![]() When you create a new slide, an object is created in the center of the slide where several icons display. Remember that many images online are copyrighted, so ensure that you have permission to use images as a part of your slide. Since PowerPoint is a Microsoft application, the search engine integrated with it is Bing. PowerPoint has the option to insert images either located on your local drive, on a network drive, or from an online search. The most common element that you'll use in PowerPoint 2019 is images. To create effective slides, you need to add a few images, graphics or shapes. Slideshows with only text aren't as appealing as ones that mix some images and graphics. Want to explore more professional PowerPoint shape templates? Have a look at our store – we have a great variety of shape templates on offer, from circles to arrows, cubes to pyramids.Microsoft PowerPoint is mainly a presentation tool, and any presentation has plenty of icons, images, graphics, shapes and other things to bring value to your meetings. If you’ve any questions about rounding PowerPoint corners, or indeed about PowerPoint in general, do feel free to email us at. Our step-by-step instructions mean you can easily and quickly create the effect yourself, without having to mess around with external graphics programs. PowerPoint rounded corners appeal? Go for it! They’re a great way to subtly impress your audience and emphasize your content. ![]() Now save the file you have successfully rounded your PowerPoint corners! Conclusion: PowerPoint Rounded Corners: An Easy and Quick Way to Freshen Up Your Presentation Design! (You can also insert an image directly into your presentation. Go to the Insert tab, and click on Pictures. This is for when you want to insert a picture and round off its corners. There are different options of rounding off corners, depending on what you’re using in your presentation: Option 1: Pictures PowerPoint allows you to round corners easily and effectively, without having to use an external graphics program. Whether you go for sharp corners or rounded will depend on which one suits the rest of your presentation. To keep your design corporate, coherent and professional, though, you need to choose your style and stick to it throughout your presentation. ![]() You can round off the corners of shapes, too for example in diagrams or process illustrations!Ĭorners cn be rounded to the extent you want – fully smoothed around, or left pretty sharp. So you want to try getting rid of sharp edges and corners on your images or shapes in PowerPoint, and give rounded corners a try? We’re here to help.įirstly, of course, you need pictures which are relevant to and enhance the topic you’re presenting (tips on how to choose and insert images into a presentation can be found here). Rounding off PowerPoint Corners: First choose Your Pictures or Shapes Today we’ll show you just how to apply PowerPoint rounded corners, so you can get the most out of your presentations. It’s a simple way to use creative design to make your presentations really stand out! ![]() If you’ve already come across and been impressed by shapes or pictures with rounded corners in PowerPoint, you’ll know that they are a great way to make presentations look fresh, modern and elegant. ![]()
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![]() ![]() To build the site, run: bundle exec middleman build resources ) end endīe aware that if talk.rb changes, Middleman won’t pick up on it by default unless you restart the server. Move the class into a file called lib/talk.rb, and use require to load it into config.rb: require './lib/talk' helpers do def talks Talk. We can also throw away initialize, because SimpleDelegator does that for us.įinally, extract the class from the helpers block and move it into its own file. We don’t need to explicitly define the url or data methods any more. new ( resource ) end end endĪny method on the resource object becomes available for use. start_with? ( '/talks' ) end filtered_resources. all ( resources ) filtered_resources = resources. It turns out there’s a class in the standard library which does this for us, so we can simplify our code: class Talk < SimpleDelegator def title data. In initialize, we’re passing in an object that we’re going to delegate other methods to. Great! But there’s still a little room for refactoring. We’ve added the methods we’d like to have available – in this case, url and title, that simply delegate to the resource object underneath. We’ve created a Decorator for the resource object. Let’s change that to returning an array of Talk instances: class Talk def initialize ( resource ) = resource end def url. We’re still returning a simple filtered array of resources. We pass in sitemap.resources because it allows us to decouple the Talk class from having to know about the sitemap, and make it easier to test later if we need to. start_with? ( '/talks' ) end end end def talks Talk. start_with? ( '/talks' ) end