The other Octonauts laugh at him and Barnacles tells Shellington to try not to fall asleep on the Octo-Alert button. Shellington asks what they're doing and he realizes he fell asleep while watching the nighttime creatures. Barnacles, Kwazii, and Peso all yell "Shellington!" and he wakes up. The three Octonauts uncover some reeds only to see that it was Shellington sleeping this whole time. ![]() Upon reaching the river, they decide to head out on foot. Thinking Shellington is in danger, Barnacles, Kwazii, and Peso head to the river to rescue him. They try to contact Shellington through the radio but they hear a strange growling noise over the radio. In the HQ, the Octonauts are confused on who sounded the Octo-Alert when Dashi says its Shellington and the alert is coming from the river. Afterwards, Barnacles tells Dashi to power down for the night and the other Octonauts say goodnight to each other.Īs morning begins to arrive, the Octo-Alert suddenly goes off, alerting Barnacles, who tells the Octonauts to go to HQ. On the radio, Barnacles says its very exciting and tells Shellington to say safe. Late at night, Shellington exits the Octopod in the Gup-E, excited to head up the river for his mission to observe the African river creatures at night. Peso tells them they can't leave them like that, so before leaving, the Octonauts use the Gup-A's rudder to spray mud at the hippos to cool them off, and the hippos return the favor and cool Kwazii and the Octonauts off with mud as well! ![]() Kwazii makes the hippos chase him and as they were leaving, but they find out the hippos feel very hot and uncomfortable after their skin dries out from the hot sun. ![]() After waking them up from a sleep after a long night of grazing on grass in the jungle, the hippos damage parts of the Gups and chase them out of their home. Returning home from an African river, Kwazii, Peso, Barnacles, and Shellington have trouble returning home to the ocean after they greet a group of large, territorial, and aggressive hippos. 2.5 Attempting to escape from the Hippos: Part 2.2.4 Attempting to escape from the Hippos: Part 1.
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![]() It has an auto-furnish function, which is one of its key features. It is meant to be used by real estate agents and interior designers to create 2D and 3D floor plans that could help with presentations for potential clients, whether for purchase or remodel.įloorplanner is remarkably easy to use and offers numerous design options for walls, furniture, and other objects that fill up interiors. This application is cloud-based, meaning you can use it on any web browser simply by creating a free account, although they also offer an app for your iPad or iPhone. It is also the top pick for free floorplan software, as it is one of the only applications that allow indefinite use free of charge. Meant for professional use, this program offers a multitude of additional features and functions to produce higher tier renders.Īll versions of SketchUp are very convenient in that they allow viewing on iOS and Android devices, for easy access on the SketchUp Viewer app. SketchUp Pro costs USD299 per year, and offers the options to use both the desktop application and the web application.SketchUp Shop costs USD119 per year, being promoted as the full-feature web application, most notably with the option for custom styles and materials.It offers 10GB of online storage, and allows the import of SKP, JPG, PNG file types as well as the export of SKP, PNG, and STL file types. SketchUp Free is their most basic plan, being a 100% free web application that allows access to their model warehouse.What is notably good about SketchUp are its camera controls, giving you enough freedom to virtually walk around your model. This includes models for structures, furniture, fixtures, etc. It offers users access to its website, where 3D models for many elements are available for download. It offers 10 GB of Trimble Connect storage on the cloud, for easy sharing and collaboration. SketchUp Free is a web application, used on any browser. Its simple interface is designed to give lots of freedom. It is meant for the use of both architects and designers, as well as engineers and builders. SketchUp is a 3D design tool with drafting and modeling functions. Luckily, there are a few great floor plan software that are available for use, free or of low cost for many essential functions. However, many floor plan software cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars to use. In the past, floor plans were very labour-intensive, but in recent years, floor plan softwares have emerged, making it easier to create floor plans and reducing the drafting cost. They also serve as guides to review space allowances prior to making permanent changes to the level. The process of drawing a floor plan is called drafting. ![]() It shows scaled dimensions, proportions, and relative placements of rooms, furniture, and fixtures from a top-down perspective.