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![]() For the daughter character, Gaynor is also an enthusiast of Booksmart, in which Dever was a lead. “I loved the real feeling of natural humor but the vulnerability that Kaitlyn brought to ,” Gaynor says of Olivia Wilde’s 2019 teen comedy. ![]() “I love how Keri can have such an imposing presence, but also has a humanity to her in all the scenes that she’s in,” he recalls. “They are exploring a mystery, there is drama to what might have happened in the past and what they want to resolve by going on this journey - that’s all true - but it matters because it matters to them, and it matters to you, the player, because by being part of this relationship, you care about Opal and Tess and want to see where this journey takes them.”īeing a huge fan of The Americans, Gaynor was keen on casting Russell in Open Roads right from the beginning. This concept is something that Gaynor carried from Gone Home into Open Roads. And if you can understand those people as people, then their story can be important to you as well, and not because you’re saving the world or because the state of the country lies in balance, but because it matters to them.” “In games, especially at that time,” Gaynor explains, “it was pretty rare to play a game just about normal people going through relatively normal stuff, and so what I was hoping to accomplish is to be able to say, everybody’s story is important to them, and it’s not because it’s necessarily the most dramatic story in the world, but it’s because they’re living it. “It came down to what we populated the house with, what the dialogue was that you heard when you found different things,” he continues - all of that was designed to build a sense of understanding and empathy between the player and the story. “Everything really was pointed toward making you as the player feel like you knew the characters as people who you could have known in your real life,” Gaynor says of Fullbright’s first game, which saw the player tasked with uncovering what happened after returning home from overseas and finding her house completely empty with her family absent. The studio, based in Portland, Oregon, is best known for the first-person exploration game Gone Home, which won the BAFTA for best debut game in 2013. “They’re trying to figure out who the family was and what happened to them,” he says, calling it an “exciting, real-world version” of what is at the heart of Fullbright games. ![]() “Some people just left one night and never went back,” Gaynor recalls, of the inhabitants of the house. Recalling one in particular, Gaynor brings up the 2001 episode “House on Loon Lake,” which is about kids in the 1970s who visit a vacation town for the summer and find an abandoned house, which they ultimately sneak into. He also mentions the true stories of the podcast This American Life, noting how the tales are told from the real people who are living them. ![]() “A really direct, inescapable reference for us has definitely been the film Lady Bird ” says Gaynor, “which does such a beautiful job of depicting a mother-daughter relationship that is far from perfect, but has this underpinning of real care.” This inciting incident sends the pair on a quest through the places Opal and her family had spent summers to see if they can find evidence about what really went on in the past. “There was this man who wasn’t Opal’s father that she was involved with and some sort of scheme that they were going to run away together.” “After she passes away, it’s something that a lot of us have experienced you’re going through your loved one’s possessions and sorting through what’s left, and in Opal and Tessa’s case, they find this stash of hints and clues about this episode in Tessa’s grandma’s life that either of them knew about,” explains Gaynor. Hot on the heels of last month’s announcement that Keri Russell and Kaitlyn Dever would star in Open Roads from developer Fullbright and publisher Annapurna Interactive, game director Steve Gaynor spoke with The Hollywood Reporter to share his inspirations behind the character and story-driven video game that is currently in production amid the raging COVID-19 pandemic.ĭescribing the game as “a mother-daughter road trip adventure,” Gaynor adds that the two leads, Opal (played by Russell) and Tessa (played by Dever), set out to uncover a generational family mystery involving Tessa’s grandmother. ![]() ![]() ![]() While some federal courts still rely on pre-2000 opinions in determining the scope of Daubert, as a technical legal matter, any earlier judicial rulings that conflict with the language of amended Rule 702 are no longer good precedent.Īlthough the Daubert standard is now the law in federal court and over half of the states, the Frye standard remains the law in some jurisdictions including California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Washington. (d) The expert has reliably applied the principles and methods to the facts of the case. (c) The testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods and (b) The testimony is based on sufficient facts or data (a) The expert's scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will help the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue The rule now reads:Ī witness who is qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education may testify in the form of an opinion or otherwise if: In 2011, Rule 702 was again amended to make the language more clear. If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise, if (1) the