![]() Kodi is an open-source media server software for Linux. deb file from the official link and install it in your Linux. Tidal, popular music streaming service is also integrated with the Plex server.ĭownload the. Plex is popular free to use Media server software for Linux with a beautiful user interface. Best Media Server Software For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 1. Though the title is specific for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, You can use it for any Linux operating systems. The media server can be used for media management, playing and streaming your music or videos, and so on. So, let’s talk about the media server software today. Linux is a multipurpose operating system. Now, you’re ready to start watching your favorite movies and listening to music with ease.Linux is not a server-specific or programmer specific operating systems anymore. VLC is a versatile multimedia player that can handle various audio and video formats, making it an essential tool for any Ubuntu user looking to enjoy media content hassle-free. ![]() $ vlc \ XViD\ juggs.aviĬongratulations! You’ve successfully installed VLC Media Player on your Ubuntu 22.04 system using three different methods: through command line, Ubuntu Software Center and via Snap. Examples are shown below: $ vlc latest-songs.mp3 Now play your audio & video files.We can also play audio and video files from command Line using VLC command. Perfect, above screen confirms that VLC player has been installed successfully. Once snap is installed then run below snap command to install vlc media player, # sudo snap install vlcĪfter the installation is complete, you can launch VLC by searching for it in your applications menu or running vlc command in the terminal. In can case snap is installed on your Ubuntu 20.04 system then install snap using below apt command, $ sudo apt install snap -y Snap is a universal package manager that allows you to easily install and update applications on various Linux distributions, including Ubuntu. Method3: Install VLC media player Using snap Provide your password when asked, and the installation will continue. In the Software Center’s search bar, type “VLC.” You’ll see VLC Media Player appear in the search results.Ĭlick on ‘ Install‘ to initiate the installation, you will be prompted to enter your system password to authorize the installation. Ubuntu Software Center is a user-friendly graphical interface for managing software installations on Ubuntu 22.04.Ĭlick on the Ubuntu Software icon in your applications menu. If you want to use VLC as a browser plugin for web content playback, you can install the browser plugin package with the following command: $ sudo apt install vlc-plugin-base Method2: Install VLC Using Ubuntu Software CenterĮasiest way to install VLC on Ubuntu is via Ubuntu software center. Open the terminal by pressing ‘ Ctrl+Alt+T’ and enter the following commands $ sudo apt updateĪbove apt commands, will handle the download and installation process. VLCmedia player and it’s dependencies are available in the default package repositories of Ubuntu 22.04. ![]() ![]() Method1: Install VLC Media Player From Command Line Method3 Install VLC media player Using snap.Method2 Install VLC Using Ubuntu Software Center.Method1 Install VLC Media Player From Command Line.
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![]() And can also be known as second in command of the kitchen. What is a sous chef? First of all, Sous chef comes from the French language meaning – Sous-Chef de Cuisine (under-chef of the kitchen). Fast forward many months later, and I’m proud to say that - while certainly not 100 - I've gradually earned my pleats.What Is A Sous Chef? A Definition Of The Job Description And The Meaning Of Sous Chef When I started culinary school, I’m not sure if my toque even deserved one pleat. Interestingly, the original French chef's hat (a toque) is supposed to have exactly 100 pleats because a professional chef should know how to prepare an egg 100 ways. But love it or hate it, the egg is an essential ingredient that has been around for centuries. An egg is the gremlin of the food world - if you don’t follow the rules, it can turn into an evil monster and destroy any dish you put it in. Yet now that I’ve confronted the egg and have a better understanding of its quirks and talents, I have a new-found respect for it. On top of that, the egg will begin to emit a sulfurous smell. Going a few minutes too long will draw out the iron and sulfur, turning the yolk into a nasty grey color with a green ring. Over-boiling an egg is another common mistake. If you apply too much direct heat, the egg will overcook, causing the sauce to break and curdle. Hollandaise, in particular, is very tricky to master. Thanks to its unique properties, an egg can help bind ingredients, give volume to batter, emulsify liquids, thicken a sauce, provide flavor, clarify a liquid and even add a nice color or glaze to certain dishes.