![]() Yellow gold and steel do create the warm nostalgia that everybody is still craving.Ī pink gold, platinum, or titanium case that encloses the caliber 2455/2 is more unlikely. Which metal? The original one came in steel, so why not steel? A historically correct two-tone version is also plausible. We feel it’s safe to say that last year’s 222, a 37 × 7.95mm yellow gold creation that stayed very, very close to the original design of Jörg Hysek, will get a successor in the shape of another 222 made of a different metal. The rebirth of the 1977 original had many cheering. Raise your hand if the Vacheron Constantin Historiques 222 was your favorite watch of Watches and Wonders 2022. Prediction: Vacheron Constantin Historiques 222 in steel Final predictions: Vacheron Constantin Historiques 222 in steel and steel and gold It’s like in the 1975 Parliament song “Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)” that goes, “Oww, we want the funk, give up the funk / Oww, we need the funk, we gotta have the funk.” We just can’t get enough of that funky green crystal. We expect to see the return of the white dial plus a black one with a green sapphire crystal over it. ![]() The exact colors of the dial and sapphire crystal are easy to predict as well. The upcoming Milgauss - let’s give it the reference number 126400GV, shall we? - will go the way of the most recent Air-King, so we will see the same 40mm case with crown guards and the caliber 3230 inside. Now it has crown guards befitting a professional tool watch. The recently updated Air-King 126900 uses the more advanced caliber 3230. It’s cosmetically different, yes, but inside the identical 40mm steel cases beats the automatic caliber 3131. The current Milgauss reference 116400GV is basically the same as the discontinued Air-King 116900 that debuted at Baselworld 2016. We pretty much did this one with our eyes closed. Prediction: Rolex Milgauss 126400GV Watches and Wonders 2023 predictions: Rolex Milgauss 126400GV
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![]() This world is a dark medieval playground full of hellish conflict. Just be careful when going off the beaten path, as you’ll often find very powerful optional foes that will give you a real challenge. You’re constantly trying to find a way through, often running into an optional roadblock at nearly every turn. And it’s all seamlessly connected with no need for loading screens. There are numerous areas to explore, enemies to encounter, and NPCs to talk with. ![]() This new rendition is the series’s largest and most unrestricted world. What’s a big adventure without a grand open world? Sanctuary, otherwise known as the Mortal Realm, is the name of this world that acts as the setting for the Diablo series. Yes, you still have to tackle the core beats to reach the game’s conclusion, but how you get there is up to you. The story is also nonlinear, meaning you’ll face many circumstances that may lead you down various roads. The gameplay variety extends to playthroughs that all present wildly different results. Or, maybe you’re not in the mood for action and would rather bide your time and explore a peaceful wilderness to find resources to go home and craft with. You can ignore the main story and lose yourself in exploring countless dungeons and strongholds, run into random local events, or help a needy lost spirit. The open world of Sanctuary facilitates a personal journey filled with options. There are more gameplay options than ever, and the bits of small details and extra care applied to every nook and cranny of its mechanics make it one of the best entry points to the series.ĭiablo IV marks the first time in the series that you’re truly creating your own adventure. The bleak tone of the original, the more open world of the second, and the combat of the third all come together here. And naturally, it’s inevitable to feel the heroic urge to stop whatever caused all this pain in Sanctuary.ĭiablo IV is a culmination of what made past Diablo entries so iconic and memorable. ![]() With a hefty thematic focus on hatred, how it consumes once hopeful hearts, and its corruption and consequences, it’s easy to quickly get immersed when all of these elements work in tandem. A soft moonlight illuminates the hallowed grounds like a haunted spotlight. You can hear howling cries of anger and distress when passing a populated town. Dead bodies paint the white snow during travels. The world is more mature and grounded than Diablo III, adding to its renewed focus on horror and fear. Upon jumping into this newly realized Sanctuary during a hands-on session with an in-development PlayStation 5 version of the game, it’s clear that Diablo IV harkens back to the grim tone of the first two Diablo games. In an immense and gorgeous new landscape, you’ll encounter all-new elements to the Diablo formula that let you control the game’s direction even more while dealing with more darkness than ever. While the title looks to the past of both the real world and that of Sanctuary for inspiration, the upcoming sequel pushes the Diablo series in new ways. But now it’s