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Starfield smart watch - possible collector’s edition item /yq1zoq90kv- ResetEra NT January 13, 2022 The user then posted an online manual for the watch, being developed by The Wand Company. It features a bunch of design touches that mimic the Starfield universe, including an establish date of 2188. Reddit user SquiddyVonn posted images of the watch in the Starfield subreddit. Some of that scenery may well come to life too, as Redditors believe they've spotted a Starfield-themed watch that could be part of the game's inevitable Collector's Edition. Bethesda's upcoming RPG takes us into outer space, a huge change of scenery for the developer. We're all pretty excited for Starfield later this year. ![]() I feel it is crucial to individualise the app for each child/student to meet their particulat communication needs. I have read the comments made with interest, I am a SALT working in UK special schools, the age range of children using this app ranges from 4, sometimes younger, to 19. So, the feedback I received made me think that there might be a 'need' for my services of reorganizing/personalizing Proloquo2Go young-older population.ĭo you think there is a need? If there is a need, where do I go from here? I appreciate your help!!Ĭomments for Technology-iPad: Proloquo2Go Communication App My goal was to make navigation easier for the student. ![]() She really liked how I reorganized the students iPad. I received positive feedback from one of my students private SLP's. Therefore, I spent hours of my personal time, reorganizing and presonalizing students iPads to better meet their communication wants and needs. I found it rather difficult to target each students individual goals using the two pre-programmed vocabulary organizations to choose from-Core Word and Basic Communication. My caseload, last school year, consisted of several students who used an iPad with the communication app, Proloquo2Go. Buttons can be copied and pasted into a different location or rearranged by simply dragging them to the desired new location.Technology-iPad: Proloquo2Go Communication App The pages, grid layout, buttons, messages, and symbols are fully customizable. ![]() These boards range from 20 buttons per page to 80 buttons per page, allowing the child to have access to as many buttons as his motor skills will allow. There are specific boards for adolescents with bigger buttons for those who aren’t ready for the sophisticated boards but who need more advanced language than a preschooler would need. For example, you can start with elementary boards designed for young children with developmental delays or move up to a more sophisticated device. You have the option to choose from many different pre-programmed boards. “Touch Chat with Word Power” vocabulary, which is more expensive but gives you access to the word power boards, allowing for much more language use. It is easy for parents, teachers, and speech therapists to learn how to use it The "Lock" function blocks a specific page on the screen so you can teach the words on that page without navigating to another page when you push a button. The option that changes certain words on the screen when one button is pushed, allowing the device to predict what you may be trying to say. This is helpful for children with vision or motor problems and those just starting with AAC. You can turn off any feature that you find you don't need. ![]() The Search feature allows educators, therapists, and parents to find vocabulary quickly. This means that the user will never have to repeat those words. The words the user learns never change position. The "Hide Words" feature allows users to begin with only one word and add new comments to the vocabulary at their own pace. You can use your own photos by taking pictures within the app or selecting them from your photo library. Current communication skills don't matter - it supports both beginning and advanced communicators. You can choose between Female or Male symbols. The symbols were created to make the app user-friendly Symbols designed by French artists, based on research. ![]() The Lakers, like some other Western Conference contenders, had identified him as a priority in the round.įans of him loved his skill - “he had some wiggle in his game” one revered scout told The Times - and his strength. The Lakers moved into the second round to make the pick, sending cash and a future second-round pick to the Orlando Magic to get him. Horton-Tucker boosted his stock by playing well in front of tons of NBA decision-makers and evaluators at the Maui Invitational Tournament, but concerns about his body, his conditioning (which is tied to work ethic) and his shooting kept him on the board until the 46th pick of last year’s draft. 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It just tells me to go out and play my game and be free.” So just being able to have that support and confidence from those guys is a plus for me. “Every time I’m on the court they’re just telling me to play free and do what I do. ![]() “They were just telling me to keep it going,” Horton-Tucker said. 2, the Lakers’ bench continued to boost him with each basket or key defensive stop. During a 33-10 game by Horton-Tucker in preseason night No. Now 20, Horton-Tucker has Lakers fans buzzing after a pair of terrific performances in exhibition wins against the Clippers. And now the Lakers have to make room for LeBron James to keep him out of THT’s way. The compressed offseason and the desire to rest regulars put Horton-Tucker into that starting lineup way faster than that coach could’ve imagined. 