![]() Listen for all the very detailed additions to the soundscapeĪs many visitors often say, the beauty of Disneyland Paris is really in the details, and I wholeheartedly agree.ĭisneyland Park really is planned to perfection, not only visually, but in the soundscape throughout the park as well. There’s a lot more to City Hall than trying to track down your lost spawn! 4. My personal favourite touch however is the old school Tigger Audio Animatronic which now sits as a decorative welcome piece to the shop. Inside, you’ll find all sorts of wonderful goodies including Disney themed notebooks and pens, along with Disney books in a variety of languages. The Disneyland Paris Storybook Store (located next to the City Hall along Main Street USA) is a charming yet frequently missed boutique perched near the entrance of Disneyland Park.Īnd if you’re a pathological stationary hoarder like I am, trust me when I say this shop will ruin you. Say hi to an old Tigger Audio Animatronic Here are some of my favourites, but you can click here for a full guide to this land. Thanks to its abundance of unique shops and buildings, I’m sure it won’t surprise you that Main Street USA is crawling with incredible little secrets to discover. The wonderful hidden gems start as soon as you walk into the park. Read my full guide on how to plan the perfect Disneyland day trip from Paris! Fun hidden gems on Disneyland Paris’ Main Street USA ![]() My 1st visit circa 2014, before I learned what to do with my hands in photos Pssst – Doing Disneyland Paris as a day trip? 2 years later, I celebrated my birthday there, trampling countless ~ actual ~ kids, and of course, most recently, last month I returned, boyfriend in tow, as we bulldozed through mobs of children to take selfies with Goofy.Īnd as I’ve grown older (though not any more mature), what I’ve begun to really appreciate about Disneyland Paris is its relentless attention to detail.Įvery visit, I’ve uncovered something new, which is an excuse I will now hold onto when people judge me for going again as a full-grown childless adult. and from time to time, I’m even convinced I might be experiencing early-onset menopause.īUT, no matter how many years pass by, and how quickly I evolve into an angry grandma, one childish thing about me will simply never change: I’ll always be down for a jaunt to Disneyland Paris.ĭisneyland Paris is, after all, the park I’ve frequented most in my life.ĥ years ago, I braved my 1st visit in an obnoxious red polka dot skirt that I spent an entire day in Paris shopping for. For another, I find it increasingly intolerable to be around “youths”…. Over the years, a lot of things have changed in my life. For one, I’ve begun complaining about joint pain. Looking for hidden gems around Disneyland Paris? This guide dishes out on all sorts of wonderful little secrets you don’t want to miss!
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![]() We’ll often have it going when we go to bed.”ĪSMR can also be an important tool to help people meditate and practice mindfulness. The pair enjoy experiencing ASMR to the point where they have set up speakers beside their bed to listen to it as they fall asleep. It’s an intimate experience, and it can be sensual.” “A lot of the really popular YouTube channels feature pretty girls talking very closely. It’s so incredibly not a sex thing,” Tully said. Tully Jagoe and Susannah Bailey, who both regularly watch ASMR, agree. It doesn’t make us feel anything sexual when we experience ASMR.” “Most people that create and view ASMR would universally say we don’t experience sexual urges. Many people think that there is a sexual element involved due to the intimate nature of the videos. There’s a certain stigma around ASMR, stemming from one of the biggest misconceptions about the genre. “There's a large demographic of people in certain social circles that you just wouldn't feel comfortable talking to them about it,” Dmitri said. People that are new don’t get many views and get put right down the search rankings.”Ĭreators on YouTube have even been experimenting with VR and 360-degree videos.īefore the term existed, the phenomenon was not well documented or talked about. “YouTube’s algorithm gives people that get a lot of views quickly a push to the top. The biggest issue holding people back is Youtube’s algorithm itself. It’s a lot harder to get started as an ASMRtist today than when Dmitri first started. “When it happened, pretty much all my videos would be just rejected, because … I don’t know, I’m just whispering into a microphone,” he said. That was until the recent YouTube advertiser boycott, where major advertisers objected to advertising algorithms that could potentially place their ads against content they would rather not be associated with.