![]() The first thing that bothered me was that no one seems to have received the Barlow estate through inheritance. Therefore, by pulling together bits and pieces gathered from different points in the movie, I shall try to make clear my misgivings. As I watched this movie, I was perplexed at certain points, and even after seeing the entire thing twice, I found that much of it did not make sense. ![]() And while that is a suitable method for summarizing most movies, perhaps the only one that makes sense in certain cases, with other movies there may be a benefit in reconstructing the events and their meaning, which can be grasped only after the fact. Converted to dollars, and adjusted for inflation, they would be worth about $1,500,000 today in America.Īt this point, we could follow the events as they unfold in the movie. The newspaper informs us that the murderer got away with the Barlow rubies, worth £12,000. He apparently has to give up and leave, for in the next scene, the maid is coming out of the door, screaming for the police, having just arrived around seven in the morning. ![]() Then he really becomes desperate and starts ripping open the furniture cushions. It is late at night, and for over five hours, he ransacks the place. A man sneaks up behind her and strangles her with a skein of worsted picked up off the table next to her. The 1940 version of Gaslight begins with Alice Barlow, an elderly widow, working on a piece of embroidery, on which she has stitched the date, 1865. Now that the week does not go by that someone does not use that word, I decided to watch both movies again. ![]() But that was before the term “gaslighting” had become a part of our vocabulary. A long time ago, I saw the 1944 version of Gaslight, and then, some years later, I saw the 1940 version. ![]()
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![]() ![]() De me quidem aliorum erit iudicium tamet si, nisi plane me fallit philautia, Stulticiam laudauimus, sed non omnino stulte. ![]() Vt enim nihil nugacius quam seria nugatorie tractare, ita nihil festiuius quam ita tractare nugas ut nihil minus quam nugatus fuisse uidearis. alius nouas de lana caprina comminiscitur questiunculas. Nam que tandem est iniquitas, cum omni uite insti tuto suos lusus concedamus, studiis nullum omnino lusum permittere, maxime si nuge seria ducant, atque ita tractentur ludicra ut ex his aliquanto plus frugis referat lector non omnino naris obese, quam ex quorundam tetricis ac splendidis argumentis? ueluti cum alius diu consarcinata oratione rhetoricen aut philosophiam laudat, alius principis alicuius laudes describit, alius ad bellum aduersus Turcas mouendum adhortatur, alius futura predicit. Verum quos argumenti leuitas et ludicrum offendit, cogitent uelim non meum hoc exemplum esse, sed idem iam olim a magnis auctoribus factitatum cum ante tot secula Batrachomuomachian luserit Homerus, Maro Culicem et Moretum, Nucem Ouidius cum Busyriden laudarit Polycrates et huius castigator Isocrates, iniustitiam Glauco, Thersiten et quartanam febrim Fauorinus, caluitiem Synesius, muscam et parasiticam Lucianus cum Seneca Claudii luserit apotheôsin, Plutarchus Grylli cum Ulysse dialogum, Lucianus et Apuleius Asinum, et nescio quis Grunnii Coro cottae porcelli testamentum, cuius et diuus meminit Hieronymus Proinde, si uidebitur, fingant isti me laterunculis in terim animi causa lusisse, aut si malint equitasse in arundine longa. Hanc igitur declamatiunculam non solum lubens accipies ceu mnemosunon tui sodalis, uerum etiam tuendam suscipies, utpote tibi dicatam iamque tuam non meam.Įtenim non deerunt fortasse uitilitigatores, qui calum nientur partim leuiores esse nugas quam ut theologum deceant, partim mordaciores quam ut Christiane conueniant modestie nosque clamitabunt ueterem comediam aut Lucianum quempiam referre atque omnia mordicus arripere. Quanquam tu quidem, ut pro singulari quadam ingenii tui perspicacitate longe lateque a uulgo dissentire soles, ita pro incredibili morum suauitate facilitateque cum omnibus omnium horarum hominem agere et potes et gaudes. Deinde suspicabar hunc ingenii nostri lusum tibi precipue probatum iri, propterea quod soleas huius generis iocis, hoc est nec indoctis, ni fallor, nec usquequaque insulsis, impendio delectari, et omnino in communi mortalium uita Democritum quendam agere. ![]() Primum admonuit me Mori cognomen tibi gentile, quod tam ad Moriae uocabulum accedit quam es ipse a re alienus es autem uel omnium suffragiis alienissimus. Que Pallas istuc tibi misit