end endįirst, we can pull the implementation of talks into the talk class: helpers do class Talk def self. helpers do class Talk end def talks sitemap. For convenience, we’ll continue to keep everying inside the helpers block inside config.rb for now. ![]() Let’s extract talks into their own class. It would be much nicer if we could just use talk.title. We can now change our source/ to use new the method: īut can we do better? The still feels awkward. start_with? ( '/talks' ) end end endĪny method defined inside the helpers block becomes available to every page. Inside config.rb, add the following method definition to the helpers block: helpers do def talks sitemap. Let’s extract the awkward code in the example above to something nicer. We can write our own helper methods, too. Link_to is a helper method provided to us by Middleman for generating links. We access the the frontmatter through the data attribute of the resource. We can filter these resources by URL, for instance, to select only those that are inside the source/talks directory. The simplest way we can do this is through Middleman’s sitemap.resources, which contains a list of all resources in the site. Now that we have our talks, we want to create a list of them to display on the home page. We can use these attributes elsewhere in the site. Any valid YAML is fair game for the frontmatter. The title and author are attributes we simply made up. If no layout is given, it will fall back to the default layout (typically source/layouts/layout.erb). When given, it tells Middleman to use a particular layout inside source/layouts (in this case, we gave talk as the value, which corresponds to source/layouts/talk.erb). The layout attribute has a special meaning in Middleman. Understanding frontmatterįor this page, we have three pieces of frontmatter: the layout of the page, the title and the author of the talk. Everything following the frontmatter is the content of the page (in this case, written in Markdown). The metadata, also known as the frontmatter, consists of YAML. The two sets of three dashes ( -) delineate the page’s metadata. Create a source/talks directory, and add a new file called middleman.md.erb: - title : Middleman layout : talk author : Pete Nicholls. Your site will be served up from Adding a talk Start a local server by cd-ing into the newly created talks directory and running: bundle exec middleman server Generate a new site: middleman init talks You can see the finished project on GitHub. In this example, we’re going to build a site to host notes on talks. Static site generators let you break up your website into templates and pages that are compiled together to create a static HTML website. Middleman is a static site generator, similar to Jekyll (which powers GitHub Pages) or Stasis. ![]() ![]() ![]() Written in 2006, Fred Pearces's book " When the Rivers Run Dry", seems somewhat prophetic to those of us living in the Southwest United States. I think Charles Fishman's The Big Thirst was a better read on this subject. He questions the wisdom of dam-building, says that cities like Los Angeles and Las Vegas need to be more conservation-minded, and that farmers worldwide need to use more water-efficient irrigation methods. Fred Pearce has been to many places and talked to many people, and what he's produced is a global atlas of water mismanagement, wrapped up in the end with a few cheery programs that might solve a few of them, and some suggestions that no one is really going to heed. While there are some compelling stories in here, and enough facts and history to make you think, When the Rivers Run Dry was. Then there is the Middle East, where Palestinians go thirsty in sight of Israeli swimming pools. The author's visit to the region around the Aral Sea was particularly depressing, as he describes a stunted, poisoned land where the people have no jobs, no hope, and no future. China and the former Soviet Union have literally killed millions in man-made floods. While America's water woes are certainly serious (at least in the west), the most tragic regions of the world are, predictably, the places where government policy is completely disconnected from local resource management, or where politics and war mix violently with water rights. ![]() India and China and their respective mistreatment of the Ganges, the Indus, the Yellow and the Yangtze rivers are all covered, as is the madness that is Los Angeles and Las Vegas, currently draining the Colorado River dry and casting thirsty eyes thousands of miles north to the Great Lakes. When the Rivers Run Dry is a bit of travel journalism that covers nearly every continent. As many of the farmers Fred Pearce interviews point out: "If everyone stopped using the water, that would be great, but if only we do, it won't make a difference, except that our family will starve." It is the Tragedy of the Commons on a regional scale. Everyone knows that wells used to hit water at 200 feet and now have to go 1500 feet or