testimony is based upon sufficient facts or data, (2) the testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods, and (3) the witness has applied the principles and methods reliably to the facts of the case. In 2000, Rule 702 was amended in an attempt to codify and structure elements embodied in the " Daubert trilogy." The amended rule then read as follows: Whether the research was conducted independent of the particular litigation or dependent on an intention to provide the proposed testimony.Whether it has been subjected to peer review and publication.Whether the theory or technique employed by the expert is generally accepted in the scientific community. ![]() Illustrative factors: The court defined "scientific methodology" as the process of formulating hypotheses and then conducting experiments to prove or falsify the hypothesis, and provided a set of illustrative factors (i.e., not a "test") in determining whether these criteria are met:.Scientific knowledge = scientific method/methodology: A conclusion will qualify as scientific knowledge if the proponent can demonstrate that it is the product of sound "scientific methodology" derived from the scientific method.Furthermore, the admissibility of expert testimony is governed by Rule 104(a), not Rule 104(b) thus, the judge must find it more likely than not that the expert's methods are reliable and reliably applied to the facts at hand. Concerns about expert testimony cannot be simply referred to the jury as a question of weight. Relevance and reliability: This requires the trial judge to ensure that the expert's testimony is "relevant to the task at hand" and that it rests "on a reliable foundation".Judge is gatekeeper: Under Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, the task of "gatekeeping", or assuring that scientific expert testimony truly proceeds from "scientific knowledge", rests on the trial judge.In Daubert, seven members of the court agreed on the following guidelines for admitting scientific expert testimony: 1995)), and Judge Edward Becker's opinion in In re Paoli R.R. ![]() Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 43 F.3d 1311 (9th Cir. Important appellate-level opinions that clarify the standard include Judge Alex Kozinski's opinion in Daubert on remand ( Daubert v. Carmichael (1999), which held that the judge's gatekeeping function identified in Daubert applies to all expert testimony, including that which is non-scientific. Joiner (1997), which held that a district court judge may exclude expert testimony when there are gaps between the evidence relied on by an expert and that person's conclusion, and that an abuse-of-discretion standard of review is the proper standard for appellate courts to use in reviewing a trial court's decision of whether it should admit expert testimony ![]() (1993), which held that Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Evidence did not incorporate the Frye standard as a basis for assessing the admissibility of scientific expert testimony, but that the rule incorporated a flexible reliability standard instead The Daubert trilogy are the three United States Supreme Court cases that articulated the Daubert standard: A party may raise a Daubert motion, a special motion in limine raised before or during trial, to exclude the presentation of unqualified evidence to the jury. In United States federal law, the Daubert standard is a rule of evidence regarding the admissibility of expert witness testimony. Expert witness evidence rule in American law ![]() ![]() ![]() Surprise yourself with how ambient your home becomes with Chime Aroma Diffuser today!īreathe better with aromatherapy and treasure nature's healing. Create the perfect atmosphere for yourself by combining essential oils and humidifiers for that ultimate calm feeling. Get a good nights rest with this iHome AROMADREAM Aromatherapy Essential Oil Diffuser Alarm Clock with Sound Therapy. Sound Therapy: Dual Alarm Clock: Aroma and. Zaria includes multiple functions including LED lighting, soothing music or the FM radio station of your choice, all combined with Essential Oil diffusion. The remote control allows you to control this aroma diffuser from any corner of the room so you don't have to get out of bed or leave your comfortable spot on the couch. 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![]() The Law Library was able to finally dispel any mystery surrounding flesh-gate with the help of Daniel Kirby, a conservation scientist at the Harvard University Art Museums’ Straus Center, who used “ peptide mass fingerprinting” to dig into the samples from the binding, and differentiate them from other skins, the blog post said. ![]() “Thanks to a technique for identifying proteins that was developed in the last twenty years, we recently have been able to answer the question once and for all,” they wrote. But not so fast officials said despite people studying the book, examining it, questioning it-you name it-their research was always inconclusive until now. Seems pretty clear that the binding is from some guy named Jonas Wright’s body. King Mbesa did give me the book, it being one of poore Jonas chiefe possessions, together with ample of his skin to bynd it. The bynding of this booke is all that remains of my dear friende Jonas Wright, who was flayed alive by the Wavuma on the Fourth Day of August, 1632. The writing has left curators, conservators, and dermatologists curious about the book cover’s material for decades, the HLS blog said.