![]() The Exclusive Edition will retail at $52.99, available for pre-order now, and will serve as a great collectors bundle for fans. The release will also come with the option to upgrade to an Exclusive Edition, featuring a region free physical copy of the game, the aforementioned art cards, in addition to a giant foldout poster and reversible cover sheet. Iam8bit is offering fans of the upcoming title the chance to receive a PS5 physical edition of the game, which will be accompanied by 6 collectible art cards illustrated with artwork by Emmy winner Elaine Lee. The Pathless launched for PS4 and PS5 back in 2020, and sits with a very respectable rating of 4.03/5 on TrueTrophies, where it also has an estimated completion time of around 12 to 15 hours. Iam8bit is also releasing The Pathless score on vinyl for 39.99. Related: Yes, You Can Pet The Eagle In The Pathless The Exclusive Edition will retail at 52.99, available for pre-order now, and will serve as a great collectors bundle for fans. The merchandise is due to release on December 8, with some extra goodies included in the physical editions. The first Judgment is 20 at Best Buy and Gamestop right now. In collaboration with Annapurna Interactive and developer Giant Squid, iam8bit announced that the game’s two physical releases and the vinyl soundtrack are both available for pre-order. Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (34.99), The Pathless (23.99), Chernobylite (23.99). ![]() Merchandise company iam8bit has also revealed its plans to release two physical editions of the action-adventure, as well as a vinyl soundtrack. ![]() From the creators of ABZ, The Pathless is the mythic adventure of an archer and an eagle in a vast forest. The Pcworld Shop is bringing you great deals on lots of Skybound Games Media Viewing Software including The Pathless - PlayStation 5 (Skybound Games), Pre-Owned - GameStop. Giant Squid’s upcoming game The Pathless has recently been announced as a PS5 launch title. Download the PS4 version of this game at no extra cost when you buy the digital PS5 version from PlayStationStore.
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![]() So how do you do that? What makes a song idea great? That way, whether you start working on the music or the lyrics first, you help make sure that every part of your song fits together as one piece. When it comes to figuring out how to write a song, there’s one question that comes up over and over again – should you write the music or the lyrics first? And the answer is that nine times out of ten, the best place to start is with an idea. Part 6: Create a Verse Masterplan and Write the First Verse Lyric Part 7: Write the Verse Melody and Create a Verse Build Part 8: Write the Second Verse Lyric Part 9: Add a Bridge Part 10: Add an Intro and Outro Part 1: Find a Great Song Idea Part 2: Choose a Lyrical Hook (Title) Part 3: Write the Chorus Lyric Part 4: Write the Chorus Chord Progression, Melody and Groove Part 5: Write the Verse Chords and Groove Here’s How to Write a Song (Even If You’ve Never Written One Before and You Think You Suck). So if in doubt, just remember that in songwriting – or any kind of writing – to suck less, write more. But the only way to get better is to write – to get plenty of practice. Oh, and if the title got you wondering – no, you don’t suck. It’s a simple and reliable process that will help you write a song in virtually any genre time after time, whatever level of experience you’re at.Īnd best of all, all you need to continue is some basic experience on an instrument like piano or guitar, or with a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) like GarageBand, Ableton or Logic. In fact, the ten-step process in this article is based on the process in my book How to Write a Song (Even If You’ve Never Written One Before and You Think You Suck). Still, in this article I’m going to focus on one powerful and reliable way to write a song – and one that you can use even if you’re completely new to songwriting. In fact there’s a pretty much infinite number of great ways to write a song. How do you write a song? It’s a good question.