12/24/2023 0 Comments To go coffee cups![]() Dishwashing, through water use, detergent, energy and wastewater processing, makes up 90 per cent of the life cycle emissions of a reusable cup. One of the biggest contributors for environmental impact, when it came to reusable cups, was having to wash them. The lifecycle study recommends that the best travel mug to choose is one that is lightweight, durable and preferably made of stainless steel. It matters what kind of cup you buy, however, as plastic versions use fossil fuels and are difficult to properly dispose of once they break or degrade. Compared to other supposedly eco-friendly alternatives like ‘bags for life’, that isn’t too bad at one coffee a day for just over 3 months. UnsplashĪ look at the lifecycle of reusable and single-use options carried out by CIRAIG in Quebec, Canada found that you would have to bring your own cup for your daily coffee somewhere between 20 and 100 times for it to have the same environmental impact as a paper one. Despite the hype and hundreds of chic brands bringing out beautifully designed options, only five percent of coffees bought aren’t taken away in a paper receptacle, however. Environmental impacts from unsuspecting placesĪs we have become increasingly aware of this environmental impact, many of us have switched to carrying a reusable cup instead. As a result, most are either simply sent to landfill or incinerated. In order to stop your drink from leaking out all over your clean white shirt, a thin plastic lining is added to the inside of the cup making them impossible to process in a conventional paper recycling mill. Takeaway cups are made from paper, though, so surely this waste problem can easily be solved with recycling? Sadly not. ![]() The UK is one of Europe’s largest consumers and one in five Brits visit a coffee shop every day leading to 2.5 billion disposable cups being thrown away each year according to a report by the UK Government. In Western Europe in particular, we have become increasingly fond of coffee shop culture with nearly 5 percent of all cafes focused on serving the bean-based beverage alone. From strong, dark espressos to creamy egg-based cà phê trứng, the planet runs on this bitter, caffeinated drink. Worldwide we drink over 1.6 billion cups of coffee every day. ![]()
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12/24/2023 0 Comments Youtube shortcut for playback speed![]() However, there is an array of keyboard shortcuts that can make your YouTube experience much better. Want to discuss a video project or speak to us more about any questions around video production? Please contact us to set up a free consultation!Īre you using video speed controllers to enhance your video viewing experience? Are there any pros or cons to your favorites? Please let us know in the comments.Now, you might already know some of the basic ones like “Esc” to exit full screen and or “m” to mute the videos. No matter what media player or device you use, there's a video speed controller extension or app to fit your needs! *NOTE* Music may be added to any video you edit with this app, but color corrections and visual effects won't be available. Just choose which parts of a video you want to slow down or speed up, and then export it. Video clips can be sped up or slowed down up to four times in this app. You can import footage from your Android and then select one of the video playback options. For Android: Video Speed: Fast Video and Slow Motion Videoĭon't have an iPhone? Android also has a great tool to speed up videos or slow them down. Perfect for those who only want the basics without all the bells and whistles of professional video editing apps. It's free and easy and works on ALL iOS devices. You can adjust the playback speed of your video by dragging it left or right.ĭoes it still need adjusting? It's as simple as tapping Reset – the playback speed will be restored to its original rate! You can use a slider to change the playback speed of the videos (iMovie lets you choose 1/8 of the original speed or double it). The next step is to tap on the Speed icon. ![]() In the app, import a video clip after you create a new project. Those with no experience editing videos can easily use this tool. With the iMovie app, you can modify the speed of playback of your video. You already have a great tool at your disposal if you have an iPhone (iOS 13.0 or later). Here, you can change video speeds to what works best for you. You can customize the settings for these shortcuts by clicking the icon in the toolbar then clicking on Settings. ![]() Go from the 1X speed to the default speed you have set (G).In addition to the show/hide controller (V), there are a few other keyboard shortcuts you should be aware of: If you hover over them, you’ll find mouse controllers for jumping ahead, back, or changing speed.Īnd if seeing this in the corner is annoying or distracting, just hit the ‘ V’ key on your keyboard to turn it off. Once you have the extension installed, you’ll see a little number in a square in the top left corner. ![]() The final pro point is you can speed your video up as fast as you want versus the built-in YouTube video player that only allows you to increase the video speed by two times. So, instead of having to memorize a bunch of different shortcuts for a variety of players, all you’ll need to do is is remember these (which we’ll discuss a little later). *NOTE* This extension is available on both Firefox and Chrome browsers.