![]() I also like when reading magazines on the Kindle, is that it is optimized for the Kindle. I like the dashboard that breaks down my subscriptions, tells me how many issues are remaining and gives the ability to cancel or add another payment method. ![]() The main reason is cost, its actually more affordable to buy the print or digital edition on Amazon, but there is also the ability to do so much more. I subscribe to a few magazines on Amazon, such as the Economist and the New York Times Kindle Edition. Publishers who have been invited will be provided an estimate for their annual income and a contract. Readers with a Kindle Unlimited subscription can subscribe to magazines in the program. Unlike books in Kindle Unimitated, magazines will not be required to be exclusive to Amazon and instead of being paid by pages read, you are paid based on calculations around “qualified borrows” or basically, active subscribers. If you are already familiar with Kindle Unlimited from the author side, this version is a little different. It turns out that some (not all) publishers are being offered an opportunity to offer subscriptions in Kindle Unlimited Magazines. Advertising tends to be a leading source of revenue for glossy magazines, so it’s easy to see where they could get that impression. Some people think advertising is a major source, but it actually represents a tiny fraction. ![]() If you don’t already know, genre magazines are subscription-driven, meaning that subscriptions make up the bulk of their income. Earnings from Amazon subscriptions provide a varying and sometimes significant portion of the revenue that publications require to stay in business. The imminent shutdown of magazines will be a blow to their earnings. We are winding down this program in a phased manner and will work with you throughout the wind down process to help ensure the best experience possible for our mutual customers.” Following an assessment of our magazine and newspaper subscription offerings via Newsstand, we have made the difficult decision to discontinue the individual subscription programs for both print and Kindle, which also includes Kindle single issues. ![]() “As part of our annual operating planning review process, we always look at each of our businesses and what we believe we should change. In an email to publishers, Amazon stated. What sucks about this move, is you will no longer be able to buy print editions of magazines anymore through Amazon and everything is going to be digital. Print and digital editions for magazines and newspapers is going to be shuttered and everything is going to be gravitated to Prime Reading and Kindle Unlimited. Amazon Publishing for Periodicals is going to be closing in September 2023. ![]()
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![]() Even Egypt, the biggest country, always has a very strong identity, they have changed the flag. “Now, if you look at Iraq and Syria, Lebanon is an exception, Jordan is an exception, the UAE has not changed. “Also, it is very important to know, I think, that there were, in the past at least, frequent changes in the flags. ![]() It is very much relevant to the history and the identity. It goes back to the Prophet Mohammed, the green and the red goes to the Ottomans. When we talk about the traditional Arab colours, it's not only pan-Arab, but it's also Islamic colours. “That's very much relevant also to the UAE because the flag consists of the traditional Arab colours. “It indicates a certain symbolism, that there is a connection, a similarity, there is a commonality between the people in the area now. “There is a certain commonality between many of the Arab states,” Prof Podeh told The National. It is thought the colours were first combined in 1916 in the flag of the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire, which was designed by British diplomat Sir Mark Sykes. One oft-cited reason is that these four pan-Arab colours each represent a different period of Arab history, with the black used by the Rashidun and Abbasid caliphates, the white of the Umayyads, the green of the Fatimids and the Rashidun successors of the Prophet Mohammed - and Islam generally - and the red of the Hashemite dynasty.Īnother theory comes from a 14th-century verse by Iraqi poet Safi al-Din al-Hilli, which reads: “White are our acts, black our battles, green our fields, and red our swords.” ![]() Why are the pan-Arab colours so widely used? Here is a look at how some of the flags of the region were chosen. Flags often show regional similarity, such as the crosses of Scandinavia and the multicoloured flags of Africa, said Prof Elie Podeh, lecturer in the department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.īut why do the same four colours appear so regularly in the flags of the Arab world? ![]() ![]() You can easily edit the photos and videos inside the collage. Speaking of templates, get ready because there are over 20.000 available to choose from. When it comes to collage making, you have the option of adding up to 9 videos or 16 photos inside the template. This app is quite rich in features and offers you a multitude of options to edit your photos and videos, as well as create fresh visual content. PhotoGrid is more than an iOS collage maker. Price: Free (Subscription: $47.99/year).Once you’re done you can export your resulting video on Facebook or YouTube or send via email email or WhatsApp. You can also add transitions, customizable text boxes and text or logo watermarks if you want to brand or protect the video you upload online. When it comes to audio, PicPlayPost lets you add your own music, mix the soundtracks as you wish, as well as insert multiple voice-over comments to the video. You can create clips with a maximum length of 30 minutes, select the preferred template and aspect ratio, as well as adjust the frame’s color, size and thickness. The app allows you to insert up to 12 photos and videos into the collage from your iPhone, as well as import videos from YouTube. PicPlayPost is a collage maker app that offers support for standard photos, live photos, GIF’s and videos. 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VideoCollage comes with an intuitive interface and places at your disposal more than a hundred layouts for the design, with up to nine cells. ![]() ![]() ![]() The app is available for both iPhone and Mac and enables you to create collages from photos, videos and music. VideoCollage is our first proposal for creating an artistic collage. In this article we’ve compiled a list of some of the best collage makers you can creatively put to use if you’re an Apple user: VideoCollage Putting together a collage is super easy to do today, thanks to the multitude of apps that are specially built to server this purpose. If you want to display in style your memories from your latest trip, create awesome content for your social media followers or perhaps offer your loved ones a special anniversary gift, a collage is perfect for the job. 