Įven in seemingly simple preparations, there was room for error. From there, we moved on to using eggs in everything from Hollandaise sauce, crêpes and soufflés, to pasta dough, breads and custards. We also poached, fried and scrambled them. ![]() Beginning with simple techniques, we tested a hard versus soft boil and watched how each minute of cooking would transform the egg. When we began to tackle the egg in class, we prepared them in a multitude of ways. Because of this, it’s important to know when to use an egg white, egg yolk or both. Thanks to its unique properties, an egg can help bind ingredients, give volume to batter, emulsify liquids, thicken a sauce, provide flavor, clarify a liquid and even add a nice color or glaze to certain dishes. But this irreversibility is actually a good thing. None of these states can be reversed - once you do this, there is no turning back. Add an acid, and this too will cause coagulation.Īlternately, when an egg white is whisked, it will turn into a foamy white structure. When heated, it solidifies (which is also known as coagulation) and turns rubbery. Of these components, the albumin is the most reactive part because it can be physically altered if subjected to changes in its surroundings. An egg white is essentially just water and the protein albumin, while the yolk primarily contains water, albumin and fat. The reason is that an egg is very sensitive to its environment. How come it wasn’t aspic, an onion or the basic Russet potato? At the time, I wondered why an egg deserved such notoriety. During our Dean’s welcome speech, he warned us that any lesson involving eggs may be a very humbling experience. ![]() Oddly enough, this conversation reminded me of my first day of culinary school. Mini-neighbor: Because they can’t take a yolk! Mini-neighbor: Why can’t you tease egg whites? On this day in particular, she was on an egg-themed kick. This is usually followed by a couple of knock-knock jokes and/or discussions about why a chicken crossed the road. Each time she sees me, she promptly asks which floor I’m on and then proceeds to push the button for me. The other day I was greeted by my neighbor (who happens to be a chatty little six-year-old) in the elevator. Surrounded by police atop one of the chemical tankers, Cody goes insane screaming “Top of the world, Ma!” as he blows himself up. White Heat has two memorable scenes, one in the prison dining hall when Cody freaks out after hearing the news that his mother has died and the second the film’s finale, a big shoot out at a chemical plant. On his release from prison, Hank comes along with Cody as he must deal with his right-hand man Ed Somers who is trying to take over his gang, and his wife. Cody confesses to a lesser crime in order to get a shorter prison stretch in prison he is befriended by Hank Fallon (Edmund O’Brien) an undercover agent trying to find out who is laundering Cody’s money. Married to the deceitful Verna (Virginia Mayo) but totally devoted to his mother, “Ma” (Margaret Wycherly) Cody and his gang rob a mail train but the job goes awry. ![]() White Heat is part film noir, part gangster film, with James Cagney as criminal ringleader Cody Jarrett. This then is a list of the 15 essential films that one must be familiar with in order to understand the early, ‘classic’ period of film noir that thrived from 1940 to 1949. Most of these early film noir are told in flashback with voice over and are shot with many night scenes featuring high contrast lighting, dark shadows and odd camera angles. The protagonists of these film are men who are often in love with and yet betrayed by beautiful women and they often face the choice between a fair haired ‘good’ woman and a dark haired, sultry ‘femme fatale’ who is likely to lead them astray down the wrong path (which is the path that they take, for the most part). ![]() This anxiety is expressed in film noir – particularly the early film noir of the 1940’s that this list will focus on – as a sense of disorientation, confusion and distrust, as well as a sense of entrapment in a nightmare world that has gone out of control. Film scholar Alain Silver has asserted that film noir is not a genre but a ‘cycle’ of films that occurred during a certain historical period of time.