If I can cover the best places on 23rd Dec, is it better to go out on 25th? I really need to try Salzburg. Am I being misled? Will you be able to check the following link and tell me my best option. I checked in and found that some of the markets are open on 24th till 04pm. Need to sort and pick the best/doable ones with your advice. I'm not planning to do all of them in a single day. I'm coming from the Milan by the night train. Could you check on the following and let me know your opinion pls?ġ.I.m sorry I couldn't mention that. Cheers - Cherries - Many thanks for the prompt reply. This forum has always been useful in all of my ex-tours. What are the best option out of Salzburg/ Brno/ Batislava on 25th Dec? Since we will be leaving for Prague on 26th early morning, we need to go out of Vienna on 25th. Any tips? Are Augustiner Church and Schotten church close by so that we may attend the evening mass and get back to the hotel? Appreciate your kind input pls.Ĥ. We would love to hear nice soothing Christmas music. What are the best and recommended ones? We are with a 4 year old kid. Thinking to spend the entire 24th around Christmas markets. We are thinking to cover Schonbrunn Palace/ Karlsplatz/ St Stephen's Cathedral/Graban/ Hofburg/Head to ring area/Museums/Opera house/Kaiser Gruft etc.what should be the ideal order to cover these attractions? Are these walkable? Any tips about tram numbers to use?ģ. Is it too far from Meidling station? How much would be the taxi fare? Can I use metro/train to reach the hotel?Ģ. We'll be arriving in Meidling station on 23rd Dec around 08:30 in the morning and I've already requested for an early check-in. I'd very much appreciate if you could answer my questions so that I may finalise the same.ġ. Hi friends, we'll be travelling to Vienna for Christmas and have worked out a tentative plan as follows.
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We wanted to be more prepared than anyone else. (The) Breakfast Club was a mindset more than a workout. With Breakfast Club, when we were working out at 5am, 6am or 7am that’s when our preparation started.” “You know a lot of guys now start thinking about the game when they get to the arena. “It was like having a gathering every single morning of individuals for the purpose of getting them on the same page, getting them prepared,” Grover said in an Air Jordan interview. Whether it was a practice day or game day, it didn’t matter, Jordan and his crew would gather at his Highland Park, Illinois mansion between 5-7am to work out. What started out as a 30-day solo strength & conditioning project for Jordan expanded into a 15-year team endeavour, made up of himself, Scottie Pippen, Ron Harper, and Randy Brown. The Oral History of the 1996 Chicago Bulls | ComplexĪnother example showcasing Jordan’s intense work ethic was the legendary Breakfast Club. to about 10 p.m., he’d play basketball in the. At lunch time, he’d work out with weights for about an hour and a half. Then he’d go to the movie set for some shooting. This would include stretching, running, and various basketball stuff, nothing long distance, to get his wind up. In an oral history of the 1996 Chicago Bulls compiled by Complex, Tim Grover, Jordan’s personal trainer, described a typical day of him juggling the 1995–96 NBA season and shooting the 1996 film, Space Jam.Ī typical day for Michael would start with about 30 or 40 minutes of conditioning in the. His fame and skill were intertwined, much as they were in earlier generations for a select few, such as the Babe and Ali.” Above all, it was his laser-like focus and unwavering work ethic that resulted in the movie-esque quality of his career story.Īs Larry Schwartz, writing for ESPN, put it, “the Chicago Bulls guard had the rarest of gifts, the ability to transcend his sport. It was more than just the global shoe brand, which Nike has paid him an estimated $1.3 billion since 1984. It was more than just the accomplishments - six NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP) Awards, ten scoring titles (both all-time records) and five MVP Awards to name a few. Learn about the daily routines from the most successful people in the world by signing up to our newsletter But there was just something extraordinarily special about Michael Jordan. From Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, to the late, great Kobe Bryant and the reigning king of the sport, Lebron James. There have been countless great basketball players in history. Go 100%, try to be the best player, teammate that I can be.On Daily Routines, we profile successful leaders, entrepreneurs, artists, executives and athletes to explore their routines, schedules, habits and day in the life. “I always tell people I hate losing more than I like winning, so that kind of sums up the way I play baseball on the baseball field,” Jenkins said after signing. 