![]() Please contact me via the in app support e-mail and I’ll help you get this sorted. I’m sorry to hear you lost access to the widgets you previously could access. I understand that the developers want to get compensated for their work, and that’s fair, but turning previously free features into subscriber only features without adding any functionality is a lazy way getting paid and a sure fire way of losing customers. With this in mind, I have to say there are better alternatives out there with much prettier UI that perform better than this app for the same or less cost. Indeed many of the things that made this app so great are now stuck behind a paywall, making the base app essentially worthless. After using the widget for a year it turns out that the widget I’ve been using is now part of the “pro” subscription. The UI was great and contained all the info you could want from this app. I’ve been using this app for a little over a year. Moved previously accessible features behind paywall Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable Ubuntu 23.04 is now using the Linux 6.2 kernel, which provides better security, bug. You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. People upgrading from previous versions of Ubuntu will immediately notice a more refined GUI, quick settings and utility dock, new fonts and wallpapers, better accessibility features, and an overall enhanced user experience. Automatic renewals will cost the same price you were originally charged for the subscription. ![]() Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current subscription period. Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current subscription period. Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. At confirmation of purchase, or following the completion of a free-trial period, payment will be charged to your iTunes account. Information about Lunar Phase Widget subscription: Control monitor brightness, adapt using the ambient light sensor, adjust volume, switch inputs and turn off displays without fiddling with clunky buttons. The app also support notifications for Full Moon, New Moon and Lunar Eclipses. Search the list for "Lunar Phase Widget". To add widgets to your home screen, long press on an empty space on your home screen and tap the + button at the top. The app now also supports the new iOS16 Lock Screen widgets! Add the widgets right on to your home screen! The app supports the new iOS 14 home screen widgets and displays the same information in both a compact and expanded form. The calendar can also show the Lunar Zodiac for each day. You can also tap any date to bring up more details for this date. In the clean and uncluttered calendar view, you can see the moon phase for every day of the month. Swipe left or right anywhere in the main app to check the moon phase and other moon data for any date, past or future. The app elegantly shows the current moon phase, moonrise and moonset, as well as when the next full moon, new moon and eclipse is and more! The Moon is rendered in real-time using realistic lightning and with a minimalistic approach to design and experience. Wait a few seconds (or minutes) for the update to appear and then hit Install Now for iOS 17 (or Install Tonight if you want to install iOS 17 later).Lunar Phase Widget is a popular iOS app and widget that shows up to date information about the Moon. Open your iPhone and go to Settings > General > Software Update. Once you've completed all of the preparations, you'll be ready to download and install iOS 17. Go to Settings > General > iPhone Storage to delete large files and apps.Ĭheck out these easy tricks for optimizing your iPhone storage to create more free space. The iOS 17 file size will be several gigabytes, and if you're running out of storage, you'll need to clear some room before you can download and install iOS 17. You won't be able to download iOS 17 using your mobile data, so connect to a stable Wi-Fi network before starting the installation. ![]() Even if you're plugged in, the battery needs to be over 20% to install iOS 17. You won't be able to download iOS 17 if you're under 50% battery, so it's safest to plug in your phone while you update. Make sure your iPhone is connected to power.