Īnd with good reason. But more likely to blame is a post on Reddit/Books, where more than one recent entry managed to set off a firestorm of comments, and, of course, the domino effect of people plucking the links without doing much vetting.Īn inscription inside the book, which alludes to the idea that the literature is in fact wrapped in the skin of a person, could also be to blame. That story was first written in 2006.Ī quick Google search shows that the story was reintroduced to the Internet after it was picked up by publications like The New York Daily News, who re-reported the subject matter back in March. Pinaeus de Virginitatis notis which is also bound in human skin but tanned with sumac.The original story that set the ball rolling and got the Internet hungry for the skin-deep details on the bound books was called, “The Skinny on Harvard’s Rare Book Collection,” and highlighted a selection of works that are housed in three separate libraries on campus-the Houghton Library, the Countway Library of Medicine, and the law school’s library. Compare for example with the small volume I have in my library, Sever. It is interesting to see the different aspects that change this skin according to the method of preparation to which it is subjected. A book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering: I had kept this piece of human skin taken from the back of a woman. ![]() By looking carefully you easily distinguish the pores of the skin. “This book is bound in human skin parchment on which no ornament has been stamped to preserve its elegance. Inserted in the volume is an autograph manuscript note written by Dr. The book, which deals with meditation and life after death, was bound with the skin from the unclaimed body of a female mental patient. The most disturbing one is Arsène Houssaye’s book called “Des destinées de l’ame”. Houghton Library, Harvard University’s library for rare books and manuscripts, has actually two books that are bound in human skin! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On a fine day they give the most magnificent views in all directions from the mainland stretching up to Loch Linnhe and Glen Coe, across to Mull and south to Colonsay, Oronsay and Islay. The three Paps of Jura, on the south of the Island are all just below 3,000ft. Mackerel fishing and lobster potting can be enjoyed by guests from the estate’s 31ft sea boat and is one of the highlights. Vehicles can be arranged to transport you around the island from the Lodge. Bring your bicycles for exploring the island too. The iland has just one single track road and car is the easiest way to travel to and from Ruantallain Lodge and to get around the island. There is lots to do on Jura including walking, trout fishing, sea fishing, bicycling and beaches, kayaking and stalking when available. The Lodge housekeeper lives nearby if needed. Guests have access to all areas of the property and gardens apart from the private laundry room and commercial freezers in the shed building, which are used by staff. There is a utility room with washing machine, tumble dryer and iron. The large adjacent wooden shed is open to all guests and contains a games room with full size snooker table (looking out over the bay), a table tennis table and open plan work spaces that could be used for indoor group activities and games. Looking up towards the hills there are one twin with en-suite, one double room with bathroom opposite, a further twin and a single room. There is a small twin room, suitable for children in this part of the house. There is one double room with en-suite and one twin room with with bathroom opposite facing the sea. There is an open plan living and dining room with a piano and open fire, a separate, spacious sitting room with views over the bay and a good selection of books, a fully equipped kitchen, separate utility room and a drying room for boots and wet clothes (and dog towels!). The modest wooden exterior of the house belies the warm comfort inside where the open plan areas provide spectacular landscape views, as well as cosy wood fires and extremely comfortable furnishings. White Chocolate Panna Cotta, Saffron Poached Pear and Vanilla Shortbread Panfried Loin of Venison, Dauphinoise Potatoes, Slow Baked Celeriac, Wilted Spinach and Burgundy Jus Warmed Sea Trout with Cabbage Puree, Roasted Salsify, Pickled Cucumber and a Apple Gel Salad You begin the day with a full Scottish breakfast, lunch can either be a cold buffet or a packed lunch for the hill.ĭinner is a three course, fine dining extravaganza – and a sample menu is included below: The connecting ferry from Islay to Feolin on Jura is a short, five minute crossing. The flight takes half an hour.Ĭar ferries operate daily from Kennacraig on the mainland (Kintyre Peninsula – about 3 hours drive from Glasgow) to Port Askaig on Islay. Flybe fly daily from Glasgow International Airport to Islay. The fastest way to reach Jura is by the Jura Passenger Ferry or you can also travel via Islay by taking the Calmac car ferry from Kennacraig, or by daily Loganair flights from Glasgow Airport. It is the perfect base for a family holiday in which to explore this magical Inner Hebridean island and to fish, walk, cycle, kayak, swim and enjoy getting out on the estate’s 31ft sea boat. The estate chef is very accomplished and will produce delicious meals using the freshest local produce, seafood, venison and lamb. Ruanatallain Lodge offers basic but very comfortable accommodation on a fully catered basis. Lindsay Bury has planted approximately 300,000 native trees on the Estate. The most mature wood can be seen from