![]() ![]() Now, we want to crop out all the settings nonsense from the VMPK window that’s above the piano keys. It’s ok to let the non-piano-key parts of the window hang off the left and right. If you want to position it in the same place as mine (at the bottom), drag it down so that it “snaps” in place. Use the transform controls to resize the VMPK window and drag it so that the lowest and highest keys fit within the video frame. You should see the VMPK window on top of your camera feed now, and it should be listed above your camera feed in the Sources panel. In the Properties window that pops up, select “ Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard” and click OK. We’re going to be capturing VMPK, so I’m going to call it “Steve”. In the same Sources panel where our camera feed is listed, click + again to add a new source. Think of it like a continuously updating screenshot. Since VMPK is still running, we can grab a picture of it. If your video output and your camera are different resolutions, you may need to click the camera feed in the Program panel (that’s where your camera’s picture should be) and resize it using the red transform controls (little red squares in the corner). If for some reason it isn’t, click the eye icon next to it in the Sources panel. Your Source should now show up in the Sources list for the Scene you created in step 2. For my camera, I selected “high”, but you might see a different set of options depending on your camera. In the window that comes up next select your camera (Device) and resolution (Preset). I’m going to call my Logitech C920 “C920”. Select Create new and call it something clever like “webcam”. With your newly created Scene selected, click the + in the Sources panel. Have I mentioned that I am a creative professional? Add your camera First, we’ll need to create a Scene by clicking the + in the Scene’s panel in the bottom left. Create a “Scene” in OBS StudioĬreate a Scene that combines your camera and VMPK. To use it for our live presentation, we can put other windows on top of it, but we can’t minimize or close it. We’re done messing with VMPK for now, but leave it open in the background. That will ensure that VMPK will accept any incoming MIDI signal from any connected MIDI device. If you don’t see anything change when you play the keyboard, open Edit > MIDI Setup and make sure you have checked Enable MIDI Input and MIDI Omni Mode. Test your keyboard to make sure it’s lighting up the keys you expect in VMPK. You may need to adjust the “Base Octave” in VMPK to get the register you expect. I have mine set to be 61 keys so they don’t get too small to see over Zoom. I like to stick with plain ol’ blue, but you can do whatever you like, including a multicolor setup. In preferences ( vmpk > Preferences) you can change the number of keys and the colors that it uses. ![]() It’s not beautiful, but it’s very functional. VMPK should work pretty much right out of the box. ![]() You should only have to go through all these steps the first time. This will take a little bit of setup the first time, but everything will be saved automatically. Finally, in Zoom, we’ll select that fake camera, instead of the one plugged into the computer. Then, we’re going to send that stream to Zoom by creating a virtual 3 camera. We’re going to use OBS Studio to combine the camera feed and the VMPK window into a single video stream. After you’ve installed the virtual camera plugin, you may have to restart Zoom or OBS Studio once or twice to make sure they’re seeing the new virtual camera. I’ll give you a minute to download and install all that stuff. Virtual camera is now built in on Windows and Mac. If you’re following along on Windows, you’ll need this version of the OBS virtual camera plugin instead. I’m going to describe this setup for the Mac, but it should work more-or-less the same way on Windows. Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard (VMPK, free and open source).OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera plugin (free and open source) No longer required as of OBS Studio 26.1.Webcam (mine: Logitech C920 2, but the built-in one is fine).USB MIDI keyboard (mine: Yamaha P-115, for the price and size, I like this one.).Mac (Windows will also work, but I’m not set up to demo it.).Now that we have our measurable learning outcome, let’s take a look at the next part of the syllabus. Live video from my webcam, plus an interactive animated keyboard that responds to my connected MIDI keyboard. ![]()
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Warm White Engineered Timber Flooring 0.Cool White Engineered Timber Flooring 0.Black & White Engineered Timber Flooring 0.White Wash Engineered Timber Flooring 0.Terracotta Engineered Timber Flooring 0.Spotted Gum Engineered Timber Flooring 0.Multi-colour Engineered Timber Flooring 0.Light Grey Engineered Timber Flooring 1.Light Brown Engineered Timber Flooring 2.Light Beige Engineered Timber Flooring 1.Dark Brown Engineered Timber Flooring 0.Dark Beige Engineered Timber Flooring 0. ![]() ![]() ![]() Improvement: added a new RDP setting "Authentication level" that is useful when you use RDP over SSL.Improvement: added a new RDP "Zoom" feature that allows you to specify a Zoom level for your remote RDP session.Improvement: added a new web browser engine based on Microsoft Edge WebView.Bugfix: fixed a potential race condition when using the mouse wheel in the sessions SSH jump hosts list.Bugfix: detached tabs were sometimes sticking to the borders of the screen in a multi-monitor environment.Bugfix: with the "Deep" skin, the "Recent sessions" list was hardly readable on light background.Bugfix: fixed a race condition when starting a very slow SSH session, and stopping it immediately, while another one is already started.Bugfix: in the Customizer program, the custom toolbar buttons were not always refreshed.Bugfix: the tab color