![]() ![]() Gridded paper brings with it a reassuring sense of order and neatness, and perhaps a hint of nostalgia for beloved school stationery.ĭotted notebooks give you the best of all worlds: the structure of ruled lines along with the freedom of plain paper. Squared paper or gridlines are wonderful for both writing and working with numbers. The freedom of the blank page is perfect for visual thinkers and anyone whose work or passions involve freehand creativity. Plain pages lend themselves to drawing, doodling and sketching. Lines guide linear thinking and bring a sense of order as you work through your thoughts by hand on the page. Ruled notebooks are the best option if you need to write words, take notes, and make lists. How do you plan to use your paper journal? Are you taking notes in meetings or sketching in the subway? Choose between: Ultimately though, whether you choose hard cover or soft cover is a question of personal preference. ![]() If you want a notebook small enough to store in your pocket, then the flexibility of a soft cover makes it the more comfortable option. That said, by design a softcover notebook is more lightweight and flexible to carry around. What's more, it protects your ideas as it is more resistant to wear and tear, especially if you are constantly moving between appointments. The sturdy and professional feel of a hard cover notebook can also add a sense of gravitas to your notetaking. Hardcover notebooks are perfect for taking notes on the move as the rigid cover provides a reliable writing surface away from your desk. Hardcover Notebook or Softcover Notebookīrowse our collections to find both hardcover notebooks and softcover notebooks available in different sizes and colors and with a choice of page layouts.Are you looking for a high-quality notebook to note down ideas and fill with personal and professional projects? Discover Moleskine’s wide selection of notebooks with various size, color and cover options.ĭon’t you know where to start? Let us help you to pick the perfect notebook for capturing and exploring inspiration at home, at work and on the move. ![]()
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![]() I’ll be walking through the Office 365 Outlook version, but the others are pretty much the same. may not be “early” to a lot of you, but these values are easy to change.īefore I get into the implementation, if you only care about the solution, I’ve created templates for Office 365 Outlook,, and Google Calendar/Gmail. This gives me time to change my alarm if needed or make other plans. and sends me and email if I have a meeting before 10 a.m. It was amazing and he had such a good performance from beginning to end.Have you ever missed an important meeting because it was before your normal work hours? This happened to me one too many times, so I decided to do something about it! My flow runs every night around 8 p.m.
![]() There were massive human rights concerns, too, particularly with the Remain in Mexico program and the separation of children from their families at the border.įacing reporters on Monday, DeSantis said he would be more “aggressive” than Trump in implementing strong immigration policies if elected president. Trump’s policies worked to constrict immigration, but the number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border still swelled during his time in office before dropping during the COVID-19 pandemic.Īnd his policies caused clogs in the system that led to massive overcrowding for instance, the immigration court case backlog alone grew from roughly 500,000 in June 2016 to 1.3 million cases by the end of 2020. He promised to carry out “the largest domestic deportation operation on the border” and boasted about completing more than 300 miles (or 480 kilometers) of wall along the southern border during his administration while promising to build even more should he win another term. Trump emphasized immigration while delivering the keynote address to hundreds of enthusiastic religious conservatives at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s conference in Washington over the weekend. ![]() But immigration has been central to their messages no matter where they are. The fierce feud between Trump and DeSantis, which includes clashes over policy and personality, will continue on Tuesday as both men are scheduled to campaign in New Hampshire. “He is a failed candidate, whose sole purpose in making the trip was to reiterate the fact that he would do all of the things done by me in creating the strongest Border, by far, in U.S. ![]() Still, it may be difficult for DeSantis to separate himself on immigration from the many other Republicans seeking the 2024 presidential nomination - especially Trump, the front-runner. disapprove of Biden's handling of immigration, according to a recent AP-NORC poll. Yet voters in the political middle have warmed to more aggressive