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![]() That’s because whales are mammals-not fish-meaning they have hair, are warm-blooded and, rather than laying eggs, they give birth to live young that the mother nurses with her milk. Although these whiskers are only visible in some species, the possession of hair follicles is an evolutionary trait that can be seen in all species, including humpback and blue whales. These whiskers quickly disappear because the animals have “absolutely no use” for hair to keep warm underwater. Whales have hairĪlthough they don’t look furry, whales do have hair, Hodgins says, explaining that some whales and dolphins are born with what look like whiskers on their beaks. So we’re setting the record straight and busting the most common myths about these marine mammals. These animals also can’t breathe underwater, and they don’t actually spray water from their blowholes. People are commonly surprised when they hear that not all whales can sing. This is just one of many misconceptions about whales that can be disproven by science. Only the sperm whale has a large enough throat to accommodate human-sized prey-but given that it lives in deep, offshore waters, this species is unlikely to ever encounter a person, let alone swallow one. For example, a humpback whale’s mouth can reach up to 10 feet but its throat can only stretch to about 15 inches in diameter. nonprofit Whale and Dolphin Conservation told National Geographic in the wake of the latest such incident, the throats of most whales are too small to swallow something as big as a human. But while there have been instances of humans being engulfed in a whale’s mouth-including, most recently, a lobster fisherman in Cape Cod, Massachusetts-most whales are not even capable of swallowing people.Īs Nicola Hodgins of the U.K. This property does not accommodate bachelor(ette) or similar parties.The belief that whales are so large they can swallow humans alive is as old as the Biblical story of Jonah and the whale. After full payment is taken, the property's details, including the address and where to pick up the keys, will be sent to you by email. Meredith Lodging Direct will send a confirmation with detailed payment information. Please note that the full amount of the reservation is due before arrival. You can use the Special Requests box when booking, or contact the property directly using the contact details in your confirmation. Please inform Whale's Spout of your expected arrival time in advance. Please note that all Special Requests are subject to availability and additional charges may apply. ![]() ![]() Guests are required to show a photo ID and credit card upon check-in. If the agreement is not received, the guest should contact the property management company at the number on the booking confirmation. Guests will receive a rental agreement which must be signed and returned to the property prior to arrival. Guests under the age of 25 can only check in with a parent or official guardian. For questions on this, please contact our office. Amenities and furnishings are subject to change at any time. When you stay at Whale Spout in the Cavalier Beachfront Condos, you will have access to numerous amenities, including: an indoor heated pool, 2 saunas, a Recreation Room with Kitchen, Fireplace, Pool Table, Ping Pong Table, a Recreation Room Patio with a patio table and chairs, gas BBQ grills, and direct beach access. This comfortably furnished condo has a living room with a large flat screen TV, DVD Player, WiFi and a fireplace a fully equipped kitchen, and everything you’ll need to enjoy your Oregon coast vacation. This 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo is beautifully furnished ideal for winter storm watching with fireplace, spacious living areas, large windows, and private oceanfront deck. This wonderful OCEANFRONT getaway with magnificent ocean views is the ideal choice for a romantic weekend or family beach vacation. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can download them or clone them from GitHub here or follow along and add them as we go.įirst, open or create a file called console.txt. Otherwise, I recommend creating a dev folder under your user and under that add utils and speech-to-text subfolders. If you’ve already got a dev environment set up, then you know where you want to put this. We’re going to save the input audio here and have a text file to receive the output text along with the command line commands and Python scripts that do all of the work. With Python, hopefully, up and running and your IBM account you’re ready to set things up.įirst, create a folder to host your scripts. We will need both of these things when setting up your scripts. Your API Key (keep this secret) and the Url where IBM is listening for your requests. You should be on a page listing your speech-to-text settings. The defaults should be fine for a hacked together tool like this. Next, go to your IBM Bluemix Console (log in if you need) and then search for and select “speech to text”. Sign Up for Watsonįirst, create an IBM Cloud account and confirm your email, agree to give up your next child in the TOS, and finish all of the usual other setup steps. It took me a lot of Googling but I’m sure you’ll get there if you have enough time.