - macOS 12 Monterey. Good Is Not Soft: Most of the flock qualifies due to their Hair-Trigger Temper, but Red is portrayed as both the most violent and the most protective bird in the Toons series.Good is Not Nice: In the movie, he has no intention of doing anything friendly, but he's still a good-hearted bird who's just edgier than the other birds.Fiery Redhead: He's a red bird who's constantly angry at the pigs for stealing his eggs.Empowered Badass Normal: In the "Red's Mighty Feathers" episode of the first game, he is given some magic feathers from the Mighty Eagle, giving him the ability to fly straight in the direction the screen is tapped.Easter Egg: If you tap the screen after you launch him, he'll make a battle cry.Disproportionate Retribution: In The Angry Birds Movie, he administers this to a young chick who was disturbing his sleep by kicking a soccer ball against his house - he comes outside, smiles at him.then punts him into the ocean.Deadpan Snarker: He's this in The Angry Birds Movie.A Day in the Limelight: The "Red's Mighty Feathers" episode of the first game focuses on Red, giving him the special ability to dash towards any point in the level while in the air.Dark and Troubled Past: Due to Adaptational Angst Upgrade above in the The Angry Birds Movie, this is the reason why he's always so grumpy.He's also the biggest Papa Wolf of the flock, so he's often angry. Colour-Coded Emotions: His body is colored red, which represents anger.Character Blog: In 2021, he took over the Angry Birds Twitter account and made it to his image.Black Sheep: In The Angry Birds Movie as an angry bird in a community of happy birds.He was bullied for it when he was younger. Big Ol' Eyebrows: Sports impressive ones.Adapted Out: While still caring about the eggs, he's not their active guardian in the other adaptations such as in the movies. ![]() Adaptational Jerkass: While he's mostly the same ol' grumpy bird, the movie continuity portrays him as a miserable loner who doesn't like to stick around with the other birds to hide his insecurities.Adaptational Angst Upgrade: While he has no backstory whatsoever in the games, The Angry Birds Movie gives him one on what he was like before the arrival of the pigs - he was one of the few birds in a peaceful island community who had a Hair-Trigger Temper, and the other birds (except for some) shunned him for it.He usually has no special abilities, though this varies depending on the game. Natural leader and grumpy to the extreme. Red is the main protagonist of the Angry Birds series and typically the central character in the games. ![]() ![]() Maybe if the author cared enough to show the same things in each of the screenshots it would be more clear. your Fantastical Premium subscription or for your order of Cardhop or Chatology. PredictWind Offshore Weather PrefEdit Preference Manager Prefs. They hierarchies of the old and new settings panes are strikingly similar. Open Fantastical Preferences Select the Accounts tab Select Reminders. Card4Call CardRaider CardRescue Cardhop Carla Cartograph Maps 2. I also don't understand the "where is the hierarchy?" question. You can disable Birthday notifications in Cardhops Settings/Preferences too. For more information about IMAP IDLE, see IMAP account server settings. Well, Fantastical and Cardhop will keep you in your contacts good graces. Are they referring to the right arrows and how they've been muted? Maybe they mean the on/off switch indicators that are put front and center in the old settings screenshot, but are scrolled off-screen in the new settings screenshot(even though they're still present in the new UI). Delete junk e-mail at a time that you set. I'm not sure what the author means by "call to interact" in this sentence. I guess you could say that heavy-handed gradients and drop shadows exhibit more personality than the flat design, but so do children's toys & interfaces compared to professional tools & interfaces. The default shortcut is control-option-D, but you can choose any shortcut you want in Cardhop's. In the Check mail from other accounts section, delete the email address. (You can also detach it, move it, and even expand it full screen if you really want to.) Set up is super simple just grant Cardhop permission to access the macOS contacts database, and you're good to go. Click the Accounts and Import or Accounts tab. You can move the Cardhop menu bar icon by holding the command key and dragging the icon. Cardhop lives in your menu bar and you can invoke it with whatever key combo you assign. ![]() A simple keyboard shortcut brings Cardhop to view, with recent contacts being prominently. Click on the Cardhop menu bar icon at the top-right of the screen. Is it just me that finds the old iOS settings design ugly, and not* the new one? I think the new design is a vast improvement. Cardhop features a mini window that can be displayed via a detachable menu bar utility interface. ![]() I checked my settings, Cardhop has access to Contacts in my Preferences but all I see when I. Where is the call to interact with any of these elements? Where is the hierarchy? Cardhop offers natural language input to make it super quick and easy to add, edit, and work with your contacts. Download the latest version of Cardhop for Mac for free. Support for sending messages to groups with the parser (e.g.> More ugly wire-frame skeleton design compared to it's original counterpart. CardHop is a birthday + greeting card store that delivers premium discounted birthday + greeting cards direct to your door. Gravatar support to automatically find contact photos by email when adding or editing contacts Stickers! Express yourself in iMessage with Cardhop's sticker pack Business card settings automatically sync between devices using iCloud Multiple business cards: create separate business cards for different situations Smart group templates: Create smart groups that automatically update based on common contact searches Template settings to customize fields and labels for new contacts Cardhop's magical parsing engine is incredibly intuitive, letting you search, add, edit, and interact with your contacts using a simple sentence! Until now, managing and interacting with your contacts has been a real frustration. 