immigration policies in recent months as illegal border crossing surged. The pro-immigrant group America's Voice condemned DeSantis for making “invasion” references that have been used by white supremacists. But in leading with immigration, the two-term Florida governor is prioritizing a divisive issue that has long been a focus of the GOP's most conservative voters. The DeSantis campaign has promised to release more detailed policy rollouts in the coming weeks. "And if you do that one time, you’re not going to see them mess with our wall ever again," he said. "So if the cartels are cutting through the border wall, trying to run product into this country, they’re going to end up stone cold dead as a result of that bad decision. Yet why don’t we do that at the southern border?" DeSantis asked. “If somebody were breaking into your house to do something bad, you would respond with force. He likened illegal border crossings to home break-ins and warned that drug traffickers trying to bring their product into the United States could wind up “stone cold dead.” “What we’re saying is no excuses on this.” for years and years and years, going back decades - Republicans and Democrats - always chirping about this yet never actually bringing the issue to a conclusion," DeSantis told an audience of roughly 100 residents, including local Democratic officials, school teachers and mothers of children lost to fentanyl overdoses. Still, DeSantis projected confidence on Monday, excoriating leaders in both political parties for failing to stop what he called an immigrant “invasion.” He addressed his plans while touring Eagle Pass, a community that has emerged as a major corridor for illegal border crossings during Joe Biden’s presidency. Much of DeSantis' plan faces tall odds, requiring the reversal of legal precedents, approval from other countries or even an amendment to the U.S. ![]() The sweeping plan, the Florida governor's first detailed policy release as a 2024 contender, represents a long-established wish list of Republican immigration proposals that largely mirrors former President Donald Trump's policies. forces into Mexico to combat drug cartels as part of an aggressive - and familiar - immigration policy proposal he laid out Monday in a Texas border city. Attala County Board of Supervisors District 2ĮAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis promised to end birthright citizenship, finish building the southern border wall and send U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This step also serves another purpose, which is selecting the primary colours of my illustration. Tip: Activate ‘Use fill’ on the Pen Tool Toolbar to add fill colours as you draw. Here I can also spot composition mistakes or test last minute ideas and move around all my paths until I find a composition I like. I switch to Vector Persona and using the Pen Tool or by reshaping the default shapes, I trace my whole sketch over. Now that the main idea is clear in my mind, it’s time to create the main shapes. I tend to use raster brushes to draft my sketches to keep a simpler layer structure and because I don’t need to edit my strokes other than erasing or scaling them. All I need is to put my idea down as quick as possible, and then I improve it as I go, it also depends on the level of detail I need for my final illustration. I try not to be too careful with my line work at this stage. This can also be done manually tapping the + icon at the top of the Layers Studio. Notice that Designer will create a Pixel Layer automatically the moment you start drawing. Then I pick one of the fantastic default drawing brushes, or one from my own Frankentoon library and start doodling around until I find something I like. If I don’t have any sketch to work with, the first thing I do when I fire up Affinity Designer on my iPad is to switch to Pixel Persona. Tip: Note that this tutorial has been created using Affinity Designer for iPad, but all the techniques demonstrated can be achieved in the desktop versions. Now, let’s see some practical examples of what I listed above. Of course, I could spend the whole day listing lots of practical uses for both type of graphics, but this checklist should be enough to give you an idea of how to get started. When I need to add photo-realistic textures.For planning and sketching my illustration. ![]() Creating smooth and clean colour gradients.Then we’ll see examples of both working together. In this tutorial, rather than giving a ‘step by step guide’, I’ll try to break down the ways I usually combine both Personas in Affinity Designer for iPad, and why I choose one over the other, depending on the outcome needed.