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![]() ![]() After revisions and expansions from the 1890s to the 1940s, the IPA remained primarily unchanged until the Kiel Convention in 1989. Since its creation, the IPA has undergone a number of revisions. It was developed by Alexander John Ellis, Henry Sweet, Daniel Jones, and Passy. The idea of making the IPA was first suggested by Otto Jespersen in a letter to Passy. In 1888, the alphabet was revised to be uniform across languages, thus providing the base for all future revisions. For example, the sound (the sh in shoe) was originally represented with the letter ⟨c⟩ in English, but with the digraph ⟨ ch⟩ in French. Their original alphabet was based on a spelling reform for English known as the Romic alphabet, but to make it usable for other languages the values of the symbols were allowed to vary from language to language. In 1886, a group of French and British language teachers, led by the French linguist Paul Passy, formed what would be known from 1897 onwards as the International Phonetic Association (in French, l'Association phonétique internationale). Main article: History of the International Phonetic Alphabet Most of these are shown in the current IPA chart, posted below in this article and at the website of the IPA. As of the most recent change in 2005, there are 107 segmental letters, an indefinitely large number of suprasegmental letters, 44 diacritics (not counting composites), and four extra-lexical prosodic marks in the IPA. Occasionally, letters or diacritics are added, removed, or modified by the International Phonetic Association. ![]() Slashes are used to signal phonemic transcription therefore, /tʃ/ is more abstract than either or and might refer to either, depending on the context and language. For example, the sound of the English digraph ⟨ch⟩ may be transcribed in IPA with a single letter:, or with multiple letters plus diacritics:, depending on how precise one wishes to be. Segments are transcribed by one or more IPA symbols of two basic types: letters and diacritics. To represent additional qualities of speech-such as tooth gnashing, lisping, and sounds made with a cleft palate-an extended set of symbols may be used. The IPA is designed to represent those qualities of speech that are part of lexical (and, to a limited extent, prosodic) sounds in oral language: phones, intonation and the separation of syllables. The IPA is used by lexicographers, foreign language students and teachers, linguists, speech–language pathologists, singers, actors, constructed language creators, and translators. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standardized representation of speech sounds in written form. The International Phonetic Alphabet ( IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. The official chart of the IPA, revised in 2020 Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of phonetic symbols. Stress marks: In IPA, / ˈ / indicates that the primary stressed syllable follows and / ˌ / indicates the secondary stressed syllable follows, as in newspaper / ˈnuzˌpeɪ pər / and information / ˌɪn fərˈmeɪ ʃən /.This article contains phonetic symbols. ![]() ![]() You can drag the button around as needed to keep it out of your way. Turn on AssistiveTouch there, and a circular button appears on your screen, floating above everything else. You can find AssistiveTouch settings in Settings > Accessibility > Touch > AssistiveTouch. In that respect, it’s much like the Back Tap accessibility feature Adam wrote about a couple of years ago, but with a visual interface instead of the sometimes funky double or triple tap requirement (see “ iOS 14’s Back Tap Feature Provides Interaction Shortcuts,” 24 September 2020). Most intriguing, AssistiveTouch can now trigger shortcuts, letting you turn it into an always-accessible menu of whatever quick actions you can create in Shortcuts. AssistiveTouch creates a virtual button that opens a menu giving those with limited dexterity one-touch access to common functions that may otherwise be difficult to use, like Control Center and the App Switcher, both of which require finicky gestures.īut AssistiveTouch has come a long way since I wrote about it nearly a decade ago, offering many more features and customization options. I’ve long been a fan of the AssistiveTouch feature in iOS (and I have receipts to prove it: see “ Work Around a Broken iPhone Button with AssistiveTouch,” 24 July 2013). Use AssistiveTouch for Customizable Shortcuts on the iPhone and iPad #1682: Apple’s “Scary Fast” announcement, X.1 updates to 2023 OS versions, Microsoft Word’s 40th anniversary, 5G wireless Internet.#1683: New M3 chips in updated MacBook Pros and iMac, record Apple Q4 profits on lower revenues, no more 27-inch iMacs.#1684: OS bug fix releases, Finder tag poll results, Messages identity verification, blocking spambots, which Apple services do you use?.#1685: Hidden secrets of the Fn key, Emergency SOS via satellite free access extended, RCS support in Messages, Rogue Amoeba icon evolution.