![]() ![]() ![]() I thought that was one of the finest compliments he could have paid to my friend, and I wanted to live in such a way that my bishop would not have to worry about what I had been doing the night before. He pointed over to the sacrament table and said, “When David knelt to bless the sacrament, I knew that he knelt there with ‘clean hands and a pure heart.’ I never had to worry about what he had been doing the Saturday night before.” It was like a crowded stake conference with standing room only.īishop Eberhard included a statement in his remarks that made a powerful impression on me. His funeral was held in the stake center. What a shock! I still remember how painful it was to lose a good friend. Infection set in, and the next thing we heard was that he had died. Soon after high school graduation, David went to the hospital for what everyone thought was a routine operation, but there were some complications. David was a member of the basketball team, and his playing was one of the reasons our team won the state championship. He achieved in Scouting and seminary and was a well-coordinated athlete. He worked hard and received excellent grades. That year our teams won the district championship in every sport, and in basketball our team won the state championship-and that was in the days when the small high schools played against the big ones.ĭavid was a good friend to me and, I think, to everybody in the school. We thought that 1946 was the “golden year” of athletics at Preston High. Even though they had changed the name from the Oneida Stake Academy to Preston High School, we still had some of our classes in the same building. Lee had attended when they were growing up. We were happy with the fact that it was the same school that Presidents Ezra Taft Benson and Harold B. It was just after my friend David Carlson and I had graduated from Preston High School. In the Book of Mormon, Alma asked the question, “Can ye look up to God at that day with a pure heart and clean hands?” ( Alma 5:19.) I remember when the need to have “clean hands and a pure heart” ( Ps. None of us knows how long we are going to live. To this day, I am grateful for those feelings that came to me that night. I didn’t want to do anything that would embarrass or disappoint him. That night, I decided I wanted to do everything I could to support my dad as bishop. And that night, a warm feeling of love and respect for the leaders of the Church came over me and has continued to grow to this day. I saw the Twelve Apostles and the other Brethren. Before the meeting started, Dad pointed out which one of the Brethren on the stand was President Heber J. I remember we sat in the balcony there on the north side. As I recognize now, he must have been around thirty-eight years of age. In those years, Dad always seemed to me to be really old. I remember the first time he brought me with him to Salt Lake City to attend a general priesthood meeting. When I was a young man about the age of some of you deacons here, my dad was bishop of the ward in our little farming town of Banida in southeastern Idaho. Tonight I would like to share a few memories that have made a real difference in my life. ![]() Someone who was a little more poetic than theological said, “Memory is the one Garden of Eden out of which one need never be cast.” Good memories are real blessings. I’ve appreciated so much the messages that we have heard. Brethren, it’s a marvelous privilege to be with you this evening. ![]()
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12/30/2023 0 Comments English and russian![]() ![]() By 600 AD, the Slavs are believed to have split linguistically into southern, western, and eastern branches. Outside archaeological remains, little is known about the predecessors to Russians in general prior to 859 AD, when the Primary Chronicle starts its records. From the 7th century onwards, the East Slavs constituted the bulk of the population in western Russia, and, according to some scholars, slowly but peacefully assimilated the native Finnic peoples, including the Merya, the Muromians, and the Meshchera. The East Slavs gradually settled Western Russia in two waves: one moving from Kiev toward present-day Suzdal and Murom and another from Polotsk toward Novgorod and Rostov. The ancestors of modern Russians are the Slavic tribes, whose original home is thought by some scholars to have been the wooded areas of the Pinsk Marshes, one of the largest wetlands in Europe. The common view of East Slavs today is of separate Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian nations.