time for the future, and Blizzard is molding Diablo IV to deliver just that. Since then, thanks to a loyal player base, they’ve kept the hack-’n-slash RPG party going with countless updates. Diablo III followed in the footsteps of series entries before it, introducing a new generation of dungeon crawlers to the hellish world of Sanctuary back in 2012. “I was driving to set on a movie, It was like five in the morning. West said she was surprised when her agent called her to tell her the news that she had been Oscar-nominated for the work. We came up with the term ‘black wax’,” she recalled. “We put it all over the clothes… Alejandro would say what is that stuff, more of that stuff. On the basis of this description, West created a compound consisting of paraffin and bootblack. Louis, after two years of trapping, the people would comment that you couldn’t tell what their clothes were made of because they were so dirty and so caked with grease.” He said that when trappers would come back to St. “I remember reading 40 Years A Fur Trader [ Forty Years a Fur Trader on The Upper Missouri by Charles Larpenteur). For The New World, I read all of John Smith’s journals,” she said. I don’t see how you could do the period, a lot of the periods I’ve done, without reading. “For the trappers, there was really nothing. Iñárritu’s The Revenant, for which she did in-depth reading to recreate the fur-trapper costumes for the 1820s-set wilderness adventure because there was very little visual material. West revealed she often takes a very academic approach, citing the example of Alejandro G. ![]() He put it on one night and just walk all over the grounds. We were filming in Luton Hoo outside of London. “When Geoffrey saw it, he started to cry. We tried everything and it ended up being a mixture of many kinds of things and also some organic materials. “Blood didn’t work, it turned black on the suit, cows’ blood we tried that. The big challenge of the film was creating De Sade’s suit which is covered in texts written in his blood, which the protagonist uses to write in the absence of ink. ![]() West would secure her first Oscar nomination in 2001 for her work on Kaufmann’s drama Quills, starring Geoffrey Rush as the Marquis De Sade during his final years in an insane asylum, where he was held in solitary confinement and deprived of quills and parchment. I have that down, maybe I should try to learn to do something else.” I thought okay, I’ve done the clothing business. ![]() About five years later, he said it again. ![]() I created a clothing line that went international. This bought a lot of filmmakers into my store, one of them being Philip Kaufmann who decided I should be in the film business,” she said. “It was kind of a centre for film people because of Tom Luddy, a friend who just passed away sadly. Waters’s boyfriend in the early days of the restaurant was the producer, cinephile and Telluride Film Festival co-founder, Tom Luddy, who died in February The premises were next door to Chez Panisse, the Berkeley restaurant founded by farm-to-table pioneer and cinephile Alice Waters and named after her favorite character in Marcel Pagnol’s trilogy, Marius, Fanny, and Cesar. “My husband-to-be said you should be in the clothing business because everyone wants to know where you got what you wear and he went out and rented me a storefront.” “When I got out of school, I taught kindergarten for a little while in a private school,” she recounted. “I never planned to work in cinema,” she said.Īs the daughter of a fashion designer, West grew up surrounded by the paraphernalia of fashion design such as a tailor’s dummy in her bedroom that she would dress for fun but had no plans to follow in her mother’s footsteps, even if she had a strong sense of style. Talking about her career in a masterclass for the Doha Film Institute, West said she fell into cinema by chance after connecting with Kaufmann through a clothes store she set up in Berkeley in the 1990s after majoring in art history, having originally planned to study sciences. 'Dune: Part Two' Won't Be Debuting At Venice, But A Festival Launch Is Still In Play ![]() ![]() ![]() The Runes of Magic Wiki is a collaborative encyclopedia for everything related to the MMORPG Runes of Magic. 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Here is a list of the equipment that was used. I simulated a product demonstration for this event. ![]() The purpose of the demo was to show customers how-to use inexpensive HD CCTV cameras and a surveillance DVR as a solution to perform a livestream event with multiple cameras. Here is the setup that I used to create the above video stream on YouTube live. I assume this will use their platform which is already integrated into OBS software. Besides the tremendous audiences on YouTube Live and Facebook Live, Amazon recently announced that they will start allowing Amazon merchants to live stream video. I want to start broadcasting real events like this in the future and I also think that product demos are very useful for many other companies to do. Simulate a live product