![]() “Picture” Jasper is sometimes used as a blanket term for any Jasper that appears to create a specific image with its pattern. It is the stone of Archangels Haniel and Sandalphon. In the early days of Christianity, the Bishop of Salamis credited green jasper with the power to drive away evil fantasies. The Ancient Egyptians associated jasper with the menstrual blood of the goddess Isis and believed that it assisted pregnant women and helped with breastfeeding. Jasper helps with quick thinking, organizational skills, and the imagination, allowing you to transform your ideas into action. This stone also promotes determination, helping you to tackle challenges assertively and face your truth with honesty. It provides protection and grounding energy for your physical body. Jasper reminds people that we are all here to help one another. These stones are able to support you during times of stress by providing tranquility. Jasper comes in many different colors, but all are useful for grounding subtle energy that will translate into action in the world. ![]() These stones also aid quick thinking and will re-energize you after recovering from illness. It absorbs negative energy, balances yin/yang, aligns body, mind, spirit, useful for shamanic travel. Jasper unifies all aspects of your life, reminding people to help each other. The Jasper family of stones comes with a lot of titles – supreme nurturer, stone of courage, stone of wisdom – and no matter what type you favor or choose, these qualities are present in all of them. It can also provide protection during creative visualization. Picture Jasper comforts and alleviates fear regarding past and present life issues. Those who can decipher these pictures are thought to achieve a sense of proportion and find harmony in their lives. It is said that she uses this type of jasper to speak to her children through patterns and images. Picture Jasperis a stone of the Earth Mother.
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![]() This is easily the smoothest automatic beat gridding I’ve ever seen for dynamic tracks. Rather than laboriously editing beat grids manually, DJs can now beat-match any type of songs together, making complex transitions easier and more accurate, regardless of their rhythmic structure” Fluid Beatgrid automatically detects and adjusts to varying tempo and rhythmic changes within a song, ensuring beats are always locked in perfect harmony. In this new release, Algoriddim has added Fluid Beatgrid, which is “capable of instantly analyzing and predicting the structure of any song, this dynamic grid system follows every tempo fluctuation and interruption in the beat. These types of tracks often have fluctuating tempos. One of the biggest oddities about beatgrid-based DJ softwares has been, for over a decade now, the relatively mediocre support for more dynamic, live drumming tracks. Fluid Beatgrid, because somehow this isn’t ubiquitous yet That said, it’s a familiar bit of a hyper-simplification/automation of mixing in a way that many DJs will object to as being “cheap” – but sometimes that’s what new technology feels like. The result is pretty well done and almost every blend we tried sounded at worst, acceptable at best, impressive. Djay’s approach is pretty similar – choose the type of transition and effects you want, select the link of the mix, and decide if you want to mix tempos – and then tap “Mix Now” – the tracks will blend together. We most recently saw something similar to djay Pro 5.0’s “Crossfader Fusion” in Pioneer DJ’s Rekordbox software, which added Smart Fader and Smart CFX alongside the release of DDJ-FLX models. Crossfader Fusion: crossfader FX + automixingĪutomatic mixing features are always a bit of a mixed bag when it comes to writing about them on a DJ technology website. ![]() Still – Neural Mix in its latest release clearly has some of the best-sounding real-time stem separation out there, and DJs using Serato and Virtual DJ’s current offerings would be wise to give djay Pro a comparative listen. ![]() That’s something that we expect the next generation of stem separation will take head on – dynamically generating the missing pieces after you pull a track apart. You’re still going to have the same audio-challenges that most stem separation technology has had – the empty gaps in the audio from where drums were when you remove them, for instance. “Fitting large AI models onto devices, in real-time, and without a loss in quality, is a big technical challenge – one made particularly difficult with audio, where the sound needs to be separated in high resolution,” said Jessica Powell, CEO of AudioShake. It’s all being done on-device, and without huge detriment to audio quality and device performance.įor DJs, particularly those looking to play more popular music via a streaming service, perhaps on a hyper-portable mobile rig (djay Pro on iOS is perfect for this), this takes what already was a very solid stems mixing experience to the next level. The tracks loaded and processed quickly, and I was able to layer four tracks with Neural Mix without any audio issues on a first-generation iPad Pro from 2016. I’ve had a first listen in a private beta of the software – and it sounds pretty good – but most importantly, I was able to run it on a number of mobile devices with very little prep of the songs. ![]() Can’t find your Chromebook tabs?Įasy fix! Press the full-screen button at the top of the screen to enter/leave full-screen mode. Usually, you can fix it by flipping the device back to tablet mode, waiting for a second, and flipping it back to laptop mode. This can occasionally happen on convertible Chromebooks than can convert into a tablet. If you have a convertible device, closing the Chromebook, or flipping it to tablet mode and back will reset the touchscreen. Usually restarting my Chromebook fixes whatever funkiness was happening. Sometimes my Chromebook touch screen gets cranky. What if your Chromebook’s touch screen stops working? This is a setting that can be enabled through the Google Admin console. Note: If your students share Chromebooks throughout the day I recommend that you disable accessibility features on log out to avoid annoying students who don’t need them. This is another accessibility feature that you can easily turn off. Read this post for a full overview! Are the colors on your Chromebook screen all weird? Click the time, select accessibility, and disable any features that are enabled.