įilm noir thrived predominantly in Hollywood crime films in the early post World War II years, as men were returning from the military to their lives at home, and it expresses the anxiety that many men felt about being displaced as workers, boyfriends, husbands and fathers during wartime. Write It Again, Sam (Tough Without a Gun: The Life.What is Film Noir? It is a term coined in French, meaning literally ‘black film’ that is used to define a genre, or possibly just a subset of the genre of the thriller.Schraderfest 2011: Taxi Driver at the IU Cinema.This is the environment Bogart entered following the success of The Petrified Forest. "Actors chafed under restrictive, long-term contracts writers, in Jack's view, were 'schmucks with Underwoods" (i.e., typists). Kanfer makes a good case that the brothers' hardscrabble roots (from the Polish ghetto) had much to do with their creative output and nothing to do with how they treated their employees. ![]() Robinson among the most prominent examples. One of the book's strongest sections is a brief yet revealing description of the old studio system: "MGM specialized in elegance and high production values, as in Gone with the Wind.Paramount concentrated on sophisticated comedies, RKO on the sparkling Astaire-Rogers musicals.Columbia showcased Frank Capra's directorial touch, and Twentieth Century Fox made a mint with Shirley Temple vehicles." Warners, on the other hand, portrayed the sordid underbelly of American society: Scarface, with Paul Muni The Public Enemy with James Cagney and Little Caesar with Edward G. The lack of tutorial doesn't help either, but it's worth it to try to learn the basics of this entertaining game. TheoTown is a very 'old school' strategy and management game, that can result pretty difficult for those who have never played this type of game before. and you can build everything as you want, where you want, when you want. Highways, roads, town halls, churches, tall apartment buildings, small houses, police stations, gardens, fountains, factories. Whatever difficulty level you choose, in TheoTown, you have dozens of different elements at your disposal to customize your city. The citizens are much more demanding in higher difficulty levels, while playing at an easier level, they pretty much deal with what they're given. ![]() You may have to restart the game to see an effect. Extract the zip file and move the folders that it contains to TheoTown/regions on your device. Once they're living in your city, you have to give them access to water and electricity, as well as provide all of the minimum services that a city should have: hospitals, police stations, fire stations, etc.īefore beginning a game of TheoTown, you can select the size of the map and the level of difficulty. You can install downloaded plugins by simply copying or placing their folder into the Theotown plugin-folder on your phone. Immerse yourself in TheoTown, a captivating city simulation game available on Android, iOS, and PC. The two regions are vanilla in every aspect, but due to request you can now download them from here: regions.zip. You have to create roads and residential zones to attract citizens. ![]() TheoTown is a version of the classic SimCity for Android that, like the original, lets you create your own city from scratch, with all that it involves. ![]() These institutions published several works in journals such as The Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning and the Journal of Personal Finance.Īs the concerns about consumers' financial capability increased during the early 2000s, various education programs emerged, catering to a broad audience or a specific group of people, such as youth and women. ![]() However, several American universities such as Brigham Young University, Iowa State University, and San Francisco State University started to offer financial educational programs in both undergraduate and graduate programs since the 1990s. īefore 1990, the study of personal finance received little attention from mainstream economists and business faculties. Meanwhile, AFS cooperates with Certified Financial Planner (CFP Board). AFCPE started to offered several certifications for professionals in this field, such as Accredited Financial Counselor (AFC) and Certified Housing Counselor (CHC). Attendances of the two societies mainly come from faculty and graduates from business and home economics colleges. The establishment of the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education (AFCPE) in 1984 at Iowa State University and the Academy of Financial Services (AFS) in 1985 marked an important milestone in personal finance history. Professional bodies such as American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences and the American Council on Consumer Interests started to play an important role in developing this field from the 1950s to the 1970s. Research into personal finance is based on several theories, such as social exchange theory and andragogy (adult learning theory). In 2009, Dan Ariely suggested the 2008 financial crisis showed that human beings do not always make rational financial decisions, and the market is not necessarily automated and corrective of any imbalances in the economy. Simon, a Nobel laureate, suggested that a decision-maker did not always make the best financial decision