To speculate is to guess what could be based on what you know. Most writers-particularly mystery writers-get speculation. Projection is the dynamic pair of Speculation, and therefore generates the most amount of conflict for that Element. The highest most dynamic amount of friction for an Element of narratives lies diagonally across from it. Disbelief sits across from Faith, and Logic challenges Feeling. In the current Dramatica model, diagonal relationships infer the most significant conflict. The narrative Element of Projection is another one, made even more disorienting with its relationship to Speculation. Induction? Reduction? How do you even begin to write a story about Production? ![]() Another part is understanding terminology assumed incompatible with storytelling. Part of this abandonment is fear of unraveling significant preconceptions of ability and more in-depth investigation into self. They intuit some truth to it, try it out for a couple of weeks, then ditch the theory wholesale claiming it arcane. Many writers abandon Dramatica altogether. Understanding the Opposite of Speculation Have you ever heard of someone throwing-up because they couldn’t tell a lie? Or could it be that Johnson found himself inspired by the quad of Elements under Falsehood in the Dramatica Table of Story Elements?Ĭue Benoit Blanc. This “flaw” comes out of left field-it's so cartoonish that one speculates as to the source of this idea. Telling a lie results in a gut physical reaction resulting in projectile vomiting. She is honest, sincere, and would do anything to help those she loves-as long as it doesn’t involve lying. ![]() Marta Cabrera (Ana de Armas) is a nice person. Insinuates that someone driven to suppress the truth (Falsehood) for fear of speculation will end up using PROJECTION to resolve her issues. One wonders if this process includes a gander at the Dramatica theory of story because this: Quad He prefers to write from an outline-the blueprint of the whole, keeping him from getting lost in the weeds. ![]() In an interview with ArcLight Cinemas, Knives Out writer/director Rian Johnson admits to structuring the film from the get-go.
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![]() Functional connectivity abnormalities were observed in participants, including reduced engagement in task-related brain regions and apparent difficulties in regulating default mode brain areas that appeared to reverse following CBT-I treatment. CBT-I administration varied in treatment length and duration across the studies, as did neuroimaging assessment, which included task-based and resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Nine studies met current review selection criteria, of which six studies compared insomnia groups with good sleepers, waitlist, and/or control groups. This systematic literature review aimed to evaluate a growing body of exploratory studies that have examined CBT-I treatment effects using neuroimaging assessment. N2 - Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) is the gold-standard non-pharmacological treatment for insomnia, a complex disorder that comprises psychological, behavioral, and physiological components. T1 - Neuroimaging Correlates of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I): A Systematic Literature Review Taken together, the neuroimaging results complement behavioral measures of treatment efficacy, indicating support for the effectiveness of CBT-I treatment in the recovery of brain function and structure.", ![]() ![]() Taken together, the neuroimaging results complement behavioral measures of treatment efficacy, indicating support for the effectiveness of CBT-I treatment in the recovery of brain function and structure.Ībstract = "Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) is the gold-standard non-pharmacological treatment for insomnia, a complex disorder that comprises psychological, behavioral, and physiological components. ![]() This study contributes to the growing body of literature supporting Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia as an evidenced based treatment option for veterans experiencing insomnia through a dissemination of the findings, strengths, limitations, and implications for future research.Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) is the gold-standard non-pharmacological treatment for insomnia, a complex disorder that comprises psychological, behavioral, and physiological components. Studies included in this systematic review produced these findings: improvements in sleep quality, sleep efficiency, sleep onset latency, total sleep time, a reduction in depressive and insomnia symptoms, increased normalization of sleep, and a reduction in dysfunctional beliefs about sleep. This framework was utilized to explore Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as an effective means of treating veterans experiencing insomnia. The Behavioral Model of Insomnia was used as the conceptual framework for this review. Using the sociology research database SocINDEX nine studies examining the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a treatment option for insomnia and insomnia related symptoms met criteria for the review. In this systematic literature review, research regarding veterans experiencing insomnia and the utilization of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia as an effective treatment modality were synthesized. The unconventional conversations of literature and haircuts, showered with life counselling sessions encapsulates the complexities of what it is to be human – it’s all nothing, but it’s all very real and very relevant as we search for a greater outcome. Meanwhile, Frank distinctly descends deeper and deeper into alcohol-fuelled despair, landing ironically in the seat in front of the ‘student’ desk. However, as she develops, both academically and socially, she finds a firmer position in no other than Frank’s