![]() ![]() Sometimes it’s better to start small and learn the tools you have. Many producers make the mistake of having too many plugins and they never really master any of them. If you’re just starting out you probably won’t even know what 95% of these plugins do anyway. You can make incredible music with nothing more than Ableton Live Lite. Once you’ve setup and registered Live Lite, all that’s left to do is download and install some free 3rd party plugins to get more instruments, sounds and effects!Īt this stage you might be asking, do I really need all these plugins to make music? There may be other Android apps that include free Live Lite licenses though, so be sure to look around. **U nfortunately the free Live Lite license is currently only available with the iOS version of Koala Sampler. If you don’t, you can get a Live Lite license for as little as $4 by buying the mobile music making app Koala Sampler**, which includes a free Live Lite license ![]() If you’ve recently purchased a MIDI keyboard or audio interface you may already have a free license for Live Lite. This usually comes bundled with audio interfaces or MIDI keyboards. There’s also another version of Ableton Live available called Live Lite. ![]() These are add-ons you can install to get more sounds, instruments and effects for your repertoire. Fortunately, each version of Live supports 3rd party plugins (often referred to as VSTs). While there are some slight feature differences, the biggest difference is in the number of sounds, instruments and effects that you get. It’s totally legal and much more reliable and doesn’t sacrifice much in terms of features.Ībleton Live comes in multiple versions Intro, Standard and Suite. You’ll end up stuck in the same position, hesitant to fork out a large chunk of cash for something you’re not quite yet confident with.įortunately, there’s a much better way to get started with Ableton Live for free. There is a fully featured 30-day trial, but 30 days isn’t enough time to really learn the ins and outs of what you can do with the software. Believe me, I’ve been using Live for almost 10 years and I still learn new things every day. It’s potential for music-making is literally limitless. Ableton Live Suite comes with a range of incredible built in instruments and effects, as well as unique tools like MaxForLive. Regardless, there’s one major obstacle you’ll run into when trying to get started with Ableton Live… the price.Ībleton Live is expensive for a reason it’s an insanely powerful piece of software that’s been continuously improved for around 20 years by a team of 100s of people. Maybe you’ve already been making music for a while and you’re looking to change things up. Maybe you’re just getting started making music and you’re looking for your first DAW (digital audio workstation). You’ve heard about Ableton Live and you’ve heard that it’s pretty powerful software for making music. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Ova Magica will release digitally on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo Switch worldwide in 2023.Indie games developer ClaudiaTheDev and indie games publisher/game developer Top Hat Studios Inc are today very proud and happy to announce that their adorable farming and monster taming RPG “ Ova Magica” got over 230% funded in just 24-hours via Kickstarter since its Kickstarter campaign started! (at the time of this publication, “Ova Magica” has collected over 89,000 Euros via Kickstarter with 26-days left to go on it’s Kickstarter campaign). Crafting: Gather resources to create new items with the workbench and decorate your farm and home! On your adventures, you’ll find many blueprints to decorate your farm and home! Some of these will help you to refine or process materials you couldn’t before, like the furnace or juicer, or grow exotic and weird new crops, help your productivity or just let you relax in comfort!. ![]() Mine some ore to build a few parts for your juicing machine, or perhaps you’d like to pop by the Blob League to get the latest news on the latest tournaments? Activities: Enjoy many wholesome activities and things to do around Clover Town! You can work on your fishing skills, or catch some bugs.Breeding: Grow stronger and unique blobs! You can crossbreed all blobs! Create your dream team and become the strongest trainer.You can summon portals by placing an item on the altar! These dungeons change every time you enter them! In the end, a strong blob Emperor boss guards the rare eggs. ![]()