įurther information: Rus' people East Slavic tribes and peoples, 8th–9th century Today some consider this as a colonial expression of Russian supremacy. ![]() įrom the early nineteenth century, several politically charged theories of Russian nationality were developed, among them, the ideas of a single " all-Russian nation" encompassing the East Slavic peoples, or a "triune nation" of three brotherly "Great Russian", " Little Russian", and "White Russian" peoples. The name of the Russians derives from the early medieval Rus' people, a group of Norse merchants and warriors who relocated from across the Baltic Sea and founded a state centred on Novgorod that later became Kievan Rus'. Another is "россияне" ( rossiyane), which denotes " Russian citizens", regardless of ethnicity or religious affiliation. One is "русские" ( russkie), which in modern Russia most often means "ethnic Russians". There are two Russian words which are commonly translated into English as "Russians". The standard way to refer to citizens of Russia is "Russians" in English. A large Russian diaspora (sometimes including Russian-speaking non-Russians), estimated at around 25 million people, has developed all over the world, with notable numbers in the United States, Germany, Brazil, and Canada. The vast majority of Russians live in native Russia, but notable minorities are scattered throughout other post-Soviet states such as Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Ukraine, and the Baltic states. Of the total 258 million speakers of Russian in the world, about 135 million of them are ethnic Russians. The Russians share many historical and cultural traits with other European peoples, and especially with other East Slavic ethnic groups, specifically Belarusians and Ukrainians. The Russian word for the Russians is derived from the people of Rus' and the territory of Rus'. Genetically, the majority of Russians are very similar to their East Slavic counterparts, unlike Northern Russians, who belong to the Northern European Baltic gene pool. The Russians were formed from East Slavic tribes, and their cultural ancestry is based in Kievan Rus'. They are the largest Slavic nation and the largest European nation. Russian, the most spoken Slavic language, is the shared mother tongue of the Russians Orthodox Christianity has been their historical religion since 988 AD. ![]() The Russians ( Russian: русские, romanized: russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group indigenous to Eastern Europe, who share a common Russian ancestry, culture, and history. Other East Slavs ( Belarusians, Ukrainians, Rusyns) Predominantly Eastern Orthodoxy ( Russian Orthodoxy), minority irreligion ![]() 12/30/2023 0 Comments Android dosbox serial port![]() ![]() The autronic software is built for running on a windows platform.īut there are lots happening in the background on Windows. I said that the idea of running autotune on windows8 frightens me. Wroom, You are saying Windows 8 is bad to run autotune on, and Ubuntu would also be bad with it running in Wine.No. Best performance, and nothing to interfere with the calibration software. I prefer XP or Win2000 to have some stability on the platform.īut if i could run the Autronic software, native and fully supported, on a LiveUSB Linux install i would be a very happy tuner. The idea of running Autotune on Windows8 frightens me. Who is to blame if i happen to tune an engine with a "cooked" version of the Autotune software that damages the engine because of a bug in this special version software made from open source?īecause of the current state of the Windows platform, i think it is best to start cross compile the Autronic software to native x86 32/64-bit Linux. But even if we forget about capabilities of the Autronic software leaking out to competitors, the main issue will be integrity of the calibration and safety. Open source Autronic calibration software would be detrimental. And in that case the effort for porting and maintaining that branch of the Autronic software would be costly. To make an Autronic software for ARM running on a pad/phone i think would be purely for doing small changes or for monitoring/logging. Running Autotune on a Linux X86_64 system would enhance both realtime performance and number crunching performance. What would be a very good idea is to have the Autronic software natively cross ported to Linux/X86, since Linux/X86 has very good realtime performance. The combination effect of these issues is catastrofic to realtime performance. An emulated X86 on an ARM processor makes realtime applications almost impossible. The realtime performance on Android is even worse. ![]() The realtime performance on Windows is bad enough as it is. Running the autotune software on a fully emulated WIN/X86/PC on an ARM/Android host is a very bad idea. But running a realtime application connecting a serial port from an emulated PC is not a very good idea. ![]() It works with things like USB wireless modems because the internet is also packet oriented. Running a serial port on an emulated PC adds even more delay to interaction with the serial port. I am glad the autotune function works well with