![]() The “Wrap Text” feature in Excel allows you to display long or multi-line text in a single cell. Excel will automatically adjust the height of the cell to fit the text. Next, click on the “Wrap Text” button in the “Home” tab.ģ. To use this feature, use the cursor to select the cell or cells you want to format clicking on them while holding down the Shift key.Ģ. It can help you to present data in a more organized and readable format without having to adjust the column width or resize the cell. The “Wrap Text” feature allows you to display all cell content by breaking it into multiple lines. If you have a large amount of text that can’t fit into a single cell, you can use text wrapping to make the data fit correctly. Using The “Wrap Text” Feature to Fit Text In the next section, we’ll explore how to “wrap” the text to format cells and make your data fit comfortably within the selected cell. However, sometimes adjusting the size of the cell isn’t enough to fit all the text inside. In a similar fashion, you can choose “AutoFit Row Height” to adjust the height of a cell.īy changing the cell size, you can ensure that your worksheet data fits within each cell neatly. From the drop-down menu that opens, select “AutoFit Column Width,” and Excel will automatically adjust the row width to fit the text content. Select the row (or multiple rows by double-clicking while holding down the Shift key) you want to adjust and then, on the Home tab, click on the “Format” button in the “Cells” group.Ģ. If you have a large table with several rows that contain text, you can use the “AutoFit” feature to adjust the row height automatically.ġ. How to automatically adjust cell width using AutoFit Double-click and drag the boundary to the right or left until the text fits comfortably within the selected column. To change the width of a cell, hover your mouse over the column’s boundary, and it will turn into a double-headed arrow.Ģ. How to change cell width manually to fit textġ. You can either do this manually or you use AutoFit to do it automatically. When you have a lot of text in a cell, the first step you can take is to adjust the width of the cell to fit the content. Using The “Shrink to fit” Feature to Fit Text ![]() How to automatically adjust cell width using AutoFit.How to change cell width manually to fit text.
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![]() The amount of financial data that is readily available is impressive. Notes offer pages of additional explanatory information. Changes in cash are separated into operating activities, investing activities, and financing activities and disclosed on a statement of cash flows. Assets, liabilities, capital stock, and retained earnings are all displayed on a balance sheet. Total income earned and dividends paid by the company over its entire life are netted to compute the current retained earnings balance. Revenues, expenses, gains, and losses are presented on an income statement where they are combined to arrive at reported net income for the period. Financial statements provide a formal structure to communicate the resulting balances periodically to an array of interested parties. Question: Transaction analysis determines the changes in account balances as the events of each day take place. ![]() Understand the reason that debits and credits are always equal.List the rules for using debits and credits.List the four steps followed in the accounting process.Explain the history of double-entry bookkeeping.Keep visiting us over the next few weeks for more insights into the world of financial statements, and watch this space for our Financial Statements for Dummies book, coming soon.At the end of this section, students should be able to meet the following objectives: So, in other words, all bookkeeping stems from the general ledger, and all financial statements start with entry bookkeeping. Each journal entry must be balanced by making sure that the credit and debit columns are always equal. These journal entries will show which general ledger accounts must be debited and credited. The general ledger will be booked with what are known as “journal entries”. The balance sheet, which records the assets, liabilities and equity capital.There are two types of general ledger accounts, both of which will be explored further in a later blog: Remember that double entry bookkeeping is completely different from the illegal practice of keeping two sets of books, when companies keep two accounting records in order to hoodwink the tax authorities. If the customer hasn’t paid, then the balance won’t come to £0 and you’ll quite easily be able to tell that there’s a problem.ĭouble entry bookkeeping is also useful in providing business owners with an up-to-date record of assets and liabilities. Then, when your customer pays the £500 that he owes, this will be entered into the credit column. The balance of the two columns should always be zero.įor example, if you’re selling a product for £500, then this should be inputted into the debit column. ![]() The idea is that by entering an amount into a debit column as well as one into a credit column, any mistakes are certain to be detected. What is double entry bookkeeping?