![]() When the fighting heats up he's seen cowering, but by the time he's cornered with the team he's blasting away with everyone else, and throws down with Rama and Dagu when he has to. Ambiguously Evil: Lieutenant Wahyu clearly knows more than he's telling about what's going on, to the point where it jeopardizes the mission when Jaka and the team learn that they're there unauthorized, and no one can help them.The former has a crazy nickname and the other has a given name that sounds like a common Anglo-Saxon homologue. Aerith and Bob: Tama's two henchmen, Mad Dog and Andi.Artistic License – Martial Arts : While his moves are amazing, this movie still features a lot of fighters who do flashy and unnecessary moves, including Rama, Andi, and Mad Dog.Titan Comics published The Raid Comic Book series that expands on the characters from the movies. An American remake bringing back Evans as producer and Yayan Ruhian (Mad Dog) and Uwais as fight choreographers has been announced, but is currently on hold. Stranded on the 6th floor with no way out, the strike team must fight their way through the city's worst criminals to carry out their mission.or at least survive long enough to find a way out.Ī sequel, The Raid 2: Berandal, was released worldwide on 28 March 2014. All goes according to plan at first, but when a chance encounter with a spotter blows their cover and news of their assault reaches the drug lord, the building's lights go out and the "tenants" cut off all the exits. Though the run-down apartment block is considered untouchable to even the bravest of police, on one rainy morning, an elite strike team rolls out with a single order: raid the building and take down the notorious drug lord who runs it. The movie stars martial artist Iko Uwais in the leading role, making this his second team-up with Evans (the first being Merantau).ĭeep in the heart of Jakarta's slums sits what appears to be a derelict apartment building - but is, in reality, a well-guarded and well-armed safe house for some of the world's most dangerous criminals. Serbuan Maut ( Deadly Assault or Death Raid), known as The Raid: Redemption in English-speaking countries, is a 2011 Indonesian martial-arts action film directed by Gareth Evans. Tama's villainous rousing speech handily explaining the movie's premise. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It is later revealed that Selina previously had romantic feelings for Tom. After Amy leaves, Selina heeds her suggestion to ask Tom James to be her running mate. Amy quits in frustration because of Selina's equivocating friend and new adviser, Karen Collins. ![]() When Andrew Doyle unexpectedly bows out of her ticket at the party's political convention, Selina's team scrambles to find a new running mate. Dan goes to work for Sidney Purcell at a consulting firm. First a White House aide, Leigh, and then Dan are fired as scapegoats for the data breach. Her campaign catches negative press attention after a data breach reveals the identity of an HIV-positive elementary school student. Meanwhile, Amy manages Selina's presidential campaign in an unofficial capacity, and is frustrated when Selina hires the best political campaign manager in Washington, Bill Ericsson. Jonah eventually reports the behavior and Teddy is fired. Her vice president, Andrew Doyle hires a chief of staff, Teddy, who continually sexually harasses Jonah. Selina confronts Gary for ordering expensive decorations for a state dinner, and they reconcile after a screaming argument. Gary struggles with his reduced role as Selina's bag man. She is determined to author a bill that will benefit working moms called Families First, although her team advises against it. Selina's staffers' incompetence ruins her first State of the Union address by failing to load her completed speech on the teleprompter. The fourth season follows Selina Meyer stepping into the role of president after President Hughes steps down to take care of his depressed wife. Julia Louis-Dreyfus received her fourth Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Veep, and Tony Hale received his second Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. It received five Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series, the second premium cable series to win the award. The season received critical acclaim and was assigned a 90/100 on Metacritic. The season finale centers on the night of the election, which concludes with an electoral college tie between Selina and her opponent, Senator Bill O'Brien. After a campaign data breach puts her in jeopardy, Selina's team scapegoats Ericsson. She chooses Senator Tom James, played by Hugh Laurie, whose popularity and political machinations come to irk her. ![]() Eventually, Selina is forced to choose a new running