Full size toiletries and amenities (our room had sunscreen, toothbrushes and toothpaste, and other uncommon amenities). Nighttime entertainment is more grand and has larger production value than Sandals full shows with live bands, lighting, hosts, and themes were more elaborate than Sandals offerings. No reservations required at restaurants. Room Service – contactless, tray pick-up, 24/7, all rooms. We cannot get to a Sandals resort in 1 day from Boise. Destinations have less flight options than many Secrets resort destinations. Room service not available to all guests and not 24/7 Some evening entertainment is repetitive and simple And if you aren’t satisfied with drink, it’s all included so no pressure to finish it! I enjoyed tasting several different cocktails that I’d never had before, and learned which ones I never need to try again (i.e. Restaurant menus also included cocktail menus and specialty drinks and recommendations – helpful for those of us unsure of what cocktails and drinks we like yet. Butler-service rooms also contain full-size liquor bottles with mixers. Mini bar was better, and contained wine and champagne options. Centered on couples (as opposed to groups) Couples-focused – many honeymooners and couples celebrating anniversaries. After dinner nightly entertainment – casual and early Secrets resorts are primarily located in Central America – Mexico, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic. The key difference between the two is that Sandals resorts are located in the Caribbean on 7 different islands. Therefore I’ll predominantly be highlighting the major strengths of each brand along with the key differences and you can decide for yourself which one if preferrable! Although either one makes a dream vacation. Others might value scuba diving while some would not include that in their list of priorities. We must begin by saying that BOTH were stunning, and we plan on returning to both franchises for many more vacations in the future.Īnother thing to note is that it can be difficult to write a definitive “pro and con” list because pro’s to one guest might be con’s to another – for instance having a lively and loud night club for after dinner might be important to some, while others would find it irrelevant. We visited our first Secrets resort for a romantic getaway in November 2022 in Akumal/Riviera Maya. We visited our first Sandals on our honeymoon in June 2021 on the island of Grenada. Both brands have an impressive portfolio of properties, which we have barely dipped our toes into the waters of (no pun intended) this will be a broader look at general resort differences regardless of specific destinations or locations. After having stayed at both Secrets and Sandals, it’s fun to do a little ‘compare and contrast’ between the two luxury adults-only all-inclusives.
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![]() He particularly praised Alvin Lee's guitar work. He noted the atypically soft sound of songs such as "Over the Hill" and "Let the Sky Fall" and approved of this "unexpected but pleasing dimension to the overall feel of the album", while simultaneously praising "the old TYA excitement" of tracks such as "I'd Love to Change the World" and "Baby Won't You Let Me Rock 'n' Roll You". Critical reception Professional ratings Review scoresīilly Walker gave the album a generally positive review in Sounds. "Baby Won't You Let Me Rock 'n' Roll You" also charted, peaking at number 61 in the US, and reaching number 54 in Canada. Although this was their biggest hit, they rarely played it live. By combining a melodic acoustic chorus with challenging electric guitar riffs, they managed to produce a sound that hit number 10 in the charts in Canada and number 40 in the US. The third track on the album, "I'd Love to Change the World", is also their biggest hit. It reached number 17 on the Billboard 200. A departure in style from their previous albums, A Space in Time is less 'heavy' than previous albums and includes more acoustic guitar, perhaps influenced by the success of Led Zeppelin who were mixing acoustic songs with heavier numbers. It was released in August 1971 by Chrysalis Records in the United Kingdom and Columbia Records in the United States.
