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![]() ![]() This rock simile invokes the features of rocks (they’re heavy and hard to move) and applies them to someone sleeping. Someone who over slept is considered to have slept too long, which may cause problems! One problem might be that you feel groggy and disoriented. Chances are they will also wake up feeling very refreshed because they gave their body and brain a good long time to rest and recover without interruption. Heavy SleeperĪ person who is a heavy sleeper is someone who is hard to wake up when they’re asleep. So to say “sleep tight” is a way of wishing someone they have a good sleep – so good that you didn’t untuck the sheets and slept cozy under those nice smooth sheets all night long.Įxample: “Good night, sleep tight, and don’t let the bed bugs bite!” 9. You’ll probably untuck all those sheets overnight and you’ll wake up with a bundle of sheets at your feet. Now imagine if you toss and turn all night. If you tuck the sheets under your bed then slip in, it can feel tight and cozy under there. Idioms and Metaphors about Having a Good Sleep 8. So, it has the feel of slowly ‘drifting’ away, much like when your boat or raft drifts in the current of a river. It doesn’t happen automatically, but before you know it, you are dozing off. You can feel yourself getting more and more drowsy. You might be lying there and slowly losing consciousness. It slowly gets carried away further and further away until it’s nowhere to be seen. So, to “get some shuteye” is to get some time where you can shut your eyes and (hopefully) “nod off”! While I would still consider this phrase to be figurative language, you can see the literal origins of the phrase, too. ![]() Mark: “She’s in the bedroom counting sheep.” 6. This helps to clear your mind of other thoughts that might come into it.īut we often just use this phrase when talking about someone who is going to (or even currently) asleep. You essentially close your eyes and … count! You can imagine sheep passing by your eyes and as each sheep passes by, you count it. Counting SheepĬounting sleep is a mantra that could help people to fall asleep. Today, you still hear people saying “I’m going to hit the hay”, meaning that you’re going to bed.Įxample: “I’m feeling tired, I’m going to hit the hay early tonight.” It may be a little uncomfortable, but at least it’s squishy and better than sleeping on the floor. Instead, they would often sleep on piles of hay. Hundreds of years ago people didn’t have the nice comfortable spring beds we enjoy today. So, to “catch Zs” is an idiomatic expression meaning to get some sleep.Įxample: “Joe’s in the bedroom catching some Zs.” 4. When we look at cartoons of people snoring, there are often ZZZ’s written above their head to indicate the snore. ![]() They might be able to get to have a nap for 30 minutes between dropping their kids off at school and going to work, for example.Įxample: “I’m so tired I might just steal some sleep on my lunch break.” 3. People talk about stealing sleep when they don’t have much time in their day. ![]() You steal sleep when you get a short nap between tasks. You could imagine that this expression comes from the idea that when someone (maybe they’re sitting up) starts to fall asleep their chin drops to their chest, making the process of falling asleep look like a nod.Įxample: “Looks like dad is nodding off while watching the football again.” 2. 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We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() “I liked Bakugan, and this is exactly like that.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. I like how it spins and pops out,” said Jesse, dressed in a Monsuno T-shirt and expertly twirling a core with a flick of his finger. The pair twirled, spun and threw cores, and then slowed down to watch a clip of the show. On a recent weekday, Berman trotted out his son, Logan, 10, and Logan’s friend Jesse Motavasselan, 11, to demonstrate how boys might play with the toys. “It’s been different products that have come and gone, like Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh and Bakugan, but the genre has been going strong for a really long time,” he said. ![]() The toy segment based on Japanese anime-inspired shows has been surprisingly robust for more than a decade, analyst Johnson said. There’s no way to tell until it gets out there if it’s something kids want to play with.” “It can be several hundred million dollars in sales over a few years, or if it’s a big failure, it will be $5 to $10 million and then it’s done. “It’s a risk that is not without rewards,” said Sean McGowan, analyst at Needham & Co. to make trading cards, which boys can use to do mock battle with one another.