because of limited educational resources and personal inclinations. Margaret Reid, a professor of Home Economics at the same university, is recognized as one of the pioneers in the study of consumer behavior and Household behavior. ![]() Her dissertation at University of Chicago laid the foundation of consumer economics and family economics. The earliest known research in personal finance was done in 1920 by Hazel Kyrk. When planning personal finances, the individual would consider the suitability to their needs of a range of banking products ( checking, savings accounts, credit cards and consumer loans) or investment in private equity, ( companies' shares, bonds, mutual funds) and insurance ( life insurance, health insurance, disability insurance) products or participation and monitoring of and- or employer-sponsored retirement plans, social security benefits, and income tax management.īefore a specialty in personal finance was developed, various disciplines which are closely related to it, such as family economics, and consumer economics, were taught in various colleges as part of home economics for over 100 years. ![]() Personal finance is the financial management which an individual or a family unit performs to budget, save, and spend monetary resources over time, taking into account various financial risks and future life events. ![]() Jones, whom they referred to as "Master," or made elementary remarks such as "Mr. Some of the animals talked of the duty of loyalty to Mr. At the beginning they met with much stupidity and apathy. ![]() Jones was asleep, they held secret meetings in the barn and expounded the principles of Animalism to the others. These three had elaborated old Major's teachings into a complete system of thought, to which they gave the name of Animalism. The others said of Squealer that he could turn black into white. He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difficult point he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail which was somehow very persuasive. The best known among them was a small fat pig named Squealer, with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements, and a shrill voice. All the other male pigs on the farm were porkers. Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker in speech and more inventive, but was not considered to have the same depth of character. Napoleon was a large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar, the only Berkshire on the farm, not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his own way. Pre-eminent among the pigs were two young boars named Snowball and Napoleon, whom Mr. The work of teaching and organising the others fell naturally upon the pigs, who were generally recognised as being the cleverest of the animals. They did not know when the Rebellion predicted by Major would take place, they had no reason for thinking that it would be within their own lifetime, but they saw clearly that it was their duty to prepare for it. Major's speech had given to the more intelligent animals on the farm a completely new outlook on life. During the next three months there was much secret activity. His body was buried at the foot of the orchard. Three nights later old Major died peacefully in his sleep. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell (Chapter 2) ![]() Both cataracts and CME are associated with a high rate of occurrence in the natural history of this disease. One patient had progression of pre-existing cystoid macular edema (CME) that was managed with standard of care. One patient had worsening of pre-existing cataracts in both the treated and untreated eyes both were deemed not treatment related by the investigator. There were no serious adverse events reported and no inflammation was observed. QR-421a was observed to be well tolerated at all doses. Results from the Phase 1/2 trial of QR-421a I look forward to this exciting program advancing into pivotal trial development.” Patients’ biggest hope for a therapy is to stop disease progression and prevent vision loss, and these findings suggest that QR-421a has the potential to stabilize vision. “Usher syndrome and non-syndromic retinitis pigmentosa due to USH2A exon 13 mutations are devastating retinal diseases representing a high unmet medical need, as there are no approved therapies to treat the severe vision loss associated with these diseases. “The safety profile and efficacy findings for QR-421a are very encouraging,” said Robert Koenekoop, MD, MSc, PhD, FRCS(C), FARVO, a clinical-scientist from the Montreal Children’s Hospital and Professor of the McGill University Faculty of Medicine and Department of Pediatric Surgery. This is our second program targeting a severe inherited retinal disease that is moving into pivotal trials, which we believe further validates our RNA therapy platform and our capabilities to design