![]() I recommend naming your templates something like "default-template-SkinLight.package", and your final packages something like "default-SkinLight1.package". Repeat the process until all missing textures are in your package.Click the "Commit" button, "OK", and save your package.Set "Sharpen" to None and click the "Build" button. In the DDS Builder window "Open" the texture image you just extracted.Right-click on the image in Plugin View and select "Build DTX.".Go back to the replacement package you are building and select the new texture.Be sure to save the file as PNG with a filename that will be easy to identify, like "ambodycut.png". Right-click on the image in Plugin View and "Export.".If anyone wants an even more dramatic color change, let me know and I’ll work on it. I left the filenames intact except for adding edited to the front of the files. You cannot have curiousB’s three files and mine, they will conflict Remove hers first. Click on "Texture Image" in the resource tree and select the only available resource. These are edited versions of her Maxis Match roads.Copy the "Instance" on the right-hand side of the Plugin View window into the Filter Resources window.In Plugin View, click on the "All References" tab and "stdMatBaseTextureName".To find the texture, Click on "Material Definition" in the resource tree and select the missing texture.Open the original skin package in SimPE.Right-click in the resource window and "Add.". Go back to the default replacement package you are building.Save it with a filename that is easy to identify, like "ambodycut". Find the missing texture, right click, and "Extract". ![]() If a texture is missing, open the template file for the skin you are replacing in SimPE.If you find a texture that doesn't belong, delete it.The number at the end indicates what default skin it replaces (light=1, normal=2, medium=3, dark=5, alien=5). Compare the listing of textures to the list below and make certain that all the textures are present.Open the new package in SimPE, select "Texture Image" in the resource treeand sort by "type".Be sure to name your package something that will be easy to identify later. Then click "create default skin Override". Set the "Base Skin" to the one you want to replace and check the "Override TXTR" box.Select the skin you want, select the "Operations" tab and find the "Skintone Scanner" section.Select the directory that contains the skin you want to make a default replacement version of and scan. The illustrations in this tutorial use version 0.52. If you are interested in creating your own default replacements from scratch, check out the MTS2 tutorial by WhoGivesADam, Changing Default Textures - Without editing Sims07.package. They can be found in the Default Replacement Skins section of this web site. I don't see the point in duplicating work, so this tutorial assumes that you are working from an existing default replacement skin package for reference instead of creating your own. Download Existing Replacement Sets Setup and Required Downloads Creating A Default Replacement Skin Tips ![]() As mobile devices become ubiquitous, there will be a proliferation of services which include the use of the cloud. Flexible applications include video chat, Web browsing, payment systems, near field communication, audio recording etc. What makes the mobile device unique compared to other technologies is the inherent flexibility in the hardware and also software. Some mobile devices can be used as mobile Internet devices to access the Internet while moving, but they do not need to do this and many phone functions or applications are still operational even while disconnected from the Internet. Wireless access devices can be static and mobile users can move in between wired and wireless hotspots such as in Internet cafés. Not all network access by mobile users, applications and devices need to be via wireless networks and vice versa. ![]() Also, see smart device.Īlthough mobility is often regarded as synonymous with having wireless connectivity, these terms are different. These can be formed into more flexible non-planar display surfaces and products such as clothes and curtains, see OLED display. Skin: fabrics based upon light emitting and conductive polymers and organic computer devices. Dust refers to miniaturized devices without direct HCI interfaces, e.g., micro-electro-mechanical systems ( MEMS), ranging from nanometres through micrometres to millimeters. If one changes the form of the mobile devices in terms of being non-planar, one can also have skin devices and tiny dust-sized devices. smartphones, phablets and pads are defined as hand-held decimeter-sized devices. ![]() Mark Weiser, known as the father of ubiquitous computing, referred to device sizes that are tab-sized, pad and board sized, where tabs are defined as accompanied or wearable centimetre-sized devices, e.g. The most common size of a mobile computing device is pocket-sized, but other sizes for mobile devices exist. Hence, mobile hosts with embedded devices such as an autonomous vehicle can appear larger than pocket-sized. Accompanied refers to an object being loosely bound and accompanying a mobile host, e.g., a smartphone can be carried in a bag or pocket but can easily be misplaced. There are three basic ways mobile devices can be physically bound to mobile hosts: accompanied, surface-mounted, or embedded into the fabric of a host, e.g., an embedded controller in a host device. Another example is an autonomous vehicle. An example of a true mobile computing device, where the device itself is mobile, is a robot. It is the host that is mobile, i.e., a mobile human host carries a non-mobile smartphone device. Strictly speaking, many so-called mobile devices are not mobile.
