![]() ![]() She was both the first woman nominated and the first confirmed to the court. She retired from the court and assumed senior status as a federal judge on January 31, 2006. Sandra Day O'Connor (born March 26, 1930) is an American lawyer, former politician, and jurist who served as the first female associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006. O'Connor was confirmed on Septemand received commission the next day. O'Connor was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on August 19, 1981, to succeed Justice Potter Stewart. Sandra Day OConnor made history in 1981 when she became first woman to serve as a justice on the U.S. CNN Former US Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg will get statues on the grounds of the US Capitol after President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed. 1952-1953: Deputy county attorney, San Mateo County.1954-1957: Civil Attorney, Quartermaster Market Center in Frankfurt, Germany.1965-1969: Assistant Attorney General, State of Arizona.1969-1975: State Senator, Arizona Senate Sandra Day OConnor spent her early childhood on her familys large Lazy-B-Cattle Ranch in southeastern Arizona, where the closest neighbors were 25 miles away.She earned a BA in economics from Stanford University in 1950 and then went on the earn a law degree from Stanford in 1952. Sandra grew up with two younger siblings. 1973-1974: Senate Majority Leader, Arizona Senate OConnor was born Sandra Day in El Paso, Texas on Mato successful rancher Henry Day and his wife Ada.1975-1979: Judge, Maricopa County Superior Court.1979-1981: Judge, Arizona Court of Appeals.1981-2006: Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States.O'Connor received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University in 1950 and her LL.B. She served during the Burger Court, the Rehnquist Court, and the Roberts Court. ![]() O'Connor was one of five justices nominated to the Supreme Court by President Reagan, though only four were confirmed. O'Connor left the Court upon Alito's confirmation by the Senate on January 31, 2006. Day, rancher Mother: Ada Mae (Wilkey), rancher Marriage: John Jay O’Connor III (1952-2009, his. Bush nominated Justice Samuel Alito to take her seat in October 2005. Birth date: MaBirth place: El Paso, Texas Birth name: Sandra Day Father: Harry A. On July 1, 2005, O'Connor announced her intention to retire from the Supreme Court and assume senior status as a federal judge effective upon the confirmation of a successor. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day OConnor, Americas first female. She was nominated by President Ronald Reagan in August 1981 and served until January 31, 2006. Sandra Day O'Connor was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and the first woman to serve on the high court. 4.1 Rights of zoning board stands (1997).
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![]() Sierra Attractions and Berkeley Systems released After Dark Games in 1998 for the Macintosh and Windows platforms, which contained several games modeled after their previously released screensavers. The After Dark franchise will be owned by Microsoft pending international approval of their acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Sierra Entertainment was eventually acquired by Vivendi Games, which in turn was merged with Activision to form Activision Blizzard. Sierra released a Flying Toaster video game for cell phones in 2006. įor Apple M1 and Intel Macs, remakes of three popular modules - Flying Toasters, Mowing Man and Boris - are being sold as standalone screensavers. The Bad Dog (TV series) based on the "Bad Dog" screensaver was produced by CinéGroupe and Saban Entertainment for the Teletoon and Fox Family Channel networks that first aired on Teletoon on March 1, 1999.Īn official version of After Dark was released for Mac OS X running on PowerPC by Infinisys, Ltd. Ed Fries, co-developer of the popular Fish! screensaver, became vice president of game publishing at Microsoft. Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, the founders of Berkeley Systems, went on to create. ![]() In 1997, Berkeley Systems was acquired by the Sierra On-Line division of CUC International. ![]() Ī 3D version of the toasters featuring swarms of toasters with airplane wings, rather than bird wings, is available for XScreenSaver. The case was dismissed because the cover art had not been registered as a trademark by the group prior to Berkeley Systems' release of the screensaver. The second case was brought in 1994 by 1960s rock group Jefferson Airplane who claimed that the toasters were a copy of the winged toasters featured on the cover of their 1973 album Thirty Seconds Over Winterland. District judge ruled that Delrina's "Death Toasters" was infringing, Delrina later changed the wings of the toasters to propellers. The toasters were the subject of two lawsuits, the first in 1993, Berkeley Systems vs Delrina Corporation, over a module of Delrina's Opus 'N Bill screensaver in which Opus the penguin shoots down the toasters. The Flying Toasters were one of the key reasons that After Dark became popular, and Berkeley began to produce other merchandising products such as T-shirts with the Flying Toaster image and slogans such as "The 51st Flying Toaster Squadron: On a mission to save your screen!" Yet another version called Flying