and efficiently take these programs through clinical development.” Based on preliminary Regulatory guidance, we plan to submit protocols to advance QR-421a to pivotal testing. As expected, we saw benefits in both advanced and early-moderate patients in this slow progressing, debilitating eye disease, allowing us to advance this important investigational therapy for all patients with Usher syndrome and nsRP due to USH2A exon 13 mutations. “We’re pleased to have met all the objectives we set for the Stellar trial, including determining suitable registration endpoints, the dose, dosing interval, and patient population for the Phase 2/3 pivotal trials,” said Aniz Girach, MD, Chief Medical Officer of ProQR, “With just a single dose, QR-421a demonstrated clinical proof of concept with benefit observed in treated eyes compared to the untreated eyes in multiple concordant measures of vision. Based on these findings, the Company plans to advance QR-421a to two parallel pivotal Phase 2/3 trials by year end 2021 – one in early-moderate patients, one in advanced patients. QR-421a was observed to be well tolerated with no serious adverse events reported. In the trial, QR-421a demonstrated benefit on multiple measures of vision that moved in concordance, including visual acuity, visual fields, and optical coherence tomography (OCT) retinal imaging, after a single dose. (Nasdaq: PRQR) (the “Company”), a company dedicated to changing lives through the creation of transformative RNA therapies for inherited retinal diseases (IRDs), today announced results from a planned analysis of its Phase 1/2 Stellar trial of QR-421a in adults with Usher syndrome and non-syndromic retinitis pigmentosa (nsRP) due to USH2A exon 13 mutations. LEIDEN, Netherlands & CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Ma(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - ProQR Therapeutics N.V. Management to host a conference call today at 8:15am EDT.Two pivotal Phase 2/3 trials are expected to start by the end of 2021.QR-421a observed to be well tolerated with no serious adverse events reported.QR-421a demonstrated a concordant benefit in multiple measures of vision, including best corrected visual activity (BCVA), static perimetry, and retinal imaging (OCT). ![]() I find myself tweaking things with the custom slider options but then often reverting back to the auto-edit because it applies a nice adjustment without overdoing it. Want to simply fix the shadows and highlights? Done.Īutomatic adjustments do a pretty good job and you can fine-tune with simple sliders. This, to me, is one of the most useful guided tools because fixing the exposure of a video clip or matching the exposure of multiple clips will help make a video instantly look more professional. If Adobe Premiere Pro is too much to learn, Elements can fill the gap.Īnother great feature added in 2020 is the new guided edit: Adjust Shadows and Highlights. Not all marketers are also professional video editors and vice versa, but with the rise of social media as a powerful marketing tool and video becoming more important, making video editing more accessible is a win. Instagram trending toward full screen content). ![]() My hope is that they will continue to update the templates as platforms change over time (e.g. It was a little tricky but with some attention to detail you can achieve a nice output. The tool isn’t the easiest to figure out how to use. That is of course when the concept and design deliver what they promise. I’ve often grown frustrated trying to create videos that will play well on both Facebook and Instagram, so this seems like a slick and important feature. In theory, you can adjust the aspect ratio and use auto-reframes to keep the subject in the center of the frame. The concept of this tool is awesome – an easy way to create and share across your social media sites. If you’re frustrated by the fact that you’re supposed to upload a different aspect ratio to Instagram than you are to Facebook, you’re not alone. The next feature of note is new in Adobe Premiere Elements 2022 and it’s the new social media outputs. Even though it’s called “expert,” it’s still very easy to use and the tools you need are very accessible. Once you feel comfortable with the editing process in Adobe Premiere Elements you can more easily transition to the expert mode. There are various themed edits to choose from that walk you through the process with step-by-step instructions. This editing mode is a great learning tool so that you’re not just dropped helplessly into the overly complicated world of editing products. The guided editing mode is a great concept because it walks you through the editing process. When content is about quantity over quality, sometimes speed is essential. The quick editing mode is just like you’d expect: a quick and dirty method for editing your video so that you can get it completed and uploaded. They’re just as they sound and I think it’s a slick way to cater to the variety of needs when it comes to video editing. These modes are aptly named as quick, guided, or expert mode. The first feature in Adobe Premiere Elements to highlight is the three different editing modes catering to various levels of experience or need. Adobe Premiere Elements seeks to solve that with its guided features and simplified interface. That’s not to say that Adobe Premiere Elements lacks complex editing tools – features like motion tracking, multiple aspect ratios, video tracks and video effects will also suit more experienced users.