Best minimalist shoes 20161/8/2024 ![]() ![]() In my opinion the greatest failure in the movement is the loss of that very message. That is the golden message in Born to Run. Learning to run in less shoe is less about the shoe, and more about the running. The greatest success runners have had is when they invest the time it takes to relearn how to run. ![]() It’s for these very reasons that it works for some and hurts others. Making the transition to running in less shoe is dependent on many variables, including: age, weight, running efficiency, experience, mileage base, shoe lifestyle (what you wear every day), strength and mobility, balance and more. Some are blessed with the mechanics, strength, and lifestyle to support running bare, while it leaves others with torn Achilles and calf strains. There is no one answer that suits every runner’s needs. For others, it meant going with toe shoes and other minimal shoes that offer only protection from the ground surface.Īs a coach, I’ve been intrigued at the outcomes and have learned from the trial and error of thousands of runners I’ve connected with via email, at races and expos, on my running vacations, and more. For some, it meant making the transition to running fully bare (without shoes). Enter Born to Run, which enticed us all to re-evaluate what we wore on our feet and how we moved through the world. Just as we learned to walk and run upright, we’ve also learned to walk and run in a highly supported shoe style. ![]() As we continued to evolve, so did the level of support on our feet. I don’t believe there's one answer for this question, and here’s why.Īs the book highlights, when you look back in human history far enough, we were able to run barefoot. That is a wonderful book, and it has redefined the running shoe world while raising the question of just how much support a runner needs underfoot. Do you have any tips to share? What kind of minimalist shoes should I try at my local running store the next time I go? Thank you! ~Daniel I don't think I want to go all the way to the "toe shoes," but I am intrigued by the idea that less shoe leads to stronger feet and better form. I recently finished 'Born to Run' and then found the " Should You Run in Minimalist Shoes" article where you talk about your transition to "less engineered" shoes. ![]()
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Slack for windows1/8/2024 ![]() ![]() Slack's recently launched Later feature replaces the older “Reminders” and “Save” functionality, serving as a personal task manager. The video below shows a quick demo of opening a thread in a new window, switching back to the Slack app, and switching to a different channel. You can keep multiple threads open in separate windows while using the main Slack app for channel and conversation browsing. Now, this has been replaced with the capability to open a thread in a new window by clicking on it while pressing the Ctrl key (Windows) or the Cmd key (Mac). Previously, Split View enabled users to open a thread in one split view of the Slack desktop application, allowing for concurrent browsing of other channels. The new "Separate Windows" feature in Slack replaces the previous "Split View" feature, providing an improved user experience. Efficient Multitasking with Separate Windows Bring the relevant individuals together at the right moment for a single huddle, and you can even share your screen to go over a particular case in great detail. You can quickly transition from an asynchronous conversation to a live audio discussion from an external Slack Connect channel or an internal escalation, or swarm channel. In the channels you use to communicate with partners outside of your business, you can also initiate a huddle. In any DM or Slack channel, you can convene a meeting with the appropriate product expert or stakeholder if you require assistance addressing a customer support ticket. Slack Huddles, a simple audio-first method for starting live conversations, mimics the short, informal interactions you'd have at work directly inside Slack. Initiating Quick Conversations with Slack Huddles Let's delve into some of these fantastic Slack features that can supercharge your customer support process. ![]() Companies harness the power of Slack Connect for a direct communication line with each customer via individual Slack channels, while internal Slack channels help streamline customer escalations.Īs discussed in this guide on providing customer support on Slack, the rationale behind the preference for persistent chat channels is manifold - they offer rapid access and communication, facilitate company-wide collaboration, integrate with enterprise systems, and provide a suite of cohesive tools for efficient collaboration.Ĭustomer support professionals can leverage a variety of Slack's features that enhance their workflows, and Slack has introduced several novel features recently that are both delightful and useful. The contemporary business landscape is witnessing a significant shift towards using Slack and Microsoft Teams for customer support. ![]() Soundsource headphone eq1/7/2024 ![]() ![]() But it becomes intuitive after you read up on AU lab's documentation. It's a complicated piece of software used by music pros, so you may not get it immediately. Then in AU lab's settings, make AU lab open with this file by default. Once you like what you hear, save the file. In each bus, you can add effects like Graphic EQ, Hi-Pass, Low Pass, Filter, Delay, Reverb, Distortion, and many more. You can add a "bus" between the input and output. Next, add sound enhancements in the next step.