Īnd like a lot of good questions, there isn’t a single, simple answer. You can also explore this process in even more detail in my new How to Write a Song Video Course. This is article is based on my book How to Write a Song (Even If You’ve Never Written One Before and You Think You Suck). ![]() Microsoft is working on replacing its Windows 10 Mail and Calendar apps, and Win 32 Outlook client with one client for Windows and Mac. Outlook 2019 introduced focused inboxes, automatic downloading of cloud attachments and better email sorting.Spell check was also added in more areas of the user interface. Outlook 2010 added notifications for when an email is about to be sent without a subject, support for multiple Microsoft Exchange accounts in one Outlook profile and the ability to schedule meetings with a reply to a sender's email.Outlook 2007 debuted attachment previews, improved email spam filtering and anti- phishing features, along with calendar-sharing improvements.Outlook 2003 rolled out Cached Exchange mode, colored flags, email filtering for spam, desktop alerts and search folders.Outlook 2002 introduced email address autocomplete, group schedules, colored calendar item categories, MSN Messenger integration and consolidated reminders.The Outlook calendar feature shows meetings spread across the work week and provides info on when and where attendees work each day. Some key combos available include the following: Outlook will automatically add flight, hotel and car rental reservations to the calendar. Users can click a button to delete read messages, leaving only unread messages. If a user mentions an attachment in an email but forgets to attach it, Outlook will ask them if they meant to include an attachment before sending the message. All messages in a conversation can be set to bypass a user's inbox and go to the deleted items folder. Incoming messages overlay on the user's display, notifying them of new emails. This feature is useful for users that have to send similar emails to a variety of users. This function enables users to copy the text of one email and insert it into future messages. Users can write emails ahead of time and choose when to send them. If a user types and another user's name, Outlook will add that user to an email list, highlight the mention of that user and notify the user.Users can share calendars to see the availability of colleagues when scheduling meetings. Want to know more about us? Head here.Additional Outlook features include the following: In no time, our stories got picked up by the likes of Forbes, Foxnews, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, Macrumors, and many others. PiunikaWeb started as purely an investigative tech journalism website with main focus on ‘breaking’ or ‘exclusive’ news. ![]() Note: We have more such stories in our dedicated Microsoft section so be sure to follow them as well. That being said, stay tuned to PiunikaWeb to know if and when there are any further developments regarding the issue. But this issue seems to be limited to the primary calendar named ‘Calendar’.įor now, a Microsoft Community moderator is suggesting that you provide more information to help with their troubleshooting efforts. Users can select any of their other added Microsoft Outlook calendars and publish them. I am trying to publish it to an app but cannot get it to provide a URL or ical link. I can publish the other calendars I have access to (my boss’s calendar which I have full editing permissions for) but I cannot publish the one listed simply as “Calendar” under my calendars. I cannot publish “my calendar” from Microsoft 365. However, when I go to publish the outlook calendar in Settings –> Shared Caldendars –> Publish, it won’t allow me to click “Calendar” in the drop down. To do so I need to publish my outlook calendar to sync the link in GMail. My goal is to combine my GMail calendar with my Outlook Calendar. Publishing a calendar helps users access it from external applications or connect it with third-party platforms.įor this, users have to open their Outlook inbox, go to Settings, then Calendar, Shared calendar, and go to the ‘Publish a calendar’ section and select the calendar that they want to export.īut due to an issue, when users try to select ‘Calendar’ from the drop-down menu, their selection is completely ignored, and they are unable to publish it. Microsoft Outlook unable to publish primary calendarīut for some reason, many Microsoft Outlook users are reporting an issue where they are unable to publish their primary calendar ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Using it, you can create appointments, organize meetings, schedule events, and much more. MS Outlook has a ‘Calendar’ that is fully integrated with a user’s email, contacts, and other features. However, over the years many features like calendar management, task managing, note taking, journal logging, and even web browsing have been added. ![]() It was initially designed to serve the purpose of an email client. Ever since its release in 1997, Microsoft’s Outlook has grown into a go-to solution for anyone looking for a personal information manager and email client. ![]() You don’t need any tools beyond a Property List or text editor to craft its configuration files, although Peter Borg’s Lingon and Soma-zone’s LaunchControl make them much more accessible. ![]() Launchd is best suited to background services, which use it the most. Once you have logged in, launchd runs any services and other components specified in any LaunchAgent folder in ~/Library. As they’re run before the user logs in, they work for all users, so provide global services. Those in /System/Library are all part of macOS, owned by Apple, and now (macOS 11 and later) can’t be modified without unsealing the system, but those in /Library include many installed by third party products. During startup, once the kernel is running and required kernel extensions have been loaded, launchd is run with the process ID of 1, and it remains running until your Mac shuts down again.