In the hand, the page-turn buttons are, physically at least, a step up from the Forma. Much of that comes from the new seamless, single-piece front face, which is only broken by the two page-turn buttons. The chassis design feels more robust and is undeniably cleaner, friendlier and overall just more attractive as compared to the Forma. Physically, the Sage has also seen some notable changes – although arguably not all of them are positive. The Sage’s next-gen display almost eliminates this issue and makes reading image-heavy content (like comics, online articles you’ve saved via Pocket, or just books with lots of pictures, diagrams or graphs) a more natural experience. On the Forma, subtle changes in color (like you’ll see on clouds, clothing and skin tones) can often result in what’s called ‘banding’, where similar colors get smooshed together and rather than blending into one another, you end up with distinct different colors separated into clear layers or ‘bands’. One area where the Sage’s screen upgrade does become apparent is with images there’s a clear improvement when rendering gradients, in particular. As mentioned earlier, Kobo claims a 15% improvement in contrast on the Carta 1200 and while it’s true that when compared side by side, black text on the Sage appears ever-so-slightly darker than on the Forma, we suspect some of that may be down to the Sage screen’s panel being fractionally darker overall – it’s whitepoint is slightly yellow, as compared to the Forma’s marginally bluish hue. In many respects that generational jump is a subtle one. The larger display also makes reading comics and graphics novels a more pleasing experience, with fewer frames and speech bubbles getting cropped as compared to the Libra 2.įrom a tech standpoint, the Sage’s screen has had a generational upgrade from the Forma – employing an E Ink Carta 1200 panel versus a Carta 1000 one – however both displays share the same 1,440 x 1,920 pixel resolution, so they’re essentially the same in terms of sharpness, packing in 300 pixels per inch (ppi). The display on the Sage and Forma provide roughly the same amount of physical space as the page of a printed paperback and their bigger screens give you more flexibility when it comes to font size, and also means onscreen images are bigger – both elements that lead to a generally more comfortable reading experience. The Sage is now broadly available across the major regions that Kobo ereaders are sold in (North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania) and can be purchased directly from the Kobo online store in select markets. The 8-inch Sage is Kobo’s most premium ebook reader (not counting the 10-inch Elipsa, which we consider a note-taking device first and ereader second) and as such it carried a high-ish price of $259.99 / £239.99 / AU$439.99 on release. As of February 2023, there has been a slight increase across all markets, and the Kobo Sage is now priced at $269.99 / £259.99 / AU$459.95.įor comparison, Amazon’s 32GB Wi-Fi Kindle Oasis is a touch more expensive at $299.99 / £259.99 / AU$449, but the Oasis does include an aluminum chassis, whereas the Sage uses soft-touch plastic (not to mention more functionality thanks to stylus support) the Kindle is undeniably the more premium option here.ĭepending on where you live, the Sage’s price is still a significant 50-60% step up from the next Kobo model down – that’s the 7-inch Libra 2, which sells for $189.99 / £169.99 / AU$299.99 and shares a very similar design in a slightly smaller (and arguably more convenient) size. Kobo Sage (32GB Black) at Amazon for $246.46.
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The New York Post reported on April 23rd, 2003 that Ricki was moving to California in hopes of finding "that next big thing." Ricki recently dated trainer Appollo Yiamouviannis, however they split in early 2007 after going out for three years. The two divorced in 2003 after 9 years of marriage. Their two sons are Milo Sebastian Sussman (22 March 1997) and Owen Tyler Sussman (18 June 2001). They were married shortly after in Los Angeles. "I don't know how but I swear the instant I saw him, I knew this was the man I was going to marry," remarked Ricki. Ricki and Rob were supposed to go for dinner after the party, but they forgot, and as she told everyone, they ended up in their hotel room. I met him at the perfect time in my life," said Lake. When I told him, he said 'What's it called Ricki?'.which was great. Ricki thought he was also the perfect guy, not attracted to her wealth, since he had no idea she was famous. ] She also attended Farragut Middle School.