Īs its name suggests, double entry bookkeeping is when every figure entered into an account needs a corresponding and opposite entry. It was in the glory days of the Renaissance in the 15th century when Luca Pacioli, a mathematician often referred to as the grandfather of accounting, invented this simple yet ingenious process. However, we need to travel to Italy, the birthplace of banking, to find the very first double entry bookkeeping system. Financial statements can be traced as far back as the ancient Egyptians, who wrote their accounts on papyrus scrolls, while the Babylonians preferred to carve their figures onto tablets made of clay. The history of double entry bookkeepingįinance and accounting today may be a very different beast from the time of the pharaohs, but keeping accounting records is arguably as old as civilisation itself. ![]() We’ll be breaking down the whole process from start to finish, beginning today with double entry bookkeeping, which forms the backbone of all financial statements. Over the next two weeks, we’ll be giving a masterclass in financial statements in advance of the launch of our Financial Statements for Dummies guide. Understanding financial statements can be a daunting process for many. ![]() Thus, knowing how to stay awake while driving might be more important than you think.Īvoid falling asleep while driving at night or while driving long distances, which is pretty common, require strategies, preparation and tools. You might previously thought it’s not a big issue, however studies have found that drowsiness is as dangerous as drunk driving. That blog at Schneider has 12 tips on how to stay awake on the road, none of which include tricks that experts say don't work, like making the cab too cold, turning up the music real loud, or chewing gum.According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, each year in the US alone, drowsy driving accounts for some 328,000 crashes, of which about 6,400 are fatal while 109,000 resulted in an injury. Here's some sage advice from Schneider trucking : "If you have to ask yourself how to stay awake when driving, you shouldn't be driving. ![]() Experts caution against drinking heavily the night before you set out, too, not just the day or night of the drive. Intoxicants slow reaction times, cloud driving judgment, and cause people to pass out or nod off. Never drink or take drugs and driveĭrugs and alcohol are killers when it comes to driving. You can find podcasts on darn near anything-ghostbusting, food, feminism, sports, popular culture, high-brow culture, Vikings, textile arts, and on and on. If you don't have a passel of kids in the car, you can keep your mind occupied with an interesting podcast or audiobook. What are their names? What do they do for employment? What kind of pets do they have? The sillier and more detailed the story, the better. Make up a story about the people in the car. Find a vehicle that you can watch for a few minutes traveling on the road near you. One person plays the character of a famous person and answers questions as if they were that person. Try to stump the other person with the weirdest or most difficult questions you can come up with ( or find online).ġ6. One person picks a category (ex: Britney Spear’s songs, NFL teams, flavors of La Croix) and everyone takes turns naming something in that category until someone (the loser) is stumped.ġ0. Some of my favorites, as written on Thought Catalog, are:ġ. Speaking of games, the Thought Catalog website has a posting with a list of 31 games you can play in the car (or anywhere) without boards or equipment. Families can converse, play games, and take turns driving.Īlso, recreational road trippers don't have to log the typical 500 miles in a day that truckers average. While we can all take some hints from truck drivers, families or couples have a distinct advantage over truckers. It also hasn't been proven that they do not boost your energy. It hasn't been proven that B vitamins boost your energy if you get enough in your diet, but it doesn't hurt to take them in a supplement. You get 40 mg of caffeine in each Viter Energy mint, you freshen your breath, and you get the B vitamins that some researchers say will help keep you alert and awake if you have a deficiency in them. If you have the mints, you can drink water. If you eat the mints, you will avoid taking too much liquid so you can limit pit stops, which is important because medical professionals say part of staying alert is to get enough fluids and stay hydrated. One way to limit pit stops is to take your caffeine in a dry preparation, such as Viter Energy Mints. Caffeinated mints with B vitaminsĭriving long distances can be a balancing act between limiting pit stops and putting the miles behind you on the one hand and staying safe, going to the bathroom and taking breaks often enough, and getting meals on the other. For truckers who get a good, healthy amount of caffeine, another study found, they can avoid crashes and save lives. If you rely too much on caffeine and get too much of it, one study finds, you run the risk of crashing. ![]() Underlying both the short-term and long-term practices is judicious use of caffeine. And we can all take hints from truck drivers, who are experts in driving long distances and staying awake. The short-term practices are more detailed. The long-term practices are to get a good, healthy diet sleep on a regular schedule, at least 7 hours a night (or day, if you work the graveyard shift) and exercise regularly to stay physically fit. Practices to stay awakeĪs we've been writing on this blog lately, there are long-term and short-term practices to remain alert and avoid becoming drowsy on the road. Many sleep advisors say you should also take a nap before you set out on your trip. Experts advise several