Īlternately, ask a Mac-using friend to borrow their computer. Setting this up is way beyond the scope of this article. I installed Bash, integrated it with VS Code and then followed the Linux instructions to get Python running. In my case, I’ve got WSL running Ubuntu Linux in Visual Studio Code. If you’re on a Windows machine, then you have some work to do installing Python on Windows, Cygwin, or setting up the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). If you’re on Mac or Linux, you’ve already got Python installed and should be good to go. ![]() You’ll need to be able to run Python in order to follow the instructions here. You’ll need to read the output while listening along and check the words as well as add punctuation, but I’d estimate that I can do five minutes of audio in about 15 minutes of work now that I have this set up whereas it could take the better part of an hour before. Machine transcription is far from perfect, and IBM Watson is no exception. IBM allows 100 minutes of transcription a month which should be enough most people who need a hacky solution like this. I’m going to show you how to use IBM Watson’s Speech-to-Text along with Python in order to partially automate the transcription process. However, if you’re just looking to transcribe an interview for something like a case study, testimonial, or qualitative feedback, you don’t have the budget to pass off this tedious work to someone else, and don’t have the patience to do everything yourself then this hacked together workflow will speed up the boring bits significantly. ![]() If you are working with text at scale, I recommend you pay for one of the many wonderful services or pay to have someone integrate machine-learning-powered speech-to-text with your workflows. So you’ve got some audio that you want to turn into text? There are a lot of good, inexpensive options out there powered by machines, people, and a mix of the two. ![]() ![]() ![]() These have significance according to the order in which they are specified. These options may be used individually, used together in any order, or combined after one hyphen if they all use a single hyphen: $ ls -l For example, the ls (list-files) command will include hidden files in its output if the -a argument is given, and will list detailed information about files when the -l option is specified. These start with a hyphen or double-hyphen ( - or -) and modify the way the command operates. Press Ctrl-D or type exit to drop superuser access and return to your regular shell prompt. The shell prompt will change to end in a pound sign ( #) instead of a dollar sign ( $) when you are in root mode. ![]() If you’re using the root account, an incorrect command can cause a lot more damage than the same command executed in a normal account.Īlthough you can directly log in as a root user, it’s usually much safer to take on root privilege only when necessary, using the su (switch user) command: $ su Although it’s tempting to use the root account all the time on a single-user computer, it is unwise because Fedora assumes that you know what you’re doing and won’t ask for confirmation if you enter a dangerous command it will just go ahead and execute it. root access is required for many system administration commands. The superuser account, root, is also called the privileged account, because it is not subject to the security restrictions that are applied to regular user accounts. Obtaining a root prompt to enter commands as the superuser ![]() ![]() From DayZ come streets and camps haunted by zombies, loot to help you survive and the need to manage hunger and thirst stats, not to mention the social aspect of sharing the world with other players who may want to help or kill you. It’s been around for about as long as Rust, having first launched in Early Access in July 2014, and developer Nelson Sexton has constantly added new features to it ever since. It is, after all, directly inspired by DayZ, and has grown up right alongside the likes of Rust. There is an enormous amount to do and deal with when you play, a natural product of Unturned’s nature as a survival game. What I am trying to say is: I’m very bad at Unturned.Īlso, I’m trying to say that you shouldn’t take Unturned’s looks at face value. I’ve fallen off a crane, starved, frozen, fallen in spikes and I was punched to death in the black of night. ![]() I’ve probably been mauled by zombies the most. I’ve been mauled by zombies too, of course. I’ve bled to death, been shot and been battered with a spade. But was that simply because it’s free, or is there more to uncover in Unturned? Here’s wot I think. Made by a Canadian school student, it’s just come out of Early Access, where it attracted nearly 25 million players. One particular answer is Unturned, a free-to-play Day-Glo take on DayZ. This is a generation that’s been immersed in modding culture and open objectives since it could grasp a mouse, and I’m fascinated to see how that might have formed new attitudes to games in general. Players can join player versus environment servers to team up with other people, and easily create clans to play with their pals.This is the first public release of the game, but new features and content are constantly getting added as a result of community feedback.I’ve been wondering for a while what kinds of games kids who grew up playing Minecraft and Roblox would go on to make for themselves. Banditry is highly supported with plenty of weapons and sneaky devices. Players can choose to enter player versus player servers and battle other players to steal their gear. Currently the island has plenty of interesting locations to discover and loot. The initial release map is set on the lovely Prince Edward Island, but over the