Īs a result, channels have seen revenue plummet across the site. Some YouTubers are even able to make a decent living from the ads on their videos alone. “I ended up watching a strange Russian lady doing some teaching role-play … and in the title, it had the words ASMR.”ĭmitri’s most popular video is a 10-hour compilation of his best ASMR sounds and has over 13 million views. “I'd look for massage or haircutting videos and that's where I first found it,” he said. In the beginning, before he knew what ASMR was, Dmitri would often search for videos that would trigger a tingling sensation. The objective is to try and help people relax, and if you’re lucky they’ll experience ASMR.” You can’t have someone else experience it unless they’re lucky enough to find something that works for them. ![]() “It’s something that you can’t touch, it’s something you can’t see. There’s a certain degree of skill and luck needed to make quality tingles. “They’re stressed, they’re feeling anxiety and it’s not natural.”Ĭreating ASMR isn’t as simple as just getting any old microphone and a webcam. “I believe what’s happening in the world today is that people are living in that flight-or-fight mode,” he said. He believes that ASMR is a mechanism for the body to flush out chemicals from the brain to help it de-stress. He started making his own videos four years ago and has since racked up over 200 million views. Some ASMRtists go above and beyond with the costuming.ĭmitri Smith is an Australian ASMRtist who runs a channel called MassageASMR. These could be simple haircuts or eye exams, to downright surreal experiences with Cthulhu-inspired monsters. A popular type of video involves roleplaying a character or scenario. The ASMR community have a wide range of videos to help people find their tingles. ASMR affects people individually and some people just can’t feel it. You’ll need to put on a pair of headphones, as a significant part of ASMR depends on sounds moving from ear to ear.ĭon’t worry if you weren’t able to feel it, you’re not alone. If you want to experience it for yourself, try listening to the video below. It’s a strange concept which sounds absurd, but for those who enjoy it, it can trigger a euphoric sensation and help them relax. It could be tapping on pieces of wood, whispering closely into a microphone or crinkling plastic packaging. The people making these videos call themselves ASMRtists and they make certain sounds to trigger the tingle response. That feeling is called Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, or ASMR, and millions of people are tuning into YouTube channels dedicated to it. ![]() Have you ever had tingles run through your spine after hearing someone’s voice? Maybe it was from when your hair was being brushed or from listening to a certain piece of music? ![]() The signer and the Notary are not able to communicate with each other.There is no notarial certificate on the document and the signer cannot tell which notarial act is required.The Notary believes changes to the document may be made after it has been signed.The signer(s) cannot produce ID or is not known personally by the Notary (California Notaries are required to obtain ID in all cases).A document has missing pages or blank spaces that affect the intent of the document.All signer(s)/witness(es) are not present in person with the Notary.What reasons might prevent a Notary from notarizing my document?Ī Notary may be unable to complete a notarization when: In some states, acceptable ID may also include a green card, a foreign passport or a driver's license officially issued in Mexico or Canada. What forms of ID are acceptable in order to get a notarization?Īcceptable forms of ID in most states include: Record the notarial act in their journal (as required by the state).Obtain proper identification from all signer(s)/witness(es).Examine the document for completeness and ensure all pages are included.Require all signer(s)/witness(es) to be present in person.The following steps for notarization are defined by the state and not by Bank of America. ![]() Be sure to bring all pages of the document being notarized (we suggest you don't sign or date the document before visiting a financial center because some documents must be signed and dated in the presence of a Notary). You'll also be required to bring acceptable ID as required by your state. In all cases, all signers and any required witness(es) must be present with the Notary for the notarization. ![]() Most requests for notarization involve the signing of documents. A notarization is generally an assurance made by a Notary Public that a document's signature is genuine, that the signer acted without duress and that the signer intended the terms of the document to be in full force and effect. A Notary Public is an individual who has been recognized by the state government as being able to serve