![]() ![]() Listening simultaneously with other activities can be a way of making use of time already occupied, such as on commutes ( Have and Stougaard Pedersen, 2016). Therefore, well-established everyday routines such as household chores, exercise and leisure activities can be combined with audiobooks. Unlike many other technologies, the smartphone is not bound to a particular place or time and can be used virtually anywhere and at any time. ![]() Audiobook use may offer a different level of mobility, compared to traditional reading practices which may be more stationary ( Tattersall Wallin and Nolin, 2020 Tattersall Wallin, 2021). Now, audiobooks are used with devices like smartphones and headphones (or earbuds) and are available in conjunction with an array of other activities, at various times and places. Audiobook technology has been continuously developed over the century ( Colbjørnsen, 2015). Similarly, a different format, such as audiobooks or e-books, can work better in some contexts ( Kampen Kristensen, 2019). Choosing a different type of text, such as comics instead of books, can make reading possible in busy lives ( Cedeira Serantes, 2016). However, a lack of time may impact how, when and if leisure reading is carried out. Just like watching films or listening to music, book reading can be quality time for some as it offers a break from busy lives and the chance to concentrate continuously on something disconnected from everyday work ( Pentzold et al., 2020). ![]() In lives experienced as harried, finding time for recreation and relaxation is often talked of as quality time ( Pentzold et al., 2020). Young people exceed the national average, with 31% of people aged 15–19 having access to an audiobook subscription service ( Nordicom, 2021). Use of various streaming and subscription services is widespread, and 70% of Swedish households have access to streaming services for music and film and 21% have a subscription service for audiobooks and e-books ( Nordicom, 2021). Furthermore, several of the internationally active audiobook subscription services are Swedish. Access to Internet connection and use of Internet services and digital technology is very high among the Swedish population, and along with its Nordic neighbours the country has one of the more advanced digital economies of the EU ( European Commission, 2020). The most common way of accessing audiobooks are subscription services for digital books, but they can also be downloaded from libraries and online bookshops ( Wallin et al., 2021). Young adults are some of the most avid readers of audiobooks, together with people aged 30–49 ( Wallin et al., 2021). In Sweden, where this study is set, there has been an increase in audiobook use amongst young adults aged 16–29. Audiobooks have been rising in popularity in recent years and are becoming part of everyday routines for many people ( Have and Stougaard Pedersen, 2020 Tattersall Wallin and Nolin, 2020). ![]() This article explores everyday audiobook reading practices amongst young adults. The full terms of this licence may be seen at Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Copyright © 2021, Elisa Tattersall Wallin License ![]()
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![]() ![]() In December 2009, a beta version of VVVVVV which had been given to donors was leaked on 4chan. ![]() The game was first shown publicly at the 2009 Eurogamer Expo, which gave Cavanagh the opportunity to collect feedback from players. Cavanagh wrote that VVVVVV, unlike some of his previous work such as Judith and Pathways, would not be a "storytelling experiment", but rather "focused on the level design". The game had been in development for two weeks, and Cavanagh estimated that the game would be finished in another two, "but hopefully not much longer." A follow-up post published in July 2009 included screenshots of the game and an explanation of the game's gravity-flipping mechanic. Ĭavanagh first unveiled VVVVVV on his blog in June 2009. In an interview with, Cavanagh said that he was interested in using this idea as a core concept of a game, something he felt other games which include a gravity-flipping mechanism had never done before. The gravity-flipping mechanic of VVVVVV is based on an earlier game designed by Cavanagh titled Sine Wave Ninja. The player's goal, as Captain Viridian, is to rescue the missing crew members and find the cause of the dimensional interference. Upon returning to the ship, the Captain learns that the ship is trapped in an alternative dimension (referred to as Dimension VVVVVV), and that the ship's crew has been scattered throughout this dimension. The crew escapes through a teleporter on the ship however, Captain Viridian becomes separated from the rest of the crew on the other end of the teleporter. The player controls Captain Viridian, who at the outset of VVVVVV must evacuate the spaceship along with the captain's crew, when the ship becomes affected by "dimensional interference". Due to its high level of difficulty, the game world contains many checkpoints, to which the player's character is reset upon death. These