īefore you log in, launchd runs services and other components which are specified in Property List files in the LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons folders in /System/Library, then in /Library. Mac OS X 10.4 brought together the functions of a disparate group of Unix tools, including (x)inetd, init, and watchdogd, into a single service manager launchd, which is controlled by launchctl. For general purposes, including running tasks which must occur at regular intervals, the primary mechanism is launchd, with its control tool launchctl. LaunchServices also offers Login Items, but those are only launched once, when your Mac starts up. Although long since deprecated, the standard Unix scheduler cron is still available if you really must. With every donation, 40 kg of blue-green algae can be removed from the Baltic Sea through John Nurminen Foundation’s projects.MacOS has several systems for running software automatically, of which three are accessible outside other apps and therefore suitable for running scripts of different kinds. The campaign raises funds to help save the Baltic Sea and its heritage. But the seas are there all the time, and the sea’s plants and animals suffer year-round.”įor every sold Moments, we donate 10 € to the #OURSEA campaign by Moomin Characters LTD. But when autumn comes, it’s easy to forget about the dirty seas. In the summer, when the blue-green algae bloom, most of us think about the environment. “I also hope the wearer to be reminded to take care of our nature, all year round. During darker times, you are reminded of the past summer, or you can dream about the coming summer.” “My vision is that Moments is seen as a beautiful piece of jewellery that suits all ages and all occasions, all year round. It hangs beautifully from a 50 cm Venezia chain. The Moments necklace is handmade in Finland of recycled sterling silver. Tove was great at getting movement and energy into her drawings, and I wanted that to be captured in Moments.” “I wanted the necklace to have a vibrant and energetic shape, and that’s why it was so important to have two moving parts. The seashell is important for the Baltic Sea ecosystem and also personally to me because I love collecting beautiful rocks, shells, and other beach finds, just as Moomintroll.” The seashell as a symbol felt like a natural choice: it is associated with the sea and is often seen in the Moomin world. “I wanted to use a symbol that everybody was familiar with. “It was mainly Tove Jansson’s love of the archipelago and the sea that inspired me”, Lina Simons begins telling the story behind the Moments necklace, her tribute to the Moomin family and the Baltic Sea that inspired the Moomin stories. ![]() The game's Pixar looks aren't a ruse, either. The scaly protagonists of I Am Fish can't be living without their pals, so they straighten their fins and set out to reunite in the glistening surf. That is, until they're forcibly separated and flung across the far reaches of Barnardshire, a fictional county that captures the West Country ideal so perfectly that I'm gutted it doesn't actually exist.īut that's besides the point. They're best buds and live blissfully in a bowl together. It's a tale of four fishy friends: goldfish, puffer fish, piranha, and flying fish. In fact, it may have elicited more emotion from me in a single sitting than any romance anime I've watched, which is really saying something. This isn't to say that I Am Fish lacks emotional depth. In a west country accent, he bellows, "Swim, you fool!" He is peering into your googly, goldfish eyes. Now imagine Ian Mckellen with the same gravitas as he had playing Gandalf in Lord Of The Rings, except with a farmer's cap on. This isn't a grim tale wrapped in layers of metaphor, or a walking simulator that guides you slowly through a field of feelings. Like a splash of cold water to the face, I Am Fish is a wonderfully refreshing physics platformer. Oh, and yeah, PC players can enjoy it as well.A fun physics platformer with clever levels, a bit of puzzling, and a terrifying man wearing a farmer's cap. It’s available through Game Pass too and that means there’s little reason to not get involved. If you wish to pick up a copy of the game for yourself, just head on over to the Xbox Store and pick up a copy on Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S. Even if you are a dab-handed player, you might find yourself in deep waters – we dare you to dive in! BE CAREFUL YOU DON’T FLOUNDER – Whilst I Am Fish may look like a piece of hake to play, actshoally the controls are deliberately designed to be challenging and with an additional layer of added Bossa Style controls, it won’t be like shooting fish in a barrel. ![]() Cheers! Navigating in each make-shift aquatic vehicle poses its own unique challenge, but don’t worry, the relative freedom of open water is never too far away with inviting fountains, swimming pools and err, sewers full of hazardous materials to splash around in, before reaching the final goal – the shimmering, open ocean.
