![]() While working with both LaunchBar and Alfred I keep noticing, that LaunchBar keeps the last accessible context way better than Alfred. While LaunchBar keeps it simple to use with arrow keys (that are inaccessible in Alfred due to text cursor movement), the overall search experience is nice. ![]() Looking for application’s recent documents is one step further in Alfred, but still easily accessible, as an addition, you can use ⌘1-9 keys to quickly choose required result.įile system navigation is also a little bit different than in LaunchBar. While LaunchBar forces you to type correct and short, Alfred’s input box is actually editable, so there would be no cases when you need to reset the search (by hiding and showing LaunchBar) and search again. Ok, now to the most important part – what do you have out of the box (there’s additional Powerpack in there, and I would compare Alfred with LaunchBar as like I’ve purchased it, as LaunchBar doesn’t have free version at all).Īpplication launching is instant. Things are somewhat simpler now, when we have MAS, as Alfred installation is a matter of one click. Tough, there are several issues with its behavior, and I’ve heard so many interesting stories about Alfred, that I was willing to give it a try. I must admit, that I’m mostly happy with my current setup, as LaunchBar does an impressive job of keeping everything I have on my mac accessible in a few keystrokes. My hotkey launching history is pretty long, starting with classic QuickSilver, later on QSB, then as QSB became so google-oriented, back to QuickSilver and then finally – LaunchBar. This is a short note about Alfred, the application launcher I made afre using it for a little while.
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![]() But in this case, this grouping can include other species as well. This group can be a little confusing, since the most common species of Japanese maples is A. This cultivar grows up to 15 feet tall.ĭefining characteristic: Leaf margin contrasts with center. In the spring, the leaves are dark red with light pink margins, before turning slightly greenish-red in the center with pink margins. While most variegated Japanese maples are green, ‘Shirazz’ is primarily red. Young leaves look slightly mottled before they form a stark contrast. ‘Yama Nishiki,’ known as ‘Snow Peak’ in the West, has a distinct variegation with creamy white on the margins and medium green centers. The leaves have five lobes and the tree grows to be about 12 feet tall when mature. In the spring, the margins might have some pink hues to them, and in the fall, the margins turn red. The foliage on this tree has creamy white margins and a grayish-green center. To see a good example of this particular group, check out ‘Butterfly.’ This group is a good one to start with, because it includes basically any plant that doesn’t have distinct characteristics that put it in another category. Now, let’s take a look at each of the 17 classifications used to describe Japanese maples today.
![]() Glenn Pierce, communicates to the player through radios, explaining that they have completely lost track of the player, and that the player is likely traveling through successive dream layers. ![]() However, the player fails to wake up at their appointed time, ending up back inside the dreamworld. They are put to sleep and placed in a testing environment constructed in their dreamworld, where they are capable of performing reality bending feats such as changing the size of items based on perspective or instantly creating copies of them. The player heads to the Pierce Institute to help test its SomnaSculpt technology which is designed to provide dream therapy to patients. Some objects exist as trompe-l'œil illusions with segments of two-dimensional art on various walls and surfaces, and the player must find the appropriate angle to view the object and make it appear whole to then be able to grab it. Later areas of the game introduce new mechanics to this. This process can be repeated indefinitely, allowing the player to manipulate these scalable objects as to create platforms to reach the exit or clear obstacles blocking them. Taking the waist-high cube and looking downwards towards the floor when dropping it will make the cube shrink in size, while looking upwards towards the ceiling and dropping will make it grow large. ![]() The player can then look elsewhere around the room, with the cube maintained at the same viewpoint, and drop that cube at that location (at the furthest distance observed), where the cube will scale up or downwards in size based on the new perspective. The bulk of such interactions are based on the use of forced perspective: the player can pick up a waist-high cube, which is then kept at its apparent current size from the player's perspective. To reach the exit, the player can manipulate certain objects in the game world. The exit door may be closed and require a button to be held down to open, or atop a higher platform out of reach, or may not be immediately visible. Most puzzles involve traversing through a series of rooms to reach their exits. Glenn Pierce, on how to escape from the dream. The player-character is a participant in a dream therapy program, but during the study, the character becomes trapped in a recurring dream cycle, and is guided by the voice of the study's overseer, Dr. Superliminal is a puzzle video game played from the first-person perspective. Multiplayer support and other modes were added to the game after launch. It received generally positive reviews from critics. ![]() Superliminal was released for macOS and Windows in November 2019, for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in July 2020, for Linux in November 2020, and for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in November 2022. The game, played from a