Looks like I made a few bad decisions here. This is my first experience with web hosting beyond what Comcast gives me for free with my internet service (all you can do is FTP HTML files), and also my first time installing a web application. However, I'm not sure I'm going to necessarily learn anything from this exercise. This appears to show all the configuration settings. To see the settings, click on: "Show MySQL system variables". Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation. Just my humble opinion based on my own experience. Unless you have software that requires it I see no reason to go with a windows server. Then I switched to linux based servers just to see if there was a difference and try something new and I haven't looked back. Having to do a hack or tweak here and there to get things to work the way they should (as you had to recently). I started out years ago trying to run websites on windows based servers and ran into nothing but problems. I learned a long time ago that most website software is designed to run on a linux or unix based system. Probably and more than likely why you had to perform the extra step with the php.ini file just to get the install running and I did not. I think there is a lot of probability that this may be where your problems are. So you're Deluxe on Linux, while I'm Economy on Windows. I know how to access phpmyadmin, just not sure where to look for the current settings once I get there. My Account => My Products => Web Hosting =>Launch => Databases => MySQL => Manage via phpMyAdmin
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In 1931 David Gottlieb's Baffle Ball became the first hit of the coin-operated era. The table was under glass and used Montague Redgrave's plunger device to propel the ball into the upper playfield. 1932īy the 1930s, manufacturers were producing coin-operated versions of bagatelles, now known as "marble games" or "pin games". Redgrave's popularization of the spring launcher and innovations in game design are acknowledged as the birth of pinball in its modern form.Īn early pinball game without flippers, c. The balls became marbles and the wickets became small metal pins. The game also shrank in size to fit atop a bar or counter. Patent #115,357 for his "Improvements in Bagatelle", another name for the spring launcher that was first introduced in Billard japonais. In 1869, British inventor Montague Redgrave settled in the United States and manufactured bagatelle tables in Cincinnati, Ohio. 1869: Spring launchers become mainstream The player shot balls up the inclined playfield toward the scoring targets using this plunger, a device that remains in use in pinball to this day, and the game was also directly ancestral to pachinko. Also called Stosspudel, it used thin metal pins and replaced the cue at the player's end of the table with a coiled spring and a plunger. Somewhere between the 1750s and 1770s, the bagatelle variant Billard japonais, or Japanese billiards in English, was invented in Western Europe, despite its name. A standardized version of the game eventually became known as bagatelle. Players could ricochet balls off the pins to achieve the more challenging scorable holes. Pins took too long to reset when knocked down, so they were eventually fixed to the table, and holes in the table's bed became the targets. In France, during the long 1643–1715 reign of Louis XIV, billiard tables were narrowed, with wooden pins or skittles at one end of the table, and players would shoot balls with a stick or cue from the other end, in a game inspired as much by bowling as billiards. It already has a spring mechanism to propel the ball, 100 years before Montague Redgrave's patent. Late 18th century: Spring launcher invented īillard japonais, Alsace, France c. The tabletop versions of these games became the ancestors of modern pinball. The evolution of outdoor games finally led to indoor versions that could be played on a table, such as billiards, or on the floor of a pub, like bowling and shuffleboard. Croquet, golf and pall-mall eventually derived from ground billiards variants. Games played outdoors by rolling balls or stones on a grass course, such as bocce or bowls, eventually evolved into various local ground billiards games played by hitting the balls with sticks and propelling them at targets, often around obstacles. The origins of pinball are intertwined with the history of many other games. History Pre-modern: Development of outdoor and tabletop ball games The biggest pinball machine manufacturers historically include Bally Manufacturing, Gottlieb, Williams Electronics and Stern Pinball.