I used to have fun with them - I would sometimes confuse them with their ability by singing random notes while saying pitch syllables but not the actual pitch I'm singing. I have lots of friends in the music college who are perfect pitchers, most of them are "born" with it. So, I get it that you have absolute pitch. It certainly helps, though.Thanks for your reply. Note that absolute pitch is by no means an automatic pass to playing or singing in tune, nor does it replace other good ear training exercises. I have been able to maintain absolute pitch since, though the actual intonation does drift a bit if I have not regularly been working on it. Getting the sound to stop was a bit motivating in my case. One thing I did to help was write a simple computer program that would play a pitch incessantly until I guessed which pitch it was. I made a bit of a game for myself by trying to guess (to myself) whether people were sharp or flat or in tune, and I eventually got better at it.Īfter that, it was a matter of learning where the other pitches were in relation to that B-flat until, eventually, I could identify them without referring to the B-flat at all. I had a junior high band director who would often tune the band by having each player in a section play a B-flat and telling them whether they were flat or sharp based on the electronic tuner at the front of the room. I think the most important thing about trying to learn this ability is to have fun "guessing", and if it just never happens for you it is not really a big deal, many great musicians don't really have this ability. Like many things in learning music, this process will probably take years. I think it is part learning to trust your instinct, and part developing the ability. If you "guess" by using your memory of a various pieces in different keys you know before you play the note, you might find you tend to guess right there as well.įrom this, over time, many people start to develop some sense of what many people call "perfect pitch". If you look at my "ability to hear music before it is played" section in this answer, I talk about learning to sight sing by only playing the note of the key as a starting reference. Yes, you are just guessing, but what many musicians who practice a lot discover is that they guess right quite often (not always, but more often than not). Think of what key that was in, sing the not of that key, and see if you are right. The way you can discover this is by first thing in the morning, try think of a piece you were playing the day before. The reason is, and here is the kicker, many people do and they just don't know it. This is often a good starting point for people that "don't have perfect pitch". I'm going to focus on the ability to be able to sing a note when you first wake up. I emphasized "recent" reference, because in many ways what most people call perfect pitch in a way is just relative pitch, except you are using relative pitches that you haven't heard even that day. People's ability range from being able to guess right some of the time, to instantly telling you which note is not being played when someone bangs 11 out of 12 notes as a cluster on the piano. They are all about being able to either identify or generate (i.e. There are different levels of perfect pitch and absolute pitch. Perfect Pitch has some different Definitions:
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It had no dialogue, and no narration - think Fantasia - but it's bold style was rewarded as it picked up an Oscar. It was based on a 1929 musical suite composed by American pianist Ferde Grofe. The 29-minute live action experimental short, Grand Canyon, appeared before the movie. The short that appeared before it won an Academy Award Yes, the story does have three fairies and is pretty faithful to the Charles Perrault tale, but one change was the original had seven fairies. Disney said: "We could use that style for Sleeping Beauty" and that was that.ĭid you know the Sleeping Beauty characters appear in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Maleficent has been used in various other Disney products and shows, and even got the Angelina Jolie's spin-off, but before all that her goblin henchmen appeared in the Maroon Cartoon Studio film Who Framed Roger Rabbit - the bluebirds from the film also appeared, circling Roger Rabbit and Eddie Valiant's head in two scenes. When he came back to work, he brought a reproduction of the tapestry. The style came from a moment when John Hench saw the famed unicorn tapestries at the Cloisters in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It drew upon a combination of Medieval Art imagery and Art Deco style. Sleeping Beauty's style marked a changeĬinderella used a Rococo style, but Sleeping Beauty moved away from that. Later on Disney replaced Larson with Clyde Geronimi. Disney told Larson to make the first sequence "moving illustration, the ultimate in animation" and he didn't care how long it would take them. Heart attack and changing directorsĭirector Wilfred Jackson had a heart attack in December 1953, so Eric Larson, the directing animator had to take over. Speaking of names the raven that accompanies Maleficent is called Diablo, but that's never said in the movie.Īnother character who doesn't have a name in the movie is the Queen, but she's listed in promotion as Queen Leah. The time was cut to a few hours with Prince Phillip using that time to battle the goons and make his way to the castle. In the original it was one hundred years, but that was far too long. The writers also changed the time the curse lasted. How long did Sleeping Beauty's curse last? She is thwarted and jumps into a pot of live serpents to avoid being killed by her own son. In the original tale, Aurora is the result of a spell cast by the Queen by a magical fish she thew back in a pond after she found it lying on the bank.