417 with two homers in 24 games in his senior season at South Brunswick High School and was named the Gatorade baseball player of the year in North Carolina for the second straight year. Jenkins, who will head to the team’s training complex in Florida, is a 6-foot-3, 212-pound outfielder who hits from the left side. The team announced Jenkins, a North Carolina high school product, signed for $7.14 million. Jenkins, 18, was the last first-round pick to sign this year, coming in just before Tuesday’s deadline. 5 overall pick in this year’s draft, on Friday. So, it kind of slows it down a little bit, for sure.” BEAT THE DEADLINE “You’re able to see a couple righties that kind of hit like me, in front of me, and able to get a little bit of reference. “It definitely feels a little bit different,” Rodríguez said. The second hack is also pretty simple, but its tucked away within the app. But if you’ve ever walked a dog on a leash before, you’re probably used to seeing that at the back. This is a little non-obvious for two reasons-first, the GPS location is not marked on the collar or the fabric cover at all and the second is that there’s a little loop leash, which is nice. The second is that the collar’s speaker will then be optimally located below your dog’s left ear, so they can hear it well. First is that it ensures the GPS receiver is towards the back of their neck so it’s facing the sky, allowing for the best reception. The optimal placement is sideways on the neck, so that the Halo Logo on the fabric covering, installed correctly, is facing downwards. How to put on the collarįirst, and simplest, is how your dog will actually wear the collar. You’re going to learn all that, but I think these three things deserve highlighting. The thing is, as you get started you’ll be bombarded with information from setting up the app and picking your subscription, to training modules for your dog, to training modules for YOU that teach you how to actually use the collar. I call them hacks, but these are all pieces of information that Halo will give you. Now beyond training your dog the Halo Collar doesn’t come rip-roaring and ready to go out of the box, but there are three hacks you can implement to make sure you get the best performance in a short amount of time. Although if you want to unlock more, you can, and there’s also a silver plan if you want something in between. The Basic Plan for the Halo Collar is $4.49 at the time of filming and it gives you pretty much everything you need. And keep in mind that the Halo Collar does require a subscription to use it. If you opt for Halo’s top-tier Gold Plan for your subscription which is $29.99 per month at the time of filming you can access premium lessons, live sessions, and Q&A sessions with expert trainers, too. Basically that comes in the form of video training modules via the App. Halo prides themselves on their training programs, they’re developed by Cesar Milan – if you’re a dog owner you almost certainly know who he is. Don’t worry if they take a little longer, with enough patience and encouragement, pretty much every dog will get there. This is a fair estimate, I’ve seen anywhere from 2-4 weeks depending on the company and the time per day. My understanding is that Halo estimates training to take about 21 days with sessions of at least 15 minutes per day. Things To Know Before Using Halo Boundary TrainingĪs you get started with any invisible fence system, boundary training your dog is essential to achieving success. I’m here to tell you how well the Halo Collar works. I’m not here to tell you how to train your dog. It freakin hurts, just like all the others.īut many dog owners feel that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks, and I get that. Now before we dive in I need to make it clear that I don’t advocate using the static correction on your dog. It’s not perfect, but it can do the job pretty well.įrom a pricing standpoint, its way more affordable than professionally-installed in-ground systems.Īnd it fills the void between the high-end SpotOn GPS dog fence, and the lower-end options like the Wagz Freedom Collar, or even the PetSafe Wireless dog fence which doesn’t use a GPS at all. My assessment based on my continued field testing is that the Halo Collar can be an effective tool for training your dog to stay in your yard off leash. In others, there are some nuances that can be leveraged to make sure you’re getting all that this collar has to offer. In one regard there’s a bit of an egg on my face, and I apologize for that. After continued testing I’ve been able to demonstrate significantly improved performance. If you’ve been following along you’ll know I was disappointed with the Halo Collar’s performance after my initial field tests-and this is the Halo 2+. Transcribe! can also display the video for most video files. Waveform and allows you to scroll around, place markers for sections, measuresĪnd beats, and easily play or loop from any point. Recording from analog sources such as cassette or vinyl. Transcribe! reads audio from many different You will soon find that this allows you to concentrate on the music instead ofįiddling with the playback controls and wondering where you are.