![]() If you have single-sided deafness, you can wear a special pair of hearing aids that route sounds from the poorer hearing side to the better hearing side (called a CROS device), but a bone-anchored hearing device may be preferable because it requires the use of only one discreet device. Find out how bone-anchored hearing systems help with unilateral hearing loss.Ĭauses of SSD include acoustic neuroma (a tumor on the hearing nerve), Meniere's disease or sudden sensorineural hearing loss. Single-sided deafness makes it difficult to determine which direction sound is coming from (localization) and diminishes the ability to understand speech in noisy environments. Single-sided deafness (SSD) is a condition in which a person has lost all hearing in one ear, while having anywhere from normal hearing to profound hearing loss in the other ear. has a photo gallery of people with these conditions wearing bone-anchored hearing systems. A bone-anchored hearing solution delivers sound vibrations directly to the inner ear by being in direct contact with the skull bones. These malformations are often congenital, or present at birth. Malformations of the ear canal or middle ear, such as narrowing of the ear canal or a malformed or absent pinna (external ear) cause conductive hearing loss. That's why people who typically get the greatest benefit from bone-anchored hearing systems include those who have severe outer or middle ear malformations and those with single-sided deafness, also known as unilateral hearing loss. This type of hearing solution also may be recommended in extreme cases of chronic ear infections or allergies to traditional hearing aids. The most likely candidates for bone-anchored hearing devices are children or adults who have severe outer or middle ear malformations, or those with single-sided deafness. In those cases, standard hearing aids are ineffective. ![]() This can be helpful because middle ear and ear canal problems might prevent sound waves and signals from reaching the inner ear. These types of devices bypass particular problems by sending sound vibration directly to the inner ear through the skull bone. They may have conductive hearing loss (their outer or middle ears do not transmit sound correctly) or complete hearing loss in one ear only. Candidacy is best determined by a hearing care professional like an otolaryngologist (ENT). Here's what to know: Why bone-anchored hearing systems?īone-anchored hearing systems work best for people who have at least one inner ear (cochlear) that functions normally. To learn more, see our page on cochlear implants. ![]() In other words, they treat different hearing problems. While they are also a type of surgically implanted device for hearing loss, the patient indications are different. They treat hearing loss through bone conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear-this is in contrast to regular hearing aids, which amplify acoustic sounds that enter the ear canal.įor this reason, bone-anchored systems are considered specialty devices for people who have outer or middle ear problems, but at least one functioning inner ear (cochlea).īone-anchored hearing systems (BAHS), also known as bone-anchored auditory implants or bone-anchored hearing aids (BAHA), are not to be confused with cochlear implants. Unlike hearing aids, bone-anchored hearing systems are surgically implanted devices. Yet, many people aren't aware of what they are and how they work. Sometimes, hearing aids are not the best option for people with hearing loss, and bone-anchored hearing systems are suggested as a more suitable option.
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![]() The last pre-DC version, Acrobat XI, was updated to 11.0.23 version (and this was the final release ) on November 14, 2017, support for which had ended a month earlier on October 15, 2017. Updates for the Classic track are released quarterly, and do not include new features, whereas updates for the Continuous track are issued more frequently, and implemented silently and automatically. From DC 2015 the Acrobat family is available in two tracks, the original track, now named Classic, and the Continuous track. Version numbers are now identified by the last two digits of the year of major release, and the month and year is specified the previous version was 12, but examples of the DC (Document Cloud) Acrobat product family versions are DC June 2016, version 15.016.20045, released 2 June 2016 and DC Classic January 2016, version 15.006.30119, released 12 January 2016. The GUI had major changes with the introduction of Acrobat DC in 2015, which supports Windows 7 and later, and OS X 10.9 and later. Following the introduction of Document Cloud, was discontinued as their features were integrated into the desktop programs