more, but this doesn't stop everyone from trying to get the last drop. Much like oil, once you tap them dry, they're gone (and they also destabilize the surrounding earth, leading to erosion and possibly even earthquakes), and farmers and cities around the world, from the American west to India, are tapping them at an alarming rate. ![]() These are the underground reservoirs of water which, unlike rivers, are non-renewable. Oh, the author ends with an optimistic chapter, as all these books do, detailing bold and forward-thinking news plans from economists and water engineers and politicians and scientists around the world - all the ways in which we could save the water tables, grow crops more efficiently with more "crop per drop," irrigate more cheaply, supply urban populations more sustainably, etc.īut that's after chapter after chapter detailing such disasters as the Aral Sea, which the Soviets basically destroyed and which the current government is continuing to destroy, and the Salton Sea in California, created by a mistake and now allowed to become a festering, drying blister in the Sonora desert, and the Dead Sea, which is receding visibly every year. How does the image best support the text? The image shows what a sugar plantation looked like and what brutal work enslaved people endured.This is another one of those depressing books that catalogs in grim detail just how badly humans are screwing up the environment, on a cataclysmic scale, how greed, desperation, and short-sightedness have destroyed entire ecosystems, devastated nations, and displaced millions, and how even though we have the scientific and technological know-how to do better, we're not going to, because short-term thinking always wins. So the British owners looked to another part of the empire-India-and recruited thousands of men and women, who were given five-year contracts and a passage back. But even after they freed their slaves, the sugar plantation owners were desperate to find cheap labor to cut cane and process sugar. Slavery was abolished in the British Empire in 1833, thirty years before the Emancipation Proclamation in the United States. Even the poorest of London shopgirls took sugar in their tea. The demand was huge, for sugar had gone from being a luxury that only kings could afford to a necessity. Sugar was the backbone of the British Empire at that time. Caption: Enslaved people working in a sugar plantation (illustration by William Clark) My great-grandparents had come from India to Guyana-then British Guiana-in the late nineteenth century to work on the sugar plantations. Read the passage and review the image from Sugar Changed the World. ![]() ![]() It’s always important to consider “what’s the threat model”? If you don’t want your local network administrator to know what websites you’re visiting, don’t want people sniffing your Wifi traffic, or want to pretend you’re in a different country to get around geographical restrictions, VPNs still work well and whether or not they keep logs is unimportant. It’s simply not prudent to believe marketing claims of “no logging”. … but it turns out they were also logging source IP addresses, and complied with a UK court order and turned over that information to support a prosecution in the United States of a person accused of computer crimes. We do not log what activity you get up to behind our VPN service, such as what websites you visit and who you talk to. We only log the times you connect and disconnect from our service. What logs do you keep? Do you monitor my activity? Their FAQ contained the following on July 17, 2011: It’s also possible that hostile actors are monitoring inflows/outflows of data for the VPN provider and can correlate your activity without the provider’s cooperation.įor example, consider HideMyAss - a VPN provider who promised anonymity to customers. Even if it had been “proven in court” that some VPN provider didn’t have logs on some date in the past, you can’t assume that means they’re not keeping logs today, or tomorrow. It’s not smart to trust any VPN provider to protect your privacy. I’d love to hear if anybody here has tested PIA or Cryptostorm for a while, if you would recommend this provider or if there is any other privacy-friendly provider you’d recommend more. ![]() They only have a native application for Windows, where Linux and MacOS require setting up through OpenVPN (although this wouldn’t be a problem), but after some research it sounds like they may not be fully transparent about their own company or where they’re actually based (to the point where some people speculate this can actually be a honeypot, lol) I’ve also recently heard about Cryptostorm ( ), which also sounds great on paper. One of the main cons about PIA is the fact that they require an email in order to sign up (which shouldn’t be that much problem using any alias or throwaway email), and the fact that they’re based in the US. PIA has an amazing offer for a 3 year subscription (something like 60$ for 3 years) which is way cheaper than ProtonVPN or Mullvad. After some research, PIA sounds like a great option - They accept multiple cryptocurrencies as payment, and apparently they’ve indeed proven their no-logs policy in court (according to this comparison: Mullvad vs Private Internet Access in 2022 | VPNpro, although I’ve not been able to find much more about that). Extra brownie points if their no-logs policy has been proven in court or they have had any recent audit proving this.