ways to ensure you remain awake and alert on the road, but most agree: If you get drowsy, the best thing to do is to pull over and let someone else drive, or if you're alone take a nap. ![]() The Hiisi Base sometimes contains one or more rooms resembling a bar, with mainly Whiskey potions, but sometimes one or two other potions.The Mines will sometimes spawn with a room containing a lava pit and multiple shelves of potions, which is often populated by an Alkemisti, Stendari, or Ukko.From item pedestals or chests in most biomes.Drinking it at lower than 10% will reduce the effects accordingly. Drinking a potion has various different effects and fills your stomach based on the potion and will consume 10% if available.10% of each material in the potion is always drunk when consumed in this way, so a potion containing water and blood drunk this way will have 10% each of the water and blood removed. Right-clicking on the potion within the inventory toolbar will drink it.Flasks can still sometimes break within the indicated safe-zone. A red “ X” will appear at the end of the “throwing-arc” to indicate the flask will definitely break. If dropped gently enough close to the ground or thrown into a body of liquid, the potion can travel slowly enough to avoid being broken when it touches the ground again. The further the mouse cursor is from the player, the greater the force of the throw. Throwing or dropping a potion turns it into a grenade-like projectile, which will usually cause it to shatter.Dropped potions might still roll down slopes and break. A potion can be easily and safely dropped by opening the inventory, dragging the desired potion very near to the player, and releasing it.Potions can be thrown with right-click (by default).If a potion has more than one material in it, for example Acid and water, half of the spray will be acid and half water. It will make the sound of releasing pressure at a pitch relative to how full the potion is, with the lowest pitch at 1%. Spraying a potion that is at 200% capacity will shoot out much further and faster, decreasing at 100%, 90% and 80%. Spraying empties the potion's contents towards the cursor, eventually producing an Empty Potion.Potions can be sprayed with left-click (by default).This makes it slightly easier to collect liquids like Teleportatium. It is possible to fill a potion bottle whilst standing below a liquid, if the barrier is thin enough, by holding the bottle 'upwards' and getting as close to the liquid as possible.When collecting liquid from shallow pools, aiming the cursor directly downwards gives the best opportunity to collect the liquid, short of tossing the potion bottle gently into the pool. A potion will fill when (if possible) any liquids and the neck of the potion make contact with each other.The aiming-reticle will also display a "throwing-arc" in front of the player indicating where the potion will end up if thrown. Holding a potion will display a capacity bar where the mana would normally be, indicating how much is left in the potion. ![]() It was the career of Egervari that first brought awareness to gymnastics fans regarding the usage of this name and how it should be spelled. "I heard during the testimonies that some of the parents were in the therapy room with their own child and Larry Nassar was performing this," Martha Karolyi told Guthrie. The name Marta is of Hungarian origin and coincidentally, Hungary’s top gymnast during the 1970s was 2x Olympian Marta Egervari who had the exact same first name as Martha Karolyi. Marta Karolyi denied having any knowledge about Nassar's pattern of abuse. Maroney said she was abused "hundreds" of times by Nassar. He would visit the ranch during national team training sessions and accompany the team to events around the world. Nassar was already established in the program when Marta Karolyi took over. Independence Unified School District, KS. Nassar is now serving decades in prison for molesting women and girls and for possessing child pornography. He continued to work at Michigan State University through the fall of 2016 before being hit with federal charges. 1851 likes, 19 comments - 30 For 30 (30for30) on Instagram: Bela and Martha Karolyi put USA gymnastics on the map, but the gymnasts who trained under them. Nassar spent nearly three decades at USA Gymnastics before being fired in 2015 after complaints about his behaviour. The ranch served as the training home for USA Gymnastics during most of Martha Karolyi's tenure running the national team. Several victims, including two-time Olympic medallist McKayla Maroney, say they were abused at the ranch. Pic credit: Netflix The documentary Athlete A hit Netflix on June 24 and tells the story of the. Gymnastics coaches during the Athlete A scandal. The Karolyis have been named as co-defendants in several civil lawsuits filed against Nassar and USA Gymnastics. Bla and Mrta Krolyi were two of the top U.S. The Karolyi Ranch would be recognized as an official women's training centre for USA Gymnastics early this century, as Marta took over as head coach of the women's team. The Karolyis set up a training facility near Houston as Bela gained national prominence in the sport for coaching Mary Lou Retton, 1984 Olympic gold medallist. Martha and Bela Karolyi defected to the United States from Romania in 1981 and gymnastics in this country hasnt been the same since. gymnastics official facing criminal probe Most sources cite Bela having a wide range of offers to coach gymnastics, but one account states that Bela Karolyi first started working as a painter at the Los Angeles airport. Olympic star Aly Raisman files suit against USOC, USA Gymnastics Marta Karolyi and her husband, Bela, have helped develop the top women gymnasts in the world since the 70s, first in Romania and now the U.S. I completely agree with Marta and my child is now an elite level coach with many successful gymnasts herself because of what she learned with the Karolyis. Bela and Marta Karolyi would ultimately settle in Oklahoma on their first leg as gymnastics coaches in America. Whatever you see on the surface is a collection of text accompanied by photos and videos.