#1686: Please support TidBITS, OS security updates, Apple services poll results, biking with an iPhone. ![]() There was always tension in the family about Michael getting too much attention the parents always husbanded his talents - and let’s be honest, his money-making ability - for the benefit of the family as a whole. 1 or 2 singles in the space of less than 18 months. The Jackson 5 had a starburst of a career - some six No. “ Wings of My Love ,” Got to Be There (1972): Wait - he wrote a song that begins “Have you seen my childhood?” The guy who ruined other kids’ childhoods? And it was the soundtrack to a movie called Free Willy ?!?ġ42. If you think Michael Jackson was a child molester, this song will make your head explode. ![]() Makes “Speechless,” his previous benchmark for unspeakable treacle, sound like Metallica.Īnother extra track on the 25th-anniversary edition of Bad, a light and forgettable piece of oversweet pop confectionary. This may be the last song he recorded before his death. “I am forever / We are forever.” L-i-t-e even by late Jackson standards. Chugs along okay, I guess, and the chorus has a ring to it, but it’s too similar to “The Way You Make Me Feel.” Released on a Bad 25, an anniversary edition of the record. If you look at the lyrics closely it’s not even clear that he’s talking about a prostitute it seems just to be about someone … walking down a street. Why Jackson felt he had to record a song about a prostitute is beyond me. And no one, particularly, asked for a tepid “We Are the World” rewrite.ġ46. No one asked for the unrelenting, almost sociopathic key changes. No one asked for the opening speech by the little tyke spouting un-tyke-like words like, “For our children, and our children’s children.” No one asked for Jackson’s breathy voice, the overweening vocalizings, the formless orchestration, this simple syrup for the soul. ![]() It’s easy to laugh, but who among us can say we danced a mile in his shoes?ġ47. He spoke with a soft voice but insisted on singing songs with words like “bad,” “dangerous,” “torture,” and “scream.” He was a man-child living in a luxurious cocoon. Based almost entirely on interviews with people who were actually there, it has a lot of perspective on Jackson’s life not found elsewhere.Īs with everything else in Jackson’s life, however, in the end it doesn’t really make sense. And David Gest’s Life of an Icon is now available on Amazon. The ABC Martin Bashir documentary, Living With Michael Jackson, remains a must-see. There’s lots of video out there, of course. Randy Taraborrelli’s Michael Jackson: The Magic, the Madness, the Whole Story Randall Sullivan’s Untouchable and Steve Knopper’s new MJ: The Genius of Michael Jackson. The best accounts of his life I’ve read are J. Two albums of unreleased tracks have come out since Jackson left this mortal coil, in June 2009 There were five adult solo albums, beginning with Off the Wall and ending with Invincible, and two more releases that had additional new songs, History and Blood on the Dance Floor. After a year or two of success with his brothers in the Jackson 5, he embarked on a solo career at age 13, with four more albums on Motown. ![]() The following is an account of every song Michael Jackson released as a solo artist. Off the Wall, his first adult solo album, showed off an extraordinary young man with astonishing moves, and Thriller, well, Thriller was about something more than marketing it was the work of a pop auteur of unparalleled gifts, as both a composer and (importantly) a celebrity as well. From his voice to his image to his dancing, it was so easy to get swept up in his High Pop Art. Jackson was the most sensational performer - the full package - of his era. At his most charming, he had one of the most charismatic and endearing personas we’d ever seen. There was really something about Michael Jackson. ![]() Keb also trains in avalanche and disaster rescue. Keb is certified as both a human remains detection and airscent search dog, known for her “body slam” indications when she finds lost subjects. Suzanne also has a four-year-old Lab named Keb who started training at two months with Bosse’s help. But later it would allow me to feel the success of stepping into my fear, embracing it and using it to propel myself forward in many aspects of my life.” For many years it would severely limit me. She was able to spend more time with her husband, save lives, work in the mountains, and conquer her fears.