demonstration.Test Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) and an external BlackMagic Design Ultra Mini Recorder on my Macbook.Demonstrate using inexpensive HD security cameras and a surveillance DVR to stream multiple cameras on YouTube Live.Open Applications Obs App Contents Macos Obs Args Plugin YouTube gives users the option to record and archive livestream events to their channel. The above video is the archive of a product demonstration YouTube live event that I broadcast on Dec. You can contact me here for a free consultation if you need help setting up a video livestream system. This is why I started experimenting with using video surveillance equipment to broadcast. Many broadcasters have the need to produce live stream video on YouTube and Facebook but there are not many affordable multiple camera solutions available that are documented. This video demonstrates a multiple camera YouTube live stream that I setup at CCTV Camera Pros using inexpensive HD security cameras. You can grab the files from our github and follow this tutorial: On MacOS open terminal and enter the following command (you may have to adjust the path to your file):įor your convenience we have also created launcher files that will enable you to create a desktop shortcut that will automatically launch OBS in this mode. On Windows machines open cmd and enter the following command (you may have to adjust the path to your file): Route these properly in the OBS settings to get your independent control of your sound channels. Open Applications Obs App Contents Macos Obs Args Tutorialĭoing so will allow the browser source to receive the necessary audio feed to activate the visualizations.įor my sound to feed my Blue Yeti simultaneously with desktop audio I use a combination of iShowU Audio Capture and creating a Multi-Output Device via the Audio Midi Setup tool that comes native in MacOS.Open Applications Obs App Contents Macos Obs Args Plugin.In order for SYQEL to work properly as a source on OBS you must first run the software with the flag –enable-media-stream from the command line. Make sure that your BlueJeans app is already running, and choose the window “”Ĭongratulations! You’re ready to share your meeting in your OBS stream.Open Applications Obs App Contents Macos Obs Args By batlboulvaba1980 Follow | Public.Choose the “iShowU Audio Capture” device that we created.Create a new Scene and name it “BlueJeans”.Now that we have everything set to capture our computer audio, we can configure OBS for the streaming. Now set your default sound output on your Mac to the new “Multi-Output Device” that we created.Once again in our example it’s “MacBook Pro Speakers”. Also check the “Drift Correction” on your default audio device.In this particular example we’ll be using the “MacBook Pro Speakers” as our sound output. Now configure your Multi-Output Device by checking the “Use” column with “iShowU Audio Capture” and your default audio device.This way your computer will be able to send the sound to both your speakers and the iShowU Audio Capture (which will later be used as an input device in OBS). ![]()
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![]() Whether you use ambiance or ambience, I am going to add some whipped cream to my cup and put on the movie “Chocolat.” That will improve the ambiance here. You just need to decide if you want to stick with the English spelling or throw a little French into your text. While it may seem confusing (and altogether unnecessary) to have two different spellings of the same word, rest assured you are correct no matter which one you choose. My hot chocolate got icy cold while we were discussing ambience vs. Ambiance: Let’s Improve the Ambience Here Enhance the ambiance of your room with carefully chosen artwork.Īmbience vs.The hotel room’s soothing white and blue tones, coupled with soft lighting, create a calm and relaxing ambiance, making it an excellent choice for a weekend getaway.This spelling is often used in texts referring to design or art, although either term is correct in any circumstance. ![]() Creating the right ambience is critical for a romantic evening.Īmbiance is a French word meaning the mood or atmosphere of the surroundings.The ambience of the Italian restaurant in my neighborhood is warm and inviting.There’s no need to be a grammar snob when it comes to ambiance or ambience.Īlthough some dictionaries list the standard spelling as ambiance, ambience is the most used English spelling. However, later, it became trendy to use French words in the English language, and people began using the original French spelling of ambiance. The meaning remained the same.Īmbience is technically the accurate English spelling. It was borrowed directly from the French term ambiance but was Anglicized with an e instead of an a. Synonyms air atmosphere aura feel feeling mood smell tone noun the totality of surrounding conditions and circumstances affecting growth or development Synonyms atmosphere climate environment medium milieu mise en scne surroundings world The American Heritage Roget's Thesaurus. So, why are there two spellings for the same word? With origins in the Latin word ambient, meaning going round, and the French word ambiant, meaning surrounding, the word ambience was first used in the English language at the end of the 19th century. Both words refer to the feeling or atmosphere of a place. ambiance really the same? There must be some difference, right? Other than that one pesky letter, no. What’s the Difference Between Ambience and Ambiance?