īehind the scenes, however, they are made up of HTML, CSS, Flash, and JavaScript. What exactly is the inspect element on iPhone? Take a look at a web page. In Safari, how do I utilize Web Inspector? Is it possible to inspect a web element on an iPhone? Which browser is used by Inspect Element on iPhone by default? Method 3: Using the Shortcut App for iOS.Method 2: Use Real Devices for Real-Time Test using Cloud-Based Systems.Method 1: Examining Items on a Real Device with Safari Developer Tools.4 Main Methods to know How to Inspect Element on iPhone.What does Inspecting the Element exactly mean?.Now, Go to the Safari browser in the Mac and select the ‘Develop’ menu. Please open the mobile web application in the Safari mobile web browser available in the iPhone real device or iOS simulator as mentioned below Enable the Web Inspector option as mentioned in the below screenshot Go to Advanced option (scroll down if you are using iOS simulator)ģ. Go to the ‘Safari’ under the ‘Settings’Ģ. In this post, I’ve used the iOS Simulator for inspecting the web elements.ġ. Now, you could see ‘Develop’ menu in the safari web browser Select the checkbox of ‘Show Develop menu in menu bar’ as mentioned in the below screenshotĥ. Go to Advanced Tab in the opened windowĤ. Go to ‘Preferences’ under the ‘Safari’ tabģ. We are going to use the Safari Develop menu available in the Mac and the iOS simulator or real device browser will sync with the Mac develop menu to identify the required web element information as follows Ģ. Web elements information should be captured and utilised in the automation scripting part associated with the development IDE such as Eclipse. In order to automate the mobile web application running in the iOS specific safari mobile web browser using the Appium, we need to inspect the web elements available in the mobile web browser. 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No matter what kind of “stand” you choose, though, you’ll want something that has an open design to let in light and that can support a decent amount of weight and hold up to the occasional water spill. If you have a medium-size plant teetering off the edge of your windowsill, why not put it on top of a stool instead, or a bar cart, or floating shelves? If you’re a bit of a plant hoarder, with every square inch of floor and table surfaces covered, you can use rolling utility carts, shoe benches, or bookcases to better organize your collection. Thankfully, a plant stand can really be any object you can place a plant on, and one sweep of the internet will reveal that you can put plants on lots of things. Both styles can be good-looking and super-functional, but they’re also a bit limiting. Bring your outdoors to life with our D.I.Y. 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We have mentioned a complete guide of Google Cloud print and if we forgot to mention important steps or if you have any suggestions, feel free to mention in the comments section.Now you know how to print from a Chromebook, so you've gotten one step closer to it working and functioning like a PC laptop or a MacBook. For iOS users, Google Cloud Print download application is available App Store, Download now. If a printer doesn’t include Cloud Print support, you can make it available via Google Cloud Print by setting up Google Cloud Print in Google Chrome. Many new printers include built-in support for Google Cloud Print. Google Cloud Printer driver is also available for the Windows system too. Google Cloud Print is Google’s remote-printing solution. Check the Wi-Fi network in case of a Cloud Print setup.
![]() All of which contributed to her strong and confident personality, showing its first sign by the age of 11 when she decided that she wanted to be an architect. There were, also, Zaha’s liberal parents who have encouraged her curiosity and brought her up to be independent. The ruling government back then decided to put the increased national share of Petroleum money to use by bringing on pioneers of modern architecture, like Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer, and Walter Gropius, to modernize the city of Baghdad, issuing a hopeful atmosphere. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.Hadid was born in the early 50s and lived her childhood during the brief golden years of modern-time Iraq. Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. 