![]() Feeling that they have done enough, Emira and Edric leave to two in an enchanted library overnight and accidentally leave them in danger. They convince her to join them in their nightly excursions, but this results in Luz getting further away from being friends with her. To do this, they meet up with the human Luz Noceda, who at the time was trying to befriend Amity. They come to the belief that Amity's stuck up personality needs to be abolished through brute force. They are accompanied by their younger sibling Amity who, as older siblings tend to do, is their object to torment. They spent most of their lives relishing their advanced abilities and ended up taking the illusion track upon their acceptance into Hexside School of Magic and Demonics. Emira's is a green, faceted stone kept on her chest, and Edric's is a blue drop stone, hidden under his sleeve.Įmira and Edric Blight grew up under the privileged tutelage of their high class parents Alador and Odalia Blight. Concealment stones: Emira and Edric each wear a conncealment stone that hide their true appearances.Healing Magic: Emira has basic knowledge on casting healing spells. ![]() Beast Keeping Magic: Edric knows spells to capture beasts and knowledge on their habits.Illusion Magic: As part of the Illusion track and given their mischievous reputation, Emira and Edric specialize in illusion based magic, which they often use to prank people.Magic: Both Emira and Edric are adept in magic, and like all the other witches and wizards on the Boiling Isles their connection comes from sac of magic bile attached to their hearts.They have also been shown to help and support their little sister go against their mother, so long as she does not tell on them. In " Adventures in the Elements" they became unbearably protective and nice towards Amity as a way of apologizing, and help her with learning new spells. Despite their mischievous and disobedient behavior, they are shown to have a caring side. They would even go as far as exposing her diary all around school. They also like to tease their little sister and call her "Mittens". Sometimes their fun can get a little out of hand, especially when the consequences of their actions could harm others, which they sometimes do not seem to care about. They would rather cut class and have fun than study. Emira and Edric are the opposite of Amity.
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![]() Lightspeed’s early-stage funds have posted performance of 5x net or higher over a 10-year period, including during the financial crisis, according to the firm. This momentum has been driven by Lightspeed’s slew of winners across the U.S., Europe, Israel, India, China, and other countries-with 190 IPOs and acquisitions under its belt spanning names like Riverbed, GrubHub, MuleSoft, or Grab. But Liew said he would stop investing in new companies, so he can spend more time with family and eventually retire in the next 10 years. Liew, who was 50 when he announced he was stepping back from the firm late last year, made it clear he wasn’t leaving Lightspeed: He’s maintaining his partner seat and board positions. It’s why Liew stepping back may be an incredibly pivotal moment of transition for the firm. ![]() Liew “really put on the map with his foundational investments,” says Alex Taussig, a Lightspeed partner, also on the consumer team. The firm’s partners credit the Snap investment, with its “tremendous reach” as Mhatre puts it, to putting Lightspeed on many people’s radar. The consumer sector may not be Lightspeed’s largest, but it has been the loudest-in part due to the public brand recognition some of its portfolio companies have enjoyed. From Lightspeed’s thirteenth flagship fund, enterprise still made up more than 40% of the firm’s investments, while around 27% of the fund was invested in consumer startups. Since the late 90s, when Lightspeed was formed, enterprise investing has been core to the firm’s strategy-and Lightspeed didn’t start building out its consumer strategy until the 2000s, according to co-founder Ravi Mhatre, who sits at the firm’s helm with Bejul Somaia, head of Lightspeed India Partners. As Liew’s reputation evolved in Silicon Valley, so did that of his firm Lightspeed Venture Partners-a fund that had initially focused solely on the less-sexy world of enterprise investing. Liew’s consistency over 15 years in spotting winners amidst the noisy, fast-moving world of consumer investing turned him into a venture capital icon. Investments in Cheddar, Giphy, Bonobos, and Rothy’s have lined his portfolio. And it was Liew who co-led the Series A of The Honest Company, Jessica Alba’s eco-friendly consumer products company. He co-led the Series B round of buy now, pay later giant Affirm-the first funding round where venture capitalists were offered a stake in the company. His $485,000 investment in Snap-the photo-sharing social media company’s very first check-snowballed into a $8.1 million exit, awarding Lightspeed’s investors a 250x on-paper return. ![]() It is Jeremy Liew, the firm’s first consumer specialist, that catapulted the relatively little-known venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners into the public eye. ![]() Fixed One Hit Kill cheat to also kill horses (as long as they have no rider or an enemy rider).Added a Learning rate Multiplier cheat for player companions. ![]()