īut if you actually do transcribe music then I think you will appreciate what I am saying. There is a rich collection of keyboard shortcuts for controlling playback,Īnd you can also use pedals for hands-free playback control. The various points in the track and you can click on any point to play instantly from YouĬan place markers for sections, measures and beats, and you can label them withĭescriptive names and add textual annotations if you want. Transcribe! displays the track as a scrollable waveform from left to right. 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Transcribe! is Copyright © 1998-2023 Seventh String Software. Transcribe! is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. You can save the modified audio to a new sound file if you want. It is capable of applying various effects to audio such as speed change, pitchĬhange and EQ. Transcribe! plays and records audio files but it is not an audio editor. Programs available which can display this information. Information about what notes are to be played and when, and there are plenty of Transcribe! takes no interest in MIDI files - these already contain explicit If you are working from a video file then Transcribe! can usually display the video too. 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It is important to understand that Transcribe! does not attempt to do the whole job, processingĪn audio file and outputting musical notation or midi - this would be nice, but is a currently unsolved Transcribe! also has a piano keyboard displayed on screen which you can To analyse chords and show you what notes are present, and the capability ofĪdding markers and textual annotations so you can easily navigate around the Transcribe! offers many features aimed at making the transcription job smootherĪnd easier, including the ability to slow down music without changing its pitch, Your computer's hard disk as a sound file then you can use Transcribe! instead. Music as they are not designed for this purpose. They are very inconvenient for transcribing There is some advice about speech transcription in Transcribe!'s help, under the heading "Various Topics".Ĭonventional music players are really designed for people With its support for foot pedalsĪnd its superior slowed-down sound quality, it is an excellent choice for this purpose. There is some advice about play-along practice in Transcribe!'s help, under the heading "Various Topics".Īnd it is also used for speech transcription. So you can practice in all keys, and you can speed up as well as slow down. It canĬhange pitch and speed instantly, and you can store and recall any number of named loops. It is also used by many people for play-along practice. Transcription-specific features not found on conventional music players. Player program which is optimised for the purpose of transcription. It doesn't do the transcribing for you, but it is essentially a specialised Want to work out a piece of music from a recording, in order to write it out, or The Transcribe! application is an assistant for people who Transcribe! - software to help transcribe recorded music On September 25th, Twitter user posted, "Chainsaw Man is Real!!" along with three pieces of fan art redrawing some of the most popular images from "The One Piece Is Real" as characters from Chainsaw Man, including a redraw of the Chopper Crying meme with Pochita, garnering over 101,000 likes and 14,000 retweets in four days (shown below). In September 2022, the Chopper Crying meme then became the subject of redraws. For example, on August 31st, YouTuber NoThisnot Joel included the screenshot in a "One Piece Is Real" edit, garnering over 800,000 views in a month (shown below). The image of Chopper crying was added to a number of these edits that month, including a cock edit of Chopper that started circulating online on sites including Reddit's /r/cockpiece in mid-July. The meme became increasingly popularized throughout August and September 2022, especially on YouTube, Twitter and TikTok, in tandem with "The One Piece Is Real" meme, which saw screenshots of characters from One Piece, including edited NSFW screenshots from the related "One Piece Cock Edits" trend, stylistically edited to the song "Dark Fantasy" by Kanye West. On June 12th, 2022, YouTuber Roblox Gamer 33 uploaded a similar edit to Smotheryaxe1414's video where a crying sound effect plays in the background, garnering over 100,000 views in three months (shown below). The YouTuber posted eight more of these videos between then and July 8th, with episodes six (shown below, right) and nine becoming the most viewed with over 28,000 views and 30,000 views, respectively, by September 2022. On May 16th, 2022, YouTuber Smotheryaxe1414 posted a video where the screenshot of Chopper Crying moves around to the beat of music, garnering over 6,000 views in four months. On April 23rd, 2022, Twitter artist known for his One Piece cock edits, posted an edited image of Chopper crying with a massive penis, garnering over 200 likes in six months. The scene can be seen in a trailer for the movie that was published to YouTube on August 24th, 