![]() 'I remember the time when.' How bad can it be? No one died or if they did, then you are clinically insane and mistaking embarrassment for murder. ![]() Your little fuck-up is lost in the annals of time. If anyone even noticed, they have forgotten. Take yourself in hand and give yourself a firm talking-to. So, next time you find yourself dealing with the horrors, try one of three things: In the end, minding too much is as shaming as nibbling too much. The hostess has neither forgotten nor forgiven, and nor has she addressed a word to me since.' Her problem, bottle-green boy. I had started to eat a very expensive truffle. Amongst it, I noticed, were some dried fig-like things. 'I walked back from the garden through the vast and open picture window to see waiters putting food down on a table. One cheerful gent remembers a house party where his bottle-green suit and kipper tie (this was some time ago) gleaned much pompous sniffing from the assembled toffs and then, later, 'it was growing dark. She was buoyant at the time and couldn't have cared less. The loo-paper girl also managed to walk the full length of Claridge's lobby with her skirt tucked into her pants. She tried to blank it out, but the shadow was there.īecause, when you are fully confident and sunny, social shame wields far less power when you are broken-hearted and cast low, you are more vulnerable to everything. She could not think about this for a full 15 years. Then there was the girl who walked - full sashay - around a party, parading in front of her much-missed and lamented ex-boyfriend, only to discover that she had a long tail of loo paper dragging behind her, attached to her knickers. Because shame cannot survive being spoken about. ![]() He will not have forgotten, we reckon, but she says that the shame was diffused in the telling of the tale. A brave woman recently admitted to this writer that she had once farted full in the face of a man who was. How to put this tastefully? OK, so there is no way to put this tastefully. ![]()
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State leaders have already said the Legislature will remain committed to continuing to fund those massive investments, regardless of the tough economic forecast.īeyond that, debates over police funding and reforms following the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was killed in Minneapolis police custody, are expected to play a central role during the legislative session. In 2019, the Legislature overhauled the state’s school finance system, infusing $6.5 billion more into public schools and roughly $5.1 billion to lower Texans’ property tax bills. Lawmakers will also have to respond to the ongoing pandemic and address other policy issues that have been focal points throughout the pandemic, such as public education funding and health care. On top of that, the Legislature will also need to redraw the state’s political maps, which is often a polarizing and draining process for lawmakers. Tackling the state’s current two-year budget - and writing the next one - will be one of the largest items on the Legislature’s plate, though lawmakers received better-than-expected news Monday when Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar unveiled the biennial revenue estimate. Some disability rights advocates, meanwhile, have raised concerns about the uncertain rules on testifying in committee hearings remotely and have expressed hesitancy about going to the Capitol in person. ![]() Briscoe Cain, R-Deer Park, asked the attorney general to weigh in on whether the Legislature has the power to close the Capitol and whether members could debate or vote on legislation from outside the chamber. ![]() Since the Capitol closed in mid-March, both Democrats and Republicans from each chamber have raised questions about the accessibility of the legislative process. The Senate, meanwhile, has been more tight-lipped on what precautions will be in place during the legislative session. Dade Phelan has asked a group of lawmakers to make recommendations and solicit input from members on what changes should be made to the chamber’s rules. In a last-minute change, the Department of Public Safety announced Monday that anyone who wants to enter the Capitol will be required to take a coronavirus test.īeyond opening day, State Rep. But it remains to be seen how much space - or political appetite - there will be for more polarizing proposals, especially among Republicans coming off a successful November election. Meanwhile, three clear top priorities have emerged for the agenda: the budget, redistricting and the pandemic. Greg Abbott promised Monday that DPS will “continue to remain on top of” safety at the building. ![]() The Texas Department of Public Safety is deploying additional resources and personnel to the state Capitol, and Gov. ![]() Capitol last week, leaving five people dead and leading to dozens of arrests, some Texas lawmakers are on edge about the potential for unrest in Austin. Watch the House and Senate streams here.