the USB-serial port. Other "realtime" applications on a PC, like a chip programmer see derated performance when operating over USB instead of either of centronics parallel port or serial port. A USB-serial port has a bigger latency due to the the USB interface being packet oriented. Regarding the serial port: A pure serial port has very low data latency. Autotune use the PC for numeric processing. Tuning with autotune is a realtime application with demands on both low delay on the serial port and also to a degree reliable realtime number crunching performance of the CPU. ![]() 12/30/2023 0 Comments Winston salem open stream![]() Follow the Winston-Salem Open with T365’s live scores centre… The winner of the Draper-Thiem clash will face either 11th seed Ilya Ivashka or qualifier Marc-Andrea Husler in the quarter-final. The clash is scheduled to start at 00:00 BST (Thursday morning). What time is the Jack Draper vs Dominic Thiem match? He then reached the semi-final at the Swiss Open and the last eight in Austria and now sits at No 231. He suffered several early losses, including a first-round exit at Roland Garros, before finding some form at the Swedish Open as he reached the quarter-final. The Austrian slumped to outside the top 350 in the rankings and only made his return in April. Those results saw him climb into the top 100 for the first time and he carried the momentum into the North American swing, winning matches at the Atlanta Open and Citi Open before reaching the quarter-final at the Canadian Open, beating third seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in the third round in Montreal.Ī couple more wins could see him jump into the top 40 of the rankings.įormer Flushing Meadows champion Thiem is bouncing back after the wrist injury that he picked in June last year kept him sidelined for nearly a year. He reached the semi-final at the Eastbourne International – beating fourth seed Diego Schwartzman early on – while he also picked up wins at the Miami Open, Madrid Open, Queen’s Club and Wimbledon. The British youngster started the year at No 265, but he won four ATP Challenger Tour events in the early months to mark the start of his rise. ![]() He is already set to climb to a career-high of No 52 next week after his first-round win. Draper’s ATP Rankings progressīritish No 4 Draper is seeded 13th for the ATP 250 event and it is the result of a remarkable rise the past few months as he currently sits at No 55 in the ATP Rankings. Wednesday’s encounter in North Carolina will be a first-ever meeting between Draper and Thiem. ![]() The 20-year-old, who received a first-round bye, defeated former world No 9 Fabio Fognini in the second round on Tuesday and up next is wildcard Thiem, who is still nursing his way back following a lengthy injury absence.įormer world No 3 Thiem beat JJ Wolff in three sets in the first round and then started sluggishly against top seed Grigor Dimitrov, losing the first set 6-0 before opening up a 2-4 lead in the second set, but the Bulgarian then retired. Jack Draper will look to continue his giant-killing spree when he takes on 2020 US Open champion Dominic Thiem in the third round of the Winston-Salem Open. ![]() 12/30/2023 0 Comments Buying el captin![]() If upgrading from an earlier release, your Mac needs up to 44GB of available storage. Point # 3 - Empty Space Requirements > If upgrading from macOS Sierra or later, your Mac needs 26GB of available storage to upgrade. Point # 2- > How to upgrade to macOS Monterey Point # 1 - Does the > Computer Qualify for the Monterey upgrade The below points should be consider before attempting the upgrade. Use this free app to discover which apps you haveĪre 32bit, then contact the developers of the software to see Some updates may be free, some may be paid. Your Mac is probably running 32bit apps and these will need to be updated to 64bit apps, If you are considering upgrading to Catalina, Big Sur or Monterey be warned they do not support 32bit apps. How to upgrade to macOS Monterey – Apple Support (UK) If you want to or are able to upgrade to Monterey open Safari and click on the link below, Restart, click on the link again, the App Store should say ‘Get' or 'Download'. Go to the Applications folder locate Install macOS ******.app. ![]() If the App Store says ‘Open’ then it is detecting a previous download of the install app Then go to the Use Safari to download macOS section and click on the OS you want to install.īefore upgrading make a full back up of your Mac.Ĭheck that third party apps you use have updates available for the new OS.Ĭheck that your printers/ scanners etc have updated drivers and software available for the new OS.Ĭonnect your mac to your router via cable rather than rely on WiFi.