Īs Suzanne reflects in her blog on her executive coaching site, “Looking back on it all, I now see, in sharp relief, how that tragic day came to importantly shape myself as a person. She adopted Bosse, her now retired yellow Lab rescue dog, and enrolled in Mountaineers scrambling and climbing courses. Then, in 2001, the much-publicized 9/11 rescues inspired her to overcome her fear of heights and help with mountain rescue - as her husband Scott was already doing. It left her with a fear of heights that hindered her outdoor and mountaineering adventures for years. ![]() ![]() Suzanne describes it as happening in slow motion – an image forever etched in her memory. It was an incident that happened more than two decades ago though that changed her life and eventually paved the way for a future in search and rescue missions: She witnessed the death of a close friend as he slipped off a granite rock atop a waterfall, near Yosemite Park. Suzanne has been part of the K9 Search and Rescue Team for over thirteen years. I asked why each of them became rescuers: Suzanne, Bosse and Keb (search and rescue dogs) All four are members of the Everett Mountain Rescue Unit. These teams were among the first responders to the mudslide and - like many other specialty rescue teams - made up of entirely of volunteers. I had the pleasure of interviewing four of our very own Mountaineer members who helped out during the Oso rescue: Suzanne Elshult and Chris Terpstra of the K9 Search and Rescue Team, and Dave Zulinke and Oyvind Henningsen of the Helicopter Rescue Team. Unlike historical tragedies, they had a major advantage: highly skilled and organized rescue teams. But to the people of Oso, it was very real. To me, it seemed like something out of a history book – before land surveillance and building regulations. It covered a square mile and engulfed nearly 50 homes in Steelhead Haven, Oso. On March 22, 2014, a natural disaster hit the state of Washington in the form of a massive mudslide. Klatte, M., Bergström, K., & Lachmann, T. Sensitivity to visual and auditory stimuli in children with developmental dyslexia. Multisensory integration: perceptual grouping by eye and ear. Retrieved from: year=2001 volume=4 issue=13 spage=51 epage=70 aulast=Hughes The intrusiveness of sound: Laboratory findings and their implications for noise abatement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 109(41), 16731-16736. Assistive listening devices drive neuroplasticity in children with dyslexia. Hornickel, J., Zecker, S.G., Bradlow, A.R., & Kraus, N. Development of auditory sensory memory from 2 to 6 years: an MMN study. Glass, E., Sachse, S., & von Suchodoletz, W. Restorative Neurology and Neurosciences, 25(3-4), 295-310. Neural correlates of rapid auditory processing are disrupted in children with developmental dyslexia and ameliorated with training: an fMRI study. Gaab, N., Gabrieli, J.D., Deutsch, G.K., et al. Nonauditory Effects of Noise on Children: A Critical Review. Retrieved from: Įvans, G.W., & Lepore, S.J. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 9, 407-422. Apartment Noise, Auditory Discrimination, and Reading Ability in Children. Retrieved from: Ĭohen, S., Glass, D.C., & Singer, J.E. ![]() Exposure-Effect Relations between Aircraft and Road Traffic Noise Exposure at School and Reading Comprehension: The RANCH Project. Environmental Noise Retards Auditory Cortical Development. Retrieved from: Ĭhang, E.F., & Merzenich, M.M. Context-Dependent Encoding in the Human Auditory Brainstem Relates to Hearing Speech in Noise: Implications for Developmental Dyslexia. Retrieved from: Ĭhandrasekaran, B., Hornickel, J., Skoe, E., et al. Children’s performance on pseudoword repetition depends on auditory trace quality: evidence from event-related potentials. Retrieved from: Ĭeponiene, R., Service, E., Kurjenluoma, S., et al. Auditory attention activates peripheral visual cortex. Retrieved from: Ĭate, A.D., Herron, T.J., Yund, E.W., et al. Difficulties in auditory organisation as a possible cause of reading backwardness. While noise occurring in classrooms has been extensively studied for its effects on learning, little is known about the effects of ambient noise in homes: Further study is needed.