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![]() Reding spends her free time grilling, water gardening, road and mountain biking, and collecting Southwestern art. Living in New Mexico with her husband, Ms. Elizabeth Eisner Reding has authored numerous books for Delmar and Course Technology on a variety of software programs, including Adobe® Photoshop, Microsoft® Office, and Microsoft® Publisher. He uses his own books as the text for his classes. Chris lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches computer graphics at Sierra Canyon School. Since 2010, Chris has dedicated his career to teaching and working with kids. He is the author of the Revealed Series books on Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign, and he is the co-author of YouTube for Dummies. Studios, and numerous key art ad agencies in Los Angeles. As a professional graphic designer, Chris worked on first-run movie and television campaigns for NBC-Universal, Warner Bros. ![]() He designed movie posters for Miramax Films and served as the art director for Microsoft’s launch of /boston.
![]() Hitting on the same points raised in Jon Krakauer’s Missoula-most notably, that a large percent of college rapes are committed by a small percent of men (read: repeat offenders)- The Hunting Ground is a disturbing examination of how and why nearly one in five women on college campuses experience sexual assault, and the reasons universities rarely pursue or punish the accused. ![]() MOVIE REVIEWĪrguably the most powerful documentary you’ll see all year, The Hunting Ground is the controversial exposé on rape at college campuses. In honor of tonights screening of The Hunting Ground, a documentary about sexual assault on. Weaving together verité footage and first-person testimonies, the film follows survivors as they pursue their education while fighting for justice - despite harsh retaliation, harassment and pushback at every level. campuses, institutional cover-ups and the brutal social toll on victims and their families. From the team behind THE INVISIBLE WAR, comes a startling exposé of rape crimes on U.S. ![]() But unlike when major companies like Colonial Pipeline were hacked and held ransom, these attackers don't actually have to hack into their targets to hold their services hostage. The criminals involved in these recent VoIP attacks are financially motivated. "I spent my career building big chunks of internet infrastructure, and I'm here to tell you that the internet really is just a series of tubes and those tubes have a certain amount of capacity," says Prince of Cloudflare. While companies like Bandwidth expect a certain amount of legitimate traffic from users trying to make calls and send text messages, a DDoS attack involves bad actors directing a gargantuan number of illegitimate digital requests to its servers, overwhelming their ability to respond. Previous attacks had targeted smaller providers, but Bandwidth became the biggest company to suffer a DDoS, or "distributed denial of service," attack. That collective panic kicked off when the digital communications provider got hit by a digital extortion campaign in late September, Posner says. These extortionists don't actually have to hack victims to be a threat "I think the point that we're at right now is what we see is that there's a sort of huge spectrum in terms of preparedness: from organizations that don't know about the problem and are prepared, to organizations that know about the problem but aren't able to invest or are willing to invest because they don't think it relates to them," says Jen Ellis, vice president of community and public affairs for cybersecurity firm Rapid7 and who also served on the Ransomware Task Force, a public-private sector collaboration. It's not just the big banks or major corporations in the sights of criminal hackers - it's everyone and anyone who can and will pay to get their businesses back online. Several of the experts interviewed by NPR agreed that the digital telecommunications industry was unprepared for this latest onslaught and has been forced to rethink their defensive strategy in a hurry. While providers' themselves are mostly keeping quiet about these attacks, issuing terse email updates and sometimes social media posts to inform their customers about repeated outages, the security experts working with them are noticing a collective shift in mindset. "In layman's terms, people are freaking out," says Fred Posner, a VoIP security specialist. Specialists on forums for network operators started posting about the attacks, discussing what to do. Prince and other security providers who focus on digital communications started noticing an uptick in attacks on VoIP services this fall. The digital telecommunications industry is scrambling to gird against attacks "The challenge is that when you put all of the phone system on the internet, it exposes it to all of the other things that can go wrong on the internet," says Matthew Prince, CEO and co-founder of Cloudflare, a company that provides protection against the kinds of attacks currently hitting internet phone providers. Call center companies handle over 1 million digital calls a day.