Īnd after a pro-Donald Trump mob rushed into the U.S. Both chambers are expected to convene at 12 p.m. Lawmakers have been waiting for months to see how it will be conducted safely as the coronavirus pandemic rages. 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One prime example is in the field of control engineering, where the use of Jacobian matrices allows the local (approximate) linearization of non-linear systems around a given equilibrium point, thus allowing the use of linear systems techniques, such as the calculation of eigenvalues (and thus allowing an indication of the type of the equilibrium point). The importance of the Jacobian matrix is critical in all fields of mathematics, science, and engineering. These matrices are extremely important, as they help in the conversion of one coordinate system into another, which proves to be useful in many mathematical and scientific endeavours. Polar-Cartesian and Spherical-Cartesian are the most important kind of Jacobian matrices. Being differentiable at a point indicates that the matrix can be mapped and given a geometric and visual approach to understanding the equations at hand. Knowing this is highly imperative, as this indicates that the function is differentiable at the point x. Variable x is usually the entry for the matrix. Therefore, the Jacobian matrix J of f is an m×n matrix. Given below is a representation of a Jacobian matrix in a more rigorous mathematical sense.į: Rn → Rm is a function that takes as input the vector x ∈ Rn and produces as output the vector f(x) ∈ Rm. The different forms of the Jacobian matrix are rectangular matrices having a different number of rows and columns that are not the same, square matrices having the same number of rows and columns. Now, the question arises, what is the use of the Jacobian matrix? Jacobian is used for various purposes like in finding the transformation of coordinates called Jacobian transformation and differentiation with coordinate transformation.Ī Jacobian matrix is a matrix that can be of any form and contains a first-order partial derivative for a vector function. This matrix contains all partial derivatives of vector functions. The word Jacobian is also used for the determinant of the Jacobian matrix. 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It now shows the proper charge level □ /15tvFUCaPx- Federico Viticci SeptemHow to add battery percentage back to the status bar in iOS 16 There we go: Apple has tweaked the design of the battery percentage icon in iOS 16.1 beta 2. Battery indicator Widget is one of the biggest problems for users, especially for those. So it can be a bit confusing if you just glance at it. Today we talk about the top 10 Android battery widgets in 2023. Although the battery percentage itself is always visible in the status bar on supported devices, the battery icon itself always shows as full, whether the phone is idle, charging or on low power mode - only the color changes. The company that develops Doom Battery Meter. Not everyone is happy with the design of the new battery percentage icon. Doom Battery Meter Widget is a paid app for Android published in the Other list of apps, part of Home & Hobby. Im running the widget on fenix 5, fenix 6 Pro and Vivoactive 3 Music hardware. 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"Teaser": plays a sample of next dance indicator of already-played 2nd display shows prior & upcoming dances & progress bar for current dance, with optional image of choreographer or country tab markers to use a jump-to points for teaching repertoire and category settings to search entire library searchable metadata storage in comments field shows accumulated time through playlist favorites stored for each programmer database stores volume for ea dance so consistent level achieved throughout session neat overlap vs full stop can also play mp4s of dances and show on a separate screen Can use iTunes playlists or import folders of songs can use an external drive for very large dance folders ultrareliable Opportunity to export playlist opportunity to project current, previous and next dance to a data projector and use a preferred jpg logo Can keep previous playlists and use as a template for sessions Each song can be edited for length on the fly, and any pitch adjustments made permanent variety of segue styles per song e.g. Has features such as preview through headphones, while main song is being played through main speakers Has editable database to allow for a great deal of info to be added: e.g., choreographer, singer, year issued, type of dance (circle, partner, line), energy level, etc. $40 basic, $100 pro, $200 with VMM add-on package Windows only, runs under WINE for MacOS's Windows natively, runs on Macs under Parallels (about $80) ![]() Windows XP only (Win 7 version is "in beta") On this page we compare the most popular DJ software systems, with emphasis on features most useful for typical harkadot. 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