as an objective witness and provide notarizations. ![]() These colours are then embeded as streaks, veins or overall pigments in marble when it transforms. Higher proportions of calcium and low ratios of magnesium, as found in calcite limestone, tend to be lighter and contain more silvers and whites increases in magnesium content provide a balance of light, cool greys with sandy blonde or pink hues while dolomitisation occurs when magnesium-rich groundwater reacts with calcite to produce dolostone or dolomite rock, possessing darker greys or orange and brown shades owing to its higher levels of magnesium. Marbles can be used in architecture as aggregate in roads, hardcore and as a site levelling base in construction projects, or cut and highly polished for a smooth finished, dimensioned stone, varying in colour from pure white muddy or hazy creams, beiges, pinks, greys and browns depending on their chemical compositions. Due to the locations and circumstances in which marble transitions from limestone, it is normally found in large, geographically concentrated quantities, allowing it to be mined efficiently. Minerals present in the limestone pre-metamorphosis change in structure like the calcitic content: Clay transforms to complex silicates, further solidifying the new rock. Marble undergoes a unique transformation uncommon to other rocks formed by metamorphism whereby it doesn’t form in layers, or foliate, leaving a pristine, unblemished, seamless surface appearance. Immediately after the transition, calcite crystals are small, but grow in size to become interlocked, hiding any sedimentary structures and fossilised remains commonly found in limestone. Metamorphosis can also occur when limestone or dolomite rock is exposed to magma from the earth’s core when it punctures through to form magma chambers, or ruptures the earth’s surface and discharges under pressure. Marble is normally chemically transformed from limestone at the boundaries of convergent plates through direct exposure to the heat of the earth’s core combined with the pressure from the weight of layers above causing the calcite to recrystallise, changing the texture and characteristics of the rock, a process known as metamorphosis. The process of denudation, erosion and formation of the new rock is known as sedimentation. ![]() Some limestones form when calcitic minerals from plant and animal debris or remains break down, accumulate and are lithified and are known as organic sedimentary rock, occasionally containing fully intact fossils. The particles then undergo a process known as lithification over an extensive period of time, whereby particles are compacted in layers, compressed under their own weight and bound or cemented together when exposed to and combined with chemicals such as oxides or, with limestone, higher concentrations of carbonates, which helps increase the bond between the graduals and reduce the porosity of the newly formed rock. Calcitic minerals can also gather when left behind after bodies of water evaporate. The transportation process helps round and smooth the harder particles and remove weaker grains. High concentrations of the particles are deposited in one area, often setting on lower land or in bodies of water. Limestone, a sedimentary rock, is composed from calcium carbonate, forming when other types of rock are subject to a sequence of weathering and erosion known as denudation: Mechanical weathering from ice, water flow, waves, rain, wind or thermal activity strips or grinds down parts of the origin rock, with particles being eroded, or transported away from the source area, by glaciers, rivers, wind or water. A metamorphic, almost crystalline state variant of limestone, marble polishes to a very high finish, becoming almost completely smooth and reflective. Marble is rarely a dominant material in buildings due to its high cost, but can be found in ornate flooring, columns, countertops, staircases, cladding, or façade details. ![]() Marble typically posses a white finish in its purest form owing to its calcitic carbonate makeup, although other colours are displayed due to a variety of impurities within the stone, from other mineral and rock compositions such as clay, quartz, iron oxides and graphite. Marble is a hard, durable, exquisite stone used in architecture and design as both internal and external finishes. The joints are filled with mortar and are 5 mm (0.2 inches) in width. The image represents a physical area of 1215 x 840 mm (47.8 x 33.1 inches) in total, with each individual block measuring approximately 400 x 100 mm. A seamless stone texture with marble arranged in a stretcher pattern. ![]() CSS-ready colour codes for HTML, PHP and other web-pages.Text tool for evaluating the readability of the selected font and background colour combinations.Gradient transition