in mentem? inquies. Ergo quoniam omnino aliquid agendum duxi, et id tempus ad seriam commentationem parum uidebatur accommodatum, uisum est Moriae Encomium ludere. Inter hos tu, mi More, uel in primis occurrebas cuius equidem absentis absens memoria non aliter frui solebam quam presentis presens consuetudine consueueram qua dispeream si quid unquam in uita contigit mellitius. Superioribus diebus cum me ex Italia in Angliam recepissem, ne totum hoc tempus quo equo fuit insidendum amusois et illitteratis fabulis tereretur, malui mecum aliquoties uel de communibus studiis nostris aliquid agitare, uel amicorum, quos hic ut doctissimos ita et suauissimos reliqueram, recordatione frui. ![]() ![]() The fact that they say that this is “the real you” suggests that society pushes us to hide our true selves. The singer says that they can see the ugliness inside the person they love. They seem to be a person who externally conforms to societal notions of attractiveness and conformity. The lover seems to be someone who is not ‘outside’. This image seems almost stereotypically conventional. The lover of the person singing the song is apparently someone who looks very attractive from the outside. These lines very strikingly question stereotypical notions of ugliness. I can see through you, see to the real you” ‘Cause inside you’re ugly, you’re ugly like me I can see through you, see your true colors This indicates that even if love hurts, they would rather take it over other burdens. The singer says that they leave their burdens outside when they meet their lover. This verse also contains a central and very familiar paradox of love: that even if love hurts, it’s still a comfort from other kinds of pain. The words are from the point of view of someone who seems to have suffered greatly in their relationship. ![]() ![]() In these lines, the singer conveys the idea that love has been harsh to them. The idea of being brought to your knees suggests the feeling that love brings you down. Verse 1 – What does it meanĪll the times that I could beg you please in vainĪll the times that I felt insecure for you This idea is relatable to anyone who hasn’t felt at home in social contexts or even in their own skin. Like the title of Albert Camus famous novel The Outsider, the title of this song makes us think of someone who feels that they don’t belong anywhere. “Outside” is a word that suggests the meaning of someone who is outside and looking in on something they can’t have. His musical influences are in the genres of both country music and alternative rock. Lewis is known for his work with the band as well as his solo work. Lead singer Aaron Lewis famously completed the lyrics of the song while performing it impromptu at a concert. ![]() Released in 2001, “Outside” is one of the most popular songs by Staind. ![]() ![]() It does have presets, but nothing to match Lightroom’s and its editing tools fall short of Adobe Camera Raw’s too. AfterShot Lab AfterShot Lab is used for RAW processing between the Manage and Edit modes. All you see in the Manage window is images edited or saved elsewhere It has no editing or quick-fix enhancement tools of its own. This is left to AfterShot Lab or the Edit mode. Neither does it offer any non-destructive editing tools. It does offer tags (keywords) but only in a simple linear list, and pointer to show you’re sucessfully dragging at tag on to an image or vice versa is so small as to be nearly invisible. PaintShop Pro 2023 does have Collections and Smart Collections, but only for images in folders you’ve bookmarked. This is a long, long way from Lightroom, though. Here you can browse your images using a regular Windows-style directory tree, but there’s also a Collections panel where you can add specific folders to the PaintShop Pro 2023 catalog to make the images they contain available to the software’s searching and tagging tools. Or you can add folders to the catalog and use tags and Smart Collections to find images quickly – though it splits matching images into the folders they’re stored in, which might not be useful. ![]() PaintShop Pro 2023 Manage window You can use the Manage window simply to browse the folders on your computer. In PaintShop Pro 2023 it’s now been ‘integrated’ as the After Shot Lab (though it still runs in a separate window), so that you can open a RAW file from the Manage window, make your changes and have it opened in the Edit window for regular editing. After Shot is Corel’s RAW processing, organizing and editing tool, which