įloor plans are generally used by architects and engineers to give a proper sense of traffic flow by showing details like which way doors open. A floor plan is a detailed and drawn layout of one level of a structure. ![]() You can also pause and resume scans at will. This way, it’s easier to decide whether or not a specific item is worth restoring. ![]() One of the awesome things is that you can preview the vast majority of the files pinpointed during the hardware traversal before recovering them. The scan report uses a tree view principle so that you can quickly jump between different parent and subordinate directories. 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That’s what Gestalt principles and the law of similarity are all about.Īccording to the law of similarity, if given a choice, the brain will focus on the easiest and more reliable form. It is necessary to create visually encoded messages appropriately this is a purely scientific approach that incorporates usability and psychology. What is the main thing that graphic designers, are worried about? The style? The attraction? Rather designers focus on how viewers receive and interpret information. In short, we differentiate between totalities based on the shapes, colors, outlines, brightness, and sizes of objects. We try to classify them into logically and aesthetically comparable groupings and categories. Law of similarityĪccording to the law of similarity, our human mind is designed to interpret similar-looking elements as a single entity. With the knowledge provided below, we hope you will be able to produce intriguing and memorable designs by using the Gestalt principle. In this post, we’ll introduce you to the law of similarity to help you understand why these Gestalt Principles are so crucial for graphic designers. This post will look at the law of similarity and some other Gestalt principles and how to apply them to design. Understanding how viewers interpret visual information allows designers to emphasize visual relationships and communicate more effectively. Applying Gestalt principles in the design process is a key tool for graphic designers. ![]() Consider music: our brains are wired to organize what we hear into melodies rather than individual sounds. The term “Gestalt” literally translates to “unified whole” in German, which is relevant given that the theory discusses how the mind converts visible randomness into predictable forms. It has now gained popularity in fields ranging from therapy to various design fields. ![]() German psychologists Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler, and Kurt Koffka developed the theory underlying them in the 1910s and 1920s. Gestalt principles provide a psychological framework for understanding how the human mind perceives and organizes visual information. ![]() Rumors persist, however, about the riches left behind in the caverns below the citadel. The Orcs and Goblins seem to have lost interest in the place. It is said that mighty warrior holding a black spear given to him by his god led the attack and sacked the fortress. After many attempts to lay siege to the citadel the Dwarven defenders finally were overwhelmed. This is the first adventure of the Tokenheimer Trilogy, all of which are available to download at Dragonsfoot ( LT1, LT2, LT3).įor more than a thousand years the Dark Citadel guarded the mountain pass between Orcs and Men. Can your adventurers keep their sanity long enough to escape this deadly adventure? An adventure for Characters Levels 10-12. Its ghostly inscription leads them to an experience like no other. This is the second adventure of the Tokenheimer Trilogy, all of which are available to download at Dragonsfoot ( LT1, LT2, LT3).Ī strange artefact is discovered by your party. Can your adventurers survive long enough to escape from the boughs of the Earth? An adventure for Characters Levels 10-12. This is the third adventure of the Tokenheimer Trilogy, all of which are available to download at Dragonsfoot ( LT1, LT2, LT3).