Īt a Halloween party in 1993, she met artist/illustrator Rob Sussman.:"I never believed in love at first sight until I met him, and he was also Jewish like me" she said. ] She attended Ithaca College and the Professional Children's School. Lake was born to a Jewish family in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, the daughter of Jill, a housewife, and Barry Lake, a pharmacist. Ricki Pamela Lake (born September 21, 1968) is an American actress and tabloid talk show host, perhaps best known for her long-running " Ricki Lake" talk show, her recurring role in the 1998 sitcom " The King of Queens", and starring in the original version of the film " Hairspray". Spouse = Rob Sussman (1994-2003) (divorced/annulled) Birthplace = Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S. Meanwhile, the rate of gun homicides in Texas has increased more than 90% from 2012 to 2021, compared to a 73% increase nationwide, according to an analysis by Everytown of CDC data, which tracks homicides, accidental killings and suicides committed by guns. Charles Schwertner, a Republican, previously said. “If you possess a firearm, you should be able to carry a firearm,” state Sen. Republican supporters of the legislation, however, have argued that by removing the licensing requirement, they are removing an “artificial barrier” to residents’ right to bear arms under the Constitution and ensuring more Texans have access to “the protection of themselves or their families” in public. In September 2021, for example, legislation went into effect allowing most Texans who legally own a firearm to carry it openly in public without obtaining a permit or training, a measure Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia said makes it harder for law enforcement to differentiate a “good guy with a gun from a bad guy with a gun.” The deadliest US shooting this year, however, took place in California – a state that advocacy groups say has some of the strictest gun laws in the country – in Monterey Park, when 11 people were killed and nine injured at a Lunar New Year celebration in January.ĭespite the rise of high-profile mass shootings in Texas – including in Uvalde, where a shooter opened fire in Robb Elementary School last May, killing 19 children and two teachers – the state has repeatedly loosened restrictions on gun ownership in recent years. 'They're still shooting': Frantic audio from officers at the Texas mall massacre reveals chaos during the carnage (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) Tony Gutierrez/AP Visitors to a make shift memorial leave flowers in front of a large cross that has the words "Hope, Love, Allen", engraved into it at the mall where several people were killed, Monday, May 8, 2023, in Allen, Texas. That relation is evident in Texas, where the number of mass shootings has tripled in the past five years, while mass shootings nationwide have nearly doubled from 2018 through the end of last year, according to data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive (GVA).ĬNN and the GVA define a mass shooting as a shooting that injures or kills four or more people, not including the shooter. There is a direct correlation between states with weaker gun laws and higher rates of gun deaths, according to a study first published by Everytown in 2021. That’s the second-highest rate in the country and above the national average of 55% of households owning one or more guns, according to Everytown. Texas has among the most expansive gun rights in the country – roughly 60% of households own at least one gun, according to an Everytown for Gun Safety analysis of 2021 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number of mass shootings in Texas is no coincidence given the sheer number of guns in the hands of the public, several gun violence experts told CNN. Five of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in America over the past eight years have been in Texas, the latest occurring in Allen in early May when a gunman fired an AR-15-style rifle at a crowded outlet mall, killing eight people and injuring at least seven others. If your nuts are very sweet (sweet means that they are not gawd-awful bitter when raw, only mildly so), try a nibble after three leachings. You don’t need to use a strainer to get every drop, just use the lid and get most of the liquid. Stuff happens.) Pour off the brownish-tinged water. You don’t need to boil the nuts (although there have been times when I’ve gotten distracted and come back to the pot to find it boiling. Cover with cool water and put the lid on. Place the shelled acorn nutmeats into a soup pot. Here are the directions for both methods. But I use the cold water method more often because it’s easier on the planet. I make acorn sweet pickles, so I use the hot water method at least once a year. Most folks have a refrigerator already running, so it doesn’t cost more to use. And hot water leaching uses more natural resources in the form of gas or electricity (or whatever fuel you use to power your stove).