between any two colours for creating a wide range of in-between hues.RGB, HSV and HSL colour editors for adjusting and editing colours.Red-Green-Blue (RGB), Cyan-Magenta-Yellow (CMY) and Red-Yellow-Blue (RYB) colour wheels with marked triads and complementary colours.Conversion of Hexadecimal and RGB colour codes into the corresponding colours.User comments and notes for picked colours.Interaction with the standard Windows and macOS colour dialogs.aco colour swatches (Adobe color files) and GIMP. Ability to open, edit and save Adobe Photoshop.Colour list for saving, cataloguing and re-using the picked colours.Calculation of pixel distance between points.Point lock feature for monitoring the colour in the set screen location independent of the mouse cursor position.Screen freeze feature for sampling the colour of the elements that change on mouse-hover.3x, 9x and 15x magnifier and keyboard control of the mouse cursor movements for greater precision.Averaged colour sampling for easy colour noise handling.Extensive range of colour code formats: HEX, RGB, HSB/HSV, HSL, HWB, CMY, CMYK and TColor.Now create a New Layer (have Foreground set to Red when you do this). There should now be a nice green and alpha image with no trace of the blue left. Click OK after the color indicator on the Color To Alpha plug-in is changed to blue. ![]() If using Gimp for Windows, you’ll have to right-click on the destination button and select the Foreground - drag n’ drop doesn’t work. Click, hold, and drag from the color portion of this window to the color portion of the Color To Alpha plug-in. When you used the color picker to select the background, a window with the color popped up. Next use the Color Picker Tool to select the background color. If its not there, upgrade your gimp to 1.2.x. If its grayed-out, it means that you have an indexed image. Its menu location is Filters -> Colors -> Color To Alpha, where means to right click on the image. The first step is to activate the color to alpha plug-in. Instead, may I suggest the rest of the tutorial? Step 1 ¶ You can go too far, and blend it back to something close, but this is time consuming. Anything short of the rightmost image has some blue in the pixel, which will stick out. You can spend hours trying to find something that will work perfectly, but you won’t. ![]() You can try getting rid of all the ugly pixels, but then you’ll end up with something jagged like on the right. The middle one is close, but there are some ugly visible pixels still. This looks somewhat neat, but not what we’re going for. The left one has a blue border around it. When these are filled, we are left with flat black and slightly blueish-green pixels between them, or no transition to black at all.Ĭompare each with the target image below. You’ll note that each of the three zoomed in selections above have varying amounts of the green-blue mix selected. However, when removing an anti-aliased object from its background is not a good idea, as shown above. The common approach to doing many things in GIMP is to first get a good selection. This tutorial doesn’t address the complexities of handling real-world photos in this manner, but does briefly discuss it at the end. To illustrate this, this tutorial will use the above images as source and destination. The aim is to show the advantages of using the color to alpha plug-in over selection-based techniques. This tutorial shows you how you can efficiently replace the background of an image with another in GIMP, through the use of the color to alpha plug-in. Text and images Copyright (C) 2002 Seth Burgess and may not be used without permission of the author. ![]() You just drag and drop the folder itself, or point the "Add Game." browser to the folder (it's normal if the files themselves within the folder are grayed out, or even if they don't appear at all). ScummVM just needs the folder where the game's files have been copied. Did you copy the data files into a folder as described in the wiki page below? If it's a custom build it must be configured to have the SCUMM engine enabled. a build that you've made from the source code). What version of ScummVM are you running? Is it an official build or a custom build (eg. ![]() When I locate the data files manually, the files show up as greyed out and I cannot select them no matter what I do. When I drag and drop, it tells me the game couldn't be added. timppu: Good it works, albeit I am nowadays using VirtualMIDISynth instead of BASSMIDI in Windows 7. However, I cannot add them to ScummVM either by dragging and dropping or by doing a manual add using the "Add Game" feature. I'll let everybody know if I get this to run on my hubby's Lenovo Win 7.I have the original CD's for Full Throttle and Sam & Max and I copied over the necessary data files to my drive. privileges -it was greyed out and didn't allow for that option ? You need to use the game own save/load mechanism. For those the Save and Load buttons in the ScummVM Launcher and F5 menu are disabled. Last question : When I tried to run this game with admin. Some games, such as Simon the Sorcerer, do not use the ScummVM save game mechanism. Have to add that in the past we had Norton 360 and I'd turned it off temporarily to access a patch for a different old game from some old cd's I had-and my account stayed put.