ĭo not use your mac while it is downloadingĪnd do not use any other devices that share the same internet connection. Go to Check Compatibility to see if your mac qualifies for the OS upgrade you want. ![]() MacOs Big Sur 11.6 or the latest macOS Monterey 12.0 I would recommend you upgrade toįor High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina or Big Sur, If you find your mac can upgrade to the newer OS's like macOS Mojave 10.14, macOS Catalina 10.15, Which OS you can upgrade to will be governed by which model and year your mac is.Ĭlick on the top left of your screen click on About This Mac to find out the year of your mac. ![]() 12/30/2023 0 Comments Postgres query plan![]() ![]() 4.18 How do I attach gdb and set a breakpoint in a background worker / helper proc?.4.17 How do I stop gdb getting interrupted by SIGUSR1 all the time?.4.16 Why are my variables full of 0x7f bytes?.4.13 Profiling to analyse performance, CPU use.4.12 I broke initdb, how do I debug it?.4.11 What debugging features are available?.4.10 How do I look at a query plan or parsed query?.4.9 I get shift/reduce conflict I don't know how to deal with. ![]() Can you succinctly explain the parser files? 4.8 I need to do some changes to query parsing.4.5 Why do we use palloc() and pfree() to allocate memory?.4.4 I just added a field to a structure.4.3 Why do we use Node and List to make data structures?.4.2 Why are table, column, type, function, view names sometimes referenced as Name or NameData, and sometimes as char *?.4.1 How do I efficiently access information in system catalogs from the backend code?.3.8 Doesn't the PostgreSQL license itself require to keep the copyright notice intact?.3.7 May I add my own copyright notice where appropriate?.3.6 Do I need to sign a copyright assignment?.3.5 How do I help with reviewing patches?.3.4 What happens to my patch once it is submitted?.3.3 I have developed a patch, what next?.3.2.7 What about unit testing, static analysis, model checking.?.3.1 What do I do after choosing an item to work on?.2.14 Where can I get technical assistance?.2.13 Are there known deviations from the SQL Standard in PostgreSQL?.2.12 Where can I get a copy of the SQL standards?.2.10 Why don't you use raw devices, async-I/O, ?.2.7 What books are good for developers?.2.6 Is there a diagram of the system catalogs available?.2.5 What's the formatting style used in PostgreSQL source code?.2.4 What tools are available for developers?.2.3 What tools are available to learn about/inspect the PostgreSQL on-disk format?.2.2 What information is available to learn PostgreSQL internals?.1.4 How do I get involved in PostgreSQL web site development?.1.3 What development environment is required to develop code?.1.2 How do I download/update the current source tree?.1.1 How do I get involved in PostgreSQL development?. ![]() 12/30/2023 0 Comments Evil lyn yellow skin![]() ![]() More often than not, her powers emanated from within her. Although occasionally using such artifacts as the legendary Shaping Staff and the Spellstone to supplement her powers, she was by no means reliant on external objects to perform her spells and enchantments. She would use all manner of magic spells in combat against the Heroic Warriors, and duped many people with her magical disguises in episodes such as The Shaping Staff, The Curse of the Spellstone, Evil-Lyn's Plot and The Royal Cousin. When her helmet is off, she is revealed to have white or grey hair. Although the toy line may have designed her as an evil counterpart to Teela, in the cartoon she was really more of an evil counterpart to the Sorceress, rather than Teela, seeing as how she possessed no warrior skills whatsoever, but more than compensated for this by her expertise in magic and witchcraft. Voice actress Linda Gary imbued Evil-Lyn with the qualities of perniciousness and refinement simultaneously, and indeed, whatever the character did, she did it with style, unlike the vast majority of the other villains. With her intelligence, fearlessness and her incredible magic skills, Skeletor clearly could not hope for a more capable ally than Evil-Lyn, who is often left in charge when he is away from Snake Mountain. The original figure has bright yellow skin. Initially envisioned as an evil warrior-goddess and counterpart to Teela, Evil-Lyn's action figure is identical to Teela's except in color scheme, head mold and accessories. For gender diversity, Evil-Lyn was introduced into the Masters of the Universe toy line in 1983 in order to add a female to the Evil Warriors. ![]() 12/30/2023 0 Comments Billions season 5 episode 8 putlocker![]() ![]() Once signed up for Hulu and the Showtime add-on, you can watch Billions live as it airs, or you can watch it on-demand anytime after. If you’re a new subscriber, you can start a free 30-day trial of regular Hulu plus the Showtime add-on: Whether you already have Hulu or you want to sign up for a new subscription, Showtime is available as an add-on to either Hulu or Hulu with Live TV. With either option, you can watch on your computer via the FuboTV website, or on your phone (Android and iPhone supported), tablet, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast or other supported device via the FuboTV app. Once signed up, you can either watch Billions live, or you can watch on-demand anytime after. Both the main channel bundle and the Showtime add-on can be included as part of a free seven-day trial: Showtime is available as an add-on to FuboTV’s main 95-channel package. Once you’re signed up for both Amazon Prime and the Showtime channel, you can then watch Billions either live as it airs or on-demand anytime after.