desk chair. Initially, Director Max Roberts has Rita migrating around the room with no real place. Indeed, the brazen, uneducated Rita uses the set fantastically. The large bookcases topped with overfilled files, the dominant wooden desk, and a less spectacular ‘student’ desk sit as the perfect foundation for cultivating the very complex relationship between the characters. This room is, for those who don’t know, Frank’s university office – a room which set designer, Patrick Connellan, has saturated with academia. Two actors conversing about literature and life in just one room. The power of this play comes from its simplicity. Perhaps that is why her performance of Rita is so raw – not only is she a comic genius, but Johnson is able to capture that ambition Rita feeds off. It gave me permission to aspire, to have the option of a different way of life. Talking from her own experience with the play, Johnson said that Rita continually refers to education as the tool she needs to be free, yet what she does not realise, and what Johnson projects so well, is the innate free spirit that lets her speak without thinking and move so naturally in any given space. Rita’s frantic, uneasiness is expressed through her inability to sit still for long, perching rather than sitting on her seat, bouncing across the stage with each new train of thought. From the minute she enters the stage, she steals the audiences’ attention (and Frank’s). ![]() Anyone can act, but not everyone can create the depth of psychological pain which Tompkinson achieves.Īs for Jessica Johnson, well, she is an eccentric burst of energy. Not only did Tompkinson project a fantastic – for lack of a better word – drunk, but the layers in which Frank’s drunken state is attempting to cover his desperation and inadequacy comes through. What was most remarkable about Tompkinson’s performance for me was the scene nearing the end of the first Act. For Tompkinson, the play isĪ universal story of two lost souls, mismatched people in terms of character and background who meet at the right time to help each other in life. In the words of Frank himself, life is ‘a rich and frantic whirl’, and Tompkinson is able to grapple with both the riches of academia and the frantic reality of despair in his performance. His ability to switch between the authoritative, arrogant, academic to the desperate, vulnerable, drunk is encapsulating. Unsurprisingly, Tompkinson is extraordinary. ![]() Television star, Stephen Tompkinson, plays the role of the uninspired, alcoholic lecturer, Frank. Instead, it remains true to its roots of the 1980s – yet the hunger of its characters for something better in life is timeless. However, the play has not been modernised. This much-loved play has been reintroduced into the modern stage by producers David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers and Theatre by the Lake. He also finds there is a lot to learn from Rita, and as the play progresses, the line between the student/teacher role is blurred. However, it soon becomes clear that it is not just Rita who can learn from Frank. His only real passion lies in a bottle of hard liquor, and therefore, when the bold, excitable Rita bursts into his life, he is very much unenthusiastic. Her tutor, Frank, is a frustrated poet, disappointed with life and all the inadequacies it appears to provide. ![]() Willy Russell’s script tells the story of a working-class woman, Susan ‘Rita’ White, in her late twenties who enters the Open University in hope to feed her soul and change her life for the better. 5 Stars – an unmissable revival of a masterpiece ![]() A table of three games: one PS3 game, one PSN game, and one more recent PS4 game that display not only the difference in price over each time period, but the difference between games from different platforms as well. In the images below you can see how it used to work. That option was later ditched, so it's the subscription fee or nothing. In the beginning, there was the option to rent games as needed from the PlayStation Now store, rather than pay a monthly subscription fee. What's most notable about this, though, isn't just the saving, but how it drags down the price to match Microsoft's competing Xbox Games Pass service, which costs $9.99/£7.99 per month. For US gamers, that's a half-price difference, while UK players would have still been saving a neat £48 over the course of the year. Knowing full well that prices and dollar signs are what sinks ships, pricing is one area that Sony has given special attention to over the last year of PlayStation Now's existence. PlayStation Now could offer the biggest and best games from the company's 20-year foray into game consoles, but if the pricing isn't right, none of it will matter. ![]() Unlike Xbox Game Pass, it doesn't offer the latest AAA games, but it does offer a convenient way to access a library of old titles that are either hard to get hold of, or just a way to test titles without a market-price barrier. That offering has certainly improved over time: just like Sony's PlayStation Plus subscription, which offers a handful of free games for download each month, PS Now treads the line between desirable games and those that are just about going out of fashion. But the variety offered here should be enough to please a diverse set of tastes. I don't know anyone lining up to play Heavy Fire: Shattered Spear or Jimmie Johnson's Anything with Wheels, and while I'm sure someone really enjoys Wheel of Fortune and Frogger HD, it's not me. Sadly, not every game is worthwhile: some of the hundreds of games are clearance pile fodder, and have been for the past few years. In addition, PlayStation Now offered PC players the chance to play Bloodborne for the first time – as the title has always been a PlayStation exclusive. Of course, you won't be able to download it to your PC, but can stream it via the cloud. ![]() Not to mention the Batman Arkham trilogy, Until Dawn, Borderlands, Bioshock: Infinite, and Ultra Street Fighter IV. Games like Saints Row 3, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, Darksiders and Catherine are all up for grabs, while Sony provides a few platform exclusives, like Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and Ratchet and Clank, that are excellent as well. At last count, PlayStation Now had more than 800 games available to stream, and many of them – PS4 and PS2 titles – are available to download. They range in value and prestige from some of the must-play games of the last generation, like The Last of Us, to small indie darlings, to some completely forgettable, bargain bin fodder.