![]() The "Dear" takes the form of his letters to her, sending them off to sea, knowing she will never read them. The "Esther" of the title is the late wife of the character, lost in a drunk driving accident. I'm glad I didn't have the distraction of having to hide from enemies or bracing for a fright to draw my attention from the superb attention to detail. Later, I took in the breathtaking reflection of the moonlight on the water. At one point I was in a cave, and it felt like I was surrounded by stars, tiny points of light sparkling from every surface in an otherwise black space. ![]() I often found myself just stopping a moment and taking in the environment around me. This helped the entire overall experience become a much more enjoyable one, it created a more immersive and realistic environment for me to stumble around in. The quality of the graphics was way beyond what I was expecting, with clean textures and crisp animations. Such is the variety, that two players could discuss the game and both have drawn completely different conclusions from it.ĭear Esther is 'a remake of a remake of a Half-Life 2 mod', so the developers took care to balance the writing and the music with stunning visuals, which I feel has been achieved with flying colors. This way players all have unique encounters and interpretations each time they play the game. If I start another game, items in the game will be new and randomly strewn throughout, giving me a fresh experience. ![]() I was surprised that the main story is only two hours long, but checking my stats via the Xbox One achievements board, I discovered I'd only uncovered roughly 33% of the story in that time. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Photo Ninja is a totally new product featuring a full array of raw processing filters including: color correction, exposure adjustment, color enhancement, black and white conversion, noise reduction, sharpening, chromatic aberration correction, vignetting control, distortion and geometry adjustment, cropping, and demosaic of the raw file. For those who use Noise Ninja fear not, it is incorporated into Photo Ninja and past registered users of Noise Ninja are eligible for special upgrade pricing until December 31, 2012. Photo Ninja is a complete raw file conversion solution. In September 2012 PictureCode announced the release of their newest product, Photo Ninja. ![]() PictureCode is a software development company based out of Austin, Texas better known for their Noise Ninja noise reduction software. The result is that today we have a lot of options available to us to address the raw conversion process (one of which is the subject of this review). And, as is to be expected, software developers have noticed this trend. Most of us who take our photography seriously know this and shoot in raw regularly. It has in many ways revolutionized photography. Over hours and hours manipulating the slider adjustments of our favorite raw converter we have come to learn the power that resides in the raw file. Even at the very basic level there is white balance, contrast, tone, color correction that must all be addressed. Yet with the ability to manipulate this information to an infinite degree it all begins to get quite complicated. Seems like a relatively straight forward and simple process, right? When we demosaic a raw file we convert the rudimentary numerical sensor data from our camera’s sensor into an image file. Although I suspect this will be an unexplainable (and possibly unjustifyable) and non-negotiable premium that will result in me plodding on disappointingly with Adobe LR.įingers crossed a suitable explanation is provided because I don't mind supporting the UK's tax system with my purchases, I only object to paying tax that is really just a bonus to the company in the name of tax.Since the advent of the raw file for digital photography we have been faced with the task of optimizing the demosaic process. I will post Picturecode's response to my email so if they are able to shed light and clarify I can spread the knowledge. But in the case of software, not produced in the country of a customer, by a company not registered to pay tax in the customer's county, with no physical product to ship/import and no sales tax for US residents, I am at a loss as to how they justify this premium at 'checkout'. I realise that international price differences exist on physical products and where tax is paid in the country of the customer due to variations in percentage of sales tax and all the complexities of import taxes and the size of the market affecting numbers of units sold which has a knock-on effect. I hadn't use Noise Ninja before and therefore can't take advantage of the discount. I have tried PN for two weeks and initially held off, not because of price but because I was testing Captureone, DxO, Silkypix etc etc and then got fedup with the idea of learning a new work flow so decided to stick with LR because I wrongly thought Adobe would be quick to improve their software. I had previously read somewhere that some states do not require payment of sales tax if the person purchasing resides outside the state where the company is listed and as long as that company does not hold any physical presence in the the same state as the customer. I assume you tried it first before attempting to purchase. Hope you get it worked out as it is not cheap as is. I purchased Noise Ninja long ago, 2005, and got $50 discount. If you ever owned Noise Ninja you can get a big discount. I have purchased software from several other countries and never once has to pay any tax or fee. I am a US citizen that does not live in the state where it is sold so no tax for mine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Subscribe to our cybersecurity podcast CYBER, here. Disgraced Blackwater founder and mercenary Erik Prince invested in Wickr, Foreign Policy reported in 2017. Gilman Louie, the founder and first CEO of In-Q-Tel, serves as a co-chair of Wickr's board. In-Q-Tel scouts the global market for commercially focused technologies with the potential to contribute to national security." that Snapchat had hacked but unlike Snapchat and others, Wickr doesnt upload. "Do you have a product or technology that can contribute to national security?" a section of In-Q-Tel's website reads. Wickr Me, our free (ad-free) flagship app, is the most trusted and secure. Wickr, Amazon’s encrypted chat app, has a child sex abuse problem and little is being done to stop it Court records show that Wickr Me has become part of a toolkit used by people who. In-Q-Tel runs almost all investment decisions by the CIA, according to a 2016 Wall Street Journal profile of the organization. Intelligence Community (IC) identify, adapt, and deliver cutting-edge technologies that address national security needs," the Form 990 adds. In-Q-Tel was established in 1999 as an organization "to help the CIA and broader U.S. ![]() Wickr RAM is built specifically for military customers and is accredited by the Department of Defense. Wickr makes its money from selling versions of that platform to corporate and government clients, such as Wickr Pro and Wickr Enterprise, which can include additional features for logging communications if necessary for auditing or legal reasons. But a section of the form reads that "The hallmark of IQT's strategic an agile model is the development effort-aka work program-where the company collaborates with the startup to tailor a company's technology to specific government requirements and invests funds towards that work program." Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Joseph Cox securely on Signal on +44 20 8133 5190, or email form does not explicitly specify whether the $1.6 million paid to Wickr was for an investment into the company or purchasing a Wickr product. Communication without Compromise Designed by a team of proven. The Form 990 is for the fiscal year ending in March 2020.ĭo you work at Wickr? We'd love to hear from you. Wickr WebWickr Me, our free (ad-free) flagship app, is the most trusted and secure. The description of services for the funds is listed as "TECH DEVELOP," according to the filing. As he pointed out, one of In-Q-Tel's Form 990s, which describes compensation paid to outside contractors, mentions a payment to a company called "W I." That company's address-1459 18th Street, San Francisco-is identical to that of Wickr Inc., according to other public corporate records. Jack Poulson, executive director of Tech Inquiry, first flagged the money transfer to Motherboard. ![]() ![]() In the 1971 film, Up Pompeii, Michael Hordern, playing Ludicrus Sextus, is given the line: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your feet". In Carry On Cleo (1964), the line is begun several times by Julius Caesar, played by actor Kenneth Williams. In Monty Python's Life of Brian, the first line is quoted by Michael Palin as Pontius Pilate. Comparisons have been drawn between this speech and political speeches throughout history in terms of the rhetorical devices employed to win over a crowd. The speech is a famous example of the use of emotionally charged rhetoric. Julius Caesar (Act 3, Scene 2, lines 73–108) My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,Īnd I must pause till it come back to me. O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,Īnd men have lost their reason. What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? You all did love him once, not without cause: I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:Īmbition should be made of sterner stuff: Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: He hath brought many captives home to Rome He was my friend, faithful and just to me: Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest– The good is oft interred with their bones I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. Mischief, thou art afoot, / Take thou what course thou wilt!"įriends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears He ends his speech with a dramatic flourish: "Here was a Caesar, when comes such another?", at which point the crowd begins to riot and search out the assassins with the intention of killing them.Īntony then utters to himself: "Now let it work. that should move / The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny").Īfter that, Antony deals his final blow by revealing Caesar's will, in which "To every Roman citizen he gives, / To every several man, seventy-five drachmas" as well as land, to the crowd. He claims that if he were as eloquent as Brutus, he could give a voice to each of Caesar's wounds (". In response to the passion of the crowd, Antony denies that he is trying to agitate them ("I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts"), and he contrasts Brutus, "an orator", with himself, "a plain, blunt man", implying that Brutus has manipulated them through deceitful rhetoric. Instead of reading the will immediately, however, he focuses the crowd's attention on Caesar's body, pointing out his wounds and stressing the conspirators' betrayal of a man who trusted them, in particular the betrayal of Brutus ("Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!"). The crowd, increasingly agitated, calls the conspirators "traitors" and demands that Antony read out the will. Antony tells the crowd to "have patience" and expresses his feeling that he will "wrong the honourable men / Whose daggers have stabb'd Caesar" if he is to read the will. As he does this, the crowd begins to turn against the conspirators.Īntony then teases the crowd with Caesar's will, which they beg him to read, but he refuses. He denies that Caesar wanted to make himself king, for there were many who witnessed the latter's denying the crown three times.Īs Antony reflects on Caesar's death and the injustice that nobody will be blamed for it, he becomes overwhelmed with emotion and deliberately pauses ("My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, / And I must pause till it come back to me"). ![]() ![]() He begins by carefully rebutting the notion that his friend, Caesar, deserved to die because he was ambitious, instead claiming that his actions were for the good of the Roman people, whom he cared for deeply ("When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: / Ambition should be made of sterner stuff"). Throughout his speech, Antony calls the conspirators "honourable men" – his implied sarcasm becoming increasingly obvious. Summary Īntony has been allowed by Brutus and the other conspirators to make a funeral oration for Caesar on condition that he will not blame them for Caesar's death however, while Antony's speech outwardly begins by justifying the actions of Brutus and the assassins, Antony uses rhetoric and genuine reminders to ultimately portray Caesar in such a positive light that the crowd is enraged against the conspirators. Occurring in Act III, scene II, it is one of the most famous lines in all of Shakespeare's works. " Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" is the first line of a speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare. "Friends, Romans": Orson Welles' Broadway production of Caesar (1937), a modern-dress production that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany ![]() ![]() ![]() The touchpad can be mounted on a wall or tabletop. 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