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![]() ![]() Track and follow the progress of your genealogy while publishing meaningful statistics.Ĭapturing acts and records, editing images, indexes, data merging, consistency checking, etc.Īny file from any other genealogy software or website can be imported into Heredis. Print and share your genealogy data: charts, illustrated books, personal website, photo slideshows, etc. Launch searches from Heredis using some major search engines, or communicating with FamilySearch. ![]() Use this option if you wish to extract the ancestor tree of a specific individual. Include all Ancestors: Import all the ancestors of the individual. If you do not know the ID, you can use the Select button to browse the Gedcom file. 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Family tree software for desktop, native Windows. 6 Best Free Genealogy Software Downloads Ancestral Quest Basics Family Tree Builder Gramps Legacy Family Tree Standard Edition Personal Ancestry Writer II. ![]() ![]() ![]() Under this proposal, students who lack a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence would receive five monthly installments of $1,000 from April to August 2024. There are an estimated 270,000 homeless youths across the state - about 15,000 of whom are high school seniors, according to a 2020 report out of the University of California, Los Angeles. Dave Cortese, D-San Jose, would provide the funds through a guaranteed income pilot program called Success, Opportunity, & Academic Resilience. Senate Bill 333, introduced by state Sen. New bill would give homeless high school seniors $1,000 a monthĪmid a spike in homelessness, California lawmakers recently proposed a bill that would grant $1,000 a month of guaranteed income to homeless high school seniors. EdSource staffįriday, March 10, 2023, 10:12 am Link copied. The district is working with the California Franchise Tax Board on the matter. It was not clear how many of the 9,000 district employees were affected by the incorrect filing, but all employees were notified Tuesday that their tax returns will be complicated by the mistake. We are urgently working to rectify this error and the possible cascading impacts for employees.” ![]() “SFUSD is undertaking accountability measures to ensure this does not happen again. “We are deeply sorry for the stress and concern this has caused our staff and their families,” Wayne said in a statement. It is not yet known if this mistake is related to the district’s use of EMPowerSF, a payroll deduction software system that has been the subject of major complaints from the teachers union, the Chronicle reported. In a statement, SFUSD Superintendent Matt Wayne announced that while the district collected taxes and paid them to the state on schedule, the payments did not differentiate the amount of taxes paid by each employee. The San Francisco Chronicle reported late Wednesday that the district failed to file three quarterly wage reports to the state in 2022, an omission that could delay tax returns and refunds to teachers and other district employees. Thousands of people could be affected. Yet another major payroll problem has hit the San Francisco Unified School District. San Francisco Unified failed to file wage reports with state employees could face tax problems Thomas Peeleįriday, March 10, 2023, 11:51 am Link copied. The union has sought a 14% pay hike in the current year, retroactive to July 1. That was up from the previous district proposal for a 4.7% increase in the current school year, retroactive to July 1. ![]() She declined to comment on the details of the district’s proposal, telling the Independent Journal the union is “maintaining confidentiality.”ĭistrict Superintendent Jim Hogeboom said its latest offer was a 13% pay increase over two years - 10% for the current school year and 3% in 2023-24. “It was put forth during the impasse process, between mediation and fact-finding,” she said. Molly O’Donoghue, the union vice president, said the district’s latest offer was “illegal, improper and in bad faith” because of its timing. Eyes on the Early Years Newsletter ArchiveĪ contract dispute between San Rafael City Schools and its elementary teachers union is moving to a state-assisted fact-finding process following the failure of mediated talks, the Marin Independent Journal reported.Īt the same time, the San Rafael Teachers Association and the district disagree on whether a new contract offer proposed by the district last week - just after more than 20 hours of mediation ended - was appropriate.Local Control Funding Formula Explained.California’s Homeless Students: Undercounted, Underfunded And Growing.Full Circle: California Schools Work To Transform Discipline.Tainted Taps: Lead puts California Students at Risk.Education during Covid: California families struggle to learn.College And Covid: Freshman Year Disrupted.Adjuncts’ gig economy at CA community colleges.California’s Community Colleges: At a Crossroads. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, as you can see, the crockpot has many significant advantages. 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![]() Note: So long as you have basic Python programming knowledge, you will be able to follow the rest of this post. ![]() It must be very interesting to reproduce a tranquil autumn theme with voxels and use ray tracing to render it! Then I found from online the following picture: a quiet forest in the autumn air. ![]() Forest is a common theme in many great voxel artworks. The themeįinding a beautiful theme is half success. I'm not a mighty Minecraft developer, but, thankfully, I can program to batch process the voxels. Considering the huge amount of work involved in developing the UI, if we could only edit voxels one by one, it would take ages to get the intended results! When finishing off the program, we became aware of something more serious: It is much easier for an experienced graphics developer to code a path tracing renderer than to come up with a scene setting for a beautiful image. With Taichi Lang, one can easily create such a renderer ( ) in around 300 lines of code. As far as I know, apart from Taichi Lang, there's no such tooling in the Python ecosystem for generating GPU path tracing voxel renders. Taichi Lang is embedded in Python and it runs on any operating system and can easily interact with Python. Soon, before we were back home, we had our prototype: Since we happened to mention Minecraft and MagicaVoxel, we decided to do a Hackathon, where we use Taichi Lang to create a GPU path tracing voxel renderer. ![]() On a Sunday afternoon about a couple of months ago, when Ye and I were on our way back from a long week of travel, we decided to do something to relax on the train ( to kill time). ![]() ![]() ‚" ‚- AudioFile on Paranoia ‚-Winner of AudioFile's Earphones Award for truly exceptional presentations ‚"Scott Brick, a seasoned reader, knows just how to keep you on the edge of your seat with this one ‚ Good ‚" Company ‚" for a long road trip. This great performance is a perfect fit for the writing. Scott Brick narrates flawlessly ‚ Brick maintains tension and builds nonstop suspense. a killer twist for the end." - "The New York Times" on "Paranoia" " A built-for-speed thrill ride." - "Wall Street Journal" on "Paranoia", ‚"This thriller is engaging from the opening lines and doesn't let up until the surprising end. weaves a tangled and ingeniously enveloping web. Good " "Company"" for a long road trip." - "AudioFile" on "Company Man"- Winner of "AudioFile' s" Earphones Award for truly exceptional presentations " There's a new John Grisham in town!" - "People" Magazine (Critic's Choice) on "Paranoia" " Jet-propelled. ![]() This great performance is a perfect fit for the writing." - "AudioFile" on "Paranoia"- Winner of "AudioFile' s" Earphones Award for truly exceptional presentations " Scott Brick, a seasoned reader, knows just how to keep you on the edge of your seat with this one. Brick maintains tension and builds nonstop suspense. This great performance is a perfect fit for the writing."-AudioFileonParanoia-Winner ofAudioFile'sEarphones Award for truly exceptional presentations "Scott Brick, a seasoned reader, knows just how to keep you on the edge of your seat with this one… Good "Company" for a long road trip." -AudioFileonCompany Man-Winner ofAudioFile'sEarphones Award for truly exceptional presentations "There's a new John Grisham in town!" -PeopleMagazine (Critic's Choice) onParanoia "Jet-propelled…weaves a tangled and ingeniously enveloping web… a killer twist for the end." -The New York TimesonParanoia "A built-for-speed thrill ride." -Wall Street JournalonParanoia, " This thriller is engaging from the opening lines and doesn't let up until the surprising end. Scott Brick narrates flawlessly… Brick maintains tension and builds nonstop suspense. "This thriller is engaging from the opening lines and doesn't let up until the surprising end. ![]() ![]() A guy living the high life, a clichéd love of fast cars with a new openness about his sexuality (shouting out to the gay bar he went to on a blind date). Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon sings outro on ‘White Ferrari too’.īlonde is all about Frank and his interactions with friends, family, strangers, crushes. Other tracks meander aimlessly yet Ocean continues to magnetise the listener like ‘Skyline To’ (where Lamar exists but is barely heard) while interpolations of songs from Beatles, Burt Bacharach and Elliott Smith appear adding familiarity. others, ‘Self Control’, feel like acoustic demos with some bare production until harmonised Frank drops in the memorable outro. ‘Pink + White’ is beautiful sunshine soul, ‘Solo’ is buoyed by one of the year’s most memorable choruses over barely more than an organ. Ocean’s sweet voice is one that is rare consuming, soulful, nimble, honey-toned and it responsible for all of the highlights here. There’s an overall sense of the artist soaking up his experiences as positive and striving forward to be more aware, content, loved, loving, present. ‘Ivy’ and ‘Pink + White’ suggest there’s gratitude for a failed relationship and the hurt it caused is deemed to be worth it ultimately. He enjoys it but thinks of his self-development as detailed on ‘Siegfried’ (“less morose and more present / Dwell on my gifts for a second”). Ocean parties, drives fast cars (and details them), does acid, shrooms, smokes weed, (all the while including a track where his mother warns him against substances). Only Andre 3000 (who appeared on Channel Orange too) gets to leave his mark, thrillingly so.