first-person perspective, incorporates gameplay elements around optical illusions and forced perspective notably, certain objects when picked up can be moved towards or away from the player, but when placed back down, scale to the size as the player had viewed them, enabling the player to solve puzzles to complete the game. Superliminal (previously Museum of Simulation Technology) is a 2019 surreal puzzle video game released by Pillow Castle Games. ![]() ![]() I only had to boil it for thirty more seconds and it would have been perfect. This potion was going to blow your mind! Literally! Yet again the fight ends before I get to use my best stuff. In a Vermont pub in 2005, a group of cancer survivors sat down for a meal planned by a therapeutic chef at The Alchemist Pub and Brewery in Waterbury, Vermont. aluminum for every beer can product they produce, but also by incorporating a forum of. *sighs* I had a really good potion coming up. The innovations that The Alchemist has embedded throughout daily. Join them for free Add my business The Willows 1. Add my business Near 1 place has this beer near you These places list their beers on BeerMenus. In her super form, Alchemist only gets her Bear Potion, immediately becoming a bear. The Alchemist Stowe, VT Sell great beer Tell the BeerMenus community Add your business, list your beers, bring in your locals. Upon activating it, Alchemist will transform into a bear and gain two copies of Bear Maul, a attack that does damage by off the value of a dice + 2. Bear Potion: Transform into a bear and recover 12 health.Īlchemist will use these potions in order, eventually reaching the Bear Potion.Fire Potion: Do 8 damage and burn all dice.If you're in the area-stop in! They do close by 6PM-so not meant to be a late night place.Alchemist is a person who specializes in alchemy, carrying a giant flask.Īlchemist uses four types of potions to attack, with all being single use equipment with a countdown of 8. Great place-we can't buy their beer in NY, and they like it that way!! Most of my liquors store near me had gotten some allotment of the beer. And from my understanding a pretty damn good amount of it too. They say that since their workers are paid a living wage-they donate all tips to 13 organizations throughout the year. I was very surprised and happy to see The Alchemist has distributed two of it's most highly regarded beers to NJ. We also did not understand that they only can certain beers-so we could only buy what they had available for purchase that day.Ībsolutely love their tip protocol. ![]() Our friend wanted us to buy Crusher.which the worker told us came out the next morning! Missed it by that much. When it came time to buy beer, we bought 2 4-packs of Heady Topper and Focal Banger. ![]() We sat right next to where they were canning beer-and it was a pretty fascinating process. The tasting room had just opened up the week before for a soft opening-prior to that people got beer from a very steady line of drive-up, and drank outside in the Biergarten. I wanted to share my somewhat unusal project with the Beersmith community, since its beer related, feel free to give me your comments or thoughts on this. The flavor packs a hop wallop with a ton of pine and citrus hops with all the juiciness the Northeast is known for. The aroma pairs an earthy dankness with tropical fruit and pineapple. The Alchemist Brewery and Visitors Center in Stowe will provide samples. Crusher is a orangish copper color with a thick white head and haze for days. to serve our community and the growing number of beer tourists to Vermont. We visited 7 breweries while in the area, and this was the most beautiful! Hubby isn't an IPA fan, so he tried a can of Sterk Wit, while I drank a hand pulled Heady Topper. Podcast: New England Part 2: Vermont IPAs. You make good beer, but I’ll ask all my Stowe friends to avoid the place. I mean, what kind of crazy hostess power trip are we dealing with here?Īre there THAT MANY people lying about reservations to have a beer? Give me a break.Īfter she walked us over to a table she said “table reservations are for a strict 90 minutes- which we enforce”.Īt that point I’d had enough and we walked out, not a chance I’m ever drinking another Alchemist beer if that’s how customers are treated. I offered that we would show ID to prove who we are- at which point the hostess informed me that I was causing trouble by looking at her IPad. Trying to obtain a specific beer Looking for a proxy or trustee Tired of trading on other platforms Weve got you covered. I have our name again.Īpparently she wasn’t happy I looked at her iPad and said “if the person who REALLY made that reservation shows up, they’re going to be upset!” Hostess was upset, put her hand over the list and asked again. I said “we have a reservation”- she asked for the name, I glanced at her IPad and said “it’s the top one”- and gave my wife’s name. When we walked in, we stopped at the hostess station. Find out what the community is saying and what dishes to order at Alchemist Beer Lab. My wife made a reservation on a Wednesday afternoon. Cafes and Bars in Singapore: September 2016. I expect all these tools to improve over time, but as it stands Neo is the best AI driven image editor you can get your hands on. The AI mask on skies usually needs some touch-up at the edges, and it doesn't seem to perform quite as well as the built-in sky replacement tool in Neo. While quite good, they could use some improvement. You can, of course, use the background extraction in combination with the other AI tools in Neo. ![]() Those features were in the older Luminar app, so I expect it's just a matter of time before they appear in Neo. On the other hand, Neo is still missing some tools I almost always edit with, including a clone tool and dodge and burn. Luminar Neo is quickly becoming a full-featured raw editor, and for many images, I can use Neo only and get away without jumping in and out of Lightroom or Photoshop. (I'm a landscape guy, not a portrait photographer so my resources were limited, and my portraits are nothing to write home about.) My Thoughts on Luminar Neo I hate to use Skylum images, but playing with a few images I had in my archive, I found the results similar. Here's a before image: (Images provided by Skylum) I didn't find the cutouts perfect, but with the included tools, I could quickly clean up edges and hair. Working on a Mac Studio, the application doesn't seem laggy at these AI-intensive tasks. Object brush revives portrait details that may have been eliminated by the neural network, while Background brush helps to additionally remove parts that aren’t detected by the AI.