![]() The Fenris field, which is located 50 kilometers north of Valhall, will be developed as an unmanned installation. The Valhall PWP-Fenris development project will enable a lifetime extension of the Valhall field by adding a new central platform, PWP, bridge-linked to the existing Valhall PH platform. ![]() The Yggdrasil area development will be comprised of the Hugin A processing platform with well area and living quarters, the Hugin B normally unmanned wellhead platform, the Munin unmanned production platform, and an extensive subsea development with a total of nine templates, pipelines, and umbilicals. The multi-field development is located on the Norwegian continental shelf approximately 160 km west of Kollsnes, near Bergen, in water depths of 110-120 meters. Yggdrasil, formerly known as NOAKA, consists of the Hugin, Fulla, and Munin licence groups, and the area is located between Alvheim and Oseberg. ![]() Project execution started in January 2023 with transportation and installation operations planned to be carried out in 2024, 2025, and 2026. Norwegian oil company Aker BP has awarded a contract to ABL Group (ABL) for the provision of marine warranty survey (MWS) services for the Yggdrasil and Valhall PWP-Fenris offshore field development projects offshore Norway.ĪBL’s Stavanger-based operation has been appointed to provide marine warranty services for the transportation and installation operations relating to both fields. ![]() ![]() These two Quilboars have the potential to go galactic, particularly Dynamic Duo. ![]() The other two minions you should always pick up if you see them are Bonker and Dynamic Duo. The Quilboar build relies heavily on having a Blood Gem generator, and Flat Tusk might just be the best one available to you. It turns out that just spending gold to earn resources (Blood Gems) is pretty good. Hit three of these and the game is pretty much over.Ĭaptain Flat Tusk is a surprising hit, even more powerful than the original A-tier rating we gave it in our Quilboar build guide originally. For this build to be a success, you're essentially power-leveling to transition into a Charlga build. Quilboar builds come in all sorts of different shapes and sizes, though the very successful builds focus on two specific minions: Charlga and Captain Flat Tusk.Ĭharlga provides all the late-game scaling you need to take your Quilboars to the moon, especially if you pair the tavern tier six minion with Agamaggan, the card that changes your +1/+1 Blood Gems to 2+/2+. Thanks to a few changes to the other tribes, they might finally have some competition. We've included a whole new entry on the powerful Quilboars, who are currently sitting right at the top of the meta. Updated July 13th by Harry Alston: With the latest changes to Battlegrounds (the introduction of Quilboars and the various updates made in 20.8) we saw it fitting to return to this list of the best builds in the game. What works, what doesn't? Which cards are essential and which can be left behind? These are the best endgame Battlegrounds builds to aim for in the game's current state. If players want to climb the ranked ladder, they need to understand the best builds. ![]() RELATED: Hearthstone Battlegrounds: Complete Guide With frequent changes that can leave players baffled as to which hero rules the meta and which builds are considered the strongest, Battlegrounds is a complicated game that balances strategy with complete, no-brainer luck. Hearthstone Battlegrounds continues to be one of the most popular features of Hearthstone, both to play and watch. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Puzzle Bobble 2 is poppin’ like Orville Redenbacher and ex-employees of the by then defunct Toaplan find their way to Taito, Cave and Gazelle, for Gekirindan, Donpachi and Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon respectively. But 2D games are still impressing arcade goers, as The King of Fighters ’95 by SNK and Guardians – perhaps the greatest scrolling beat ’em up of its decade – by the legendary Winkysoft, pull no punches and are very much alive and kicking. Tekken 2 makes people take closer notice of painful looking grapples captured via different camera angles and the European launch of Sony’s PlayStation broadens the audience for video games considerably around these parts. This is a real moment of transition, where 3D polygons start eclipsing 2D graphics in popularity, both in the arcades and in home gaming. The 8th episode of the Video Wizards Podcast is a huge one: we travel to a little bit over the middle of the mid 90s, namely the month of September in the year 1995. 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In this bed the water’s pH is raised, greatly accelerating the action of the air on the iron. ![]() The iron can then be more easily filtered.