However, he is less consistent than Stroud as a passer, even though Nix's completion percentage is higher," via former NFL head coach Marc Trestman of The 33rd Team.Ģ024 NFL Draft Stock: An argument could be made that no one did more to improve their draft stock last season than Nix as he's firmly in the first-round discussion heading into 2024. Nix is a slightly better athlete with similar arm talent, accuracy and spatial awareness. What They're Saying: "With this evaluation at such an early stage, I am comfortable comparing him to recent second-overall pick C.J. This literally couldn't be a better throw while facing pressure. He doesn't get rattled in the pocket and drops a dime that travels over 50 yards in the air while taking a hit to put six points on the board. The problem is the tight end and back get beat in pass protection as well as the right tackle, so Bo Nix is facing pressure from both sides as he lets the ball go. Oregon counters by covering up the tight end pre-snap, meaning he is ineligible to go out for a route and stays in the block, and by leaving the running back in the protection scheme so they can throw deep. 7 at the bottom of the screen–in man coverage against the outside slot receiver–No. Washington is running a pattern-match coverage here which is going to essentially put the outside slot corner–No. However, he's someone who I can see playing his way into that discussion if he cleans up his footwork and becomes more accurate this season. What They're Saying: "He is one of the better touch/timing passers in college football right now, at his best when dropping the ball into open zones or anticipating windows coming open in the play-action game," per The Athletic's Diante Lee.Ģ024 NFL Draft Stock: Right now, Ewers is a tier below Williams and Maye with a mid-first-round grade from me. Instead, it's nearly a 20-yard gain that puts the Longhorns in scoring position. That anticipation, plus the velocity on the pass, give the corner and safety no chance to make a play on the ball and break up the pass. Quinn Ewers sees all of that so quickly that he starts his throwing motion before the receiver has even made his break. Since the hook-to-curl defender lined up over the second slot receiver doesn't sink or carry to defend against the outside receiver running the out route, the wideout is wide open. With the second slot receiver running the deep route or corner in this instance, the deep third defender or safety has to continue to work vertically. Texas has a flood concept called from a trips bunch formation where the inside slot receiver is running a flat route to keep the corner or flat defender occupied. Kansas State is running Cover 3 Cloud with three pass rushers and eight defenders dropping in coverage for a five-under, three-deep coverage that is similar to Cover 2. Matt Holder Ewers with nice anticipation and velocity /TW1iT51Zmg Here, we'll dive into those four players' stats, shine some light on their strengths and weaknesses, and break down one clip from last season for each of them to see what they have to offer an NFL franchise. McCarthy out of Michigan are the quarterbacks with a Top 60 ranking behind Williams and Maye on Pro Football Focus' big board heading into the fall.Īll of them bring something a little different to the table and help make the 2024 QB class one of the most coveted ones in recent years. Texas' Quinn Ewers, Oregon's Bo Nix, Michael Penix Jr. Those two have earned the right to be the top quarterback prospects heading into the season, but this upcoming class has much more to offer than just them. Most of the discussion has been centered around USC's Caleb Williams and North Carolina's Drake Maye for good reason. The chatter surrounding the 2024 NFL draft quarterback class has already started as rumors swirled during last April's draft that teams were looking past some of the top 2023 signal-callers and ahead to the next crop of prospects. Quinn Ewers Adam Davis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
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Because of the finished work I did for you on the cross, and My spirit in you, you are more than enough to do what I’ve called you to do and be who I’ve called you to be.” It was as if He said to me, “Sharon, you are free from your infirmity of feeling less than. He placed His nail-scarred hand under my chin and lifted my eyes. Then one day Jesus called me out of hiding just as surely as He called the crippled woman from the women’s section in the back synagogue in Luke 13. The more I listened to them, the more emotionally bound I became. They stalked me, yelling taunts and accusations that no one heard but me. I didn’t like these three lurking shadows, but they followed me everywhere I went. I listened to words from my past telling me I was “ugly,” “not good enough,” and “worthless.” Inferiority, insecurity, and inadequacy were my three closest companions. Day by day.īent and bowed because of our color, gender, age, marital state, family history, or financial lack.Ĭrippled by shame, fear, pain, disappointment, depression, poverty, insecurity, inferiority, inadequacy, and broken dreams. The weight of the world on our shoulders. We see trash…the pain inflicted on us by others and many times by our own poor decisions.