Īfter being banished deep underground your party has only one option get out of the Underdark alive. ![]() Can the party maintain their sanity long enough to overcome this twisted place? An adventure for Characters Levels 8-10. Your player characters have escaped the Underdark only to find themselves in a twisted labyrinth that only a demented mind could conceive. You may require Adobe Acrobat Reader to read this file. An AD&D adventure for Characters Levels 2-3. Included is also helpful hints for new DMs in how to run and adjudicate the module. Plenty of information to flesh out the world in which Chalden lies, or to place it within the World of Greyhawk. First written back in 1986, this Dragonsfoot publication is a ready-to-play module with an introduction to a new world for First Edition Dungeons & Dragons. The people are gruff and suspicious of outsiders, and to folk from other lands they seem introverted and superstitious. HM1: The Disappearance of Harold the Hedge MageĬrossroads of Chalden takes place near the barbarian lands of snow and ice. Just click on the link on the rightĬheck out the Simulacrum Games section for compatible retro-clone material. More new character sheets available in the Character You can find it at (Please note that there are ![]() It's packed full of mini-adventures, monsters, magic and much more. Why not check out Footprints, Dragonsfoot's very own e-zine. So help keep DragonsfootĪlive by sending in your feedback, links, adventures, Section is kept alive by folks just like you, Lines, and overall make your game better. Provide help, assistance, guidance, enhance story Welcome to the First Edition Advanced Dungeonsĭevoted to players, and referees. Section Editor: Steve Forum support for this section available. The home of the Original Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game at Dragonsfoot! ![]() With Starfall’s Kindergarten curriculum, she’ll be ready to jump into Grade 1 next year. That makes it hard to sit down with Jade every day to do an educational activity. Joey has been a pretty good baby, but he’s also had fussy moments or just needs my attention with diaper changes and feeds. Sometimes I feel guilty that I’m not coming up with alphabet activities for Jade like I did for Sunshine and Lily. In the sums of 10 game, I encouraged her to slow down and think about the answers, because she knew them, instead of just guessing until she got it right.Īt home, Starfall helps Jade keep learning even when I’m busy with her baby brother or big sisters. I also give her hints for the games that are a bit too hard for her, so she’s learning from them. If Joey is napping too, I can suggest games for Jade, based on what I know she needs to practice (instead of what’s easiest for her). Starfall does require an Internet connection, so I create a hotspot for the tablet using my phone. This is a good chance for Jade to do Kindergarten with the tablet. On Tuesday afternoons, Sunshine and Lily have music lessons, which Pearl usually sleeps through. Having an educational app for preschoolers has let me take our learning on the go. She can explore a ton of different activities within the app with just the tap or swipe of a finger. ![]() I love the fact that Starfall offers a variety of play based preschool learning activities for her. She also likes the catchy math and phonics songs.Įven Pearl (age two) has been singing her alphabet along with the app. I was happy to see several of her favourite Starfall games involved this skill, along with matching the right letter to the right word. I’ve been working on letter recognition with Jade for the past year. Right now, it’s just matching for her later, it will be a useful math skill. And as the app repeats, “Five plus five is ten,” she’s learning that. Jade (doing Kindergarten this year) hasn’t done much adding yet, but just by guessing, she completed most of the game. This is something my older girls learned in Grade 1. I’ve been impressed by what she’s tried, and what games she’s managed to play just by guessing.įor example, I watched her play a matching game for sums of 10. Jade can pick and choose her games, based on how she’s feeling that day. The learning games range in level from letter identification to multiplication (preschool to Grade 2). With Starfall, I don’t have these problems. Other times, I’ve printed tracing sheets or activity pages, only to find her bored by them and leaving them also unfinished in her drawer. We have a big pile of half-finished books in her drawer. Many of the workbooks I’ve tried get too hard too quickly, frustrating her. However, it isn’t easy to find resources at the right level for her. ![]() She wants to do school like her big sisters. I’m always watching for educational activities to keep Jade, who turns five next month, busy. Early in the novel, Louisa May Alcott revers to Jo as an “Atalanta.” I thought, “Yay! I know what she means-thanks to the story in Starfall that Pearl has listened to many times!”ĭo your children love reading stories with you? Enter to win a plush Backpack Bear (star of many stories in the Starfall app!) with two fun books! Just click the prize image below and scroll down for the Rafflecopter form: Funny anecdote: I reread Little Women this year. These days, it’s four-year-old Pearl and two-year-old Joey listening to the stories and playing the games. Updated 2020: Starfall is still our favourite educational app for preschoolers. They’ve been more than happy to help me review this educational app for preschoolers! I love seeing their heads bent together as they listen to the alphabet song or match shapes together. Multiple times a day, either my four-year-old or my two-year-old asks to play on our tablet with The Starfall Home Membership from Starfall Education Foundation. 