Īre ambience vs. Ambiance describes, well, the atmosphere, mood and character of a place.Ambience describes the atmosphere, mood and character of a place.And, more good news, both spellings are correct. You will be happy to know these words mean the same thing. What is the difference between these often-confused words? How do you spell ambiance? What do these words mean? Why do I not know this? Am I a writer or an impostor? Let’s answer these questions before the ambiance changes. Snuggled in my cozy, knit sweater, I sip my steaming cup of hot chocolate as I sit down to my keyboard to describe the ambiance of my living room this evening and ponder on the ambience vs. The softly glowing flames of a candle fill the air with scents of cinnamon and cloves. The fireplace is dancing and crackling as large fluffy snowflakes make their way to the ground outside my window. ![]() Our product offerings include millions of PowerPoint templates, diagrams, animated 3D characters and more. is brought to you by CrystalGraphics, the award-winning developer and market-leading publisher of rich-media enhancement products for presentations. Then you can share it with your target audience as well as ’s millions of monthly visitors. We’ll convert it to an HTML5 slideshow that includes all the media types you’ve already added: audio, video, music, pictures, animations and transition effects. You might even have a presentation you’d like to share with others. And, best of all, it is completely free and easy to use. Whatever your area of interest, here you’ll be able to find and view presentations you’ll love and possibly download. ![]() It has millions of presentations already uploaded and available with 1,000s more being uploaded by its users every day.
![]() The AI now has a grasp on the tone, but it still needs a topic so it can pull the appropriate data. Unlike your phone’s predictive text, which has only the context of the words you’re currently typing and your text history (which may not be relevant to what you’re writing now), Hyperwrite is smart enough to adapt to the tone of a piece once you tell it what writing style to adopt.įrom the dropdown menu, choose the type of content you need the AI to help you write: 2. This type of AI is most effective when it has a set of guidelines. Psst… you can try it out for free right now with a HyperWrite trial. The AI program is the third iteration of Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT-3) AI writing software. Hyperwrite is leading the industry with an intuitive, highly adaptable predictive text feature called ThinkAhead that is helping creators speed write and generate topics at record rates. With the help of artificial intelligence, writers are reducing brain blocks, saving time, and cutting back on the amount of caffeine needed to power through a writing session. ![]() Yes… AI is even helping to write full novels. Content writers are partnering with AI to create high-quality articles, press releases, blog posts, and more. The game is known for providing hilariously nonsensical answers, which might lead you to believe that predictive text is unreliable for serious situations and everyday tasks.īut this level of predictive writing isn’t an accurate reflection of just how effective some AI programs can be. It starts with the first part of a sentence and relies on the predictive text feature to fill in the rest. You’ve probably played the predictive text game on your phone, right? AI in Content Marketing: How to Harness Smart Predictive Text to Write High-Quality Content The most recognizable form of predictive writing came with Android’s predictive text bar in its 2012 Jelly Bean 4.1 release, with Apple following suit two years later with QuickType for iOS 8.Īnd now, AI predictive text is helping writers revolutionize the content marketing industry. The system understood that the user wanted “the” instead of “tgd.” The letters s and z both required four presses apiece.īut phones with T9 (text on nine keys) predictive functionality were able to associate key dictionary words and allow users to press 8-4-3 only once. That three-letter word takes five taps, which was highly inefficient, especially for longer words that required many more button pushes. When texting the word the on a phone’s keypad, a user would have to press 8 once to select t, 4 twice to select h, and 3 twice to select e. In fact, the first known instance can be traced back to the 1940s with the Chinese typewriter created by Lin Yutang, which included actuating keys that suggested characters to follow the one selected.