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One possibility is that AutoZone has copied the keyless entry systems from other companies. ![]() Some of the customers at these stores may have noticed that their keyless entry systems do not work when they go to the car lot. Does AutoZone Copy House Keys?ĪutoZone is a chain of car dealerships that also sells keyless entry systems for home. Can A Safe Key Be Copied?Ī safe key is a key that is duplicateable so that two people can both access the same safe. Costco makes the keys for customers who need them for their doors and windows. Costco does not make keys, but does have a key manufacturing business. is a retailer of consumer goods and services, founded in 1976. Lastly, make sure to cut the key in a straight line, so the cut is even. Second, the keyholder must be in the same position when you cut the key. There are a few things you need to know in order to cut Honda keys. The best place would be a hardware store, as they usually have all the supplies you need. There are a few places you can get a key copied. A locksmith can help you get your keys copied near you. Therefore, once we download Need for Speed Most Wanted for PC, our target is to become the most wanted and respected driver, fleeing from the police (who won't spare any efforts to try to catch us, even using helicopters if necessary) with the idea to improve and customize our vehicles. Try to top the Blacklist to recover your BMW M3. That's when the adventure of Cooper will start, having to explore the city with total freedom, searching for drivers to race against to earn money in order to improve his current car and try to defeat the top spot of the list and recover his BMW. The game's plot revolved around Mark Cooper, who arrives in Rockport on board his BMW M3, where he loses his car in an ambush set up by a member of the Blacklist, the list of the most wanted drivers. Well, this was the start of the racing video game series that landed on Windows after the death of MS-DOS and that would also conquer the rest of video consoles and operating systems (PS2, PS3, PS4, Xbox, Nintendo, Android APKs, iPhone.) and that in 2003, thanks to NFS: Underground, started its adventure mode, which would become even more sophisticated with the development of Need for Speed Most Wanted. And now, we can download Need for Speed Most Wanted for PC. The game was a real revolution because it offered as a rather realistic car simulator for back then with real-life recreations of cars such as the Dodge Viper, Lamborghini Diablo, Porsche 911, Acura NSX, etc., as well as races among the traffic and police chases just like in Test Drive. The Need for Speed was the first installment of this car racing game saga that was published on PC DOS, Sony PlayStation, SEGA Saturn, and 3DO, the video console designed by EA that was made by Panasonic, Sanyo, and LG. ![]() Silent Hill 2.Back in 1994, Electronic Arts released what was possibly the first racing game that made the most of what Pentiums were capable of offering. Adds a small minimap that shows your surroundings. ![]() Ability to change Action Difficulty and Riddle Difficulty.Green being the ultimate Hyper Spray version that one-hits any enemy in the game!) Ability to change the color of your Hyper Spray to ANY color you want.(You need at least 150x items for a 10-star ranking) Change the number of items found in your current run.(You need 75x for both methods for a 10-star ranking) Change the amount of enemies defeated by either 'shooting' or 'meleeing' them.Ability to set Boat Stage Time to 0:00 (Needed for 10-star ranking).Ability to set Game Saves to 0 (Needed for 10-star ranking).Ability to set Game Time to 0:00 (Needed for 10-star ranking).(This basically acts as infinite ammo and no reloading) Freeze ammo inside your weapons, and also fill a weapon to the max.Ability to increase the value of any of your consumable items. ![]() (Does not add Key Items or other Story-related Items) Ability to add All Weapons and Healing Items.If you need any further help still, feel free to let me know. Once you have your guns filled, simply freeze the value (by checking the box next to the code) to have infinite ammo in your gun and you will also never have to reload. So that's why I also blocked manually input values and only allowed users to choose from a dropdown box. The reason for that is because if you put these values ANY higher than the maximum allowed values for guns, it will corrupt your save when saving with those values. (For Handguns this is locked to 10 bullets, Shotguns is locked to 6, and Rifles are locked to 4. Note for the items if you don't have an 'Ampoule' yet for example, you will either have to obtain one in-game, or you have to simply use the 'Unlock All Items' code beforehand before you are able to actually change the value to whatever amount you want.įor the 'Current Ammo' in guns section, simply double click the Value section there, and you'll be given the option to max out the current ammo inside the gun. (Don't go overboard, 999 is the max you can enter for items, anything over that is pointless). If you want to change how much you have of an item for example, simply double click the 'Value' section for that item, and enter the number you want. Once you have Silent Hill 2 running and your game loaded up, simply press the icon that has the green border around it on the screenshot, and select PCSX2 as the process. (I do have a pnach file for the game as well if people really want it, but the CE table is much handier as it is). The reason I chose for a CE file is because it's much easier to enable/disable codes, and you are able to fully control the values easily. ![]() Figured I'd release something different instead of a pnach file. 