įor now, I’ve mostly been using Mullvad VPN and ProtonVPN, and whilst I’m happy with both (I prefer Mullvad and the fact that they don’t even require any email or details when you buy a subscription), a couple of people have also told me about PIA (Private Internet Access). ![]() I want a reliable, fully anonymous VPN (that is, no logs recorded) for a reasonable price. Now of course, I don't experience this issue using Mullvad's servers via OpenVPN - but OpenVPN can't offer the full security features like the Kill Switch, etc.My MullvadVPN subscription is expiring soon, so I’m interested in exploring some other providers and would love to hear your recommendations or inputs! My VPN requirements are pretty basic - Speed is not my main priority. If you wanted this problem addressed, you would have to connect with a 3rd party via email that will need to document everything in order to service this issue!! - reasonable anonymity is then out-the-window!! So I have to assume that Mullvad is earning money from the 3rd party customer service(email) that they invite you to reference for help exclusively. And even if you need to update to their most recent version, the issue will re-emerge shortly after doing so. ![]() I have used this VPN with my Windows 7 & 8.1 (PCs) and experienced this issue consistently with both over the past year that I have used Mullvad VPN for Windows. ![]() This VPN works great initially, however, after several uses over a short spell of days or so, this VPN won't allow you to access the internet directly at all, without it being active on your Windows PC - no matter what you do to adjust the settings, even if you Quit the app(with the correct settings ticked to enable you to connect to the internet WITHOUT this VPN active You will NOT be able to access the internet Many websites limit their functionality or completely disallow connections through a VPN. ![]() ![]() Lumi will move from one point to another, talk to find problem, solving puzzles, collecting items, and like all this kind of game, tapping all the things possible. Lumino City at its core is a point-and-click adventure game. To find her grandpa, Lumi has to explore the city, interact with all people, and you as the player will be experiencing a fascinating mechanism that power this city. So it’s now up to Lumi, you, to find him and bring balance to the world. ![]() In Lumino City, this time, Lumi’s grandfather, the caretaker, the handyman of the city, has been kidnapped. It still uses the same characters, Lumi as the main character and her Grandfather that’s running into trouble like always. According to Luke Whittaker, the person behind all this gorgeous visuals, Lume was only the first part of the story that he and his team wanted to tell. ![]() And who knows that actually, Lumino City has already been planned back in 2012 with Lume. Lumino City is a sequel of one of the most gorgeous handmade game released in 2011, Lume. Don’t believe me? Check their behind-the-scene trailer below, and why do they bother to do all that? Because they can, and this is Lumino City. It is a puzzle adventure game, it is a point and click adventure, with all the backdrops behind, entirely made with real world materials, paper, card.Įven all the effects are handmade using motors and miniature lights. That is why, I got really excited when I saw this trailer from State of Play Games. If you can, that game would most likely wins an award (because it’s rare). ![]() You wouldn’t be able to find easily a game with great graphics and great gameplay. Unfortunately, games that’s taking too many attentions on their graphics, are usually end with bland or even worst poor gameplay. That is also the reason why I really excited with games that put their effort in their visual appearance. I couldn’t always take a great photo, but I do know if I’m taking a bad photo, so I do believe with my eyes a little bit. ![]() ![]() ![]() Have one of our certified mobile mechanics inspect your door locking system if any of these problems present themselves ( ). If it works sometimes, you probably have a broken wire. You have a broken wire: If the lock isn’t getting power, hold the lock switch either up or down, and then open and close the door repeatedly to see if the lock will work. Replacing it may require removing the car door panel. The solenoid is bad: Again, if one door doesn’t work, but others do, the problem could be with the door lock solenoid. Replacing the fuse will correct the problem. If it’s not sending a signal, the fob will likely have to be replaced.