Toasters! added bagels and pastries, baby toasters, and more elaborate toaster animation. A slider in the Flying Toasters module enabled users to adjust the toast's darkness and an updated Flying Toasters Pro module added a choice of music- Richard Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries or a flying toaster anthem with optional karaoke lyrics. Engineer Jack Eastman came up with the display after seeing a toaster in the kitchen during a late-night programming session and imagining the addition of wings. The most famous of the included screensaver modules is the iconic Flying Toasters, which featured 1940s-style chrome toasters sporting bird-like wings, flying across the screen with pieces of toast. Written on the page by Brown like any other airplane-ready page-turner, with nearly each short chapter ending to the implicit musical sting of “dun-dun-DUN!,” the book is a pleasantly conceived time-filler. To be sure, The Da Vinci Code is still a ludicrous story that both benefited from and was weighed down by the sensationalism of its conceit. And judging by the infamous catcalls the movie received at Cannes, which were followed by a tepid critical drubbing in the international press, I wasn’t alone in thinking the movie amounted to a lot of overinflated hoopla.īut a funny thing happened when I sat down to watch it on Netflix the other day, about 15 years after its release: I realized what a big goofy delight the movie could be with the right mindset, and what I as a teenager-and so much of the contemporary film press during its time-missed out on. One that features Tom Hanks earnestly looking into the camera to declare “I need to get to a library!” as the music swells. ![]() And all of that cacophonous noise was over… a pretty middle-of-the-road adventure movie. Protests occurred at theaters throughout the U.S., while other international markets banned it outright. ![]() How could something that high-handed live up to that kind of hype?Īs a splashy Hollywood version of Dan Brown’s most popular potboiler, The Da Vinci Code premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May and was the subject of countless faux-examinations about early Christianity on the cable news circuit-as well as the object of ire for some modern Christians’ growing need for perpetual outrage. All the while, its rollout suggested it had aspirations to be an awards contender. It was an adaptation of the biggest literary phenomenon of the decade not starring Harry Potter, and it was arriving in cinemas with the kind of media frenzy usually reserved for Star Wars. ![]() When Ron Howard’s The Da Vinci Code took the world by storm in 2006, I was far from being a professional critic, but I could still be highly critical of something like this. In the TCG Main article: Ho-Oh (TCG) In the TFG Pokémon HeartGold SoulSilver: Pokédex Completion ComicĪ Ho-Oh appeared in Pokémon HeartGold SoulSilver: Pokédex Completion Comic.Ī Ho-Oh appeared in The Legendary Ho-oh!!. It physically debuted in Let's Fight For The Future!!. Ho-Oh debuted in a fantasy in Farewell To Pikachu?!. It was then lent to Karen and Will to fight Green with alongside Lugia, and nearly defeated her Legendary birds, but both of them were eventually brought back to their senses and freed. Ho-Oh was later seen at Indigo Plateau under Pryce's control, alongside Lugia, wreaking havoc and destruction. Prior to the events of the Gold, Silver & Crystal chapter, Pryce had lost control over Ho-Oh, and thus attacked the Tin Tower using Team Rocket to prompt Ho-Oh to return to Ecruteak City. It was used by the Masked Man to kidnap children showing remarkable talent in his scheme to capture Celebi, including Green and Silver, six years prior to the start of the entire manga. It appeared again as a silhouette in Hitmonlee, Baby! (One More Time), when Green was explaining to Bill that she believes the Elite Four were the ones who controlled it to capture her. In Pokémon Adventures, Ho-Oh first appeared as a silhouette in Just a Spearow Carrier. Pokémon Adventures Main article: Ho-Oh (Adventures) Ho-Oh in Pokémon Adventures Movie adaptations Main article: Ho-Oh (anime) There are still Pokémon yet to be identified. In the opening sequence of The Rise of Darkrai, a Ho-Oh was flying through space.Ī Ho-Oh appeared in the opening sequence of Arceus and the Jewel of Life.Ī Ho-Oh appeared in the opening sequence of Zoroark: Master of Illusions. In Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, a Ho-Oh appeared in the intro, and then as a transformation of Mew. In I Choose You!, which is set in a continuity different from the main series, Ho-Oh played a major role.Ī Ho-Oh appeared in the opening sequence of Jirachi: Wish Maker. This trend began at the end of Pokémon - I Choose You!, where Ash saw it flying alongside a rainbow across the sky after the thunderstorm. On occasion, Ho-Oh would only be seen by Ash, and always fleetingly. Silver it was obtained during the same war. A sacred flame from Ho-Oh burns in the Ho-Oh Shrine at Mt. Later, a new Tin Tower was erected, but Ho-Oh since then has never come back for sure. When a war broke out, burning both the Tin Tower and the Brass Tower down, it created Raikou, Entei, and Suicune, and all four disappeared. It now presumably flies through the world's skies in search of a Trainer with a pure heart.