īent and bowed. We see dirt…the mistakes we’ve made through the years. We see feet…people passing by going about their busy lives. While we might not be able to relate to being bent over physically, most of us can relate to being bent over emotionally. When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, ‘Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.’ Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God” (NIV). She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. “On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. There was a woman in the Bible who slumped…not because she wouldn’t stand up straight, but because she couldn’t. I have never seen him slump once since then. From that day on, my son stood straight and tall. He saw firsthand the difference it made to stand up straight. I watched Steven’s eyes grow wide as Papa grew tall. Then he took a deep breath and extended his curved back to its fullest upright position. My 77-year-old father-in-law, who was about five-foot-ten, stood with his back against the door frame. We were measuring and marking various family members’ heights on the dining room door frame. Then one night my father-in-law took care of it for me. I tried my best not to say, “If you don’t sit up, I’m going to buy you a back brace from Sears.” He didn’t know what to do with all that height, so he slumped. Then I had a son who seemingly grew to six feet overnight. “If you don’t sit up,” she would say, “I’m going to buy you a back brace from Sears.” I don’t even know if Sears made back braces then, but it sounded like a pretty good threat to me. When my brother was a teenager, my mother used to threaten him when he hunched over at the dinner table. Woman, you are released from your infirmity (Luke 13:12 AMPC) I replaced the 7200 rpm hard drive in an old MacBook Pro with an SSD and the boot time-from a cold start to the point where I could begin using the computer-dropped from over one minute to under 10 seconds. One of the first things you’ll notice is your computer’s startup time. It’s hard to overstate the speed advantage of SSDs compared to a hard drive, although there are some areas where the difference is much more pronounced than others. Hard drives have served us well, but compared to SSD’s they are slow, inefficient and delicate. Besides speed, the amount of physical space required for an SSD is much smaller than a hard drive-in some cases, the SSD isn’t even in a “drive” form factor, but instead looks like a stick of RAM that fits in a slot on the motherboard. Flash memory is used to store data, making the process of reading and writing significantly faster. Think of an SSD like a turntable playing a vinyl record and you have the idea, only instead of rotating at 33 or 45 rpm, even a relatively slow laptop hard drive’s platter spins at 5400 rpm! Data is written in blocks that get fragmented as the drive fills up, and that means the read/write head is constantly zooming back and forth.Īs the name implies, SSD technology is “solid” in the sense that there are no moving parts. A magnetic platter spins rapidly inside a housing, while an arm-mounted read/write head moves across it to read or write data. Hard drive technology is a precisely coordinated series of moving parts. Solid state storage has several distinct advantages over the hard drives that have traditionally been used for PC storage. Passkeys are the future, according to organizations like Google and Apple, although the technology is still very new. Users can also safely provide their family members with access to their passkeys. The fact that 1Password is independent of Google’s Password Manager and Apple’s iCloud passkey support makes it a superior option for those who use both iOS and Android at the same time. Furthermore, even in the event of a data breach, login information is kept secure because one of the key pairs is kept on the user’s device. Because passkeys are immune to phishing attacks, this approach ensures enhanced security. As a result, when a user tries to log in to a service employing passkeys, 1Password will utilize the public key to compare it with the private key to confirm the user’s identity. Passkeys, a type of authentication technology created by the FIDO authentication standards, generate two cryptographic key one public and one private, that are connected to the user’s account. Moreover, the mobile version of the app is still under development and will not be accessible to users for the time being. Along with that, users have to install extensions that are available for Safari, Firefox, and Chrome-based browsers. It will initially roll out in the beta version of the app. Although you’re not getting immediate access to the feature. This step is heading us on the way to a passwordless future. 1Password is planning to roll out a passkey that will allow users to access websites and services without having to enter usernames and passwords. 