Ĭold water processing is more passive. The drawback to using heat is that you wash away many of the oils and starches that make superior baked goods. It’s also useful if your recipe calls for intact nuts, such as pickles. Hot Water processing allows you to get the job done quicker. So which one to use? It depends on how quickly you need flour and what you plan to do with it. Modern day acorn enthusiasts have several options available for processing as well. Some were labor intensive, while others consisted of simply dropping a bag of shelled nutmeats into a stream and letting the running water do the work. Native Americans used several methods to process acorns. And you don’t need to process the nuts to do that. If you have an oil expeller, you can produce a product that’s similar to olive oil. A complete comparison of processed acorns to white flour can be found here: Īcorns are filled with lovely oil. Shelled and leached the nuts are a reliable source of carbohydrates, protein, vitamins, minerals, including calcium and iron, and amino acids. Hopefully, by now you’ve got a little pile of shelled nutmeats and probably feeling a bit like ‘Scat’…īut why go to all this trouble? Acorns, properly prepared are a delicious and nutritional powerhouse. Windows XP or Windows Vista, 1 GHz Processor (1.4 GHz recommended), 256MB RAM (512 recommended), 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended), Mouse, Keyboard. – Command the power of Zen – your Zen Masters wield fantastic powers in the heat of battle. – Seize tactical advantages in a living world teeming with life – birds fly when startled, wolves attack troops, and higher ground offers increased power to ranged attacks. Weakening Curse: The Witch curses her target, making it easier for her allies to. Her abilities include: -Life Drain: A powerful attack which causes her target to temporarily lose life. She is a magical support character that wields dark magical powers to manipulate her foes. – The package includes the original Battle Realms and its Winter of the Wolf expansion that focuses on the Wolf clan and serves as a prequel to the original campaign. In Battle Realms, the Witch is a hero unit for the Serpent Clan. Defend your people against the hordes of barbarians, evil magicians, and deadly ninjas. Experiment with Unit Alchemy and turn villagers into one-of-a-kind fighters like Samurai Cannoneers, Bandits, Geisha, and scores of other mythical warriors. Develop your tiny peasant village into a highly trained and deadly efficient clan of warriors who are ready to die with your name on their lips. You must free them.īattle Realms is fantasy real-time strategy game inspired by the stories told in kung-fu movies and oriental mythology. Scattered and unorganized, your enslaved Wolf brethren hunger for revolt against their corrupt Lotus Clan masters. Explore the history that led up to the events in Battle Realms in Battle Realms: Winter of the White Wolf. Shall he vanquish the land under a campaign of malevolence and terror or restore the war-torn realm to its former glory? Enter Battle Realms and choose your destiny. Kenji, exiled heir to the Dragon throne, must stake his claim in a chaotic world wracked by the subversive intrigues of the Serpent, Wolf, and Lotus clans. These holes in these different locations really come in handy depending on what clutch you have and where your engine is situated as far as rotation. Measure The Distance From Tool To Slave Cylinder's Throw Out Bearing And the nice thing about this is you'll see on the other side measuring the actual pressure plate fingers themselves. Then you're going to use the tail side of your caliper and you're just going to select one of these holes. And what this does is it gives us a known distance from the face of this flange down to the face of this bearing, because from the face of this tool down to the face of the transmission front blade is four and a half inches. Now You Have A Known Distance (4.5 inches)Īnd now we have a target point to measure from. So we've got our slate cylinder all the way down on the surface of the front plate bearing, all the way down. When your transmission is assembled, your input shaft will be sticking through this opening here. And as you can see, it's got a hole in the center for your input shaft to stick through. Every transmission with this flange pattern has these two bolt holesĪnd then we're going to slip our spacers down over our bolts like this, add our install tool. And we're going to insert another bolt through this top hole here. So we're going to start with our hardware and spacers and we're going to insert these through this bottom hole. You can see that the tool has an arrow cut into it, rather, and that's to indicate this needs to point to the top. This is different for every slave cylinder, depending on what type you're using. So the first thing we want to do, put our slave cylinder on. Normally, this is going to be bolted to your transmission, sitting on a transmission jack, ready to go in the car. I've just got the front plate laying on a table here for the ease of this video. So we're going to start with the front plate side of the transmission. That's the only way that you're going to get an accurate measurement. You need to make sure that that is all the way down as far as it'll go. The throw out bearing won't go all the way down to the base. And as far as how it looks, it's a little longer. A Dodge Viper has a very similar slave cylinder to this. In an F-Body application, the throw out bearing will actually go down and touch the base. And we're going to make sure that this is fully seated on the base. Remove the spring and you'll put this back on. You're going to pop this off just like that. If you have an F-Body style like this one, there's a spring here. If you are a car guy, chances are you already have one of these. Note: If you do not have one of these and you're a car guy, you need one of these.