Īlso the little-known second half of the original fable has the Prince attempt to protect Sleeping Beauty and their children from his mother who is an ogress. Finally, it was written in that Aurora and Phillip meet by accident in the forest and Aurora was renamed Briar Rose. There was a scene cut which involved a treasure hunt organised by the King. During the re-write the team felt the second act felt strange with the kiss serving as the big moment, so they focused on the romance in the first act. The writers underwent a rewrite after Disney threw out a scene where Aurora and Phillip met in the forest delaying production. Some of the story elements were taken from discarded ideas from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, from Maleficent's capture of Prince Philip and the escape from her fortress. Writing began on Sleeping Beauty in 1951, following the success of Cinderella. They took sequences from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs The next fairytale based story was The Little Mermaid, in 1989. Released on January 29, 1959, it was the last Disney adaptation of a fairy tale for awhile because of the mixed reviews it got - it also underperformed at the box office. The movie was the 16th Disney animated feature film. Sleeping Beauty actually got mixed reviews To mark the anniversary we've taken a look at the history of the movie - here's 25 Sleeping Beauty facts. Walt Disney produced the musical film based on the story of the same name by Charles Perrault, as well as the Brothers Grimm tales. The story in a nutshell sees Princess Aurora cursed as a child, prick her finger on a sewing wheel and fall into a deep sleep, waiting for her Prince to come and walk her with a kiss. It had hit a few stumbling blocks and changes to the team.ĭespite that it went on to become the second highest grossing movie of 1969 - largely thanks to its four re-releases. The movie was released in 1959 after a long production, we're talking years. Disney's Sleeping Beauty turns 60 this year - we know, how has it been that long? That's not to say it's not useful to do so (many, if not most malicious apps like that would probably not bother to cover their tracks that well). Even if I monitored requests in Little Snitch, who knows what clever encoding schemes can be used to leak out data through requests that appear benign. I have little hopes for end users (including myself) from ever being able to reliably confirm/disconfirm the privacy impact of closed source apps unless network access is completely cut off. Maybe the letter after it is a signal for the order of magnitude of the largest unit amount (tens, thousands, millions, etc). It's just an auth header, right? But who's to say there isn't extra info embedded in there? Maybe "A" means a conversion between USD to Euros and the number after it refers to the number of times such a query was made in the last hour. conversion routines between real/int and 32/64 bit floating point numbers as. That might look totally safe/normal at a glance. Another demo for that shows a six-bit binary counter in three modes. Imagine if you saw a header on the request that looked like:Īuthorization: Bearer A17b2C23kd231h12309 Unless you block all outbound requests from the app, you still can't guarantee it's not reporting on you. But sure, let's say you have some caching on a timed interval and those are all the requests you see. Fixed a problem changing settings in the menu bar widget.An hourly cache may not be up-to-date enough for many use-cases.Support for macOS 10.15 Catalina, including Dark Mode.
The way in which you describe your job experience can add to the way that your network Are you employable? If you don’t have at least three current and past positions that include keywords and accomplishments to explain the value you added then add them immediately.Are you using your formal, baptismal, confirmation or any other name that would only be familiar to your mother? Your mother may be in your network, however, you need to include the name which you go by in the work place so others can find you.Are you ‘Googleable’ including keywords throughout your LinkedIn profile that sum up your value that people are literally searching for on Google? If not, then include these ‘Googleable’ terms to your LinkedIn Endorsements section, Summary, Headline, Job Experience, Anchored Text to get found by those who are looking.Does your LinkedIn summary tell your customer how they are going to help you make it to Presidents Club, 21 Club, or Winners Circle? Make your summary about the customer and network and how you can help them.Does your LinkedIn headline look like a job title that nobody really understands anyway? Why would you use this 120-character space for anything other than an elevator pitch to explain your value to separate you from the crowd?.Does your profile pic look like it belongs on the Wall of Shame? Take a professional-like photo, so you stop the social smirking about your silly looking image.Here are 10 key questions to ask your sales teams, your leadership, or yourself about your (or your company’s) LinkedIn profile: And you can get to the realization that you need to change your LinkedIn profile by asking yourself some very pointed questions. The LinkedIn reputation lesson is that as a good craft beer stands out based on what one is looking for, then your reputation needs to describe yourself accurately, so you stand out with the correct crowd. There is not a best craft beer for everyone, just like there is no one LinkedIn profile format or formula every should use. If you’ve ever walked into a great craft beer bar, the bartender, or cicerone, can provide you an excellent customer experience by asking you a set of questions to lead you to what you should be drinking based on what you like. What does a good craft beer bar have in common with a great LinkedIn profile? Both are great destinations that get more visits based on their reputation! Get stuck on how to describe something you’ve done? Go back to that one key point and rework it. Once you identify your own guiding philosophy, weave it into the storyline you develop about yourself on LinkedIn. They gave their business to him, not his organization. Those clients know he has their best interest at heart. It’s been the key to his success and helped him build a reputation as a trusted partner. He challenges himself to do the most good for them and their organization. He tries to live his life by that guiding ethos, and also brings it to his interactions with clients. Their tagline is “Doing the Most Good,” and he said that idea really resonates with him, both personally and professionally. One executive I asked this question said he is very active with the Salvation Army. Why do you do what you do, why are you motivated to pursue a certain career path, and why have you been successful?