![]() ![]() That game regularly gets beta tests, or flights, for its new seasons of content. But it won't happen again," she told Game Informer ( via Reddit).įor what it's worth, The Master Chief Collection is in a much better place these days. It was obviously painful for our fans and for us. "Going forward, you will never see a Halo game coming out without a beta. Responding to the issues around The Master Chief Collection's terrible launch, 343 boss Bonnie Ross said you can expect all future Halo games to be beta tested. Whether or not there will be an open beta for Halo Infinite remains to be seen, but it seems possible. Both features are planned for 2022, with cooperative campaign likely arriving with a few months, and Forge likely arriving next summer. You also need to jot down a variety of personal specifics like your country and your time zone.Ĭooperative multiplayer won't be live at launch, nor will Forge mode. If that's OK with you, you are then taken to a page that asks you to enter your preferred email address for correspondence related to Insider matters. This says that those accepted into the program are not allowed to disclose the existence of any surveys or share images, videos, and more from beta tests, except where allowed. ![]() For example, you must be at least 18 years old to participate, and you need to agree to a confidentiality statement. There are some important items to be aware of, however. You can opt in to the Halo Insider program on Microsoft's website, and the process is very simple and straightforward. The Halo Insider program is free and open to everyone across console and PC. In this story we're running down some quick instructions on how to sign up for the Halo Insider program. 1-3) #HaloInfinite Multiplayer Tech Preview? You can download the build via the Xbox Insider Hub starting right now! Halo Insider or not, you can join on on the action. ![]()
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![]() Michael has also mentored over 400 students through the FCS academic/entrepreneurial partnership with the Film Studies and Production program at Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Michael was the lead actor in the long running TV comedy Weird Science, which can still be found on various digital platforms the world over. Prior to his experience behind the camera, Michael was a child actor who appeared on Broadway, shared the stage with entertainment legend Yul Brynner, and starred in four television series in Hollywood in the 1990’s. Michael has also directed three feature films. Blue light from your TV screen has been shown by doctors and professionals to ruin the quality of our sleep, affecting our health, productivity, and mood. By default, f. f.lux Preferences Daytime is whenever the sun is up in your location. I just leave it like that all day when I use it. The f.lux menu can always be found to the left of your system clock. In 2020, Michael was a winner of the Independent Spirit John Cassevetes Award for his work as a producer on the critically acclaimed film, Give Me Liberty. 7 20 32.0k Log in to reply K koolvid12 Mar 17, 2016, 5:15 PM Ive had f.lux for a month and ever since I installed it Ive had the settings set to halogen/night mode/meter all the way to the left. Most recently, Michael served as a producer on the 2022 Cannes Film Festival Camera d’Or winning film, War Pony, directed by Riley Keogh and Gina Gammel, produced the comedy, Stealing Jokes, with Detroit based production company, Woodward Original, developed and produced the upcoming science and exploration documentary, VERT project, and wrapped principal photography in Prague on the holocaust survivor historical drama, Avenue of the Giants. ![]() ![]() Under Michael’s leadership FCS has grown from a regional midwest production house to an international provider of award winning film, television and digital content. ![]() ![]() Mako was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the film The Sand Pebbles (1966). He is mostly known for voicing Uncle Iroh in the show Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-2008) and the villainous Aku in Samurai Jack (2001). With an acting career that spanned more than four decades, Mako has been a familiar face in Western films and TV. Mako Image credit: IMDbīorn as Makoto Iwamatsu to noted children’s book author Taro Yashima, Mako is one of the most prolific Japanese-American actors to earn a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994. She is also the first Asian-American to appear on the US currency - special quarters created by the US Mint’s American Women Quarters Program to celebrate “five female trailblazers in American history each year between 20,” according to an NPR report. In 1960, Wong became the first Asian-American actress to be inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her last big-screen appearance was the crime drama Portrait in Black (1960). Her other hits include Daughter of the Dragon (1931), Shanghai Express (1932), Daughter of Shanghai (1937) and Lady from Chungking (1942). Deemed the first Chinese-American movie star, Wong scored her major big-screen success opposite Douglas Fairbanks Sr. ![]() Some of the most popular hits from her silent film era are The Toll of the Sea (1922) and Piccadilly (1929). The New York Times called the actress, “one of the most unforgettable figures of Hollywood’s great