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Montage Deer Valley Hotel Park City, located 44 km from Salt Lake City International airport, offers free shuttle service, 24-hour front desk assistance and porter service. ![]() However, a note of caution here: While it is essential to exercise the right muscles, don’t perform your Kegel exercises by starting and stopping your urine stream just because you are confident those are the right muscles. Likewise, contracting your buttocks should be avoided.Įxercising the wrong muscles can result in pain in your abdomen or back and cause you to miss the benefits of the exercises. While the abdominal, back, and side muscles will slightly tighten with this exercise, they should not be pulled inward forcefully, as this will overpower the pelvic floor muscles. So make sure you know how they feel when they contract and relax. The muscles you use to do this are your pelvic floor muscles, and they are the muscles that need to be exercised. The proper way to perform Kegels is to imagine shutting off the flow of urine midstream. Learn how to do Kegels How Do I Do Kegels? Performing pelvic floor strengthening exercises, which are also referred to as Kegels, by contracting and then relaxing the pelvic floor muscles helps to train the muscles to stop bladder leaks, reduce pressure in the vagina from pelvic organ prolapse, and improve core stability for support of the lower back and hips. What Is a Kegel?Ī Kegel is a contraction of the pelvic floor muscles, the hammock-like muscles that surround and support the bladder, vagina and uterus, and rectum. Fortunately, these issues are curable with specific types of kegel exercises that can be done to limit and prevent symptoms altogether. These issues can affect women of all backgrounds and can occur regardless of whether they have had children. ![]() Other symptoms of pelvic floor issues include lower back pain, poor posture, and pelvic organ prolapse (in which the pelvic organs sag down into the vagina). Often, a weak pelvic floor presents as bladder leakage issues when a woman laughs, coughs, sneezes, or runs, also referred to as stress urinary incontinence (SUI). A weak pelvic floor can be a result of genetics, participation in high-impact sports, chronic constipation, natural aging, pregnancy, and childbirth. Pelvic Floor Problems and Solutionsġ in 3 women experience pelvic floor problems, including up to 80% of pregnant women and new moms. But first, let's look at WHY there is even a market for them by looking at pelvic floor problems. We decided to look at the differences, see of one type is really the best and cover the differences. Vaginal weights, Kegel balls, vaginal eggs, jade eggs, and electronic Kegel trainers are becoming prevalent choices for training the pelvic floor muscles. It seems that Kegel exercise trainers are popping up everywhere these days. ![]() The compilers told me they had omitted Rock And Roll Part 2 and I Love You Love on the not-unreasonable grounds that the furore that including them might provoke would overshadow the whole project. I stumbled across it while writing about one of the glam box sets Smith mentions: Universal’s lovingly assembled Oh Yes We Can Love. The Gary Glitter’s Ganghouse Facebook page currently has nearly 7,000 likes. My attitude has always been, we’ll decide for ourselves, thanks very much.” You know, we’ll decide on your behalf what you can and can’t listen to. It’s treating the public like kids, really. It’s not played on the radio, it’s not on glam compilation albums or box sets, there wasn’t a single picture of Gary in the glam exhibition at the Tate Liverpool. “What really inspired me to start the page was that I knew this was music that really excited me, and I realised it was being omitted from history, written out of history. But that’s not a criticism of the music, the performance, the songs, or the production. Child abuse, child pornography, these are terrible things that people deserve to go to jail for. I knew what Gary Glitter had been convicted of. And that never stopped me from appreciating his music. “Before that, one of my favourite artists was Jerry Lee Lewis, and obviously he’s a guy that comes with a reputation, he married his cousin and shot his bass player. One, called Gary Glitter’s Ganghouse, was set up in 2011 by 33-year-old Richard Smith, who discovered Glitter’s music long after the singer’s convictions: deeply improbable as it may seem, Gary Glitter is still apparently capable of attracting new fans. Today, Thomas is part of an apparently burgeoning community of die-hard Glitter fans who congregate around a number of Facebook pages. It’s not your fault if you like it or not. The type of music, the artist, the song, it chooses you. But he knew of at least one other Glitter fan who had been beaten up – “and he’s a big lad too” – so he decided to take action: deleting the videos and setting up another page under a pseudonym, where “all my friends are Glitter fans”. Teasing or threatening? “There’s a fine line, isn’t there?” he frowns. You know, we’ll decide on your behalf what you can and can’t listen to “A lot of my mates started getting a bit funny about things when they saw Gary Glitter videos on my Facebook page.” It’s treating the public like kids, really. “I started getting a bit of shit,” he says. Perhaps understandably, not everyone was terribly enamoured of Thomas’s renewed interest in, arguably, one of the most reviled figures in British pop history. I saw there wasn’t that many videos on YouTube and I started uploading a couple of Gary Glitter tracks myself.” Years later, however, he found himself idly typing Glitter’s name into YouTube. 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While any team can theoretically use Confluence, the technical knowledge required can put off some employees. Without specialized plugins, you cannot save content as a draft during editing stages-all saved pages are live.Ĭonfluence can also be complex to deploy and maintain from an infrastructure perspective. ![]() ![]() The wiki-based features may suffer if poorly maintained, and the search feature is not always the most effective. It integrates with other Atlassian tools including the JIRA tracking solution.Ĭonfluence offers many capabilities but doesn’t particularly excel at many of them. You store everything in a central location, making content searching easier.Ĭonfluence documents are shared with all team members in a workspace, with related pages linked.Ĭonfluence is useful for managing software projects and helping DevOps teams communicate openly. You can create pages or attach documents.Ĭonfluence supports all types of content, including documentation, software project information, and knowledge bases. Users work with shared “pages” within a Confluence space rather than owning documents separately.