īut if those companies that manage digital phone lines come under attack by a tsunami of fake callers, the behind-the-scenes mechanisms for beaming voices online begins to crumble fairly quickly. Large carriers and telecommunication companies often use VoIP to handle calls or connections between providers, while smaller carriers are routing tens of thousands of simultaneous calls over the internet. Small companies and people living overseas might have been using purely digital phone lines for years to reach customers, friends and family abroad. It's much cheaper and often more accessible and scalable, a staple of working from home during the coronavirus pandemic. It's probably a bigger part of our lives than many people realize. Like landline providers, companies that manage digital phone calls, also known as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, are required to transmit audio in real time, facilitating personal, business and even emergency calls. What those extortionists have discovered is that the number of phone calls that take place at least partially over the internet has quietly and dramatically increased in recent years - and there's a lot at stake when major providers go down. (Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images)Ĭriminal groups have been sending threatening messages in the past couple of months to companies that manage broadband phone services all over the world, promising they'll flood the digital phone lines with traffic and take them offline unless the targets pay a ransom. Security providers that focus on digital communications started noticing an uptick in attacks on companies that manage digital phone call services this fall. ![]() (1) Some decoders apply DRC (Dynamic Range Compression). This is a conflict which can not always be solved. We reencoders absolutely want to avoid any processing on the precious audio data. A media player may want to adjust volume levels to specific parameters and circumstances. The first problem has to do with that the purpose of a media player is different than the purpose of people like us who want to reencode audio tracks. Please note that there are three common problems with "properly" decoding compressed audio tracks. So please use/install Nero 7 if you want to use Nero DirectShow filters in eac3to. Nero 9 is currently not supported, either. Nero 8 won't work for eac3to cause Nero 8 doesn't allow its DirectShow filters to be used from outside of Nero ShowTime. If you prefer a graphical user interface, here are three choices (not written by me): Not written by me, not finished yet, but definitely worth a look: (1) SurCode DVD DTS - version 1.0.21 or newer (3) WAVs (multiple mono WAV files, PCM only) (4) DTS, DTS-ES, DTS-96/24, DTS-HD Hi-Res, DTS-HD Master Audioĭecoded audio data can be stored as / encoded to: shutdown automatically shutdown the PC after processing is done lowPriority moves processing to background/idle priority test checks if the external filters are installed & working check checks if the source EVO/(M2)TS file is clean. seekToIFrames make all h264/AVC "I" frames seekable keepPulldown disable removal of pulldown for MPEG2, h264 and VC-1 tracks stripPulldown strips the pulldown from MPEG2 video tracks demux demuxes 1st video track and all audio and subtitle tracks decodeHdcd decodes HDCD source track (usually 16 -> 20 bit) keepDialnorm disables dialog normalization removal (not recommended) force the use of a specific decoder (not recommended) override forcefully overrides PCM auto detection with manual values little define PCM file to be "little" or "big" endian 16 define PCM file to be "16" or "24" bit 8 define PCM file to be "1"."8" channels quality=0.50 Nero AAC encoding quality (0.00 = lowest 1.00 = highest) r8brain use r8brain resampler instead of SSRC down16 downconvert decoded audio data to 14.23 bit mixlfe mix LFE in (when doing stereo downmixing, see "down2") phaseShift shift phase (when doing stereo downmixing, see "down2") downStereo downmix multi channel audio to simple Stereo downDpl downmix multi channel audio to Dolby Pro Logic II down6 downmix 7 or 8 channels to 6 channels silence/-loop forces usage of silence (or looping) for audio edits edit=0:00:00,0ms loops or removes audio data at the specified runtime 0,1,2,3,4,5 remap the channels to the specified order +/-3dB apply a positive or negative audio gain (volume change) +/-100ms apply a positive or negative audio delay core extract the DTS core of a DTS-HD track