įrom the aeration /contact tank the water passes into the filter tank which contains a natural mineral media bed. The oxygen in the air starts the natural iron removal process by oxidizing the iron and causing it to come out of solution. As the water falls through the air pocket it absorbs oxygen. The air pump adds a controlled amount of air to the aeration /contact tank, forming an air pocket. The Chem-Free works on the principle of “aeration- filtration.” This iron filter features three major components: an air pump, an aeration /contact tank and a backwashable filter containing special media. This has the added benefit of neutralizing acidic (corrosive) water. The Chem-Free iron removal filter’s process raises the pH of the water, improving the efficiency of iron removal. Another advantage of the air pump is that air is introduced on the outlet side of the pressure tank, which prevents precipitated iron from building up in the pressure system. The Air Pump causes no restriction of your pipes. When they become clogged with iron, the increased back pressure on your well pump can shut off your water and damage your pump. Venturis greatly reduce the flow rate from your well. ![]() The Air Pump is a great improvement over venturis or hydrochargers for adding air to Chem-Free Iron removal systems. The Chem-Free iron filter is easy and economical to maintain There is virtually no limit on the amount of iron this filter can remove. Instead, this filter uses plain air to oxidize the iron and plain water to backwash the filter. It is safe and very economical because it requires none of the expensive or messy chemicals such as chlorine, potassium permanganate or salt which conventional iron filters use. It also removes bacterial iron, manganese and sulfur gas. It automatically removes ferrous iron, sometimes called “clear water” iron, as well as ferric iron, sometimes called “red water” iron. Once installed, the Chem-Free iron filter requires little attention. The Chem-Free iron filter eliminates iron from your water and iron problems from your life. Dishes and bathroom fixtures that glisten and sparkle. Clothing that’s clean, fresh and stain-free. We are still the only company in Canada whose entire product line is truly preservative free.Clean, crystal clear, great tasting water. In fact, we were the first company in Canada to create nitrite free deli meats. McLean has never used celery extracts in any of our deli products. We do not replace sodium nitrate with celery nitrates. That is why our organic bacon is truly nitrite free. We believe all organic products should be preservative free. So what’s healthier, organic bacon or nitrate free bacon? It shouldn’t be a choice. On Oct 26th, 2015 the WHO (World Health Organization) classified processed meat (meat cured with Sodium Nitrite or Nitrate) as carcinogenic to humans, based on sufficient evidence in humans that the consumption of processed meat causes colorectal cancer. The threat of cancer arises when a nitrite combines with amines and Heme iron, which is found only in meat, to form a compound called nitrosamine which is formed during cooking, and during the process of digestion. Why should we avoid Nitrites that are found in bacon and deli meats? Studies show that sodium nitrites and nitrates can increase the risks of certain cancers, can interfere with the thyroid gland, and interfere with the blood’s ability to deliver oxygen to the body.Īs reported in the New York Times on Aug 8th, in 1973 - “Sodium nitrite is a chemical that cures meat, makes it look better and prevents botulism. We believe a happier animal is a healthier animal. Organic animals are more humanely raised (no crates or cages). The overuse of antibiotics in farm animals is being blamed for the increase in resistant bacteria, also known as "superbugs." When these are passed to humans they can cause serious illness. Organic meat is healthier than factory farmed meat because organic animals are fed only GMO-free organic feed without animal by-products and raised without antibiotics. Which is Healthier, Organic Bacon or Nitrate Free Bacon? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You are beckoned to a dark and desolate place whose true name has long been forgotten The Magician's Handbook: Cursed Valley - Remove the evil curse in this captivating adventure by finding hidden objects in the dark and mysterious Cursed Valley! The fabled "Magician's Handbook" has fallen into your hands. Use your Hidden Object skills in Treasure Seekers: The Enchanted Canvases to break the spells on the castle and track down Tom Treasure Seekers 2: The Enchanted Canvases HD - Help Nelly find and save her brother from a mysterious Romanian castle! Dive into the castle's magical pictures and discover the secrets of the Philosophers' Stone. Treasure Seekers 2: The Enchanted Canvases HD The game tells the story of Maylynn and her friends, who take a trip to investigate the legend of a ghost living in the forest ![]() It has beautiful 3D graphics and lots of mind-bending puzzles to solve. Spirit Walkers: Curse of the Cypress Witch HD (Full) - Spirit Walkers: Curse of the Cypress Witch is a first-person adventure game for