![]() ![]() How Far Can a Subwoofer Be from a Soundbar? For instance, you need to consider the resistance of your soundbar and how to pick one that fits your setup ( our guide here), but for most people we recommend a 4 or 8 ohm subwoofer for their home theater setup. There are, of course, even more details you could dive into. Test them out right next to the TV or a short distance from it, and you may also try them in front of the TV on each side. In that case, they are best placed on both sides of the room. A wireless subwoofer allows for a wide range of different placements: on the entertainment center, on the floor, on a shelf, behind the main seating area, etc.ĭo you have more than one subwoofer? If you have a large room, you may decide to get dual subwoofers. Is your subwoofer wired to your soundbar or wireless? If wired, you may want to find a way to hide/cover your wiring, and it may not be able to go as far from your soundbar as a wireless subwoofer. A compact subwoofer can be placed in many different spots, so you’ll have to test it out to see which one is right. Understanding The Subwoofer That Goes With Your Soundbarĭo you have a compact subwoofer or a large one? If you have a large room, you may have chosen a large subwoofer to ensure that it fills out the room completely, but the location needs to be strategic to not take away from the viewing enjoyment. If it’s a dedicated home theater important, the location is more flexible. Will your subwoofer be in a living room or a dedicated home theater room? If your subwoofer is in a living room, you will want to maintain the style of the room, so keeping your subwoofer in a discrete location may be important to you. You’ll have to test this out by sitting in different seats and listening to your subwoofer in different places. Your best bet may be in a corner or somewhere else that allows everyone to enjoy the subwoofer’s sound elements. If you have rows of seating, a front spot next to the TV may not be the best spot, since only the front row will get the great sound from it. Your room’s seating also plays a big role in your subwoofer placement. If you have a larger room, you have more options, and your subwoofer’s sound will have more room to travel. If you have a smaller room, there may just be one place that your subwoofer sounds good and can fit. ![]() Your room size plays a huge role in the acoustics of your soundbar sound system. Your subwoofer, no matter the size, needs to be at least six inches from the wall to breathe and sound properly. It’s important that if you do choose a corner or a wall placement that you do not place it directly against the wall. A corner can be a great place for a larger subwoofer, as long as it sounds good, because it doesn’t take away from the viewing experience. ![]() Test it out on both the left and the right side of the TV to hear which one sounds best to you.Īdditionally, a corner in the front of the room might be the best placement for you and is a popular choice for many households, unless it’s a long distance from your seating.Ĭorner placement often enhances the subwoofer sound. If you do decide to start with the front of the room, you can try to set it next to your TV. Even if that doesn’t end up being the best spot for you, it’s a good place to start. The front of the room is an ideal location in many rooms so that your subwoofer sounds in sync with your front channel speakers. More often than not, subwoofers are placed in the front of the room and facing the room. Popular Subwoofer Placements for Soundbars You need to take into account your room dynamics and your subwoofer’s qualities, but popular placements are a good starting point. When it comes to finding the best place for your subwoofer, the optimal placement for your room may be different from the next person. Where Should I Put My Subwoofer for My Soundbar? However, it’s important to test out different locations to find the best sound.ĭo you have a big or a small room? Is the soundbar and subwoofer in your living room, or is it in a dedicated home theater room? Is your subwoofer wireless or wired into your soundbar? Is your subwoofer compact or large? Do you have one subwoofer or two? Let’s find out where the ideal placement for your subwoofer is, based on your current setup and best practices. Subwoofers are most often kept in the front of the room and often placed in a front corner. So where should you place a subwoofer with a soundbar? The best placement for your subwoofer depends on your room and your subwoofer. Having those elements is the easy part – the harder part is finding out where to place it to achieve the best sound. Subwoofers add great bass and enhance low-pitched audio, which are crucial to a great sound system. Whether you already have a soundbar and you’re adding a subwoofer to it or you’re looking to purchase a soundbar package that includes a subwoofer, it’s important to know where to put it. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The PAX S80 also offers Address Verification and CVV and CID. Additionally, the terminal supports international security algorithms, including DES, 3DES, and DUKPT. The PAX S80 is PCI PTS 3.x approved for secure transactions, and is EMV level 1 and level 2 certified. Reports can be viewed directly on screen, or printed. The PAX S80 offers a variety of reports to enable merchants to easily track and view information by date, by total, and more. With the Pax S80 it is business as usual. ![]() No more asking for the tip up front which is always awkward for your servers. Most terminals are following the European model of tipping at the point of sale, but with chip and signature, the transaction can have the tip added after the authorization. The Pax S80 is one of the few EMV live terminals that is allowing tip adjustment for restaurants. With store and forward, merchants can enter payment information, save it to the terminal’s internal memory, and automatically process and forward it for authorization and settlement at a later time, when a connection becomes available. The PAX S80 offers store and forward technology, allowing merchants to accept payments even when a connection isn’t available for authorization. Additionally, the terminal offers merchants the ability to not only accept payments, but also process refunds, voids, and returns, and accept tips. A convenient built-in printer allows fast receipt printing at the time of sale. The user-friendly ATM-style interface is designed for intuitive operation. An optional contactless reader allows merchants the ability to accept contactless payments, including MasterCard PayPass and Visa payWave. The Smart Card reader is EMV certified, allowing secure acceptance of EMV payment types. The terminal can accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Diners’ Club, JCB, and EBT cards for accepting food stamps. ![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, to ski you need to be well-equipped with the proper gear. One of the great parts of being located in the Salt Lake Valley is the number of outdoor activities that are accessible to you in the area, including some of the best ski resorts in the country. The Student Wellness program offers workshops and training on a number of health-related topics and provides services such as wellness coaching and STI testing. They even offer a virtual personal training option for students who are not yet comfortable coming into the gym.Īdditionally, the Student Life Center serves as the home for the Center for Student Wellness, which is for individuals who need a safe place to receive support. These personal trainers are students like you who will help you reach your desired fitness goals and provide counseling to those who may not know what they are doing in the gym. Even if you don’t consider yourself a gym rat, the Student Life Center provides a great opportunity to work on your training routine and offers personal training to all students for a lower price than you will find anywhere else. The Student Life Center is a great place to meet new people, especially for those who like to stay active. Having just arrived at the U, a lot of freshmen struggle with meeting new people and want to surround themselves with those that have similar interests. It features a state-of-the-art gym, an indoor pool and spa and its very own climbing gym, known as the Summit. All these benefits are free for enrolled students at the U, so be sure to bring your U Card to enjoy the facility. Located at 1836 Student Life Way, the facility has everything to suit your athletic needs. Eccles Student Life Center, known around campus simply as the “Life Center,” is one of the most popular destinations for students on campus. Whether it is your first time at the University of Utah or you’ve spent your entire childhood visiting the campus, it is crucial to be able to locate all of the spots where you will be spending the next four years. Moving onto a big campus can feel overwhelming, as so much is happening. A very important aspect is that students of all fitness levels are welcomed, and are in a safe-zone to achieve their goals.Starting college is one of the most exciting times of your life. Their objective is to bring the students and community together. Overall, the Student Life Center is there to help students accomplish their fitness goals. The gym can also get very busy at peak hours, and weight/cardio machines are limited. The only way to get one is if you come to the facility on the first day of the semester and stand in a very long line. The few downsides of the center are if you forget your student ID they will not let you in, and they cannot look up a person to verify who they are. The Student Life Center on campus at the University