ģ. All this file does is receive audio and play it out. Compact View SoundSource's main window is streamlined, but to truly minimize how much space it uses, the Compact. Magic Boost 2 The new Magic Boost 2 does even more to provide rich, full sound from even the tiniest speakers. Now you should hear some sound being played. Headphone EQ The new Headphone EQ effect provides the very best sound from thousands of different models of headphones. For the input, select Blackhole, and for output, select your speakers. When you try to create a new file, it will ask you to set the input and the output. We need to direct the sound from this virtual device to a real output device like your computer speakers or external headphones (next step.)Ģ. Those are parametric EQ presets from AutoEQ. If you play audio now, you won't hear anything from your speakers because Blackhole is a virtual device. Start with the built-in Headphone EQ, like InvisibleInk is doing for his Sennheiser HD 58X. Go to System Preferences -> Sound and set the sound output device to Blackhole. First, set your computer's sound output to Blackhole, which is a virtual device. Again, not worth the hassle.The idea is to route the sound through Blackhole and AU lab.ġ. if I use the headphone EQ, I’m going to hear any sound that comes from any app on my Mac, unless I manually shut each of them down every time I play Tidal. This means that I can’t shut the system off to just listen to Tidal with EQ (or some other app). The added problem I’ve found out (thanks to the customer support over at SoundSource, which, as they claim, is indeed amazingly responsive!) is that the Headphone EQ can only be applied on the System output, and not on the app output. That makes the whole process unintuitive and, for me at least, not worth it. If I understand correctly, with SoundSource, if I want to avoid the clipping issue, I have to settle on predefined settings and if I want to try my own, I have to script it, then upload it to SoundSource, then try it out, then go back to the script to adjust. I thought I would be able to tinker with EQ while listening, to see what settings I like best. (Not counting the Magic Sac on my Atari ST). I’ve only been waiting since my Macintosh IIsi and my iPhone 4. Your only options there are to use player applications that incorporate EQ themselves. I guess in general everyone is hoping that sometime Apple will offer something better by default. Torq: There’s no system wide EQ available for iOS, other than that built-in to the OS. I personally find it difficult to use, but I think others here may know it better. It’s cross platform Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. Enhance your audio with more than 30 native signal and effects processing engines, including compression, EQ. It has a bizarre interface that some people love, but has both parametric and graphic equalizer, very configurable. headphone amplifier to enable direct digital. One possibility is the Neutron Player App. Likewise, if you use Ultimate Ears custom earbuds, their app lets you EQ - and I think there’s a version for MacOS. I often use AUDEZE LCDi3 IEMs on iOS and their app plus the Cipher cable will let you EQ anything through there. As you say ROON does have EQ for anything played through ROON. It’s not hard to find something that works for something specific. and I have been hoping for something system wide, but Apple doesn’t make it easy. ![]() Butler eagle obituary today1/7/2024 ![]() Her brothers, Greg (Melissa) Amerson of Laurens, N.Y., Brady (Evy) Amerson of Boardman, Ohio, and Taylor (Rachel) Amerson of Butler. ![]() ![]() Jen leaves behind a whole bunch of weepy, loving people, especially her daughter, Madison her mother, Melinda, of Beaver Falls her Dad, Tim and mom, Sheri. (She adored Henrietta!) They are a special group of caregivers! “That’s a terrible color for a pickup truck, they have too many Christmas lights for such a small front yard, I wish they would pick up the dead deer along Mercer Road, I don’t like pizza from any place but Papa John’s, they screwed up our order again at the drive-thru, some guy in line at work asked me for my phone number - I think he’s like 15 years older than me, I asked the girl to take about 2 inches off my hair and I think she took 5!”ĭuring her treatment for colon cancer at Hillman Cancer Center, Crossroads Campus, she appreciated the care and the conversations with all the wonderful nurses and assistants. She was a friend to all animals, especially dogs and cats. She was a “country girl” who enjoyed deer hunting, country music and the woods. From that day on, she made her home in Westwood Manor 3 with her dad and loving stepmom, Sheri. She gave birth to Madison Rose just two days after her own 30th birthday. Twenty-two years later, she found herself in the emergency department of the hospital where she was born. She recently was a technician in the pharmacy at Clearview Giant Eagle, where customers were always glad when she would answer their phone call.īeing a 9/11 baby, she was always aware of the “9-1-1 curse.” On her 21st birthday, the Twin Towers fell. She was employed for a number of years by the Friedman’s Supermarket chain, where she made a lot of friends in the Pennsylvania Lottery line. Jen graduated from Butler High School in 1998, after attending schools in the Quaker Valley School District. 