![]() The Windows Firewall can sometimes block a TFTP transfer so it is best to turn it off during this procedure. You will want to do this when you have completed flashing the router. To set your computer back to Automatic IP Address simply select the Automatic mode in the Edit IP settings dialog. ![]() Your computer now has a static IP Address of 192.168.1.2.
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![]() ![]() Fortunately, the museum collection was spared and moved to its current home in Donaldsonville. The museum is dedicated to preserving the history and culture of African Americans tied to the rural communities along the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The River Road African American Museum was based at Tezcuco Plantation prior to the 2003 fire that destroyed the historic home. Ladies of the evening would vocally advertise their services from windows on the upper floor. 1850) has at various times served as a saloon and brothel. Of all the buildings in town, this structure was the most visually appealing to me, and I would love to see the property receive its due restoration and preservation. According to the cornerstone, the original 1866 church was rebuilt in 1895. Mayor Pierre Landry was the first pastor of the African American St. 1850) is now the home of internationally-celebrated Cajun chef John Folse. He became one of the city’s most successful businessmen, eventually accumulating fifty properties in town. Lowery was the first African American physician to practice in Ascension Parish. ![]() The 1890 shotgun-style medical office of Dr. This building is the backdrop for a car chase scene in the Bonnie and Clyde mini-series. ![]() The business moved into this building designed in the Italianate architectural style in 1877. In 1836, Jewish businessman Jacob Lemann founded what would become Louisiana’s oldest family-owned department store. Once the site of the 1853 Donaldsonville Market, the setting is now home to paved walkways, landscaped lawns, and a central open-air pavilion. The recently renovated Crescent Park is a waterfront venue based on the original 1806 city plan. His mother’s influence as a storyteller is evidenced in the subjects of work, including Louisiana history, daily life, Bible stories, and stereotypical cultural motifs. ![]() Encouraged by his mother, Alvin began drawing at age three. Batiste is a self-taught folk artist whose prodigious work has earned him renown as Louisiana’s premier primitive artist. My first stop in Donaldsonville was at the studio of Alvin Batiste. I explored historical Donaldsonville over a period of two days, on a combination walking and driving tour. In 1872, local Jewish families built a synagogue, established a cemetery, and founded several prominent businesses. He went on to serve in the Louisiana House of Representatives and Senate. In 1868, attorney, minister, and former slave Pierre Caliste Landry was the first African American elected mayor in the United States. Native Americans, Acadians, Creoles, Spaniards, Italians, and Germans have all played a role in the town’s history. Most of these structures, whether currently occupied or not, survive to this day.ĭonaldsonville also has a notable multicultural history. Shortly thereafter, in April of 1862, New Orleans surrendered to Union forces, and four months later, upon orders of Admiral David Farragut, the city of Donaldsonville was utterly destroyed.Īfter the war, Donaldsonville rose from the ashes and built what many consider to be the finest collection of historical buildings along the Mississippi River north of New Orleans. In 1861, Louisiana seceded from the Union and joined the Confederacy. Sprawling cotton and sugar cane plantations lined the banks of the Mississippi River above and below this former state capital. Like most 19th-century southern towns, Donaldsonville’s agricultural economy was dependent on slave labor. As I walked the streets and toured the rustic buildings of this historical Mississippi River port city, I truly felt like I had stepped back in time. This is due to the historical influence of the Roman Catholic church in the state.ĭuring my road trip through Ascension Parish I explored historical Donaldsonville, attended the Gonzales Jambalaya Festival and Jambalaya World Championship, and took side trips to the Cajun Village in Sorrento and the Houmas House in Darrow.ĭonaldsonville, Louisiana, is my kind of town. In case you are wondering, Louisiana is subdivided into districts called parishes, rather than secular counties like the rest of the country. Like Lafayette Parish, the first destination on my recent Louisiana road trip, Ascension is one of 22 parishes in Acadiana, a region of the state with Cajun French population and culture. It straddles the Mississippi River, Interstate 10, and the Airline Highway.