1Password is a popular alternative among the lists. LastPass’s data breach is convincing users to adapt password alternatives for managing their passwords. Setting up the passwords and remembering all of them is a hefty task. The activity may help to keep the bill trimmed and from growing too large. When not feeding, birds will bite off smaller branches and leaves from trees. Feeding normally takes place in small to large groups, with one or more members of the group watching for danger from a nearby perch. We are the only store in Florida to offer this guarantee as of the year 2000.The Sulphur-crested Cockatoo's normal diet consists of berries, seeds, nuts and roots. We do take a 40% commission and charge a nominal daily fee to feed and clean, but you can rest assured that you always have a place for your bird should the need arise. We guarantee that if during your lifetime, you are no longer able to properly care for your bird, or give your bird the attention it need's, we will accept the bird back on consignment and will find another great home for your bird. We are always here to help you take the best care of your bird with the biggest variety and best quality bird products available in the world. Your new bird has been given an excellent start here at Golden Cockatoo, and it is now your responsibility to properly care for your bird. We guarantee that when the bird leaves the store that it has been properly socialized, and that it is 100% healthy. Since we have 100% control over the bird's environment at our store, but have no control over the bird once it leaves, we can only guarantee the bird for the first five days. If the results are unacceptable then we either replace your bird or refund 100% of the purchase price of your bird, at our option.īird Guarantee only lasts for the first five days If the results are not perfect but the bird can be easily treated, then we pay for all medications and all treatment. We can guide you as to the tests we suggest. To verify that guarantee, within five days you need to go to an Avian Vet and get any and all testing you prefer to do on your bird, at your expense. The guarantee is simple: We guarantee that we are selling you a perfectly healthy bird. We have the strongest bird guarantee in the country, and more importantly, we stand behind our guarantee. Pricing: Please call our store at (954) 725-0088 for all pricing and availability. They are certainly not apartment pets by any stretch of the imagination. Loudness: Cockatoos are among the loudest of all parrot species, so if you’re sensitive to noise we would suggest looking into other types of parrots. For this reason, we suggest these birds only if you have ample time to devote to them, and are not afraid of receiving an occasional nip from your bird. It has been said that these Cockatoos tend to act more like Macaws, and will continually attempt to dominate an inattentive owner. Something to keep in mind when considering a Sulfur Crested Cockatoo as a pet is their ability to bite. Sulfur-crested Cockatoos will typically develop a small vocabulary of 5 or 6 of their favorite words and phrases. They can learn to speak, but are often difficult to understand. For this reason, we recommend a large variety of toys and plenty of supervision during play time. Anything and everything is a toy to them – especially if you don’t want them to have it. They are extremely playful and acrobatic. If you are unable to devote at least 4 hours of quality time with your parrot each day, then a cockatoo is not for you. Trainability: Domestic hand-fed babies are loveable and affectionate pets, however, they are also very needy. Origin: Indonesia, and some of Southeast Asia The darker the iris, the more likely the parrot is male. After they have reached maturity (typically around 5 years of age) the females will retain a brown iris, while the iris of a male bird will turn almost black. Sexing: The sexes differ only in eye color, though all juvenile birds will appear to be female. The skin around their eyes is a soft, pale blue. This contrast of white and brilliant yellow makes the Sulphur Crested a very attractive parrot. They are entirely white from head to toe, with the exception of the bright yellow feathers of their crest and the underside of their wings and tail. Sulphur Crested Cockatoos are considered a medium to medium-large parrot, standing roughly 15 inches tall. You can read more about his case in an article I wrote for the Little Rock Free Press. I first learned about Si-Fu Frankie Parker through a neighbor of mine who was involved with a Buddhist group that Parker had become a member of while in prison. I had covered many executions over the years for KARN, but this was the only time that I interviewed an inmate in the weeks before the death sentence was carried out. In August 1996, I put together a special half-hour program on a pending execution in Arkansas. Fortunately the station has long since begun only having people on the air who are knowledgeable about classical music.