next few months many more locations will arrive for players to explore depending on what the community wants to see. The game goes where the community wants it to. ![]() What sort of survival stuff is added is entirely decided by the community. ![]() It is entirely possible to live off the wilderness by harvesting trees and rocks, growing crops and hunting animals down. ![]() More options for building are constantly being added based on what the community requests. It is also possible to create traps and intricate electronic systems. The game is being developed entirely with the community in focus, and tons of features are based entirely on feedback: Players can build massive forts out of structural building blocks, or build onto smaller buildings in the world with barricades. Over the course of a typical adventure, groups will have a blast fortifying locations, scavenging for supplies, trying to live off the land and negotiating with other people. Rather than focusing on being an MMO it provides players with easy systems to sit down and survive the zombie infestation with their friends. Unturned is a sandbox game in the emerging multiplayer apocalypse survival genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() The year 1993 launched me into my dream career when I completed a grand regulation course at the North Bennet Street School of Piano Technology in Boston and worked full time replacing soundboards and pinblocks with George Crawford in Alston, Massachusetts. I have recently moved to Chelan, WA. I am now servicing pianos in Chelan County and nearby areas, as well as the Portland Metro area.I owe the success of my career as a concert piano technician not only to formal trainin g but to countless hours of invaluable hands-on experience. This can be sometimes avoided by regular tuning by a certified technician. I have been very successful in satisfying customers, although sadly, some pianos are beyond repair. In my first year of being a certified tuner, I have been asked to tune Grands, Uprights, Spinets, Consoles, and even ex-Player Pianos. It was both my way of testing the piano for any mistakes and rewarding myself for all that hard work. I even had to be told to mellow out on the piano playing, because after tuning or regulating a piano, I always had to jam out. Because I had been playing piano my whole life, I understood how the instrument was supposed to respond. Although it took more time to complete the repair sections, regulation was the other easy concept for me. So it was no surprise to them that after graduating from high school, I enrolled in the course and zoomed through the tuning lessons, passing the test in three weeks. I was the youngest person to take an evaluation class in tuning from the Piano Hospital. I couldn’t stand doing a gig without doing some touch up tuning on the piano first. Most of my tuning throughout my high school life was not for money, but rather for myself. By the end of June, I had tuned both pianos at my church, all four pianos at my high school, and a few neighbors’ pianos. ![]() People in my small hometown of Kalama were eager to let me have a go at tuning their pianos. I had many opportunities to practice, make mistakes, and pick up my speed. Little by little, I learned how to line up the 3rds, 4ths, 5ths, and octaves. With no one to teach me how to properly tune a piano, I purchased some actual tools, so I wouldn’t have to use a ratchet and mutes made of paper or foam. They still let me take the course, and by the time the training had finished, I had almost tuned a whole piano. Upon learning that I was only fifteen, the Piano Hospital informed me that I actually had to graduate high school first. I had it in mind to take some summer classes or get some training on weekends. ![]() Immediately after that, I took a two-day class on piano tuning and piano repair from the Piano Hospital in Vancouver, WA. I got a hold of the tool and started trying to tweak other notes. Beautiful.” Naturally, you can guess what happened next. However, blocking out that string made the note dead, so my dad put together a ratchet tool and tightened the string until I said, “Alright stop. I made a makeshift mute out of Braille paper, a step up from my original paper napkin idea. One day, I was rocking out on the Potts family piano, when a note knocked out of tune to the point of being unusable. As I grew up, I began to examine the machinery of the instrument, and also, the number of strings per note. As a young piano student, I always noticed when pianos were out of tune. I was blessed with the God-given gift of music, as well as the blessing and curse called perfect pitch. How blind you ask? My vision level is zip, zilch, and nada. My name is Mac Potts, and I was born blind. ![]() ![]() ![]() Do not stay in the sun for any prolonged period of time because it will completely destroy your team's shields. You must stay in the shade and run from cover to cover to survive. Solar radiation on the surface is so strong that it will weaken and eventually overload Shepard's shields. Unfortunately the planet is under attack by the geth. Haestrom was a former quarian colony world to which Tali and her team have travelled to study the unusual things its sun is doing. However, as Legion is acquired after the Reaper IFF mission which also starts a countdown to the Suicide Mission (the conclusion of the main storyline), taking this route will likely have serious consequences for the crew's survival chances. Note: If you wish to acquire the Geth Pulse Rifle at the end of this mission near Tali's location, be sure to set the difficulty setting to either Hardcore or Insanity BEFORE landing on Haestrom while aboard the Normandy, or as soon as you land on Haestrom.