mate when Andrew Doyle unexpectedly drops out of the role. Two of her staffers, Amy and Dan, abruptly exit the White House and begin work as lobbyists. She attempts to pass a landmark bill supporting working mothers while navigating her presidential campaign, overseen by top campaign manager Bill Ericsson, portrayed by Diedrich Bader. Season four follows Selina Meyer in the role of President after her predecessor steps down to care for his wife. The season's showrunner and series creator Armando Iannucci exited at the conclusion of the season. It consists of ten episodes each running approximately 28 minutes. The fourth season of the American political comedy television series Veep premiered on April 12, 2015, on HBO in the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() – SPTiberian Font for IBM/MAC with a complete keyboard map (which is hard to find for many Hebrew fonts). Berlin’s Foreign Font Guide 20 or 30 Free downloadable fonts, no samples shown, you just have to download them and see what they look like. Wehm.ttf Truetype font in the Courier/Shalom Stick style (fixed space)ĭr. Wehad.ttf Truetype font in the Helvetica/David style (proportional) This site is all Hebrew – used to have Font information, but cannot find now.į Font Store – shows nine pages of Hebrew fonts to choose from. I think over the last few years, they have somewhat standardized. When I first wrote this page, they were very non-standard. Many have totally different keyboard mappings. NOTE: There is no one standard Hebrew font. These are the sites that have been most useful to me. If you are in a hurry, only try the web sites that say “Great” beside I have tried to include every web site that might be useful to anyone.
![]() ![]() I think this is one area where we will certainly have an advantage - our range of products have been developed at the same time, by the same people. (I'm going to try recreating an illustration I did in Illustrator - nothing like real world work for testing if somethings worth the investment of switching). I'm getting a bit excited about the future here. "We've just had a chat, and we think we've got a plan!" <- this is awesome. With regards to UI Gamma slider - nope, not enough I'm afraid (though I am working outside right now :-) Difficult to beat a lighter UI for readability/accessibility - Adobe apps offer both dark and light mode. ![]() I suggest inputting the phrase "infographics" into a search engine and then looking at the images result - Illustrator or InDesign? Graphs - if they're somewhere in the suite of apps then job done (caveat: so long as they can be expanded and worked on as though they're raw vector artwork if you follow, please dear god, not a PowerPoint version of graphing, I'm a designer for goodness sake I want to manipulate graphics without any boundaries - who's this software aimed at? ) :-) To me graphs are illustrations therefore they should be in an illustration app, but hey it's cool. Everyone's logic and brain is different here which is why customisable keys are so good for workflow - like tuning the app into how ones own brain works. This is where I customise and go for proximity of keys (reflecting proximity of tools) so I've Illustrator set-up with a and tilde ~. I hadn't seen the tooltips, sometimes I'm a bit slow on the uptake (my excuse is my focus is intense and elsewhere :-P). Here endeth my thesis :-) Edited Jby designerUK If you're used to designing software for PC's it might be a real culture change for you. I was always stumped why PC users seemed so mouse bound until this experience. This is why experienced mac users have keyboard shortcuts built into and essential to their workflow. Try this on the PC keyboard, put your thumb on the Ctrl key and your hands end up off the keyboard entirely. If you study the two keyboards, lay your thumb on the cmd key (mac) and then let your hand rest on the keyboard, you'll find your fingers naturally fall on the most used shortcuts. I found myself getting into contortions when trying to use shortcuts on the PC keyboard and wondered what was the matter with me. I have worked briefly for a newspaper which switched to PC's while I was there. The mac keyboard is designed differently to the PC. I've only given it a few minutes, looks interesting, I'll have a play with it again.