įor the sake of keeping things simple from the beginning, I’m going to put down a super easy checklist, showing when I use vector graphics and when raster. If you come from Adobe Illustrator or similar, this concept of an integrated raster editor within a vector app may sound weird at the beginning. One of the features that causes more confusion among Affinity Designer newcomers is the unique Vector/Pixel Personas combo. Want to create your own Joking Bird? Let’s get started! If you would like to follow along you can download a 10-day trial of the macOS or Windows app for free! The same principles apply when working in the desktop version. Here Frankentoon shares the process for creating his vibrant illustration ‘Joking Bird’ using Affinity Designer for iPad and explains how he likes to combine Affinity Designer’s unique Vector and Raster Personas in his work. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() AnĮxample of a brute-force attack on a 5 digit password would be an attacker trying: Letters, numbers and symbols until they determine the password which matches your username. Source: WikipediaĪ brute-force attack is an attempt by a malicious actor to test all the possible combinations of ![]() Brute-Force AttacksĮnough chimps with enough time will brute-force your password. User’s choice of password likely hasn’t kept up with these rapid advancements. Graphic cards in particular have greatly increased in performance, but unfortunately the average It is important to keep in mind that this video was published in 2016. We recommend our users to activate two-step authentication in our password security guide. 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Sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools -mode=all Press Return, enter your Mac’s password, and press Return again.įiles generated by Xcode and its components run into tens of gigabytes. To delete the legacy files of legacy Xcode versions, launch Terminal and paste the command below into the console. If you find that some Xcode files are still resident on your Mac’s hard drive, you probably have an old version of the Xcode app. You can also run the mdfind command in Terminal to confirm that the files have indeed been deleted. Proceed to empty your Mac’s Bin after uninstalling Xcode and deleting the residual files. The folder will be deleted after entering your Mac’s password. Sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/.Xcode Paste the command above and press Return. Right-click the Developer folder and select Move to Bin.Įxecute the next command to delete other support files in the Library cache folder. An alternative route is to launch the Go to Folder windows (Shift + Command + G), paste ~/Library/ into the dialog box, and click Go. This command will remove Xcode’s leftover files in the Developer folder. To do so, launch Terminal (go to Finder > Applications > Utilities > Terminal) and paste the following command.Įnter your Mac’s password and press Return. If your Mac doesn’t delete these files/folders after uninstalling Xcode, you should. You may also find support files in the ~/Library/Caches/ folder. The files of newer Xcode versions are usually consolidated in the ~/Library/Developer/ folder. ![]() Now, proceed to remove its residual files. That will immediately uninstall Xcode from your Mac. Right-click on the Xcode icon and select Move to Bin on the context menu. Launch Finder and click Applications on the right sidebar. The first step to uninstalling Xcode from your Mac (and deleting its residual files) is to move the app itself to the macOS Bin. Follow the steps below to uninstall Xcode and completely remove all its associated data-leftover files and components. However, some files may still be lurking behind. When you uninstall Xcode from your Mac, a bunch of these files will be deleted. That’s why you should use the mdfind command to locate the files before uninstalling Xcode. You may find extra Xcode files in directories not listed above on your Mac. Files and folders commonly associated with Xcode are listed below: Mind you, you shouldn't delete all directories displayed in the results. You can run the command again after uninstalling Xcode to find any leftover file. Take note of the directories and file paths in the results. Type or paste the command below into the Terminal console and press Return on your keyboard.ģ. Go to Finder > Applications > Utilities and double-click Terminal.Ģ. You can use the mdfind command in Terminal to locate all the files associated with the Xcode app. That’ll give you an idea of where to look when you need to delete Xcode’s leftover files after uninstalling the app. That will immediately uninstall Xcode from your Mac.īefore you proceed to uninstall Xcode, we recommend that you find where the app's files and components are located on your Mac. ![]() First launch Finder and click Applications on the right sidebar. ![]() ![]() ![]() That way this d orbital or d sublevel be completely filled which is very stable versus the s orbital will be halfway filled. ![]() ![]() Okay so anytime that it ends in d9 we're going to fix it up a little bit, same exact way we're going to take an electron from the 4s and we're going to move it over to the 3d. So let's make the electron configuration for that 1s2, 2s2, 2p6, 3s2, 3p6, 4s2, 3d9 from here on out anytime you see d9 we're going to change it. So you might see either one but they're the same.