selection button was hardly visible when the tab color was white.Bugfix: refreshing shared sessions stored on an HTTP backend did not work properly when the session was cached by the browser.Bugfix: when searching for a session in the "Quick Connect" field, the results list was not resized properly when resizing the sidebar.Bugfix: fixed the "Soliterm" game display that was scrambled in the latest release.Improvement: do not display font ligatures in the terminal and the text editor by default (the feature remains available in the global settings, terminal tab, font selection).Improvement: you can now use double quotes around the full "File/Folder" sessions parameters.Improvement: improved switching to MobaSSHTunnel window to prevent potential focus loss.Improvement: create files /etc/passwd and /etc/groups at first start for proper names resolution in the "ls" commands in 32-bit terminals.Improvement: the file extension is now automatically appended when exporting a color theme.Improvement: added mouse wheel scrolling feature in the MobaSSHTunnel list and in the sessions SSH jump hosts list.Improvement: improved MOSH sessions compatibility with legacy SSH servers that use outdated algorithms.Improvement: improved MOSH sessions compatibility with remote TCSH, CSH, and FISH shells.Improvement: added a message in the command line SSH client in case you are trying to connect to an old SSH server with legacy algorithms.Improvement: updated OpenSSL library and OpenSSH command line client to the latest version.Improvement: a folder of shared sessions can now display a green "Refresh" icon when the shared sessions are updated by someone else.Improvement: updated the interface for creating shared sessions and for managing existing shared sessions.Improvement: added a new security setting in the Customizer program in order to disallow the "Remember master password" feature.New feature: it is now possible to automatically refresh shared sessions that are stored in a network folder. ![]() New feature: it is now possible to modify directly shared sessions that are stored in a network folder, as long as you have write access to this folder. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Spades suit has thirteen cards: the Ace, 2 through 10, and Jack, Queen, and King of Spades. The player to the left of the dealer should then bid first. Start by dealing out 13 cards to each player. One is to use a standard 52 card deck (with the Aces removed). There are a few ways to play spades with 4 people. There should then be 17 tricks to be bid. Then the player holding the 2 of clubs may exchange it for the lone card in the kitty. To play with three people, deal out 51 cards and keep one card unopened in the “kitty”. In Spades, if you win 13 tricks, it's considered an automatic win. When one team wins all 13 of the 13 possible books, the game is called a “Boston”. The value of the ace varies from game to game. ![]() The Ace of Spades, or the Death Card, is the highest valued card in the deck of playing cards. In that case, the highest-ranked spade will win. ![]() The highest-ranked card of the suit that was previously played wins the trick unless a spade is played. You can take alternate turns, and play the same suit as was previously played (if possible). The number of spade cards is thirteen because there are four suits, each with an ace, king, queen, jack, and ten number cards. There are four different suits in a deck of 52 cards. Frequently Asked Questions How many spades are in a deck of cards? Learn more with our guide on how to play Spades. Once a team gets 500 points, they win the game.For example, if a team receives 15 bags, they would lose 100 points for the ten bags, and would gain 5 points for the remaining 5 bags, for a net loss of 95 points. If a team accumulates over ten bags, in one round or multiple, they are penalized 100 points per ten bags.If a player loses a Nil bid, their tricks are not added to the team's trick count and cannot contribute to the team's overall score. If they do not get nil, they lose 100 points. If a player has a Nil bid, and the player ends up getting nil tricks, their team will receive 100 extra points.For example, if a team bids 5 and wins 6, they receive 51 points (50 points and 1 bag). Any extra tricks are then considered "bags" and are added as single points to a team's total. If the team's tricks are greater than or equal to their bids, then they receive 10 points per bid.For example, if a team bids 4 but only wins 3 tricks, they lose 40 points. If the team's tricks are less than their bids, the team is penalized 10 points per bid.To determine a team's score, the bids of each player of a team are totalled.A player has no other suits but spades.If a spade is played, then the highest spade of the trick wins. The trick is won by the highest card of the suit that was initially played, unless a spade is played. If they play a spade, then spades are considered broken. If they do not have this suit, they can play any suit. Players must play a card belonging to the same suit as the card that led. Once the starting player plays their card, the play goes clockwise until every player has played a card. After the round completes, the next trick is started by the player to the left of the player who played first in the last round. Subsequent tricks of that round start with the winner of the previous trick. The first trick of a game starts with the human player. There is no limit to the number of rounds that can be played to get to the 500 point goal. Points are added after each round until one team hits 500. The goal of the game is to get to 500 points. If they do not succeed, 100 points will be deducted. If they succeed in winning zero tricks, their team will get 100 points added to their score. A nil bid means the player does not intend to win any tricks. If a player bids zero tricks, this is known as a Nil bid. Aka, if the two players on a team bid 2 and 3 respectively, they should win a combined total of at least 5 tricks. The goal is for each team to win enough tricks to meet or exceed its combined total of bids. All cards are dealt, meaning each player ends up with a hand of 13 cards.