Įdit: I know I always get, to me, a strange reaction when I try to explain how important keyboard shortcuts are. Great for translating numbers into something visual quickly - I bang in a graph, place a copy on the paste board, 'expand/ungroup' the orignal and go from there. Much of my use of illustrator is to produce information visuals so it is a feature I could not be without. Graphs Illustrator has a crude (I'm being unkind), but sufficient graphing tool.I don't work with my apps in 'dark mode' for this reason. Admittedly this might be because I'm on a laptop and the tilt of the screen may be a reason. The dark block behind on a dark screen is too subtle. ![]() Dark mode I can't see which tool is selected.Keyboard shortcuts 2 I use the tool shortcuts all the time to change from general pointer to node selector and back again in Illustrator or to the general pointer from any other tool.Keyboard shortcuts 1 Being able to customise the app with my own is a real boon - I don't do it a lot, but have a few which are a so useful.Nice big anchors and direction handles to pick up easily - hurrah!!! I've only played with the tool that I find a bane in Illustrator - the pen tool and it looks to be an improvement on Illustrators! Well done. Don't know if these comments have already been made. ![]() ![]() ![]() What awaits AVID’s Shares in 2023?Īvid’s shares have risen 21.3% year-to-date, primarily due to the rapid adoption of enterprise subscriptions, innovative product releases, continued strategic capital deployment and recovery of the supply chain situation resulting in strong sequential growth.Īvid has outperformed the Zacks Computer and Technology sector, which has 18.4% over the same time frame.Īvid expects strong growth in subscription and maintenance revenues due to its consistent investments in music creation innovation as well as digital transformation. Avid reported subscription revenue growth of 37.1% in the reported quarter. In the fourth quarter of 2022, Avid realized net additions of 46,200 total subscriptions and delivered year-over-year growth of 23.2%. These partnerships have helped Avid expand subscriber base thereby driving top-line growth. Integration of Avid’s Media Composer and Edit On Demand solutions with NVIDIA’s GPU acceleration helped boost increasingly demanding production workflows. This partnership allows Avid to create new technologies, thereby attracting new users to many of its subscription-based product offerings. Its cloud alliance with Microsoft includes technology collaboration, co-development of cloud bases solutions and the launch of several software-as-a-service offerings. To further extend and enhance its proven media creation workflows, Avid has collaborated with the likes of Adobe ADBE, Microsoft MSFT and NVIDIA NVDA.Īvid’s partnership with Adobe integrates the MediaCentral Cloud UX and Avid NEXIS panel into Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Photoshop, allowing production teams to efficiently adopt and share media in Avid workflows. It allows users to deploy a greater set of tools in the cloud to maximize earning potential, efficiency and deliver content faster than previously possible. Early this month Avid launched Works with Avid On Demand program that incorporates third-party tools on the Avid Edit On Demand model to expand cloud workflows. With the launch of its new Pro Tools solutions, it expects to increase subscriber base.ĪVID is benefiting from frequent product launches. These tools are providing creators with state-of-the-art media creation workflows. Strong Product Portfolio to Drive AVID’s Subscription RevenuesĪVID is riding on a strong product portfolio with Pro Tools, MediaCentral and Media Composer. price-consensus-chart | Avid Technology, Inc. The new all-in-one audio interface encompasses features like studio streamlining with customizable Dante and IO card count, unparallel sound quality and audio monitoring with integrated SPQ speaker and 512 x 64 summing mixer, increased channel count, low latency, and workflow expansion. The new Thunderbolt 3 module is a significant development that combines the power of MTRX II and MTRX Studio interfaces to native audio applications, which can be used simultaneously with Pro Tools HDX systems. It allows capturing all of the power of Pro Tools software-based workflows, providing even greater flexibility and expandability than MTRX. MTRX II empowers users by offering greater IO capacity, routing, and more immersive monitoring flexibility. PropertiesĬan be changed in src/.Īfter you change hostIp in you can run application.Avid Technology AVID recently introduced its new Pro Tools MTRX II and MTRX Thunderbolt 3 module, specifically designed for post-production users to enhance audio capabilities to get the best sound possible. To run example you will need Avid MediaCentral | Cloud UX server. To run these examples you will need a running MediaCentral Cloud UX server running.