are situated inside a large open world for the player to explore, spanning more than 400 individual rooms. VVVVVV contains eight main levels, including an intro level, four levels which can be accessed in a non-linear sequence, two intermission levels, and one final level, only seen outside Dimension VVVVVV (in a "polar dimension"). Later areas introduce new mechanics such as moving floors or rooms which, upon touching one edge of the screen, cause the player character to appear on the other side. The player uses this mechanic to traverse the game's environment and avoid various hazards, including stationary spikes and moving enemies. This feature was first seen in the 1986 8-bit game Terminus. Unlike most platforming games, in VVVVVV the player is not able to jump, but instead can reverse the direction of gravity when standing on a surface, causing Captain Viridian to fall either upwards or downwards. The "C" icon to the left of the spike pit is a checkpoint, which the player is returned to upon dying. In this room, Captain Viridian must avoid the red spikes and green ghost. ![]() ![]() Make a backupīefore installing any upgrade, it’s a good idea to back up your Mac. If your Mac isn't compatible with macOS Mojave, the installer will let you know. ![]() To find your Mac model, memory, storage space, and macOS version, choose About This Mac from the Apple menu . Mac Pro introduced in 2013, plus mid-2010 or mid-2012 models with a recommended Metal-capable graphics card. Your Mac also needs at least 2GB of memory and 12.5GB of available storage space, or up to 18.5GB of storage space when upgrading from OS X Yosemite or earlier. You can upgrade to macOS Mojave from OS X Mountain Lion or later on any of the following Mac models. (Kinda like Cool Edit Pro for the Mac - if you are that old school). Shameless self promotion: Have you tried Vector yet? Vector is an audio editor for OS X that is designed to fit into the space between simple audio apps and full blown studio production tools. If you encounter any problems please contact Soundflower’s developer! You can find their project page here: We just built a version you can install on macOS 10.11 and 10.12. Please note that we can’t offer direct support for Soundflower. ![]() Even though not required you probably should restart your Mac to make sure everything got installed properly. Here is the direct download link: soundflower_2.0b2.zip.ĭownload the zip and run the contained installer. That’s why we have built a signed version of Soundflower which will work on OS X 10.10, 10.11 and the new macOS 10.12 Sierra. Sadly the officially available version of Soundflower isn’t signed because it’s an open source project and - as far as we know - no one has volunteered to do the work and pay the $99 fee to obtain a signing certificate. ![]() Go to system preferences -> Privacy & Security -> Privacy -> Microphone -> īecause we’re getting this asked a lot: Here’s how you get Soundflower to work with macOS 10.12 Sierra and OS X 10.10 and 10.11…Īs you know, since 10.10, OS X requires kernel extensions to be signed. IMPORTANT: If you can’t record from Soundflower under Mojave (the device is there but only silence is being recorded) make sure that you have given microphone access permissions to your recording app! macOS treats Soundflower like a microphone in this regard. This time it will run through without any problems.Ĭlick on the Allow button and run the installer again. Remote desktop connections or even local software tools like “Better Touch Tool” won’t work!) (This has to be a physical hardware click. Click on the “Allow” button next to “MATT INGALS”.Open the System Preferences and go to the “Security & Privacy” settings.The installer will tell you that it failed.Download the installer: soundflower_2.0b2.zip. ![]() MacOS 10.13 High Sierra and macOS 10.14 Mojave Soundflower Install Download the installer package to Mac Download the signed version of Soundflower on github for Mac OS Mojave (10.14) and earlier from this link. Like the Soundflower, this software will also be installed as a system extension on Mac. Mojave was announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 4, 2018, and was released to the public on September 24, 2018. MacOS Mojave (/ m oʊ ˈ h ɑː v i, m ə-/ mo-HAH-vee) (version 10.14) is the fifteenth major release of macOS, Apple Inc.' S desktop operating system for Macintosh computers. So the Soundflower installer will error out on macOS High Sierra and Mojave. Installing Soundflower on modern macOS versions can be a little complicated as kernel extensions need now to be given permissions before being loaded for the first time. Welcome to our Soundflower installation guide. ![]() ![]() ![]() Turns out this is no mere wookiee, but a Jedi. ![]() Unsurprisingly, the deal goes wrong when Omega hears a wookiee whimper, and she decides to help set him free, which starts a fight with the droids. If Lucasfilm wants to do something completely different, why not give us a show about a band of droid smugglers who kill and trade in organics but actually treat other droids with respect? After the riot-racing episode gave us the biggest droid jerk we’ve ever seen, this episode makes me want a whole spinoff about the Vanguard Axis. “Tribe” starts with the Batch doing a trade with the Vanguard Axis clan, a group of all-droid pirates and smugglers. Unfortunately, it also makes it kind of frustrating. ![]() And that is what makes this episode of The Bad Batch crucial to showing why this show is worth watching. The thing is, these all focused on the perspective of the Jedi themselves, showing them in hiding or being persecuted. Still, this current season is definitely better and more focused than the first, and it is offering some small but significant variations on stories we’ve seen before, focusing on a new perspective that makes this world feel more lived-in.