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We are a Full Gospel Church that holds to Christs teaching to love the Lord your God with all of your Heart, Mind, Soul, and Strength, and to love your. Allow me to describe our Church – hoping and praying that you will soon join us in celebrating our Lord Jesus Christ, rejoicing together for all He has done for us! Respond to what God is doing in your life through sharing with and serving others. ![]() ![]() ![]() If there will be a significant delay in shipment of your order, we will contact you via email or telephoneĪll orders are subject to product availability. Please allow additional days in transit for delivery. If we are experiencing a high volume of orders, shipments may be delayed by a few days. Orders are not shipped or delivered on weekends or holidays. Following are the terms and conditions that constitute our Shipping Policy.ĭomestic Shipping Policy Shipment: All orders are processed within 2-3 business days. 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Whatever your youngsters love, you’ll find it in store at B&M. ![]() ![]() ![]() And third, “mapping” of the temporal lobe of the brain indicates that different regions represent different parts of the cochlea and respond more to one frequency than to another. Second, electrical and mechanical measurements made within the normal functioning ear show that different portions of the membrane are actually sensitive to tones of different frequency. First, it has been demonstrated that different portions of the basilar membrane are damaged by prolonged exposure to loud tones of different frequency. In this theory, loudness is explained by the amount of the basilar membrane activated by a given sound-that is, a loud sound would activate a wider range of fibers than a soft sound.The place theory is supported by three types of evidence. The nerve fibers connected to different parts of the membrane then transmit stimuli of different frequency to the brain. He noted that the basilar membrane is wide at one end and narrow at the other, and suggested that fibers in the narrow end respond to high tones and those in the wide end to low tones, just as the strings of a piano or harp vibrate in resonance to differently pitched tones. This theory was originated by Helmholtz in the middle of the nineteenth century. ![]() ![]() However, the place theory holds that the basilar membrane actually sorts out the different tones, high and low, while the frequency theory holds that it merely transmits the different impulses to the auditory nerve and the sorting out process is done in the brain itself.Place or Piano Theory. The two outstanding explanations, the place theory and the frequency theory, both accept the fact that the basilar membrane, within the snail-like cochlea of the inner ear, responds to changes transmitted from the outer ear to the oval window-and both recognize that the organ of Corti, situated on this membrane, contains sensitive cells which are activated by deflections of the basilar membrane, and which connect with the auditory nerve that transmits the impulses to the brain. Theories of hearing must explain both the wide range of pitch-from 20 to 20,000 cycles per second-and the full range of intensity or loudness audible to the human being, from about 15 to 160 decibels. ![]() ![]() “Like, they don't want to, they don't want to do their catchphrases anymore, or their iconic dances or whatever it is, they just don't want anything to do with it. “I've read that about a lot of these sidekicks who either resent their characters or just want nothing to do with it,” she said. To be so identified with one character can overshadow an actor, but Barber said she’s never had any bitterness toward Kimmy. ![]() “It was great being the sidekick because I could just roll in, say a few jokes and roll out and I had none of the pressure or stress of leading the show or carrying the show,” Barber said. TODAY spoke with five actors who memorably played sidekicks to get their take on how to effectively tackle this kind of supporting role, what their characters mean to them and how these parts are so much bigger than you may have realized. Sidekicks are as necessary and omnipresent as the laugh track - a main character without a best friend is like a sitcom without a catchy theme song. They may not be the biggest winners in life, yet they help drive the show forward, mining their eccentricities for laughs while helping the main characters achieve their goals. They live in some sort of parallel universe where we don’t know their parents and may not see their homes. Sidekicks don’t take center stage and they always seem to have quirky names that align with their even quirkier personalities. Original Illustrations © Whimsy Clips L.L.C.You come for the hamburger, but you sure love the fries.įrom Ed Norton and Ethel Mertz to Larry Dallas and Screech, sidekicks have been as integral to TV sitcoms as unlocked front doors and the gang always managing to get the same table at their favorite hangout. ** If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. 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![]() ![]() We now export this view to an AutoCAD DWG format file.Įach element will be created as a unique block within the AutoCAD file. Here, we have loaded a family of lever-operated butterfly valves ranging in size from 50mm to 200mm and created an instance of each size. We then insert a standalone element of each size into a 3D view in the Revit project. Having located and downloaded the family file we require, we load it into a Revit project. A good place to start in the UK is the bimstore, a free resource for specifiers (designers). ![]() ![]() Obviously, the first task is to locate a Revit family file that contains the component we require. All we need to do then is mark the location of the connection ports on the blocks and add them to our own Plant 3D catalog. Although we are not able to use these files directly in AutoCAD Plant 3D, we can export the geometry from the Revit elements into AutoCAD blocks. However, more and more manufacturers are now providing Revit family files to help leverage their products in the BIM arena. Often though, it is difficult to obtain accurate CAD drawings that can be used directly by AutoCAD Plant 3D. The block-based butterfly valve, above left, is visually more appealing than the simple parametric shape, above right. If you have an accurate manufacturer’s 3D CAD drawing of a component you may wish to re-use this to save you the time and effort of defining the geometry it will also produce a visually more accurate Plant model. However, you can also create components using AutoCAD blocks. When you create a piping component, you usually specify the component type (Plant 3D Class), choose a parametric model, and assign sizes and dimensions to the component. A component must be in a catalog before it can be added to a spec. In AutoCAD Plant 3D, if a piping component is not available in a default catalog, you can add it yourself. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And, in keeping with the idea of voodoo, there’s a particular so-called “temperature” parameter that determines how often lower-ranked words will be used, and for essay generation, it turns out that a “temperature” of 0.8 seems best. The fact that there’s randomness here means that if we use the same prompt multiple times, we’re likely to get different essays each time. But if sometimes (at random) we pick lower-ranked words, we get a “more interesting” essay. Because for some reason-that maybe one day we’ll have a scientific-style understanding of-if we always pick the highest-ranked word, we’ll typically get a very “flat” essay, that never seems to “show any creativity” (and even sometimes repeats word for word). But this is where a bit of voodoo begins to creep in. the one to which the highest “probability” was assigned). But which one should it actually pick to add to the essay (or whatever) that it’s writing? One might think it should be the “highest-ranked” word (i.e. (More precisely, as I’ll explain, it’s adding a “token”, which could be just a part of a word, which is why it can sometimes “make up new words”.)īut, OK, at each step it gets a list of words with probabilities. But the end result is that it produces a ranked list of words that might follow, together with “probabilities”:Īnd the remarkable thing is that when ChatGPT does something like write an essay what it’s essentially doing is just asking over and over again “given the text so far, what should the next word be?”-and each time adding a word. ChatGPT effectively does something like this, except that (as I’ll explain) it doesn’t look at literal text it looks for things that in a certain sense “match in meaning”. Imagine scanning billions of pages of human-written text (say on the web and in digitized books) and finding all instances of this text-then seeing what word comes next what fraction of the time. So let’s say we’ve got the text “ The best thing about AI is its ability to”. The first thing to explain is that what ChatGPT is always fundamentally trying to do is to produce a “reasonable continuation” of whatever text it’s got so far, where by “reasonable” we mean “what one might expect someone to write after seeing what people have written on billions of webpages, etc.” (And the essence of what I’ll say applies just as well to other current “large language models” as to ChatGPT.) I should say at the outset that I’m going to focus on the big picture of what’s going on-and while I’ll mention some engineering details, I won’t get deeply into them. But how does it do it? And why does it work? My purpose here is to give a rough outline of what’s going on inside ChatGPT-and then to explore why it is that it can do so well in producing what we might consider to be meaningful text. That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially like human-written text is remarkable, and unexpected. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center.“Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT” » A discussion about the history of neural nets » "MatrixForm." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research (1988), MatrixForm, Wolfram Language function, (updated 2003). Cite this as: Wolfram Research (1988), MatrixForm, Wolfram Language function, (updated 2003). ![]() ![]() ![]() It would be expected that a player with good concentric strength and power can apply more force to the ground with each leg, accelerate faster and as a result is quicker.Īnthropometry – should be tested anyway with regard to weight and body fat. Leg muscle qualities – might build the foundation of COD performance (and also injury prevention. Although it was mentioned that COD and straight line speed seemed to be distinct qualities (5, 18), we feel that straight sprinting speed will affect COD performance. ![]() Straight line sprinting speed – sprinting is always needed in football. Technique – we feel that technique (foot planting during cutting, low center of gravity etc.) is important however the testing is rather complicated, most of the time based on qualitative methods and therefore somewhat hard to accomplish. The factors were: Technique, Straight sprinting speed, Leg muscle qualities (reactive strength, concentric strength and power, left-right muscle imbalances)Īnthropometry – only small body of research investigated the connection between anthropometry and COD, however it seems logical that players with higher lean leg muscle mass are more likely to be faster than players with higher amount of fat.Īs it can be observed at least the first three components are very important and trainable and therefore important to test. Agility itself on the other hand incorporates perceptual and decision-making processes and can be seen as a response to a stimulus and therefore as an open skill (and not pre-planned).ĭepending on the goal, testing and training (for agility) needs to incorporate the two mentioned things (perception and decision-making), or not (for COD).Ĭhange of direction: elaborated on the qualities of change of direction. The difference between the two was seen that change of direction (pre-planned and therefore a close-skill) was thought to be part of agility. Therefore we feel we need to define the two terms first before we go into testing. “Quickness” and “cutting” are words that were also to be found in the literature with regard to agility and change of direction. ![]() What is the change of direction in football?Īs usual we start with elaborating on terminology in order to get a clear understanding.įrom a sport science perspective there seems to be a debate about the definition of agility – see references below and somehow for change of direction (COD) as well. By Posted In Soccer Ball Control Skills, Soccer Skills ![]() |
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