īlonde has the air of an album penned in solitude an ultra-white pristine mansion at dusk (one in which he occasionally takes in the homeless as he admits). Even the calibre of the marquee guests on this thing are put into the deep background – to the point where you may not even realise Kendrick Lamar and Beyoncé are on it until you’ve read the credits. ![]() The atmosphere is muted, the instrumentation minimal, beats and percussion are largely ignored. In fact, it feels like a more polished version of Endless, yet equally withdrawn, more fragmented and even more insular. Two days later, Blonde debuted and surprisingly barely feels unburdened with expectation. It remains to be seen if that’s true, but regardless, Endless had the feel of a clearing of decks, a reset, a warmup, an acknowledgement of the expectation. It’s been suggested since, that the visual album was Ocean fulfilling his obligation to his label Def Jam for another release ( Blonde appears to have been self-released). It was proceeded by Endless, a 45 minute visual album, that with was visually boring wallpaper (Frank working on a spiral staircase) but musically, a scattershot of fragmented music with a demo feel, albeit demos with James Blake, strings from Jonny Greenwood, an Isley Brothers cover and some German techno bookending it. When it finally arrived, you would be forgiven at first, for wondering what all the fuss was about, if Blonde (or Blond as it’s titled on the cover) was your first listen to a Frank Ocean release. The expectation was for songs that would resonant to the same level as ‘Thinking About You’, ‘Swim Good’ or ‘Lost’- grade A R&B music from a bright new talent. ![]() After its neverending goal post shifting release date since Frank Ocean first announced the retitled Boys Don’t Cry in April 2015, the hype and expectation had reached fever pitch more than once. ![]() ![]() Now I have a couple questions to ask of Sonic Retro. One more note here: I am still investigating the JASRAC search engine, so I will be updating this list periodically for any new information about the Japanese copyrights to Sonic music. WM serves as a music publisher and producer for Sega's music. From what I've researched, Sega doesn't actually own Wave Master. At least, under the Wave Master label.īefore you ask, you're probably wondering "Isn't Wave Master part of Sega or something?" Well. The people who actually made the music work, however, do. In most records listed for each individual work, Sega Enterprises (or what would be in its official Japanese Katakana: セガ or セガ・エンタープライゼス) is not among the right-holders to the songs.Īllow me to make a few examples here (Please note that I am NOT going to list every single one of each individual's works, I have time for other stuff).Ĭlick to expand.Upon closer examination, I have discovered that, so far, according to the song records in the database, Sega does not actually hold the rights to most of the game music for post-Sonic Adventure games, including Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes, Shadow the Hedgehog, and perhaps beyond. Under the column, " Right Holder (or 権利者)" of each record online, lists the right-holder(s) to the work. Also out of curiosity, I clicked a few records on the database (specifically under "JUN SENOUE" and "FUMIE KUMATANI" as artists, for example). As you can see, in the Author (著作者) and Artist (アーティスト) categories, Sega is not shown in any of them. Out of curiosity, using a Japanese search engine they have here, I entered " Sonic Adventure" in the Title (作品タイトル) category, and it brought up dozens of results. They have a huge database of Japanese music copyrights which span to music CDs, records, movie soundtracks, Anime soundtracks, and even game music. ![]() There's so much I want to go over I don't know where to start, so I apologize if the paragraph is a little sloppy.