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![]() ![]() You would think a sky is a sky and who cares if you take an image of it in your backyard right!? Wrong! Unless your home has a huge, empty field behind it this is probably not a good idea. This way I am guaranteed to have soft white clouds (not overly bright) and it is easy to lighten the shadows and dark areas in post processing later. To resolve this I use the spot metering method and I will measure the light off of the brightest area of my image. When photographing skies it is easy to get “hot spots” or overly white areas of an image because of all of the white and bright areas caused by the clouds and sun. You can try a zoom lens to try and capture your sky at different focal lengths and see what you come up with, the sky is the limit!Įxposing correctly is always important and always a hot topic among photographers. I personally used a 35mm prime lens when capturing images of the sky for this project. When capturing sky overlays the objective is to get as much cloudy, fluffy goodness as you can fit into your lens, for this reason I prefer to use a lens with a wider focal length. The best part is, it’s so easy, and everyone can do it. I came up with a solution, to make my own sky overlays. In this tutorial we are using our sky images as overlays to create skies where they do not exist or could be enhanced. A quick note: An overlay is simply an image captured by camera or otherwise constructed in an editing program. Ground pork should get to a temperature of 160-degrees.Be sure to test the thickest part of the meat and don’t allow the thermometer to touch bone, or you’ll get an incorrect reading.Once it reaches an internal temperature of 145 to 160-degrees, which is the optimal temperature range, let the meat rest for three minutes. Grab a digital thermometer and make sure the meat reaches a temperature (for fresh cuts) of 145-degrees. Serve pork chops with sauce spooned over the top. Remove pork chops from the crockpot and whisk the sauce well. Cover and cook on low for 4 hours or high for 3 hours. Depending on how you’re cooking pork, there’s a tried and true way to make sure it’s done. Whisk together the cream soup and ranch seasoning and pour over the pork chops.When cooking other types of pork, how do you know the meat is done? In a mixing bowl whisk together the cream of chicken soup, milk, ranch seasoning, garlic powder, and salt and pepper. I picked bone-in pork chops for this recipe because they are so tender and flavorful.Īnd when you’re cooking smothered pork chops in the slow cooker, it’s easy to tell when the meat is done cooking because it falls right off the bone. Add pork chops, then potatoes, and last green beans to slow cooker. It only took me about five minutes to get the dinner started, so if you’re in a rush, this is the perfect meal. Cover and cook on LOW for 4-6 hours or on HIGH for 2-3 hours. Season pork chops with pepper on both sides. In the slow cooker, combine condensed soup, garlic, thyme, pepper, Ranch seasoning, and (optional) cornstarch until smooth. An Easy Dinner Recipe To Make With Pork ChopsĪnd this meal is a cinch to make. Grease the inside of a slow cooker with nonstick cooking spray. ![]() Another time something happens to the Barney doll before coming to life.The second Christmas special in the Barney franchise, with the first being the Barney & The Backyard Gang video, Waiting for Santa.The video was played all throughout the month. ![]() On December 6, 2008, Kidtoon Films released Barney's Night Before Christmas in theaters as part of its in-theater matinee movie program. The same version has a different and slightly longer audio track during the credits and no text in the credits. On the screener copy of the special, the title was "The Holiday Show". The set also contained the videos The Land of Make Believe and Let's Make Music. Barney's Night Before Christmas was also included in 3-Movie Pack which was released on October 15, 2013. The set also contained the videos Can You Sing That Song? and Hit Favorites: Winter Wonderland. The home video was also included in the Tee-Riffic Holiday Collection which was released on October 13, 2009. Marketing Ī float based on the video appeared in the " Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade" from 1999 until 2001. This video was aired on PBS from 2000 until 2001 and aired on Sprout in 2010. It was adapted by Stephen White, who also contributed in writing to the home video, and illustrated by Rick Grayson.īarney's Night Before Christmas Kidtoons poster. ![]() The video was adapted into a book of the same name. Main Article: Barney's Night Before Christmas (book) ** Notes a song was instrumentally played during the end credits. " Silent Night" (Instrumental) / " We Wish You a Merry Christmas" **." The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" (Instrumental)." Christmas Is Our Favorite Time Of Year".BJ (Voice: Patty Wirtz, Costume: Jeff Brooks).Baby Bop (Voice: Julie Johnson, Costume: Jeff Ayers).Barney (Voice: Bob West, Costume: David Joyner).Hannah's parents bring her back up to bed when, soon after, Santa appears down her chimney. They sing " I Love You" and wish each other Merry Christmas. After playing with Barney a little longer, Hannah falls asleep on the couch. Hannah wakes up, too excited to sleep in anticipation for Santa Claus. Later, Keesha, Robert and Stephen head off home. With some imagination, Barney and the kids return to Hannah's house, where they are greeted by carolers. Baby Bop and BJ stay with Santa to help him with his present delivery on his sleigh ride for evening. Everyone returns to meet-up with Santa, where he gives Baby Bop a special music box for thinking of filling his stocking on Christmas Eve. Afterwards, the group agrees to help Mrs. Claus greets the group and takes them on a special train ride through the toy factory. Santa shows the group all of his special collectible, vintage toys before showing them a secret passage to the toy factory.