Īnalysts said they liked the innovative idea behind the toys but warned that the toys’ success may be closely tied to the popularity of the weekly half-hour “Monsuno” TV show debuting Feb. Jakks also brought on partners Dentsu Entertainment to create the TV show, FremantleMedia Enterprises to distribute the show and Topps Co. Cores can be spun with a flick of the finger, and after hitting something, the cores eject the Monsuno tucked inside. Aimed at boys 6 to 11, the line revolves around little action figures modeled on the Monsuno monsters that pop into plastic cylinders, or cores, about the size of a lipstick tube. An inventor showed them the concept of a cylinder that ejected a toy upon impact, and Berman said his immediate reaction was “wow.” “We have a great core business, and sometimes you get very lucky, like Hannah Montana, and some areas just don’t pan out.”Īlmost three years ago, as part of an effort to expand sales internationally, Jakks set out to find a toy innovative enough to carry an entire entertainment property. “Our true business is based off of singles and doubles,” he said. ![]() Any blockbuster toys are just a bonus, he said. “But licensed products ebb and flow in popularity, and that has an impact on their bottom line.”īerman defended Jakks as a company reliant not on runaway hits but on steady sales of evergreen products, such as kids’ furniture and costumes. “In the toy business, the right license will sell the product,” said Arvind Bhatia, an analyst at Sterne Agee. Sales of some licensed items also fell after television shows such as Pokemon waned in popularity. Johnson said the WWE license alone cost Jakks about $70 million in annual revenue. in Pawtucket, R.I., and World Wrestling Entertainment, which was awarded to Mattel in El Segundo. They lost valuable licenses, such as Care Bears, which went to rival Hasbro Inc. “They are in all different areas there is no cohesion … and it’s gotten worse over the last couple of years.” “They have new-product ADD,” said Gerrick Johnson, a toy industry analyst at BMO Capital Markets, using the acronym for attention deficit disorder. This is my first video for my channel It is a how to video on folding up Monsunos in their cores. Jakks already makes pet treats, for example, and will roll out baby monitors this fall. The company’s problems began during the recession as once trendy toys such as Hannah Montana dolls lost steam.Īnalysts said the company has been plagued with a lack of focus and tendency to jump into product categories beyond toys. At its peak in 2008, Jakks raked in $903 million in revenue. ![]() Its first hit was a line of action figures for the World Wrestling Federation. Jakks has grown also by buying 17 companies over the last 16 years. ![]() ![]() So if you don't have live tracks with high demands, track playback may be a better choice. With the Playback and Live Tracks option, the system may be a bit more stressed. If the computer has enough cores and there are no other DSP demands on the computer, each live channel strip can be processed by a different core. The Playback and Live Tracks setting distributes the load across multiple threads when a track stack is selected that contains multiple software instrument channel strips, or when more than one audio track is being recorded. When a track stack is selected for live input, or when multiple audio tracks are recorded, all of the DSP required for the input is processed by one processing thread-and thus by one available core on the computer. The Playback setting reproduces the behavior of earlier versions of Logic. You can use multithreading to affect how Logic distributes the DSP load when a software instrument track stack is selected for live input or when multiple audio tracks are enabled for recording. before it was only PlaybackĬhanging the multithreading setting has produced the most noticeable difference!įurther information about the multithreading function: (maybe helpful for the problem solution) Processing Buffer: Small, before it was Large Processing threads: Automatic (Recommended), before it was 10 (8 high performance cores) It runs smoother with the following Logic Pro X audio settings: It seems to be triggered more easily on bigger sessions. It is very different to a normal cpu-overload. And it keeps playing back that small loop until i stop it. I have a screenrecording i could send to you if that would help to understand the behaviour. In my case it keeps repeating a very small part of the session, like a mini-loop. I don't think it is related to cpu usage in the conventional way because in that case playback would just stop (or playing distorted audio sometimes). I also made A/B comparison tests with several logic sessions testing both interfaces one after the other on the same session. I tested some logic sessions with stock plugins only with the same 'stuttering/looping' with the UC. I do have a few plugins that require rosetta, that does not seem to cause any problems even with native ARM Logic. Logic runs fine natively with the other interface. ![]() ![]() Maybe you have some plug-ins that require Rosetta? We dfo have new M1 systems and do a lot of load tests with Loigic, and have not seen it 'stuttering' unless it is overloaded from plug-ins.