The selected layer thumbnail will have a solid white outline around it, although this can be difficult to see against some layer thumbnails. If you have made a mistake in the Layers panel, then you can simply click on the appropriate layer thumbnail in the Layers panel to select the correct layer you wish to move. Solution: Select the Correct Layer or Change Move Tool Settings There are two possible explanations for why you might have the wrong layer selected: you might have just made a mistake in the Layers panel, or the Move tool might be automatically selected the wrong layer. It happens to every image editor at some point □ While it’s a bit embarrassing when you realize it, sometimes there’s a very simple reason that you can’t move your layer in GIMP: you have selected the wrong layer. To unlink the layers, click the chain link icon next to the thumbnails of the layer you want to move in the Layers panel, as highlighted above. To unlock your layers, follow the solution listed in the previous section. They’re both easy to do, you just have to determine which is the optimal solution for your situation. To solve this particular issue, you have two options: you can unlock the linked layer, or you can unlink the layers. Solution: Unlink or Unlock the Affected Layer If you check the lock settings for Layer B, they will say the layer is technically unlocked, but you still won’t be able to move it because it is linked to the locked Layer A. If you lock the position of Layer A and then link it to Layer B, the “locking” effect from Layer A will also be applied to Layer B. This is very useful when creating photo composites because you can link composited sections of your image on separate layers together and then move, scale, or rotate them without changing their positions relative to each other. GIMP allows you to link multiple layers together so that they can be moved and transformed together as a cohesive whole. This might actually be considered Reason 2B instead of Reason 3 because it’s also about locked layers, but with an extra twist that only applies when you have multiple layers in your document. With the correct layer selected, click the icon for Lock position and size to unlock it, as shown above. Select the layer you want to move by clicking the appropriate layer thumbnail in the Layers panel. By default, the Layers panel should be visible in the bottom right corner of the GIMP interface. Layers can be locked and unlocked using the Layers panel. If you try to move a locked layer, the Lock section of the Layers panel will be highlighted with a flashing white outline, and the Solution: Unlock Your Layers This is one of the few situations where GIMP actually does provide some kind of notification of the problem through the user interface. If you accidentally locked the position and size of your layer, you won’t be able to move it using the Move tool until it is unlocked. GIMP has three different methods for locking layers: you can lock the pixels to prevent changes to the pixel contents, you can lock the position and size to prevent movement or scaling, and you can lock the layer’s alpha channel to prevent changes to the transparency of the layer. Reason 2: Locked Layersīecause GIMP allows you to have hundreds or even thousands of layers in a document (assuming you have enough RAM, of course), there are also a few options for controlling whether a layer can be edited or not. If necessary, you can quickly toggle the Move tool into the other mode by holding down the Shift key while you click and drag, but for most situations, I find that Move the active layer prevents any mistakes on GIMP’s part. To get the most commonly-expected Move tool behavior, make sure that the Move the active layer setting is selected. The Tool Toggle section of the Tool Options panel has two options: Pick a layer or guide and Move the active layer. There’s one other setting that you can also check while you’re there, although it’s optional. To move your layer, make sure that the Layer option is selected, as shown above. Why Connect your Epson Projector Wirelessly Your projector should be able to pick up any wireless connection. Press “Enter” and make sure the “Wireless Mode feature” is ON. Press the “Menu” button on your remote and choose the “Network option” on the Menu. To connect your Epson projector to WiFi, plug in your device to a power source and power it on. You will also learn about the two different classifications of Epson projectors and the steps to remember when connecting them wirelessly. It should present you with the last used configuration screen, much like this:įrom this screen, simply click on the "Connect" button and enter the 4 digit code in the Keyword