įor either option, you can watch on your computer via the Amazon website, or on your phone (Android and iPhone compatible), tablet, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 or other streaming device via the Amazon Video app. If you have Amazon Prime or start a free 30-day trial of Amazon Prime, you can watch all live and on-demand Showtime content via the Showtime Channel, which comes with a free seven-day trial: If you don’t have cable or don’t have Showtime, here’s how to watch Billions episodes live or on-demand on your computer, phone, Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV or other streaming device: Heavy may earn an affiliate commission if you sign up via a link on this page Amazon Prime’s Showtime Channel Joining Prince and Chuck on their next endeavor is Taylor, the latter being way too enthusiastic about defeating Bobby Axelrod.S howtime’s GLAAD award-nominated dramedy Billions, which follows the lives and work issues of hedge fund managers and skillful market manipulators, returns for its fifth season on Sunday, May 3 at 9 p.m. He advises his crew to wait for Axe to make a blunder that would allow them to frame him. Having no other alternative, Prince makes a second attempt at pulling the enemy down. However, the plan goes awry when it is revealed that Axe has bought him more time after he convinced one of his employees to donate a kidney to the dying old man. The man in question is Chuck Sr., who barely has a few days to live. Mike assigns a special mediator to regulate the policies and decisions made at Axe’s charter bank. Elsewhere, Chuck is beginning to accept his powerlessness in front of Axe until the moment Mike arrives. This initiates a business idea in Taylor’s head, but as soon as they convey the same to Axe, he pulls a few strings making sure these companies are not running. However, Mike owns up to his mistakes and sells his positions in multiple companies to ensure they remain unaffected despite the negative publicity. So, he contacts the mother of Prince’s old business partner, who reveals deep dark secrets about Mike publicly. His selflessness and genuine desire to change the world bother Axe even more. Axe is concerned about his rival Mike Prince stepping up the ladder of power and popularity. In the ninth episode, titled ‘Implosion,’ Chuck, Axe, Wendy, and Taylor are still woefully tied up in a neverending streak of power plays. Meanwhile, Chuck will get involved in the Mase Carb financials, which might affect Wendy’s divorce. So in episode 10, he will seek help from an unexpected person in order to gain information on Chuck. And even if he is not, Axe is always prepared to tackle the worst. Seeing how efficient he is, he might already be aware of the dangers lurking around. His return to the office will be accompanied by an announcement that could sabotage the rival party’s plan. In the tenth episode titled ‘Liberty,’ Axe will have news to share. Moreover, the first four seasons of the show are available on iTunes, Vudu, and Microsoft Store. If you don’t have a cable subscription, you can watch the show on DirecTV, Sling TV, Hulu, Fubo TV, Xfinity, Apple TV, and YouTube TV. You can also purchase the episodes on Amazon Prime Video and Spectrum on Demand. You can also catch the show on Showtime’s official website and the Showtime app. You can watch ‘Billions’ season 5 episode 10 by tuning to Showtime at the above-mentioned time. Where to Watch Billions Season 5 Episode 10 Online? ![]() ![]() The fifth season has 12 hour-long episodes that roll out on a weekly basis on Sundays. ‘Billions’ season 5 episode 10 will release on September 19, 2021, at 9 pm ET, on Showtime. Billions Season 5 Episode 10 Release Date ![]() 12/29/2023 0 Comments Google text to talk![]() ![]() When given a text input, the trained WaveNet model can generate the corresponding speech waveforms from scratch, one sample at a time, with up to 24,000 samples per second and seamless transitions between the individual sounds. During training, the network extracts the underlying structure of the speech, such as which tones follow each other and what a realistic speech waveform looks like. The model uses a neural network that has been trained using a large volume of speech samples. Unlike most other text-to-speech systems, a WaveNet model creates raw audio waveforms from scratch. ![]() On average, a WaveNet produces speech audio that people prefer over other text-to-speech technologies. It synthesizes speech with more human-like emphasis and inflection on syllables, phonemes, and words. Most voice synthesizers (including Apple's Siri) use concatenative synthesis, in which a program stores individual phonemes and then pieces them together to form words and sentences.