It’s broadened the scope of the sneaker, collaborating with damn near everyone from artists to fashion houses in the process. The brand hasn’t simply produced and sold Chucks for nearly forever, resting on its laurels either. But when you consider that everyone, including rappers, rockers, punks, thugs, power lifters, fashion dudes and anyone in between has worn Chuck Taylors at some point, it’s easy to see. The fact that a shoe could not only survive, but thrive, for damn near a century before receiving any sort of improvement almost feels like a bad business practice. ![]() It’s inspired innumerable high-fashion and affordable sneakers copycats alike and is so enduring that it only recently received an update in the form of a Lunarlon insole and minute details. The first rendition released 99 years ago in 1917, yet the simple design-a basic rubber sole with textile upper, rubber toe cap and laces that ride up the ankle-remains not only one of the few seminal designs in the sneaker world, but it’s also among the most copied, replicated and ripped-off. The Chuck Taylor is far and away the oldest sneaker on this list, and it’s not even close. It’s the sneaker that anyone can wear, and if there’s a place to start, it’s definitely with a white pair. The Air Force 1 is a staple for anyone who wants an all-white sneaker for the summer, and it embodies the sneaker wearer’s search to stay fresh- as Jay Z once said, “We been together like Nike Airs and crisp tees.” The shoe has gone from its original white-and-gray version, to a Made in Italy style for the “ Anaconda Lux Masterpiece ,” to Riccardo Tisci and Supreme collaborations. While we may consider it more of a lifestyle shoe today thanks to initial popularity in New York City ( shouts to Harlem ) and Baltimore, you simply can’t deny that Bruce Kilgore’s design has lived on through basketball, as worn by players such as Moses Malone and Rasheed Wallace. The Air Force 1 was an icon well before Nelly immortalized it in a song, starting its legacy in ‘82 and evolving both as basketball shoe, and a canvas for some of the greatest designs and collaborations in Nike’s archives. In the non-normative Annex C to ISO 80000-3:2006 (now withdrawn), the symbol of the astronomical unit was also ua. In 2006, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) had recommended ua as the symbol for the unit, from the French "unité astronomique". In the astronomical literature, the symbol AU was (and remains) common. In a 1976 resolution, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) had used the symbol A to denote a length equal to the astronomical unit. History of symbol usage Ī variety of unit symbols and abbreviations have been in use for the astronomical unit. It is also a fundamental component in the definition of another unit of astronomical length, the parsec. The astronomical unit is used primarily for measuring distances within the Solar System or around other stars. The astronomical unit was originally conceived as the average of Earth's aphelion and perihelion however, since 2012 it has been defined as exactly 149 597 870 700 m (see below for several conversions). The actual distance from Earth to the Sun varies by about 3% as Earth orbits the Sun, from a maximum ( aphelion) to a minimum ( perihelion) and back again once each year. The astronomical unit (symbol: au, or AU or AU) is a unit of length, roughly the distance from Earth to the Sun and approximately equal to 150 million kilometres (93 million miles) or 8.3 light-minutes. So for example: 10 0 = 1ġ0 -4 = 1/ 10 × 1/ 10 × 1/ 10 × 1/ 10 = 0.The grey line indicates the Earth–Sun distance, which on average is about 1 astronomical unit. The exponent is negative for numbers less than one and indicates dividing by that number of tens. Very small numbers can also be written using powers-of-ten notation. The same number could accurately be rewritten as 38.4 x 10 4 or 0.384 x 10 6, but the preferred form is to have the first number be between one and ten. So for example, the distance to the Moon of 384,000 km can be re-written as 3.84 x 10 5 km. In powers-of-ten notation, numbers are written as a figure between one and ten multiplied by a power of ten. All of the zeros are put in an exponent, which is written as a superscript, and indicates how many zeros you would need to write out the long form of the number. Astronomers use a system called powers-of-ten notation, which consolidates all of the zeros that you would normally find attached to very large or small numbers such as 1,000,000,000,000 or 0.0000000001. To describe such a huge range, astronomers need a way to avoid confusing terms like "a billion trillion" and "a millionth". The distances and sizes of of the objects astronomers study vary from very small, including atoms and atomic nuclei, to very large including galaxies, clusters of galaxies and the size of the universe. 