There’s also improvements in Japanese video captioning. There’s now support for bilingual English and Japanese inputs. There’s a new San Francisco Arabic system wide font. You can use it right now by downloading it from here. This one is from the peaks in High Sierra. If you have more than 200 GB of iCloud Storage, you can now share it with your family members. You can now generate a web link for files stored in iCloud Drive. When enabled, you can’t go back to the voice functionality. You’ll now be able to flip and switch and enable the option to type to Siri instead of speaking to it. The mic icon has been replaced by the animating Siri orb. The text is left-aligned and the answers have an s0lid white background instead of the translucent one. The text is now bigger and the answers are in bold. Spotlight will also show multiple results from Wikipedia. Both parties will get a notification about it and the live Photo will be saved in your Photos library. Live Photos in FaceTimeĪ new shutter button in FaceTime lets you take Live Photo of your call. Search Suggestions in NotesĪ boon for extensive note takers, the Notes app now has search suggestions to make it easier for you to find notes. You can now create custom tables in the Notes app. Pinned notes will always show up at the top of the list. Swipe on a note in list view to get to the Pin option. The new Hidden tab in the sidebar gives you a quick access to all your hidden files (previously you’d have to go in via the menu bar). The Imports section in the sidebar now shows your most recent imports, in a reverse chronological order. What this means is you can quickly expand it anytime you want to open an album, or drag photos. The Sidebar is now persistent across the entire app. Or just drag them to the Desktop or any folder in Finder to export them. You can now select multiple photos and drag them to any album. You’ll now find two more editing features – Curves and Selective color. You can open photos in pro apps like Pixelmator and when you’re done editing, the changes will be saved back to the Photos library. Read More: 100 Awesome iOS 11 Features and Changes 10. Long Exposure adds a blur effect and extends water and light trails. Loop makes it an ever repeating, GIF-like image. Just like iOS 11, you can apply 3 new effects to Live Photos stored on your Mac. You can now trim and mute Live Photos on the Mac and choose a new key frame. It adds new categories like pets, kids, performances, sporting events, weddings and more. The new Photos app will be able to create a lot more different Memories videos for you. Photos app in High Sierra will finally start syncing your face recognition data across all your devices using iCloud (again, in a secure manner). Mail Search has a new suggested search section called Top Hits that puts the most relevant searches to the top. So you can compose your messages while still being able to keep an eye on your Inbox for new messages. Mail Search is now much faster as it uses Spotlight to index your messages. So your Mac won’t have a different iMessages experience than your iPhone. As this is Apple, it happens privately and securely (it’s still end-to-end encrypted). Messages will now sync between all your devices using iCloud. Reader mode presents articles in just text and images form (similar to Pocket). This way you can skip the ads, navigation, and other distractions. Safari in High Sierra can automatically open supported web articles in Reader mode for you. Users who installed their own SSDs had to hunt down third-party tools that enabled TRIM in an unsupported way.RELATED : How To Use A USB Flash Drive To Create An Emergency Mac OS Boot Device 2. Historically, Mac OS X has only enabled TRIM for the solid-state drives Apple provides. Windows 7 and newer have had built-in support for TRIM, which they enable for all SSDs. The SSD can then manage its available storage more intelligently. TRIM ensures the physical NAND memory locations containing deleted files are erased before you need to write to them. This causes your SSD to slow down over time unless TRIM is enabled. With flash memory, it’s faster to write to empty memory - to write to full memory, the memory must first be erased and then written to. The SSD knows that the file is deleted and it can erase the file’s data from its flash storage. When an operating system uses TRIM with a solid-state drive, it sends a signal to the SSD every time you delete a file. RELATED: Why Solid-State Drives Slow Down As You Fill Them Up Why TRIM is Important, and Why Macs Don’t Always Enable It by Default