and mobile apps. In addition, "Reader" was renamed back to "Acrobat Reader". Programs under this branding received a "DC" suffix. In April 2015, Adobe introduced the " Document Cloud" branding (alongside its Creative Cloud) to signify its adoption of the cloud storage and the software as a service model. Unlike most other Adobe products, such as members of Adobe Creative Suite family, the Acrobat products do not have icons that display two letters on a colored rectangle. In 1999, the service came to being and introduced several web services whose names started with "Acrobat", but eventually, "" was downgraded from the name of the family of services, to that of one of those services. Between versions 3 and 5, Acrobat did not have several editions. Over time, "Acrobat Reader" became "Reader". "Acrobat Exchange" soon became "Acrobat". Initially, the offered products were called Acrobat Reader, Acrobat Exchange and Acrobat Distiller. Old logos of Acrobat programs and servicesĪdobe has renamed the Acrobat products several times, in addition to merging, splitting and discontinuing them. Acrobat can crop PDF pages, change their order, manipulate hyperlinks, digitally sign a PDF file, add comments, redact certain parts of the PDF file, and ensure its adherence to such standards as PDF/A. In other words, Adobe Acrobat is able to modify the contents of paragraphs and images, but doing so does not repaginate the whole document to accommodate for a longer or shorter document. ![]() It is also possible to import a scanner's output, a website, or the contents of the Windows clipboard.īecause of the nature of the PDF, however, once a PDF document is created, its natural organization and flow cannot be meaningfully modified. It can import popular document and image formats and save them as PDF. The main function of Adobe Acrobat is creating, viewing, and editing PDF documents. complements the family with a variety of enterprise content management and file hosting services. The commercial proprietary Acrobat, available for Microsoft Windows and macOS only, can also create, edit, convert, digitally sign, encrypt, export and publish PDF files. Additional, "Premium", services are available on paid subscription. ![]() The basic Acrobat Reader, available for several desktop and mobile platforms, is freeware it supports viewing, printing and annotating of PDF files. The family comprises Acrobat Reader (formerly Reader), Acrobat (formerly Exchange) and. to view, create, manipulate, print and manage Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The was no "close reader" command but its possible to use a wrapper function to kill task, however its better to invoke clean close F4 via send keys, as per other answers.Adobe Acrobat Pro DC running on Windows 10. 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Ultrashort pulses with durations in the picosecond or femtosecond domain are usually generated with mode-locked lasers, which may be solid-state bulk lasers, fiber lasers or semiconductor lasers.copper vapor lasers) are also driven with current pulses and could normally not work in continuous-wave operation. nitrogen lasers) and metal vapor lasers (e.g. They are pumped with rather short electric pulses. Excimer lasers are used for generating intense nanosecond pulses in the ultraviolet spectral region.Some solid-state bulk lasers are pumped with flash lamps but not Q-switched in free-running mode (i.e., with pulsed pumping but no intracavity loss modulation), one obtains longer pulses and somewhat higher pulse energies.Most Q-switched lasers are solid-state bulk lasers, and some of them can achieve high pulse energies in the millijoule or even multi-joule region. Various types of actively or passively Q-switched lasers emit pulses in the nanosecond duration regime particularly compact microchip lasers can also generate sub-nanosecond pulses.The article on pulse generation describes more in detail the technical methods, whereas this article discusses some types of pulsed lasers: Depending on the pulse duration, pulse energy, pulse repetition rate and wavelength required, very different methods for pulse generation and very different types of pulsed lasers are used. The term is most commonly used for Q-switched lasers, which typically emit nanosecond pulses, but this article gives an overview of a wider range of pulse-generating lasers. Pulsed lasers are lasers which emit light not in a continuous mode, but rather in the form of optical pulses (light flashes). How to cite the article suggest additional literature ![]() Definition: lasers emitting light in the form of pulses ![]() ![]() His set is a well-practiced digest of the classics he recorded at Motown – with whose founder, Berry Gordy Jr., he recently received the Recording Academy’s prestigious MusiCares Persons of the Year award – although he throws in “The Agony and the Ecstasy,” a deep cut from “A Quiet Storm,” at the request of an audience member with a lyric from the song tattooed on her arm. Onstage in Rancho Mirage, Robinson’s voice is as soft and silky as the purple shirt he’s wearing beneath a crisp white suit. and Las Vegas with his second wife, Frances Gladney. “All the guys at Motown were growing beards back then,” recalls the singer, who splits his time between L.A. “Couldn’t do that in Detroit,” he says with a laugh of the city where he and Motown were born.