Īnother bonus feature of the Chrome extension is that once you learn the keyboard shortcuts, these will apply to all the videos you watch while using this extension. ![]() Websites and online video courses are places that might not have playback features built-in, so this allows you to have capabilities that might not otherwise be accessible. Video Speed Controller is a Chrome extension and you will be able to use this on ALL pages with HTML5 videos – not just on YouTube videos. You can also find a really handy video speed controller named just that: Video Speed Controller. ![]() 12/24/2023 0 Comments Sports illustrated runway show![]() ![]() Inside Britain's roughest estate where gangs run riot, police cars are pelted with bricks and a squashed rat decorates children's play area.JONATHAN McEVOY: As they gather to 'defend' the Cenotaph, do these 'football supporters' really know the complex relationship between war and sport?. ![]()
12/24/2023 0 Comments Nyt tiles strategy![]() Or it can be solved in 5 moves with $1\rightarrow 2 \rightarrow 4 \rightarrow 3 \rightarrow 1$. Then the puzzle can be cleared by going through the sequence $1\rightarrow 3 \rightarrow 4 \rightarrow 2 \rightarrow 1 \rightarrow 3 \rightarrow 4$, for a total of 7 moves. For instance, if there four squares with the patterns: 1 2 3 4 By switching the order in which you visit the squares, you can complete the puzzle in a greater or lesser number of moves. But there is an interesting combinatoric/graph theory problem as well. With our testing strategy vetted by our RFC process, we could prove feature parity with the old meter and be confident in our comprehensive test suite. The challenge in the actual game is visual, being able to spot matching patterns across squares. So, we needed a way to definitively demonstrate that the new service wouldn’t break existing integrations or business behavior. The goal is to match pairs of tiles with the same symbol or design. The number of instances of any pattern $p$ in the puzzle across all squares is always even, thus guaranteeing that a solution exists. Strategy for Success: Look for pairs of identical tiles. All you have to do is form words from the letters that are. If the second square is empty after you move to it, you may select any square with at least one pattern and continue from there. A confession: I am not good at The New York Times’s Letter Boxed game. You must then find a square with at least one of $b$ or $d$ in it, and so on until all the squares are empty. A game of Tiles from the New York Times website, with a New Haven Palette, where the goal is to match elements on tiles and keep a chain going until the grid. So if you start at a square with patterns $\$. When you choose that next square, the overlapping patterns disappear from both squares. The rules of the game are that you start at any square and then move to any other square that contains at least one of the patterns in your start square. A tile-matching video game is a type of puzzle video game where the player manipulates tiles in order to make them disappear according to a matching. ![]() Each square contains 4 of the $p$ patterns (although this can be generalized as well). ![]() Start with $m$ squares (in the official version, this is 30, in a 6x5 grid), and a set of $p>4$ possible patterns (typically this is a dozen or so, but the precise number doesn't matter). ![]() The New York Times has a daily puzzle named Tiles that works as follows. ![]() 12/24/2023 0 Comments Spiral betty on cricut![]() ![]() Heat press your cushion/card to warm it up and prepare for your Spiral Betty Decal. This keeps the project still whilst you weed. This is the most satisfying weed I have EVER done, omg it just goes on forever in one piece! I find it helps to cut the corders of the backing sheet, flip them over and stick one to each corner to stick the backing to your crafting mat or bright pad. However if you are using iron on vinyl don’t forget to mirror the image! Weeding Your Spiral Betty Once in design space size the image correctly, if you are mounting on card select a circle and size it to fit behind and send your project to cut. Now you can save your file as a cut image, I know it looks dark and shaded but it will be fine when you cut it. Simply click on the white areas to remove and leave you with you cut file. The coloured image took 5 clicks, one for each corner and one for the spiral. Hint, if you upload you image in black and white it takes the back off in one single click. The great thing about Spiral Betty is it is super easy to add to design space and clean up. If you click on the rings tab you can increase or decrease the rings in your art work. However changing the colours can really help you choose which colour vinyl to use. Upload your photo or image to Spiral Betty, once uploaded you can zoom in and out, position your image and change to contrast to get it exactly how you want it.