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We are unable to accept returns after 30 days from purchase date. We are happy to accept returns and exchanges on all non-clearance items (all clearance items prominently state that they are clearance on their product page), unembellished, and in their original condition within 30 days of the purchase date. ![]() I suppose the simplest way to go is with one of Herb’s Specials (Herb Hudson is the founder). This is, at once, a restaurant where the choice is easy - and also very complicated. Broadway, Long Beach 56, At Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles - which has been an institution since 1975 - the chow rules. I guess we must be under a lot of stress hereabouts, which has led us to everything from apple pie to biscuits and gravy, from chicken and dumplings to mac and cheese, from pot roast to tuna casserole.ħ30 E. We’re also told that the phrase is actually quite new, traced back to 1966, “when the Palm Beach Post used it in a story: ‘Adults, when under severe emotional stress, turn to what could be called comfort food - food associated with the security of childhood, like mother’s poached egg or famous chicken soup.”Īs I mentioned, Wikipedia lists many other comfort foods, for many nations - and possibly more for the United States than anywhere else. The nostalgia may be specific to an individual, or it may apply to a specific culture.”Īnd yes, I do find the specificity of “high caloric nature” and “high carbohydrate level” unexpected - and unexpectedly true. We’re told, definitively, that, “Comfort food is the kind of food that provides a nostalgic or sentimental value to someone, and may be characterized by its high caloric nature, high carbohydrate level, or simple preparation. Comfort food is such a well-established notion that Wikipedia actually has a sizable page dedicated to the concept, with cross-references to comfort food dishes around the world. Let us cut to comfort food, a notion that even scans well to the ear, with nothing but soft sounds, no harsh fricatives, just happy Fs and Ms and Os. Though after 2020, the competition for betterness isn’t especially tough.īefore I start looking for metaphors and similes to define what we’ve gone through - and continue to go through - let me cut to the chase, and get down to what’s needed most to return to a semblance of normalcy, of ease, of not waking up at 4 in the morning in a cold sweat, of not taking my temperature a dozen times a day because I’m feeling just a tad warm - and not crediting it to wearing a sweater when it’s 80 degrees outside. A new year - and hopefully a much better year. Tuesday through Sunday and expanding to seven days on January 30.Is 2020 done? Really? You sure? … Let’s recheck our calendars, where we find that, yes, the number at the top actually is 2021. They’re open in the former Kismet space from 11 a.m. For The Win at Grand Central Marketįor The Win - the pandemic burger upstart with origins at a Hollywood strip mall - is officially Grand Central Market’s newest tenant. Oyster farmers face challenges during this harvest season and as a result, some restaurants are removing California oysters from their menus. The Los Angeles Times reports that California is in the midst of an oyster shortage, and rain is to blame. The future expansion of New Orleans Square will include a restaurant called Tiana’s Palace. Starting today, Disneyworld closed Splash Mountain to start the next phase of Tiana’s Bayou Adventure. Googie structures are throughout Southern California including Simply Wholesome, Norms, and Mel’s Drive-In. Print Magazine highlighted one of LA’s most distinctive architectural styles in its current issue. Roscoe’s Pico was also featured as a location in Issa Rae’s HBO show Insecure.Ī post shared by Konbi®️ Googie architecture and LA restaurants ![]() The moment resulted in a three-wing Obama’s special, which remains on the menu. The Pico location was a regular stop for celebrities, tourists, and politicians, including an unscheduled visit by President Barack Obama in 2011. The iconic chain first opened in Long Beach in 1975 and has a total of seven SoCal locations. After numerous delays - the newer location was supposed to open in 2019 - the Mid-City Roscoe’s debuted a few blocks away in October 2021. In 2021, owner Herb Hudson told Eater LA that the planned move was to shift Pico operations into a bigger, more comfortable space. The Pico location closure was in the works for years. The LA-based chain dropped the news on Instagram over the weekend, officially ending its run on Pico slightly west of La Brea to focus