iPad. Spirit Walkers: Curse of the Cypress Witch HD (Full) ![]() The story follows Eva, a girl with unknown origins, who came to Prague to claim her inheritance Gameplay consists of finding various objects cleverly hidden in each scene, solving tricky puzzles and completing mini-games. But it’s not all about staying aliveĪlchemy Mysteries: Prague Legends HD - Alchemy Mysteries: Prague Legends is a hidden object adventure game for iPad. Stranded on an island, you will have to learn to fish and hunt for wild boars, catch snakes and find rare plants. You are one of the lucky few to escape a sinking ocean liner. The Island - Castaway HD - Intense challenges await you in The Island: Castaway, an extremely addictive simulation game. Treasure Seekers 2: The Enchanted Canvases Free - Help Nelly find and save her brother from a mysterious Romanian castle! Dive into the castle's magical pictures and discover the secrets of the Philosophers' Stone. Treasure Seekers 2: The Enchanted Canvases Free Treasure Seekers: Visions of Gold - Join Nelly and her younger brother as they unravel family secrets and face breathtaking adventure! Nelly's grandmother was a pirate and Nelly wants to find the hidden treasure The goal is to develop a thriving city in several locations, including Utah, Florida, Alaska and Nevada Virtual City 2: Paradise Resort HD (Full) - Virtual City 2: Paradise Resort is a city building simulation game for iPad. Virtual City 2: Paradise Resort HD (Full) Other Software by developer «G5 Entertainment»: VISIT US: WATCH US: FIND US: FOLLOW US: you got an error while installing Themes, Software or Games, please, read FAQ.Īpple iOS 10.x (iPad), Apple iOS 11.x (iPad), Apple iOS 12.x (iPad), Apple iOS 4.2.x (iPad), Apple iOS 4.3.x (iPad), Apple iOS 5.0 (iPad), Apple iOS 6.0 (iPad), Apple iOS 7.0 (iPad), Apple iOS 8.x (iPad), Apple iOS 9.x (iPad), Apple iPhone OS 3.2.x (iPad) ***G5 Games - New game apps every week!***Ĭollect them all! Search for "g5" in Google Play! ***Sign up now for a weekly round-up of the best from G5 Games! _ ***Note*** This game supports high-end smartphones and tablets such as Nexus 7 and Nexus 10. Game available in: English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish TRY IT FREE, THEN UNLOCK THE FULL ADVENTURE FROM WITHIN THE GAME! Discover where Audrey’s husband is, and who, or what, is sending her these letters. Plunge into this dramatic story, wander through 48 bizarre locations, find clues and solve witty puzzles to unveil the secret behind Audry's missing husband. She has all but given up when mysterious letters begin arriving at her doorstep. When Audrey learns of her husband's disappearance, she struggles to keep hope alive. Mysterious letters and a sudden disappearance keep you on your toes in this Hidden Object journey that is filled with unexpected twists and turns. Love Letters from Nowhere? Don’t miss Letters from Nowhere 2 - now out on Google Play! ![]() ![]() digital video is vastly more intricate.Ī GIF is not just a snippet of muted video on repeat. It’s a little digital flipbook.Ī GIF is not just a snippet of muted video on repeat. Those frames are all contained within a single GIF file that holds all the still images along with instructions on how fast to go through them. Once you start teasing out the difference between a real GIF and a fake, it’s easy to see why these more complex imposters are often preferable to the genuine item.Īn animated GIF is a series of sequential frames played in order with a delay between them to create the illusion of movement. These are videos with their hands tied behind their backs so they appear to be something simpler than they really are. They require code embedded in the page that surrounds them-code that orders them to adopt some quaint characteristics: play on mute, loop forever, don’t display any sort of control bar or, heaven forbid, a pause button. These video file imposters, however, are different. ![]() Whether this latest frenzy of GIF popularity enshrines it forever or kills it for good, you can be damn sure we’ll never see anything quite like it again.Ī GIF will automatically play and loop in silence because of its inherent makeup it’s a feature built into the file. All these years after Burn All GIFs Day, the GIF remains both deeply flawed and yet strangely irreplaceable. Behind the scenes, a war to exterminate it has been raging for years, and it never really ended. Yet the GIF as a filetype, the way we store the library of ones and zeros that computers translate into animation, is quietly embattled. ![]() The GIF as an art form-a short and silent loop-has never been more popular than it is right now. ![]() A year before that, Imgur-until very recently the de facto image hosting service for the media mammoth Reddit and a $200 million company in its own right-rolled out GIFV, its own attempt to modernize the nearly 30-year-old file format. Giphy, the company that curates that library, raised $55 million dollars in its latest round of funding, bringing its total value to some $300 million. It rules the web.