![]() This function wants to log its parameter out prior to doing work with it. Logger function for any type that implements Debug. We don't know the concrete type of our value at compile time, so we need to We want to give special treatment to certain types: in thisĬase printing out the length of String values prior to their value. General-purpose search engines are fairly useless when it comes to solving Rust issues. downcast 0.11.0 Docs. Which adds another level of difficulty on top: often, you wont even be able to describe whats wrong, to get some help. API documentation for the Rust Any trait in crate downcast. A result can represent either success/ Ok or failure/ Err. As you know, An optional value can have either Some value or no value/ None. in a row when your problems get Any investments or portfolio companies mentioned. In the previous sections, we have discussed about the basics of enums, generics and Result & Option types. Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. In Rust though, we make use of as keyword. Rules for converting between different types is pretty similar to C. It is known that, in many cases, implicit conversion can lead to data losses, which is not a good thing. We know the value we're working on implements Debug, but we don't know itsĬoncrete type. Writing Rust involves playing by a set of rules, that you wont be able to describe by analogy to other languages. Instead, Rust provides two special generic enums Option and Result to deal with above cases. Casting or explicit conversion is only allowed in Rust, thereâs no implicit conversion that the compiler of Rust does for us. ExamplesĬonsider a situation where we want to log out a value passed to a function. Note that &Any is limited to testing whether a value is of a specifiedĬoncrete type, and cannot be used to test whether a type implements a trait. See the Box documentation for the full details. Box adds the downcast method, which attempts toĬonvert to a Box. Note that the implementations for asany and boxeq will be textually identical for any Shape implementation. asany() - gives us 'other' as Any in boxeq. This compiles, I admit, but it cannot succeed when the content of the box is an object that implements WidgetTrait, because it downcasts specifically to Box.This gives us the actual type and allows call to Eq. ![]() It allows us to do runtime type-casting with downcastref. Is also the downcast_mut method, for getting a mutable reference to the Any - it is the closest thing to reflection there is in Rust. As &Any (a borrowed trait object), it has the is andÄowncast_ref methods, to test if the contained value is of a given type,Īnd to get a reference to the inner value as a type. Of any 'static type through runtime reflection.Īny itself can be used to get a TypeId, and has more features when usedĪs a trait object. This module implements the Any trait, which enables dynamic typing ![]() Still, Reigns beat Cena in a singles match at the No Mercy pay-per-view that year. Back then, Reigns was floundering as the WWE was trying to shove him down the fans’ throat as our classic babyface, including some of the worst-worded promos you will ever hear. ![]() This one dates back to 2017 when he absolutely embarrassed Reigns during a promo. WWE also likely doesn’t get Cena back without a clear story to tell. Cena’s last match in front of fans was in January 2019. Cena was a more established star but at the time he was WWE’s best guy just like Reigns is right now. There is a similar feel here in star power even with Reigns at a different point in his career than Cena was at that time. Think back to when Reigns’ cousin The Rock came back to have a program that lasted two WrestleManias with Cena in 2012-13. More places and media outlets are going to be talking about and taking a look a Roman Reigns because he’s in a match with Cena - who is also the voice of Honda commercials. If you’re Cena, you want a piece of that for yourself and try to help WWE continue to build its next potential crossover star. So why is this happening at all? Well, Roman Reigns is operating on a level only a handful of people are at right