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Each level is different, although the units themselves all occupy 510.97 square metres with ceilings 3.35 metres high. The building will contain 39 residential units through its 11 floors. The intention behind this latest project is to create a dynamic dialogue between the raised park and surrounding environment, separating yet articulating its different zones. Hadid earned a global reputation in a career that spanned over 30 years with projects whose dynamism and innovation marked a revolutionary departure in the worlds of planning and architecture. She won the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest accolade, in 2004. Zaha Hadid was a visionary architect and the founder of Zaha Hadid Architects. Zaha Hadid Architects were this month appointed as designers of the building, which soon earned it the title. At 520 West 28th Street, Chelsea, south of Hudson Yards, New York’s most magical and luxurious residential project is now taking form. This incredible project in New York city has been named Project of the Year for 2017. ![]() Tidal is one of the only two music streaming services that integrate with Roon, the subscription software that aims to offer the kind of metadata-rich listening and recommendation system that none of the current streaming companies can begin to offer. Tidal’s typeface is just the right size for following along by yourself. Other music services use a larger font for their lyric function which makes them better for karaoke-style singalongs. Tidal includes a button on a song’s playback page to bring up the lyrics, which are provided by Musixmatch. A current favorite of mine is the 100-song Retroactive playlist that somehow includes Keith Richards, folk legend Karen Dalton, Frank Zappa, Son House, The Lemonheads, Yoko Ono, Aerosmith, Pavement, David Bowie, The Clean, Leo Nocentelli, Oasis, Ray Charles, R.E.M., Nancy Sinatra, Slint, PJ Harvey, and Black Sabbath in a 7-hour set that’s like spending a weekend with your most knowledgeable music-collector friend. Not only are the current hits lists programmed with a sense of musical flow, they consistently add creatively themed playlists that no algorithm could ever generate. Tidal’s playlist game is also impeccable. It’s that second and third tier of recommendations that show the service’s knowledge and love for the genre, with impeccable taste in both catalog albums and less-famous up-and-coming artists. Of course, hip hop is currently the most popular genre of music in the United States and it’s not hard to program a site based on what’s hot right now. There’s a particular strength in hip hop. There’s a strong sense that actual humans are at the helm, or at least heavily tweaking whatever recommendation algorithm is behind the curtain.Īnother consistent strength at Tidal is a sense that the service is connected to what’s going on in contemporary music. Not only does Tidal makes the connection with other artists you might enjoy, but the titles it recommends are the ones that have the most musical or cultural connection to the one that inspired the recommendation. Other music services now serve up random titles by the same artist with no concern for quality or cultural relevance. The editors of Tidal’s home page make more interesting new-release suggestions than the competition. There’s a real sense that its decoding system was devised by engineers who actually listen to music, and the result is tracks with depth and detail that never fails to impress. How music makes you feel is what matters, and MQA sounds great. Neither result much resembles the sound the musicians made during the session. Some music sounds best through a cheap transistor radio and other sounds best through the most expensive hi-fi setup you could imagine. ![]() Once you start overdubbing, bouncing, and mixing, the results are never what anyone heard in his or her head during the recording process. What you get on tape or disc is never what you heard in the room. As someone who’s attended hundreds of recording sessions as a producer, A&R executive, publisher, and manager, I consider the very act of recording sound to be destructive. Here’s where I set my audiophile credentials on fire. Did the people who originally built the internet dream of an online utopia where information could be free and that we’d all use open standards? They sure did, but that’s not how things have shaken out. MQA is a proprietary format whose investors (which include major label Warner Music) are looking for a royalty payment when streamers like Tidal use the format or manufacturers make their gear compatible. Let’s dispense with the reasons people are so dead set against it. Tidal has two family plans that give up to six individuals living at the same address independent accounts for $14.99 per month (Tidal HiFi) or $29.99 per month (Tidal HiFi Plus). That’s a rarity in an industry that reaps rich rewards from musicians while paying them a pittance. A Tidal HiFi Plus plan supports streaming at rates up to 9,216Kbps for $19.99/month, and Tidal pays up to 10 percent of that subscription cost directly to each subscriber’s most-streamed artist. You’ll get CD-quality streams for $9.99/month. The price of the service has changed, but mostly for the better. Let’s hope Tidal’s new majority shareholder, Square, keeps it that way. One thing that hasn’t changed: The depth and quality of the service’s library, particularly in terms of its high-resolution offerings. The music-streaming service Tidal has had its ups and downs since a cadre of artists ranging from Alicia Keys to Madonna, Jack White, and Deadmau5 headed up by Jay-Z acquired Tidal in early 2015. Tidal exhibits a genuine commitment to music-streaming’s potential, with an obvious sense that the recommendations are maintained by a team who knows their music. Tidal’s HiFi Plus plan is the most expensive option from any major service. |
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