Ĭurrently active pinball machine manufacturers include Stern Pinball, Jersey Jack Pinball, American Pinball, Chicago Gaming Company, Pinball Brothers, Haggis Pinball, Dutch Pinball, Spooky Pinball and Multimorphic, Inc., as well as several smaller boutique manufacturers. Most pinball machines use one ball per turn (except during special multi-ball phases), and the game ends when the ball(s) from the last turn are lost. The game's object is generally to score as many points as possible by hitting these targets and making various shots with flippers before the ball is lost. Today, pinball is most commonly an arcade game in which the ball is fired into a specially designed cabinet known as a pinball machine, hitting various lights, bumpers, ramps, and other targets depending on its design. Historically the board was studded with nails called 'pins' and had hollows or pockets which scored points if the ball came to rest in them. Pinball games are a family of games in which a ball is propelled into a specially designed table where it bounces off various obstacles, scoring points either en route or when it comes to rest. Multi-ball game on a White Water pinball machine Here are a few more examples to check out as you continue: Use the series of Venn diagram templates on Cacoo as a jumping-off point. Venn diagram examplesīy looking at these examples and all the Venn diagram symbols you’ve learned, you can dive into making the visuals that’ll help your team. Beer, martinis, and old fashioneds may be good secondary drinks to offer, but they probably shouldn’t serve rum Filter>Blur>Gaussian blur (See how I do it in the video above).Ĭhoose Cmd/Ctrl+L for levels. If you have a clean drawing, you can skip this step.Īpply a small amount of blur to the drawing to smudge all the areas together. You can also use a scanner if you have one.īecause the pencil sketch isn’t a solid tone, we need to make it more defined. I got it into Photoshop by snapping a picture on my phone. Obviously using a marker on smooth paper will make this easier, but I want this tutorial to be useful for any image and be limited to “perfect” images. Here is an icon I quickly sketched with a pencil on a piece of bristol paper. You can skip to step 9 if you aren’t making another shape. Now we will look at making an icon from a sketch. Ill show you how to use the shape in the following steps and some great tips on using Libraries in Step 9. This makes it easy to use in the future.Ĭlick ok and the new thumbsup icon will be added to your shape library They are solution independent, unlike pixels. This means that you can make them as large or as small as you like and they will always have sharp edges. We are making paths because they are Vectors. You can use the pen tool to clean up the path if needed. Its called the work path in the path panel. You will now see a path created around the shape. Lower number = more complex path, higher number, simpler path. (you don’t have to use the pen tool because PS will do it for you.)īy default, tolerance is set to 2.0, this will work. This is where Photoshop will turn the selection into a vector path. Open the Paths Panel in Photoshop (Window>Path)Ĭhoose Make work path, if its grayed out, make sure your selection is active Press Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+I to inverse the selection. Use the Magic want and select the white around the shape. Set the width to 1000 pixels, this will be big enough to trace. Then go to Photoshop create a new document and Ctrl+V to paste the screen shotĬhoose Image>Image size (see how small it currently is in the bottom right corner)Ĭhoose Preserve details 2.0 for resample method. On Mac its Cmd+Shift+4 and drag the region to capture.Step 1. Make a screen capture of the icon. In this case we will go to youtube and snag the like icon, the thumbs up. We will need a like, comment and a subscribe badge. These steps can actually be used for anything, but for the example, we will make a set of icons to be used on youtube videos. Things improve for Sierra when she finds herself in the care of a handsome, caring lodge worker and his daughter in the run-up to Christmas. Looking for Your Favorite Holiday Classics?Ģ0 more annual favorites that you may be searching for this holiday season and where to find them.Lindsay Lohan is making her return to acting in holiday movie "Falling for Christmas." Netflix Expect all the Carey holiday classics.Įuphoria Christmas Special ( HBO Max ) – HBO is planning to premiere two episodes of their Emmy-winning hit between seasons, starting with this episode, featuring an extraordinary performance from Zendaya.Ī Sugar & Spice Holiday ( Lifetime ) – The final interesting Lifetime holiday flick this season offers some wider representation in the story of a Chinese-American woman who is trying to win a Christmas baking competition. Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special ( Apple TV+ ) - The Queen of pop Christmas albums brings her latest special exclusively to Apple TV+. Just Another Christmas ( Netflix ) – Leandro Hassum stars in this seasonal comedy that’s basically a riff on Groundhog Day, featuring a guy who has to live Christmas Day over and over again.Ĭhristmas Crossfire ( Netflix ) – Finally something more for adults than kids, Christmas Crossfire is a German action film about a man on the run from would-be killers during the holiday season. It’s all kind of overwhelming.