![]() ![]() So Alan Jackson basically invented bro-country. ![]() Also, not to mention that “Chattahoochee” is littered with bro-country buzzwords such as moonlight, girls, and trucks. It was Alan Jackson who killed country music by dumbing it down (i.e., that stupid 9/11-exploiting song where he couldn’t tell the difference between Iraq and Iran) and living up to stereotypes (i.e., “It’s Alright to Be a Redneck”, “Where I Come From”, “Country Boy”). Nice try, but Alan Jackson is what destroyed country music. Last week Jackson played to a packed Station Inn in Nashville in celebration of his upcoming bluegrass album. “Bluegrass is one of the last American music that’s stayed somewhat close to its roots.” “I wanted to pay my respects to it because I think it’s a great genre and it’s real close to country,” Jackson told The Baltimore Sun. His next album set to be released on September 24th is simply called The Bluegrass Album and features a no frills traditional bluegrass approach. Jackson has long been regarded as residing on the traditionalist side of the mainstream dial, and on many occasions has stood up for older artists and the preservation of the roots of country music, most famously on the 1999 CMA Awards when he stopped his own song “Pop A Top” and started singing George Jones’s “Choices” after the CMA refused to let George sing the song in full.Īlan Jackson may be done with trying to court country radio though, and may be embracing his role as an elder of country music. Jackson’s last album, 2012’s Thirty Miles West sold moderately well, but did not produce the type of radio hits Jackson enjoyed earlier in his career. I don’t know if it’ll ever be back on mainstream radio. ![]() What makes me sad today is that I think the real country, real roots-y traditional stuff, may be gone. It’s always been that constant pop-country battle. There’s some good music, good songwriting and good artists out there, but there’s really no country stuff left. It’s not that I’m against all that’s out there. The Grand Ole Opry member, winner of 2 Grammys, 16 CMA’s, and performer of 35 #1 hits said: Ahead of his performance at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Baltimore, Alan Jackson had some discouraging words about the current state of country music in an interview with the Baltimore Sun. ![]()
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![]() ![]() While not one of the top 3 Picasa alternatives in this list, it’s hard to argue with so much image searching power at your fingertips for free. Photo editing in Google Photos is fairly limited, but you can quickly apply filters and tweak elements such as brightness and contrast, all of which is reversible, even if you come back to the photo much later. This allows you to perform a search for an object contained within the actual image itself, making keywording and tagging individual photos a chore of the past. Having all of your images stored in Google’s cloud platform means that Google Photos can take advantage of sophisticated search capabilities, not simply using keywords and other data stored in your images, but also Google’s intelligence to identify what’s in your photos. Google Photos allows you to store and synchronise your images automatically - for free if you choose to make a small compromise on the resolution, although this is due to change in the summer of 2021. Rather than being installed on your computer, Google Photos is a web-based application that works a little differently. With the retirement of Picasa, many hoped that Google Photos would prove to be a good alternative, and it certainly comes close. See our in-depth Lightroom Classic review here, or click the button above to start a free trial. It’s easy to browse a vast catalogue of images with relative ease, making Lightroom one of the best Google Picasa alternatives if you have the budget for it. Lightroom’s file management features are powerful, offering keywords, sophisticated filtering and sorting. There’s a standalone version (“Classic”) for Windows and MacOS machines, and there’s a “CC” version that also works on mobile devices, allowing you to synchronise your work while keeping your archive in the cloud. Presets allow you to perform rapid edits and synchronise changes across any number of images. It might not (yet) contain the AI features of something like Luminar 4, but Adobe Lightroom has an extensive array of tools for processing images.īasic changes can be applied quickly and easily, and you can then choose to create more complex edits using local adjustments and color grading tools. Lightoom is the choice of professional photographers around the world, and for good reason. See our full review of Luminar 4 here, or click the button above to download it today.Īdobe has been the industry standard for image editing for decades and Lightroom is a powerful piece of software that has evolved alongside digital cameras. However, it’s definitely one of the best choices when it comes to editing your photos, so in that sense, it’s definitely a top Picasa alternative. In addition, Luminar can swap out a sky, make an unwanted part of an image disappear, smooth the skin and enhance the eyes on a portrait - all within just a few clicks.