![]() ![]() ![]() I can almost go anywhere and communicate with the locals, which is quite comforting. I know for me, knowing all these different languages has really helped me a lot in my career. I definitely think learning languages is really important for kids. Do you think it is important for American schools to implement strong language programs, so that children get to be fluent in another language? Why or why not? They understand some of it, but they don’t really speak it unfortunately. My native language is called Amharic, and I do speak to my kids in Amharic. What is your native language, and do you speak your native language with your children? What other languages have you mastered? I came to America right after high school because I wanted to have a better opportunity at life, and modeling was something I really wanted to do. What brought you to America? How old were you at the time? Nécessité caught up with Kedebe to get the inside scoop on her ever-evolving career, how she’s bringing jobs back to her native country, and her epic new collaboration with Valentino’s Pierpaolo Piccioli. But there’s so much more to the self-described introvert than what you’ve seen in magazines. You probably know her name, and you definitely know her face - but do you really know Liya Kebede? The Ethiopian model has been in the spotlight for nearly two decades in almost every way imaginable: As a model (she got her start with Tom Ford at Gucci) as an actress (we loved her in Desert Flower ) as an activist (she parlayed a Goodwill Ambassadorship into a charitable foundation of her own) as a designer (her brand, Lemlem, is the epitome of boho chic). ![]()
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![]() This mortgage calculator shows your mortgage costs with PMI However, to ensure your home is covered for damage caused by fires, lightning strikes, and natural disasters that can affect your area, most people would recommend keeping it. Lenders do this because they know from experience that no one wants to pay a mortgage on a property that’s burned down, damaged, or destroyed.įun fact: When you own your home free and clear, the decision to keep homeowners insurance is all yours. Your lender will typically insist on you having homeowners insurance while you’re paying off your mortgage. If you fall behind on your property taxes, you could end up losing your home to your local tax authority. ![]() Once your mortgage is paid off, you’ll still be required to pay property taxes. These services include schools, libraries, roads, parks, water treatment, the police, and the fire department. The property taxes you pay help fund the services your local government provides for the community. Often these costs will be rolled in with your mortgage payments as it’s important-to both you and your lender-that these bills stay current to protect your investment. ![]() When you own a home, you’re responsible for paying property taxes and homeowners insurance. Buying in an area with a lower property tax rate may make it easier for you to afford a higher-priced home. To see how much home you can afford including these costs, take a look at the Better home affordability calculator.įun fact: Property tax rates are extremely localized, so 2 homes of roughly the same size and quality on either side of a municipal border could have very different tax rates. The only amounts we haven’t included are the money you’ll need to save for annual home maintenance/repairs or the costs of home improvements. If you’re thinking about buying a condo or into a community with a Homeowners Association (HOA), you can add HOA fees. ![]() As the costs of utilities can vary from county to county, we’ve included a utilities estimate that you can break down by service. If you enter a down payment amount that’s less than 20% of the home price, private mortgage insurance (PMI) costs will be added to your monthly mortgage payment. Play around with different home prices, locations, down payments, interest rates, and mortgage lengths to see how they impact your monthly mortgage payments. So you can really crunch the numbers, we’ve included all the typical monthly costs you’ll be responsible for once you own a home. Your monthly mortgage costs include more than just loan payments and interest. ![]() ![]() ![]() Upgrading the graphics card is fairly simple and can be done using the Apple-supplied and supported Radeon HD 5770 kit that is available from the Apple Store. A new procedure outlined at Jabbawok's blog (derived from a procedure outlined at originally for using the 64-bit kernel on older Mac Pro systems) shows that these systems can be used to run Mountain Lion by first upgrading their graphics cards and then using an emulated 64-bit EFI firmware that is commonly used to load and manage multiple operating systems on PC hardware. While these details have prevented Apple from officially supporting