Īlso check out the right hand bar, this is for printing. The click on the curve text tool on the top bar to curve the test into a circle, it is super easy and can be personalised to fit any occasion. Iron On Vinyl on cards or framed art, this can be photos or images.ĭecide on a photo you want to use, for my “I Love You, Cushion” I simply used a circle in Cricut Design Space, typed my text and chose the font.Here are a few suggestions for using Spiral Betty. Using iron on vinyl on card is a recent discovery for me, but I love how easy it is! Anyhow I digress. I have found that is works well with vinyl, and is super easy to transfer using iron on vinyl. How To Use Spiral Betty What Can I Make With Spiral Betty? So I did buy a licence for use in the post. Licences are a bargain at $3 for one or $25 for unlimited downloads for one year.Īs someone who created free to use files, I know the work that goes into it. ![]() If you intend to use your files commercially, you can, but will need to buy a licence. Spiral Betty is free for personal use, however you can buy Shalanah a coffee. I tried some landmark images and travel photos and they didn’t work! Words and shapes work so well and have a pop art feel, as do objects. ![]() What Images Can I Use?Īlthough it was designed for people, have a play around. Simply click the squares underneath the download image and you can flip your image in seconds to suit a darker background. Thus you can flip your image to suit a light or dark background, this is such a wonderful addition and it give you so many more options. This new feature allows you to cut your Spiral Betty depending on a chosen background. Update: The New Swap Background And Foreground Feature. Have a play around with this as the results really differ depending on the colour. This doesn’t mean you have weeded you cut wrong, it means the back layer need to be lighter. However on a darker background the image appears more like a negative. The lighter background shows the image as blue shaded photo, it totally blow my mind that a series of lines can create an image so detailed. I have cut the below image on blue iron on vinyl and transferred it to card. However a simple change of background will resolve that. I have seen lots of talk and people berating themselves for creating or weeding their Betty wrong. Once your cut file is weeded, the way the image presents itself depends on the background. The image is created by splitting the image into two spiral layers and if you zoom in these spiral lines differ in depth to create light and shade and this creates an image. When in fact Spiral Betty is exactly like a record, and a genus idea. I mean that’s exactly what it looks looks like right? It’s an online tool that turns images into spiral works of art, think of it a bit like a record? When I first saw it, I assumed it was a printable image and I know many have thought the same. Update: The New Swap Background And Foreground Feature. ![]() 12/24/2023 0 Comments You and i with lyrics![]() ![]() In July, Anthropic debuted Claude 2, the latest version of its AI chatbot, and said the tool has the ability to summarize up to about 75,000 words - roughly the length of a 300-page book - compared to OpenAI's ChatGPT, which can handle about 3,000 words. In May, Anthropic was one of four companies invited to a meeting at the White House to discuss responsible AI development with Vice President Kamala Harris, alongside Google parent Alphabet, Microsoft and Microsoft-backed OpenAI. The company has raised $750 million in two funding rounds since March and has been valued at $4.1 billion. Other music publishers, such as Concord and ABKCO, were also named as plaintiffs.Īnthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI research executives and funded by companies including Google, Salesforce and Zoom. ![]() "In the process of building and operating AI models, Anthropic unlawfully copies and disseminates vast amounts of copyrighted works," the lawsuit stated, later going on to add, "Just like the developers of other technologies that have come before, from the printing press to the copy machine to the web-crawler, AI companies must follow the law." Personal Loans for 670 Credit Score or Lower Personal Loans for 580 Credit Score or Lower Official Lyrics and Music Video of What a Beautiful Name, a Hillsong Worship song. 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12/23/2023 0 Comments Take a break facebook page![]() However, Ambassador Gilad Erdan told CNN Monday that the government's priority is destroying Hamas to restore security for all Israeli citizens. Their presence is complicating Israel's response to the militant group's deadly attack. Hamas militants are holding as many as 150 people hostage in locations across Gaza following their raids on southern Israel Saturday, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations said Monday. Netanyahu's office on Thursday released "horrifying photos" of two babies whose bodies had been burned beyond recognition and a bloodstained infant's body. ![]() Tal Heinrich, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Wednesday that babies and toddlers were found with their "heads decapitated" in Kfar Aza in southern Israel after Hamas' attacks in the kibbutz over the weekend. In Kfar Aza, a kibbutz in southern Israel, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told CNN that militants carried out a "massacre" in which women, children, toddlers and elderly were "brutally butchered in an ISIS way of action." ![]() "There were clear instructions from the top commanders of Al Qassam Brigades to avoid targeting civilians or killing them," the Hamas official said.