Ĭonnection settings can be changed in src/ Running the example This example was created using MediaCentral Cloud UX Toolkit: ⚠️ Disclaimer: This example works only with files from Interplay Production. When an Interplay Production asset is opened this pane will display two sets of data: Once installed MediaCentral Cloud UX will have a new Pane called "Clip Info". The Clip Info app is an example of a custom app in MediaCentral Cloud UX using the CTMS API to display detailed data from Interplay Production. ![]() ![]() Not to get too philosophical here but photography companies owe it to their customers to do better and to improve. The bottom line is that we should expect better and Sony needs to step it up (supposedly they have with the a9, but that is yet to be seen). That shouldn’t be the case when you’re spending $2k plus on a camera. I treat my gear like gold, because frankly, I don’t have the money to replace it (yes I have insurance) and if I felt like a situation was too severe for the camera I just put it away. The battery life was down right atrocious. It shut down in hot weather, in extreme cold weather and in any sort of wet or damp environment. If rain, water fall mist or anything of that nature even so much as blinked at the a7R it would literally shut down. The a7R had some serious weather sealing issues. When I say that a camera has a problem it’s not taken lightly and it’s not a brash or off hand comment. It could have been something that you had been chasing for a very, very long time and now that moment is gone.Īdditionally, anyone that tells you that Sony doesn’t have a weather sealing issue is either paid by Sony or is the luckiest person on earth when it comes to their gear. That shot could have landed you a cover, could have sold a ton of prints or it just could have meant a ton to you. Let’s say you’ve got a 10 second window to capture ‘that’ moment and you fire off as many shots as possible only to find out, upon reviewing your files, that none of them are even useable. That problem alone gave me serious pause and it really made me re-evaluate my equipment. Yes you heard that right 1 in 10 images were useable when using longer lenses on the a7R. Whenever I shot with anything longer than, say, 100mm with a longer lens I always had to take at least 10-15 shots to ensure that I had one useable file. In all honesty the a7R should have never left the manufacturer floor with how bad the shutter-shock issues were… and yes I’m being serious. The menu layouts could have been betterĪll in all I loved my system, don’t get me wrong, but it did have some serious shortcomings and they began to become even more evident as I started to work with longer lenses.Įnter shutter-shock.Shutter shock will ruin your life and no I’m not kidding.Autofocus is useless when pairing Canon lenses with the a7R (this was mostly remedied with the a7R ii, but still limited).Waterfall mist and rain literally caused my camera to shut down on multiple occasions.The already mediocre weather sealing of the Sony a7R was further compromised by the use of a lens adapter.That was all well and good but there were a few things that I started to realize after shooting with that franken-system for a few years: ![]() I had moved on from my trusty Canon 5D Mkii to a Sony a7R with a Metabones Mkiii Adapter and Canon L glass to save weight, increase dynamic range, increase megapixels and to improve the overall Raw file quality. I was in a bit of a weird situation when it came to my photography gear. So why the change in heart? My Love-Hate Relationship with Sony I was determined to stick to a full frame system because I wanted more DR, more megapixels and more technology, plain and simple. The main reason being the lack of Dynamic Range, (ability to pull detail from shadows and retain detail in slightly overexposed regions of the image) followed by the lower megapixel count and the noisier high ISO files. The limited technology of the sensors in the APS-C cameras always turned me off for a number of reasons. Let me start by saying that I had honestly never even considered switching back to an APS-C format camera or even to Fujifilm for that matter until a few months ago. My journey to the Fujifilm X-T2 wasn’t exactly straight and narrow and it definitely wasn’t conventional by any stretch of the imagination but 8 weeks into the switch, here I am writing about the whats, the hows and the whys of why I started down this amazing path. ![]() ![]() ![]() The last and the ultimate solution to download any kind of printer driver, including the HP Photosmart 7520 printer driver, is to use the Bit Driver Updater. Method 3: Automatically Update Drivers with Bit Driver Updater