Ī mug shot of Si-Fu Frankie Parker on May 22, 1996. Also, I was pretty much just randomly grabbing CDs out of our library, not having any kind of structure for what I was playing. I’m sure listeners could tell I had no idea what I was talking about. Never being much of a classical music fan and not even being sure how to say the names of the composers, I was a pretty terrible classical music host. I was eventually hired at the station and spent a year or so running NPR jazz programs in the evening on KUAR, while also hosting a classical program on sister station KLRE-FM 90.5. Today it’s a thriving entertainment district known as the River Market. AUDIO: Newsroom from July 20, 1995, discussing a proposal to develop Little Rock’s riverfront area, which was then mostly abandoned warehouses. AUDIO: KUAR’S interview program Newsroom from June 15, 1995, talking with leaders of an Arkansas Vietnam veterans group about issues like finding missing soldiers and treating vets suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. I sound pretty goofy in these early shows and clearly hadn’t gotten very comfortable hosting an interview program. Before this I had only done short reports in the 40 second range. Having that kind of time to delve deep into subjects that interested me was amazing. It was my first taste of doing any kind of long-form interview program and I really enjoyed it. I would find topics for program and line up guests, with most interviews being conducted at KUAR. Each week during the summer semester in 1995 I would record a half-hour interview called Newsroom. They were excited to meet someone from Little Rock who was involved in one of the national shows they were airing and we had a good conversation.Ī couple of years later I got my first opportunity to be on KUAR through an independent study class. It was while I was an intern with C-SPAN helping to produce a weekly public radio program that I had first heard a couple of years before then on KUAR. I first met Station Manager (though he might have been program director at the time) Ben Fry and other station leaders in May 1993 at an annual public radio conference in Washington, DC. Sometimes, what the audience DOESN'T see can have more of an impact. Make sure your content is good, and then look for ways to best illustrate the story. What was it about those movies that pulled you in? I doubt it was the effects. Think about the types of movies - long or short - that made you want to watch them again and again. Listen to guns1inger: STORY FIRST! The content is more important than effects. Trying to master any single one of this is a full-time exercise, so don't bite off more than you can chew. But they need to be used to learn techniques that are then applied in an original manner, not to simply replicate as your own work.īut if you want to do this, you have to be realistic. Some, like Andrew Kramer's Video Co-Pilot, are essential. I have no problems with online tutorials as a resource. If you are serious, pick one package and learn it. The other thing that clip tells me is that he spends a lot of time downloading pirate versions of software so he can play along with the tutorials.Īlthough there is the occasion clip of interest on youtube, the vast majority are cheap, cheesy, and/or cliched because they are just like that one - slavish copies of someone else's tutorial. I suspect if you gave him anything original to do he would fail, and fail badly.Įverything he did there could be done in After Effects, without any extra plugins. Why ? because every effect in that shot is based on simple tutorials found on the net, followed slavishly, and shows no originality of thought, process or design. That is a demo reel of someone trying to get a start in the industry, and honestly, it is not impressive. All of them are aimed at different areas of the process, and may be used in combination, but none does it all (Houdini comes close with it's built in compositor and incredible particle engine).Įach will take weeks or months of dedicated effort to simply become proficient in the basics.Ī better start to your quest would be to say what it is you need to achieve, and seek advice on the best way to go about it. None of them have a "Make Special Effects" button. It's competition includes IXS and Houdini, and to a lesser degree 3D Studio Max.Īll of these are complicated. Competition includes Autodesk Combustion, Eyeon's Digital Fusion, Apple's Shake or Digital Domain's Nuke, amongst others. It is mostly 2D, although it has a powerful pseudo 3D tool set that can do great things in the hands of someone who knows it well. It is no better or worse than Vegas, FCP or Media Studio Pro.Īfter Effects is a motion graphics and compositing tool that is very powerful. Adobe Premiere is an editor that supports plugins, but is not a special effects tool. A great online manual, and a fantastic, growing community.Krita belongs to all of us - to use, to script, or to mod! There is no limit to what Krita can do if we put our minds to it, whether you can hack it by yourself for personal use or work within the community to make Krita better for everyone. Fully open source (C++) and scriptable (Python).Supports a wide range of 3rd party file formats: ORA (MyPaint), xcf (GIMP), JPEG, PNG, TGA, TIFF, BMP, PPM, PGM, PBM, XBM, SVG, WMF and also some support for PSD. 