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Therefore, I reverted to running Windows XP on a VMware virtual machine in the headless slave computer with the sound card, and displaying VMware via VNC (read it, it’s got screenshots!). Update: it turns out Steinberg Nuendo is quite picky in itsĬhoice of audio drivers, and WinESD is just too poor for it. Overengineering… but, oh, well, this post is the bastard child of overengineering, isn’t it? For these applications we created and made everything in-house. This is for instance use by pyrotechnics to have fireworks to run in sync with music. Hooking it up to the stereo in my room, then have PulseAudio broadcast This is the most advanced of the three, and generates and plays timecode along with playing a music track. Next step, getting me a second headless computer with WiFi and I think I’m gonna spend that money on drinks tonight, just Not to mention that I just saved $150 in an USB soundĬard. People who actually wrote the software that powers this Rube GoldbergĬontraption. This would have never happened thanks to the work of many talented My desktop machine, but rather via SSH X Window forwarding on the other The little parrot at the top right corner of the screen is the KTTSD agent in charge of speaking notifications out loud.Serving PulseAudio is gabriela (you can tell that by looking at the Of the desktop machine is karen, while the host name of the machine Terminal window? I put that there so you could see that the host name Machine (conveniently tucked away in a corner). Machine, but it’s actually monitoring the audio output on the slave Window at the right is a set of VU meters included with the PulseAudio You’re witnessing my desktop computer’s KDE desktop.īlack window to the left with Winamp and the Sound properties capplet.I completed the Perfect Setup even more perfectly than the original Perfect Setup. Hook desktop event notifications to Festival so your desktop machine speaks loud and clear through your stereo.Machine directly, displaying it back on your desktop machine. Up the volume control menu entry to run the volume control in the slave Set your desktop machine to use the PulseAudio server in the slave machine as the system-wide audio output.Just for kicks (and everyday music enjoyment):.Set it up to communicate with the slave machine. ![]() ![]() Install WinESD on your XP virtual machine.Network your XP virtual machine into the Ethernet LAN you already have.Install Windows XP on a VMWare virtual machine in your desktop server.Install VMWare on your desktop machine.Activate EsounD compatibility on the PulseAudio server.Configure PulseAudio so it starts as a system-wide daemon.Install PulseAudio on the slave machine.Network your desktop and slave machines via Ethernet.But you own a separate slave machine with two sound cards, hooked up to a stereo.You can’t even put a sound card in your desktop machine, because it’s an 1U blade server. ![]()
![]() So if taking pictures of the tiled steps is your main goal, the evening would not be the best time unless you do not mind having strangers in the background. The drawback is the fact that there will be a lot of people here during this time as well. We love visiting in the evening as you can catch the sunset here. Tips for visiting San Francisco Tiled Steps Best Time Of The Day To Visit It’s also great for a picnic and has similar vibes to the SF Mosaic Steps. Tank Hill – For another quiet park with amazing views, Tank Hill is a quieter spot. Twin Peaks – The most famous peak and views of San Francisco can be found at Twin Peaks, which is only about a 5 min. There are another set of switchback stairs that leads to a small park with more spectacular views of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge. Grandview Park– If you have time you can continue the walk upward to Grandview Park. Check our other article here for a list of other amazing SF views at night. When the sun sets and the street lamps light up, the mobs of tourists will also disappear. At night you can see the rolling hills lit up with the street lamps. Visiting at night yields a different, yet equally magical experience with amazing night views. Don’t be surprised if what you see instead is fog as SF is renowned for its presence of fog. You can catch amazing views, especially magical during the sunset, even halfway up the tiled stairs. In terms of elevation, its a 93 feet climb to the top for you hikers. The entire staircase is made up of 163 steps to the top. View from the top of the Mosaic Steps Walking Up The Mosaic Steps Being at the center of San Francisco, it’s easy to be matched with a ride, and a low cost option to get to anywhere within the city. Uber or Lyft is a great option to see the tiled steps. Visitors tend to spend a relatively short amount of time going up and down and taking photos. The residential area has limited parking spots. Parking for the mosaic steps is easiest at the base of the stairs which is located at the cross streets of 16th Avenue and Moraga Street. Unfortunately, there are no designated parking spaces. Getting To San Francisco Tiled Steps Parking At The Mosaic Steps Residential parking at the base of the tiled steps Volunteers in the community take great care of the steps. As you climb higher up, you will see birds, the moon, and at the very top, you’ll see the sun. When you begin walking up the tiled steps, you will see that the artwork is comprised of fish and land creatures. Inspired by the Selarón Steps in Brazil, the SF tiled steps is comprised of 160 steps, made up of tiny mosaic tiles. ![]() It took two years to complete with the help of local volunteers and artists and was completed in August 2005. The Mosaic Steps came to be as a community project to revitalize the existing staircase. Tiled steps during sunset History Of The San Francisco Tiled Steps View up the 16th ave tiled steps ![]() When you get to the very top of the SF tiled steps, you can catch a view of the Pacific Ocean as well as the aptly-named Sunset District in San Francisco. Tiled Steps sign explaining the local fauna midway up the stairs The 16th Avenue Mosaic Steps also referred to as the tiled stairs and is one of the many San Francisco gems tucked away in residential neighborhoods. One of the charms and quirks of San Francisco is the many “hidden” surprises that you can stumble across throughout the city that you won’t find anywhere else. ![]() This is a unique, verifiable credential that you can share publicly with an employer, on your resume, or your LinkedIn profile. Successful learners in this track will receive a verified certificate upon completion of the course. Verified track learners have the option to receive a free one-year license to ArcGIS Pro Desktop, and will have full unrestricted access to the course content indefinitely, as well as full access to graded content and hands-on labs.