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Additional data can also be attached to breadcrumbs by providing the optional metadata parameter.įor more information and examples for how custom breadcrumbs can be integrated, see Customizing breadcrumbs. leaveBreadcrumb ( 'Button clicked' )īugSnag will keep track of the time and order of the breadcrumbs and show them on your dashboard. You can use the leaveBreadcrumb method to log potentially useful events in your own applications: Bugsnag. Power state changes, like switching to battery powerįor more information or to disable particular classes of automatic breadcrumb generation see configuration options.Display added, removed, and resized events.Automatically captured breadcrumbsīy default, BugSnag captures the following events as breadcrumbs: A configurable number of breadcrumbs are attached to each error report to help diagnose what events led to the error. In order to understand what happened in your application before each error, it can be helpful to leave short log statements that we call breadcrumbs. setUser ( '3', , 'Erina' )įor information on doing so, see Adding user data. You can set the user information of an error report using the user configuration property when BugSnag starts or using tUser(): Bugsnag. In order to correlate errors with customer reports, or to see a list of users who experienced each error, it is helpful to capture and display user information on your BugSnag dashboard. start ()įor more information, see Customizing error reports. Start BugSnag along with any renderer-specific configuration as needed: Bugsnag. When it is true, require() works as it does in Node.js. When webPreferences.nodeIntegration is false, a bundler (such as Webpack) is necessary to resolve dependencies in renderer code. 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While this produces great results in some cases where the eyes are in front facing direction but in other cases(like this one) it completely fails. Image_copy = np.zeros_like(image) # create a new emtpy imageĪpprox = cv2.approxPolyDP(cnt, 0.04 * peri, True) Then I searched for the contours in the images and tried to find only the most circular one in the image through this code contours, hierarchy = cv2.findContours(thresholded, cv2.RETR_TREE, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE) Retval, thresholded = cv2.threshold(gray, 30, 255, cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV) Gray = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY) I need to mark a pupil in an image like this of the eye. United States of America - A diverse mix of styles built around power and speed, from stock car to street GT.A plethora of street circuits are offset by some grueling Touge runs and freestyle drift environments. Japan - Street racing, drift championships and Pro-Tuned series.This region contains some of the world's most prestigious and challenging circuits. Europe - Mostly traditional circuit racing in a variety of Touring, GT and Open Wheel championships.The podium events, as well as cars, are divided into three world regions: The two main goals are becoming the world's top driver, and to own the world's most successful racing team. Grid World is the player's racing Career in the game. Game Modes GRID World Main article: Race Driver: GRID/GRID World The game includes five camera views, including a first-person camera "head cam" inside each car's cockpit. Flashbacks are limited, becoming fewer the higher the difficulty level selected, and in Grid World there is a cash bonus for not using them. From an in-race replay players can rewind to a desired previous moment and resume the race from there. The game includes Flashback, an instant replay feature. It affects the ability of the opponents, number of flashbacks, and driving assistance is customisable as well. Players can set the difficulty level for each event. Wheels - Damage reduces stability and handling.Engine - Damage reduces performance, such as speed and acceleration.Steering - Damage affects vehicle responsiveness, and severe damage causes it to pull to one side.Suspension - Damage affects road holding and cornering.Gears - Damage prevents cars to reach top speed and reduces ability to change gear fluidly.If players severely damage parts of their car, the corresponding icon will light up in the HUD, indicating the severity from yellow to red: Demolition Derby - The winner has to finish first by any means, including being the only remaining car.Endurance - Longer races, including 24 Hours of Le Mans.Events include Pro Touge and Midnight Touge. Touge - Head-to-head racing on narrow Japanese mountain roads.Drift challenges include Drift GP, Drift Battle, Freestyle Drift, and Downhill Drift. Drift - Points are awarded for getting the car sideways.Grip Racing - Races involving a variety of classes including GT, Open Wheel, Pro Muscle, Pro Tuned, and Touring Cars.Originating from TOCA's Race Driver subseries, Race Driver: GRID would eventually give origin to its own series starting with GRID 2 in 2013. The Mac OS X version, published by Feral Interactive, would be released on March 28th 2013 including all of its downloadable content. Race Driver: GRID was released on in Europe, Jin North America, and in Australia on June 12 2008, available for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, as well as Windows using Securom for DRM. The damage code has been completely rewritten to allow for persistent damage environments. 