Ĭase in point? Other Star Wars titles have dealt with Jedi survivors of Order 66 before, including Obi-Wan Kenobi, Rebels, and even Jedi: Fallen Order. The Bad Batch may be set in a dark, complicated time period, but it hasn’t reached the complexity of those two shows. We all know how great the Siege of Mandalore arc of the final season of The Clone Wars was and how emotional the ending of Rebels was. This makes comparing a new show to the old ones a very foolish endeavor because people tend to remember where the cartoons ended, not where they started. They tend to start out a bit tame and lighthearted, slowly but surely growing until they reach a thrilling and mature finale. Animated Star Wars shows always escalate slowly. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many Fed officials had been hoping to keep their policies very accommodative as those people came back.īut inflation is forcing policymakers to balance their job market ambitions with their goal of keeping price gains under control. ![]() Some of those people may have retired, but others are expected to return to the job search once health concerns and pandemic-related child-care problems become less pronounced. The unemployment rate has dropped sharply, falling to 4.2 percent in November and improving faster than Fed officials or most economist expected.Įven so, about four million jobs are still missing compared to before the pandemic. Progress on the second goal has also been notable in recent months. ![]() The Fed has two key jobs: keeping prices stable and fostering maximum employment. “They’re realizing that they need to stop pouring gasoline on the fire,” said Gennadiy Goldberg, a rates strategist at T.D. Policymakers have increasingly questioned the wisdom of adding juice to the economy with each passing month. The gains are broadening beyond pandemic-sensitive goods and into rent and some services, and both wages and inflation expectations are picking up. But gradualism has given way to wariness in recent weeks, partly thanks to a new series of data points showing that inflation is still high and might stay elevated for some time.Ĭentral bankers knew that prices would climb quickly in early 2021 as the economy recovered from the depths of the pandemic, but the increases have been strikingly broad-based and long-lasting. The Fed spent much of 2021 tiptoeing away from full-blast economic support, hoping to remove stimulus gradually enough that the job market would heal fully and quickly. The Fed chair is expected to further explain during a post-meeting news conference on Wednesday how he is thinking about the central bank’s policy stance as it confronts rapid inflation and an uncertain economic path at a time when the virus shows no signs of abating and a new variant, Omicron, complicates the outlook. Lifting the federal funds rate is arguably the Fed’s most powerful tool for pushing back on inflation, because it would slow demand and economic growth by percolating through the rest of the economy, lifting borrowing costs on mortgages, business loans and auto debt. When they last released the projections in September, officials were split on whether they would raise rates at all in 2022. Policymakers will also provide their latest thinking on the path for interest rates in their updated quarterly economic projections, and could pencil in two or three increases next year. Given inflation and growth trends, Fed officials signaled clearly that they would discuss withdrawing support more quickly at this gathering, and economists think officials will signal a plan to taper off bond purchases so that the buying will stop altogether in March. In the weeks since the Fed’s last meeting, fresh data has showed that consumer prices are climbing at the fastest pace in nearly 40 years and the unemployment rate has fallen to 4.2 percent, far below its pandemic peak. Officials took their first step toward weaning the economy off the central bank’s support in November, when they said they would begin to slow a large-scale bond buying program that had been in place since early in the pandemic to keep money flowing around markets and support the economy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hammer had been building on his work by writing for HBR, on average, every three years. Michael Hammer! I quickly made my pitch above the engine’s