these systems, for those who own them there is a ray of light that may allow them to run Mountain Lion, if they so choose. While some have argued that Apple could potentially make its 64-bit kernel run on systems with 32-bit firmware, Apple has not done so and likely will not take any steps to implement this or provide firmware upgrades for the unsupported Mac Pro systems. For these models, the only detail preventing Mountain Lion from running is a compatibility with the systems' firmware. These developments were disappointing for early adopters of Apple's Intel Macs, especially when the Mac Pro with its multiple 64-bit Xeon processors, ample RAM capabilities, and options for graphics card upgrades ought to run the new OS just fine. ![]() Unfortunately, despite their inclusion of fully 64-bit capable CPUs, the first Mac Pros use 32-bit EFI firmware. Additionally, the OS no longer includes a 32-bit version of the OS X kernel, meaning it will not load on systems that have either 32-bit chips or 32-bit EFI firmware. First, Mountain Lion has new graphics requirements that cannot be performed with the older Geforce 7300GT and Radeon X1900XT GPUs that shipped with the first Mac Pros. The reason for these limitations revolved around two aspects of the new OS. ![]() ![]() ![]() Change precision of selected dimensions.A misc button has been added to the Select toolbar tab with the following new functions:.This makes it easy to have a light colored background image. You can now adjust the brightness and color saturation of imported images, or make them Black and White.You can change the units of a drawing, without having to re-draw anything. Units have been added to drawing scale to make it very easy to draw in any units (inches, feet, yards, miles, millimeters, centimeters, meters, kilometers, etc.).Unicode text is now supported, so you can enter virtually any character in any language.The internal precision for x/y drawing coordinates has been increased to an almost unlimited size.Create bill-of-materials from grouped objects.Groups may be easily edited, ungrouped, or copied to other parts of the drawing. 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Draws points, lines, circles, ellipses, arcs, splines, text, curved text, spline text, dimensions, squares, rectangles, triangles, or any misc.Draws accurately scaled pictures with absolute precision.On-screen instructions help guide the user.Simplified user interface makes it easy to learn and use.You can use macros to automatically create objects, or to read in data which you have drawn.ĭeltaCad can be used for drafting, house plans, decks, landscape design, newsletters, brochures, flyers, graphs and charts, presentations, instructions, office or furniture layouts, technical illustrations, business cards, forms, signs, labels, organization charts, flow charts, home or school projects, maps, schematics, pretty pictures, etc. DeltaCad allows you to zoom in to draw fine details or zoom out to see the whole drawing.ĭeltaCad can be extended by writing your own custom macros in the AppleScript programming language. DeltaCad is more than just a paint program, because you can edit, scale, move, rotate, copy, etc., individual objects, not just paint pixels. It can produce accurately scaled architectural or mechanical drawings, or just pretty pictures to paste into your favorite word processor. dwg file formats are supported.DeltaCad is a powerful, easy-to-learn CAD (computer-aided design) program designed to meet all of your CAD needs. ![]() Several more macro examples have been added. Drawing forms for metric drawings have been added (A0, A1, A2, A3, A4_P, A4_L, A5, A6). There is an option for an isometric grid. You can now change the color, size and shape of the snap mode indicator. If you set a Selected objects base point, it is now visible on the drawing. Added an option for a leading zero on dimensions, so. If the drawing units (inches, millimeters, etc.) are changed, dimension text will automatically be re-calculated. A "Find Drawing" button has been added to the View toolbar tab to help find the drawing if you have accidentally zoomed out too far, and you can't find the drawing. Move selected objects to bottom of Z-order. Move selected objects from the select base point to the origin. A misc button has been added to the Select toolbar tab with the following new functions: You can now adjust the brightness and color saturation of imported images, or make them Black and White. Units have been added to drawing scale to make it very easy to draw in any units (inches, feet, yards, miles, millimeters, centimeters, meters, kilometers, etc.). ![]() Unicode text is now supported, so you can enter virtually any character in any language. The internal precision for x/y drawing coordinates has been increased to an almost unlimited size. ![]() ![]() You are entitled to a replacement or refund for a major failure and for compensation for any other reasonably foreseeable loss or damage. 