Īs we’re seeing more and more video clips dominating social media, easy ways to edit videos are in demand. Premiere Elements is a stripped-down version of Premiere Pro, making it perfect for beginners or anyone who doesn’t need all the tools of the pro software. These are highly detailed programs geared toward the professional.Ĭonversely, the Elements family is for simple and fast editing and is targeted at anyone just getting started with editing photos and video. You can get both in a bundle for under US$100.Īdobe Premiere Pro is Adobe’s professional-level video editing software – often paired with Adobe Photoshop for photo editing. You might be familiar with its sister, Adobe Photoshop Elements. ![]() Adobe Premiere Elements 2022 is the video editing sibling of the Adobe Elements family. ![]() Restart the system after completing installation and Windows will be transformed to Mac OS X Lion.Ĭompatible with Windows 7 32 and 64 Bit OS. ![]() Installation takes a long time and it is recommended to disable UAC. It is a 52MB installer which is packed with all necessary files, tweaks and Patches. Lion Skin Pack 7.0 is a standalone package of Skin Pack and doesn’t require any manual shell replacements. How to transform Windows 7 to Mac OS X Lion It has everything you wanted to make it look like and bring Mac OS X lion experience. Lion Skin Pack will also customize the fonts and sounds on your computer, along with the colors and the wallpaper. Mac OS X Lion ObjectDock theme: link A RocketDock theme is included, but I like ObjectDock better. No, you don’t have to deal with a long snippet of code, don’t panic. It is basically a safe and easy way to install themes. Unlike other skin packs available here, the installation of this one is a bit different. CustoPack Download: link CustoPack Tools is necessary for using this theme. The theme, icons, the shape of the windows, the cursor and the wallpaper with the Andromeda galaxy (default wallpaper Lion) Mac OS X Lion’s UI is here for any Windows 7 64-bit user. - Transparent, takes the color of your background while keeping the original Apple wave design and dock effects.Download Mountain Lion Skin Pack for Windows 8. Download Mountain Lion Skin Pack for Windows 7. The dock at the bottom of the desktop – RocketDock Below is the developers screenshot of the Skin Pack installed on Windows 8 Consumer Preview.This consists of following elements along with many appearance tweaks: In this article, however, we will discuss on How to transform Windows 7 into Mac OS X Lion using Transformation pack.ĭeviantArt user hameddanger has created a skin pack with which it is possible to give a look of Mac OS X Lion to Windows 7. It has plenty of useful features and I have already published my wishlist of features to be added in Windows 8. ![]() Mac OS X Lion was made available recently and has a record number of downloads in a week. 14 Transform Windows 7 to Mac OS X Lion | Transformation Pack for Windows 7 ![]() If you’re feeling lazy, try to Keep newest, which removes all copies of the file except the latest one, or Keep oldest, which does the opposite. What’s more, Avast enables you to decide which duplicates to remove. If you want, you can sort the list of your duplicates by each of these parameters. The app sorts all file copies by category:Ĭlicking View Duplicates will show you more details - where the duplicate file is located when it was created and even a small file preview. It shows their total size plus an alert about how the files found are 100% identical to the others on your Mac (that’s why they’re useless and waste your disk space). Once the scan is over, Avast Cleanup will list the duplicates it found. By default, Avast suggests that you scan the Home folder, but you can select other folders or even external drives. Find Duplicatesīefore you scan, Avast Cleanup will ask you to select which folder or drive to check for duplicate files. ![]() ![]() You can manage which categories to remove, as well as select files inside the category. By default, this excludes your downloads - a smart move as you might have some important documents there that you don’t want to remove.
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