Īt this point, each player bids the number of tricks they think they can win. Cards are dealt to the user first and then they are dealt around the table. The deck is a standard 52 card deck, with the Ace ranked the highest and 2 the lowest. Spades involves 4 players in teams of two. Play against other AI-generated playersįrequently Asked Questions What are the rules of Spades?. ![]() ![]() ![]() Estalla was released the following year in the US under the new title Blow Up, with the single "Fuego" helping to attract new fans outside Colombia and resulting in the group being voted "Best New Band in the World" for 2010 by viewers of MTV Iggy, the television channel's outlet for alternative world music artists. ![]() Impressed with Saumet's contribution, Mejía began to collaborate with her and Cadavid on songs for the next Bomba Estéreo album.īy the time the second album Estalla was released in 2008, Bomba Estéreo had developed into a full band, with Saumet on vocals, Cadavid on percussion, Julián Salazar on guitar, and former Sidestepper collaborator Enrique "Kike" Egurrola on drums, alongside Mejía on bass and keyboard programming. Saumet had briefly been the singer for the dub reggae band Mister Gomes en Bombay before meeting Mejía at a concert. 1 was Santa Marta-born singer and rapper Liliana "Li" Saumet, on the track "Huepaje". One of the vocalists Mejía had used on Vol. 1, Mejía attended the Latin Alternative Music Conference in New York City and was able to secure an international distribution deal with California-based Nacional Records for future releases, with Colombian releases on the Bogotá independent label Polen Records. 1 (2006), essentially a solo album but featuring contributions from other artists such as fellow A.M. ![]() The first results of his new project was the seven-track mini-album Vol. ![]() 770 had effectively become Mejía's solo project and he began to focus more on the musical side of his work, changing the name of the group to Bomba Estéreo. 770's first musical production was the track "Ritmika" (based on a sample of a song by Venezuelan salsa band Los Blanco) on the album Colombeat, a 2002 compilation showcasing this new musical style which was put together by Colombia's foremost alternative rock band Aterciopelados for their new label Entrecasa.īy 2005, A.M. Their music was influenced by Colombian groups such as Sidestepper and Bloque de Busqueda who in the late 1990s had started combining traditional Colombian musical rhythms such as salsa and cumbia with modern electronic beats and dance music. The origins of the group go back to 2001 when Bogotá native Simón Mejía (previously a member of 1990s Colombian alternative rock band Charconautas) was part of a loose collective of musicians and visual artists under the name A.M. History 2005–2008: Career beginning and Vol. Their music has been described as "electro tropical" or "psychedelic cumbia". Nacional Records, Polen Records, FM Discos Y Cintas, Soundway, Sony Musicīomba Estéreo is a Colombian band founded in Bogotá in 2005 by Simón Mejía. ∙ Bomba Estéreo has been nominated for two Grammy Awards and seven Latin Grammy Awards.Electro, Cumbia, Alternative dance, psychedelic pop ∙ Mejía collaborated with the environmental group Stand for Trees on a 2020 documentary about local communities working to preserve the Colombian rainforest. ∙ After hearing the song “Fiesta,” originally released on Bomba Estéreo’s 2015 LP, Amanecer, Will Smith came out of semiretirement from rapping and asked to guest on a remix. ∙ In 2010, Bomba Estéreo covered Technotronic’s 1989 Eurodance classic “Pump Up the Jam,” which they rereleased the following year with a new title, “Ponte Bomb.” ∙ “Fuego” was featured in an episode of the TV series Dexter and also appeared on the soundtrack for the game FIFA 10. ∙ Estalla, Bomba Estéreo’s second full-length (and first collaborative album), was released in 2008 and spawned the international hit single “Fuego.” 1 song “Huepaje,” Li Saumet was invited to become the frontwoman of Bomba Estéreo. 1, was essentially a solo record by group founder Simón Mejía that featured collaborations with a variety of Colombian artists. 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The new and improved Drive Medical Premium Guard Gel Foam Overlay optimizes pressure redistribution and comfort in the prevention, treatment and manag. ![]() ![]() ![]() “When we get to the end of the story, you will know more than you do now…” – Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Queen “It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” – Alice, Alice In Wonderland “With a smile and a song, life is just like a bright sunny day. “Just because it’s what’s done doesn’t mean it’s what should be done!”- Cinderella The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler Fairytales tell children that dragons can be killed.” – G K Chesterton ![]() Children already know that dragons exist. “Fairytales do not tell children that dragons exist. ![]() “You learn more from failure than from success. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” -Dale Carnegie “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” - Aristotle “Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln Inspirational Quotes for the Darkest Moments It comes from your own actions.”-Dalai Lama “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth.”― William W. “The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius Inspirational Quotes for a Happy Life Your attitude determines how well you do it.” -Lou Holtz Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.” ― Maya Angelou Inspirational Quotes for Positive Thinking “You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot ― it’s all there. Life is about creating yourself.”