11, 1980, she was the daughter of Tim and Melinda (Smith) Amerson. 15, 2023, with her dad softly singing songs about Jesus and heaven.īorn in Butler, on Sept. No other details were provided.Jennifer Lynn Amerson, 43, of Butler, passed away peacefully under hospice care at Butler Health System on Friday evening, Sept. Greg Wilbert had a 553 series and a high game of 220.īoth teams will visit Blackhawk next Wednesday.īutler 791-48x, Avella 745-24X - The Golden Tornado came away with a victory Tuesday. Micah Potts had a 597 series and a 236 high game for the Butler boys (3-1). Kelsee McConnell rolled a 611 series and had a high game of 234 on the girls side, while Kaylee Kniess chipped in with a 524 series and high game of 195. Beichner 2, Kluck 2, Wheeler) A-C Valley 2 (Dittman 2)īoth Butler teams defeated Beaver Falls at Sims Lanes Wednesday night, as the girls swept their match, 7-0, and the boys came away with a 5-2 victory. Totals: 18 1-2 44.ģ-point goals: Venango Catholic 7 (Ko. The Vikings managed just one point in the third frame, allowing A-C Valley a 25-point lead going into the fourth.īrody Dittman 20, Jay Clover 16, Zahsheen Levins 14, Henry Stevanus 4, Joe Rapp 2, Noah Will 2, Colbin Elliot 1. Brody Dittman paced the Falcons with 20 points, while Jay Clover added 16 and Zahsheen Levins 14. ![]() ![]() Knoch will next wrestle at Hampton for another section matchup.īehind three double-digit scoring efforts, A-C Valley toppled Venango Catholic, 64-44, on the road Tuesday night. Braylee Ireland won via default and Miranda Lajevic, Brady Pflugh, and Wyatt Foster all won via forfeit. Jarrett Crowe, Cam Elliott, Brayden McGowan, Owen Layhew, Derrick Glover, and Parker Anderson all won by fall against the Trojans. Six Knoch wrestlers won by pinfall Wednesday night as the Knights visited North Catholic to kick off section grappling and came away with a 60-18 victory. ![]() Personal trainers home visits1/7/2024 ![]() That said, your self-worth is one of the most important factors to setting your price. It wasn’t until I saw the results my clients were getting that I finally realized that people should pay me that much for my services because of the mutual benefit involved. In the above example of my lack of confidence selling $85/hour packages, I mentioned I had a tough time selling because I didn’t truly believe my services were worth that much. ![]() Self-worth: believing what you charge is worth every penny If you are training at your gym that has a full set of free weights, kettlebells, a TRX, and a prowler you can charge more than if you were training at the local park with some stability balls and bands. Investing in specific equipment for your client’s benefit affords you the justification to charge a bit more. This typically ranges from $10 to $25 and should be passed on to the client. Gyms charging personal trainers to use their facilities is common in the industry. Generally, the farther away the client the more that you can charge (provided they won’t shop around for a local trainer). If you are a trainer that visits clients at their home or a facility of their choice they should expect to pay more than your local clientele. There are generally three things to consider when factoring in your costs to train a client: Cost to train client: the investments you make for training are passed on to the client Understanding the prices that your target audience expects to pay – and that are attainable – will be crucial to your ability to foster sales. ![]() For example, the pricing structure for a toning client would differ from that of an extreme weight loss client. Your target population differs from your local neighborhood in that different types of clientele will have different interests. ![]() Target population: set a price that is attainable to them to entice sales This may mean dropping your prices by $10 or $15 an hour or adding more services for the same price. Thus, it is important to have a pulse on the economy and be sensitive to recessions so that you can continue to maintain or attract new clientele. As these items are not a necessity, they will be amongst the first things cut from a client’s budget should the economy take a downturn. Personal training is considered to be a luxury item, similar to getting massages, manicures and pedicures, and even the occasional teeth whitening. Economy: a thriving economy merits higher prices than a downturn Check out a few websites of other trainers in the area to see if they publish their prices and to see if there is some consistency to get a feel for the location-based pricing factors in your target market’s community. The socioeconomic conditions within the respective regions differ and your pricing model will need to be aligned with whatever it is people are willing to pay. Consider how much your clients expect to pay based on the rates in your city. For example, clients in Manhattan would likely think that $100/hour is pretty reasonable while those in the Bronx would laugh at you. When setting your hourly rates as a personal trainer, you have to consider how much your clients expect to pay based on the rates in your city. Location: how where you work affects your rates I’ll also teach you how to discuss pricing with clients so you can do it confidently and you can avoid the mistakes I made when I first started out. Today we’ll look at basing factors