![]() ![]() Photocomposition is a method of setting type by projecting light through a master film negative, which contains every character in a font, onto light-sensitive paper. From Les caractères de l’Imprimerie Nationale. Garamont, also known as ‘caractères de l’Université’ from 1530s in 6 and 36 points scaled to the same size. In the old days, when type was still made from a physical material, letters were always designed in a specific size, which ensured the appropriate amount of white space was left between letters. Conversely, when the text is used in larger sizes, the space between the letters can be reduced, thus helping readers by improving the flow of the text. When the text is used in small sizes, plenty of space is required between the letters to make sure that the shapes do not blend into each other, that they retain their unique silhouettes. So what’re really saying with that comment to the Type & Media students is that they should stop focusing solely on shapes of letters and instead look at how they work in text.Ĭonsistent white space around the letters is the essence of comfortable reading. When someone comments that a certain typeface works well in text, it is a comment about the spacing of the typeface rather than the shape of the letters. The job of a type designer is not to draw individual characters but to design text. Spacing is essentially the glue that turns letters into words. In font editing software, this is also called glyph sidebearings, a term borrowed from the days of metal type. But what is spacing, also called letter fitting? A type designer will usually draw the black mass of letters – and the spacing is what surrounds those letters – the white space on the left and right of them. And the reverse is also true: even the most beautifully drawn typeface can look unconvincing when the spacing isn’t quite right. Because even the most unconventional letter shapes can be improved dramatically by ensuring consistent white space distribution. ![]() As per most jokes, this one is based on a repeated observation. There’s a running joke on the Type & Media course that I teach, that no matter which student’s typeface we are looking at, the feedback will always be: ‘you should work more on your spacing’. ![]() ![]() ![]() DietĪmerican mastodon arm bone with A. simus tooth marks at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in Denver, Colorado At Riverbluff Cave, Missouri, a series of claw marks up to 4.6 m (15 ft) high have been found along the cave wall indicating short-faced bears up to 3.7 m (12 ft) tall. simus are estimated to have weighed more than 1,200 kg (2,600 lb). simus stood 1.5–1.8 m (5–6 ft) high at the shoulder and would be tall enough to look an adult human in the eye. ![]() pristinus was much lighter, estimated at an average weight of 540 kg (1,190 lb). There is much variation in adult size among specimens, suggesting that like living bears, Arctodus was both sexually dimorphic (with females smaller than males) and varied in size in different areas (with northern populations larger). simus specimens was estimated one-third of them weighed about 900 kg (1 short ton), the largest 957 kg (2,110 lb), suggesting specimens that big were probably more common than previously thought. Īrctodus pristinus inhabited more southerly areas, ranging from northern Texas to New Jersey in the east, Aguascalientes, Mexico to the southwest, and with large concentrations in Florida, the oldest from the Santa Fe River 1 site of Gilchrist County, Florida paleontological sites. The original bones are in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. It has become well known in scientific circles because it was the most nearly complete skeleton of a giant short-faced bear found in America. ![]() A giant short-faced bear skeleton has been found in Indiana, unearthed south of Rochester. simus might have been the largest land-dwelling species of Carnivora that ever lived in North America. Remains of the giant short-faced bear, along with Paleo-Indian artifacts and the remains of the flat-headed peccary, stag moose, and the giant beaver were found in the Sheriden Cave in Wyandot County, Ohio. Its fossils were first found in the Potter Creek Cave, Shasta County, California. Although the early history of Arctodus is poorly known, it evidently became widespread in North America by the Kansan age about 800,000 years ago.Īrctodus simus first appeared during the middle Pleistocene in North America, about 800,000 years ago, ranging from Alaska to Mississippi, and it became extinct about 11,600 years ago. During the Great American Interchange that followed the joining of North and South America, tremarctines invaded South America, leading to the evolution of Arctotherium and the modern spectacled bear ( Tremarctos ornatus). The short-faced bears belong to a group of bears known as the Tremarctinae, which appeared in North America during the earliest parts of the late Miocene epoch in the form of Plionarctos, a genus considered ancestral to Arctodus. The scientific name of the genus, Arctodus, derives from Greek, and means "bear tooth". ![]() This characteristic is also shared by the only living tremarctine bear, the spectacled bear. These species appear to have a disproportionately short snout compared to most modern bears, giving them the name "short-faced." This apparent shortness is an illusion caused by the deep snouts and short nasal bones of tremarctine bears compared with ursine bears Arctodus has a deeper but not a shorter face than most living bears. ![]() ![]() ![]() I personally like Trello the least of those 5 apps but it has it’s power. But nothing beats that seamless integration. All this used to be free, but now comes with a price tag of $5 or $10 per user per month, depending on your needs. Why I like Google Apps: Google Drive is connected to Gmail, which is connected to the Calendar, connected to Hangouts. If you are a fan of keeping it all together then Google Apps for Work is your solution. And yes, you don’t need an additional tool when you have Google Calendars, Google Hangouts and Google Tasks. Or Bad Wolf Google? We are so used to using their services that it only seems natural to do so. However, Slack is not a project management tool per se. I love the possibility to switch Skype and chat discussions with Slack – mostly because I can track what was said and done and go back to a specific idea much faster. But sometimes we all get overwhelmed and confused. Why I like Slack: I communicate with my clients mostly online – we Skype, chat, email, write and comment tasks. Slack is free to begin with but as your projects and discussions grow, you might find the need to start paying for a pro account. Because some discussions just don’t fit a specific task. If you connect it with Asana, Slack would take out the discussions underneath the tasks and allow your team to see the big picture. You can create different channels where different people can discuss a project, office party or share kitten pictures. Slack is essentially a chat for your team – highly searchable chat where you can upload files, share code snippets and so much more. In less than a year Slack has become a big favorite for virtual and office teams – because it works flawlessly and offers great solutions to common problems. Slackįorget everything you know about productivity and project management apps. You can switch between the List, Calendar and Activity views to get a better perspective of how the project is moving forward. In the List view you see tasks Due today, Late, Starred, Assigned to you. And this comes with comprehensible icons that make the task status stand out. Why I like Producteev: I love the fact that it is simpler than Asana and I can mark a task not only as Completed, but as Paused or In Progress. ![]() You can attach files from Dropbox but that’s most of it. It looks a lot like Asana and covers almost the same features, but does not offer a lot of integration possibilities. ![]() Producteev by Jive is free forever – unless you want Microsoft Outlook integration and personalized support. Check out their apps integration page for details. You can integrate Asana with a lot of tools – including team communication with Slack, time tracking by Harvest, sharing documents from Google Drive, Dropbox and Box, creating Gantt charts with Instagantt and more. Tracking everything seems easy – you can filter tasks by projects, due dates or just check tasks assigned to you. Why I like Asana: You can create projects, group tasks in them into separate sections, add subtasks (and assign them to different team members and set different due dates for them). I can see all my tasks and notification together, plan my day/week/month and follow up when needed. It allows me to track projects for myself plus other clients – as I don’t have a limit of the number of teams I can join. What makes it great is the clean design, the ease of use and the great mobile app they have. ![]() It’s easy to understand, offers free accounts for teams up to 15 members and unlimited number of projects. AsanaĪsana is loved and praised by anyone who has ever used it. But there are 5 project management solutions that are (mostly) free and would help you manage your business better. I’ve been testing and using a lot of different tools in the past years and I’ve always found that something is missing in every tool. And this is why project management apps are so popular. Keeping track of tasks assigned and completed by your team members and virtual assistant is harder than expected, isn’t it? How about the discussions that come with them? Skype, Hangouts, email, Facebook chat, Twitter direct messages… It’s just impossible to be productive and keep an eye on everything. Now they are everywhere and most of them come for free. Project management apps used to be complicated and expensive gear for high-level management. ![]() |