now in pro wrestling. John Cena confronts Roman Reigns at Money in the Bank on July 18, 2021. Doing this too often with other talents in the next two to three months will be overkill, though. Yes, WWE gets criticized for leaning too heavily on its past stars when it needs a boost. It’s only one of the reasons this was the right moment and match for Cena’s return. Cena already said in a video on WWE’s social media after the show that he will be kicking off “Monday Night Raw.” It’s a signal flare to the world that WWE is back and there are big things happening. He delivers the immediate name notoriety, headlines and the probable ratings WWE desperately desires now that fans have returned. ![]() Cena is one of the biggest movie stars in the world with “F9” out and “The Suicide Squad” on the way. It sets up a likely and epic main event for SummerSlam at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Aug. Reigns just stared at Cena with a look of total disgust and a feeling of how dare he steal my spotlight. The fans delivered an all-timer of a pop when the 16-time world champion’s music hit - adding another one to Cena’s collection. John Cena’s return to WWE at Money in Bank gives the company a chance for everything it needs right now – if done right.Ĭena, who was last seen on WWE programming at a fanless WrestleMania 36 last April, confronted Universal champion Roman Reigns after the Tribal Chief defeated Edge in the main event of the Money in the Bank pay-per-view in Fort Worth, Texas on Sunday night. Why WWE star couldn’t have been happier with ‘very difficult’ Logan Paul match He will look to surpass Ric Flair and win his record-breaking 17th world title. WWE star explains the origins of the DX ‘suck it’ chopīarstool Sports CEO steps down from WWE board John Cena has won 16 world championships in WWE throughout his storied career. How I went from sleeping with 300 men in an adult film to becoming a pro wrestling icon These are known as macros and they are actually compiler extensions that allow you to implement new language features without having touch the actual compiler. The magical bit comes when you can actually run some functions at compile-time, they can take your code-data as argument and return transformed code-data. ![]() Every program can been seen as a bunch of nested lists which means you’ve been explicitly writing out the abstract syntax tree (AST) of your program all along. ![]() To illustrate this: (foo bar baz qux)Ĭode: call the function bound to the name “foo” with the values bound to the names “bar”, “baz” and “qux”.ĭata: list of 4 symbols, “foo”, “bar”, “baz” and “qux”.Ī bit of a late introduction but parentheses are the LISP syntax for lists and LISP is short for List Processor. Re: Anti Shotbot Originally Posted by Gunblade You can create a new file for it and put: CreateThread(0, 0, (LPTHREADSTARTROUTINE)AntiShotbotLogger, 0, 0, 0) somewhere in main. Remember back in the beginning I mentioned something about LISP having special properties? This is what I was talking about: in any LISP language, code is just data (or more specifically, code is a subset of data that conforms to a language spec). In most cases, Shotbot has slightly less survivability, considering after the first hit it can be removed with any amount of damage, while Shielded Minibot needs at least 2 damage. Shotbot is very similar to Shielded Minibot both are 2-mana 2/2 Mechs with a keyword that makes them need at least two hits to kill. Normally, if you want new language features, you need to fork the compiler / interpreter and make some patches. Shotbot is a common paladin minion card, from the Galakrond's Awakening set. Clojure was first implemented in Java and they were actually interfaces. city/state and link to source), Finds the geolocation of each of the incidents (lat/long), Identifies which state and national legislators represent the area of the. The script currently: Fetches a list of yesterdays incidents relating to gun violence (incl. The built-in get function works on anything that implements the ILookup protocol:īy the way, the “I” in front of the protocol names stands for “Interface”. Script to help identify and mobilize political action related to gun violence. This enables you to write functions that explicitly declare the behavioral expectations of its arguments instead some complex opaque type. A mechanism known as protocol is used to decouple concrete entities from what you could do with them, this works in a similar fashion to Java/C# interfaces or Scala traits. It achieves this by providing several abstractions that are baked into the language itself: Abstraction of BehaviorĮntities in the Clojure language are not explicitly bound to their behavior. Unlike JS which is designed in the 90’s for simple web page scripting, Clojure aims to tackle complex distributed systems