ĭown here the other exception that you're going to see is copper, or anything along copper which we'll talk about. So this is talking about the order of energy you might see it also looking like this, this is just doing it in order of number 3 comes before 4 but they're exactly the same thing, they're depicting the exact same thing, nothing different about them. You might see this is the diagram or the electron configuration that you're going to see and this is actually higher in energy than this. So instead we're going to write actually we're going to make this argon as we noted before in the noble gas configuration and we're going to make this 4s1, 3d5 this is halfway filled which is pretty stable and this is much more stable being half way filled rather than being the d4. So what we're going to do, we're going to, that should be a 2 there, sorry, and we're going to take one of the electrons in the 4s orbital and move it over to the 3d orbital. Right now we're 1 electron short of it being halfway filled. The d sublevel is more stable when its either half full all the orbitals are filled with at least 1 electron or completely filled. If we're going to make this short hand and make the electron configuration for this we would make this 1s2, 2s2, 2p6, 3s2, 3p6, 4s2, 3d4 okay from now on every time you see 3d4 you're going to change it, we do not like 3d4. Chromium is a transition metal and it has 24 electrons and here is the orbital diagram. Okay alright so let's talk about the exceptions you're going to see when you're dealing with electron configuration there's going to be a few around but we're going to talk about the main ones you're probably going to see in class. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While the card’s baseline rewards are on par with the other options here, it won’t be as good of an option if you plan to spend more than $2,500 in the bonus categories each quarter. Once you reach $2,500 in combined choice category/grocery store/wholesale club purchases each quarter, your cash-back rate for those categories will drop to 1%. You’ll also earn 2% cash back at grocery stores and wholesale clubs and 1% cash back on all other purchases. You can earn 3% cash back on one spending category of your choice, of which online shopping is an option. The Bank of America® Customized Cash Rewards credit card* gives cardholders more flexibility over how their card earns rewards. You can learn more in our Blue Cash Everyday review. 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Intricately patterned with gray and brown. 41 Sound Impressions Bass No doubt, this NightHawk was intended for bass enthusiasts. Age of young at first flight probably about 3 weeks. Camouflaged to blend into daytime roosts. If approached, adults put on "broken wing" act to lure intruders away in case of disturbance, young often move to new spot, able to crawl over ground with surprising speed. Age of young at first flight probably about 3 weeks.īoth parents feed young, by regurgitating insects. Rather, the sound you hear is that of the recording: if the mix sounds warm and has touches of midrange liquidity, then that’s how the Nighthawk will sound, but if the mix sounds flat and dry, so too will the Nighthawk convey those qualities. Young: Both parents feed young, by regurgitating insects. ![]() Incubation is mostly or entirely by female, about 18-19 days. White to pale gray, finely dotted with gray, brown, and lavender. Today, you are going to learn how to EASILY identify the calls and sounds that a Red-tailed Hawk makes My guess is that after listening, you will realize yo. Quick wooshing sound produced by male wings during dive display (e.g., OR cut). Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes, Caprimulgidae, Chordeilinae. Common Nighthawk: Buzzy meer, given in flight given day or night. I try to pick up the cadence of the sounds and run through the usual suspects. Then the person asking the question starts to hoot, cluck, chirp, or squeak. Will feed around bright lights at night, taking the insects attracted there.Ģ. Poorwills also fly at night, but their wings are all brown, and the call is poor-will. There it goes again Is someone beating on a plastic trash can lid I am often asked, Do you know what makes this sound. Also may feed by sitting on the ground at night and fluttering up to catch insects as they pass. Forages mostly in flight, usually flying fairly low, scooping up flying insects in its wide mouth. Forages most actively near dusk, also at night and sometimes by day. ![]() |
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