Īsk yourself this question: What has been the guiding philosophy throughout my career? We’ve been using this question to help people identify their why, which helps everything on LinkedIn fall into place. This can make it hard to write a LinkedIn profile, which is why everyone defaults to thinking of it and using it as an online resume. If you’re a normal human being and not some egocentric sociopath, it can be hard to talk about yourself in glowing terms. What you have here are some ideas gleaned from that effort-both strategic and tactical. Together, we’re piloting an effort to get their employees looking and sounding a little more interesting, a little more professional and a little more on-brand in their LinkedIn profiles. And they hire some really smart and impressive people to lead the charge in social selling. They have hundreds of thousands of employees across the globe. Scribewise and I are lucky to be working with the social media team at a giant technology firm. I’m loading it up with some practical tips you can use today. Hear me out, this isn’t that kind of entry. In whole, the video surveillance system comprises as many as several hundred cameras operating in the various neighbourhoods. Importantly, these can be a wide variety of threats, including, for example, destruction of property, car theft, fight, fire, traffic accident or even terrorism. The developers point out that an effective operator must first and foremost ensure accurate observation and good identification of actual threats. The gameplay focuses on searching for various dangers and then tracking down suspected criminals and the development of events to finally call the appropriate services. The primary task is to contain and fight crime and other threats. In City Eye, the player becomes the operator of a central city video surveillance system. But how far will you take things, and at what cost will you do so? Its a game that, while it doesn't have a major storyline built into it, and certainly doesn't shy away from the idea that you're working for the government to spy on everyone in public, it will force you as a player to decide if what you're doing is morally wrong or for the best of everyone at large. It will be up to you to spot people and determine if they're breaking the law or not, report incidents like fights and fires, and ultimately bring some semblance of order to the city you monitor. Now you too can love out all the greatest fears of the novels 1984 and A Scanner Darkly together in one single game, as you will be working the cameras in a city filled with closed-circuit monitoring devices. Ultimate Games have dropped their latest simulator title with a twist onto Steam today as you can now play the surveillance game City Eye. Often, the load is powered from a higher voltage than the control circuitry. In this case, the driving device is powered from +5V, the same voltage that powers the load, but that's not always the case. In cases where the driving device is powered from a low voltage (say, anything less than 3.3V), you should also investigate the actual V BE voltage, instead of using the typical voltage of 0.8V, because with a low driving voltage, small differences in V BE will significantly affect the voltage drop across RB, and therefore, the base current. In this example, the voltage drop across RB is significant - estimated at 4.0V. You don't want less than that amount of current, so you use a resistance that's equal or lower. So the resistor will have 4.0V across it. Let's assume the driving device is powered from +5V and its output will drop from 5V to 4.8V under a 1.1 mA load. The voltage across RB will be the difference between those voltages. So you can estimate the voltage at the left end of RB, and you can estimate the voltage at the right end of RB as around 0.8V, the approximate base-emitter voltage of a transistor under bias. The data sheet may give a specification, or a typical performance graph, to show you how much the output will drop when supplying that much current. When you're drawing several milliamps from the driving device, its output may be dragged down somewhat, especially if it's a low-power device. So we want about 1.1 mA base current.Ĭalculate the voltage that will appear across the base resistor. I'll use a saturation factor of 3 and I'll explain the saturation factor in detail below. Multiply I B(nominal) by a "saturation factor" - a number between 2 and 10 - to ensure that the transistor saturates. The result is that I B(nominal) is about 360 ♚. This note doesn't cover that situation.Ĭalculate the nominal base current, I B(nominal)ĭivide the maximum collector current (I C) by the minimum current gain (h FE) at that collector current.įor example, say I C(max) = 30 mA and h FE(min) = 83 at I C = 30 mA. If I C is more than about 200~500 mA, you may need an extra stage between the driving device and the transistor. If no figure is given for that current, you can estimate it using the minimum h FE figures for other collector currents in conjunction with the shape of the graph, but typical characteristics are not guaranteed. This is why it's important to use the data sheet figure for the guaranteed minimum h FE at the correct collector current. The relationship is usually shown in a typical characteristics graph. So choose one that's comfortably over-rated (at least 50% higher than I C(max)) but not unnecessarily over-rated.