Īngela’s Christmas Wish ( Netflix ) – A sequel to the 2017 animated film based loosely on the work of Frank McCourt, which was nominated for an Emmy. She stars in this one and directs the network’s amazingly titled Feliz NaviDAD, starring Mario Lopez, who appeared with Hart in ABC Family’s Holiday in Handcuffs. Let’s hope the winners wear masks.ĭance Dreams: Hot Chocolate Nutcracker ( Netflix ) – The legendary Debbie Allen is profiled in this documentary that takes viewers behind-the-scenes at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy as they prepare for their annual production of The Nutcracker.ĭear Christmas ( Lifetime ) – Melissa Joan Hart is the Queen of the Lifetime original holiday movie. The Princess Switch: Switched Again ( Netflix ) – Vanessa Hudgens returns with a sequel to her 2018 Netflix original holiday hit.ġ2 Dates of Christmas ( HBO Max ) – What if there was a dating show like The Bachelor but with the goal of finding someone to bring home to meet the family over the holidays? HBO Max wants to answer that question. The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special ( Disney+ ) – The team behind the Lego Star Wars universe try to supplant memories of the notoriously awful 1978 holiday special with a modern spoof of the recent hits like The Rise of the Skywalker … with a holiday twist. Holidate ( Netflix ) – Maybe you want to ignore some of the not-great reviews and give Emma Roberts and Luke Bracey a chance? Best of luck to you. Reimagining how we look at the holidays and Santa Claus with an outrageous ensemble cast, a myriad of creepy crawlies and a few thrills and chills shouldn’t be missed.” Sign us up. Creator Greg Nicotero said in a statement, “The Spirit of Christmas is alive and well in true Creepshow fashion. How is that holiday-themed? Well, Santa gets involved. Anna Camp and Adam Pally star in “Shapeshifters Anonymous,” which is reportedly about a werewolf support group. This edition of Shudder’s recurring Creepshow franchise is live-action and features one holiday-themed story (instead of the traditional structure of two stories per episode for the show’s regular season). There’s not enough horror on Christmas! Leave it to Shudder to jump in and fill the void. The AR-15 is a highly customizable version of the fully automatic M16 rifle made famous by the U.S. Partially complete receivers can be purchased privately without a background check or serial number and finished by buyers themselves, or they can be built from scratch at home to sidestep having to register the finished gun. The receiver is the only regulated part of the gun, but there are workarounds for obtaining one, too. The only missing piece of the gun – the lower receiver – can be bought secondhand from private sellers who post classified ads on other websites, such as. Yet for as little as $500, anyone with an eBay account can purchase all but one of the dozen or so necessary parts. It’s illegal to buy an AR-15 in California without making specific modifications to the gun or obtaining a dangerous weapons permit from the state Department of Justice. EBay doesn’t disclose in its public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission how much revenue comes from the sale of firearms parts. There’s a financial incentive for eBay: The company charges sellers a fee for every item sold on its website. Reveal identified hundreds of parts available for sale in an extensive search of eBay listings. But the company’s automated filters and user-flagging system fail to stop it. This violates eBay’s policy banning the sale of “parts or accessories for assault weapons.” The policy is closely tailored to match California law, which is among the nation’s strictest. “Our brain just can’t hold that much information, so it has created shortcuts.”įor strategic leaders faced with multiple decisions each day, understanding common decision-making traps, and how to avoid them, can mean the difference between failure and success. “It has to do with our cognitive limitations,” explains Ivey Business School Professor and globally-recognized behavioural decision scientist, Laurel Austin. Unfortunately, science has found that most people are not as rational as they like to believe.ĭecades of research shows that the human brain is wired in a way that can undermine the decision-making process, and while no one sets out to make a poor choice, these ingrained psychological traps often influence the decisions we make. If you ask people how they make big decisions, most would probably say that they evaluate the situation, consider the alternatives, and then make the “rational” choice. Each educational program focuses on different business topics and concepts related to the agribusiness industry you serve, including: marketing, sales, finance, talent management and strategy.In this article featuring Laurel Austin, Associate Professor of Management Science at Ivey Business School, we explore some of the most common decision traps that individuals tend to fall into and share strategic tactics that leaders everywhere can use to avoid allowing their biases from influencing decisions. Learn MoreĬheck out our upcoming programs and exceed your professional development goals! Position yourself to excel in your career by attending one of our professional development workshops. Others include the sunk-cost trap, which can cause perpetuation of past mistakes the overconfidence trap, in which the decision-maker overestimates the accuracy of forecasts the recallability trap, which can cause decision makers to give too much weight to recent events and the prudence trap, which can lead decision makers to be overly cautious in making estimates.