įirst off, there is a Japanese copyright collection society called the " Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers" ( JASRAC, for short), that documents and protects copyright work for Japanese music artists. ![]() Hello, Sonic Retro! Yesterday, on IRC, I shared some information with some of the people in charge of the Wiki here (specifically Andlabs, who recommended that I bring this to Retro's attention) concerning the actual rights to the music of some of the Sonic games. ![]() ![]() ![]() Breath any colour into your kitchen space, at any time with MoodUP Meanwhile, LG's UVnano technology reduces bacteria on the built-in water dispenser by 99.99%, which helps to maintain its cleanliness. In addition, the DoorCooling system works faster than a conventional system to keep food fresher, and beverages colder on each shelf. With LG's exclusive LinearCooling technology, temperature fluctuations are minimised so that food can be preserved at peak freshness for up to 7 days. LG says the new refrigerator can seal in the freshness of ingredients for longer and helps maintain the hygiene of the built-in water dispenser via its cutting-edge technologies. This gives users the flexibility to select whichever style of ice best suits their needs. The new LG InstaView refrigerator can also create four different types of ice: cubed ice, crushed ice, LG's exclusive slow-melting round Craft Ice, and the new mini cubed ice. You can check out o ur coverage article on how InstaView works. This not only saves time, but also prevents cold air from escaping and energy from being wasted. Similar to previous InstaView refrigerator models, users can knock twice on the mirror-coated glass to check inside without having to open the door. LG has announced a new InstaView French-Door refrigerator at CES 2023.ĭespite having a 9% reduction in depth compared to a conventional French-Door model, the LG InstaView refrigerator offers 25% more room for food storage thanks to a slimmer cold air duct and evaporator with enhanced insulation. Note: This article was first published on 25th December 2022 and has been updated with new information. ![]() LG to unveil new InstaView fridge at CES 2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Both give you an image of the reflections in a space. Impulses can be captured using either short bursts of noise, or longer sine tone sweeps that rise from low to high. There are two different ways to make an impulse response, either with a Burst or a Sweep. Its response is captured using standard microphones and the recording (impulse + space) is later processed to leave only the recorded trace of the space. Where Do Impulse Responses Come From?Īn Impulse is played into the space to activate the acoustics and reveal its reverberant character. Any sound can be blended with any Impulse Response, creating a new output that combines the characteristics of both.įor example, a voice (recorded in the studio) can be combined with the Impulse Response of a specific room, to create the impression that the person is actually speaking in that other space. Impulse Responses are used within Reverb plugins to simulate the sound of spaces. Not all sites contain full microphone setups, as it was not always possible to record with all the microphone arrays in every location. ![]() have a sharper transient response).Īmbisonic recordings have also been used to create IR files in Binaural and Stereo. Omnidirectional IRs may have slightly better frequency response, while Cardioid may be more responsive in terms of time (i.e. Therefore, each set will have a slightly different spatial position in relation to the impulse source.ĭifferent microphone types will capture subtly different features of the environment. Not only will the frequency response of each microphone vary, but the perspective and location from the sound source will change subtly too. Soundfield ST450 – 1st Order Ambisonics (B-Format Decoded to Binaural and Stereo) Neumann KM184 – Stereo – Cardioid condenser microphones Each location has been sampled from a range of different perspectives and microphone types.ĭPA 4061 – Stereo – Omnidirectional small capsule condenser microphones Please note that the impulse responses were recorded using a variety of different microphone types and setups. Once you download the library you will find that each location has its own folder of impulse responses: Impulse Responses have been captured in seven different locations across Chatham Dockyard. This library has been created as part of the University of Kent’s AHRC-funded research into the potential of sound to contribute to heritage experiences and reveal new narratives about the past. The site is now a museum and its historic buildings regularly feature in films and on television. The LocationĬhatham Dockyard was a working shipyard for 500 years, from the age of sailing ships to nuclear-powered submarines. If you need to recreate spaces in your sound design or audio post-production work, do check these out. What grabbed our attention is that although these impulse responses are from a historical site they offer a wide range of spaces that can be used in a wide variety of applications as well as some difficult-to-get spaces like a submarine or air-raid shelter. We came across this free library of impulse responses collected across a range of heritage spaces at Chatham Dockyard in Kent, UK. ![]() |
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