Įarly use of predictive text in mobile devices started before the first smartphone hit the market. Predictive text algorithms became popular with the rise of mobile devices, but they’re not a new concept. Predictions are made based on the context of words that have already been typed in addition to other factors, such as learning from your habits and preferences over time and, in the case of more sophisticated AI software, direct input of certain topics and stylistic desires. The feature has widely become a part of everyday use with smartphones. Predictive text is an AI program that offers word suggestions to complete your sentences, thereby saving typing time and keystrokes. One of the many ways AI is helping humans is the use of predictive text to aid writers in creating new content. From Netflix recommending your next series, to Google Maps analyzing traffic and construction detours to find your best route, to your banking app translating the handwriting on your mobile check deposit. No, robot servants haven’t become a household staple (yet).īut AI is helping everyday people in ways you might not expect. Artificial intelligence is changing the world. They do NOT appear on your grid they’re found when people click your profile pic. They can have music and gifs and animations and - crucially - links, added to them, natively in Instagram. because they’re only really intended to be viewed on phones. They’re orientated as portrait rather than landscape or square. Stories are 15 second videos (or a longer video broken into 15s chunks) or a 7 second-long still. Shots of objects from Special Collections often get engagement, like this one from the BL. It’s worth noting that not all your posts have to be about your library: images of the geographic location you’re in are often popular, as in this Liverpool Uni Library example. Remember: pictures of Words do not work! Shots of library interiors seem to do really well, as to shots of library exteriors… Archive photography is always popular. A perfect shot of a book, taken on an expensive camera, will reach fewer people than a nice picture of your library’s interior taken on your phone. ![]() In the library world, it’s photos of interesting things that do well here, rather than incredible photography per se. You might post a few times a week to the Grid, even if you post more often to Stories. It’s what people see when they click on your profile. The Grid is the bread-and-butter, the ‘main’ posts you put on your Instagram account. At small screens, rather than reducing the number of columns, the content is told to span all twelve columns, giving the impression of being a single full-width column.So, what do you post, and where should it go? At the time of writing, there are four ways to post Instagram content. Imagine a current CSS grid framework with a 12 column grid. Let’s instead leave it set to stretch and turn our grid item into a flex id Using negative line numbers can be really helpful The default for align-items is stretch - as soon as you set it to any other value, it no longer fills the space. We can use the align-items property with a value of center but now the background doesn’t fill the whole area of the item. We want to vertically center the text inside a grid item but we want the background (whether a color, a gradient or an image) to cover the items entire grid area. You can turn a grid item into a flex container. Grid is for layout of items in two dimensions – rows AND columns. CSS grid is for two dimensional layout.įlexbox is essentially for laying out items in a single dimension – in a row OR a column.Flexbox is for one dimensional layout (row or column).It’s worth reading Jake Archibald’s blog post Don’t use flexbox for overall page layout. You may have seen people using flexbox to construct grid systems but that’s not what flexbox was designed for. Grid and flexbox can act in similar ways. Grid is designed to be used with flexbox, not instead of it Your grid areas can only be rectangles (like the left), not arbitrary polygons (like the right). You’ll work this out pretty quickly for yourself. IE and Edge have old implementations different from the current spec, and are therefore not recommended for experimenting with grid at this point in time. ![]() In Chrome enter `chrome://flags` into your address bar, find ‘Enable experimental Web Platform features’ and click enable. It is currently the only browser to have such a tool. Meanwhile, Firefox has an invaluable add-on called CSS Grid Inspector, which can display the lines of your grid. Chrome Canary currently has the best implementation. Until then you will need to enable grid for it to work (except in Firefox Nightly where it is enabled by default). That makes learning the whole thing a bit less intimidating.ĬSS grid looks set to land in browsers in early 2017. I like this idea of learning little bite-sized chunks about grid layout, through isolated examples where possible. In this article he’s going to hop around to different concepts that he’s learned on that journey. ![]() Oliver has been working with CSS grid layout and has learned quite a bit along the way. The following is a guest post by Oliver Williams. |
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