the anchorage where the boat is moored and there are four further blocks, the most recent one being planted in the spring of 2020. The Bury family bought the Estate in 1983 and have continued to run it as a sporting estate with traditional deer stalking and brown trout fishing on the many hill lochs. Ruantallain is a sporting estate that extends to 20,000 acres lying coast to coast across the middle of the Isle of Jura with Loch Tarbert at its southern boundary. Largely spread across the inaccessible western coast of the island, the estate boasts some of the most beautiful and rugged terrain, much of which can only be reached via boat or on foot. Set on the shore of one of Jura’s prettiest bays, in beautiful gardens, Ruantallain Lodge has magnificent views across the Sound of Jura towards the Kintyre peninsular. Region - West Coast and Islands & Hebrides ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If the key is broken off in the ignition, it’s not recommended that you try it yourself. Sometimes thin plier-like tools are used as well to grasp both sides of the key. A key extraction tool is a small, thin piece of metal with two little hooks at the end that are used to connect with the key. Auto locksmiths utilize both key extraction kits and key extraction tools to attach to these crevices and remove the key.Ī kit has a normal extraction tool but with some added perks. When a key snaps in a door or the ignition, it usually snaps so that crevices of the skinny part of the key are exposed. Though it’s usually not your fault when a key breaks in the lock, it can be very difficult to remove and - this goes without saying - you can’t really start your vehicle if the key is broken. It’s not a very common occurrence, but it happens often enough for specialty services to be provided. For unlocking a car that does not have a car lock but relies on “keyless remotes”, the auto locksmith reprograms the code (usually usings a VATS passcode detector or the like) so that you can gain access to your vehicle.Ĭar keys can snap off through natural wear or a sudden wrong turn. For newer cars with more advanced security systems, keys, as we know them, are no longer used.“Jimmying” a car open works best with older cars who still use real keys and don’t have state of the art alarm systems. Still, when the going gets tough, many things can be used as a slim jim if you need to. If you’ve seen any movies, you have probably seen hangers used as well, but the more modern slim jim is a safer alternative with less chance of damaging the vehicle.This involves taking a slim jim - or thin piece of metal - and sliding it between the window and the weather stripping on a car door to access the lock. The most common strategy is “jimmying” the car lock open.How does an auto locksmith unlock your vehicle without a key? There are several strategies that they utilize for breaking into vehicles, all of which vary on the type of car and what type of lock system the car has. Unlocking Carsįirst things first: getting back into your vehicle. But they can also remove broken keys, duplicate or replace keys, and - in some situations - they can actually replace whole locks and ignition switches. The primary service that auto locksmiths offer is simply unlocking a vehicle. Mobile services are where auto locksmiths’ primary specialties lie - where they offer help to those who are either stranded in a Walmart parking lot at midnight or locked out at a gas station in the middle of the desert. While residential locksmiths make keys and unlock doors in a home, and commercial locksmiths do the same for offices and industrial buildings, auto locksmiths specialize primarily in unlocking vehicles and replacing car keys.Ĭhoosing an auto locksmith offers both in-shop services, for when you might want to duplicate a car key or fix a related issue (which would be much more expensive at a dealership), in addition to mobile services. Below we will discuss some of the nuances of what a car locksmith can do, and some of the specialty services they offer. In an industry that has grown more and more complex over the years due to the technological advances in the making of cars and security systems, auto locksmiths hold something of a monopoly on all things car-key and car-security related. ![]() Not only do auto locksmiths unlock locked cars, they can also create new keys, remove broken keys from locks, and can even replace both the locks on your car doors and entire ignition systems as well. Whether you left your keys in a locked car, or for some other reason can’t access your vehicle, auto locksmiths specialize in helping you break back into your own automotive. There is nothing worse than being locked out of someplace you need to be. ![]() ![]() “It has no chance to hit the Earth, currently,” said Sheppard, noting that at present 2022 AP7 crosses the Earth’s orbit when the Earth is on the other side of the sun. While the finding of 2022 AP7 may bring to mind visions of the asteroid Armageddon depicted in the film Don’t Look Up, the study also offers reassurance. An impact event is a collision between astronomical objects causing measurable effects. 1, the asteroid will come within about 1.43 million miles (2.3 million kilometers) of Earth, around six times the average distance between Earth and the moon. It would be a mass extinction event like hasn’t been seen on Earth in millions of years,” he said. A major impact event releases the energy of several million nuclear weapons detonating simultaneously when an asteroid of only a few kilometers in diameter collides with a larger body such as the Earth (image: artists impression). 