can remove pulldown flags from MPEG2, VC-1 and h264 video tracksĮac3to sourcefile Įac3to source.thd destination.flac destination.ac3Įac3to source.evo 1: chapters.txt 2: video.mkv 3: audio.flac 5: subtitle.supĮac3to feature_1.evo+feature_2.evo movie.mkv ![]() can mux MPEG2, VC-1 and h264 video tracks to Matroska can extract Blu-Ray and HD DVD chapter information and subtitles can list available titles of Blu-Ray and HD DVD discs can demux video / audio tracks of EVO/VOB/(M2)TS and MKV sources can apply/reverse PAL speedup on decoded audio data (SSRC/r8brain) can resample decoded audio data (using SSRC or r8brain) can reduce bitdepth of decoded audio data by using TPDF dithering can apply positive or negative audio delays can remove DTS zero padding and repair outdated DTS-ES headers can extract DTS core from DTS-HD tracks can extract TrueHD stream from Blu-Ray TrueHD/AC3 tracks can extract AC3 stream from Blu-Ray TrueHD/AC3 tracks can remove dialog normalization from AC3, E-AC3, DTS and TrueHD tracks can decode and encode various audio formats can show information about audio, video, VOB/EVO/(M2)TS and MKV files ![]() ![]() A knowledge- based expert system was used to automatically produce image maps from Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) data showing the principal surface mineralogy. Integrated analysis of imaging spectrometer data and field spectral measurements were used in conjunction with conventional geologic field mapping to characterize bedrock and surficial geology at the northern end of Death Valley, California and Nevada. This paper introduces an innovative application of smartphones as a very low cost portable MMS for mapping and GIS applications.Įxpert system-based mineral mapping using AVIRIS Using all of these components, smartphones have the potential to replace the traditional land MMS and portable GPS/GIS equipment. Smartphones, in addition to becoming status symbols, are increasingly being equipped with extended Global Positioning System (GPS) capabilities, Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) inertial sensors, extremely powerful computing power and very high resolution cameras. Phone makers are determined to reduce the gap between computers and mobile phones. Today's mobile phones are getting ever more sophisticated. As a consequence of the platform and navigation and mapping technologies used, even an "inexpensive" system costs well over 200 000 USD. However, this accuracy doesn't come cheaply. Such systems obtain accuracies that are suitable for all but the most demanding mapping and engineering applications. cars, airplanes, boats, etc.) to obtain the 3D coordinates of the points of interest. MMS integrate various navigation and remote sensing technologies which allow mapping from moving platforms (e.g. For mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) projects, this has been achieved through the major development of Mobile Mapping Systems (MMS). This demand has numerous sources and takes many forms however, the net effect is an ever-increasing thirst for data that is more accurate, has higher density, is produced more rapidly, and is acquired less expensively. The past 20 years have witnessed an explosive growth in the demand for geo-spatial data. hupensis snail monitoring system, which is based on Baidu Map, is a visible platform to follow the process of snailsearching and molluscaciding. ![]() hupensis snails could be obtained through the computer and smartphone simultaneously. hupensis Snail Monitoring Environmental Database, Dynamic Monitoring Platform and Electronic Map. hupensis snail monitoring system based on the Baidu Map were built up, including three modules of O. Geographic Information System (GIS) and the electronic fence technology and Application Program Interface (API) were applied to set up the electronic fence of the snail surveillance environments, and the electronic fence was connected to the database of the snail surveillance. hupensis snail monitoring system was built. was collected with the monitoring data about different kinds of O. The environmental basic information about historical snail environment and existing snail environment, etc. To construct the Oncomelania hupensis snail monitoring system based on the Baidu Map. Zhi-Hua, Chen Yi-Sheng, Zhu Zhi-Qiang, Xue Xue-Bing, Li Yi-Min, Ding Li-Jun, Bi Kai-Min, Gao You, Zhang ![]() ![]() In the United Kingdom, “Let Me Love You” debuted at number two, behind Major Lazer’s “Cold Water” (another song featuring Bieber), on the UK Singles Chart, with 40,000 digital downloads. It reached number four the following week. The single opened at number-one on Digital Songs with 113,000 downloads, becoming DJ Snake’s first and Bieber’s sixth number-one on the chart.On the issue dated 1 October 2016, “Let Me Love You” advanced six places to reach