Īccording to the anime, Ho-Oh lived in the Tin Tower in ancient times. Ho-Oh used to perch at the top of the various towers located across the Johto region: the Bell Tower until the Brass Tower was destroyed by fire and the Goldenrod Tower in ancient times. The rare few who bear witness to Ho-Oh are promised eternal happiness. It is said that when it flies its huge wings create bright, colorful rainbows. Prior to Generation VI, Ho-Oh was the only known Pokémon capable of learning the move Sacred Fire. Ho-Oh is considered the guardian of the skies and has a mythical power to resurrect the dead. It has darkly colored feet and legs with four toes and long talons. Ho-Oh's wings are prismatic, causing it to trail a rainbow behind it. Ho-Oh has a green stripe on its neck, a yellow beak, black rings around its red eyes, and a feathered, yellow crest on its head. Its feathers are predominantly gold and red, with yellow tail-feathers, a white underside, and green feathers at the tip of its wings. Ho-Oh is an avian Pokémon resembling a phoenix and a peacock.
![]() ![]() ![]() Kingston Technology has also chimed in with its own security advisory (presumably based upon the same vulnerability) regarding the potential for hackers to access encrypted on some of its USB drives too. SanDisk’s alert was at pains to point out that the the flaw was not in the drive’s hardware or firmware, but in the accompanying code that runs on the user’s computer. What’s going to be causing some anxiety amongst IT teams is that SanDisk has issued a security bulletin explaining that versions of its Cruzer Enterprise flash drive contain a vulnerability that could allow unauthorised parties to access encrypted data on your USB stick. So having a thumb drive that automatically encrypts the data contained upon it is a good idea, as it will mean that even if you do lose your USB stick in the back of a taxi or down the side of the sofa that identity thieves won’t be able to do anything with the sensitive information contained upon it. In fact, if you can think of a type of personal sensitive information – chances are that someone, somewhere, has lost it on a USB stick. This is sensible as there have been far too many instances of USB sticks being lost containing confidential patient records, school children and records relating to US soliders serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.Įven plans for secret troop movements stored on memory sticks have been lost on the floor of a nightclub. Many companies and individuals use thumb drives equipped with hardware-based encryption to secure their sensitive data. Here’s some news that might cause concern for some users of hardware-encrypted USB memory sticks. ![]() Just don’t forget to grab a box of tissues before you press play. You can find the film on Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, and Apple TV. Ordered to lie low, his boss gives him strict instructions not to kill anyone for a year and try his best to live a normal life. If you haven't seen it already, The Fabelmans is available to stream online. An action-comedy based on a successful Manga series, it revolves around Akira Sato (Jun'ichi Okada), a hitman who finds himself on an unexpected holiday after his latest job. Together, they wove a spellbinding tale about life, all its twists and turns, and what it means to pursue a career in the arts. Follow the Author Katuhisa Minami The Fable T01 Pocket Book ApFrench Edition by Katsuhisa Minami (Drawings, Contributor) 45 ratings Volume 1 of 11: The Fable See all formats and editions Pocket Book 14.62 1 Used from 18.59 4 New from 14. ![]() Speilberg's story is rounded out by a star-studded cast, including Michelle Williams, Gabrielle LaBelle, Paul Dano, Julia Butters, David Lynch, and Judd Hirsch. Throughout the experience, Sammy learns that his parents are complex beings-while they come to understand that their son as more than just a little kid. An elite gun-for-hire is forced to lay low and not kill anyone for a year, but underworld figures start to threaten his newly calm and quiet life. Later on, Sammy gets his hands on a camera and begins making his own home videos, unexpectedly turning his family life into a breathtaking, multigenerational story. The touching drama follows a young boy named Sammy Fableman, who falls in love with filmmaking after his parents take him to see The Greatest Show on Earth. If you haven’t seen the film already, let me let you in on a little secret: The Fabelmans is very, very good. The Radical Traditionalism of Steven Spielberg Come and explore JFF Plus and join the Online Film Festival We invite you to the fascinating world of Japanese cinema, as we stream our selection of. It stops in Italian or international waters - never Libyan waters - and takes in migrants in need, sometimes for as long as two weeks, before they are sent to Italy.įadlalla said medics on the ship often use scars or bruises to piece together what happened to the migrants - a kaleidoscope of trauma used to compile accounts of human rights violations. ![]() The Geo Barents helps those lucky enough to flee, trawling the waters of the central Mediterranean near Italy and Libya in search of migrant boats. Attempts to escape can be a death sentence. Many migrants land in the hands of traffickers in Libya who demand hefty sums in exchange for their freedom. “We commonly see bullet wounds, burns, evidence of electrocution, lots of beatings.” “We see a lot of them with actual physical evidence of violence, injuries that cause long-term problems,” said MSF doctor Mohammed Fadlalla. Many stream to Libya from elsewhere in Africa, boarding precarious vessels to cross the Mediterranean toward Italy.