Ĭonfluence provides many templates for easily building projects (i.e., product roadmaps, retrospectives, checklists). The core concept in Confluence is “spaces”-you can create cross-department spaces to enable multiple teams to collaborate on the same project. Below we review the pros and cons of Confluence, and eight alternative solutions to consider. While Confluence is hugely popular, there are several budding competitors that are worth evaluating, and might be a better fit, depending on your organization and use cases. It is suited for teams working on mission-critical projects with rigorous workflows and practices. In particular, Confluence offers a robust platform for creating and sharing information, and is often used for technical documentation.Ĭonfluence is an enterprise grade solution, but is suitable for all types and sizes of organizations and teams. It allows team members to exchange ideas and knowledge, ensuring a productive, efficient workspace. Atlassian Confluence is a team collaboration solution that provides a shared environment for people to work together. ![]() The Bridgertons, her popular series of historical romance, is currently in production by Shondaland as a Netflix original series starring Julie Andrews, Phoebe Dynevor, and Rége-Jean Page. Her books have been translated into 32 languages, and she lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest. 'Kate Quinn follows her word-of-mouth bestseller, The Alice Network, with another compulsively readable historical novel. Quinn is one of only sixteen members of Romance Writers of America’s Hall of Fame. She displayed a decided lack of knowledge about baseball, country music, and plush toys, but she is proud to say that she aced all things British and literary, answered all of her history and geography questions correctly, and knew that there was a Da Vinci long before there was a code.Ī graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, Ms. Gentles, let us return to the gathering room, Justice Fatima said. Her books have been translated into 32 languages, and she lives with her family in the Pacif #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn loves to dispel the myth that smart women don't read (or write) romance, and and if you watch reruns of the game show The Weakest Link you might just catch her winning the $79,000 jackpot. Quinns follow-up to last years Mistress of Rome focuses on four Roman women: Cornelia, the perfect Roman wife, is poised to become the next empress her. bowed deeply, turned, and exited through what Quinn assumed was the kitchen hatch. Looking for books by Julia Quinn See all books authored by Julia Quinn, including The Duke and I, and The Viscount Who Loved Me, and more on. Quinn is one of only sixteen members of Romance Writers of America’s Hall of Fame. Kate Quinn is an American author best known for writing historical fiction, including the Empress of Rome Saga. For those who have been on the Moon since December, Julia Quinns Bridgerton series of books have been made into a new TV series by Shonda Rhimes (Scandal. A graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, Ms. She displayed a decided lack of knowledge about baseball, country music, and plush toys, but she is proud to say that she aced all things British and literary, answered all of her history and geography questions correctly, and knew that there was a Da Vinci long before there was a code. ![]() #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn loves to dispel the myth that smart women don't read (or write) romance, and and if you watch reruns of the game show The Weakest Link you might just catch her winning the $79,000 jackpot. ![]() Photo Ninja was a close second! Capture One Pro just edged out this powerful program thanks to its enhanced detail. I created a comparison photo and then used the noise reduction tool. As with Capture One Pro, I edited my RAW files in the program. The program includes a noise-reducing program previously called Noise Ninja. Photo Ninja is a full-service post-processing program that costs $129. ![]() These are isolated white pixels that pop out of the dark areas. ![]() Unique to Capture One Pro is the Single Pixel slider that eliminates hot pixels in your photo. The detail slider brings out more detail. Bear this in mind when comparing the results of Capture One Pro with other programs.Ĭapture One Pro includes noise reduction to control both luminance and color noise. I re-edited my RAW files in Capture One Pro to provide comparison images. However, while Capture One Pro will open RAW files, my Lightroom Classic edits were lost. Though the night photo edited in Capture One Pro initially had more noise, the program did a good job of removing noise in the sky. The program did a good job retaining the detail in the bird’s wings while also softening the background. I compared the photos edited in Capture One Pro with and without noise reduction. But Capture One Pro beat them all on the night image. Some plug-ins did better with the wildlife shot than either Capture One Pro or Lightroom Classic. Plans start at $14/month, and there is a free trial.Ĭapture One Pro was the only program to get good results with both images. Capture One ProĬapture One Pro is a complete photo editing program competitive with Lightroom Classic. Here’s how I ranked the complete post-processing programs. I then looked at noise reduction plug-ins for Lightroom Classic or Photoshop. I started my search for the best noise reduction software by looking at complete post-processing programs that include noise reduction. My settings were f/8.0 1/500th of a second, ISO 6400. Noise removal programs can create a waxy look that would be noticeable in the feathers. I wanted to see how the programs handle the blurred background and detail in the bird’s feathers. The other was a wildlife image taken at ISO 6,400 with a shallow depth of field. My settings were f/4.0 10 seconds ISO 10,000. I chose this photo to see if the programs could distinguish between noise and stars. One image was a night shot taken at ISO 10,000. I edited the baseline images in Lightroom Classic before applying noise reduction. They were shot at high ISOs and had noticeable digital noise. I used two images in my quest to find the best noise reduction software. Best Noise Reduction Software to Buy in 2022īefore we dive into the best software, let’s look at the images I used to test noise reduction. |