Įvery teacher should be familiar with the accessibility features built into the Chromebook. Just press Ctrl + Shift + refresh to rotate your screen back to normal! Do you have a yellow or pink box “dancing” around your Chromebook screen?Ĭhrome Vox or Select-to-speak is enabled. There is a simple fix to rotate your Chromebook sreen. If stududents figure this out, it can make life a bit interesting for the next person to use that Chromebook! Rotating the screen manually will disable the auto-rotate feature. If you have Chromebooks that fold into a tablet, they should automatically rotate between portrait and landscape mode, just like your phone. Is the screen rotated sideways or upside down? Press the increase brightness key a few times to check. Make sure students haven’t dimmed the screen using the screen brightness keys. ![]() Its’ easy to forget how to turn it back off! Just press alt + search to toggle caps lock off. There is no caps-lock button on a Chromebook, but you can still enable this unwise feature by pressing alt + search (magnifying glass key). Appropriately called Messenger Kids, the free messaging and video calling app is designed for kids ages six to 12 and can be used. Facebook is launching a new version of their Messenger app created specifically with kids in mind. How to fix a Chromebook! Your Chromebook (may) not be broken! Here are some simple things you can try before you call for help! Is the caps lock stuck on? To create a Messenger Kids account for your child, download the Messenger Kids app from the App Store, Amazon Appstore, or Google Play Store onto the. The new app offers kids a safe and secure way to connect with family and friends while giving parents total control. ![]() Scoutify is our mobile sourcing app included in your 30-day free trial and paid InventoryLab subscription. We recommend logging into your InventoryLab account from one of four compatible browsers. Stratify is our web-based application that you connect to via the Internet. Will I need to download anything to use the tools in InventoryLab? If your Amazon Seller Central account has been upgraded to a Pro Seller Subscription, you're eligible to subscribe to InventoryLab whenever you're ready. We are not affiliated with Inventory Labs, but we believe so much in the product that we firmly promote it and recommend it to any Amazon seller.I just started my business as an Amazon Seller. 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Stratify features an excellent research tool that gives you all the statistics needed to keep your sales coming in and alleviate any backstock. Product research is key to making wise buying decisions and ultimately the success of your business. It helps you as the seller to dig deep into the history of products to see how well they sell and how much you as a seller can profit from each item. ![]() ![]() Scout is a robust product research tool for all products sold on Amazon. Stratify showcases the research tool called Scout. Research is a core component inside both Inventory Lab solutions. The Stratify accounting system will help you harness any and every expense and sales that happen within your Amazon store. The automated tracking system shows the profitability of each and every sale in your store. 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Stratify is Inventory Lab’s web-based solution for all your Amazon store needs. Inventory Lab consists mainly of two different platforms, Stratify and Scoutify. In our experience, it is easier to learn and use than Seller Central, saves time, and has the best shipment accuracy. We personally use the Inventory Lab program for our arbitrage programs here at Prep Ninjas. The team at Inventory Lab is always striving to deliver the most innovative products possible for you the end-user. From inventory to accounting they have what you need to run your Amazon store successfully. Inventory Lab is your all-in-one Amazon seller platform. ![]() In reviewing the history of fair use litigation, we find that judges return again and again to two key questions: This still leaves much room for interpretation, especially since the law is clear that these are not the only necessary considerations. In weighing the balance at the heart of fair use analysis, judges refer to four types of considerations mentioned in the law: the nature of the use, the nature of the work used, the extent of the use and its economic effect. In fact, for any particular field of critical or creative activity, lawyers and judges consider expectations and practice in assessing what is “fair” within the field. Rather than following a specific formula, lawyers and judges decide whether an unlicensed use of copyrighted material is “fair” according to a “rule of reason.” This means taking all the facts and circumstances into account to decide if an unlicensed use of copyright material generates social or cultural benefits that are greater than the costs it imposes on the copyright owner.įair use is flexible it is not uncertain or unreliable. Creative needs and practices differ with the field, with technology, and with time. As a result, fair use is more important today than ever before.Ĭopyright law does not exactly specify how to apply fair use, and that is to creators’ advantage. As copyright protects more works for longer periods than ever before, it makes new creation harder. ![]() In fact, as the Supreme Court has pointed out, fair use keeps copyright from violating the First Amendment. Where it applies, fair use is a right, not a mere privilege. It has been an important part of copyright law for more than 150 years. Fair use is the most important of these features. Without the second half of the bargain, we could all lose important new cultural work just because one person is arbitrary or greedy.