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Ron Fucking Swanson is notoriously distant from everyone, anti-government, and gives landmines to little girls as gifts, but, somehow, each episode and over the life of the series, he and Leslie still managed to butt heads only to have them come to a solution that works for both of them. This was a relationship built on experience and, most importantly, respect, despite the fact that Ron and Leslie’s ideals never lined up. However, while the supporting cast of the show delivered in spades, it was Leslie’s relationship with Ron (Nick Offerman) that stood tall time in and time out. Andy, who, initially, was a massive jerk when Ann and he were dating, turned into the most lovable of goofballs on TV there’s April, whose ideals lined up with Ron’s perfectly with her dry, “I hate everything” attitude Tom, who bought a modern touch to Pawnee through ridiculous dreams of greatness he had Ann, who played Leslie’s foil until Ben showed up Chris, who planned on running the moon and that LIT-RALLY everything was amazing Donna’s greatness surfaced when her Mercedes was shot in “Hunting Trip” Jerry’s probably came from his misuse of the word “mural” in “The Camel”. Parks and Rec also bolstered its main cast with some really wonderful depth in its supporting and main characters who would come off the bench to deliver even more emotional punch and gags even if it was just a one and done thing for the episode.Īndy (Chris Pratt), Tom (Aziz Ansari), April, Chris (Rob Lowe), Ann (Rashida Jones), Donna (Retta), Jerry (Jim O’Heir), all had their slice of greatness. Poehler’s performance anchors every other character and actor that comes onto the screen her strength and power of will and love of LIT-rally everything drives each and every character that comes into contact with her into achieving, over years, mind you, their true potential (see: April Ludgate, played by Aubrey Plaza). The show found its true footing through the sheer energy of Leslie Knope, played by Amy Poehler. In hindsight, this is a decision I ultimately regret, because if you haven’t watched this show, I implore you to start from the beginning if only to see how much of an insane improvement season two is over its six episode debut. During its fourth season, when people posted their “I’m looking for something to watch” on their respective social media page, this show is the one I would recommend, but I would also tell them to skip the first season. Parks and Recreation was a show that went from a clone of The Office to its own complete beast through a remarkable uptick in quality at the start of its second season, and continued that winning stretch for, I’d say, two seasons. And with my growing up, I feel like I've also grown along with the rest of the characters that inhabit the world of Pawnee, Indiana. I feel like I've grown up with this show, because I was 19 years old when it first aired and I’m nearly 25 when it airs for the last time. If you’ll allow me to put things in perspective in terms of things that have happened in my life from the start of this show until now: in the time Parks and Recreation has been on the air, I've moved out of university housing, graduated university, moved into three different homes, changed States twice, and have started another stint at university. 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Owning a Discord server or having administrator permissions in one.How to create Discord webhooks?įortunately, it’s fairly simple to create Discord webhooks. There are other uses for Discord webhooks as well, but we’ll get back to them later on, as there are easier and more convenient ways to automatically post data to Discord. A Discord webhook would be useful to automatically post new game sales data each time you add a row to that spreadsheet. These events can be nearly anything: Recently filled online forms, new rows added to Google Sheets spreadsheet, you name it.Īs long as there is a webhook listening to what happens in a third-party application, the data resulting from a new event will be posted as a message in a Discord channel.įor example, let’s imagine that you work for a game development company, and keep track of game sales data on a Google Spreadsheet. 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Select the arrows on either side of the current month to change the. This is a video of the 'Twinkle Light Parade' held in Nob Hill area of Albuquerque, NM. Choose Select a Calendar to view a specific calendar. Each year, neighborhood associations, specialty groups, and clubs put together a parade entry decorated in holiday lights. One entry could be the Girls Scouts – that brings about 300 to 400 Girl Scouts. This is a video of the 'Twinkle Light Parade' held in Nob Hill area of Albuquerque, NM, on December 2, 2017. The city of Albuquerque's annual Twinkle Light Parade celebrates the season with the kind of glitter and glam you expect from this holiday event. “The past couple years, we’ve had about 90 entries, and one entry could be