īackground removal is going to be embraced by portrait photographers, and in a quick advance look, it seems to work as advertised. Transition brush refines the edges by removing unnecessary elements where the portrait and background touch. Even if you’ve never worked with mask selection, you’ll understand the workflow by following the signs on the brushes. The portrait and the background behind will be highlighted in different colors. Sometimes, you'll have to refine the AI-selected image, and Neo helps with that as well. AI helps you to omit pixel-by-pixel selections in refinement brush mode. – Ivan Kutanin, CEO of Skylum Using Background Removal You can freely explore any and all of your wildest ideas. With Luminar’s new Portrait Background Removal tool, nothing will slow down the creativity. ![]() My creative spark can be extinguished by this routine. Manual masking and separating people from the background is a lot of boring work to me. Then, the image can be exported as a PNG file for compositing, or you can do the work within Neo using the layers function. Once Luminar is open and an image is in the editor, all you have to do is select Portrait Background Removal. One can easily see the possibilities: improving a background by softening the focus or completely replacing a background. ![]() The premise of the tables was simple, even if their execution was arcane: a one-time gift of $5,000 to the woman at the top of a four-tier pyramid would be returned as a $40,000 payout once the initial gifter had recruited 14 other women beneath her. One of the most intriguing dead ends Madison explores, the Gifting Tables emerged in the wreckage of the post-2008 American economy that exploded across the Connecticut coast. By the time Madison resumed working on Murder on Middle Beach in 2016 - it began life as a student film three years prior - one aunt is living in a trailer, another is dead from cancer, and a third is fresh out of jail for her role in the Gifting Tables, a homegrown all-woman Ponzi scheme. Madison’s teenage struggles with drugs and alcohol nearly derailed him, and even a half-awake viewer can’t avoid comparing Madison’s obsessive quest to the family pattern of addiction. Whatever fortune afforded Madison’s childhood a palatial McMansion, trips to Hawaii, and field passes to NFL games evaporated. ![]() Amidst an acrimonious divorce, Barbara’s drinking blossomed into full blown alcoholism - the enduring Beach family inheritance. Then Jeffery lost his CEO job amid swirling rumors of embezzlement, and much of the WASP-y Beach family’s wealth that he was investing vanished. Her warmth emanates from low resolution VHS tapes and, as she plays with her babies, she is cloaked in the questionable fashion and joie de vivre of the early 2000s. She married the successful, charming Jeffrey Hamburg (Madison’s father) and had two beautiful children. ![]() In the prominently featured home videos, we watch Barbara, called Barbie by her family, growing up in a sprawling colonial with five siblings - carousing under oil paintings of patrician ancestors. Just below its humdrum True Crime veneer, Murder on Middle Beach seethes with a palpable sense of American decay. But what Madison has created proves, in its own quiet way, to be a subversive reinvestigation of True Crime’s basic principles. As Madison digs into the clues surrounding his mother’s death, he is led again and again back to his own family: his businessman father, a down and out aunt, an unstable sister who left America and the family behind. That the filmmaker, Madison Hamburg, is Barbara’s son could just be a gimmick - an appeal to our growing demand for entertainment that dissolves the wall between subject and creator. The genre is overfilled with rapes, abductions, and ritual killings that make the violent homicide at the heart of HBO’s four-part Murder on Middle Beach feel quaint by comparison. In the canon of True Crime documentaries, Barbara’s death is unexceptional. At first, they thought they’d found a dead animal. When her sister, Conway Beach, and teenage daughter, Ali Hamburg, found her body hidden under a pile of cushions they couldn’t comprehend the tangle of blood and hair. ![]() She suffered over a dozen puncture wounds. Evidence of a struggle was strewn across the lawn. Here are the facts: on March 3rd, 2010, Barbara Beach Hamburg was beaten to death in front of her modest house in Madison, Connecticut. Billed Into Silence: Money and the Miseducation of Women.Please reach out because we will greatly appreciate, even if it’s just to share how much you loved my mom. “Anybody out there that might remember something, it might jog their memory when they see this, you know, please. “If this series doesn’t solve the case, it becomes a tool to get us closer,” Hamburg said. In the end, he hopes all the hard work and potential family strife will simply help answer the biggest question of his life: Who killed his mother and why? Hamburg said all his family members except his father have