Īlso it's important to know that h FE decreases as I C increases, for any given device. Larger transistors normally have lower current gains. A higher h FE makes the transistor easier to drive - i.e. When you're choosing Q1, also consider the minimum current gain, h FE(min), at that collector current. This current, and the V1 voltage, enable you to select a suitable transistor for Q1. If it's a motor, use the starting or stall current (whichever is higher) from the data sheet. If it's a buzzer or a relay coil, the resistance and/or current are given in the data sheet. If the load is an LED with a series resistor, you probably already know the current. If the load is resistive, you can calculate the maximum collector current I C(max) using Ohm's Law, from the supply voltage V1 and the load's resistance. Start with the maximum collector current I C The load is energised: an LED lights up, or a relay activates and closes its contacts.Ī common question is: "How do I calculate the value of RB?" Current flows from V1, through the load, into Q1's collector, out Q1's emitter, and back to 0V. When the controlling device's output is high, current flows through RB into Q1's base, biasing Q1 into conduction. If the load is a relay coil (with a reverse diode across it for back EMF suppression), it does not energise. If the load is an LED (with a series resistor), it does not illuminate. Therefore, no current flows through the load in the collector circuit. When the controlling device's output is low, no current flows through RB, and Q1 is turned OFF. It was here where he developed a great friendship with his teammate Hawkman. Some time after becoming the new Atom, Ray Palmer would be offered membership in the Justice League of America, an offer that he would gladly accept. He also helps the team find where the monsters are spawning, allowing the team to deal with them. As the science liaison to the UN, Ray has contributed some of his shrinking and teleportation equipment to construct a new headquarters for SHADE, a flying orb three inches tall with a city inside of it. Ray serves as their science liaison to the United Nations, making sure that SHADE does not abuse their mad science. Post-Flashpoint, Ray has became a member of the Superhuman Advanced Defense Executive, better known as SHADE. Post-Flashpoint / Earth 0 Ray Palmer (Earth 0) Neither character achieved major popularity, and even in their heyday were mostly supporting characters, often with Palmer as a specialist in size alteration who was often needed to access extremely confined areas only he could access. There, he meets Hawkman, one of his closest friends in the superhero community. The Atom is a member of several incarnations of the Justice League of America, and the team is gracious enough to supply a special chair scaled to his default size which can elevate to whatever height needed so he can easily partake in team meetings without having to go out of costume. He also had several time travel adventures by means of Professor Alpheus V. Palmer has fought against several alien and supernatural threats, as well as having his own rogues gallery: his arch enemy is Chronos the Time Bandit, the menace of the Bug-Eyed Bandit, and the dangerous Eco-terrorist Floronic Man. Character Evolution Silver Age Atom (Silver Age) The Atom continues to have occasional comics and is almost always seen as part of the Justice League books. After the merge of the two character's comics, their title was cancelled. Eventually by the end of the 60's both the Atom and Hawkman merged into one series. Since this appearance he has gone on to star in the Justice League of America comics and gain his own title. He debuted in Showcase #34 (October 1961). One of the biggest departures from previous character was the Atom, as Al Pratt was replaced with Ray Palmer, a dedicated scientist who could shrink to microscopic size. Another focus of this series, though not an official mandate, was to update Golden Age versions of characters and relaunch them with a more scientific emphasis. In the 1950s and 1960s DC Comics used the ongoing series Showcase to highlight many new characters who they hoped might be popular enough to headline their own series. CreationĪtom was created by Gardner Fox and Gil Kane. There is no direct connection with the golden age Atom, Al Pratt. Others have worn the mantle and costume which Ray made so famous - Adam Cray and Ryan Choi. Ray was also one of the first heroes to join the ranks of the Justice League of America as it expanded its roster from the original seven members. His early adventures occurred in Ivy Town alongside his long time girlfriend Jean Loring. He was successful and upon rescuing himself (in some cases of the origin there are people with him) he returns to civilization where he decides to embark on a superhero career, incorporating the size reduction ability into a belt which he wears. Using a piece of white dwarf star matter he fashioned it into a lens (in some versions the lens is from a set of glasses of the diamond from an engagement ring) which he deduced if focused in the correct way would allow him to shrink to a small size upon entering into the beam of the lens and escape from one of the cave's small openings and seek help. With the threat of death imminent, he improvised an escape. While he was on a wilderness expedition he became trapped in an underground cave after a collapse in the tunnel. An atomic scientist and genius Ray Palmer was working on a method of reducing objects in size using white dwarf star matter. As a golden age hero, the Atom's origin has been told and retold numerous times, however there are always some unifying events. This rate of return is the cost of equity, and a formal equity cost must be subtracted from net income. equity – under the control of the firm's management, compensating them for their opportunity cost and accounting for the level of risk resulting. The underlying idea is that investors require a rate of return from their resources – i.e.