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Find all the professional vector illustration, layout, photo editing and typography tools you need to create and complete important design projects, from virtually any device. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2020 macOS Overviewīreak down creative barriers with CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite 2020. Program was checked and installed manually before uploading by our staff, it is fully working version without any problems. ![]() It is full offline installer standalone setup of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2020 macOS Free Download for compatible version of macOS. I suppose, if I can get to the bottom with the file I/O I can at least write to my own log file then.CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2020 Free Download macOS new and latest Version for macOS. to Mac log console, to some CorelDraw log file, anywhere at all? Hence my other question: is there any way to debug log from CorelDraw JS plugin? e.g. It was indeed a rather frustrating coding experience. Sorry, didn't mean to turn this into a rant but couldn't help it. An even with alert(), on Mac the alert window is rather narrow so anything longer than few words getting truncated/wrapped so effectively you can only show a limited number of very short lines. I just wish that the developer who came up with the idea to try and survive with alert() style debugging for at least a day. Not sure who came up with the clever idea that alert() is sufficient debug tool by any remote margin. Surely the standard logging method for JS is console.log(). It is a royal pain in the back to code a sizeable chunk of complex code using solely JS alert() calls as a debug tool. However Text.ExportToFile() method appears to be missing in JS binding even though listed in documentation:Ĭ/./text.exporttofileĪ doubtful trick even if worked though as I need to dump great deal of text info, far not few lines.Īlso debug logging. ExportToFile() method to save it to a file. Tried creating a paragraph text element with my data as content then use Text. I've been digging CorelDraw API and I seems can't find any documented way to write a file. Please note I'm on a Mac, not on Windows. ![]() While I had no issues with the geometry processing step using CorelDraw JS API, I've stuck at the final step of dumping the produced metadata to a text file. ![]() Basically write some plain text from my JS plugin to a local file which can be then fed to another 3rd party s/w for further processing. Basically I need to process some graphics from the currently open document and export some meta data about it to an external file. I'm trying to put together a CorelDraw automation plugin. ![]() Have a public struct that acts as the API. Have an internal class that actually holds the SDL_Palette *. You can do this using the standard copy-on-write technique: ![]() For example, an SDL_Palette might make sense as a value type, and if you think that’s the case then you should model it as a struct. Remember that, just because something is allocated on the heap, doesn’t mean you have to model it as a class. SDL_Colour is clearly best handled as a Swift struct. SDL_Keycode probably should be modelled as a Swift enum with a raw value. For example:Īn SDL_Window * obviously has identity, and thus should be modelled as a Swift class. If it’s the latter, then you’d want to model things in the way that makes most sense in Swift. What sort of wrapper are you trying to create?Ī minimal wrapper that just smooths over the biggest bumps?Ī full-featured wrapper that presents the API in a way that a Swift developer will feel immediately at home? You need to start by deciding on how ‘nice’ you want to be to your clients. ![]() Is there a conventional technique for wrapping these objects? So you could write something like: struct SDLWindow Īnd, if everything inlines, that should boil down to similar machine code to what you'd get from using the C interface directly, with a little more type safety and ergonomics than the default C import.ĪPI notes could work too, but it would mean learning yet another not-particularly-well-documented language of attributes and annotations, and I think you can get similar results wrapping entirely in Swift. If you do go for the wrapping approach, then wrapping C values in Swift structs rather than classes should be more or less "zero cost", since the layout and calling convention of a single-field struct in Swift is the same as the single field. SDL_Window ), or can I use API Notes to express these types more Swiftily, and add extensions where it’s useful? Do API Notes files work with swift build?ĭo I need to create an entire parallel class hierarchy, wrapping each of the SDL types (e.g. SwiftName: 'SDLWindow.init(title:x:y:width:height:flags:)īut SDLWindow is still unknown to Swift. modulemap file, with the following contents: Classes: I tried putting ClibSDL2.apinotes in next to the. SDL_CreateWindow() takes a few parameters, one that is best expressed as an OptionSet.Įven getting API Notes to work is confusing. SDL_Window), or can I use API Notes to express these types more Swiftily, and add extensions where it’s useful?įor example, SDL_Window has a bunch of methods like SDL_CreateWindow() and SDL_GetWindowSurface(). typedef struct SDL_Window SDL_Window), which import as OpaquePointer.ĭo I need to create an entire parallel class hierarchy, wrapping each of the SDL types (e.g. One of the problems is that SDL defines a lot of constants with macros, and those don’t import nicely. I’ve been making some progress in incorporating SDL into my Swift app, but I want to make it better. |