Ī set of luxuriously appointed R&B slow jams, “Gasms” looks back to “A Quiet Storm,” the boudoir-minded LP Robinson released in 1975 after he’d left the Miracles, worked as a Motown record exec, then returned to performing as a mustached solo artist. ![]() Whatever he’s doing, it’s working: Dressed in high-end athleisure wear, his blue-green eyes so clear that they look like they could chill a drink, this master of the American love song is the picture of health as he discusses “Gasms” and recounts detailed episodes from throughout the career he launched nearly seven decades ago as frontman of the Miracles.Īmong the many, many foundational hits he sang or wrote for other Motown acts – and which got him into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame – are “My Girl,” “Shop Around,” “The Tears of a Clown,” “I Second That Emotion,” “The Tracks of My Tears,” “Ooo Baby Baby,” “The Way You Do the Things You Do,” “Get Ready” and “Cruisin’,” the last of which he says he struggled to finish for five years until one December afternoon in 1978 when he found himself driving down Sunset Boulevard with the car’s top down. “Ain’t s– else you could call me for at 5 o’clock in the morning and say, ‘Let’s go.’”įor Robinson, golf is the most enjoyable part of an overall wellness regime that also includes yoga – he’s been practicing for 37 years – and a diet he says has been free of red meat since 1972. “There’s really nothing like it,” he says of the game, nodding toward his clubs in a corner of the room. The 83-year-old Motown legend is here in the desert to play a sold-out gig several weeks ahead of Friday’s release of his provocatively titled new album, “Gasms.” (You know what that’s short for.) But Robinson, who calls golf “the heroin of sports,” drove out early from his home in Los Angeles to squeeze in a round before showtime. ― Smokey Robinson rises from an overstuffed armchair and lowers the volume of the Masters golf tournament on the TV in his 11th-floor suite at the Agua Caliente casino here. 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![]() Planescape’s not the only game to accomplish this, but it does it with a grace and charm most others lack. Gameplay for Planescape Torment: Enhanced Edition on Xbox One (shown here), PlayStation 4, and Switch.Heres a 1999 classic by Black Isle Studios where you m. There’s an audience for the strange and macabre, for games that are fiercely personal and meditative and thought-provoking. It’s still one of the weirdest RPGs ever made, testament to the fact that video games don’t need to exist within the tiny box of mass-marketability. Planescape: Torment is set in the Planescape multiverse, a Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting which consists of various planes of existence, the creatures. Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition is due for release on April 11, for Windows, Mac and Linux via Steam, GOG and Beamdog. Planescape deserves to be played, even today. I’ll make those sacrifices though for a version of Planescape that doesn’t need an hour of prep time, and hopefully we’ll see those mods ported over to the Enhanced Edition at some point in the future. Some of the more interesting content-centric mods have not made it in, like the Banter Accelerator, which speeds up how often companions talk to each other, and the aforementioned Unfinished Business pack, which as I said repaired some of the quests that were left dangling in the original version. Although deviating from Neutral voids this trophy, you can go back to an earlier save. Mods made Planescape playable, but the Enhanced Edition looks like a game built for modern PCs. Maintain True Neutral alignment throughout the game. ![]() Noted composer Mark Morgan (Fallout 1 & 2, Wasteland 2) teams with composer Richard Band (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Stargate SG-1) to paint Sigil and the multiverse in a rich soundscape capturing the very essence of Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition. /rebates/2fpc2fplanescape-torment-enhanced-edition-pc-steam&. More important, it looks polished in a way the mods didn’t accomplish. Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition Soundtrack. Planescape Torment is certainly worth playing if you're an RPG fan. You can hold Tab to see interactive objects, you can turn on “Max HP” in the settings and avoid AD&D’s awful dice-roll quirks, you can activate cloud saves through Steam, you can zoom in and out with the mouse wheel (though be careful not to go too far in), looting can be done automatically to spare yourself the hassle, and the text actually fits on screen and looks properly sized-something I never quite managed even with Ghostdog’s UI mod. Planescape Torment's Enhanced Edition and Samurai Shodown IV will be up for grabs. We used 'difficulty 3' (the middle difficulty) for the walkthrough. The EE didnt add any new content, so this walkthrough should still work fine for the original edition of the game. User interface? Completely overhauled, ditching the weird circle-interface of the original Planescape and bringing it more in line with Baldur’s Gate. We updated this walkthrough using version 3.1.4.0 of the Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition. It’s a museum piece, a working version of Planescape with most of the mods essentially baked in. ![]() The program allows you to open multiple documents and switch between tabs to work on them. EditPad Lite Edit Pad Lite is a minimalistic document editing tool that has unlimited undo and redo functions. All of the toolbars have been reformatted for the Mac OS X, the program supports magnify and swipe gestures on the trackpad, and has a media browser for your use.ĥ. NeoOffice 3.1.1 NeoOffice based its applications on the Open Office package, creating a Mac OS X-specific suite of tools for document editing. Its FREE plan allows you to send unlimited signature requests, perform unlimited document filling/signing, and see real-time audit trails & logs.Ĥ. is HIPAA & GLBA compliant which makes all your documents legally binding. 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Here are 10 of the best free document editing applications.ġ. ![]() The software that a writer uses should not cause any headaches. Pita bread is generally considered to be a healthier option than pita pockets, as it is lower in calories and fat and has higher fiber content. Must-Read: 10 Delicious Breads Perfect for French Toast Sticks Pita Bread Vs Pita Pockets: How To Choose The Right One For You Pita bread is often topped with olive oil and herbs, while pita pockets are usually filled with more substantial ingredients. Pita pockets are often filled with ingredients such as cheese, meat, and vegetables, while pita bread is usually served plain.Īnother difference between pita bread and pita pockets is that pita bread is often served as a side dish or appetizer, while pita pockets are usually served as a main dish. The main difference between pita bread and pita pockets is that pita pockets are filled with ingredients before they are baked, while pita bread is not filled before baking. Pita bread and pita pockets are both made with pita dough, which is a type of yeast dough that is commonly used to make flatbreads in Middle Eastern cuisine.īoth pita bread and pita pockets are baked until they are puffy and light, and they both have a soft, chewy texture. The Differences Between Pita Bread And Pita Pockets Pita bread is made from a flat round of dough that is baked until it’s puffy and then cut into individual pieces. ![]() ![]() Pita pockets are made from a whole round of pita bread that is cut in half and filled with ingredients. ![]() So what’s the difference between pita bread and pita pockets? The answer is in the way they’re made. Pita bread and pita pockets can be confusing.Īfter all, they look similar and are both made from pita bread. In the 1800s, Christmas was transformed into the familiar domestic and child-centered ritual it remains to this day, centered on the magical figure of Santa Claus. From 1659 to 1682 it was actually illegal to celebrate the holiday in Massachusetts. All that helps explain why, as a consequence of the Protestant Reformation of the 1500s, Puritans in both Old and New England tried to suppress Christmas as a vestige of paganism. Later, in the American South, slaves were occasionally granted temporary freedom, encouraged to get drunk and, yes, treated by their masters to lavish banquets. In England, bands of young men roamed from house to house, singing as they begged for alcohol and money. In fact, the festivities that for centuries would mark its celebration resembled those of Saturnalia and other mid-winter rituals. ![]() But by placing it at such a time, they all but gave up the ability to define it as a purely religious one: Christmas was not easy to Christianize. The holiday was observed with feasting, drinking, gambling and sexual abandon.