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Part of our mission is to create a potent tool for artists everywhere, free from most of the socioeconomic boundaries typically associated with professional art software. Our transparent and collaborative process is empowered thanks to the support of our users, and by buying through Steam you will be directly supporting Krita's development.īuying through Steam also delivers the convenience of easy installation on all your supported devices and automatic updates each time a new version is released.įinally, because Krita is a community-driven project you can also download it for free from the Krita Foundation website. In other words, the Krita community is the lifeblood of this project none of this would have been possible without the generous contributions of our users, and together, the sky is the limit. There are no activation codes or mandatory monthly subscription fees, because as members of the digital art community, Krita belongs to all of us-to use, to modify, to design, and to share. There are powerful brush engines for sketching and painting, stabilizers for smooth freehand inking, assistants for constructing a complex scene, a distraction-free canvas-only mode for painting without clutter, multiple types of layers and masks for non-destructive editing and, frankly, too many other features to list! You can also exchange files with other applications in a variety of different formats.Īnother thing that makes Krita truly stand out is that it's being developed in coordination with an international community of open source enthusiasts with the unified goal of making a great digital painting application that's available as widely as possible. Krita offers many features, including industry standards and innovative designs, which make painting more fun and productive. Krita is used daily by artists all over the world from professionals, to students, to passionate hobbyists. Over deze software Krita is an open source drawing, painting and animation application designed for illustrators, concept artists, comic book creators, animators, game artists, matte painters and more. Now we are ready to run this example and check it. This class provides a solution to insert the captured image of the user signature and insert it in a PDF document. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Prize: One subscription to the PDF edition of the PHP Architect magazine: Nowadays, many devices provide a touch interface that allow to capture the user gestures, like for instance the user writing of is own hand signature. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. 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I am going to explain step by step from scratch so, we need to get fresh Laravel 8 application using bellow command, So open your terminal OR command prompt and run bellow command:Ĭomposer create-project -prefer-dist laravel/laravel blogįirst of all we will install barryvdh/laravel-dompdf composer package by following composer command in your laravel 8 application.Īfter successfully install package, open config/app.php file and add service provider and alias. He treated me like Emmett Till, no due process, immediately assumed my guilt,’ Fairfax said.” But it recalls a history in Virginia and in our nation where African Americans, particularly African American men, are presumed to be guilty, are treated inhumanely, are given no due process… treated me like George Floyd. “‘The murder of George Floyd was horrific. “Singling out McAuliffe’s calls for him to resign after he was accused of sexual assault in 2019, Fairfax said the former governor’s response was reminiscent of the way accused Black men like George Floyd and Emmitt Till have historically been treated.” “While the hour-long exchange was mostly cordial, Fairfax used a question about the future of policing in the state and turned it into a broadside against McAuliffe.” Asa Hutchinson, who called it “too extreme” - enacted a treatment ban for transgender youth.Īnd as we wrote yesterday, GOP-controlled legislatures in Georgia, Texas, Iowa and even Michigan have passed or drafted bills curtailing the authority of local election officials and elected secretaries of state.Īdd it all up, and it’s activist state governments telling businesses what they can and can’t do a conservative justice saying social-media companies can’t ban someone who violates their user agreements the GOP Senate leader telling corporations to stay silent on politics (but keep writing their campaign checks) and GOP legislatures punishing local elections officials and secretaries of state. Arkansas’ GOP-dominated legislature - overriding the veto from Republican Gov.Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has always championed political contributions as free speech, told corporate America to “stay out of politics.”.Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recently took issue with social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook banning Trump after he spread falsehoods and misinformation about the 2020 election. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas have signed executive orders preventing private businesses from requiring Covid vaccination passports from customers. |
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