previously operated separately to PaintShop Pro but was needed for more advanced RAW tools. In between, if you’re working on RAW files, is the After Shot Lab. The Manage window is where you browse, organize, search and tag your images, while the Edit window is the photo editing mode. In the Complete workspace, PaintShop Pro 2023 has two windows: Manage and Edit. I’m using the free 30-day trial version, hence the ‘Purchase’ button on the toolbar, but it’s not restricted in any way. PaintShop Pro 2023 can be used in Simplified and Photography modes, but I’m reviewing the Complete mode which makes all the tools available. The PaintShop Pro 2023 workflow PaintShop Pro 2023 tries to simplify things with ‘Photography’ and ‘Essentials’ workspaces, but for the real tools you need the ‘Complete’ mode. The Ultimate edition sounds great value, then, but it includes a lot of stuff you might not want or need which comes with its own separate installers.įor this review, I’m just looking at PaintShop Pro 2023 itself, to see how it stacks up in today’s photo editing market and who it might be aimed at. The standard edition costs £69.99/$79.99 and the Ultimate bundle above adds just £20/$20, taking the price up to £89.99/$99.99. These extras include MultiCam Capture 2.0 Lite, which is a kind of video creation tool (I haven’t tried it), 50 free fonts, Painter Essentials 8 (a cut-down but still useful version of the full Painter package), PhotoMirage Express for animating still images (it’s a bit of fun), a Highlight Reel for automated slideshow and movie creation, a Sea to Sky workspace for enhancing aerial or underwater shots, and a Corel Creative Collection containing brushes, textures and over 100 royalty free backgrounds. PaintShop Pro 2023 Ultimate is actually the same as the regular PaintShop Pro 2023, but bundled with a whole lot more extras, in true Corel style. PaintShop Pro is one of the longest running photo editors for Windows users, starting life years ago as a shareware tool and then evolving first with JASC software and now Corel, into a broad-based image editing suite. ![]() ![]() Is it worth upgrading to PaintShop Pro 2023?. ![]() ![]() ![]() READ MORE: Lawsuit calls on Treasury Secretary Yellen to ignore ‘unconstitutional’ debt limit ![]() Biden and the big four congressional leaders of the House and Senate will convene at the White House with neither side yet signaling a willingness to budge off its opening position.īiden wants Congress to simply raise the debt limit without any strings attached, while Republicans led by McCarthy are insisting on budget cuts in exchange for any votes to allow more borrowing to pay the nation’s bills. ![]() “That’s what the president is going to be very clear about.”Īt Tuesday’s first meeting, it’s extremely unlikely there will be any quick resolution. “It’s Congress’ constitutional duty to act to prevent default,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday. There’s no easy endgame ahead of a June 1 deadline to raise the debt ceiling or risk defaulting on the nation’s $31 trillion in debt. They also could let the negotiations unravel, sending the economy into chaos.Īs President Joe Biden meets Tuesday with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other congressional leaders for the first time over the debt ceiling crisis, the options for easing out of the standoff are many.īut the political incentive for compromise is harder to come by. Or they could agree to a stopgap measure to keep paying the nation’s bills while negotiations continue. Now, with year-over-year inflation having eased from 9.1% a year ago to 4%, Powell has indicated that the Fed wants to move much more slowly.Ī slower pace of rate increases, Powell has said, could help the Fed achieve a tricky feat: Weaken the economy enough to tame inflation, without undermining it so much as to cause a deep recession.WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House and Congress could strike a deal to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for budget cuts. Last year, the Fed jacked up its benchmark rate at a breakneck pace, including by three-quarters of a point on four occasions. The goal has been to cool inflation by slowing spending and hiring. The central bank’s streak of rate increases have made borrowing for consumers and businesses more expensive across a range of loans, including home and auto loans, credit cards and business borrowing. Instead, as he reiterated Wednesday, Fed officials will monitor economic data