īradley, L.E., & Bryant, P.E. Delayed recognition inhibits fluency in reading, both silently and aloud, and can be a significant cause of dyslexia. This in turn inhibits recognition of correspondences between letter sequences and word sounds (Bradley & Bryant, 1978). Delays in auditory processing, which are often caused by persistent ambient noise, can inhibit the grouping of written words with similar sounds, as in rhymes and assonance, into recognised patterns. The process of learning to read involves sub-vocalising, sounding out phonemes and words internally in association with the auditory memory, in a reprocessing of the phoneme formation skills practised by the very young child learning to speak. Reading, typically regarded as a visual activity, has an auditory foundation. Thus, sensory perception may be less easily divided and categorised than we have been led to believe by the traditional model of five discrete senses. Findings from databases in neurology and psychology indicate that accurate auditory processing is crucial to successful acquisition of skills in both reading and writing. ![]() Although hearing is the ‘second sense’ in our species, taking up a smaller proportion of cerebral real estate than vision, such territorial concepts are not accurate maps. ![]() Record who's in attendance of the meeting. If there are previous meetings that have taken place, review those and see if there are any follow-ups to action items that need to be revisited at this meeting. Determine who is supposed to be at the meeting, and what topics are on deck for discussion at the meeting. Depending on the nature of the meeting, you may require a more formal style of board room minutes or choosing a more simple style of recording notes. Here are meeting minute templates and examples to consider. For instance, it might be difficult to take it down with pen and paper if you'll need to retype the notes later on to share with others.Ĭhoose a format for your meeting minutes. This could be in Notejoy, a physical notebook, or an audio recorder Think about your tool in the context not only of how you'll take down the notes, but how you plan to share out the information later on. Getting into the habit of taking meeting minutes is good practice. A common example of this is board meetings, where the meeting minutes serve as the legal record of what took place. In some instances, meeting minutes may be required for legal reasons. The person in charge of taking minutes is responsible for preparing for the meeting, accurately documenting what happened, and distributing the notes afterward. Good meeting minutes will communicate not only what was decided but also what they need to achieve by when. It's important not only as the record to look back at what happened, but also as a communication tool to help those present stay up to date. Meeting minutes are the notes that serve as the official record of what happened at a meeting. A beast that has a habit of kneeling down or that works itself on its knees in rising. ![]() A bead, a kind of pebble worn as a charm.A basket or bag in which earth is raised from the bottom of a well in clearing it.A bare containers country where there is no water or inhabitants.Slapping the hands, the sound of such, the plate of a gun lock, a stick forming a part of the wheel of a water wheel, strong desire, longing after, yearning, absorption of mind in devotion, S The juice of t A bandit, one of a band of thieves or robbers.S A deed of lease, a written grant of land on fixed terms for one or more seasons. a band worn by women across the forehead a fillet. A band, a board strip in cloth, a strip of leather, paper etc.A band round a scabbard to which the suspension rings are attached.L A flat chisel-shaped instrument for scraping up grass with, a grass scraper. A band of the waist, an ornamental piece of harness over a horse’s chest.A band of singers and dancers, a set of dancing girls with their musicians.The covering up the face with a cloth to defend it from hot wind &c. A balustrade, railing, palisade, a raised edging round anything as a defense to keep things from falling off.A ball or lump of anything, a pellet, a wen, bump, excrescence, tumor.A large oar worked from the rear of a vessel. A ball of sugar, a kind of sugar made up in balls.to mount one upon a jackass) applied to a mode of punishment common in the east. To lay out a chessboard.) To lay extensive plans, to make large speculations, etc. to expect a thing in an incredibly short time. to demand heaven on the palm of the hand) i.e. to cock a hat) i.e To indulge in pride, to be conceited. a spoon for every pot) adaptive, a busybody, sponger, a mischief- maker. He sets my house on fire only to roast his eggs. a goat should not be slaughtered, for the sake of getting out its liver) cf. (He is) not wanted anywhere (said of a perfectly useless fellow).of ‘Damaged.’) Heaving a stain on one’s character. (A child) born after much anxiety and longing a person anxious and longing for an off-spring.(1)To leer (in anger).(2)A sidelong look of a dying person (denoting loss of consciousness).(1) To have an evil eye (on a person). ![]()