Ī WaveNet generates speech that sounds more natural than other text-to-speech systems. ĭeepMind's AI voice synthesis tech is notably advanced and realistic. It tries to distinguish from its competitors, Amazon and Microsoft, with distinct AI features. Google Cloud Text-to-Speech is powered by WaveNet, software created by Google's UK-based AI subsidiary DeepMind, which was bought by Google in 2014. Apps such as textPlus and WhatsApp use Text-to-Speech to read notifications aloud and provide voice-reply functionality. Some app developers have started adapting and tweaking their Android Auto apps to include Text-to-Speech, such as Hyundai in 2015. Simply Install our software today and just highlight the text you want to listen to, right click and choose 'Text to Speech for Google Chrome' Our text to speech extension will begin. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. You cannot use an IP address since the certificate won’t be valid for the IP address, and the cast device will refuse the connection.This section relies largely or entirely on a single source. ) then you must use the hostname in the certificate (e.g., external_url: ). By using an IP address, the cast device does not have to resolve the hostname. If you are not using SSL then setting an internal URL that contains the IP address of your server works around this issue. In this example, the say service creates a URL like (or if you are using SSL). That’s because your cast device ignores your local naming setup. However, try as you may, your cast device won’t download the media files from your ha machine. All your machines on your local network are able to access it as ha. Let’s say your Home Assistant instance is running on a machine made known locally as ha. They do not work with URLs that contain hostnames established by local naming means. The Google cast devices (Google Home, Chromecast, etc.) present the following problems: Ultimately, your option may be to serve files to local devices as rather than Google cast devices However, many media devices do not allow changing settings to accept self-signed certificates. If you could make the device accept your certificate, it would play the file. ![]() The tts service will send an URL to the media device, which will check the certificate, and reject it. This problem occurs when your Home Assistant instance is configured to be accessed through SSL, and you are using a self-signed certificate on your internal URL. The following sections describe some of the problems encountered with media devices. Depending on your setup, you might need to set an external URL ( external_url) inside the configuration. ![]() 12/29/2023 0 Comments Sandcastle frederik peeters book buy![]() Weighty stuff, expertly told.” -The Comics Bulletin “Peeters and Lévy convey some profound, if profoundly unsubtle, truths about the human condition. ![]() “ Sandcastle is a fast 112-page read you won't be able to put down.”. “Begins like a murder mystery, continues like an episode of The Twilight Zone, and finishes with a kind of existentialism that wouldn’t be out of place in a Von Trier film.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review From the moment I read this I was changed.” - M. ![]() Its themes of aging had me thinking about my parents and children and how quickly it all goes by. It is a profound mystery, sci-fi graphic novel that is illustrated so beautifully and with such humanity. Levy’s dramatic storytelling works seamlessly with Peeters’s sinister art to create a profoundly disturbing and fantastical mystery. Soon everybody is growing older-every half hour-and there doesn’t seem to be any way out of the cove. Then there is the odd fact that all the children are aging rapidly. ![]() It’s a perfect beach day, or so thought the family, young couple, a few tourists, and a refugee who all end up in the same secluded, idyllic cove filled with rock pools and sandy shore, encircled by green, densely vegetated cliffs.įirst there is the dead body of a woman found floating in the crystal-clear water. Night Shyamalan, from his screenplay based on the graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Lévy and Frederik Peeters. The movie is scheduled to be released July 23, 2021. The inspiration for Old, a Blinding Edge Pictures production, directed and produced by two-time Oscar nominee M. ![]() |
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