days.” With a career portfolio boasting both silent and sound films, television and stage, Wong Liu Tsong, aka Anna May Wong, was known for her Oriental beauty with her doleful yet mesmerising eyes, sculpted eyebrows and fashionable bangs. Chair of the Walk of Fame Selection Panel, Ellen K, said in a 2023 press release, “The Selection Committee, which is made up of fellow Walk of Famers, carefully hand-picks a group of honourees each year that represent various genres of the entertainment world.” Prolific Asian actors who have made it to the Hollywood Walk of Fame Anna May Wong Image credit: None visible, possibly Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Wikimedia Commons Marking their significant contributions to the entertainment industry, each star at the landmark features the name of a celebrity and serves as a major tourist attraction spot in the city of Los Angeles.īut how does one make it to this prestigious list of celebrities? The selection process for the honourees is quite complex. Made of pink terrazzo, the five-pointed stars are rimmed with brass and embedded into the black terrazzo sidewalk. However, it is more than just a collection of celebrities’ names. ![]() Established in 1960, the sidewalk hosts more than 2,750 stars, as of 2023. Hollywood Walk of Fame spans 2.1 kilometres across 15 blocks on Hollywood Boulevard and 0.64 kilometres across three blocks on Vine Street. ![]() But first…what is the Hollywood Walk of Fame? Image credit: Oxana Melis/Unsplash The Hollywood Diversity report released by UCLA in 2022 noted that Asian actors made up 5.6 per cent of lead roles and 6.4 per cent of the overall cast in their projects.įrom seeing the 2022 Chinese-American family lead A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once to Simu Liu portraying Shang-Chi, the first Asian superhero of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in The Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), each role has been a step towards showcasing diversity.Īnd while global Asian acting pioneers like Anna May Wong, Bruce Lee and Michelle Yeoh received worldwide acclaim through iconic roles over several decades, it’s only fitting that the Hollywood Walk of Fame honours their noteworthy contributions made to the world of entertainment. And with the number of on-camera representations of Asians in Hollywood rising fast, it’s no surprise that a portion of the sidewalk is dedicated to prolific Asian stars.Ĭontributing immensely to the global cinematic consciousness, Hollywood has been taking massive strides towards embracing people from various ethnicities. The pathway bears a diverse set of honourees, ranging from film to television to recording industries. ![]() The Hollywood Walk of Fame - a living history of the entertainment industry - is one of the most coveted attractions in Tinseltown. ![]() ![]() For this reason, installing a newer version alongside V9 may cause temporary loss of access to V9 plugins on systems that support both versions.To run V9 side by side with a newer version, please install version 9.92. Software versions earlier than 9.92 cannot co-exist with software versions above V10.If you experience unusually high CPU consumption from Waves Plugins V14 and above while using a non-Intel CPU and Windows, learn how to enable MKL optimization to improve CPU performance.Windows 10 64 bit (Pre-2004) is not supported with software version 14.0.RAM: Grand Rhapsody’s & Bass Finger’s minimal RAM required is 16 GB (and not 8GB, as generally described for all plugins).Specific information available on each instrument’s page. Waves Instruments: Additional disk-space may be required for sample libraries.COSMOS Sample Finder & StudioRack: Intel processors must be Gen 5 or above and support AVX.AMD processors lower than Ryzen 9 are not supported.Supported on Intel processors Gen 6 and above.Intel Xeon processors are not supported.Mac: Intel Xeon-E processors are not supported Clarity Vx / Pro and Clarity Vx DeReverb / Pro:.Operating systems installed on external hard drives are not tested and may not be fully functional with our software. ![]() ![]() Waves Plugins and applications are supported and tested on operating systems installed on the built-in system hard drive.If you experience unusually high CPU consumption from Waves Plugins V14 and above while using a non-Intel CPU on Windows, learn how to enable MKL optimization to improve CPU performance.Recommended screen resolution for Flow Motion, Bass Slapper and Bass Fingers: 1920x1080. Screen Resolution: SSL E-Channel, SSL G-Channel, Element, Codex, Dorrough, Flow Motion, Bass Slapper and Bass Fingers require minimum screen resolution 1280x1024 / 1600x1024.Waves plugins are officially supported on up to two screens in third-party DAWs and host applications.To check if a plugin exists in an older version, scroll to the bottom of the older version's download page.Multiple versions of Waves plugins (for example v13 and v14) should be able to work on the same system (as long the system supports each of those versions)-but please note that we no longer test or officially support this scenario.Current version licenses will activate older version software (V9 and above), if the product/s in question exists in this software version.Windows 10 64 bit (Pre-21H2) is not supported with software version 14.Mac models without ‘Metal’ support are not supported with V14.These specs are for software version 14.System Requirements for Avid Pro Tools HD 10.3Ĭlick on the below link to download the latest offline setup of Avid Pro Tools HD 10.3 for Windows x86 and 圆4 architecture. Software File Name: Avid-Pro_Tools_HD_10.3.9.zip.Technical Details of Avid Pro Tools HD 10.3 A reliable solution for music professionals.Enhances the productivity with different available tools.Creating, recording and mixing audio features.Use the tools in different audio editing studios.Audio mixing features for professionals.Mix audio effects and recording features.Adjust the pitch of the tracks with Elastic Pitch Transposing Function.Create audio masterpieces and combine tracks. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() So it makes sense that Japan’s scientists are in the vanguard of knowing how green spaces soothe the body and brain. The tsunami that hit in 2011 killed 20,000 people, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant suffered a triple meltdown, and now some of the country’s prized rice has radioactive cesium in it. ![]() On top of all that, the small island nation trembles and yaws with more than 1,500 earthquakes a year. Ten percent of the country’s 128 million residents live in greater Tokyo, where rush hour is so crowded that white-gloved workers shove people onto Metro trains, leading to another coinage, tsukin-jigoku-commuter hell. The Japanese have good reason to require unwinding: In addition to those long workdays, pressure and competition for schools and jobs have helped Japan achieve the third-highest suicide rate in the developed world (after South Korea and Hungary). Visitors here are routinely hauled off to a cabin where rangers measure their blood pressure, part of an effort to provide ever more data to support the project. ![]() It intends to designate a total of 100 Forest Therapy sites within 10 years. In an effort to benefit the Japanese and find nonextractive ways to use forests, which cover 67 percent of the country’s landmass, the government has funded about $4 million in forest-bathing research since 2004. We knew this because we were on one of Japan’s 48 official Forest Therapy trails, designated for shinrin-yoku by Japan’s Forestry Agency. I was feeling pretty mellow, and tests would soon validate this: between the beginning and the end of the two-hour hike, my blood pressure had dropped a couple of points. I stretched out across the top of a cool, mossy boulder. The idea with shinrin-yoku, a term coined by the government in 1982 but inspired by ancient Shinto and Buddhist practices, is to let nature enter your body through all five senses, and this was the taste part. In a grove of rod-straight Japanese red pine, Kunio pulled a thermos from his massive daypack and served us some mountain-grown, bark-flavored wasabi-root tea. WITH THE LARGEST CONCENTRATION of broad-leafed evergreens in Japan, mountainous Chichibu-Tama-Kai is an ideal place to put into practice the newest principles of wellness science. “What’s the Japanese word for stress?” I asked. “When I’m out here, I don’t think about things,” he said. Since he began lollygagging in the woods and picnicking on octopus, Ito’s shoulders seemed to be unclenching by the minute. They’ve even coined a term, karoshi, meaning death by overwork. The Japanese would make great Boy Scouts, which is probably why they make such fervent office workers, logging longer hours than almost anyone else in the developed world. Like many Japanese day hikers, he was carrying an inordinate amount of gear, much of it dangling from his belt: a cell phone, a camera, a water bottle, and a set of keys. Most of us were urban desk jockeys, including Tokyo businessman Ito Tatsuya, 41, standing next to me. Elfin, with noticeably large ears, he told us to breathe in for a count of seven, hold for five, release. Kunio could have been one of the seven dwarves. We looked like earthlings transfixed by the light of the beamship. “This way they are able to become relaxed.” To help us along, Kunio-a volunteer ranger-had us standing still on a hillside, facing the creek, with our arms at our sides. “People come out from the city and literally shower in the greenery,” our guide Kunio explained. The Nature Cure Looking at pictures of nature can be enough to make you feel better. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is no reference nutrient intake (RNI) for red clover but in a three-year trial, scientists gave treatments of up to 120mg a day with no ill-effects. Generally, red clover supplements are available as tablets, liquid extracts and teas. Although study results seem positive, there is not enough high-quality research to show that red clover can improve cholesterol levels and bone density in menopausal women, as well as support menstrual issues, and skin and hair health.Red clover may help to decrease menopausal symptoms like night sweats and hot flushes, but more research is needed to confirm this.Throughout a woman’s menstrual cycle, estrogen levels can drop and cause uncomfortable symptoms.Īs red clover contains phytoestrogens, it could ease some menstrual issues, but more research is needed. Some women use phytoestrogens and other herbal remedies to relieve menstrual irregularities and issues. 