Ī fuse is blown: If one door doesn’t work, but others do, the problem could be a blown fuse. If you go to your car dealer, they can hook the fob up to a computer and make sure that the programming is still good. Have you ever been out shopping at the Walt Whitman Shops, Elwood Shopping Center, Tanger Outlets, or having the best brunch in Huntington Village when you g. The key fob is faulty: If the battery isn’t the problem, the issue may be with the fob itself. If your locks aren’t working, replacing the battery in the key fob could solve the issue. The key fob battery is dead: This is one of the most common reasons why your car door lock is not working. There are five common reasons why your car door lock is not working. GM is Recalling 40,000 2019-2023 Chevrolet Silverado Medium Duty Trucks Because They Can Start on FireĢ024 Chevrolet Silverado HD Gets Ultra-Powerful ZR2 Off-Road Packageįirst 2024 Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray Raises $1.Are your power locks keeping you from getting into your car, or locking it when you leave? You need to know what’s going wrong and take steps to stop it from happening. The 2023 Corvette Z06 Convertible Will Pace the 107th Indianapolis 500Ĭhevy Bolt Named Best Electric Car For 5-Year Cost of OwnershipĢ024 Chevy Trax Contest Winner Will Use Car to Help Save the Great Lakes “Got the same recall letter about a week ago on my C7.R A8 vert - will have dealer check it out when I take in for next oil change.” It is a software upgrade, which screwed up all my settings.”Īnother owner, nicknamed Vetter, has gotten a recall letter in the mail. Arizona says, “Had mine in for service a couple of weeks ago, service writer mentioned a recall on the trunk so they did that fix as well. Apparently, GM has issued a recall to correct the issue. It is important to point out however that there is a software problem for some of the 2016 Chevrolet Corvette Z06s. Several other drivers chimed in saying that the tip about the convertible saved them a trip to the dealer. He responds, “You da man! Got it! Thanks!” It turns out that the convertible roof was what was causing Mills’ problem. A Tampa driver says “Is it a convertible? Make sure the top is all the way up or down. This is a trick that most would not think of. If you look at the metal part of the key that is inserted at near the keyring, you will notice a black plastic sliding tab that allows the metal key to be pulled out of the Valet key. I have disassembled the trunk and replaced the trunk actuator (with a used one from ebay) and the same thing happens. I can hear the mechanism moving, but the trunk doesn't open. Once you unlock it manually, it will reset and the FOB and button inside the car will work.” Good to know that there is also a key hole as well as an outside truck release button. You have a Valet Key, which is the black plastic part with the buttons on it. However, I can't open the trunk with the normal latch under the third brake light, the button on the key, or the button on the driverside door. There is a keyhole on the underside of the trunk. If you experience this, just remove the KEY from your FOB and unlock it manually. *IF* you put the car in valet mode and then take it out of valet mode, SOMETIMES the trunk will not open via remote FOB or the release button inside the car. Racer2 points out that the vehicle may be stuck in Valet Mode and won’t open for security reasons. “Is it in park if A8 or turned off if M7.” It is important that the Corvette is turned off whether it is manual or automatic, Corvette trunks usually will not open if the vehicle is on. It is a small rubber covered button.” Also, he suggests double checking the obvious. “Try the trunk release button at the back of the car, just above the plate. Lucky for Mills there are a couple of tricks to try before you have to run to the dealer.Īn owner, from Arizona, reaches out to remind Mills that there is yet another trunk release button that may finally free up the trunk latch. Mills writes, “Just took my 2016 Z06 out of storage! Drove it home and I can’t open the trunk! FOB won’t work on it and I tried the button to the left of the steering wheel! No luck! Put the car away as soon as I bought it, so I'm not familiar with it yet! Any ideas?” For some reason, he can’t get the truck on his 2016 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 to pop open. Mills reaches out to members of a popular Chevrolet Corvette forum about an embarrassing problem. ![]() ![]() Proxy those properties to fields with valid field names.