― George Bernard Shaw “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”― Allen Saunders ![]() If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.” - Lady Gaga “Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. You can design your own life.”- Carrie Ann Moss And then at a certain point, if you’re lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. “People tell you the world looks a certain way. Inspirational Quotes for Your Personal Life That’s why having some positive inspirational quotes or a motivated line on hand can be helpful in situations like that.įrom short inspirational quotes and widely relatable anecdotes to motivational quotes specifically about work and life in general, here is a list of some of my favorite inspirational quotes. Positive thinking helps you frame your mindset and change your life.īut when we feel down, it’s often difficult to conjure up things that make us happy. Those endorphins fill you with the feeling of well-being. When you think of something that brings you joy, your brain actually releases endorphins. The power of positive thinking is remarkable. You may find these inspirational quotes may come in handy when you’re having a hard day and need a little extra encouragement a and motivational line! So read these, write some down, and refer to them often. After writing them down, find the most motivational thought or the most inspiring passage, read it out loud, and then really try to understand the meaning. While reading through this list of the best motivational quotes in English, I recommend writing down some of the best inspirational and motivational quotes that resonate with you and your current situation. Over time and after reframing your mind to think positively about problems, you’ll stay motivated, inspired, and empowered to take on any challenge that comes your way! When you actively choose to think positively, regardless of how absolutely ridiculous it may seem, you will turn the situation into a development plan for growth, helping you become a better problem-solver and leader. If you’re choosing (sometimes subconsciously) to complain and think negatively, your natural reaction will be to dwell on the negatives of every situation. You make a choice when you decide how you will react to any given situation. Reframing our brains to think positively is a key step in leading a happy and successful life. They do so by harnessing the power of positive thinking. Inspirational quotes can help motivate us and create a positive outlook on life and work when we need it most. ![]() ![]() ![]() Two Factions per Color: Green can flip the Faeries over to play as the Druids, and Blue can flip over the Water Sprites to play as the Sea Dogs.Īs players drop out, they claim the next space in turn order for next round, with the first to drop out claiming the first-player token (a 3D shovel), the next taking second position, etc. After each player has done one action, the cycle starts again, looping around until each player decides to pass and exit play for the round. Once houses have been placed, players play out 5 rounds, taking turns in player order, each performing just one of a dozen or so possible actions. ![]() But after that, the game veers off so you quickly realize you’re playing a much deeper game. And you even start the game placing 2 of your houses in a snake draft. ![]() The board itself is just a bunch of hexagons, though not modular like Catan. ![]() Most of the wooden pieces seem to have been repurposed from surplus pieces from that 1995 classic. If you were to open the box without any Terra Mystica experience, you might be tempted to think you’d stumbled onto an alternate-reality version of Settlers of Catan. If not, it might seem like a Catan variant before you dive in. If you know Terra Mystica, this is clearly its sibling. It’s quick enough that after you finish a game you might want to play again as a different faction, perhaps by just flipping over your faction board and trying the other faction available for each player color. Your first game might take a while to assimilate the rules, but your second game can be finished in an hour, even with four players. After five rounds, players receive endgame points for coins and for the relative size of their territorial reach, and a winner is crowned. Players take turns over five rounds, dropping out of each round when they run out of things they can afford to do, or perhaps earlier than that for strategic reasons. This lets them build houses, trading posts, and fortresses, and from those components, create towns that earn sizable bonuses in currency, advancements, or pure points. In Terra Nova, players work to get as much of the game’s two currencies (coins and power tokens) as they can to transform the landscape into their preferred terrain type. Terra Nova can stand on its own as a solid, mid-weight Euro, and doesn’t deserve to be thought of only as a “dumbed-down” Terra Mystica. Authorship is credited to Andreas Faul, but a huge debt of the content is owed to the original creators of Terra Mystica, Helge Ostertag and Jens Drögemüller, because Terra Nova is not so much a truly new game as an example of asking “what if we shaved off all the rococo ornamentation from Terra Mystica so that the game could be taught in 10 minutes and everyone could just dive in?” Which is how Terra Nova saved my Terra Mystica experience from a perpetual state of “gosh, I sure wish I could learn to play this” and finally brought a version to the table for multiple plays of a really approachable, mid-weight Euro.īut enough about the comparisons with its sister game. Terra Nova is an ostensibly new game from Captone Games (and venerable German publishing house KOSMOS in Europe). ![]() |