īeing aware that these traps exist and considering them throughout the decision process can ultimately help decision makers choose to pursue the most sound of the options for their businesses. These are just a few examples of psychological traps that decision makers fall into in the business world. “Always consider various ways to evaluate a situation.” Other Traps “Never look at a problem from only its original frame,” Widmar says. The framing trap happens when options are presented in ways that can change perspective. “When you seek input, avoid sharing your ideas first so the person giving the advice doesn’t fall into the anchoring trap.” Framing Trap “Don’t seek out one-sided information and advice you know will tilt the decision-making process,” Widmar says. The confirming evidence trap refers to seeking out biased advice or information that supports a particular option, and discounting any opposing information.Īvoiding this trap is about seeking out a variety of information from trusted sources and weighing it equally. Widmar says the key is to ask yourself, “If I weren’t currently choosing this option, would I choose it from my alternatives?” Confirming Evidence Trap Settling for what already is can blind the decision maker to superior alternatives. The status quo trap is one in which the decision maker is biased toward options that are similar to the current situation. “Carefully seek others’ input to compare and contrast with your own,” she says. The keys to avoiding them are open-mindedness and critical thinking. They could come from old data or even from stereotypes. In the words of Hammond, Keeney and Raiffa, “The anchoring trap leads us to give a disproportionate weight to the first information we receive.”Īccording to Widmar, anchors come in all forms. The original question surrounding the decision you are trying to make has already created an anchor. The anchoring trap is an easy one to fall for. Keeney and Howard Raiffa offer a series of common psychological traps that affect the way people make decisions. In their 2006 Harvard Business Review Article, “The Hidden Traps in Decision Making,” John S. “Understanding what these traps are and how they affect decision making is critical to understand how people arrive at their conclusions.” “Decision traps are built-in flaws in our thinking,” she says. Psychological traps are easy to fall for when it comes to making business (or any) decisions, says Nicole Widmar, associate professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University. Sometimes the fault for sub-optimal decisions comes not from the decision-making process, the intel gathered or the analysis completed, but rather, the mind of the decision maker. Even in circumstances where analysis is complete and the path forward seems relatively clear, decision-making can be a challenge. Tap your Betternet Premium subscription.Ħ. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and tap your Apple ID (Make sure to Sign In first).ĥ. Open the App Store and at the bottom, tap Featured.Ģ. 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After suffering a mental breakdown and eventually meeting and subsequently marrying Harriet, Mill changed many of his beliefs on moral life and women's rights. As the ideas developed, the essay was expanded, rewritten and "sedulously" corrected by Mill and his wife, Harriet Taylor Mill. Mill's marriage to Harriet Taylor Mill greatly influenced the concepts in On Liberty, which was published shortly after she died.Īccording his autobiography, On Liberty was first conceived as a short essay in 1854. A copy of On Liberty is passed to the president of the British Liberal Democrats as a symbol of office. It has remained in print since its initial publication. The ideas presented in On Liberty have remained the basis of much political thought. Some classical liberals and libertarians have criticized it for its apparent discontinuity with Utilitarianism, and vagueness in defining the arena within which individuals can contest government infringements on their personal freedom of action. On Liberty was a greatly influential and well-received work. Among the standards proposed are Mill's three basic liberties of individuals, his three legitimate objections to government intervention, and his two maxims regarding the relationship of the individual to society. Furthermore, Mill asserts that democratic ideals may result in the tyranny of the majority. He emphasizes the importance of individuality, which he considers prerequisite to the higher pleasures-the summum bonum of utilitarianism. Mill suggests standards for the relationship between authority and liberty. Published in 1859, it applies Mill's ethical system of utilitarianism to society and state. On Liberty is an essay by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill. MILES plays an enthusiastic veteran of the Sturdy Wings program who tries to give Danny and Wheeler pointers and help.