I’ll leave that as an exercise to the reader. However, on architectures with fused multiply-add instruction accuracy can be improved by improving the matrix multiplications at the end of xyz_from_srgb and at the beginning of srgb_from_xyz function. With floating point numbers some imprecision is always to be expected so this isn’t a bad result by no means. When executed the code shows that 48 colours weren’t converted correctly with the maximum error of less than 30 millionth and total square error of less than 21 billionth. that red, green and blue components are integers in the \(\e-6", count, error * 1e9, max * 1e6) sRGB to XYZįor brevity I’ll assume herein that we’re working with 8-bit colour depth, i.e. Because of that structure I will describe each of the steps separately. As such, the full process has multiple steps with a round trip conversion being: sRGB→XYZ→L*a*b*→XYZ→sRGB. Importantly, the conversion between sRGB and L*a*b* goes through XYZ colour space. LCh ab aim to make L*a*b* easier to interpret by replacing a* and b* axes with more intuitive chroma and hue parameters. For example, it’s the basis of the ΔE* 00 colour difference metric. While it’s not truly uniform it’s nonetheless useful and widely used in the industry. The L*a*b* colour space was intended to be perceptually uniform. First, the functions fx, ft and fz are calculated from the Lab -values: Then we can calculate the illuminant-normalized tristimulus values xr, yr and zr: Again (same as above), 24389/27 903.3 and 216/24389 0.008856. Picture of a chameleon with its decomposition into L*, a* and b* channels. The reverse, going back from Lab to XYZ is done as follows. ![]() I’ll also touch on CIELCh ab which is a closely related colour representation. As this may be of interest to others, I’ve decided to go ahead and make an article out of it. The below online converter provides you an easy-to-use calculator, and you can convert a coordinate of a color space into another, among RGB, CMYK, CIELAB, and XYZ.After writing about conversion between sRGB and XYZ colour spaces I’ve been asked about a related process: moving between sRGB and CIELAB (perhaps better known as L*a*b*). These color spaces can be converted to each other, by using formulas under the same white reference (D65, D50, A, C, D55, D75) and observer view angle (2°, 10°). The above each color space has its position and range in the XYZ color space, with different degree of color and fineness to express a certain color. ![]() In addition, CMYK color space is commonly in printing industry, in which uses cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, four colors overprinting. RGB color model comes from the light source of three primary colors red, green and blue. The RGB color model is commonly used in display monitors and digital image design and webpage design (In HEX code). In addition to the above CIELAB color space, there are also other common color space in other application fields. Therefore, most of the colorimeter uses CIELAB color space today, instead of XYZ. Compared with XYZ Color Space, the colors represented by CIELAB color space has better linearity and closer to human's visual perception. Hunter in 1948, who is the founder of Hunter Associates Laboratory, Inc. There are '*' symbols attached with the three coordinates' letter, L, a, b, to distinguish the older Hunter Lab color space, which was defined by Dr. CIELAB uses (L*, a*, b*) three coordinates to represent a human visual color. CIELAB is the mainstream color space coordinate system, which was defined by International Commission on Illumination (CIE) in 1976. A cumulative GPA of 3.3 or higher is generally required. In addition to letters of recommendation and copies of academic transcripts, applications must include an autobiographical sketch. 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Funds Available: The maximum stipend is $2,500 for the freshman year in college or $3,000 per year for sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Title of Award: American Chemical Society Scholars Program Area, Field, or Subject: Biochemistry Chemistry Engineering, Chemical Įnvironmental conservation Environmental science Materials research/science Toxicology Level of Education for which Award is Granted: Undergraduate Number Awarded: Approximately 100 new awards are granted each year. To provide financial assistance to underrepresented minority students with a strong interest in chemistry and a desire to prepare for a career in a chemically-related science. |