![]() Coping with Bloodlust:ĭealing with Bloodlust then is much less of a problem that it was before but a lot of the strategy that was used previously still applies to the latest rules. As you can no longer lose that action, whereas before you may have chosen to Blitz with a Thrall if you were out of rerolls, you can now Blitz with a Vampire instead without fear of losing the Blitz action for the turn. ![]() Action was a great help and gives you a much greater control over failing Bloodlust than before. That last change of not losing your Blitz, Pass etc. Now you can still perform that action and only have to change a Block Action to a Move one, with all the other possible actions letting you move next to a Thrall if necessary anyway. You also lost any declared action, being forced to take a move action instead. ![]() The changes now mean that you can only Badly Hurt your Thrall team mates when biting them, before there was no such limit meaning killing your team mates was possible. The current version of the rules have made it lot easier to deal with than the original incarnation, though it is still one of the few ways a player can hurt someone on their own team. The only way to recreate a powerful representation of what a Vampire player would be capable of was to give them a negative trait, which comes in the form of Bloodlust. If he was holding the ball, it bounces from the square he occupied if he was removed and he will not score a touchdown if he was in the opposing end zone. Failure to bite a Thrall is a turnover and requires him to feed on a spectator – move the Vampire to the reserves box if he was still on the pitch. Once the Vampire has bitten a Thrall he may complete his Action. The injury will not cause a turnover unless the Thrall was holding the ball. If he is standing adjacent to one or more Thrall team-mates (standing, prone or stunned), then choose one to bite and make an Injury roll on the Thrall treating any casualty as Badly Hurt. Either way, at the end of the declared Action, but before actually passing, handing off, or scoring, the Vampire must feed. The Vampire may continue with his declared Action or if he declared a Block Action, he may take a Move Action instead. On a 1, however, the Vampire must feed on a Thrall team-mate or a spectator. Vampires must occasionally feed on the blood of the living, Immediately after declaring an Action with a Vampire, roll a d6: On a 2+ the Vampire can carry out the Action as normal. ![]() However, it can hinder other aspects of your game. Using a heavier cue stick can help you achieve specific goals. The disadvantage of using a heavier pool cue For instance, the heavier cue stick is better for a professional player who wants to apply maximum force to the cue ball when it hits the ball. Some people will find that using a heavier cue suits them better. A heavier cue stick is more flexible in playing methods than a lighter one. You can use a heavy or light cue stick depending on the material of the cue. About heavier pool cue What are the Optimal Pool Cue Weights (Basic Explained) – Pearsoncues The advantage of using a heavier pool cue The most crucial advice concerning choices for the optimal pool cue weights is to check out the pros and cons of the two main types of pool stick weights below. Changing after that is acceptable, and a weight bolt can also be removed from the cue when needed. It is better to try multiple cues over some games or weeks to see which fits best to your physical ability. However, most people start playing with pool sticks weights between 19 and 20 ounces. So, what best pool cue weight do you need? That’s dependent on the individual and each one’s preferences. Discover two main types of pool stick weights They like more vital cues for breaking shots, for example, and softer cues for skill shots. Available pool sticks range from a low of about 15 to 27 ounces, an extra half-pound over the pro cue.Īdditionally, pro players are more specific regarding weight and consider it based on how it helps them perform their favorite shots. The pros use cues that weigh 19 to 19.5 ounces. ![]() Like choosing your cue tip diameter, it is essential to consider your skill level when selecting your stick weight. Pool cue sticks also come in many different weights. What pool cue weight do the professional pool players use? However, the lighter break cue is better for cue velocity and breaking the balls.įor more detailed information about tips to choose a pool cue, you can check out here. If you’re unsure about the cue stick weight, choose a 19-ounce cue stick. You can try out different cue sticks by playing several games to find out which one is better suited to you. Therefore, the suggested cue stick weight range for beginners is between 19 and 20 ounces. 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