and make their rate decisions “meeting by meeting.” Speaking at a news conference last week, Powell said there were no plans to raise rates at every other meeting or to follow any other particular time frame. Yet they might not follow through if economic data suggests that inflation is falling quickly back to their 2% target. The policymakers indicated last week that they expect to raise rates twice more this year. What actions the central bank might take after that remains much less clear. Most economists have said they believe that a rate hike at the Fed’s next meeting in late July is all but assured. In his remarks Wednesday, Powell also indicated that the Fed chose to keep its key interest rate steady last week so it could assess the impact of three large bank failures this spring on the banking sector and whether the failures would reduce credit to consumers and businesses and slow the economy. The hazier messaging suggests that Powell is seeking to balance competing demands from those Fed officials who want to keep raising rates and others who feel the central bank has done enough. The contrast between the Fed’s stated concern over still-high inflation and its decision to skip a rate hike has heightened uncertainty about its next moves. “Inflation pressures continue to run high, and the process of getting inflation back down to 2% has a long way to go,” Powell said on the first of two days of semi-annual testimony on Capitol Hill.Įven so, the Fed last week kept interest rates unchanged after 10 straight hikes so it could take time to gauge how higher borrowing rates have affected the economy, Powell said. ![]() ![]() ![]() Visually, small details change sometimes when you upgrade homestead or training facilites, but mostly it's one of your staff telling you in a text box what got improved. WANTED: Table of all the tiers for everything Upgrades cost a combination of items and money. All the storytelling happens via text boxes and the NPC characters' avatars displaying different emotions.įoal Stalls, Store House, Income and training facilities are upgraded by tiers which are unlocked as you complete story goals. Along the way, you learn a few details about their personal lives. You meet your staff: Francis Kwan, the groundskeeper (?) Sophie Martin, the barn manager (?) and Trenton 'TJ' James, the horse trainer. The game begins with an animated cutscene explaining that you have inherited your family's run down racing stables. ![]() There is also a page of Dailies, giving you three tasks every 24 hrs you can complete to earn Skills for your horses. There is a page for story goals, which challenge you to keep improving your estate and your horses, as well as winning races. It can give out small item stacks (1-4? items), varying amounts of silver, and gold, which always comes in one larger section with a small amount of gold + the jackpot which is a small section that gives between 245 and 410 (?) gold. There is also the "Rose Wheel", a spinning wheel that you can purchase tries on for roses, which become progressively more expensive the fewer prizes are left on the wheel. Three horses on offer, one for gold, one for silver, one for roses. The offers renew every 10 minutes.ġ item for silver, 1 for gold and one random one you get for free after watching an ad. In the market, there are three types of item and two horses on offer. The training facilities let you train your horses in Speed, Sprint Energy, and Acceleration. There are different locations being unlocked as you progress in the story. There are no interactions with the horses and no care work to be done. You can enter the foal stalls to breed horses or to visit/feed foals. You can access customized horse tack, equip special skills, and look at each horse's stats page. The stable shows all the horses you own in their stalls. You need to manually pick it up in order for the next income to build up. Your income is generated automatically every 5 minutes and collects up to 10 payouts. Upgrading the store house increases the number of items it can hold. The storehouse holds the items you earn by racing or fulfilling goals, or buy in the market. Here, you get access to settings and game stats, your storehouse, and your income. In Story Mode, you start on the main overview, which gives you access to four locations (five in Mobile), as well as the Goals page and the market page. ![]() ![]() This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously.
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