īecause of the emphasis on editing, Luminar 4 is not well suited to managing a large number of files and doesn’t support features such as facial identification, keywords, or collections. Luminar 4 takes advantage of AI machine learning to offer automatic edits to your photographs, making suggestions based on millions of existing photographs. ![]() While you can get very technical in your edits using things like masking and layers, Luminar 4 is best-known for its use of AI. 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![]() ![]() Hat Tip to my fellow Software Update Investigator Eric Holtam! Follow him on Twitter Apple’s Public Patch Notes / Release Notes Documentation 10.15.7 Full Installer = Remains OLD 10.15.7 (19H2) version and will need to install the 10.15.7 Supplemental Update after.10.15.0-10.15.5 users = OLD 10.15.7 Combo Update – Will need to install the 10.15.7 Supplemental Update after.They will have to install the 10.15.7 Supplemental Update after! This time we only have a delta update for 10.15.6 users. ![]() Normally Apple releases new Delta and Combo Updates. We have a couple update scenarios that we need to discuss. Treat this Supplemental Update as a High Priority! Confusing Update Situation All three vulnerabilities have been reported to Apple from the Google Project Zero Team.Two Kernel Exploits = Both found in the wild!!!.FontParser arbitrary code execution = Found in the wild!!!.The Supplemental Update patches the following.This update is an important update due to this quote from AppleĪ malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. Apple is aware of reports that an exploit for this issue exists in the wild. MacOS Catalina 10.15.7 Supplemental Update provides important security updates for your Mac. Macintosh Catalina 10.15.7 Supplemental Update Video The macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update includes the following Security fixes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now that is complete aside from everything else we're going to go into. There are sometimes where on a daily basis I will need to delete a note module directory from one project or another one depending on how big they get and how many conflicts that might arise.Īnd so I simply wanted to show you that you should think about these as temporary and when we get into topics such as version control a very important concept is you should never check in your node modules into version control. And the reason why I went through that exercise is because this is something I've had to do constantly. All of those various code libraries and those packages. It is going to go through the entire set of dependencies and as you can see it's already doing it and it's going to pull down from the NPM registry. And as you can see node_modules is gone.īut if I run npm install once again the same process is going to occur. Now it's going to be quite a few items as you can see there so many files it's over 10,000 or so files. I'm going to delete it and I'm also going to go and empty my trash. So even though it has all of this code that you can simply get rid of it and just so you do not think I'm lying to you I'm going to open this up and as you can see we have node modules right here. Now one thing I want to point out about how this works and it's very important because if you plan on doing any real-world javascript development you're going to run into this, your node modules directory can be a completely thrown away kind of tool which means that because it can be generated on the fly if you run into any kinds of dependency issues or bugs where say one of these packages interferes with another one it is no problem at all to simply delete this file from your computer and then run npm install once again and it will create this new modules directory. And each one of these different packages is going to be brought down in your application and all of the code is going to be stored in this node modules directory. And as you can see it's going to create node modules directory. It's going to go through all of our dependencies both our dev dependencies and are our regular production dev dependencies right here. ![]() Now what is going to go on here is it's going to go through this process is going to go through our package.json file. Now notice we do not have a dependency called momentjs listed here and that is going to be the one that you can see here in the browser that we were going to implement.īut before we do that I'm going to open up the terminal and type npm install. Now I want to first go into the package.json file and you'll see all of the dependencies that we currently have. Now I'm going to CD into that directory and now that I'm there and let me also open that up inside of Visual Studio Code so I'm gonna hit command o click on PackageProject, simply click openĪnd then it is going to open the entire project and you can see we have all of our code right here. Once again I want the es6-starter and for this one, we're simply going to call this PackageProject and that is all we have to do. So I'm going to type in js-generate and this is going to ask me what kind of project I want. ![]() And so if you're in the terminal simply go to whatever directory that you want to use it via the code directory or projects directory go to wherever you want to create your new project and we're going to go through the process on building another project and generating it from scratch. And maybe my naive post will generate other posts that will help you.The first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to change back into the desktop. I don’t know Rails that well but did get caught up in the Webpacker a year or two ago. Many good posts and YouTube tutorials have been done about Webpacker in Rails, but they all seem to take slightly different approaches and the official documentation hasn’t kept up. Since Webpacker is relatively new people have different approaches on how to implement it and you’ve discovered that. Webpack VS Sprockets - The Lean Software Boutique will give you an idea of what’s involved. A short history would be Sprockets, Webpacker and now Rails ES6 based replacement for webpacker - #2 by juansecaro, a post written by the creator of Rails, DHH. Rails struggles with how to deal with JavaScript. You’ve found a major problem with Rails at the moment. GitHub - rails/webpacker: Use Webpack to manage app-like JavaScript modules in Rails which doesn’t acknowledge the /javascript folder. This app appears to use Webpacker hence /app/javascript/. There are now several ways to manage javascript files and depending on how your Rails app was set up, the javascript folder may be somewhere else. ![]() ![]() Kate O’Brien, MD/MPH, is the Director of the International Vaccine Access Center at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Katherine Mathieson is the Chief Executive of The British Science Association, based in London.ĥ3) Bill Heisel On IHME’s Global Engagementīill Heisel is the Head of Global Engagement at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.ĥ2) Kate O’Brien On Vaccines and Social Justice John Jackson is the Head of Science Communication and Policy at London’s Natural History Museum.ĥ4) Katherine Mathieson On The British Science Association Science Gallery aims to engage the public on science by mixing art and science together.ĥ5) John Jackson On London’s Natural History Museum Mary Carol Jennings, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Scientist at the International Vaccine Access Center at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.ĥ6) Dan Glaser On London’s Science Galleryĭaniel Glasier, PhD, is a neuroscientist and Co-Director of Science Gallery London at Kings College London. Tom Inglesby, MD, is the Director of Johns Hopkins Center for Health Securityĥ7) Mary Carol Jennings On Accelerating Vaccine Access Leah Pagnozzi, PhD(c), initiated the Bring A politician to Work’ program at Cornell University. Among other positions, he is the Co-Chair of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee Maternal Immunization Working Groupĥ9) Leah Pagnozzi On Science Advocacy & ‘Bring A Politician to Lab’ Program Saad Omer, MBBS, PhD, MPD is the William H Foege Professor of Global Health and Professor of Epidemiology & Pediatrics at Emory University, Schools of Public Health and Medicine. ![]() Also founding editor of peer, reviewed journal ‘ Public Understanding of Science.‘Ħ0) Saad Omer On Translating Vaccine Science Into Policy John Durant, PhD, is the Director of MIT Museum and adjunct professor of Science, Technology & Society at MIT. Travis Rieder, PhD is a bioethicist at Johns Hopkins Berman Institute for BioethicsĦ1) John Durant On Public Understanding of Science Kyla Hayford, PhD is an Assistant Scientist at Johns Hopkins International Vaccine Access Center Stanley Plotkin, MD is world renowned for his research and development of the rubella vaccine.Ħ3) Kyla Hayford On Improving Vaccine Coverage His work has also included public health preparedness strategies to effectively respond to large emerging and re-emerging infectious disease outbreaks.ĭr Omer is a member of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) Working Group on COVID-19 Vaccines, the Co-Chair of the Lancet Commission on Vaccine Hesitancy in the US, a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Committee on Equitable Allocation of Vaccines for the Novel Coronavirus, serves on the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC) Working Group for Vaccine Hesitancy and is on the Board of Trustees for the Sabin Vaccine Institute.David Peters, MD is Chair of the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and is well known for his health systems and ebola preparedness research and work.Ħ4) Stanley Plotkin On History of Vaccines ![]() Moreover, he has conducted several studies on interventions to increase immunisation coverage and acceptance. He is also a fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America.ĭr Omer’s research portfolio includes epidemiology of respiratory viruses such as influenza, RSV, and SARS-Cov-2 (COVID-19) clinical trials to estimate efficacy of maternal and/or infant influenza, pertussis, polio, measles and pneumococcal vaccines and trials to evaluate drug regimens to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Dr Omer received his medical degree, MBBS, from The Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan and received his MPH and PhD in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control from Johns Hopkins University. He is also a Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at Yale School of Medicine and the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale School of Public Health. Omer is the inaugural Director of the Yale Institute for Global Health. Director, Yale Institute for Global Health ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a high-quality mattress with excellent environmental qualities – all the foams are Certi-PUR certified, the cardboard packaging is from sustainable forests and the manufacturing process is 100% carbon neutral. With eight separate layers, the Nectar Premier Hybrid is packed full of materials to help with a good night’s sleep. ![]() Memory foam layer contours to the body for excellent pressure relief.Two separate layers of coils – a layer of micro springs and a layer of pocket springs.Nectar Premier Hybrid Mattress Review: Materials and design We were, however, a little disappointed with the edge support on the mattress and, although the cover on the mattress can be removed, this is only as part of the manufacturing process and the cover isn’t washable. Temperature regulation is good as well, thanks to a cooling cover and decent airflow through the two layers of springs. Despite the coils in the mattress, the memory foam does an excellent job of absorbing motion, meaning you’re unlikely to be disturbed at night. We were extremely impressed with the motion isolation on the Premier Hybrid and we’d recommend this mattress for those who share their bed with a restless sleeper. We felt the mattress was particularly suited to back and side sleepers, but our stomach sleepers found it too soft with the mattress not providing enough support for the hips and spine. If you’re looking for a slightly firmer mattress from Nectar, we felt that the Essential Hybrid rated nearer a 7 out of 10.Īs Nectar’s most expensive hybrid, the Premier Hybrid is suitably luxurious with eight layers of coils, memory foam and support foam to help provide a restful night’s sleep. Nectar rates the mattress as a 6-6.5 out of 10, which we would agree with. Thanks to its springs the Premier Hybrid is firmer than the Original Foam mattress, but you’ll still find the distinctive ‘hug’ of memory foam in the top layers. ![]() Sizes: Single, Small Double, Double, King, Super King Materials: Open-cell foam, memory foam, polyester, polypropylene, steel coils ![]() ![]() Try her Sinilihan, a stew simmered so gently and so slowly so that the kombucha in it triples its job to season, thicken and color the dish, and belacan, a Malaysian shrimp paste, that adds depth and funky flavor. Chef Mia Oriño of KamayanATL uses silis, chiles beloved in the Philippines, in a coconut milk stew to create flavors that are unique to the Visayan region. ![]() Bicolano flavors are represented in Atlanta, near the OTP (outside the perimeter) and Buford Highway, where KamayanATL has opened in a neighborhood with Asian cuisine that draws customers from as far as Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama. Some of Savage's third-wave flavors include chicken curry, spinach and cheese and humba, a slow-cooked pork stew tenderized and seasoned with pineapple juice and baking spices like star anise and cinnamon.Īcidity in the form of Sinigang, Adobo, Kinilaw and Paksiw is a thread that finds itself on almost all tables throughout the 3 regions of the Philippines, but in one corner of the southern province called Bicol, heat and spiciness is ubiquitous and the base of many dishes. ![]() (Ask about the origins of parmesan lumpia.) Chef and co-owner Emilou Savage avail the empanada fillings of standard carinderia-style food, but for a standout meal, try one of his curious adaptations that demonstrate food is an ever-evolving artform. At this husband-and-wife, Blackapino-owned eatery, the entire menu serves your gastronomical and educational pleasures. In an unassuming strip mall in Colorado Springs, visitors get the chance to explore history through bites at You-ka Cafe. There are various doughs, and empanadas may be fried or baked, but the shape and the filings tend to stay the course with slight variations depending on the country. We'd learn that the loose translation is the verb "blanketed in bread" (as in envelope) and that the dish and its name is rooted in Spain and spread to Mexico and Philippines through interloping conquistadors. The course might start with the humble handheld pie known as The Empanada. Wouldn't it be great if there was a class in school called "Eatamology"? The course syllabus would break down the roots of various dishes' names, tracing branches of their family trees, and exploring techniques and historical context. For decades, we learned to seek assimilation and to hide in plain sight. ![]() It's my belief that a narrative of shame was born here, as well as a lasting desire for safety and survival, which led to Filipino cuisine and culture receding into the shadows. One of the most troubling moments of Filipino history in America took place at the 1904 World's Fair in Missouri, where no less than 1,000 Filipinos, many of them Igorots from rural mountainous regions were displayed in human zoos and forced to eat up to 20 dogs a day, bathe and "live" for the entertainment of the many Americans that flocked to this disgusting and inhumane exhibition. I didn't know, for example, that Filipinos were the first Asian settlers here (we've been coming to the United States since the 1500s), nor did I fully understand the racism and prejudice behind the legislation that prevented my forefathers from obtaining jobs or marrying outside of our culture. ![]() As I looked at restaurants across the country, each state revealed some things I had not known about Filipino history in America. ![]() ![]() ![]() We’ve been doing a dance with the audience for a long time, and we wanted to make sure that there was real fun, real love, and a real big payoff for the audience, to finally be in this moment with them, so we can see how they tick. HODGE: For Beth and I, it was really important because this was the first time that the audience has been able to see Hardison and Parker in this element. What was it like to shoot that episode and to get to have moments, like with them dancing down the hallway while they’re talking about picking a lock? They’re essentially on a date while they’re also on a job. It’s fun because you can tell they both love what they do. Do you feel like this would always have been his natural progression, or have you been surprised with where he is? When you started playing Hardison, could you have ever pictured him getting to the point that he’s at now? He’s this confident, suave guy who’s at the top of his game, and he’s running these other teams. Right now, everything is writing, developing, structuring, and preparing projects, but that is where we’ll get to eventually. But that’s definitely in the cards for me. The only regret I have from these last couple of seasons of Leverage is that I have not been able to be directed by Beth yet. But as far as directing, that’s definitely in the pathway. I like to try to write and oversee as much as possible. Along with that comes various different tasks. I was an executive producer on my last show. Not to add more things to your list of things, but with some of your co-stars stepping behind the camera and tackling episodes of the show as directors, is that something you’ve thought about or considered doing? This time with Leverage, I get to enjoy it in a completely different way because I get to sit and observe it from a very different perspective. It just feels like it’s come around full circle. It all made sense, and that’s what I love the most. How many times do you get an actual chance to get a redo, or have a second chance at something that you started? To be able to come back to Leverage, in this position in my career, it feels like the forward trajectory and everything that I’ve done up to that point, and the reason why I took Leverage to build out a career, all amounts to something. First of all, the rarity of everything is what surprises me most, when it comes to Leverage. It is strange to be able to have this moment in my career. What has it been like for you to have the ability to revisit the series and the character, while you’re also at this very different stage in your career, at the same time?ĪLDIS HODGE: It’s actually a very cool experience, but also an enlightening experience, to be able to be in this particular position and go back to a job that was really quite formidable for me, in my earlier years. His younger brother, Aldis Hodge, rose to fame while playing Alec Hardison on TNT’s Leverage.Įdwin Martel Basil Hodge (born January 26, 1985) is an American actor He is recognized for portraying Dante Bishop in The Purge film series, and is the only actor to appear in all of the first three films.Collider: The original Leverage TV series was a project that you did before you started doing all of these other major and cool projects that you’re doing now. The son of Yolette Evangeline Richardson and the Dominican-born Aldis Hodge, he spent his earliest days in North Carolina and the bulk of his childhood in New York. ![]() Hodge’s mother is from the state of Florida and his father from Saint Thomas, U. Hodge was born on January 26, 1985, in Jacksonville, North Carolina, to Aldis Hodge and Yolette Evangeline Richardson, but he was raised in New York. Most well known for his portrayal of The Stranger in the 2013 film The Purge and in its 2014 sequel, he is also notable for his recurring roles on Chicago Fire, Cougar Town, and Boston Public. He portrays cameraman Benji in the 2014 found footage horror movie As Above, So Below. He and Angie Everhart both appear in the 2011 comedy movie Take Me Home Tonight. As of June 1, 2023, Edwin Hodge’s net worth is $3 Million. Edwin Hodge is a famous Movie Actor, born on Januin United States. ![]() |
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