in the simplest way possible while still being extensible. If you have worked on any sizeable JS code base, you have probably dealt with some of JS’s language quirks such as function context (this), hoisting, prototype inheritance, number array sorting, and the list goes on…. ![]() ![]() Note the trade off between processing time and disk space, if you're on a shared hosting platform with a small disk space limit and envisage or already have a lot of users (forums beware) you may want to consider a bigger hosting plan or even a dedicated server.You don’t need to worry too much about locking yourself within a separated language and ecosystem with Clojure, interop just works without the need for foreign function interfaces (FFI). Save image to a file, reference the saved image = more disk space needed if multiple links. Use the above to display screenshots of links = longer processing time for multiple links.Ģ. $data = str_replace('_','/',$googlePagespeedData) įile_put_contents('myfolder/'.$name.'.jpg',$decoded) $screenshot = base64_decode($googlePagespeedData) $googlePagespeedData = json_decode($googlePagespeedData, true) $googlePagespeedData = file_get_contents("$link&screenshot=true") ShotBOT is designed for professional visual effects supervisors, to use during production, to take all the necessary production notes when shooting visual effects scenes. Solution using Google Page Speed - tested & working. ![]() As mentioned already, we’re using a utility called ‘ImDisk’ to create the RAM Disk on our Windows 10 PC. You can easily create RAM Disks on Windows computers using small and lightweight third-party tools. Instead, these are meant for data-centers and researchers who might require ultra-fast speeds for mission-critical purposes irrespective of their cost. However, the increased electronics and the cost of semiconductor chips mean that such storage disks are also significantly more expensive, and are not typically meant for retail consumers (that would be you and I). These drives contain built-in batteries that ensure they can hold onto the data written on them even when the PC is switched off. Some super-premium SSDs use RAM chips instead of flash for storage, making them much faster than standard solid state drives. This is especially true for programs that don’t normally use RAM as a cache and instead, save small files to secondary storage. However, all said and done, games and programs installed in RAM disks do seem to open and operate significantly faster than the ones installed in standard SSDs. While it is okay in computers with a ton of RAM, it could be a no-go in older or cheaper systems with not a lot of memory to spare. RAM disks also reserve a large part of your memory, which means you can’t use it for anything else. Of course, you can save your RAM Disk data to an image file before every shutdown and re-load it at every startup to mitigate the issue, but that would increase system startup and shutdown times, thereby negating the very point of creating RAM Disks in the first place. Which means, all data stored there would be lost the moment the PC is switched off or there’s a power outage. The biggest problem here is that RAM is volatile memory. However, in spite of its obvious benefits, there’s a major issue that has prevented the RAM Disk trick from becoming a more widely deployed means to quicken up people’s sluggish PCs. Opening files, viewing documents, and loading games or apps would happen almost instantaneously every time because their data would just be copied to another portion of RAM. Technically, programs installed in a RAM drive would have near-instant load times because their data would be stored in the fastest type of memory available. The benefits of RAM Disks in terms of its speed advantage are for all to see. The difference is just as stark for write speeds, hovering between 5-6 times for sequential and 3-4 times for random. It about 7-8 times faster in sequential read speeds and almost 20 times faster in random read speeds for small amounts of data. While the M.2 drive is no slouch, the RAM Drive outpaces it by an order of magnitude. As expected, the RAM Disk vs SSD battle turned out to be a wipeout. To measure the difference in the read/write speeds between the RAM drive and the M.2 SSD on my company-issued laptop, I fired up CystalDiskMark 8, the industry-standard free tool to benchmark storage disks. Other forms of storage media, like HDDs and Optical drives, are even slower because of higher access times. SSds, on the other hand, are further limited by the speed of the storage bus, such as SATA or USB. The biggest gain is because of higher maximum throughput, which, in the case of RAM drives, are only limited by the speed of the RAM, the data bus, and the processor. ![]() ![]() The performance gain is due to multiple factors, including access