Īs the church fathers hoped, Christmas became an important holiday. Slaves were granted temporary freedom and were treated by their masters to lavish banquets. Everyone took time off from ordinary labor. Finally, the Saturnalia was a time of role reversals and seasonal license. But Saturn was the god of agricultural abundance, so his festival also marked the bounty of the completed harvest. 23, was partly a holiday of lights that celebrated the winter solstice. For the inhabitants of the Roman Empire, the holiday was called Saturnalia. The church fathers decided to place the new holiday in late December, virtually guaranteeing that it would be widely adopted because this was already a season of mid-winter revels, a holdover from pagan times. (Neither Luke nor Matthew, the two gospel writers who included stories of Jesus’s Nativity in their narratives, had indicated the date, or even the season, of the event.) What better way to convince Christians that Jesus was human than to commemorate his physical birth? The problem was that there was no evidence of when Jesus’s birth took place. They did so in part because many Christians were arguing that Jesus had not been an actual human being but rather a divine spirit - a belief the church fathers considered heretical. Christianity had been around for more than 350 years before the church fathers in Rome decided to add that event to the Christian calendar. A similar set of changes has affected the development of other seasonal holidays, like Hanukkah.Įarly Christians did not celebrate the Nativity. Yet that is largely an accident, stemming from a series of improbable changes spanning two millennia. ![]() The meat of the sacrificed animal was consumed by officials and priests at a ceremonial communal banquet.For most Americans, Christmas is the most important holiday of the year. Roman religion did practice animal sacrifice however, with sacrifices to heavenly gods, only internal organs such as the liver, heart, and lungs were burned.The ancient Romans did use wooden eggs, straw animals, and wind chimes ( tintinnabulum). Saturnalia was a gift-giving season, hence Cynthia's shopping spree.The doughnut sold are a reference to frictilia, a simple fritter made of eggs and flour fried in lard eaten during the festivities.In the late Roman Republic, festivities lasted for seven days, but in the Augustan era when Plebs is set, the emperor Augustus had attempted to shorten it to three days. Saturnalia was a Roman festival that started on 17 December, held in honour of the god Saturn, who had reigned prior to Jupiter in a golden age of harmony and simplicity.Grumio goes on a mission to make sure that sacrificial meat doesn’t go to waste. ![]() It’s the festival of Saturnalia and the celebration on the stroke of midnight is the perfect opportunity for Marcus to make a move on Cynthia. ![]() Sugar Sugar's exhibition factory is located inside Universal Studios Florida theme park in the San Francisco/Amity themed area. They make a variety of other confections, including peanut brittle, cashew brittle, candy apples, caramel apples, and an assortment of chocolate dipped sweets.įirst airing in 2006, Sugar Sugar has been featured two of the Food Network's Unwrapped episodes, "Candy Cravings" and "Couch Potato." ![]() It reached number one in the US on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1969 and stayed there for four weeks. It was originally recorded by the Archies, a bubblegum pop band formed by a group of fictional teenagers in the television cartoon series The Archie Show. Sugar-free lollies are also made using Splenda brand sucralose. 'Sugar, Sugar' is a pop song written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim. The style of candymaking is very similar to Great Britain's " stick of rock" or Australia's "lollies" and often called just Rock or Lolly. One of their specialties is a personalized candy where they form names, words, and logos by hand within each bite-sized piece of hard candy. The company is most famous for their handmade hard candy and incredibly large novelty lollipops weighing up to 2 pounds each. Kirshner even used the Archies as a vehicle for songs that the Monkees flat-out refused, like the Jeff Barry/Andy Kim-written smash Sugar, Sugar. is a confectionery manufacturer and retailer located in Orlando, Florida. JSTOR ( January 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Place where she played Archies niece Billie Bunker in all 49 episodes. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. THE ARCHIES Cartoon vocal group who had a hit with Sugar,Sugar in 1969 Stock. He sings it once they start taking about. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Which episode of the podcast does Conan sing The Archies sugar sugar. This article needs additional citations for verification. |