ĪFP could not independently verify details of John’s account, but MSF doctors on the Geo Barents say many migrants arrive with chilling reminders of their time in Libya. More than 31,000 made the journey by sea last year, according to UN figures. John is one of the tens of thousands of migrants who attempt the dangerous and often deadly crossing from Libya to Italy every year. “There is no government in this country,” he said. John colors Libya in black to signify the pain he experienced during his time there. He like others has received medical care on board the ship, where migrants also spend time doing activities like the map coloring exercise. He eventually escaped, boarding a dinghy headed for Italy, from which he was rescued in April by the Geo Barents. “I was abducted from Al Kufra and sold to traffickers. ![]() He explained how he fled authoritarian Eritrea in 2018, crossing through Ethiopia and Sudan before arriving in the southeastern Libyan city of Al Kufra four years ago. “I was tied up, beaten, electrocuted,” said 25-year-old Eritrean refugee John, who gave only one name. Libya has been singled out as a dangerous country for migrants, and a UN report last year revealed “crimes against humanity” inflicted on the most vulnerable.įor some aboard the Geo Barents ship run by medical charity Doctors Without Borders, the dangers are all too familiar. Libya however, a common transit country from sub-Saharan Africa into Italy, is black.įor many of the migrants, the country evokes painful memories: Abuse, torture and trafficking. The countries are brightly colored in yellow, green, purple and red. TRIPOLI: On a medical ship off the Italian coast, rescued migrants are coloring in a map of Africa, where many started their perilous journeys toward Europe. Now save your wallpapers where ever you want on your computer and i didnt have to worry about the wallpaper changing back to default. If you can't find it on your OS X Install Drive then you can make one by typing Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ist I found this file in my Lion install drive. One basic solution for this is to save your wallpapers in the HDD where you've installed the MAC OS X.īut I didnt want to save all my wallpapers in Native Mountain Lion HDD, so i figured out my perfect fix.!! What happens is that when your OS X boots up it does not find the path to your wallpaper since the HDD you've saved your wallpapers in has not mounted yet. And, surprise, surprise, while doing that, Apple. MAC OS X Lion / Mountain Lion does not save your wallpaper on the native HDD, rather tries to load the wallpaper from the original HDD, i guess only the path to the wallpaper is saved in the OS X settings. Starting with macOS Mojave, Apple apparently started sandboxing the Desktop & Screen Saver Preferences Pane. The wallpaper you set was on another drive.Īnd this drive loads after your settings are loaded. I didn't update my Mac, and the only issue I experienced was that Safari crashed several times before my screensaver stopped working. I tried to locate it with the Finder user shortcut Command + Shift + H > Library > Screen Savers, but it was empty. ![]() Now I can get back to enjoying and using this long-overdue upgrade! So far the M1 architecture has been super fast and excellent.If your wallpaper changes back to default (Galaxy) after reboot or after logout it is because When I go to System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver, the default pictures are gone. Also, I would like to complain that Apple should document these settings on their developer pages. ![]() Hopefully, this helps someone somewhere if they run into this issue. ![]() Note `sudo` must be used to execute the above commands. Specifically, this file, where `.plist "AC Power" -dict-add "Display Sleep Timer" 0 One thing to always remember is to shut off or restart your computer and this will reset your system and will normally take care of any glitches. I noticed there was a second `ist` in the `/Library/Preferences/` directory. Go to System Preferences then Desktop and Screensaver There is where you make changes to your ScreenSaver If that doesn't work click on Displays and see if you can make changes there. Also knowing that all the global settings I made in the GUI should be stored in the Power Management plist file listed below. Knowing that VNC seems to be using it's own set rules for power management and screensaver settings. It just gets stuck and all I can do is either reboot the computer via SSH, force power it down, or stare at the screensaver. ![]() Also, TightVNC cannot seem to wakeup or nudge the computer out of the screensaver. This project provides an easy way to configure an OSX machine with OpsCode's chef-solo and the soloist gem. When connecting to the MacMini via TightVNC the screensaver will turn on after some amount of time even tho have it set to "never" turn on for my user account. 