Īlso you did not tell us what driver you use - the old 3.27 or the newer 4.04? 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Get inspired with a massive collection of instruments, loops, and samples with sounds created by some of the biggest hitmakers in the world. Weve included all the sounds in the demo, including WAV loops for all parts. Don't miss the jukebox player with hundreds of examples of banjo styles. Open the Sound Library Manager: Logic Pro X (top left main menu) > Sound Library. To check how much free storage space is available on your Mac, c hoose Apple menu > About This Mac, then click Storage. Get one free construction kit taken from Immense Sounds Deep House Sessions. The site is geared towards real-life banjo players, but a lot of its information can easily be translated into MIDI. For a more comprehensive selection of examples, browse to . After Logic Pro 10.5 where Apple introduced, among other things, Live Loops, to add a somewhat ‘Live’ slant to the software we know that an Apple point update can be as dramatic as a full integer update for other DAWs, and the latest Logic Pro 10.7 certainly backs this thinking up. Navigate to this menu and choose File>Import Audio File (or alternatively use the Command+Shift+I key command). Step 2: The second method is via the File menu. The banjo enthusiast's site /banjo/rolls.htmhas notated rolls and accompanying MIDI files. Logic Pro Starter Pack Cymatics Pop Synth Loop 14 Cymatics Trap Drop Loop 3 Cymatics Titan Brass Loop 17 Cymatics Master Collection Loop 9 Cymatics. The first method is straightforward enough: simply navigate to the folder containing your audio material, then drag and drop the audio file or files onto an audio track in Logic Pro. To help you pinpoint exactly what's happening in those frantic riffs, find some audio of a banjo being picked and then slow it down in your DAW.Īlternatively, if you'd prefer to create your own rolls from scratch, there are great resources online for learning the basic traditional patterns. We also Humanize the start positions of the notes for timing realism and add a couple of fretboard scrapes in the longer gaps between notes.Įmulating the fast picking styles of bluegrass banjo can be a challenge. Lastly, let's enhance the human feel using other multiple-sampled velocity mapped EXS24 samples: we use Logic's Humanize function to apply a small amount of velocity randomisation, which triggers some different sounding samples. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Keep busy always in your work for the Lord, since you know that nothing you do in the Lord’s service is ever useless” (1 Corinthians 15:58 GNT). Nothing is insignificant when you serve God. Second, you remember that God uses every little thing. The Bible says that God “will not forget how hard you have worked for him and how you have shown your love to him by caring for other believers” (Hebrews 6:10 NLT). So what do you do when you start to get discouraged? You remember two things.įirst, you remember that you’re going to receive a reward that’s going to go on for eternity. Sometimes you’re going to get discouraged. The truth is, serving God by serving others is not always easy. It is the mutual ministry of every believer in the family of God to every other believer in the family of God. ![]() The Bible uses these kinds of phrases 58 times: “Love one another.” “Care for one another.” “Pray for one another.” “Encourage one another.” “Help one another.” “Counsel one another.” “Support one another.” And on and on the list goes. That means you use your talents and gifts to make a contribution in life, to be a giver, not a taker. Not every Christian is a pastor, but every Christian is to be a minister. has made us what we are and given us new lives from Christ Jesus and long ages ago he planned that we should spend these lives in helping others” (TLB). He wants you to make the world a better place!Įvery time I hear somebody say, “I live for the weekends,” I want to say, “Then why should God keep you alive?” If you’re not fulfilling your purpose, you’re missing the whole point of life.Įphesians 2:10 says, “God. Ask, “What is God doing here? What’s the bigger picture? What’s the bigger perspective?” Then, you’ll be able to face the problem in faith.God did not put you on Earth just to live for yourself. Paul knows that God has a bigger plan, and he can be happy because he trusts what God is doing through his problems.