roar and before the trip ended, I had landed a chance to work with the master guru of process. One evening, as we hurtled around in an auto-rickshaw–the three-wheeled vehicle everyone in the city uses–I saw my boss looking at his Blackberry and saying something about a new proposal from Hammer. Twelve years later, I was in Delhi but visiting from Boston, where I now worked for Harvard Business Review. Hammer quickly became a local legend although like all prophets, he drew as much criticism as praise in his homeland. India’s economy was then opening up to foreign competition, and CEO after CEO in the mid-1990s extolled the virtues of business process reengineering. Importantly, they were among the first to predict that instead of control and efficiency, every business process–such as the sequence of steps from accepting an order to fulfilling it–would have to focus on innovation and speed in the future. ![]() Companies should redefine the way they do things instead of using computers to replicate inefficient processes, argued Hammer and co-author James Champy, who now heads Perot Systems’ consulting practice. I needn’t have worried, though the first book co-authored by Michael Hammer–who passed away in Boston on September 4, 2008–lived up to the hype. Its title, Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution, left me cold initially I had OD-ed on the word revolution for too long. In December 1993, a book smelling like new arrived at my worktable in Delhi, India. ![]() ![]() I chose a red/brown color that represented the Rocinante’s panels and also the bloodshed from conflict. To maintain consistency, this cover also kept to a similar concept: 2 central figures in vector art, (hand-drawn) highlights in the accent color, and some background elements that would represent some of the motion and action happening in this scene. I instead included the gunship Rocinante to have a dynamic between the two figures. While my classmates mentioned that the hybrid wasn’t too creepy, I decided to not have it up front and center as it was difficult to get the detail right on it. Again there are the orbital mirrors over Ganymede which I decided to replace with the gunship Rocinante.įor Caliban’s War, I knew I wanted to feature Protomolecule hybrid warrior (“Project Caliban”) that was engineered by a corporation at the heart of war-sparking conspiracy. For her hair, I used a Surface Pen to make shorter work of getting lines in place different clumps, then joined them together make a contiguous shape. I decided to keep to the reference’s style of a two-tone figure, with the “brightened” portion of the body a different color, so I adapted the isolated portion with some modification. While I initially wanted to experiment with sentence casing for the title, I eventually kept to a bold all caps to respect the hierarchy and maintain a consistent feel.Īs for the central figure, I used the poster as a reference image to start drawing out Julie Mao with the Pen tool. The type used is D-DIN and D-DIN Expanded, which is close to the FF-DIN used in the show’s title cards. I decided to keep the textual information simple so that I could focus on the central artwork. I first fixed the layout of the poster in Adobe Illustrator with the necessary text for the book’s title. ![]() The potato on the side was supposed to be Eros station, which I later decided not to include. Light spoilers for The Expanse books and TV series follows. It explores what happens when powers and corporations try to exploit a mysterious new force that no one understands, and how inequality brings about strength and determination. I am also a follower of the series and it is quite something - a strong sci-fi opera with a realistically built world rooted in physics and social dynamics. ![]() Adapted into an online TV series in 2015 on Syfy then Amazon Prime Video, the books and show have gained a strong following and is now in its 3rd season with a 4th in production. Corey chronicles the appearance of an alien substance known as the Protomolecule in this new world, and how it changes the dynamics between the planetary nations of Earth, Mars and the Belt. The Expanse universe created by James S.A. However, a mystery lies beyond the stars and threatens to change everything. ![]() Humanity has colonized the solar system: the Moon, Mars and the Asteroid Belt and beyond. Coreyġ2" x 8.6" Book Covers, 60lbs paper Print/Illustration 2019 Individual Project Rong Kang, Chewįeaturing graphic elements from The Expanse TV Show, and a continuous evolution of the Protomolecule on the spine. Leviathan Wakes, Caliban’s War, Abaddon’s Gate Books by James S.A. Apologies for the out-of-focus photos, there are better close-ups in the rest of this post. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not only does it act as a fat burner, but most importantly, it will help the body tackle the more stubborn areas around the hips and the midsection. The One Shot Keto formula contains exogenous ketones (including BHB) that will support the body and help it enter ketosis faster. 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