of Utah is where students can excercise and rent outdoor equipment for various adventures on Wednesday, July 20, 2016 The amount of opportunities to better yourself are endless. There is an indoor/outdoor pool, as well as indoor/outdoor tracks, lifeguard training, swim lessons, a full gym with weights and machines, fitness classes, personal trainers, combative room, racquetball courts, sports clubs, summit climbing wall and bouldering, massage therapy, outdoor fire pit, free locker rentals, Freshen’s Cafe and a University Federal Credit Union. However, there are a number of options for those associated with the U to try out. When asked what some students thought this facility had to offer them, most simply said weights, machines and a pool. ![]() The Student Life Center has a lot to offer people who take advantage of it. For example, a student’s significant other would only pay $58.77 (including tax) for a whole semester. ![]() For staff, retirees, alumni and anyone associated with the U they provide a discounted price cheaper than all gyms in the Salt Lake valley. One of the great advantages of this facility is that it is free for all students taking credit hours. Eccles 2002 Legacy Bridge and adjacent to the Fort Douglas TRAX stop. The Student Life Center is an asset some students do not take advantage of, or even know about. ![]() ![]() Paper version and flash drive orders will be mailed within 1 to 2 days ![]() * Paper version is for those who would rather not download and print
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The new ride at the Valencia amusement park is different from the air-powered drop towers that have become common fare at theme parks over the past few decades. There’s a brief respite as the Superman trains reach the top of the tower, so close you can almost touch the coaster riders.Īnd then gravity takes over. It feels like an earthquake in a skyscraper - only you’re strapped to the outside of the building. The gondola seats rumble violently as the coaster climbs the track, causing the tower sways up to four feet. If you’re lucky and the timing is just right, the twin Superman trains will rocket out of the coaster station below at 100 mph just as the dual Lex Luthor gondolas reach the top of the tower.Īnd that’s when the shaking starts. What separates this drop tower from almost any other ride is the potential clash of good and evil - with you sitting ringside 40 stories above the earth. The Lex Luthor ride is remarkably simple: After a 30-second ascent at about 10 mph and a five second pause at the top, riders drop at 85 mph in a freefall descent lasting six seconds before an abrupt deceleration. > Photos: New rides debuting at Six Flags parks this summer You see, the Lex Luthor drop tower is attached to both sides of the 415-foot-tall Superman L-shaped track, adding to the excitement of both rides. My apprehension stemmed not from the thrill ride’s record-setting 400-foot height or 85 mph speed, but rather from the drop tower’s relative proximity to the Superman: Escape from Krypton shuttle coaster. > Photos: Lex Luthor drop tower at Six Flags Magic Mountain My palms have been sweating for weeks in anticipation of Lex Luthor: Drop of Doom, the new drop tower debuting Saturday at Six Flags Magic Mountain. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe I’ll try again tomorrow.īonus chatter: I’m thinking maybe of plugging the clock in at exactly midnight. I unplugged the clock and put it in the closet. They say that a broken clock is correct twice a day. We have progressed so much as a society in the past fifty years. So now I was left with a clock that reads “12:00AM January 1, 2018”. I spent an hour resetting the clock, going through the configuration process again, trying different Wi-Fi networks, resetting my phone, resetting my router, resetting my reset button, nothing worked. It appears to be unable to connect to the clock. But when I enter my Wi-Fi password, the app just hangs with a spinning circle. That exposes the garbage can icon □ for deleting the clock from the app. I eventually figure out that you are supposed to swipe on the hamburger button, not tap it. There is a hamburger button ☰ next to the clock, but tapping it has no effect. I can’t figure out how to re-connect to an existing clock or delete an existing clock so I can re-add it. The clock now reads 12:00AM, like all clocks do when they are reset. Okay, go download the manual, figure out how to do a factory reset. Okay, so I have to go back and re-download the app. I had uninstalled the “Set the time on the alarm clock” app because, c’mon, it’s not like I change the time on the alarm clock every day. This is normally a chore that takes just a few minutes. Most of the United States went from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time this past weekend, which means that my Sunday morning consisted of walking around the house adjusting the times on the clocks in the house. ![]() I’m going to repeat that: In order to set my alarm clock, I had to create an account with the clock manufacturer.