īringing Legion: Some unique dialogue and cutscenes will occur if you bring Legion on this mission. There will be one opportunity to change weapons, so you can consider taking one loadout of weapons for the first half of the mission and then switch to a different loadout for the second half, which features some heavily armored opponents including a "boss". ![]() In terms of heavy weapons, the Arc Projector deals bonus damage to shields and even more to synthetic enemies, and it also possesses several useful secondary effects that can come in especially handy on this mission. If you have completed Lair of the Shadow Broker to unlock it (in this or any previous playthrough), Stasis is useful for this mission because of its ability to instantly kill flying drone-type enemies and its ability to freeze and drop enemies even with protection layers still active otherwise, Energy Drain is an excellent bonus power choice if your chosen class does not possess Overload as it not only kills enemy shields but recharges and reinforces your own. Garrus deserves special mention as his passive can enable his Overload to one-shot the shields of lesser geth enemies even on the highest difficulties if both powers are sufficiently high level. The Area Overload evolution is recommended if playing on Hardcore or Insanity due to the geth numbers and their tendency to clump up in narrow areas. Tactical themes of this mission include lots of geth and long fields of fire: Overload, Disruptor Ammo, sniper rifles, and the squadmates who provide them are all useful. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is beneficial for when you want to pull in updates from someone else's fork of a project, for example. ![]() #10 0.358 error: cannot run ssh: No such file or directory #10 0.In the Git version control system you're able to push and pull code from any number of remote repositories. OK, let’s add that and check once again: => ERROR RUN -mount=type=ssh git clone 0.6s - > RUN -mount=type=ssh git clone #10 0.356 Cloning into 'dependency'. To do that, set the first line of the Dockerfile as a comment with a specific frontend image # syntax=docker/dockerfile:experimental. The mount flag is currently not available in the stable channel of external Dockerfiles, so you need to use one of the releases in the experimental channel. You will quickly see the error: Dockerfile parse error line 8: Unknown flag: mount. You might imagine we will need a command like: RUN -mount=type=ssh git clone having it running out of the box would be too simple. This will set up the SSH_AUTH_SOCKenvironment variable to make programs relying on SSH automatically use that socket. To request SSH access for a RUN command in the Dockerfile, define a mount with type ssh. Only the commands in the Dockerfile that have explicitly requested the SSH access by defining type=ssh mount have access to SSH agent connections. Note that when using the default configuration you need to add your keys to your local SSH agent as we did in the previous step as it won’t connect your ~/.ssh/id_rsa key automatically. The socket path can be left empty if you want to use the value of default=$SSH_AUTH_SOCK. The flag accepts a key-value pair defining the location for the local SSH agent socket or the private keys. Therefore, our final command will be: DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build -ssh default. It has an -ssh option to allow the Docker Engine to forward SSH agent connections. Since we are adjusting docker build command, let’s stay here for a moment. # or just $ DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build. The easiest way from a fresh install of docker to enable BuildKit is to set the DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 environment variable when invoking the docker buildcommand, such as: $ export DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 $ docker build. If someone on the proxy machine tries to MITM your connection, you will be warned by ssh. That way, ssh will forward the TCP connection to the target host and the actual connection will be made on your workstation. Moreover, you can use either Prox圜ommand or ProxyJump. You may use ssh-agent -c which will show a confirmation window each time some program wants to use the agent to authenticate somewhere. ![]() But then again: Why take the chance? You might also say that the window of compromise is small since it is only open while you’re connected to the host. You might say that host only belongs to yourself, there is no other user on it, even less so someone with root access. If your proxy machine is compromised and you use SSH agent forwarding to connect to another machine through it, then you risk also compromising the target machine. ![]() circleci/congig.yml to make sure it will work the specific Docker version we need: - setup_remote_docker: version: 18.09.3 docker_layer_caching: trueĪ side note: SSH Agent Forwarding has its flaws. On CircleCI you can alternatively use: version: 2 jobs: build: docker: - image: circleci/elixir environment: DOCKER_BUILDKIT: 1Īdditionally, modify the. You usually want to have some more fine-grained solution with better security control.