on the newer Mid-City flagship on La Brea and Washington. Roscoe’s Chicken ‘n Waffles announced that its central LA location on Pico Boulevard is now closed. ![]() What is its domain? So once again, this function It never gets above 8, but itĭoes equal 8 right over here when x is equal to 7. Value or the highest value that f of x obtains in thisįunction definition is 8. Or the lowest possible value of f of x that we get What is its range? So now, we're notįunction is defined. Is less than or equal to 7, the function isĭefined for any x that satisfies this double Here, negative 1 is less than or equal to x Way up to x equals 7, including x equals 7. So it's defined for negativeġ is less than or equal to x. This function is not definedįor x is negative 9, negative 8, all the way down or all the way What is its domain? Well, exact similar argument. Is less than or equal to x, which is less thanĬondition right over here, the function is defined. So the domain of thisĭefined for any x that is greater than orĮqual to negative 6. ![]() Wherever you are, to find out what the value of ![]() It only starts getting definedĪt x equals negative 6. It's not defined for xĮquals negative 9 or x equals negative 8 and 1/2 or Is equal to negative 9? Well, we go up here. We say, well, what does f of x equal when x Is the entire function definition for f of x. Right over here, we could assume that this What is its domain? So the way it's graphed One more point (0,6) would give 6>3 which is a true statement, and shading should include this point. If point is (1,5) you can do the same thing, 5 > 5, but this would be right on the line, so the line would have to be dashed because this statement is not true either. If you try points such as (0,0) and substitute in for x and y, you get 0 > 3 which is a false statement, and if you did it right, shading would not go through this point. So lets say you have an equation y > 2x + 3 and you have graphed it and shaded. The has to do with the shading of the graph, if it is >, shading is above the line, and ). Without the "equal" part of the inequality, the line or curve does not count, so we draw it as a dashed line rather than a solid line The "equal" part of the inequalities matches the line or curve of the function, so it would be solid just as if the inequality were not there. ![]() With the Text to Sound Up app, you can open various text files, including Word documents or any other file containing text. You can increase the speed for a faster reading or decrease it for a slower and more deliberate pace. Additionally, the app allows you to adjust the rate at which the robot voice reads the text. Each voice has its own unique characteristics, which can add depth and variety to your audio content. The app offers multiple voice options, allowing you to experiment and find the perfect match for your project. Selecting Different Voices and Adjusting Rate For example, you can select voices like "Microsoft David Desktop" for an English male voice, "Ravina" for an Indian English female voice, or "Julie" for a robot voice. One of the key features of the app is the ability to choose from a range of different voices. Upon opening the app, you will Notice various features and options, making it easy to customize the voice according to your preferences. The Text to Sound Up app is a user-friendly tool that simplifies the process of transforming text into sound. By using a simple application called "Text to Sound Up," You can easily achieve this transformation. In this article, we will explore how to convert text into voice by using a robot voice. In this modern age of technology, there are various ways to transform text into voice for different purposes like creating videos or TikToks. Selecting Different Voices and Adjusting RateĬhanging Text to Voice Using a Robot Voice.Changing Text to Voice Using a Robot Voice.Similarly, if they disable TTS notifications, they won't hear your sentences read in TTS at all.Amazing Text-to-Speech Robot: Transform Text into Voice! If a user has TTS notifications enabled like in method one, they will hear your sentences written in TTS, regardless of what TTS settings you've selected. Important Note: The TTS option in the Accessibility tab is completely separate from the TTS options in the Notifications tab. If you have this option de-selected, and type in a /tts sentence the Text-to-Speech bot will not read it aloud. What this does is enable or disable the /tts command. Use the Text to speech rate setting to adjust the speed at which the text is being read back to you. User Settings button > App Settings > Accessibility ![]() The second TTS toggle setting can be found here: This Screen is particularly useful if you want to hear what your friends are typing. (Unless you engage it yourself, of course.) ![]()
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