1 pc = 3.09 x 10 13 km = 3.26 lyįor even greater distances, astronomers use kiloparsecs and megaparsecs (abbreviated kpc and Mpc). A parsec is the distance at which 1 AU subtends an angle of 1 arcsec. This is because its definition is closely related to a method of measuring the distances between stars. Many astronomers prefer to use parsecs (abbreviated pc) to measure distance to stars. This means light from Proxima Centauri takes 4.2 years to travel to Earth. Proxima Centauri is the nearest star to Earth (other than the Sun) and is 4.2 light-years away. A light-year is the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year: 1 ly = 9.5 x 10 12 km = 63,240 AU To measure the distances between stars, astronomers often use light-years (abbreviated ly). The distance from the Sun to the center of the Milky Way is approximately 1.7 x 10 9 AU. Jupiter is about 5.2 AU from the Sun and Pluto is about 39.5 AU from the Sun. An astronomical unit is the average distance between the Earth and the Sun: 1 AU = 1.496 x 10 8 km = 93 million miles However, the distances and sizes in the universe can be so big, that astronomers have invented more units to describe distance.ĭistances in the solar system are often measured in astronomical units (abbreviated AU). They often use meters for length, kilograms for mass, and seconds for time. ![]() Astronomers use many of the same units of measurement as other scientists. ![]() ![]() You could win a Saturn Vue Hybrid filled with eco-beauty products OR one of the many Daily Instant Win prizes. While you’re at it, head on over to Total Beauty and give them a review. So, how do these brands compare to their more chemical laden competition? Have you made the switch to less toxic polish? What has been the big difference in doing so? It doesnt cause discolouration of the nail plate, doesnt chip off, and. The product is quick drying, can be used on a slightly wet first layer of the nail polish or Natural Origin Base. Extremely durable and resistant to abrasion, keeps the colour and gloss for up to 6 days. Water based, Big 3 Free, No Formaldehyde Resin, No Camphor, No Ethyl Acetate – Acquarella, Honeybee Gardens and Suncoat Nail polish that includes minimum 74 of natural origin ingredients. Colors, Nailtini (except Vodka), NARS, Nocti, Orly, PeaceKeeper, Rescue Beauty Lounge, SpaRitual, Wet n’ Wild and Zoyaīig 3 Free, No Formaldehyde Resin, No Camphor – Chanel, Dashing Diva, Estee Lauder, Lippmann, L’oreal, No-Miss, Nubar, Revlon, Sante and Sinful Colors And remember, older formulas are still out there for brands that have made the switch to Big 3 Free.įormaldehyde and DBP Free – Carolyn New York, CND (Creative Nail Design), Misa and NYXīig 3 Free – butter London, Calvin Klein, China Glaze (black label), Color Club, Hard Candy, Maybelline, Nicole, OPI (green label) and Sally Hansenīig 3 Free, No Formaldehyde Resin – MAC, N.Y.C. Of course, if you have allergies I suggest you still read the labels before buying. I tried to cover the majority of the big and cult brands but if I missed one and you have ingredient info to share, please post it in the comments. The range consists of over 1,500 colours with over 450 ways to emphasize your lips, 600 ways to enhance your eyes, and over 300 ways to portray your face, while the extremely rich collection of nail polishes consists of up to 400 shades. Here I’ve broken down the brands according to what is excluded. Which one is right for you? It all depends on the ingredients you want to avoid. OK so you want a polish with less chemicals for health or environmental reasons. ![]() I use “healthier” in quotes to describe these lacquers since the jury is still out as to whether traditional formulas are really a health risk. If you haven’t read my post about Big 3 Free nail polish, I suggest you start there to familiarize yourself with the ingredients the term refers to. Acquarella Conditioner makes nail polish fun and hassle-free. UPDATE: View my 2009 Update – Check Your Ingredients. but, what does it all mean and who makes what? These are all buzz words that the polish industry throws at us to make their product look healthier, more eco-friendly, safer, etc. ![]() One of GIMP's strengths is its free availability from many sources for many operating systems. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. This is one of the reasons why I like GIMP. It’s a full featured, multi-platform graphics editor and its totally awesome. Resynthesizer is a group of plugins that can heal selection and transparency problems. GIMP is amazingly expandable and extensible – it is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. GIMP is the image editing tool of choice for many users, in large part due to its many editing tools. GIMP 2.8.22 is the latest stable version. ![]() ![]() Anyway, many plugins give me errors when I start GIMP 2.10 including Bevel Refect Logo. PSPI and Mathmap both now work (so very happy I am). It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, and so much more. All of my old GIMP plugins just magically showed up (not complaining) probably cached when I first tried to install GIMP 2.10. Like Photoshop, GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, image construction, and has many other capabilities. GIMP Portable is available for immediate download from the GIMP Portable homepage.GIMP is a digital photo manipulation tool for Windows (and many other platforms) that’s considered to be the open source (free) answer to Adobe Photoshop. It's packaged in the Format, so it automatically works with the Platform including the Menu and Backup Utility. GIMP Portable is packaged in a Installer so it will automatically detect an existing installation when your drive is plugged in. The GIMP Portable Photoshop LayoutĪs seen in the screenshot, the GIMP Portable Photoshop Layout changes the layout of the right-hand toolbox and enables GIMP's single window mode to more closely approximate the layout of Adobe Photoshop, making GIMP easier to use for users already familiar with that layout. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. PDF) Addeddate 15:26:26 Identifier gimp-2.8.22-setup Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ppi 600 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.3. Update automatically or install from the portable app store in the Platform. Gimp is the only free alternative to Photoshop Mac and PC Version (With Manual ENG. GIMP 2.4 Download Free GIMP for Mac OS X Edit program info Info updated on: Software Informer Download popular programs, drivers and latest updates easily GIMP is a free versatile graphics manipulation package. ![]() Best of all, it's open source and completely free. It's packaged in Format so it can easily integrate with the Platform. The author and other users will see your posting and can reply to it. If possible, use the BitTorrent download to unload the servers: gimp-2.8. Comments Post your own comments, questions or hints here. You can find a list of current downloads on our download page. The GIMP Portable Photoshop Layout add-on is also available. How to get GIMP 2.8.22 (Windows) This download is obsolete. GIMP Portable is the full-featured GIMP image and photo editor bundled with a launcher as a portable app, so you can edit your photos and images on the go. If you need a wedding checklist or have a daily routine, you can create a template for it in Process Street. It’s superpowered, allowing you to take complete control of your processes and recurring tasks, whatever your schedule. Process Street, however, is different as a structured checklist app. I love how you can set recurring tasks on many checklist apps, but there isn’t a way to trigger entire checklists on demand or to a schedule. Speaking of which… Process Street - The simplest way to manage recurring checklists and processes In terms of work, for your team to keep on top of processes and recurring tasks, you’ll ideally utilize a structured checklist app that provides useful, streamlined checklists! It provides in-depth instructions on how to, for instance, make the guac you’re buying the ingredients for, so it’s as tasty always and that no human error creeps in and ruins it.Īlthough this is a food use case, the same sentiment applies to all areas in both life and work. For instance, the humble grocery shopping list, which can be made with a todo list checklist app, tells you exactly what you need for that awesome guac you’ll be making tonight.Ī structured checklist app, meanwhile, provides you with checklists that tell you how to do something. In a nutshell, a todo list checklist app provides you with lists that tell you what to do. There are overlaps, certainly, but they’re also completely different, too. I promised you 9 tools to try (and fear not, they’re still coming).īut before I get into the nitty-gritty of discussing each app, it’s paramount to talk about structured checklist apps and todo list checklist apps. Structured checklist apps vs todo list checklist apps Take control with Process Street’s checklists!.Structured checklist apps vs todo list checklist apps.Read through these sections to get completely clued-up: Which is why, for this post, I’ve gone in search of the best checklist app ever created, and found some pretty under-the-radar stuff as well as apps most people already know! Part of the problem is that there are so many different apps for slightly different purposes, it’s hard to know which to choose… I’ve written about my pains with productivity before, and I’m not the only one who has trouble sorting themselves out - you probably don’t know which productivity solution is best for you, either. ![]() The Best Checklist App Ever Created? 9 Tools to Try Today Blog: The Process Street Blogįinding the best checklist app isn’t easy. ![]() If the remote branch is updated when you do a fetch operation, it will be updated automatically. On the other hand, if this remote tracking branch is not local, there is no way to reference the remote branch from local, so you cannot checkout. In other words, it's like a bookmark that shows where the branch was pointing when you connected to the remote repository. This "remote tracking branch" is a referenced pointer that holds the state of the remote branch. Specifically, a "remote tracking branch" is created when you refer to a remote branch locally. So, what is the process of copying a branch to local? So, instead of writing directly to remote, you need to copy the branch to local. It is important to note that the remote branch cannot be manipulated directly. Remote branches cannot be written directly And the branch in the remote is called the "remote branch" in Git. Therefore, any repository that is outside of your local area on the Internet is remote. Now that we've covered the specifics, what is a git remote anyway? A Git remote is the same Git repository external to you because Git is a distributed version control system, there is no "central" repository that is correct, and the same Git repository is maintained in multiple locations. This section explains the concept of a "remote branch" in Git, which is necessary to understand why the previous command works. By selecting only branch_name, you can create locally. Note here that the branch name specified in this one-liner is not a tracking branch like origin/branch_name, but only branch_name. ![]()
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