Īlso tried to run this game in the compatibility modes - didn't run (installed ok and when I tried to play, the screen went dark and then I was booted back to the desktop).Īlso went and installed DX8 from another old game as when I tried to install it from the Myst Exile start graphic- nothing happens except the "Install Shield" icon pops up.Īm going to try to install the patch and run M3 on a different laptop tonight. When I locate the data files manually, the files show up as greyed out and I cannot select them no matter what I do. I'm a bit cautious about turning off Webroot since the last time I did that- Windows Defender automatically kicked in and erased all of my documents, picture and music folders, etc. Tried to download and use the patch at ResidualVM - my Webroot will not allow it and deletes it. However they say compatibility is only "good" and not "excellent" so it would be better if you could get the game working using compatibility mode. The first time you run it, you have to browse to the game and add it to ResidualVM menu.Īnd you have to be careful to maintain the folder structure. It works similarly to ScummVM - you copy game files to a folder on your computer and run the game through ResidualVM instead of a shortcut to the game exe. Myst II is one of the three games it supports. If nothing else works, you could try ResidualVM. You might also need to use the checkboxes for disable visual themes, disable desktop composition, and disable display scaling on high DPI settings. The different video card might make a difference in whether the game plays or not.īesides reinstalling as Draclvr suggested, did you try using compatibility mode? Myst III was originally made for Windows 95/98/ME according to the game box, so try those compatibilities. When we bought this pc years ago-I'd played M.Exile on it, and it ran fine ! I'd uninstalled it and just decided to play it again. I also downloaded a patch made for M.Exile and that didn't help. The autosave period can be changed in the Misc settings tab, or in the configuration file. I tried disabling Webroot completely to try to run M.Exile. ScummVM automatically saves your game every 5 minutes. I'm playing on an old pc with Chrome installed and since we bought the computer- we've only had a better Nvidia graphics installed and recently switched from Norton 360 to Webroot for the antivirus. ![]() I tried to use 'add/remove' programs to find and delete the install shield and couldn't locate it. So I went and downloaded a version of DX8.0, and went to try to start the game.Ī small popup shows very quickly when you click on 'play' that says : "Created with DemoShield" and underneath it says "Then the small popup disappears and the game doesn't exactly crash, it just stops and you can try to click 'play' -but you get the same result. I clicked on the selection to install DX8.0 and.nothing. it seemed to install ok and the intro pic showed with options to start the game, install DX8.0 etc. When I installed Myst Exile today (from a set of 4 cd's). Still have an old Win Vista desktop HP that plays just about everything I want. ![]() Temperatures were forecast to plunge across northern China this week, with a cold front moving eastward from Xinjiang in the west and reaching Beijing by the weekend. DST is a time change that occurs in the summer when the clocks are moved forward one hour. SGT to Beijing call time Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8am-6pm in SGT which corresponds to 8am-6pm in Beijing. The winter and summer time zones are the same. Singapore Time is 0 hours ahead of CST (China Standard Time) 9:30 pm 21:30 in SGT is 9:30 pm 21:30 in Beijing, China. Time Changes in Beijing Over the Years Daylight Saving Time (DST) changes do not necessarily occur on the same date every year. ![]() The IANA timezone identifier for Beijing is Asia/Shanghai. Monday, DecemFullscreen 2023 Time Zones - Beijing CST UTC+8h Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec The graph above shows that there is no clock change in Beijing during 2023. The snowfall is expected to be followed by bitter cold. Pacific Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time and 16 hours behind CST (China Standard Time) 9:30 am 09:30 in PT is 12:30 pm 12:30 in EST and is 1:30 am 01:30 in Beijing, China. Beijing timezone Beijing