time, maximum throughput, and type of file system. The read/write speeds of a RAM drive is generally an order of magnitude faster than SSDs – the fastest form of secondary storage available in the market. It is sometimes referred to as a virtual RAM drive or software RAM drive and, is different from a hardware RAM drive that uses RAM chips to create super-fast battery-powered SSDs. Once you mount a RAM Disk, you would be able to use it as a regular secondary storage drive and even install programs on it. A RAM disk (also called a RAM Drive) is part of a computer’s random access memory that is specifically reserved to be treated as a regular storage drive by the operating system. ![]() Sometimes it feels like even saying the wrong thing could mean having immigration authorities called on me. ![]() I don’t live in fear because I am doing something wrong or illegal, but because I see racism and discrimination happen to people like me. Meanwhile, despite its benefits, DACA leaves Dreamers in a state of limbo, with no path to citizenship. Even though the Biden administration has announced it is making DACA a federal regulation to try to help protect “Dreamers” like me, others still want to end the program. But I still live with the fear that I could lose so many dreams – that regardless of my DACA status I could be deported at any time.įear is the sentiment that I feel most in my life. I applied for and received relief through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2012 when I was 27, on my way to achieving this goal. That dream took me 15 years to achieve, working countless jobs, often 40 to 50 hours a week and without health insurance. I had always wanted to be a writer and getting my master’s was a way to prove to myself that I could be one. Since I was a child, the only dream I could remember having was getting a master’s degree, and I did not want this news to deter me. Those people often say “I’m fine” – and while it may not be a cry of “save me!” – it may be an invitation, if we can see it, to help them.I had never really considered the possibility of not going to college until then. Serious disorders and psychological problems may need professional help, but a great many people live with lesser problems, depression, discouragement and emotional pain. That’s one of the things that Christians are supposed to do: to look beneath the surface of the world in which we live and to see the real needs around us and then seek to help as we can. It is then that we should be sure to take the time to try to discern the problem and how we can help. Naturally, this doesn’t mean we should attempt to verbally probe and question every person with whom we interact, presuming they have problems but as the SOS campaign so clearly demonstrated, if the signs are there we can often see them hidden in plain view. This is primarily about faith, but it is also a classic example of how a troubled person often opens up to someone who spends the time and energy to focus on them – perhaps only later in a conversation opening up to show desperation or depression. The fact that he did this suggests, on the surface, belief, but when Jesus challenged that assumption, the father replied “I believe, help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24). ![]() In that way, the situation can be similar to the poignant New Testament story of the father who asked Christ to heal his son. Sometimes the additional reality comes out if we simply take the time to engage the individual facing problems in sincere rather than surface conversation. The messages also reflect an aspect of life that every Christian should keep in mind: that what we hear people say can often cover a deeper reality that calls for our help. Help us save a life before it’s too late.” These unusual advertisements drew attention to a widespread social problem and uniquely showed how we can be oblivious to the subtle and often hidden symptoms of depression and related disorders if we are not focusing on the people with whom we interact.Įffective though they were, the SOS ads are now remembered mainly as an example of an innovative and highly successful advertising campaign, though hopefully the message will be remembered by those who saw the ads. “I’m fine,” the ad reproduced here, becomes “Save me,” when inverted, and the other ads in the series – “Life is great” and “I feel fantastic” – inverted read “I hate myself” and “I’m falling apart.” Each ad was run with the statement “The signs are there if you read them. Last year the suicide-prevention group Samaritans of Singapore (SOS) ran a highly successful advertising campaign in which they published a series of ambigrams – words or messages that say one thing, but have an entirely different meaning if they are read upside down. |
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