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However, some of us, if not most of us, find it hard to handle money. Money is an integral part of our day-to-day lives. Which among these three choices is the best in this field. It is a battle between Personal Capital vs Quicken vs Moneydance – finding out Management, there are three names that have earned good reviews in this aspect. In short, the amount of attention and detail that went into the game’s stage design is nothing short of spectacular. Others feature obstacles like moving barriers that periodically turn a deadly shade of red. Some level feature portals to pop from end to end. Players now need to worry about enemies spawning in areas they can’t see quite yet. The 3D nature of the game is more than just a cosmetic upgrade. It’s a personality that is distinctly GW3. One of the game’s earlier stages, “Twisted Blister,” (pictured above) takes the classic Geometry Wars board and gives it a little squeeze the middle, like a recently unrolled sheet of paper. Not every level is 3D, but even the ones that aren’t can sometimes manage to display a sense of depth. These three dimensional playing fields make Geometry Wars 3 a vastly different experience from its predecessors, making the game feel like a mashup of 2008’s Geometry Wars 2 and Housemarque’s splendid Super Stardust HD. I guess that’s why there they got the name “Dimensions” from. Each challenge (yes, ok, they’re based around reaching a certain score) channels one of the modes from the series past, wrapping these around unique playing fields that add a third dimension to the series normally 2D gameplay. The first, most noticeable addition, is an adventure mode that gives players set challenges to complete rather than a straight high-score drive. In short, Dimensions is to Geometry Wars what Championship Edition is to Pac-Man - a brand new experience steeped in the comfort of familiarity. Geometry Wars 3 is steeped in the basics of Geometry Wars, but warps and layers those basics around a whole new experience. Much to my delight, I discovered a game that was simultaneously inventively new and yet instantly familiar. While I passed on last Fall’s console launch of Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions for this very reason, its port to mobile devices gave me an excuse to download the game and finally have a poke around. At best, I thought, this would be a game meant to rehash the old formula for a new audience. Geometry Wars 2 was released in 2008, and I couldn’t imagine anyone had been sitting on a great idea for a third one for more than half a decade. Its single screen challenge meant the field could be flooded with enemies in a matter of moments, and the sequel amped things up with additional game modes to challenge players in a variety of ways.Īs much as I loved the first two games in the series (and I did very, very much), I approached the third entry with a mix of skepticism and caution. You’re wildly, wildly wrong.įor those not in the know, here’s your quick and dirty history lesson: Geometry Wars is a twin-stick shooter series with simple graphics and wildly addictive gameplay that debuted on (and cemented the reputation of) Xbox Live Arcade in 2005. If, like me, you passed on Geometry Wars 3 when it launched on consoles last fall thinking “they couldn’t have possibly changed it enough to warrant a third go round,” you’re wrong. I’m going back to my one true love: Geometry Wars.ĭramatic? Sure, but it’s also a fairly good assessment of how I’ve spent the last five days with my smartphone. I know this is hard to hear, but you just need to listen. I’m sorry, every other game on my iPhone. But in the end, we were always meant for each other. It’s not that I don’t love the ones I’m with now, but sometimes, when an old flame comes back into your life, you just can’t help but fall in love all over again. The enemies are an especially bright point in Geometry Wars 3, as they each have distinct patterns of behavior that are easy to learn thanks to their sharply distinctive visuals.You might need to pause before tapping on your super, and that hesitation can cost you dearly. While your ship's abilities are mostly limited to moving and shooting, the varied game rules and fantastic enemy diversity keep things fun for round after round. Plus, each level features its own leaderboard, making it essentially its own game type to conquer. New modes like Boss encounters might seem like odd additions initially, but once you play them you'll see just how comfortably they fit alongside Deadline and the like. The level designs and game types vary so widely that you get a great change of pace with each new stage you unlock, and the myriad of power-ups and weapons are satisfying to use. The campaign levels are freaking fantastic. The campaign offers a series of levels with varying game types, map shapes, and game modes you won't find elsewhere, along with power-ups and weapons the other modes don't allow. In addition to the returning core game modes, Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions features, oddly enough, a campaign. |
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