![]() a1c testing can help your healthcare provider make changes to your. it can also tell you how well your diabetes plan is working. an a1c test can help diagnose prediabetes or diabetes. it is also called an hba1c or glycohemoglobin test. A hemoglobin a1c is a blood test that measures your average blood sugar level for the past 2 to 3 months. ![]() in well-controlled diabetic patients, hemoglobin a1c levels are less than 7.0%. in most labs, the normal range for hemoglobin a1c is 4% to 5.9%. it is recommended that treatment of diabetes be directed at keeping an individual a1c level as close to the normal range (<6%). In a healthy person, the a1c level is less than 6% of the total hemoglobin. 4.0-5.6% <18 years: hemoglobin a1c criteria for diagnosing diabetes have not. Therefore, the hba1c level reflects the mean glucose concentration over the previous period (approximately 8-12 weeks, depending on the individual) and provides a much better indication of long-term glycemic control than blood and urinary glucose determinations. According to the national institute of diabetes and digestive and kidney diseases, an optimal a1c is below 5.7 percent.if your score is between 5.7 and 6.4 percent, the diagnosis is prediabetes. Ginger supplementation significantly reduced the levels of fasting blood sugar, hemoglobin a1c, apolipoprotein b, apolipoprotein b/apolipoprotein a-i and malondialdehyde in ginger group in comparison to baseline, as well as control group, while it increased the level of apolipoprotein a-i (p<0.05). ![]() ![]() ![]() The planet Galatea with its numerous Hiring Halls became the " Mercenary's Star", the greatest center of the mercenary trade in the Inner Sphere where mercenaries could train, rest, repair and negotiate their contracts. History The Mercenary Review Board įormed in 2789 by ComStar founder Jerome Blake, the Mercenary Review Board allowed ComStar agents to serve as brokers for all mercenaries and their employers in the Inner Sphere. The MRBC still offers all these functions but to a lesser degree, due to being a separate organization from ComStar. As the reputations of mercenary units and their employers have a bearing on subsequent negotiations involving other units or Houses, violating contractual terms offered little profit to any concerned. Upon reaching a verdict, the panel broadcast its findings throughout the Inner Sphere. To ensure fair dealings on the part of employers as well as those they hired, the MRB provided for a panel of ComStar administrators to hear claims concerning breaches of faith and to judge the veracity of complaints. ComStar informed other potential employers of a rogue unit's actions and had the power to threaten an Interdiction against any House employing such a unit. Arbitration of contracts by ComStar's Mercenary Review Board provided a valuable safeguard on both sides, as any unit failing to perform contracted services after taking an advance found itself unable to evade ComStar's almost universal reach. While operated by ComStar as the MRB, it was at the same time also a criminal extradition service, a prisoner exchange and ransoming service, and a banking house. If a mercenary unit is not registered with the MRB/MRBC then it is usually not considered to be a legitimate mercenary command, and therefore not subject to POW rights, among other drawbacks, though there are exceptions. Apart from registering mercenaries and providing a ranking system to gauge performance and reliability, the MRBC also serves as a court of arbitration in contract disputes for both employers and mercenaries. The MRBC functions as a mercenary guild, brokering and arbitrating mercenary contracts through the endless wars of the Inner Sphere and the Periphery. ![]() ![]() However, dataminers have found files related to upcoming teams like Wood Elves, Lizardmen, and Shambling Undead, and some players have suggested that these teams are complete and being held back for the sake of seasonal content. ![]() Having factions available for free if you don't mind working through the unpaid tier of the Blood Pass will make players who complained about previous Blood Bowl games selling teams as DLC happy. And while that game had only a small variety of head options and the like, at least they were available from the start rather than having to be paid for or earned.īlood Bowl 3's more extensive customization options were repeatedly highlighted during development, complete with a slick gif showing off how much an orc's armor could be changed, without a hint it would have to be unlocked until the season system was finally explained in December. That's galling because, while Blood Bowl 2 had an in-game store that sold jersey designs for a currency called cyans, they were for entire teams rather than individuals. That kneepad for your blitzer has to be bought again if you want more than one member of your team to wear it. ![]() They're about how it's implemented: whether you buy or earn an item, it can only be applied to one player. While it's nice to know vanity gear can be unlocked for free, and that apparently includes "not only players' parts, but also pitches, grandstands, coaches, cheerleaders, balls and dugout among other things", the complaints aren't just about monetized customization existing. ![]() |
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