īut the decent titles are worth the price of entry, though it's worth bearing in mind they tend to change every few months. ![]() When Inslee signed these three new pieces of gun control legislation last week, including the 10-day waiting period for gun purchases in Washington state, there was a ban on the sale of military style assault weapons like the AR-15, and the third piece of legislation made it easier for the state to sue gun manufacturers and dealers if the weapons are used in a crime. ![]() And there are other issues: fighting the Trump administration, abortion, gun control, a number of things. And then this year, the death penalty was abolished. There's a lot of stuff on this list, his moratorium on the death penalty, back in 2014. And it's been his passion for many, many years. And remember, climate change was also his signature issue when he ran for president in 2020. We're supposed to be 100% clean power by 2045, thanks to the Clean Energy Transformation Act. And there are a number of significant accomplishments here in Washington state. He puts climate legislation right at the top of this list in the statement that we read. Are there any that stand out in terms of what he's been able to do in office? ![]() Inslee's statement today included a long list of accomplishments that his administration is proud to have achieved. RELATED: Read the breaking news story on Inslee's announcement, which includes his statement. In his statement, he says that he's ready to "Pass the Torch." And of course, we have a couple of prominent Democrats thinking about running in 2024. People in a position to know told me they would be shocked if the governor decided to run again. 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Curved World 2020 (and pre-2020 version).Texture Ramp Tool: easily create ramp textures and see the changes in real-time on your materials.Smoothed Normal Tool: fixes broken hard-edge outlines.Terrain Shaders: generate your own terrain-compatible shaders customizable with effects like triplanar mapping or non-repeating tiling algorithm.Water Shaders: generate your own stylized water shader with depth-based effects, reflections, and more Toony Colors Pro 2 - stylized shaders suite for Unity.PBS Version of the Shaders supporting Metallic and Specular workflows.Hybrid Shader working with both the Built-in and Universal Render Pipelines automatically Toony Colors Pro 2 is a collection of stylized shaders and tools, with an emphasis on ease of use for beginners, yet deeply customizable for intermediate to expert users.As of version 2.2, there are two main workflows to choose from: Physically-Based Shaders based on Unity's Standard shader. 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Inkscape is a vector design program that has a lot of versatility and best of all it is FREE! It is a completely open-source program put together by a group of volunteers. I will only touch on the useful tools that apply to adjusting patterns for projecting. Let’s dig into some of the advantages of Inkscape as a sewing application. While vectors are what you will mostly be using for sewing, Affinity can go beyond the basic pattern into items such as digital mockups easily. This means it is a vector-graphics program with a built-in photo editor. It can manage both vector and raster images. What is Affinity Designer?Īffinity Designer is a commercial graphics editing program developed by Serif. Sewing patterns are considered vector graphics, which makes Inkscape a great option for digitally editing sewing patterns. It is also a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy, a US 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. This is often referred to as “The Inkscape Project”. Inkscape is built by many contributors and volunteers that help code and develop the software. It is a no-cost alternative to Adobe Illustrator. Inkscape was designed as a free and Open-Source vector graphics editor. Mentorship is emphasized from top to bottom, and consequently there is an open feedback environment. An internal seminar series allows for individuals to learn about broader healthcare topics in a collaborative and engaging fashion. ![]() Long-term training provides the staff with opportunities to increase professional presence and poise, preparing individuals for success within and beyond ClearView. New hires experience a 6-week case-based training program that provides every employee with the foundational skills to succeed in the business environment. The company prides itself on providing clients not just inventive solutions, but practical ones-strategies that won't fall apart in the face of clinical and commercial realities.ĬlearView emphasizes professional development and leadership training as part of their offering to all employees. ![]() In addition to the smarts of staff members, ClearView also draws from a network of physicians, insurance providers, regulatory experts, patient advocacy groups, and other experts for feedback on ideas and when necessary, reality checks. But background isn't everything-new employees are hired as much for their communication and problem solving skills as they are for their field experience. 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