ĬNN previously reported that days after Hamas launched its large-scale surprise assault on Israel, horrifying details were still emerging. "The operation targeted only the Israeli military bases and compounds," Naim claimed, despite evidence to the contrary. The official called Hamas' large-scale surprise assault on Israel on Saturday a "defensive operation" and an "internally Palestinian" one. "We firmly deny these allegations as we reject this media bias, and we call on media to abide by journalistic code of ethics," Basim Naim, an official with Hamas information office, said in a video statement. Here's how to help humanitarian efforts in Israel and Gaza.More than 2 million Palestinians live in the Hamas-run enclave, which has been under a land, sea and air blockade by Israel since 2007. The airstrikes have also displaced 338,000 people, the UN said. At least 1,537 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Palestinian health ministry.As part of the intensive shuttle diplomacy to prevent the conflict from expanding, the top US diplomat will meet with Palestinian and Jordanian leaders Friday. At least 25 Americans have been killed in Israel, he said. Blinken vowed US support for Israel and likened Hamas’ crimes to ISIS.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a news conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, said Hamas should be “crushed” and “spat out from the community of nations.”.Gaza’s humanitarian crisis deepened Thursday with warnings people are at risk of starvation as Israel maintained a siege and bombarded targets in response to the Hamas terror attacks that killed more than 1,200 people. ![]() 12/23/2023 0 Comments Linux list hidden files and folders![]() ![]() These files play a crucial role in configuring user-specific settings and ensuring smooth application operations. Understanding hidden files and directories is essential for managing and troubleshooting your system. For example, in the GNOME file manager (Nautilus), you can press Ctrl+H to toggle the visibility of hidden files. File manager: Most file managers have an option to show hidden files and directories.Command line: In a terminal, you can use the command `ls -a` (list all) to show all files, including hidden ones, in a directory.While these files and directories are hidden by default, there are various ways to view them: cache: This directory is used by various applications to store cached data, like web browser caches, for example. local: This directory is used by some programs to install local, user-specific applications and other files. config: This directory is often used by various applications to store their configuration files. The keys located here are used for authentication when connecting to remote servers via SSH. ssh: This is a directory that stores secure shell (SSH) configuration and keys. It is typically used to set up the shell environment, including environment variables and command paths. profile: This is another script executed during login. They can be used to customize the shell environment, set environment variables, define aliases, and more. bash_profile: These files are read and executed by the Bash shell every time a new terminal session starts. Some of the commonly seen hidden files and directories in a user’s home directory include: When a new user account is created, certain hidden files and directories are automatically generated and populated with default values. Numerous hidden files and directories are located in a user’s home directory, storing user-specific data, preferences, and configurations. For instance, if a user named “rahul” has a home directory, it would likely be at the path /home/rahul/. This directory, typically denoted as ‘~/’, is where user files and personal settings reside. In Unix-like systems, each user has a dedicated “home directory”. The term “dot file” or “dot directory” is often used to refer to such hidden entities. In Unix-like operating systems, any file or directory name that begins with a dot (.) is considered hidden. Accidentally changing or deleting these files could negatively impact the function of a program. This is especially significant for configuration files, which various programs create and modify. The central idea behind hidden files and directories is to prevent clutter while protecting important files from accidental modification or deletion. This article aims to provide an in-depth understanding of hidden files and folders in your home directory. These are special types of files and directories that are not typically visible when listing contents in a file manager or a command-line interface. In computing, especially on Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux and macOS, there exists a concept of hidden files and directories. ![]() 12/23/2023 0 Comments Amc stock profit calculator![]() Actual performance may differ significantly from backtested performance. 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