2007, garnering over 496,000 views in 14 years (shown below, left). In one scene in the film, Chopper is seen crying in the snow, his head turned up to the sky and his mouth agape, visible breath emanating from it. On March 1st, 2008, Episode of Chopper Plus: Bloom in Winter, Miracle Sakura, the ninth One Piece movie, was released in Japan. The internationally oriented trade fair, the only B2B adult product trade fair in the Asia-Pacific region, is divided into the following categories: Novelties, Lingerie & Underwear, Health & Sensual Delight, Gifts & Games. Add to that the success of amateur porn and all sorts of niche sites and genres, and it's yet more evidence of the industry adapting in ways that benefit not just its own bottom line but all-around creativity and consumer choice.The Asia Adult Expo AAE is held annually at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Once a medium made mostly by men for men, porn has blossomed into an arena where female directors and producers can thrive, "feminist porn" is a thing, and racial and sexual minorities are (if too slowly) starting to gain more visibility and get treated with more respect. Meanwhile, the ever-decreasing stigma around porn reflects a general loosening of repressive social mores, an increase in sex positivity, and perhaps even a positive narrative about social change more generally. Porn performers themselves have also adapted, embracing social-media savvy branding and sidelines into sex toys, strip club performances, and myriad other avenues as appearing in videos alone became less lucrative. With every twist and turn in the technology market, the porn industry has found a way to adapt-and not just make use of new technologies but drive them. But following close behind is a tale of the power of markets to drive entrepreneurial ingenuity and expand consumer choice. The proliferation of porn in the 21st century-in all its weird and wonderful and sometimes terrible forms-is above all else a story about human sexuality, sure. Adult-business owners and sex workers shouldn't be singled out for regulations that similar entrepreneurs are exempt from, and they deserve a workplace free of undue discrimination and harassment at the hands of either unscrupulous employers, customers, or the state. And these workers, like all workers, deserve equal protection under the law and equal protection from unconstitutional laws. Pornography isn't just the end-product people fap to, of course it's an industry comprised of lots and lots of individual workers. In other words, you can bet that any new censorship and regulatory precedents we set for sex work aren't going to stay solely in that realm. But even if you can't muster much sympathy for the sex industries, think about it this way: porn tends to serve as a canary in the coal mine, identifying what new loci of state power-grabs and bureaucracy we need to look out for. This should bother anyone concerned with limiting government in general. And even when either side falls short of wanting to outright ban or severely censor erotic content, they mind little when legislators lobby all sorts of sin taxes, zoning laws, financial barriers, and excessive regulations at it. Whether it's the old Moral Majority or the new Safe Space brigade, porn and other forms of sex work are an easy target for authoritarian impulses, be they justified by stodgy old theology or fashionable progressive ideology. Nowhere do so many constitutional abuses converge as with government treatment of pornography. Here are several important reasons why porn is a very important topic: Short answer: Because, come on, we need something to break up the Election 2016 coverage, no? Or perhaps a better answer is, why wouldn't Reason cover porn? It's not just prurience or juvenile posturing or the much-alleged libertarian tendency toward libertinism. 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The mode of inheritance is typically autosomal recessive. To date, causative mutations in multiple genes, including MYO7A, USH1C, CDH23, PCDH15, USH1G, CIB2, USH2A, GPR98, WHRN, and CLRN1 have been identified. In addition to clinical variability, there is extensive genetic heterogeneity underlying the condition. Usher Syndrome can be divided by clinical characteristics into 3 types by the age of onset and severity of deafness, imbalance and visual loss. Usher syndrome was first described in 1858 by Albrecht Von Graefe, but was given it’s eponymous name for Charles Usher, a Scottish eye doctor who identified and described the disorder’s hereditary nature and recessive inheritance pattern in 1914. Usher Syndrome is the commonest cause of combined inherited blindness and deafness with an estimated prevalence of 1 in 30,000. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. Further, the value in electroretinographic testing for diagnosis is demonstrated.Ĭongenital hearing loss Electroretinogram Inherited retinal disease Retinitis pigmentosa Usher syndrome.Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. Caution is thus warranted when predicting a visual prognosis in such a patient. The patient demonstrated that the absence of visual symptoms and favorable findings on functional testing on initial presentation might yet belie a future for austere visual loss. They showed that the patient was asymptomatic with only a moderate reduction on ERG testing at the time of diagnosis, but subsequently progressed to an advanced stage of retinal disease with severe visual loss. Our findings documented the long-term progression of Usher syndrome in this patient. We additionally reviewed the ocular findings on two of his siblings also afflicted with Usher syndrome type 2. The patient also had genetic testing performed. Nevertheless, 43 years after his initial examination, he showed severe degenerative changes in the retina.Ī 63-year-old man with Usher syndrome type 2 underwent ophthalmic examination that included visual acuity, optical coherence tomography (OCT), electroretinogram (ERG), fundus photography, and Goldmann visual field testing. Here, we present a case in which an adult patient had neither subjective visual complaints nor ocular findings at the time of diagnosis aside from a moderate reduction in rod and cone function on electroretinogram testing. However, diagnosis may initially be more difficult in cases with limited ocular findings. Patients characteristically experience congenital hearing loss, nyctalopia, reduced visual fields, and ultimately decreased visual acuity. The Usher syndrome phenotype is comprised of ocular and audiologic anomalies. Bundles start at $29.99 with savings up to 99%. Choose from entertainment, security, travel, and more. 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Only if our citizens are physically fit will they be fully capable of such an effort.” “We face in the Soviet Union a powerful and implacable adversary…To meet the challenge of this enemy will require determination and will and effort on the part of all Americans. 26, 1960, issue of Sports Illustrated, calling on Americans to exercise more. Kennedy wrote in a piece titled “The Soft American” in the Dec. But you also don’t need to be an asshole and wish that the newbies were gone just so you no longer have to share oxygen with them at the gym.īe a decent person - it costs nothing to be kind to new people at your gym.“In a very real and immediate sense, our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our society,” President-Elect John F. You don’t have to be outwardly nice to everyone. Help the new members who don’t yet know how to navigate the space or where some of the equipment is located.Īnd if it really bothers you so much that the gym is that packed, try going at a different time so you can avoid the crowd. If you see someone struggling with some weight, ask them if they need a spot. If you see someone that is not performing an exercise correctly, kindly show them the proper form. Or you can always modify your routine, use other machines or free weights for some exercises. Instead, skip to the next part of your routine and come back later rather than make them uncomfortable. If you’re a regular and someone new is using a machine you normally use, don’t stand there waiting for them to be done. The thing is, those new people are there for the same reasons that we go - for fitness, for health, for a better body and newly-discovered self-confidence. So, instead of being rude to them, please be nice and helpful. And for them to walk in there and have regulars be mean to them can make their quest for self-betterment feel even more discouraging, if not outright impossible. So mentally, the gym can be an intimidating place. Sometimes these people have low self-esteem and low confidence. Some of these people may be over or underweight, and they just want to look and feel better. Sometimes these people have eating disorders and complicated relationships with food. Those people are at the gym because they made a decision to become a healthier version of themselves - and that is something to be proud of. Don’t be that asshole who makes fun of new gym-goers. But, please be nice to all the new people. You have to wait to use machines, squat racks, dumbbells and everything else. However, it’s important to remember that all these newbies are on the way. Yes, I know, it freaking sucks – the gym is crowded with a bunch of new people and you’re trying to do your routine. But why hate or be mean to those people? Weren’t we all once a newbie at the gym? But during those weeks, their mere presence rankles the regulars. Yes, it’s true that some resolutioners only stick with such a change for a few weeks or even a few months. Every single year, I hear so many regulars complain how the “newbies” are just taking up space and, “Why are they even here if they will eventually stop going?”. This is the time of the year when New Year’s resolutioners show up at the gym in a bid to improve their health or fitness. And for us, regulars, the first few months of the year are rough. I’ve been going to the gym for years now. |
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