timezone is Asia/Shanghai (cst), UTC +08:00. More than 100 sections of highways and other roads were closed in about half a dozen provinces, most of them in Shanxi province, a coal-mining region west and south of Beijing. The snow was expected to continue into Thursday. The China Meteorological Administration forecast accumulation of 5 to 15 centimeters (2 to 6 inches) for a swath of provinces south and west of Beijing, and said it could reach 20 centimeters (8 inches) in some places. Several trains departing Beijing and in China’s northwest Xinjiang region were canceled because of either snow or high winds. ![]() BEIJING (AP) - Schools and highways were closed and some train services suspended on Wednesday as a snowstorm hit parts of northern and central China for the second time this week.Ī steady, blowing snow began falling in the late morning in the Chinese capital, Beijing, where authorities closed schools and some scenic spots in outlying mountainous areas. ![]()
![]() The purpose of Vectr is to create an easy-to-learn and easy-to-use alternative to Adobe Illustrator. Flexible canvas with "X-ray" and "Split-view" modes for more freestyle drawing. Duplicate guides, corners and hairlines for technical drawings. Live Path Effects (LPEs) including "Offset," "PowerClip" and "PowerMask. Vectorize line drawings in "Trace Bitmap" dialog. Use across a variety of industries, including marketing/branding, engineering/CAD, web graphics, cartooningĬompatible formats: SVG, PNG, JPG, PDF, PSD, EPS, TIFF, AI and EXRĬore features: Open-source. Export PDFs with clickable links and metadata. Project goals: Object creation and manipulation. Being open-source allows technically skilled users to customize some features and incorporate the app into other software. Its variety of features makes it a useful tool for both artistic and technical illustrations for designers of all kinds. Its core format allows it to run well, even on low-end computers. It operates on Windows, macOS and Linux and supports a wide range of design formats, including Adobe Illustrator's AI format, Boxy SVG format and CorelDRAW's CDR format, among others. Inkscape is a free, open-source vector editor. With these essentials in mind, here are 9 of the best Adobe Illustrator alternatives: 1. ![]() Depending on your project needs, experience level and budget, the important things to compare when choosing graphic design software include the variety of output formats, easy vector conversion, color management and photo editing tools, as well as price. For an antenna to appear on this list it needs to hit its distance spec during testing, and to also meet our standards for design and usability. ![]() We test antennas at a semi-rural location with broadcast TV stations located from 15 miles to 70 miles away – an average range for indoor antenna use. For now, all stations making the transition to ATSC 3.0 are required to simulcast in ATSC 1.0, though that situation could change in the near future. Even so, only select recent model TVs feature an ATSC 3.0 tuner, so if your set lacks that feature it will instead receive signals using the older ATSC 1.0 broadcast standard. The good news for anyone shopping for an indoor TV antenna is that all models are compatible with the new standard. This is sometimes labeled as "NextGenTV" and is the next generation digital broadcast TV standard in the US. Depending on how fussy you are about interior design, the look of the antenna may be a factor in your buying decision, so that’s another aspect we’ll cover.īroadcast TV viewers should know about ATSC 3.0. Most indoor antennas have a compact form and are intended to be installed either on a flat surface next to your TV or on a wall behind it. You’ll find that the main difference between models lies in their ability to pull in signals from stations at various distances, and our guide will explain how closely each model meets its distance specification. The best indoor TV antennas let you receive free over-the-air broadcast TV channels without having to install a large outdoor antenna on the roof of your home. ![]() With the holidays approaching fast, some of the antennas in our guide such as the Antennas Direct ClearStream Flex are starting to see good Christmas deals, so if you have someone on your list who would benefit from a new or a better antenna, it's a great under-$100 gift option.Īl Griffin, Senior Editor – Home Entertainment Watch sports, news, PBS docs, and more without having to drain your bank account. Our guide below helps you choose the best indoor TV antennas to help you get over-the-air TV broadcasts for free. The solution? An indoor digital TV antenna. Streaming services are popular but not everyone can afford Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus. |
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