Īnyway, I went through the setup process up back when I bought the alarm clock, and promptly forgot about it. And the app required me to create an account. ![]() For some reason, my alarm clock requires that I install an app on my phone. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Anchiornis’ coloring is based partly on recent scientific discovery regarding its actual feather coloration, partly on modern Pileated Woodpeckers. Bottom: Some mossy sloth thing, Anchiornis, Velociraptor, CaudipteryxĪs you can see, I went on a bit of a proto-avia spree at the end. Top: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Golden-faced dragon, Blue dragon of some sort, Eel-inspired dragon. Tagged art, color studies, dip pens, monsters, sketchdump, watercolor, WIP / 4 Comments Birdmarks part 2 If you’re interested, they’re after the cut. I took photos of the piece as it progressed. Or I suppose I could put a slip of newsprint down under my hand like you’re supposed to. I’ve heard that laying down a layer of spray fixative over the pencilwork can help (putting a barrier of plastic between you and those hand oils!) so I may try that. It’s hard to see the effects of this in the scan, but it’s there. One lesson I learned is that I really, really need to make more of an attempt to prevent my hand oils from getting on the paper while I’m drawing. I don’t believe I pushed myself nearly enough, in the end, but the result was good at least. Sometimes one needs to draw something silly. It’s a pretty silly, simple picture, but I like how it turned out overall. Also, I was trying to speed up my overall worktime (this sort of worked out). I’ve mentioned that I’m working on my color usage, yes? The entire point of this particular piece was to push my color usage, and experiment a bit with my application of watercolor. Tagged art, dip pens, ink, monsters, ramblings, watercolor, WIP / 3 Comments Goldfish Monster, with some WIP ![]() I forgot to get a scan of the initial pencil lines, but I do have an ink-less and gouache-less stage below the cut, if you’re interested. So I guess this is what pokémon would look like if I’d been the one to design them. I was having an extremely strong urge to draw pokémon fanart, which I channeled into this instead. ![]() I think I’d like to practice painting slimy things some more. I tried using gouache for the first time in this one! And I also used salt successfully for the first time! So I guess I’m not actually done experimenting, but at least it’s more typical to my work. Expect more of that sort of thing next time I start feeling insecure about my art (which knowing me will probably be next week). I do think that the experimentation was really useful, but it’s nice not to feel so panicky whenever I think about making work for someone. I’m back to painting in about the same way I did originally (save for the fact that I ink last, rather than first) and I no longer feel quite as convinced that my color work is terrible. ![]() ![]() ![]() That was essentially the plot of last year's The Kitchen, a fairly mediocre and disappointing movie about threatened mob wives. ![]() It would be very easy to follow a more traditional formula for Jean where being thrust into fending for herself turns her into a steely killer that lays waste to the men hunting her as finds her own means of authority. Given its subject, there are moments of sudden, shocking violence but often it's to disorient us and not as some delivery system of satisfaction. It's nerve-wracking but it also denies us coherency or clarity which makes it so much scarier (I was having visions of what people might have gone through with the Pulse nightclub massacre). She waits and makes her escape, tripping over bleeding bodies, and the camera continues in one ongoing take. She ducks into a phone booth and we watch armed men pass by. We're tethered to Jean and hear the off-screen gunshots getting closer, the screams of civilians, and the camera keeps running without a cut as she dashes down a long corridor but cannot find an exit. There's a mass shooting inside a club that is deeply unnerving because of our limited perspective. ![]() Much of the violence is depicted off-screen and we watch Jean stumble upon its awful consequences, again linking up with the perspective of a bystander to the careening violence and mayhem from her romantic attachment to a life of crime. There are violent outbursts from time to time, but much like You Were Never Really Here (the two of these movies would make a good double-feature, folks), the violence is far from glorified and often denied to the viewer. ![]() We're on the run with this woman, trying to make sense of the plight