Įntering the toy factory, Mrs. Upon friendly greetings, Santa shows the group that all of them have made it on to his 'Good List'. After Baby Bop sneezes, all of Santa's toys start going off, awakening him. While Santa is asleep at his desk, Barney and his friends sneak over to fill his stocking with the gifts. Upon finishing the gifts, with some imagination, Barney whisks his friends to the North Pole. The group agrees that they should fill Santa's stocking with homemade gifts. After sharing cookies, Baby Bop asks Barney who fills Santa's stocking. Then, BJ appears, pretending to be Santa Claus. After the decorating is finished, Barney and Baby Bop go outside to play in the snow. Inside, along with Baby Bop, Barney and the kids help decorate the living room and they trim the Christmas tree. Barney appears and he helps the group decorate outside the house and yard. On Christmas Eve, Robert, Keesha, and Stephen arrive at Hannah's House to give gifts and they help with the Christmas decorating. ![]() Strength: Commvault Complete Backup and Recovery is the most comprehensive integrated product in the industry, according to Gartner, supporting a broad range of operating systems, hypervisors, applications, storage arrays and public cloud providers. 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On this particular Magic Quadrant, there were no companies that made the Challenger category. This Magic Quadrant ranks vendors on their ability to execute and completeness of vision and places them in four categories: Niche Players (low on vision and execution), Visionaries (good vision but low execution), Challengers (good execution but low vision) and Leaders (excelling in both vision and execution). Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions focuses on the upper-midmarket and large enterprise organizations. Gartner defines data center backup and recovery solutions as products designed to capture a point-in-time copy across heterogeneous enterprise workloads, the ability to find and restore specific datasets to the original or alternative system, and the ability to write the data out to a secondary device such as tape, hard-disk drives, solid-state drives or to cloud services. Gartner’s Data Center Backup And Recovery Methodology Here are the 12 market-leading vendors in the space that made Gartner's 2019 Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions Magic Quadrant, along with assessments of each company's strengths and weaknesses in the space. The backup and recovery market is consolidating features such as data replication, cloud disaster recovery automation and orchestration, and intercloud data mobility into a single platform. Ease of deployment, instant recovery and greater ease for administrators are key requirements in the market today. With the massive growth in data, new applications and deployment models are growing. 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Secondly, we obtained data from the Ministry of Justice on the conviction rate for crimes by young people per 1000 of the 10-17 year old population. School absenteeism was defined by the total number of authorised and unauthorised absences, counted in sessions where each session is equivalent to half a day. Firstly, rates of absenteeism from primary school as a proxy for child behaviour were obtained from national government databases in 2015, available online for each respective country (England, 3 Scotland, 4 Northern Ireland, 5 and Wales 6) and regions within England. We considered two sources of data as potential indicators of naughtiness. We used the website FreeMapTools ( to record the distance (km) between the hospital (closest city or town to the hospital) and North Pole, as the reindeer flies. We evaluated the relative importance of children’s behaviour, distance to the North Pole, and contextual socioeconomic deprivation on the likelihood of a visit from Santa Claus. ![]() 2 We chose to study paediatric hospital wards because sick children are the most deserving of a visit from Santa Claus at Christmas. 1 The Christmas classic goes on: “he sees when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake, he knows if you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake!” Yet no empirical evidence exists to support the assertion that Santa Claus rewards children based on good behaviour or to establish whether this is the only factor determining the likelihood of a visit from him. This belief finds textual support in the popular holiday song “Santa Claus is coming to Town,” written by Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie and published in 1934. It has long been thought that Santa Claus visits children depending on whether they have been naughty or nice in the past year (fig 1 1). Santa Claus (also known as Saint Nicholas, St Nick, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, Santy, or simply Santa) is a popular Christmas figure celebrated for travelling around the world to give children presents on Christmas Day (25 December). Potential solutions include a review of Santa’s contract or employment of local Santas in poorly represented regions. Santa Claus is less likely to visit children in hospitals in the most deprived areas. In contrast, there was no correlation with school absenteeism, conviction rates, or distance to the North Pole.