such as location, the economy, target population, cost to train client, and how self-worth factors into your personal training prices. ![]() The goal of becoming a certified personal trainer is to make a living as one. You can now become a certified online personal trainer and add additional revenue by setting prices based on all services you offer. If you’re not working for a commercial gym, it’s up to you to set your own pricing structure. Making a living is directly correlated to how much you can make based on your rates and being confident in how you present them. The goal of becoming a certified personal trainer is to make a living as one. ![]() ![]() Once the program is installed on your computer, open it. Follow your operating system’s usual program installation process. On the downloads page, under Topaz Photo AI, select the operating system that works best for you. The maximum image size when using the plugins is 512 megapixels (512,000,000 pixels total). an external editor plugin, accessed through Photo > Edit in > Topaz Photo AI. ![]() Open the installer file and follow the prompts in the installation wizard. There are two Topaz Photo AI plugins for Lightroom Classic that are automatically installed: a RAW plugin, accessed through File > Plug-in Extras > Process with Topaz Photo. Then, click Downloads from the main menu. Windows Mac To Install: Download the Topaz Video AI installer. If you don't own the newest version of Topaz Video AI, download the latest. ![]() Please note that legacy programs that have been previously discontinued may not function with Big Sur and updates for M1/Apple Silicon processors may take several months. Purchase, Download, and Install Topaz Photo AI. To Install: Download the Topaz Video AI installer. The newest versions of Mask AI, DeNoise AI, Gigapixel AI, and Sharpen AI all support Big Sur with Intel processors. Free download Topaz Photo AI for MacOS full version - offline Installer - Maximize your image quality on autopilot. We are working on the next steps for those programs. If there are still issues with your specific RAW files please let us know. Changes since 1.2.8: Reworked camera profiles and added 100 new profiles. If you have updated to macOS 10.16/11 Big Sur, please note that Adjust AI, Jpeg to RAW AI, and Studio 2 have not yet been updated to facilitate Big Sur yet. If there’s a specific image you’d like us to see, you can send it us at this dropbox link. Please note that legacy programs that have been previously discontinued may not function with Big Sur and updates for M1/Apple Silicon processors may take several months. I wish it could control JPEG quality using the 1-100 scale, and set chroma subsampling. Once selected, the side-by-side is great for making adjustments. I really like the 4-panel view to select motion blur, out of focus, or too soft. Once installed, Topaz Sharpen AI seems to run fast enough. The newest versions of Mask AI, DeNoise AI, Gigapixel AI, and Sharpen AI all support Big Sur with Intel processors. Process osx-x866 was at the top of top (1) for CPU use. ![]() If you have updated to macOS 10.16/11 Big Sur, please note that Adjust AI, Jpeg to RAW AI, and Studio 2 have not yet been updated to facilitate Big Sur yet. I have not tried "Topaz", but if you already upgraded to Big Sur, some of the applications are not yet ready. Some application may need to be called by scrolling down to "Other" in the "Edit with" menu. You can call any external editor from the menu item "Image > Edit with > Other", if your version of Photos already has this menu item. What is your system version? Are you still using macOS 10.13 as shown below your question? ![]() Medicine lookup l4841/7/2024 ![]() ![]() The inclusion of a letter or number in the imprint, while not required, is encouraged as a more effective means of identification than a manufacturer's symbol or logo by itself. This also applies to some other medicines, such as homeopathic medicines, unless they have applied for an exemption from the FDA. are required by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to have a unique imprint. A caregiver has been asked to give a certain pill to the person they are looking after but is confused about which pill it is.Īll approved solid, oral dosage form medications in the U.S.A person has been brought into the hospital with loose pills in a pill case but is not sure what they take.A person has been found unconscious and pills have been found in their pockets that need to be identified.Law enforcement officers have found a collection of pills during a personal property search and wish to identify them.Your pharmacy has given you medicine that looks different to the one that you normally take.A person taking several medications has mixed them up in their pill case and needs to work out which one is which. ![]() A person has found a pill in their house that does not look familiar and wishes to identify it.Imprint codes, when used in conjunction with a tablet or capsule size, shape, and color, allowing medicine to be correctly identified when it is no longer in its original container.