Ĭurious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit? KERRI KENNEY-SILVER plays Augie's mom who wishes he'd stop with the fantasy world stuff, which also holds true for her boyfriend played by KEN MARINO.NICOLE RANDALL JOHNSON plays Ronnie's mom who makes sure Wheeler knows she'll take him down if anything happens to her son.KEN JEONG plays an adult in the role-playing fantasy world who takes his position as king a bit too seriously.JANE LYNCH plays the leader of the Sturdy Wings program, a recovering addict and type A personality who never hesitates to bring up her past drug and alcohol problems.ELIZABETH BANKS plays Danny's live-in girlfriend, a lawyer who's eventually fed up with his bad attitude and thus moves out, although she assists him and Wheeler when they need legal help.He uses strong profanity, generally acts up, and is fixated on women's breasts. THOMPSON plays a foul-mouthed, all attitude 10-year-old boy with a reputation for making his mentors flee into the night, and he tries the same with Wheeler. He uses some profanity, some of that briefly strong. CHRISTOPHER MINTZ-PLASSE plays a frustrated but otherwise fairly normal and somewhat sweet teen who's escaped into a role-playing fantasy world and isn't initially pleased that Danny's been assigned as his mentor, or that his mom and her boyfriend don't understand his behavior.He has casual sex, uses strong profanity, appears to smoke pot in one scene, drinks some, and isn't sure how to handle Ronnie and that boy's behavior. SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT plays his more laidback coworker whose job is to don a minotaur costume while Danny does the anti-drug pitch at schools.He isn't pleased with that, but tries to gamely go along, eventually coming to care about the teen. His bitterness and mocking attitude drive his long-time girlfriend away and results in him having to serve 150 hours of community service where he's paired with Augie. PAUL RUDD plays a sardonic 35-year-old man who isn't happy with where his life is or that he's been working for the high energy drink company for the past decade.WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R For crude and sexual content, strong language and nudity. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? Since kids are featured prominently in the ads, some might be drawn by that, while fans of anyone in the cast might also be interested. While Danny and Wheeler aren't any more enthusiastic about their participation than their young charges, they persevere, first to complete their required time, but eventually because they come to care about the boys under their occasional care. He's the son of Lynette (KERRI KENNEY-SILVER), but neither she nor her boyfriend, Jim Stansel (KEN MARINO), understand his involvement in a highly organized, role-playing fantasy world where kids and adults, such as ruler King Argotron (KEN JEONG), participate in faked, medieval style warfare. THOMPSON), son of single mom, Karen (NICOLE RANDALL JOHNSON), while Danny gets teenager Augie Farks (CHRISTOPHER MINTZ-PLASSE). Its leader and recovered drug addict, Gayle Sweeny (JANE LYNCH), doesn't cut Danny or Wheeler any slack, assigning the latter to work with foul-mouthed, ten-year-old Ronnie Shields (BOBB'E J. Thanks to Beth's pull, they avoid jail time, but must serve 150 hours of community service with a program known as Sturdy Wings that mentors young kids through the likes of long-server participant, Martin Gary (A.D. When the guys' company vehicle is towed, Danny finally loses it, and the resultant property damage lands him and Wheeler in trouble with the law. His increasingly sardonic attitude eventually forces his live-in, lawyer girlfriend, Beth (ELIZABETH BANKS), to move out. Yet, Danny isn't happy with the realization that the last decade of his life has slipped away. PLOT: Danny Donahue (PAUL RUDD) and his coworker Wheeler (SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT) peddle a high energy drink known as Minotaur to high school students by arguing that it's good while drugs are bad. QUICK TAKE: Comedy: Rather than serve time in jail, two coworkers reluctantly end up in a mentoring program where they must work with kids who don't want them around. (2008) (Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott) (R) |
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