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![]() ![]() The first should be done in a couple of weeks and I'll post it when it's completed. I'm working on a series of composited images. I think you can do similar with refine edge, but old habits die hard. As you move the levels sliders ou can watch the mask choking in or spreading against the underlying layer. Slightly blur the mask and apply levels from the main menu. There's an old trick for fine-tuning the edge of a mask that's too harsh or shows halos. Using a duplicate of the extracted layer made prior to choking, I place it below the choked layer in multiply mode. If I'm extracting a subject from a background that isn't compatible with the target background, in terms of luminosity, I filter the mask with minimum or maximum (choke or spread) to retract it a bit. ![]() ![]() That hair mask I made above comes with a little trick attached. Match color is great for making the image appear compatible in term of color pallet, I use it all the time. What else softens the paper cutout look? Maybe some transparency brushed in with the eraser tool set low and soft? Match color layers? Foreground colors tend to be more vivid, and background tends to be more desaturated as the distance increases. I might use the burn tool to calm down the look of compositing and get the lighting more believable. Same for lighting and shading adjustments - brighter to punch the subject and often darker to subordinate the background. Harvey Bogart - photo-bomb at Rick's Café For hair wisps, watch the 3rd one, lower right called "hair masking": Īfter the mask is made and we are back in Photoshop, what are some of the best tools or techniques for blending the composites images together in a natural way? I tend to go next to the brightness/contrast sliders to make the layers the way I like them, usually more vivid in the foreground to punch the subject and lower contrast to subordinate or separate the distance the background. I realize this is not a fuzzy hair photo, but the background was cluttered and there were several areas not too clearly defined in darkness and iphone noise. Watching the effects of remask tool strokes on the grey background as I apply the strokes to the other images is what made it easy. I can quickly clean up the lines on the near zero contrast dark half of the image with a few brush strokes. I fiddled with my own plug-in shortcut from the installation files, and it then worked on CS6-64 I know the detail of the hairs coming out of his ears does not show here, but it's well extracted on the lighted side of the image without extraction outlines. Note: the Topaz ReMask3 I had was not listed as compatible for over CS5 and would not show up under my filters list with a normal installation. This removes all the guess work from the "contaminated" areas. I could use the tools on any screen, and watch the effects on the other screens. For cleaning up the difficult areas, I found it easiest to work in the 4-image split screen mode. The tools are simple, fast and effective. I had several areas of low contrast that had to be computed by Topaz. ![]() I went through their basic tutorials with a difficult, dark and noisy iphone photo in CS6 to challenge these tools. I think most people that habituate the digital forum are beyond tired of all the posturing that goes on in here.ĭid I write something similar that you are "unprofessional idiot" ? Did I write that? I answered very kindly ( read again my post) and told you my experience with masks and at the end I don't understand your attack? Anyway, wish you the best and good luck. If you don't get quality results with a plug in, state your case for why, and then shut your mouth. I'm getting wonderful results with Remask in my work flow, and for you to tell me I'm less than professional for using it is not only rude, it's stupid. I think the plug ins are pretty much like any other tool in the box, you get what you want from them and move on. Responses like that are what's killing this forum. You guys pretty much always sing the same tune, which is if you don't do it my way, you're a moron. There are a number of people on MM that post in here in a similar fashion. What you are telling me is that I'm an unprofessional idiot. If you want real top professional results with perfect seamless blending, one and only way step by step pixel extraction of skin edges and then softening of skin edges and color decontamination. For my work I never use any plug in masks, simply it doesn't work. With some files you can get some decent results with these masks but again even these files will have some "halo edges". I have tried one zillion times to make easy extraction, with one zillion settings, masks, Vertus, Topaz, etc and no way for top professional results. Robert, do not expect too much with plug-ins, you already know that. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Once you add the “oh shit” sightings and break-ins of the bigger dino threats, you’ve got quite the neat little package going here. You’ll find them suddenly tunnelling out of the ground and jumping all over you while special types of raptors are simultaneously screaming for more reinforcements to send things out of control. The way in which dinosaur hordes often break the silence and suddenly swarm you is brilliantly executed. The Left 4 Dead -like chaos and heart-pounding action is certainly Second Extinction ’s strongest suit. But all that doesn’t matter too much since the one thing you are actually here for anyway (dino-blasting action!) is plenty of fun on its own. Even the varying objectives themselves are for the most part quite generic and similar: go here, turn on this thing, find this thing, wait out this timer, etc, etc. I’ll keep it as reductive as that because that is more or less all there is to it. The concept here is simple: drop into a world zone, head for an objective and complete it amidst an onslaught of raptor swarms, bull-charging Triceratops and occasionally, of course, the king himself: the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Now making its way into Xbox’s Game Preview system, Systemic Reaction’s Second Extinction combines the group survival shooter franticness of Left 4 Dead with the dino-splicing action of Turok and the Jurassic Park films.īased on this description, don’t come into this expecting many new or ground-breaking elements, but plenty of chaotic fun is still to be had with Second Extinction ’s work-in-progress dino-blasting package. ![]() Life finds a way to swarm and overwhelm you with razor sharp teeth, acid spits and colossal kings of the jungle in the newly released early access title, Second Extinction. ![]() ![]() ![]() When I went along the road to give some lady her meat I saw three Heinkel 111 twin engine bombers. After that I went out and played stick and wheel. This afternoon I stirred my mother’s pudding and wished. Tonight I played cards with my mother and father. I went to Sunday school and we sang ‘Who Would True Valour See?’ After that I played stick and wheel. I helped my father clear out the chicken house this morning. This afternoon I went over the hills and found a German steel helmet. This morning the siren went and we missed our P.T. He told us to learn a poem called ‘Weathers’, and we wrote it in our exercise books…….A Nazi bomber was brought down at Newhaven just before we went out. This morning Mr Gordon told us some Spooners. One is a picture of a Syrian bear and the other has the picture of an ibis on it. It had a camel on it with pyramids in the background. Sid Why kept on crying this morning because he lost his sum book. The last part was where the boy was falling over a cliff. This afternoon I went to church and the man told us a story. Jim Lang kept on boasting that he could whack Alfie Pacham up while we were changing. Gordon said that if we got our opponent’s shoulder on the ground and kept them there while he counted three, we would win. ![]() Then we had to go in and wrestle each other. this morning we had to take the four mats and stand round them. I found a revolver, a pot of white paint and an electric light switch. ![]() This morning everyone at playtime was looking at two enemy bombers. ![]() ![]() Moreover, the debugger does not show these variables in the Variables zone due to Xdebug bug #546. Reads of the variables extracted are reported as errors. PHP's extract() function is problematic.To deal with this, either perform a dummy modification of all reverted files (for example, add a space and then remove it) or set Smarty to recompile always and accept a performance hit for every request. This means Local history reverts performed by PhpStorm will not be reflected in Tiki until template cache is cleared, by default. As of PhpStorm 2017.2.1, there is apparently no setting to control that behavior. Using PhpStorm's Revert action from Local history sets the reverted file's timestamp to the time the original version was created, rather than the time the reversion was performed. Tiki's default Smarty cache behavior is to compile only if a template file's timestamp is newer than the timestamp recorded on the latest compilation.Find in Path can be unwarrantedly sluggish (see IDEA-157017 )."Find in Path" forgets the scope when switching between projects.Using "Find Usages" on a global variable in a function will only find usages in that function (see WI-18065 ).Calls to methods through callbacks specified with a simple string are ignored.A method will not show its usages from Smarty templates if the object on which the method is called is assigned from PHP.A method will not show its usages through objects whose type PhpStorm fails to infer."Find Usages" does not