Īny time you have a problem that’s starting to get you down, you need to do what Paul did: Learn to see it from God’s point of view. These seven books have revealed Jesus to millions of people over the years. I wonder which had a bigger impact: his preaching in the Colosseum or the books he wrote, including Romans, First and Second Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians. In prison, he is forced to be still, and, as a result, he writes most of the New Testament. The call to fellowship with our Lord Jesus is not to a specific people. And He said to them, Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature (Mark 16:15). JOIN Saddleback Church Sunday Service with Rick Warren, Live Stream (October-08-2023). Second, it’s kind of hard to get a guy like Paul to stop moving. Watch Rick Warren Sunday Service at Saddleback Church - Live Stream October-08-2023. There are two results that we know for sure.įirst, Philippians 4 says that within two years of Paul’s imprisonment, some of Nero’s own household had become believers because of Paul’s witness in the royal court in Rome. This isn’t Paul’s plan, but it was God’s plan all along, and it produces amazing effects. Who’s the real prisoner here? Who has the captive audience? Over two years in prison, Paul has the opportunity to witness to thousands of guards. ![]() And, Nero is a wicked and corrupt leader.Īs a royal prisoner, Paul is chained to a royal guard 24 hours a day for two years, and the guard is changed every four hours. Instead of sending Paul to Rome to preach crusades, God makes him a royal prisoner of Nero, who is Caesar at that time. His dream was to preach the Gospel in the most important city in the world.īut God had another idea. He says in Philippians 1:12, “ I want you to know, my dear brothers and sisters, that everything that has happened to me here has helped to spread the Good News” (NLT).Įver since Paul became a Christian on the road to Damascus, he had one great dream: He wanted to preach in Rome, the center of the universe at the time. No matter what’s going on in your life-the good, the bad, and the ugly-God is working out a plan. When you don’t see things from God’s point of view, you get discouraged, frustrated, and unhappy. If you want to be a happy person, you need to look at every problem from God’s perspective. ![]() ![]() ![]() Other lessons include not obeying without thinking, defending institutions, honoring professional ethics, standing out, using language kindly, believing in the primacy of truth, developing an investigative attitude, contributing to worthy causes, learning from peers in other countries, watching out for dangerous words, and striving to act courageously. Be aware of the ways social media and cyberspace limit your freedoms. Nurture the community around you by demolishing social barriers. Dodge political agendas by avoiding the news and reading more books. Here are three of the most-important takeaways: In this brief book, historian Timothy Snyder provides a guide on how to resist and survive in the climate of authoritarianism that afflicts America. (2) Book review: Snyder, Timothy, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, unabridged 2-hour audiobook, read by the author, Random House Audio, 2017. At 77 and 64 pages, respectively, Attar and Khayyam are most-prominent in the book. The works of some four-dozen poets are sampled. The selections are presented in rough chronological order, from the 9th century to the 16th century. This book contains samples of Persian poetry that for various reasons grabbed the attention of Molla Sadra, a 16th/17th-century Iranian philosopher with broad interests in literature. (1) Book review: Book review: Khatami, Ahmad (ed.), Gozideh-ye She'r-e Farsi ( Collection of Persian Poems, Selected by Molla Sadra-ye Shirazi), Elm Publications, 349 pp., 2020. Lately, non-book items (such as political news, tech news, puzzles, oddities, trivia, humor, art, and music) have formed the vast majority of the entries.Įntries in each section appear in reverse chronological order.Īrchived blogs up to 2011 Blog Entries for 2023ĥ (Sunday): Today, I offer three book reviews on Persian poetry, tyranny, and a prairie memoir. Given that the book introductions and reviews constituted a form of personal blog, I decided to title this page "Blog & Books," to also allow discussion of interesting topics unrelated to books from time to time. The rapid expansion of the list of books warranted devoting a separate page to it. ![]() This page was created in 2009 as an outgrowth of the section entitled "Books Read or Heard" in my personal page. ![]() |
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