as we go, and being trapped in a position of limited information is an intriguing and relatable dash of realism. We're used to criminals neglecting their molls, and I'm Your Woman declares its allegiance right in the title. Admittedly, some will find this to be rather boring and a lacking perspective, but I thought the approach of director/co-writer Julia Hart (Stargirl) was to highlight the perspective of a character often taken for granted and forgotten in gangster cinema and its celebration of doomed antiheroes. Every scene when she's been left alone and sees a car coming closer, every knock on the door, it raises the suspense because your mind, like hers, is questioning everything. We as the audience are left very much in the dark with Jean, and this precious little information allows us to very strongly feel her paranoia and anxiety. He tasks Cal (Arinze Kene) to drive Jean and her baby out of town, watch over her, and wait until the heat dies down or everyone else just ends up dead.Īnd with that, the movie is off to a gallop and Jean doesn't know what's happened to her life, only that it's bad, and she doesn't know where her husband may be, or even if he's alive, but she's told that people will be coming for her to get to him or to punish him, and so she must be whisked away in the middle of the night into hiding. One of his associates barges into her home in the middle of the night, bloodied, and tells her that Eddie is gone and she needs to likewise be leaving in a hurry. Another day, her husband goes out with some friends and never comes back. Where did this baby come from? Jean cannot say but she chooses to raise this child as her own son. One day Eddie (Bill Heck) comes home with a baby that he declares is theirs. Jean (Rachel Brosnahan) is married to a man who she knows does some very bad things. It's a refreshing and modern take that works as moody paranoia thriller just as much as it does a subversion of them. I'm Your Woman imagines a typical crime story but from a very human perspective, focusing on the wife who has to deal with the confusion and fallout from her husband's misdeeds. We've been inured to gangster cinema for decades and love following the criminal antics of bad men without fully thinking about the collateral damage on the periphery of their story. I'm Your Woman does for the gangster/crime genre what You Were Never Really Here did for the loner revenge thriller, namely demystify popular tropes and find a humanity often missing below the surface. ![]() ![]() ![]() Save your docs to the tool and access them on any device. 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Note: If you're using PerMachine, you'll need to run OneDriveSetup.exe /allusers.ĭownload 64-bit version ARM64 version for Windows ![]() ![]() ![]() (1 sandwich: 17g carbs / 10g protein / 1g fat) You can also make sweet or savory versions of your own rice cake sandwiches. Rice cakes are a great food to use for fat loss because they are high-volume but low-calorie. This easy rice cake “sandwich” is crunchy, satisfying, and easy to throw together. ![]() (1 serving: 32g carbs / 8g protein / 2g fat) Get extra fiber, vitamin C, and potassium from sliced apples. This awesome snack has everyone’s favorite peanut butter flavor, with just a fraction of the fat by using the powdered alternative. Add your favorite dippers like nutrient-rich carrots, bell peppers, celery, broccoli, or even low-fat pretzels, and voila! (1 serving: 39g carbs / 15g protein / 0g fat) ![]() We swapped the typical Ranch dressing for plain nonfat Greek yogurt (which packs a lot of protein and a lot less fat!) plus Ranch packet seasoning. This delicious snack is a healthy twist on the classic chips and dip favorite. (1 smoothie: 44g carbs / 27g protein / 1g fat) This version uses banana, mango, and orange for a fun, tropical twist. Most people don’t get enough protein in their diet, so blending it into delicious smoothies is the easiest way to enjoy it, especially when you’re on the go. Protein powder is a Macrostaxer’s best friend. Hummus, a much healthier alternative from most dips that is made from chickpeas, packs a protein boost as well, all for under 200 calories a serving! (1 Jar: 16g carbs / 4g protein / 6g fat) The veggies and hummus combo is the ultimate weight loss snack! You get plenty of filling fiber as well as vitamins and minerals from a variety of vegetables: carrots, broccoli, bell peppers, celery, cauliflower, tomatoes, etc. These snack ideas are loaded with high-fiber fruits and veggies, protein, and healthy fats to help fill you up and fuel you throughout your day, while also being low calorie! 1. including snacks! Check out our favorites below to help you on your weight loss journey. Macrostax provides all the tastiest, macro-friendly recipes to help you hit your macros …. ![]() |
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