Ĭopyright law has several features that permit quotations from copyrighted works without permission or payment, under certain conditions. The bargain is this: we as a society give limited property rights to creators, to reward them for producing culture at the same time, we give other creators the chance to use that same copyrighted material without permission or payment, in some circumstances. In fact, the cultural value of copying is so well established that it is written into the social bargain at the heart of copyright law. In spite of our romantic cliches about the anguished lone creator, the entire history of cultural production from Aeschylus through Shakespeare to Clueless has shown that all creators stand, as Isaac Newton (and so many others) put it, “on the shoulders of giants.” Mashups, remixes, subs, and online parodies are new and refreshing online phenomena, but they partake of an ancient tradition: the recycling of old culture to make new. Only then will efforts to fight copyright “piracy” in the online environment be able to make necessary space for lawful, value-added uses. It is important for video makers, online service providers, and content providers to understand the legal rights of makers of new culture, as policies and practices evolve. As practices spread and financial stakes are raised, the legal status of inserting copyrighted work into new work will become important for everyone. But digital platforms make work far more public than it has ever been, and cultural habits and business models are developing. Often people circulated their work within a small group of family and friends. Until now, that fact has been almost irrelevant in business and law, because broad distribution of nonprofessional video was relatively rare. More and more, video creation and sharing depend on the ability to use and circulate existing copyrighted work. The circulation of these videos is an emerging part of the business landscape, as the sale of YouTube to Google demonstrated. Both amateur and professional editors are creating new forms of viral popular culture, as the “Dramatic Chipmunk” meme and the “Brokeback to the Future” mashup illustrate. Video remix has become a core component of political discourse, as the video “George Bush Don’t Like Black People” and the “Yes We Can” parodies demonstrated. People make and share videos to tell stories about their personal lives, remixing home videos with popular music and images. Video is increasingly becoming a central part of our everyday landscape of communication, and it is becoming more visible as people share it on digital platforms. ![]() Toshiba customers can send their external hard drive by US postal service or courier or come directly to our data recovery lab facilities in Temecula, California. We aim to recover your Toshiba data between 24 to 48 hours. We will communicate a quote before proceeding with the recovery and will keep you informed about the progress of the recovery at all times. 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![]() The aim was to eliminate surprises astronauts might experience in orbit, he said. To help make astronaut training more realistic, NASA commissioned Pearce in 2008 to create a scent that mimicked the odor that astronauts described. However, Nelson stressed that both of these ideas lack data from official studies. These outbursts generate smelly molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which are found in coal, food, oil and other materials, she noted. Senator Jake Garn of Utah (shown here with a color chart to assess skin color) suffered a bout of space sickness during his time on space shuttle mission STS-51D in April, 1985. "The other much more fun theory is that it's the smell relating to stellar explosions - dying stars," Nelson said. This atomic oxygen may cling to spacesuits, airlock walls and other items exposed to space, triggering chemical reactions that may explain the odor, such as ozone formation, Nelson said. Last seen this month floating through space near the International Space Station. Ultraviolet rays from the sun may split oxygen molecules (O2), which are made of two oxygen atoms, into single oxygen atoms. One has to do with oxygen floating around the International Space Station. There are a number of potential explanations for this smell. "We're not actually talking about a volume that has no particles," Miranda Nelson, a spacewalk flight controller in Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, told Live Science. Where might this scent come from? Although space is mostly empty, it is not a perfect vacuum. Related: What would happen to the human body in the vacuum of space? Rubio, floating in zero gravity inside an ISS compartment, reflected on his unexpected year in space as the end of his mission finally nears. The stars have some new hardware, specifically a white tool bag lost by NASA astronauts while on a repair mission. It reminded me of pleasant sweet smelling welding fumes. It reminded me of my college summers where I labored for many hours with an arc welding torch repairing heavy equipment for a small logging outfit. Another NASA astronaut, Don Pettit, described the smell of space at length in a NASA blog post, saying, "The best description I can come up with is metallic a rather pleasant sweet metallic sensation. Prokopyev, 48, an engineer and pilot, has now pulled two long station stints.Meanwhile, former NASA astronaut Thomas Jones compared the odor to ozone. It was the first spaceflight for Rubio and Petelin, 40, an engineer. NASA has no plans as of now for more yearlong missions. CNETs Holiday Gift Guide: The place to find the best tech gifts for 2018. He may hold on to this record for a while. 11 breathtaking images of NASA astronauts floating in space +8 more See all photos. Rubio had said the psychological aspect of spending so long in space was tougher than he expected. Naval Academy and another heading off to West Point. He ended up missing important family milestones including the oldest of his four children finishing her first year at the U.S. The NASA astronaut Frank Rubio grew a tomato in space, but then it disappeared. Rubio, 47, an Army doctor and helicopter pilot, said at a news conference last week that he never would have agreed to a full year in space if asked at the outset. Space Station to Earth: Houston, We Have Found the Tomato. “It’s good to be home,” Rubio said after being pulled from the capsule. Helicopters moved in with recovery crews to fetch the astronauts. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Atlantic off the Florida. They experienced more than four times the force of gravity as their capsule streaked through the atmosphere and came to a touchdown in the barren Kazakh steppes, ending up on its side. Four astronauts returned to Earth early Monday after a six-month stay at the International Space Station. ![]() Prokopyev told ground controllers throughout the descent that all three were feeling good. |
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