3 Answers Sorted by: 1 +150 If you're looking for a way to set this for a newly provisioned OSX machine, you can use Pivotal Labs' pivotalworkstation::setscreensaverpreferences recipe included in the sprout-wrap project. When I need to connect to the graphical environment I am using TightVNC from Windows 10. In my current workflow, I am using the MacMini as a "headless" computer with no monitor attached. I just purchased an M1 MacMini to dive into iOS/macOS development. ![]() ![]() Hopefully they should work with Sparrow and AppleMail (The 2 email clients I have access to!) without issue. Take a look at the Nozbe help for a full list of commands you can use in email which also apply to Alfred. The ! at the ends make the task a starred ‘Next Action’ You can assign tasks with Dates, projects and contexts with Alfred as follows. Launch Alfred using your key stroke and type ‘nozbe Test Task’Ĭheck your Nozbe inbox, you should have a new task called ‘Test Task’ if not, check the Nickname and PIN in the script. Change the script where it says – Enter your own NozbeNickname and PIN.Launch the script and it will show up in Alfred.Download the version of the script applicable to you, dependent on your Mac email client Sparrow or AppleMail.Make a note of it as you will need to add the address into the script. Setup a Nozbe Nickname and PIN from within the Nozbe Webapp settings.You have Alfred installed and running right?.Handy when your in the flow in Word or Excel! Setup Instructions. This workflow is not only super fast, you dont have to switch to the Nozbe app or Website. A few seconds later the task appears within Nozbe. Add contexts, project and due date if I want (or just get the task out of your head to be processed later) and press enter. I launch Alfred with my keystroke, type ‘nozbe’ then the task. If your not online the email should be stored in your outbox awaiting to be sent the next time you connect your email client. No need to use the mouse to enter any task! The Alfred Nozbe scritps I’ve created (AppleMail and Sparrow versions) use this email feature also to send tasks quickly to Nozbe with only a few key strokes. ![]() It’s great for getting email tasks out of your inbox and into Nozbe. Once in Nozbe the task is parsed and placed into your inbox (or project if you specify one). Nozbe has a great feature of allowing you to email tasks direct to the website. If you’ve not heard of Alfred before head over to and download it as it’s a great time saver. Have you ever wanted to enter a task quickly into Nozbe? Just get the thought out of your head and into Nozbe with the least ammount of friction? Me too!Īlfred, my application launcher of choice allows you to launch apps and scripts with a few keystrokes. ![]() ![]() There are also only about six of them, so it gets repetitive fast. Well, maybe they are good, but there is no effort put into making them sound good. The problem with these songs is, frankly, they’re not very good. ![]() There’s even one that doesn’t unlock until after you finish the main questline. Naturally, there is a ballad about the Dragonborn, and there’s “Ragnar the Red,” a fairly generic myth of Skyrim song. There’s both a pro-Stormcloak and pro-Imperial song, which provides important context for one of the major conflicts in the game. The bard songs in Skyrim do tell you a little bit about the world and history of Skyrim. Walk into any bar in Skyrim and you’ll find one, you can even hire one to work at your houses in the Hearthstone expansion, and there’s even a large bardic college. For maybe the first couple of hours of playing Skyrim, this is pretty novel. But the bard in the modern fantasy video game usually isn’t that interesting, though many franchises have put their own personal spin on it.īards are pretty much everywhere in Skyrim, for example, and it’s one of the first RPGs I’ve played where the bards actually sang songs and didn’t just play generic lute music. A bard can literally insult an enemy to death, for example. In D&D itself, where combat is less of a focus than in modern video games, this can get pretty interesting. Since pretty much every modern fantasy RPG is based off of Dungeons & Dragons, where bards are considered their own unique class, the bard is now found in most fantasy games as a rogue class, usually with stat buff abilities. In the real world (particularly in the British Isles), bards were poets and storytellers, many of whom were funded by the nobility to practice their art. The bard has a long and storied history as part of the fantasy RPG tradition, but rarely do they actually serve the purpose that real bards ever did. It’s a huge missed opportunity in my opinion, but a few recent games have attempted it to varying degrees of success, most particularly Skyrim and Dragon Age: Inquisition. Even fantasy RPGs, where the bard is literally a combat class a large proportion of the time, rarely have original music with lyrics. Noire was surprisingly good at this, so many of the songs on the radio in that game are very catchy happy sounding songs about murder), but it’s a rare event when fully lyrical original songs to make their way into a game world. The best of the latter curate their playlists carefully to make sure that they fit the theme of the game ( L.A. Music is a major part of any video game, but confines itself to either sweeping orchestral harmonies that accompany you on your grand video game journeys, electronic music, and occasionally the hits of days gone by (like the radio in Fallout) or random pop or rock hits. |