īeing able to identify a lone tablet or a collection of capsules is useful in different situations, for example: ![]() Neptunes planet symbol1/7/2024 ![]() Such symbols crossed several cultures, civilizations and time segments of human history until they reached our contemporary world, and this was a very arduous task, especially in more recent centuries where logical and radical science passed and gained dominance over more ethereal and analogous themes. What is noteworthy about them is their ancestral, multicultural and international use. Whether these symbols were consciously conceived as combinations of alchemical meanings (or whether their correlation with alchemical symbols is pure coincidence or synchronicity) does not matter. Precursors of modern sciences such as astronomy and chemistry, astrology and alchemy gave rise to the symbols that we still use today to represent the planets and signs. To know more about them, we must go back centuries, when astrology went hand in hand with alchemy. They are simple and unique ideas that come together to create a more complex symbol that manages to express the energies involved. Contrary to what many think, they are not just random and disconnected drawings. Both Voyagers still operate today, and have detected signs of the "edge" of the solar system.Planetary symbols (or glyphs) have a history and meaning. No other spacecraft has flown past either planet. Its encounters provided the first detailed looks at both giant planets and their moons. Voyager 2 followed the same path, but was then targeted to fly past Uranus and Neptune. ![]() Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter and Saturn, discovering new moons and rings, compiling movies of the motions of both planets' atmospheres, and conducting other observations. Voyager 1 and 2 conducted a "grand tour" of the outer planets during the 1970s and '80s. It starts 2023 in the constellation Aquarius, then crosses over into Pisces where it remains for the rest of the year, being brightest from July 21 - December 17. The bluish-hued world of Neptune is only visible with good binoculars or a telescope. Within about 10,000 years, the ring material may coalesce to form a moon - a moon reborn from the ashes of its own demise. Today, this material is merging to form larger clumps. The debris then spread out to form a ring. The ring may have formed when a comet slammed into a small moon, destroying both the comet and the moon. (Other rings are named for Galle and Leverrier.) It is farthest from Neptune's cloudtops, and consists of several large clumps of material connected by a thin band of dust. The most interesting is called the Adams ring, which is named in honor of John Couch Adams. Several rings of rocky material that is darker than chimney soot encircle Neptune. One theory says that a "rain" of liquid hydrogen falls onto the planet's core, releasing heat as it falls. Voyager also found that Neptune produces more heat than it receives from the Sun. But when Hubble Space Telescope looked at Neptune five years later, the Great Dark Spot had disappeared. When the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past Neptune in August 1989, for example, it discovered the Great Dark Spot - a dark, oval-shaped storm system as big as Earth. ![]() We can't see a lot of features in Neptune's atmosphere, but the features that astronomers can detect appear to come and go in a hurry. Neptune's rotation stretches the clouds into bands that completely encircle the planet. Traces of other elements form clouds at the top of its thick atmosphere. ![]() The core is fairly large, so Neptune is actually the third most massive planet in the solar system. Neptune probably has a rocky core wrapped in a layer of frozen water and other ices. Its color is the result of methane in its upper atmosphere, which absorbs red light, allowing us to see only the blue end of the spectrum. It is a soothing blue-green orb that looks like a giant marble spinning through space. Galle had discovered the solar system's fourth-largest planet. When Galle aimed his telescope at that position, he quickly detected the new world. Working independently, Leverrier and Adams calculated the position of such a planet and passed it on to astronomers. Uranus seemed to be pulled by the gravity of an unseen planet. After the discovery of Uranus in 1781, astronomers had a difficult time accurately describing the planet's orbit. ![]() Minimalist painting1/7/2024 ![]() ![]() The movement has been remembered largely for sculpture, though painting played a part. Artists often craft works from industrial materials like sheet metal, fiberglass, and plywood and use faded or soft color palettes. We could not be happier that we found this company! Thank you all so very much for your preternatural efforts to ensure your customers are happy. As the name suggests, Minimalism kept elaborations on form and content to a minimum. 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Shopping online often makes decorating exponentially more difficult. In any case, the creators assumed Minimalism from a position of high conceptual rigor. Orange, gold, blue, A large blank white painting on the wall in a minimalist room is a striking visual element. Even going to stores to find anything (exhausting) doesn’t mean that it will work well, once it’s in the room. Many of the minimalist artists had an academic background in Philosophy.Others, like Bruce Nauman, took inspiration from the postulates of Samuel Becket. Minimalist flat style vector illustration of painting in frame of flowers with green leaves hanging on white wall. ![]() ![]() Without question, furnishing and decorating a home can be challenging in the very best of circumstances. ![]() AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |