![]() ![]() Go behind the scenes at NASA Johnson Space Center and see the new SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Independence Plaza, and more. We were there about 5 hours and were very busy with the movie. Save 51 on admission to Space Center Houston and four other attractions with CityPASS tickets. It was well worth the admission price but I wouldn't waste my time on the movies unless you had a full day or maybe two days. Order tickets online or call +1 28 to schedule your NASA VIP Tour. Tickets may be purchased on the day of the tour at the Space Center Houston Guest Services Desk if seats are available (tickets often sell out far in advance of the tour). Starport is a quality-of-life program that directly supports the mission of the Johnson Space Center by providing a variety of support activities and employee services including wellness programs, fitness and recreational services, food and vending services, retail operations, employee celebrations and convenience services. One of the best parts was many of the people answering questions weren't just workers but volunteers who worked at the space center or use to work there so they had real world experience and were just as into it as all the people asking the questions. Save at Space Center Houston with top coupons & promo codes verified by our experts. Online reservations must be made at least one day prior to the visit. ![]() The 13 year old in our group who had been many times but not since the shuttle exhibit was very into it, we did a digital scavenger hunt which kept us involved and looking for clues and it was just a great day for our whole party. ![]() My father worked at NASA for about 30 years so it is part of my very being but I hadn't been back since he passed away about 15 years ago and it is now AWESOME! I mean I loved it before but now everyone can love it because developers of Space Center Houston have realized that they need to make it interesting to everyone not just the science geeks in the family. I'll start by just admitting that I'm biased. ![]()
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![]() Most of the platform built, part of the elevator in progress Note the torture chamber(?) located on the bottom-right of the set which uses the 4 x 6 Dark red plate. Technic assembly completed and Chamber platform partially built. The partially built Technic assembly to raise/lower/rotate the Carbonite block I’ve included photos at around 15 page intervals. In keeping with my previous reviews, the weather in the UK is typically dismal at the moment and best described as ‘grey and overcast’! The instruction booklet is 68 pages and is broken into 75 steps. It also includes a Dark red 4圆 plate, and a bright Yellow Technic axle which I haven’t encountered before – an interesting addition!įirstly apologies for the rubbish photos. The great news is that the set is DSS (Dreaded Sticker Sheet) free! Another TLG oddity is the lack of consistency in the back (numbering) styles I’m sure that there’s a reason why each of the bags are different but it does seem a little strange! The set consists of 231 parts and there’s a nice array of LBG, DBG, Trans-Orange and Black. The box is almost filled with two bags plus a set of instructions. My initial impression was that it was worth the cost it’s quite heavy for that price point at about 363g (especially compared to the new Escape Pod). Top marks TLG designers, the box-art for SW sets keeps raising the bar ![]() The reverse is just as good, with a nice array of images showing specific details and play-features of the set. Ok, I’ll admit that I’m a bit biased about this, but it’s a thing of beauty! They’ve captured the feel of the scene really well and, if it wasn’t for Kylo Ren lurking in the top-right corner, it would be just about perfect. I usually wait for a decent sale before buying sets for my personal collection, but I was happy to pay the full RRP for it. I kept thinking that a new version would be produced and, after 5 years of waiting, my dreams have been realised, well sort of, with the release of a brand new and shiny Cloud City-based set for 2016! I'd intended to buy this from Shop at Home as soon as it was available, but it seems to have been on a continual ‘back-order’ since the start of January, so I ended up picking it up from a local store. I’d always wanted a 10123, but I just couldn’t bring myself to spend the sort of money that a MISB version cost when I left my dark-ages a few years ago, and the cost has spiraled upwards ever-since. Considering that Cloud City takes up a decent percentage of the screen-time in The Empire Strikes Back (aka Episode V) that’s a pretty dismal show over a 15 year period in my opinion 7111, 8012, 7252, 624 to name just a few!) and yet whilst we’ve had multiple Droid carriers, AT-ATs, AT-STs, X-Wings, Y-Wings etc, if I recall correctly there’s only been three previous Cloud City-based sets:įirstly, we had 7119 (Twin-Pod Cloud Car) which although adorable is seriously out-dated, 10123 (Cloud City) which is looking similarly a little ‘tired’ these days if I’m being honest, and finally 9678 (Twin-Pod Cloud Car & Bespin) which was released in 2012. Several of which seem to have very little appeal to anyone (e.g. I’ve said it before, but I really don’t understand TLG’s apparent disinterest for Cloud City, especially when you consider the huge array of sets that have been made since 1999. Did it meet my high expectations? Well, read on and find out! Longer-term members of Eurobricks will probably be aware that I’m just ever so slightly obsessed by all things Cloud City, so when I heard the first rumours of a new Freezing-Chamber set I was rather excited by the prospect.
![]() All that matters is the variation of brightness and color.įilmmakers have long used long lenses to communicate distance between a character and their surroundings, or to focus the audiences attention on a character to the exclusion of all else. You could take a portrait in the middle of a trash dump and no one would be the wiser. As long as there is sufficient distance between the subject and the background, whatever is behind the subject will disappear into blobs of light and color. ![]() Because long lenses, combined with a low f-stop, provide a shallow depth of field. ![]() If photographers ever want to take a flattering portrait in an unflattering environment, one surefire method is to use a long lens, the longer the better. For the video at the end of this article, I shot with the SIGMA 100-400mm DG DN OS Contemporary. Several full frame cameras, such as the SIGMA fp, allow you to crop in on the sensor, effectively making your lens 50% longer with he click of a button, all without sacrificing resolution or compression. This means that a 100mm lens on a super 35 sensor will have the same field of view as a 150mm lens on a full frame. If you move to a super 35 sensor, you gain a extra 50% crop, so the lens will appear that much longer. ![]() If 50mm on a full frame sensor is a standard, anything longer than 75mm is generally considered long. Like all lens and camera discussions, the “longness” of a lens depends entirely on the mm of the lens and the size of the cameras sensor (or for celluloid, the size of the film plate). Let’s take a look at the SIGMA Cine 135mm T2 and the 100-400mm DG DN OS Contemporary. Long lenses are a powerful tool for storytelling, because of how differently they see space from the regular human eye, an effect filmmakers use for a variety of reasons. First invented to photograph objects that photographers couldn’t get close to, the long lens has since become a staple in cinematography because of the effects it has on space and perspective. ![]() ![]() ![]() Open the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC).Also, the Group Policy Management feature must be installed on the computer. By default, members of the Domain Admins group, the Enterprise Admins group, and the Group Policy Creator Owners group have this permission. You must have Edit Setting permission to edit a GPO. You can administer AppLocker policies by using the Group Policy Management Console to create or edit a Group Policy Object (GPO), or to create or edit an AppLocker policy on a local computer by using the Local Group Policy Editor snap-in or the Local Security Policy snap-in (secpol.msc). Using the MMC snap-ins to administer AppLocker This topic for IT professionals provides links to procedural topics about creating, maintaining, and testing AppLocker policies. This topic for IT professionals describes AppLocker rule types and how to work with them for your application control policies. This topic for IT professionals describes concepts and lists procedures to help you manage Packaged apps with AppLocker as part of your overall application control strategy. This topic for IT professionals describes how to monitor app usage when AppLocker policies are applied. This topic for IT professionals describes how to optimize AppLocker policy enforcement. This topic for IT professionals describes concepts and procedures to help you manage your application control strategy using Software Restriction Policies and AppLocker. Use AppLocker and Software Restriction Policies in the same domain This topic for IT professionals describes how each AppLocker Windows PowerShell cmdlet can help you administer your AppLocker application control policies. Use the AppLocker Windows PowerShell cmdlets This topic for IT professionals describes the steps to deploy AppLocker policies by using the enforcement setting method. This topic discusses the steps required to test an AppLocker policy prior to deployment.ĭeploy AppLocker policies by using the enforce rules setting This topic for IT professionals describes the steps required to modify an AppLocker policy. This topic describes how to maintain rules within AppLocker policies. Note For more info about enhanced capabilities of AppLocker to control Windows apps, see Packaged apps and packaged app installer rules in AppLocker. Simplify creating and managing AppLocker rules by using AppLocker PowerShell cmdlets.If you import a policy, the existing policy is overwritten. For example, if you export a policy, all of the rules from all of the rule collections are exported, including the enforcement settings for the rule collections. The import and export affects the entire policy. Use audit-only mode to deploy the policy and understand its impact before enforcing it.For example, you can create a rule that allows all Windows processes to run, except Registry Editor (regedit.exe). Assign a rule to a security group or an individual user. ![]() For example, you can create rules based on the publisher attribute that is persistent through updates, or you can create rules for a specific version of a file. Define rules based on file attributes derived from the digital signature, including the publisher, product name, file name, and file version.This topic for IT professionals provides links to specific procedures to use when administering AppLocker policies.ĪppLocker helps administrators control how users can access and use files, such as executable files, packaged apps, scripts, Windows Installer files, and DLLs. Learn more about the Windows Defender Application Control feature availability. 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![]() ![]() If you’ve never heard of scaffolding as it relates to learning, please don’t skip this section, because scaffolding is really important. Use Scaffolding to Support Your Child’s Learning How can your child benefit from these features? Let’s take a look! ![]() A huge benefit of the All About Reading and All About Spelling programs is that each of these elements is built right into the curriculum. Right from the start, we identified five features that would help parents easily adapt reading and spelling instruction to their child’s individual needs. Are you curious how we did it? Five Features Make Our Programs Customizable In cases like these, it becomes painfully obvious that in order to effectively teach both children, you need to be able to individualize their lessons.Īll About Reading and All About Spelling were developed for families just like yours! When we created our programs, one of our most important “to dos” was to make sure the curriculum was easy to customize without requiring a lot of extra effort from the teacher. Many parents are in the same situation, desperately trying to make one reading or spelling curriculum work for all their kids, despite very different learning needs. She needs a mastery-based program rather than a grade-level-based one.ĭoes this sound familiar? You’re not alone. But your second child needs constant review to keep moving forward. He doesn’t require much review and once he learns a reading or spelling concept, he remembers it. Perhaps your first child needs a fast pace. One is a natural reader and speller, but the other really struggles. “Off-the-Rack” Curriculum Doesn’t Work for Everyone In this article, you will discover five ways to individualize instruction according to your child’s specific needs-making reading and spelling easier. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 17, 89–100.Teaching a child to read and spell is not a “one size fits all” proposition. Mind in society: The development of higher psychological processes. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 13(3), 337–386. Synergy: A complement to emerging patterns of distributed scaffolding. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 3(4), 344–364. The metaphor of scaffolding: Its utility for the field of learning disabilities. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51(5), 918–931. A questions of competence: The effects of competence and task feedback on intrinsic interest. Sternberg (Eds.), Innovations in educational psychology: Perspectives on learning, teaching and human development (pp. Working with and cultivating interest, self-efficacy, and self-regulation. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 13(3), 305–336. A scaffolding design framework for software to support science inquiry. Kinzer (Eds.), Examining central issues in literacy research, theory, and practice: Forty-second yearbook of the National Reading Conference (pp. What is scaffolded instruction? Definitions, distinguishing features, and misnomers. Hidi (Eds.), Motivation and writing: Research and school practice (pp. “Putting things into words”: The development of 12–15-year-old students’ interest for writing. ![]() Paper presented at the convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Scaffolding in hypermedia assisted instruction: An example of integration. Reigeluth (Ed.), Instructional design theories and models (Vol. Open learning environments: Foundations, methods, and models. Educational Research and Evaluation, 7(2/3), 313–334. CoNoteS2: A software tool for promoting self-regulation. Scaffolding dynamically toward change: Previous and new perspectives. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 13(3), 265–272. Explorations of scaffolding in complex classroom systems. The Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 1(2), 1–12.ĭavis, E. A summary of research exploring hard and soft scaffolding for teachers and students using a multimedia supported learning environment. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.īrush, T. Special issue on scaffolding self-regulated learning and metacognition: Implications for the design of computer-based scaffolds.īruner, J. Adaptive human scaffolding facilitates adolescents’ self-regulated learning with hypermedia. ![]() ![]() All those percentage signs make for a confused mess. It turns out Keyboard Maestro’s variable format doesn’t really get along well with Things’ URL scheme though. Naturally, I turned to the trusty Keyboard Maestro to see if I could pass variables into a Things URL. While this works great for static projects and actions, it doesn’t let me create the variable templates I was trying to create. If you’re interested in testing it out, Cultured Code has a really nice Link Builder to help you get started. Unlike Omnifocus’s TaskPaper format, templates in Things 3 are possible through a URL scheme. It’s worth noting that repeats like this were added to Omnifocus 3, so if I were still using it, I’d have moved these templates back into Omnifocus too. With Omnifocus 2, it wasn’t possible to schedule a project to repeat yearly on say the first Monday of November, but it was in Things 3. I can, however, count on those projects happening roughly around the same weeks each year. Working at a university, most of my work tends to repeat each semester, but the actual dates of semesters tend to fluctuate slightly, so my projects tend to do so as well. In migrating to Things, I decided a number of them would be better off just scheduled as repeating projects in Things, which cut my list in half before I even started. ![]() That being said, it’s also hard to beat the design of Things, and for that reason, I set out to learn how to convert my templates. Project templates can be created in a flash and added by simple text expansion tools. It’s hard to beat Omnifocus’s support for the TaskPaper format. If there’s one thing I’ve missed since moving from OmniFocus to Things, it’s the ability to use project templates. ![]() ![]() ![]() This allows you to see how the color looks in different lighting conditions and ensures you are satisfied with your choice before committing to painting the entire surface. Many paint manufacturers offer small sample containers or swatches that you can test on a small area of your vinyl siding. To make an informed decision, it’s advisable to evaluate color samples. Look at the existing elements such as the roof, trim, and landscaping, and choose a color that harmonizes well with these features. Secondly, think about how the darker color will complement your home’s exterior design. However, if you live in a cooler climate, darker colors can provide a cozy and inviting aesthetic. Darker colors tend to absorb more heat, which can be a disadvantage in hotter regions. Firstly, consider the climate in your area. When it comes to choosing a darker color for your vinyl siding, several factors should be taken into consideration. They offer enhanced adhesion to vinyl and often include additives to withstand the expansion and contraction that occurs with temperature changes. These paints provide excellent coverage and are resistant to cracking and peeling.Įxterior vinyl-safe paints, on the other hand, are specifically designed for use on vinyl surfaces. Two common options include acrylic latex paints and exterior vinyl-safe paints.Īcrylic latex paints are a popular choice due to their durability, flexibility, and wide range of available colors. It’s important to choose paint products that are specifically formulated for exterior vinyl surfaces. Not all paints are suitable for use on vinyl siding. By choosing vinyl-safe paint options and a darker color that complements your home’s design, you can achieve the desired aesthetic while ensuring the longevity of the finish. Selecting the appropriate type and color of paint is crucial when painting vinyl siding. ![]() By sanding the surface, you create a smoother canvas for the paint to adhere to, resulting in a more uniform and professional-looking finish.Īdditional Read: How Much Does It Cost To Paint A Fence Choosing the Right Paint This step is particularly important when dealing with older vinyl siding that may have become weathered or textured over time. Use fine-grit sandpaper or a sanding block to smooth out any rough areas on the siding. Sanding the vinyl siding is not always necessary, but it can help promote better paint adhesion, especially if the surface has a rough texture. Use a solution of water and bleach (approximately 3 parts water to 1 part bleach) to scrub away the mildew or mold, ensuring you rinse the surface thoroughly afterward. A soft-bristle brush or a pressure washer set to a low setting can be used for this purpose.Īdditionally, if you spot any mildew or mold on the siding, it’s essential to remove it before painting. Start by washing away dirt and grime using a mixture of mild detergent and water. Properly cleaning the vinyl siding is crucial for achieving good paint adhesion and a long-lasting finish. ![]() Repairing or replacing damaged sections will ensure a smooth and uniform appearance once the paint is applied. If you notice cracks or significant damage to the siding, it’s important to address these issues before proceeding with the painting process. Take a close look at the entire surface and make note of any areas that require attention. Inspecting your vinyl siding for cracks, damage, or loose paint is the first step in assessing its condition. This evaluation will help you identify any necessary repairs and determine the appropriate steps to take before painting. Related posts: Assessing the Vinyl Sidingīefore diving into the painting process, it’s important to assess the condition of your vinyl siding. ![]() ![]() If the necessary SDK is already defined in IntelliJ IDEA, select it from the SDK list. Go to File | Project Structure | Project Settings | Project. In the next dialog, specify the JDK vendor, version, change the installation path if required, and click Download. ![]() Only for JDKs: if you don't have the necessary JDK on your computer, select Download JDK. To add an SDK, click, select the necessary SDK and specify its home directory in the dialog that opens. Go to File | Project Structure | Platform Settings | SDKs. This folder is called an SDK home directory. One of the amazing things with Python is the endless number of packages of code that other people in the Python community have made, enabling you to perform powerful and complex commands with very few lines of code.To define an SDK means to let IntelliJ IDEA know in which folder on your computer the necessary SDK version is installed. You can now close the window and you should be able to send characters like | (pipe) and \ (backslash). In the next window, find the option "" and make sure to check it. Here, search for "Registry" and click on it. While in the Pycharm application, hit the shortcut "Ctrl+Shift+A" to open the following subwindow. In version 2019.1 and forward of P圜harm, if you are working on a keyboard that uses the "Alt-Gr" key to send characters like | (pipe) or \ (backslash), you need to perform the following three steps in order to be able to write these characters in Pycharm. This Youtube video is quite comprehensive and covers most of the basics of the programming language. You can find endless resources online by searching for Python guides on how to write Python code. You are now ready to start learning Python. You have now executed your first piece of Python code! In the future, if you have multiple Python files in your projects, this is where you change which Python file to run when clicking run (Shift+F10): To run your code, expand the Run option in the menu:Ĭlick to select your Python file. Open the Python Console and write something to print: You are now ready to write your first code. To get started in your new project, right-click on your project folder to create a new Python file: We recommend, at least fpr simple test projects and if you are an inexperienced Python user, to select the option "Existing interpreter": You can decide whether you wish to set up a new virtual environment or simply run it using the existing standard library. Now, hit OK and you are ready to make your first project! Click to open a new project. Here, make sure to go to "System Interpreter" and then select the Python.exe of the just installed Python version on the C: drive: Here, navigate to "Project Interpreter" and hit the dropdown to select the interpreter for P圜harm: Simply skip this:īefore creating a new project, make sure to do the following to connect your P圜harm application to the installed Python engine. When opening P圜harm for the first time, you are prompted with the options to install additional functionality. When the installation is complete, simply select to "Do not import settings":Ĭonfigure P圜harm and create your first project This will require you to restart your PC to complete the installation. ![]() Selecting the option to add launchers dir to the PATH is very important. Select the option to add launchers dir to the PATH. ![]() Select the option to create associations to ".py" files.Select the appropriate bit launcher for your machine.However, we suggest simply going with the default path. It is not important to change the installation destination of the P圜harm application, but you could also change the destination to be directly on your C: similarly to the Python installation. When the download is completed, run the P圜harm installation file. Go to this website to download the application: An alternative is P圜harm, one of the most popular Python IDEs that will assist you in writing your Python code, install additional modules, and much more. We recommend installing and using the highly popular and completely free Visual Studio Code developed by Microsoft. After installing Python on your PC, we recommend that you install either an integrated development environment (IDE) or a strong text editor to write and manage your Python code. ![]() |
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