watched “Murder on Middle Beach” before its release so they’re prepared for any potential fallout or social media reaction. Part of Hamburg’s journey in the documentary includes secretly recording his father and his interactions with investigators who have yet to solve the killing. “Because, you know, I love my family and it is unconditional, but it’s really hard when a loved one is murdered and it’s unresolved and it’s done in a way that leaves a small percentage chance that it could have been done by a loved one.” resolve some of the lingering distrust,’” Hamburg said. And you have to do it to elicit an honest, truthful answer out of them because this may be your only chance to exonerate people and. And you have to do it for their sake and your sake, bluntly. Hamburg recounted how his crew pressed him to ask, saying, ‘If we’re going to do this again, this might be your only opportunity to ask that question. That question was something he posed to several close relatives after he had been working on the documentary for years and realized they needed to be given a chance to express their innocence. 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Hosted by: Dairy Girl Network & National Young Cooperators Program Women Leading Dairy: Challenges and Opportunities Sponsored by: KS Dairy Consulting, Inc./Supervisor Systems Presented by: Farm Journal Media & World Dairy Expo Hosted by: Council on Dairy Cattle Breedingīonnie Cooper, International Person of the Year Hosted by: Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) New in 2023, organizations have the opportunity to host an organized meetings or sessions in The Tanbark, bringing a unique and inviting atmosphere for large-scale audiences.ĭairy Symposium: Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives Happy Hours: Tuesday - Thursday, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Join us for a meal, Happy Hour, a nightly reception or an industry-hosted event! The Tanbark, located in the Arena Building, is a full-service bar and restaurant that serves as the meeting place for attendees and exhibitors. Download the World Dairy Expo mobile event app, visit or follow WDE on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Spotify, Instagram or YouTube for more information.The Tanbark The Tanbark - Something for Everyone! for the 56 th event, October 1-6, 2023, when the world’s largest dairy-focused trade show, dairy and forage seminars, a world-class dairy cattle show and more will be on display. The global dairy industry will return to Madison, Wis. Serving as the meeting place of the global dairy industry, World Dairy Expo brings together the latest in dairy innovation and the best cattle in North America. The second-highest selling lot, FB World Classic, was also consigned by FB Genetics, Dumas Texas, and was purchased by STgenetics, Navasota, Texas, for $105,000. and consigned by FB Genetics, Dumas, Texas. Topping the sale was JX Pine-Tree Stoney 2770 -ET, a Jersey heifer calf purchased by Vierra Dairy, Hilmar, Calif. The Top of the World Jersey Sale took place on Tuesday, October 4 in The Tanbark. Top of the World Jersey Sale: Tuesday, October 4 Following are the highlights from the four breed sales that took place last month at WDE. Buyers from around the world vied for the many world-class cattle and embryos sold during the 55 th event. ![]() The 2022 World Dairy Expo Breed Sales once again offered consignments from the Showring and top genomic heifers. ![]() This is not my lens and camera, it is a colleague of mine who can not afford the extra $$ for a Canon 16-35mm lens. ![]() When zoomed in as to remove the vignetting, which can be seen now through the viewing piece, the minimal wide aperture for no vignetting to occur, is 24-25mm. Now I personally find this amount of vignetting totally unacceptable as a wide angle lens. The amount of vignetting the lens exhibits is within the specification of the lens. When shot at widest aperture, most lenses will vignette. They have assess that the lens is working within specification. We have check the lens and sent sample images to Sigma Japan. I have now been informed that photos were taken using this lens and sent to Japan for inspection to see what and why this amount of vignetting has occurred with a compatible camera.Ī reply has come back only yesterday: Answer below I contacted the supplier, talked the problem over, sent many photos of proof and now at some expense the lens has been returned to place of purchase, within Australia (no grey import)Īll photos were sent by email, Feb and March shots. Sounds a lot but in time lapse as most of you know many photos are required to achieve this video. I now come to photo three, one month later, 10th March 2017 after the lens had taken only around 1500 photos. This is photo 1 photographed showing the properties of camera and lens. While the properties do not state the lens is Sigma, it shows f/1.8 which naturally is this lens in question. The second photo I photographed the properties of that shot proving the use of the 7D and the 19mm aperture. The first photo was taken on Feb 9th 2017 was at night for Astrophotography, and as you can see there is very minimal vignetting happening. I have serious concerns as to the performance of this lens as I have placed 4 photos for perusal and comment. The lens was used on the compatible 7D, as the 7D not being a full frame crop, was perfectly suitable and any vignetting which could occur, would be minimal as all wide angle lenses appear, as I have been informed! to produce some amount of this occuring. This lens was purchased for its wide aperture and f/1.8 chiefly to be used in Astrophotography/time lapse and any other situation that required wide angle. Sigma 18-35mm lens mounted on a Canon EOS 7D |
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