Įarlier this year, Twitter introduced a built-in search engine that offers split-second access to a library of thousands upon thousands of GIFs. Seventeen years later, the GIF not only isn’t dead. Those who knew enough to care deeply about file formats and the future of the web were marching on the gates, armed with PNGs of torches and pitchforks.Īnd yet, somehow, here we are. By Burn All GIFs Day, the GIF was wobbling on the precipice of destruction. On top of that, there were the threats of litigation from parent companies and patent-holders which had been looming over GIF users for five long years before the fiery call to action. It was markedly inferior to virtually every file format that had followed it. Its animation capabilities were easily rivaled by a flipbook. It offered support for a paltry 256 colors. Had you visited its homepage that Friday, you would have seen the movement’s game plan laid out as plainly as its name: “On Burn All GIFs Day, all GIF users will gather at Unisys and burn all their GIF files.” This, alongside a selection of pointedly anti-GIF imagery-all proudly PNG files.ĭespite the obvious joke of setting files on fire, acknowledged with a winking plea to “extinguish all GIFs before leaving the vicinity,” the anger was real and the mission was earnest: to free the web from the scourge of the GIF once and for all.Īlready more than a decade old and with roots reaching to June 15th, 1987-half a decade before the World Wide Web itself-the GIF was showing its age. Wilhite worked on the GIF, short for graphics interchange format, while working for the online service provider CompuServe in the 1980s. We’re republishing the piece following news that Stephen Wilhite, one of the lead creators of the GIF, died earlier this month after contracting COVID-19. ![]() Editor’s Note: This story originally published in March 2018. ![]() ![]() > ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding 'UTF8': 0x92. There are some invalid characters in the database but this has not caused a problem in the current version or 9.3 (tried a restore in 9.3 and the application works fine). Then, by opening a connection using encoding = "native. The server uses SQLASCII encoding and the. How does this work, exactly? The useBytes argument of writeLines() effectively means, “pretend this text is in the native encoding, and perform no translation”. Your gut reaction might be to open a connection and write to it, like the following: write_utf8 <- function ( text, f = tempfile ()) In R, character vectors have two pieces of information: a sequence of bytes, and an encoding in which those bytes should be interpreted. To keep your life simple, you want to ensure that everything you read and write is encoded in the UTF-8 encoding, since that encoding can broadly represent characters from nearly all languages. Let’s suppose that you are a package author who needs to process some text provided by the user. How do I write UTF-8 encoded content to a file? There is an option under Server Parameters in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server: Inside there clientencoding was set to SQLASCII when it requires to be UTF8 After that change query works and pgadmin shows accents correctly. Ruby however doesn't know that the original encoding of the file is ISO-8859-1 and will by default interpret it as UTF-8.This blog post is an attempt to explore, and answer, the surprisingly difficult question: As you already know C5 codepoint corresponds to Å in ISO-8859-1 and isn't present in UTF-8 encoding. PostgreSQL counts the length of a combining character as the number of code points involved. These function count the number of code points in the string, and that is also what is delimited by the type modifier of character varying. Imagine you have a file file.txt containing a following string: "vandflyver \xC5rhus". You can use the length () or, equivalently, the charlength () function to measure the length of a string. Drogy tablety, American select auto insurance, Order more g eazy, Rival rebels robot. profile: close the session, reopen it Brew doctor clears the error message. Arnprior postal code map, Vapianos nyc menu, Razorsql 6.4.1 key. Let's use the Å character from the introductory diagram to present this problem. invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII (ArgumentError) Closed opened this issue on 20 comments matt-oakes on Modified/created a '.profile' added these two lines to. This means that Ruby will treat any string you input as an UTF-8 encoded string unless you tell it explicitly that it's encoded differently. Ruby's default encoding since 2.0 is UTF-8. Why does an UTF-8 invalid byte sequence error happen?