a car club of six cars. The Twinkle Light Parade is a free, family-friendly holiday event that illuminates a mile-long stretch to Route 66 in Nob Hill. Twinkle Light Parade is Saturday December 4th, and Central will be closed from noon. “What’s new is that this is the biggest parade that we’ve had,” said Bree Ortiz, events and operations manager for the city of Albuquerque. Pre-Easter Weekend Pop Up at ABQ Collective (Eubank just south of. The Albuquerque Twinkle Light Parade is free for the public to attend and is a. This free, family-friendly holiday event brings the sparkle to a mile-long stretch of Central Ave. ABQ Mom has your guide for all the lights and luminarias this holiday. This year’s event is the largest in its history, with 110 entries and 3,500 people participating. Its time for Albuquerques most dazzling celebration. Nob Hill will sparkle and shine during one of Albuquerque’s favorite holiday events – the Twinkle Light Parade. Pictured together in December on a yacht on Sydney Harbour She was a bridesmaid at her sister Carlin's wedding to Evan Stewart on May 25, 2019.Billionaire heiress Francesca Packer is said to still be dating her boyfriend Robert Bates, despite recent split rumours. She was a bridesmaid at her sister Josie's wedding to Kelton Balka on October 5, 2018. She was a bridesmaid at her sister Tori's wedding to Bobby Smith on December 16, 2017. Katie was a bridesmaid at her brother Zach's wedding to Whitney Perkins on December 14, 2013. Katie was regularly featured on both shows. In 2015, UpTV began airing a similar show, Bringing Up Bates. In 2012, TLC aired one season of the show United Bates of America, which focused on Katie's family. Katie appeared on the TLC show 19 Kids and Counting many times as a child. Katie worked as a stylist at her sister Josie's company Effortless Beauty. Katie worked as a photo shoot model for Bates Sisters Boutique in Rocky Top, Tennessee. In May 2020, she graduated from the Cosmetology program at Crown College. She considered studying nursing after finishing this program. Katie completed a one-year Bible program at Crown College of the Bible. Katie often babysat her nephews, Bradley Bates and Carson Paine, and nieces, Kaci Bates and Brooklyn Paine. She has to take two shots a day during pregnancy. On August 20, 2022, Katie revealed that she has some blood clotting disorders. Their daughter Hailey James was born on February 17, 2023, at 10:29 pm. On February 17, 2023, Katie and Travis shared a post stating that it was “baby time”. However, due to Katie's blood clotting disorder, they said that the baby could arrive around mid-February 2023. The due date was later revealed to be March 4, 2023. On September 22, 2022, they revealed that they are naming their daughter Hailey James. On September 10, 2022, they revealed that they are expecting a girl. On August 6, 2022, Katie and Travis announced that they are expecting their first child, due March 2023. Her dress was designed by Renee Miller of Renee's Bridal.įor their honeymoon, Katie and Travis went to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Travis wrote the song "I Choose You" for the wedding. Katie's brother Lawson wrote the song "I Love You Truly" for the wedding. His groomsmen were his brother-in-law Cameron, his cousin Jeffrey Walsemann, his cousin-in-law Jeffrey Weaver, Katie's brother-in-law Evan, and his friends Aaron Scully and Gavin Ziegler. Travis's best man was his brother Michael. The flower girls were Katie's nieces Willow and Layla and their dog Remi. Her bridesmaids were her sisters Alyssa, Carlin, and Addallee, her sister-in-law Whitney, Travis's sister Kayla, and her friend Caitlin Kaetzer. Katie's matron of honor was her sister Josie. The wedding was officiated by Katie's father Gil Bates, Travis's grandfather Charles Clark, Jr., and Travis's uncle Charles Clark III. The couple shared their first kiss at the altar. On December 3, 2021, Katie married Travis James Clark at Castleton Farms in Loudon, Tennessee. Their engagement is featured on the Bringing Up Bates episode "Due Dates & An Engagement Getaway!". With their parents present, Travis also sang the song "Will You Marry Me" that he wrote for Katie and played guitar. The proposal took place in an ocean pier gazebo, which was decorated with candles, a large heart constructed of red roses, and a sign that read, "Will you marry me?". On April 7, 2021, Katie and Travis got engaged at The Reach in Key West, Florida. Their courtship proposal is featured on the Bringing Up Bates episode "I Love You to Piz-zas!". On March 10, 2020, they announced their courtship. On March 9, 2020, Travis asked Katie to begin an official courtship. This confirmed speculation that the two were a couple that had been happening since they first appeared in each other's Instagram stories in late July 2019. On September 19, 2019, Katie announced via Facebook Live that she was in the beginning stages of a relationship with Travis Clark. She enjoys pranking her family, reading history books, and deer hunting. Katie is said to be full of spunk and laughter. She and her siblings were raised as active participants of Bill Gothard's Institute in Basic Life Principles, and regularly attended the yearly Advanced Training Institute conferences in Big Sandy, Texas. She was the couple's eleventh child, and they went on to have eight more children after her.