15Īnother randomised study of 109 postmenopausal women found that taking 80mg of red clover extract for 90 days significantly improved participant’s skin and hair appearance, texture and overall quality. One study of 30 men who applied red clover extract to the scalp every day for 4 months found a 13% increase in the hair growth cycle (anagen phase), and a 29% reduction in the hair loss cycle (telogen). Modern studies into this looks promising, but more research is needed to confirm red clover benefits for skin and hair. Red clover has been used traditionally to promote hair and skin health for years. Therefore, despite some optimistic results, authors of the studies agreed that more large, high-quality studies are needed.Īlso, it’s worth noting that these studies involved solely older, menopausal women, so it’s not known if these effects would be the same in the general population. 13Īnother 2015 study on 147 postmenopausal women found that taking 50mg of red clover (Rimostil) daily for 1 year decreased ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol by 12%. This was due to a significant increase in the ‘good’ cholesterol HDL and a decrease in total and ‘bad’ cholesterol (LDL) levels. Scientists think the isoflavones in red clover are the active ingredient responsible for this effect.Ī 2006 review of studies by the University of Illinois in Chicago reported that red clover extract can decrease the amount of a type of fat in the blood called triglycerides, while increasing levels of ‘good’ HDL cholesterol.Ī meta-analysis of studies in postmenopausal women taking red clover for 4-12 months improved their heart health. Some research suggests that red clover may help improve the heart health of postmenopausal women. However, even though the results appear positive, more research is necessary. Slow down the rate at which calcium is removed from bone tissue for absorption into the blood.They found that red clover isoflavones can: 12 In a 2015 study by Denmark’s Aarhus University, researchers gave red clover to 60 healthy menopausal women for three months. Some studies have found a connection between intake of isoflavones and a decreased risk of osteoporosis. ![]() ![]() Red clover contains a type of phytoestrogen called isoflavones, which can weakly imitate oestrogen in the body. The reduction in circulating oestrogen during the menopause causes bone loss that, over time, can lead to osteoporosis.
![]() ![]() The background areas turn dark blue, and your rough selection area turns light blue (see below). All you want to do is define the area that GIMP will be processing and then press the Enter key. The first step is to roughly outline your subject – with an emphasis on the word roughly. This tool has a few stages, but they’re fairly simple – and GIMP puts tooltips at the info panel along the bottom of the editing window to give you a bit of prompting. Start by choosing the Foreground Select tool from the toolbox. It’s an interesting combination of precision and generality, and it’s a bit hard to use at first, but with practice, it starts to feel like second nature. If the Fuzzy Select tool didn’t get everything perfect, you might have better luck using the Foreground Select tool. If it won’t work properly, you might still get a good starting selection that can be refined with the other methods. Try experimenting with different threshold options and different initial click locations. Since it’s so fast, it’s often worth giving it a try just to see if the results are usable. The only real control you have over the final selection comes from adjusting the Threshold setting in the tool options, which determines the size of the color selection range. Well, for the most part, it’s very helpful when used on the right image – but it can also run into trouble fairly easily. Setting the Threshold level too low can leave out unnoticed background colors and require some additional help to create a good selection, as you can see in the bottom left of the image and along the green leaf edges This is GIMP’s name for a “magic wand” type of selection tool that automatically selects all pixels within a specific color range of the first color your click on. The fastest way to create a selection around your subject is to use the Fuzzy Select Tool. Holding down the Shift key adds to your existing selection, while the Ctrl key subtracts. You can also combine them to get the results you need without doing everything by hand. Selecting single strands of hair may come to haunt your dreams.įortunately, there are some helpful tools that can make the process simpler and far less stress-inducing. It’s simple enough if you’re working on a photo of a plain plastic cube, but as soon as your shapes get more complex, the time investment grows rapidly. This part of the process is by far the most time-consuming and fiddly. Step 2: Isolate Your Subject With A Selection If the option is unavailable, your image probably already has an alpha channel.