2010 RF12 tops Nasas watch-list in terms of the probability of Earth impact There is a 4.7 chance of a hit by the asteroid, which is estimated to measure 7m in diameter Nasa predicts that the. Also known as asteroid 99942, the near-Earth object is estimated to be about 1,100 feet (340 meters) across and could cause serious damage to the planet's surface if it were to hit. NASAs Lucy mission has spotted its asteroid targets for the first time. “The Earth’s surface would likely cool significantly from sunlight not getting to the planet. CSEOs companies, researchers and teams are skilled in Earth Observation, ICT. “Any asteroid over 1km in size is considered a planet killer,” said Sheppard, adding that should such an object strike Earth, the impact would be devastating to life as we know it, with dust and pollutants kicked up into the atmosphere, where they would linger for years. The half-tonne probe will be travelling at more than four miles a second when it. 1, the asteroid will come within about 1.43 million miles (2. ![]() ![]() With a diameter of about 1.1km to 2.3km, the team say 2022 AP7 is the largest PHA discovered since 2014 and probably in the top 5% of the largest ever found. In a few weeks, Nasa controllers will deliberately crash their 330m Dart robot spacecraft into an asteroid. Writing in the Astronomical Journal, lead study author Scott Sheppard and colleagues at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington say they have found three “rather large” asteroids, one of which – 2022 AP7 – crosses the Earth’s orbit, making it a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA). NASA has shed new light on an asteroid named Bennu that has a 0.037 percent probability of making an impact with Earth on September 24th in the year 2182. ![]() ![]() Strap in, and start creating beautiful pieces of art with Krita today. With its wide range of capabilities and intuitive interface, Krita is becoming a favored tool among artists and designers. No matter what your skill level is, Krita can be a great asset to help you create amazing pieces of digital art. This scripting language also allows you to create complex and detail specific scripts to customize workflow and increase productivity. For a slightly more advanced option, you can tap into its native scripting language and customize the experience. ![]() Using Krita can be as simple or complex as you like depending on what you’re trying to create. Additionally, you can customize Krita with a range of plugins and extensions available from the Krita website. ![]() Once installed, opening the program displays a wide variety of brushes, colors and other options for creating digital art. The first step to using Krita is to download and install the software from their website. This step-by-step guide will explain all you need to know about Krita so that you can start creating impressive works. It is a powerful tool which can help you produce beautiful art and designs. Krita is an amazing open source software program that is used for digital painting and graphics. Step-by-Step Guide to Krita Software Everything You Need to Know. His tutorials are perfect for beginners or experienced professionals wanting to understand the basics and advance their digital art skills. He provides high-quality tutorials that explain in detail how to draw, paint, and use a drawing tablet, as well as providing helpful digital art tips. svg files inside itself.Aaron Rutten's YouTube channel is dedicated to teaching viewers how to create art with Krita software, Corel Painter, and other digital art tools. kra file actually stores vector layers as individual. kra file, which will also include any paint layers you have in your artwork, which is probably the most suitable way for a krita beginner to save their vector work. The reasons to do this are if you want to continue work using another application, like Inkscape, or to pass your work on to another artist who does not have krita, or for publishing. svg file and I remember you asking about this. It may be that you prefer to leave that until you do videos for ‘Intermediate’ users.ġ7:25 You say, “… go back to your tracing tool …” This is an example of ‘terminology drift’ which is a very easy mistake to make and can confuse beginners.Ģ3:00 You ‘save’ your work by doing a layer-export to an. Using named groups is useful and can be important but you can also do that with the vector-copy techniques. ![]() ![]() The vector tools and techniques, such as selecting two objects with Shift+click then doing right-click and copy, paste, transform-mirror are quite simple to learn and use, even for beginners I’d have thought. Pencil-Optimise can be enabled and its value changed to smooth and simplify a hand drawn path in different degrees but it needs a bit of practice to get used to it.ġ6:25 You prepare to make the mirrored copy of the right antenna and you use what I would personally regard as a ‘painting’ technique to do this, and throughout for all the mirrored copies of legs. It’s possible that beginners have been experimenting with the settings and have left them in an unsuitable condition.įor an ‘easy experience’, Fill:- Not Filled, Pencil-Precision:- Curve, Pencil-Optimise:- disabled. Hello That was a very nice video with wide coverage as well as some nicely detailed examples.Īs you might expect, I have some commentsġ4:20 You prepare to use the Freehand Path Tool but didn’t explain the importance of the Tool Options settings. ![]() |