box.If you want to know how to connect Epson Projector to WiFi, this step-by-step article will help you understand why you need to secure it. The next time you have use of the projector, you will only have to launch the EasyMP Network Projection program. On the bottom right of your screen you should see the connection tools, including the 'disconnect' button to press once your presentation is done: Once entered, the connection should be established and you should now be projecting your computer's screen onto the projector. This will ask you to enter a 4 digit numerical code in the Keyword field which is shown on the projector screen itself. Lastly, click on the "Connect" button to establish a connection. This will allow you to launch the EasyMP Network Projection program and quickly connect to the projector in the future. You can also select "Set options" and click on the radio button named "Search with the last network configuration" on the Search Method on startup section of the Options window as follows: Once the projector is found, save the configuration by clicking on the "Save the connection profile" button. For example, The projector in More 110 has the IP address 172.25.204.136: In the next box, enter the IP address that is projected on the screen of the projector. Next we find the projector by clicking 'Manual search', using the top middle button shown in the image above. This is entirely normal! Simply click 'OK' at this step. Next it will try to automatically search for a projector and will fail. This is poor language use by the program it will simply add an exception for the program in the firewall settings. The program will request that you 'disable' the firewall. Select Advanced and check the box for setting this as the default action: Upon first use, you will be asked if you wish to do Quick or Advanced connection mode. On your laptop, start the EasyMP Network Projector program. Make sure your laptop is connected to University of Washington WiFi network. Turn the projector on by pressing the power button on the projector or the remote control once. Please be in front of the projector for these next steps! Step 2: First time use and software configuration If you foresee routine use of it, create a desktop shortcut for ease of access: You may also wish to download and install the Easy Interactive Tools for the on-screen annotation tools.įind the program for EasyMP Network Projection under Programs and select it. Double click the downloaded setup file and proceed with the software's installation it should not have any 'options' to select at this point, and installation should be fairly straightforward. Then expand the "Utilities" menu (see image below).Ĭlick on the EasyMP Network Projection download link. Make sure that the "Operating System" detected automatically matches your OS. Click on this link for the Epson drivers and select Drivers & Downloads. The first step is to download the driver for your particular computer type, be it Windows or Mac. Step 1: Download and install the software Although the instructions below pertain to Windows, they are directly applicable to Mac OS and can provide guidance to users with iOS or Android mobile devices running "Epson iProjection" App. Supported operating systems are Windows, Mac OS, iOS and Android. Epson wireless projector in More 110 and More 218 requires some software for your laptop, smartphone or tablet. Its diverse formation process contributes to the unique patterns and inclusions seen in different Red Jasper specimens. This captivating crystal forms in a variety of environments, such as hydrothermal veins and cavities in volcanic rocks. This crystal can be found in various countries, including Brazil, India, and Russia, making it a globally cherished gemstone. Its distinctive red color comes from the presence of iron inclusions, which give the stone its unique hue and energy. Red Jasper is a member of the chalcedony mineral family, formed in sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. 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Red Jasper, often referred to as the Stone of Endurance, enhances stamina and perseverance. Its versatility has allowed it to find a place in numerous spiritual practices and adornments, such as jewelry and amulets. The stone exists in various parts of the world, including Brazil, India, and Russia. Additionally, its widespread use throughout history attests to its enduring appeal and potent healing abilities.įamous for its vibrant red color, this crystal has become synonymous with grounding energy. Its distinct color and grounding energy have made it a popular choice for jewelry, amulets, and spiritual practices worldwide. Red Jasper is a unique variety of chalcedony characterized by its alluring red hues. あおもりくま、Aomorikuma, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Red Jasper Birthstone, Zodiac Sign, and Chakras.Red Jasper Healing Properties and Benefits. Share the best YouTube audio downloader, MiniTool Video Converter, with all of you. 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