Ĭonclusion The results of this study dispel the traditional belief that Santa Claus rewards children based on how nice or naughty they have been in the previous year. The odds of him not visiting, however, were significantly higher for paediatric wards in areas of higher socioeconomic deprivation in England (odds ratio 1.31 (95% confidence interval 1.04 to 1.71) in England, 1.23 (1.00 to 1.54) in the UK). Results Santa Claus visited most of the paediatric wards in all four countries: 89% in England, 100% in Northern Ireland, 93% in Scotland, and 92% in Wales. This was correlated with rates of absenteeism from primary school, conviction rates in young people (aged 10-17 years), distance from hospital to North Pole (closest city or town to the hospital in kilometres, as the reindeer flies), and contextual socioeconomic deprivation (index of multiple deprivation). Main outcome measures Presence or absence of Santa Claus on the paediatric ward during Christmas 2015. Participants 186 members of staff who worked on the paediatric wards (n=186) during Christmas 2015. Setting Paediatric wards in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Objective To determine which factors influence whether Santa Claus will visit children in hospital on Christmas Day.ĭesign Retrospective observational study.
More advanced user agents use color management to provide better color fidelity this is particularly important for Web-to-print applications.Ī hex triplet is a six-digit (or eight-digit), three- byte (or four-byte) hexadecimal number used in HTML, CSS, SVG, and other computing applications to represent colors. User agents vary in the fidelity with which they represent the specified colors. These have been chosen to be similar to many real-world monitors and viewing conditions, to allow rendering to be fairly close to the specified values even without color management. Web colors have an unambiguous colorimetric definition, sRGB, which relates the chromaticities of a particular phosphor set, a given transfer curve, adaptive whitepoint, and viewing conditions. The first versions of Mosaic and Netscape Navigator used the X11 color names as the basis for their color lists, as both started as X Window System applications. ![]() It is impossible with the hexadecimal syntax (and thus impossible in legacy HTML documents that do not use CSS). Specifying a non-sRGB color this way requires the RGB() function call. Thus, there are 24 bits used to specify a web color within the sRGB gamut, and 16,777,216 colors that may be so specified.Ĭolors outside the sRGB gamut can be specified in Cascading Style Sheets by making one or more of the red, green and blue components negative or greater than 100%, so the color space is theoretically an unbounded extrapolation of sRGB similar to scRGB. A color is specified according to the intensity of its red, green and blue components, each represented by eight bits. In some uses, hexadecimal color codes are specified with notation using a leading number sign (#). A color tool or other graphics software is often used to generate color values. Web colors are colors used in displaying web pages on the World Wide Web they can be described by way of three methods: a color may be specified as an RGB triplet, in hexadecimal format (a hex triplet) or according to its common English name in some cases. Stretch marks eventually fade to a silvery, white, or glossy appearance, due to the pale fat beneath the skin becoming visible instead of the usual blood vessels. This can form stretch marks and contributes to the way they look. This causes the dermis to tear, allowing deeper layers of skin to show through. However, rapid growth leads to sudden stretching. This is normally due to rapid expansion or contraction of the skin.Īs the body grows, the connecting fibers in the dermis slowly stretch to accommodate slow growth. Stretch marks form in the dermis, or middle layer, when the connective tissue is stretched beyond the limits of its elasticity. Collagen strengthens and supports the skin, and a reduced amount can increase the risk of stretch marks. Corticosteroid use: Prolonged use of corticosteroid creams and lotions can decrease levels of collagen in the skin.Marfan syndrome can lead to decreased elasticity in the skin tissue, and Cushing’s syndrome can lead the body to produce too much of a hormone that leads to rapid weight gain and skin fragility. Medical conditions: Certain conditions can cause stretch marks, such as Marfan syndrome and Cushing’s syndrome.Rapid weight gain: Putting on a lot of weight in a short space of time can cause stretch marks. ![]() Puberty: Rapid growth is typical in young people going through puberty.Pregnancy: Between 50 and 90 percent of women who are pregnant experience stretchmarks during or after birth.Share on Pinterest Pregnancy is one of the main causes of stretch marks.Įxtreme skin growth or shrinkage can cause stretch marks.Ĭommon causes of skin stretching include: Its fast download speeds suggest that PIA is a good choice for activities like streaming HD movies and downloading large files. ServerĪs you can see from the speed tests, PIA posts excellent speed test values. Speed tests always vary per location, internet provider, and time of day. Otherwise, PIA is a very reliable, fast, and secure VPN service. In addition, servers sometimes took a while to connect. 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