number six, becoming DJ Snake’s third top 10 and Bieber’s twelfth top 10 single. In the United States, “Let Me Love You” debuted at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 on the issue dated 27 August 2016. The song follows a chord progression of Cm7 – E♭ – E♭/G – A♭ – E♭/G – A♭, and Bieber’s vocals span from C4 to B♭5. “Let Me Love You” is written in the key of E♭ major with a tempo of 100 beats per minute in common time. Remember that by downloading this song you accept our terms and conditions. To start this download Lagu you need to click on Download Button. The song was released on 5 August 2016, through Interscope Records. We have about 28 mp3 files ready to play and download. It features vocals from Canadian singer Justin Bieber.The artists co-wrote the song with Andrew Watt, Ali Tamposi, Brian Lee, and Louis Bell, while the song’s production was handled by DJ Snake. ![]() “Let Me Love You” is a song recorded by French electronic music producer DJ Snake, taken as the third single from his debut studio album, Encore (2016). Something to do with her.DJ Snake feat Justin Bieber – Let Me Love You (Acapella) Being space and music fanatics ourselves we created an amazing musical. If you are passionate with space and rockets you are in for a treat. But is this really true? While we don’t have anyĬoncrete evidence that the song is addressing Gomez, we strongly think it has Let You Let Love Me - Rita Ora - Piano Rockets. Many believe Bieber wrote the lyrics of this song about hisįormer lover Selena Gomez. In the United States, it managed to get to the impressive position of #4 on the Hot 100. On UK’s official Singles Chart, it soared to #2. It reached #1 on charts in the following countries: The song ended up being one of the most successful releases of 2016. DJ Snake released it as the third single from his maiden studio album titled Encore. This collabo officially came out on August 5, 2016. This song was produced by DJ Snake. Both Bieber and Snake co-wrote the song with other songwriters in the persons of: Writing and Production of “Let me Love You” This marking the end of the Post- Frollo Summer Era. ![]() This however, was merely a joke, considering he uploaded a couple more movesets shortly after, being both Zoolander and Hercules in New York (Arnold Schwarznegger). However, in September 27th of 2012, chincherrinas uploaded a moveset on Haruhi Suzumiya, the ending to this video hinted that the series was gonna end because "he ran out of space in the menu". The video is shown below:Ī good bunch of moveset videos were uploaded during that era, all of them being universally acclaimed among fans. Among these changes, the most obvious being the new animated idles and stage revamping. The video featured Scanty & Kneesocks from Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt as the characters featured in that video. In July 17th, 2012, the series was completely revamped, leading to the "Post-Frollo Summer Era" referencing the huge amount of Frollo Show videos uploaded during the previous period. With "what's really good" actually referring to the fact that he was gonna spend more time on his most beloved franchise: The Frollo Show, meaning that SSBL would suffer from a significant drop of duration and quality on his following movesets, which led most fans disappointed. Now I'll get back to working on what's really good." ![]() I thought it would be wise to "pave the road" by first introducing the other 3 characters, who are also very epic characters by themselves and also fueled me into continuing this, but not as much as good ol' Yomi. Yomika's pretty much the reason why I let this thing live. The "controversial" video is shown below:Īfter uploading some character movesets, in April 10th of 2012 chincherrinas uploaded a moveset video on Yomika, a character from a Yume Nikki Fangame. This would all lead to the beginning of the so called: "Post-Morgan era". Despite all this, Pat Cashman hasn't been featured in a single video of the modern version of Smash Bros Lawl, and it's unknown if he's gonna return at all. In his next video, he stated that the game was gonna allow several narrators available and that Morgan Freeman was just one of them. This led many of the fans to rage over chincherrinas and attempted to force him to bring back the old narrator to the game. In the very same video, it was announced that the sentence-mixed version of Pat Cashman (Brawl's narrator) he was using wasn't gonna be used anymore and would be replaced by a sentence mixed version of Morgan Freeman. In March 9th of the same year, chincherrinas announced in one of his videos that he was gonna mark all of his past SSBL videos as part of the "Classic Era" which featured exactly 12 characters and that he was gonna reboot the series into a more unique and serious project, maintaining the original 