Ĭonsidering that, we will stick to the SSH configuration like this: defp deps do [ The problem is that sometimes you don’t want to expose your own credentials, nor generate your personal access token. git config -global ""įor more information, see the git config documentation: You may, for example, fetch them like that: gem 'private', git: # or gem 'private', git: your Git repository requires authentication, such as basic username:password HTTP authentication in URLs, it can be achieved via Git configuration, keeping the access rules outside of source control. Most of the time, it’s very easy, especially when you are working on that locally. It’s either npm, bundler, hex or any other pip. No matter what language you use, almost for sure, you use some kind of package manager. ![]() ![]() The Sims 4: Get Together LANGUAGE SELECTOR The Sims 4: City Living v1.25.136.1020 Fixed Files Fixed Filesįile Archive - RELOADED Version - Can return a false AV Positive! File = Clean! Fixed Filesįile Archive - External Link - Can return a false AV Positive! File = Clean! The Sims 4: Island Living v1.52.100.1020 Fixed Files The Sims 4: Island Living v1.53.115.1020 Fixed Files The Sims 4: Island Living v1.54.120.1020 Fixed Files The Sims 4: Island Living v1.55.105.1020 Fixed Files The Sims 4: Island Living v1.55.108.1020 Fixed Files
![]() You’re never out of the game until the last card is played. Your fortune can be made or lost, in just a few turns. AzulĪ super fun game called “ Cover Your A$$ets is a card game and pretty easy to understand and start playing right away. I thoroughly enjoyed it and can’t wait to play again. When it was first being explained to me I wasn’t that interested but after playing several rounds. So which games are our favorites? Well, we have a lot of favorites that most can be purchased online at Amazon. Isn’t that brilliant? I hadn’t thought of that one! They watch Youtube videos to learn how-to play. I have a great tip for you that my kids told me about. Our kids are pretty smart and they explain the details and rules to the rest of us. Some games are really easy but some are very detailed and can be exhausting reading the instructions. One thing about me is I really hate reading instructions on how-to play a new game – especially a very detailed game. ![]() We are pretty much staying home mostly, but doing some outside store pick-ups or wearing a mask while grocery shopping so family game night is a great way to pass the time! Fun Family Game Night Ideas: We have 4 people in our home and are doing a great job of social distancing outside our home. Our family has always enjoyed playing games! We are “slightly” competitive and we all do our best to try to win! I am writing this during the Coronavirus 2020 quarantine and social isolation. I am sharing some of our favorite games for an epic game-filled evening! Try again later.Family game night is a blast at our house! Playing games is a great way to interact with your family and watch less TV. An error has occurred the feed is probably down.Subscribe here to get updated blog entries via Facebook! Yay!! What’s up in the board game industry – at least in the english-speaking world The ultimate web site for hard core gamers “geek” is the operative term National Parenting Center Seal of Approval.Join 223 other followers Search Posts Search for: Categories The cards themselves are fun to read out loud in a group just to introduce a debate topic. I strongly recommend Loaded Questions to any group of fun-loving adults (or young adults – 16 and older) who are prepared to engage each other on controversial subjects, discover (perhaps) surprising things about each other, and laugh about them. Points are awarded based on the number identified correctly, but it’s not uncommon to lose track of where one is on the board because so much conversation, argumentation, and controversy is generated that the questions, and their answers, really take center stage. In Loaded Questions, you get to hear what your friends would say, and then try to figure out which friend said what. That’s the sort of question people are making lists about on facebook and myspace, and arguing about and opining about around the water cooler or at the bar with friends. The second card below, for example, asks to name one celebrity that doesn’t deserve to be a celebrity. It’s hard to draw a line between what’s appropriate and what’s inappropriate, and the questions on these cards can really push the envelope or even occasionally stray over the line, but generally speaking they are simply great questions. “Is that it?” you say? How is that so fun? It’s fun because of the questions. The roller has to try to match the answers to each player! ![]() The previous roller gathers the sheets together, shuffles them, and reads the submitted answers aloud. All other players then write down truthful answers to the loaded question on their answer sheet. Players take turns as rollers who roll, move, then read a matching color question on the next card. It consists of a Board with a scoring track, pawns, a die, a deck of Loaded Questions cards, answer sheets, and pencils. The game itself is pretty straightforward, easy to learn, and engages every player during every turn. This game has been played and replayed among many groups of friends since its release in 1997, and a new “adult” version came out just two years ago. ![]() If you ever need an icebreaker for a party or a class or any other occasion, the cards in Loaded Questions (All Things Equal, Inc, 1997) are – pardon the pun – loaded with them. ![]() |
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