Īlong with her siblings, Katie was homeschooled growing up. on October 5, 2000, in Tennessee, to Gil Bates and Kelly Bates. He wound up absorbing the impassioned smooth soul of Curtis Mayfield, a progression evident on “Walls Come Tumbling Down!” and “Shout to the Top!” he learned how to write with a lyrical lightness, a quality that still makes “Long Hot Summer” and “My Ever-Changing Moods” incandescent. Weller really did learn several new tricks during this period. It’s done in the service of self-edification, for one and for another. But all this awkwardness is endearing, not alienating. Their funk can be stiff, the jazz drifts toward cocktail hour, and they dive into dance without quite knowing whether they can pull off the new sounds. Often, the band came across like they had raided their big brother’s closet, trying on suits that didn’t quite fit their frame. Unlike so many of their British post-punk peers, the group also didn’t hesitate to absorb the changes brought by ’80s R&B, adapting elastic synth bass and drum machines for their own ends and gamely covering Joe Smooth’s house classic “Promised Land."Īt this generous length, the inherent earnest gangliness of the Style Council is readily apparent. The extra space here affords the opportunity to underscore how the band directly tackled big societal and political issues: They wrote a swinging jazz number called “Dropping Bombs on the Whitehouse” and delicately urged that the “Ghosts of Dachau” not be forgotten, a sentiment that may hit harder in the authoritarian climate of 2020 than it did in 1985. At two CDs (or two LPs), it has room to cover adventures a single-disc hits collection doesn’t, and it has a concise narrative punch lacking in the thorough 1998 box The Complete Adventures Of The Style Council. What happens in the margins of Long Hot Summers makes a difference, though. During their peak early years, the band gravitated toward singles and EPs over LPs, so their most vibrant music happened here, while the scattershot later albums usually are well represented by their hits. In one sense, assembling a Style Council collection isn’t all that hard, since the high points often occurred on singles. Long Hot Summers differs from the many, many Style Council compilations released over the years by being co-compiled by Weller as part of a Style Council reclamation project that also includes a documentary film for Sky Arts (the movie is rumored to be headed Stateside sometime next year). But Long Hot Summers: The Story of the Style Council underscores that they were a band born of the moment who lived for the moment, and that moment had passed by the time the ’80s were half finished. Members of the Style Council-Weller and Talbot officially constituted the group’s lineup, but they retained a fairly stable set of players through the years-later blamed the band’s prominent position on the anti-Thatcher Red Wedge tour in 1986 as halting their momentum. They embraced political activism, fighting against prime minister Margaret Thatcher with such enthusiasm it nearly consumed them. The mysterious, uncredited Cappuccino Kid-widely believed to be Paolo Hewitt, a confidant and biographer of Weller’s until they had a falling out in the 2000s-penned righteous manifestos for the band’s liner notes. They swapped punk and mod for jazz and soul as musical touchstones, and the group expanded this obsession through the ’80s, incorporating house and garage to an extent that their record label rejected their final album for veering too far into the dance-music realm. The group’s first single, “Speak Like a Child,” shared a title with a 1968 Blue Note LP by Herbie Hancock they designed the album cover of 1985’s Our Favourite Shop so that it spilled over with the books, fashion, music, and film they cherished most. Signifiers were a big deal for the Style Council. Here, he’s cavorting shirtless, so carefree he’s nearly camp, embracing the hint of sexual ambiguity with the same gusto with which he has a beatnik bongo player join their party. Weller scowled through most of the Jam, adopting the look intense young men wear when they’re seriously making serious music. In the video for 1983’s “ Long Hot Summer”-their third single and the song that lends its title to this new anthology-Talbot spends his time rowing a bare-chested Weller to a riverside picnic later, Tabot would literally carry Weller’s bags in the clip for “ Boy Who Cried Wolf.” Absurd as the images may be, there’s an endearing playfulness to the videos that’s telling. Weller enlisted Mick Talbot, a keyboardist who previously played with Jam disciples the Merton Parkas, as his lieutenant, but it was clear from the outset who was in charge. |