12 and their respective stages though. ![]() Near the beginning of the year 2012, Smash Bros Lawl would be overshadowed by another one of chincherrinas' works: The Frollo Show, so the franchise was left behind a couple of months. Shortly after, he released an Assist Trophies video, however, it was shut down from Youtube due to unknown reasons, and it's nowadays only available in Smash Bros Lawl's Facebook Page. One point of criticism towards the franchise was the fact that Lawl merely used SSBB stages for his videos, until August 2nd of 2011, were he uploaded the first ever stages video in the franchise. Chincherrinas kept uploading Smash Bros Lawl videos, by the point were it would be his most popular work at the time. ![]() These updates improved the graphics quality and also moved to DirectX 11 as the graphics library upon which the games are based. Download Age Of Empires 2 Definitive Edition On Mac It would appear that Microsoft has reconsidered the decision to end the Age of Empires line, as they’ve recently released two significant updates-Age of Empires: Definitive Edition and Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition. So, you can imagine my dismay when Microsoft announced in 2008 that they were shutting down Ensemble Studios, the development studio for all the Age of Empires titles. The Mac version was ported over, developed and published by Destineer's MacSoft.Īs I‘ve written in earlier blog posts, Age of Empires is my most favorite game of all time.
I only go more naturally to the dark because I want to bring back the light I find there. I don’t excite in the dark as far as following “you know who?” I don’t care to stay in the dark, for the light is good for my complexion and my soul. I am much drawn to the dark, but it’s not for the reasons you think. Isn’t that what we all are feeling (and filling) nowadays? And I, for one, would not have it any other way. He wanted to cover the hole at the toe of the white sock, but I told him, “Don’t you dare! It’s that hole that has truly intrigued me.” Because we walk around with holes not only in our socks but also in our souls. I was drawn in by the bravery of a man daring enough to wear black and white socks at the same time. It’s a mystery.A guest blessed me to photograph his black and white socks for his one pair of shoes. Henslowe explains how a play in production is invariably a disaster heading for utter ruin, but somehow it all works out in the end. Full of life and joy, Shakespeare in Love is a delightful romp of the highest order. It’s romantic, and it’s uproariously funny (it even has a bit with a dog). Like love itself, this is a film that should be enjoyed and savored, not analyzed and picked over. If there’s any serious theme to be found in Shakespeare in Love, it’s one similar to 1998’s Titanic: the idea that love can inspire, even when it’s lost, that it’s possible to go on and make the experience mean something in your life.īut it’s not necessary to search for deeper meanings. Actors are arrogant and writers get no respect - when someone at a rehearsal asks who Will is, Henslowe replies, “Nobody - he’s the author.” Will and Henslowe sit through painfully inept auditions roles go to people Henslowe owes money to, no matter how dreadful they are. Henslowe owes Will money for his last play, One Gentleman of Verona (perhaps it’s the sequel, Two Gentlemen of Verona, that has come down to us). In the background in Will’s house is a souvenir mug from Stratford on Avon Will visits a sixteenth-century shrink who times his sessions with an hourglass. ![]() ![]() The film’s humor ranges from the wonderfully intellectual to snarky movie and theater in-jokes, from sight gags to rapid-fire, reference-laden dialogue. She becomes his muse, inspiring perhaps the greatest of his plays, Romeo and Juliet - Will and Viola even have their own balcony scene, though a decidedly more comic one that the play’s lovers get. But “I will have poetry in my life,” Viola insists, “and adventure, and love, love, love above all.” So, disguised as a boy, she auditions for a new play by Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes), “a writer of plays that capture my heart,” swoons Viola. ![]() In fair London, where we lay our scene, beautiful and rich Viola De Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) dreams only of the theater in a time when women are forbidden to take the stage. A bit of romance, a bit of comedy - isn’t that really all that movie audiences, too, are after? Shakespeare in Love has both in spades, and it’s the first film of its kind to win Best Picture since 1977’s Annie Hall. “Love and a bit with a dog,” that’s all audiences want, according to Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush), owner of London’s Rose Theater. |
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