![]() ![]() The PRC denied that any such test had been conducted. 15 Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara declared in November 1967 that the Russian Fractional Orbit Bombardment System tests did not violate the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. ![]() eventually moved to other forms of deterrent systems designed to threaten the United States and China. The United States called it a “Fractional Orbital Bombardment System” during the Cold War period, but the U.S.S.R. The Soviet Union experimented with this type of warhead in the early 1960s. Put into practical defense and security terms, this involved putting warheads into low-earth orbit and having them seek targets on Earth. China has been conducting research on such hypersonic technology and weapons for some time. ![]() officials should not have been surprised by the development of hypersonic warheads in orbit by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Rocket Forces (PLARF). experts and officials as saying that “China had made astounding progress on hypersonic weapons and was far more advanced than US officials realized.” As noted previously, however, U.S. 13Īlthough the PRC warhead in the test missed its target by a wide margin of about two dozen miles, the FT article quotes U.S. officials were surprised, it is because the intelligence community apparently underestimated China’s capabilities in this area and failed to follow or appreciate years of mentions in Chinese research reports about work on hypersonic missiles in China, and perhaps underestimated the emphasis the PLA put on their development. and other countries’ ballistic missile defense systems, including maneuverable reentry vehicles (MARVs), MIRVs, decoys, chaff, jamming, thermal shielding, and hypersonic glide vehicles” (emphasis added). According to the Defense Intelligence Agency’s 2019 China Military Power Report, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) “is developing a range of technologies to counter U.S. China has been working on these missiles for decades, and the United States knew it. officials were so surprised by the test is a little bit of a mystery. Even though the warhead missed its target by a wide margin, 9 China is far ahead of the United States in developing such capabilities 10 the United States has experienced a number of failures in developing hypersonic weapons. 7įinancial Times ( FT) sources were surprised that China achieved the capability for such a weapon because the hypersonic glide vehicle carrying the warhead stayed in low-earth orbit, 8 circling the globe before reentering the atmosphere to attack its target. 5 The hypersonic threat is not only from China Russia has successfully tested a naval hypersonic missile, the Zircon 6, and North Korea claims to have tested a hypersonic missile. 4 Another SMDC mission is to enhance deterrence and detection of strategic attacks. 3 SMDC defense systems are deployed to intercept ballistic missile warheads from only one direction, using a polar, or arctic, approach. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) is responsible for detecting strategic attacks and protecting the U.S. This test by China has direct influence on the Army because the U.S. defenses by avoiding the expected polar ballistic trajectory that the U.S. The United States has established defenses against intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in Alaska, but the method used to attack the target by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) missile would be capable of evading fixed U.S. Such a weapon would be capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. Responding to these new threats will be costly and time consuming for the United States and will require cooperation among the Army and the Departments of Defense and Energy.Īccording to the Financial Times of 16 October 2021, “China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August that circled the globe before speeding towards its target, demonstrating an advanced space capability that caught US intelligence by surprise.” 1 The remarkable thing about the test is that the warhead was launched into orbit, orbited Earth and reentered the atmosphere, approaching its target at hypersonic speed.Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC). The burden of defending against the new threat posed by what appear to be maneuvering, hypersonic warheads orbiting in space falls on the U.S.A fractional orbit like the one used in China’s test does not violate the Outer Space Treaty. ![]() China and Russia have developed hypersonic missiles capable of low-earth orbit, and China’s nuclear posture is shifting.AUSA Volunteer Family of the Year Award.Letters to Congress & the Administration. ![]() |