Īlpha channels are created automatically once you add multiple layers to an image because transparency is an essential element of how the layer compositing works, so that may have taken care of things for you already. The simplest way is to open the Layers menu from the menubar, select the Transparency submenu, and click Add Alpha Channel. There are two ways to add an alpha channel to your image. Alpha channels are also just grayscale images, but instead of representing red, green, or blue, any white pixels it contains are treated as transparent. In order to add transparency to our image, we need to make sure it contains a fourth channel called an alpha channel. Each channel is just a grayscale image, but depending on which channel it represents, white pixels display as the channel color and are combined to make a normal image. Typical computer images are made up of three color channels: a Red channel, a Green channel, and a Blue channel. Step 1: Adding Transparency with an Alpha Channel Step 4: Export Your Image as a PNG File.Step 3: Remove or Hide Unwanted Background Areas.Step 2: Isolate Your Subject With A Selection.Step 1: Adding Transparency with an Alpha Channel.However, one can also use the eyedropper tool to pick a colour from anywhere on the desktop. Here, I used f3f3e9 as a background colour for plain colour filling. Click on the background colour rectangle in the upper half of the Tool Options toolbox window to change the background colour. (In this respect, Adobe Photoshop is no different.) Hence, choose a colour which is compatible with the background on which the resulting picture will eventually be used. Some colour mixing will be inevitable and even desired. Do select BG colour fill and Sample merged and run a few tries while adjusting Threshold for best results. Within the Bucket Fill toolbox options, select Fill transparent areas only when necessary. Select the bucket fill tool or hit Shift+ B. The next step is optional and consists in filling the area that should become transparent with a plain colour first. This is done by selecting Layer → Tranparency → Add Alpha Channel. If this is the case, add an alpha transparency channel. Some image types lack a transparency channel JPG for example. La trahison des images by fellow countryman René Magritte partly vandalised for the purpose of this tutorial. ![]() ![]() NOTE: Selecting a Generic driver option from the Use menu can result in limited printer functionality.įigure : Select the name of your printer in the Use menuĬlick Add to add the printer to the list. If your printer is not listed in the Add Printer or Scanner window, make sure the printer is connected to the Mac with a USB cable, or that it is on the same wired or wireless network as your Mac.Ĭlick the Use or Print Using menu, then select the name of your printer. If your printer is not listed, click the plus sign, click Add Printer or Scanner, click the name of your printer, then continue to the next step. Once the printer is removed, click the plus sign, click Add Printer or Scanner, click the name of your printer, then continue to the next step. Click the name of your printer, then click the minus sign to delete the printer. If your printer is listed, remove and re-add the printer to confirm communication and to make sure the correct driver is used. Do one of the following steps, depending on if the printer is listed or not. Is the Printer connected to the same Network as your computer?Ĭlick the Apple menu, then click System Preferences.ĭepending on your operating system version, click Print & Fax, Print & Scan, or Printers & Scanners.įigure : Example of the Printers & Scanners windowĬheck if the name of your printer displays in the Printers list. ![]() Please install the drivers using the Apple Software Update I understand that you need help finding the drivers for your HP Photosmart C4780 This is a great place to get support, find answers and tips.
![]() ![]() Payment receipts, cancelled checks, or account statements documenting the amount of any employer contributions to employee health insurance and retirement plans that the borrower included in the forgiveness amount.State quarterly business and individual employee wage reporting and unemployment insurance tax filings reported, or that will be reported, to the relevant state.Payroll tax filings reported, or that will be reported, to the IRS (typically, Form 941) and.Tax forms (or equivalent third-party payroll service provider reports) for the periods that overlap with the Covered Period:.Bank account statements or third-party payroll service provider reports documenting the amount of cash compensation paid to employees.Payroll (provide documentation for all payroll periods that overlapped with the Covered Period): However, SBA may request information and documents to review those calculations as part of the loan review or audit processes. SBA Form 3508S does not require borrowers to provide additional documentation to show the calculations used to determine their loan forgiveness amount. Your lender can provide further guidance on how to submit the application. ![]() ![]() Your lender can provide you with either the SBA Form 3508, SBA Form 3508EZ, SBA Form 3508S, or a lender equivalent. For borrowers whose lender is not participating, you must apply through your lender.The questions you will be asked in the portal correspond to those asked on SBA form 3508S. Direct forgiveness borrowers must use the SBA forgiveness portal. For borrowers whose lender is participating in direct forgiveness, you can use our portal to apply after August 4, 2021.Review the list of lenders participating in direct forgiveness to determine whether you must apply via SBA. Determine if your lender is participating in direct forgiveness through SBA and complete the correct form: Pacific Northwest region media contactsġ.Market research and competitive analysis. ![]() |
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