necessarily provide an exhaustive list.The history of commit messages cannot be shared between projects (for example, when backporting a change).Specifically, as of version 0.1 (PhpStorm 7.1.5), at least on Windows, direct drag-and-drop from/to Windows Explorer is not supported, unlike Eclipse's Remote System Explorer. The SFTP plugin ( Remote Host) is in development.You can get a free version for use on your Tiki work (see details below)ġ.2.Live templates: create your own idiosyncratic code snippets and insert them by typing an abbreviated name followed by TAB.Git: "Show History for Selection" (rather than annotating a full file).Shelve changes which reverts your current changes and keeps them in a safe(ish) place until you want them back again.Branch merging - as you would expect, far more civilized (and quick) than any other IDE I've tried, and so much more controllable (for me) than using a shell.Code completion on SQL files (fills in tables and column names from your database - thanks Luci ).Tools -> Deployments -> Sync and Diff with Deployment. ![]() Advanced debugging (breakpoint activation when another breakpoint is hit, expression evaluation on hover, etc).View -> Compare with the clipboard (you can merge changes from the clipboard into an open file). ![]() Sounds trivial but it's the first thing I've found that does it correctly in all languages, not just PHP and JS, but Smarty, HTML, and CSS too. (variable, method etc)Ĭommon on Java IDE, but not seen it on PHP Makes me smile, but seriously, the debugger knows what's going on to a far deeper level than any other PHP IDE I've tried
![]() ![]() ![]() “I knew I would discover him through her,” Hughes, whose last project was the acclaimed 2017 docuseries The Defiant Ones, says. ![]() With its dual subjects and nonchronological timeline, Dear Mama is an ambitious undertaking that attempts to provide context rather than any definitive conclusions by examining what Shakur’s mother endured, how it impacted their relationship, and the lasting effect it had on his life. “What made Tupac so great was everything she gave him: good, bad, and ugly,” Hughes, 51, tells me. And although Shakur was explicit about how his mother was a source of his anger as well as his biggest inspiration, Hughes wanted to emphasize how that dynamic impacted his actions. Shakur’s mother, who died in May 2016, is a dominant presence in his music, most famously in the song from which Dear Mama draws its title. After defending herself during the trial, she was acquitted in May 1971, one month before her son was born. In April 1969, she was among the 21 members of the Black Panther Party who were accused of plotting to bomb various buildings and kill police officers in New York City. After all, he and his brother directed Shakur’s first three videos as a solo artist ( “Trapped,” “Brenda’s Got a Baby,” and “If My Homie Calls”), which gave them the cachet to direct Menace ll Society before they could legally drink.ĭear Mama charts the journeys of Shakur and his mother, the activist Afeni Shakur. Hughes knew he’d have to address this (which he does in the documentary), and after much deliberation, he decided that taking on the project was the right decision. It’s also been 30 years since Shakur infamously assaulted Hughes after his firing during the film’s preproduction phase, the culmination of simmering acrimony between onetime friends. Thirty years have passed since Hughes and his twin brother, Albert, broke out at age 21 with their bleak feature-length debut, Menace ll Society. There are many known versions of the song and various different actions can be performed as well (jumping up or kneeling down).What more can be said about Tupac Shakur over 25 years after his death considering the frequent and thorough explorations of his place in the zeitgeist? That’s one question director Allen Hughes had to answer ahead of the five-part FX docuseries Dear Mama: The Saga of Afeni and Tupac Shakur, but Hughes had a bigger obstacle to clear before even agreeing to do the project. Children hold hands and dance around until at the end of each stanza an action is taken – falling down or getting up. “Ring Around the Rosie” is a very popular singing game and it is easy to learn. There is a theory that the lyrics would depict the Great Plague, but this was proved to be unfounded, as this claim originated in the 20th century and was based upon the modern version of the lyrics, not the original ones. A very similar German nursery rhyme and singing game was already published in the 18th century. “Ring a Ring o’ Roses” more commonly known in the USA as “Ring Around the Rosie” is a folksong and singing game that was first published in 1881 in England.Īlthough first published in 1881 only, it is believed that the tune of the song was well known at least one hundred years before as well. ![]() |
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