![]() ![]() Using Einstein AI, the Salesforce service platform can be scaled and automated to increase live agent productivity while working seamlessly with other salesforce customer success platforms. The Salesforce Customer Success Platform consists of a suite of cloud-based products and services that can improve your business, from analytics to service to marketing and more. Salesforce Live Agent Features Automated Customer Success “We chose Ada with Salesforce because Ada learns on its own, has easy-to-use reporting to quickly see where we aren’t meeting customers’ needs, and was purpose-built to provide the great automated customer experience that our customers deserve and want.” - Bernie Leas, VP of operations, Balsam Brands “We are really excited by the opportunity to integrate Zoom with Salesforce to give advanced levels of insight to our sales and customer care teams before the phone has even been answered!” - Dave Anderson, head of business services at UK-based Thomas International “Our chatbot is capable of handling up to 25,000 individual queries per second, 24 hours a day, allowing our passengers to get an immediate response.” - Adam Geneave, Chief Customer Happiness Officer, Air Asia ![]() Testimonials from companies using Ada’s AI Salesforce Chat: The adaptive nature of AI-powered chatbots allows customers to self-service and take control of their own experience using accurate predictions and suggestions based on past interactions with the online chatbot. Automating Salesforce chats with Ada can reduce customer wait times from 1 hour to only 1 minute or less. Almost 66% of modern customers refuse to wait more than 2 minutes to receive support, putting valuable sales potential in jeopardy. Over the last decade, customer expectations have evolved almost as quickly as technology. Ada’s AI chatbots achieved a remarkable 90% CSAT score, a test of an artificial intelligence program’s ability to simulate human interaction. Integration of Salesforce with Adahas produced customer service bots that can work 24/7, manage over 100 languages, and have been shown to answer over 80% of customer inquiries without the need for live agents to get involved, for the ultimate automated customer service ( ACX) experience. Incorporating an AI chatbot into your business can reduce live agent attrition to only 3%. How automated Salesforce chatbots help:Īutomated Salesforce chatbots serve as the front lines for customer service, handling basic queries and saving time while Salesforce live agents are free for more complex tasks. Thanks to the prior conversation with the AI chatbot, this agent will already have access to all the contextual information they need to best serve the client. Once the AI chatbot has identified a customer’s query and determines that it has reached the limit of its ability to provide adequate support, it can connect the customer to a live agent. The Salesforce chatbots will simulate human conversation by prompting the user to put forward specific queries and respond accordingly until a problem has been narrowed down. Salesforce has also integrated their services across multiple platforms including Messenger and WhatsApp for maximum customer convenience. Users can interact with virtual chatbots through live messaging on your company’s website. ![]() Salesforce Live Chat works by combining the world’s #1 service platform with automation that is adaptable and personalizable to give clients the predictions, recommendations and answers they need. Salesforce Chat Automation How AI-powered Salesforce chat works: ![]() ![]() Get started by finding your workout buddy.įresh air, sunshine, lovely vistas … exercising outdoors makes exercise more enjoyable for a lot of people.
![]() ![]() ![]() Waves also says Nx will simulate the natural delay in sound between your ears. Instead of just hearing sound directly through the left and right channels of the headphones, Waves says that the app simulates a real acoustic environment, with sounds coming from external sources and ambient sounds reflected from surfaces around you. Waves Nx consists of two parts: an app you install on your desktop or mobile device, and a Bluetooth head tracker that sits on the band of your headphones so it knows where the sound should be coming from in relation to your head’s postition. I kind of think this doesn’t at the moment either.Waves Nx uses an app and head-tracking technology to create a “realistic sound environment.”Īudio plug-in company Waves Audio has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a new piece of technology the company claims will bring an immersive 3D sound experience to any old pair of stereo headphones. But I’m not Mick Jagger and Concorde doesn’t fly. When I’m not in my multi million dollar mastering suite I’m probably on Concorde (?) en route to NYC I could use this with GarageBand and some cans. Music production is your business and this doesn’t fit. This could have a seriously useful and unique place in the mobile recording world. You dipped your toe in the iOS world with some basic Cubasis in app purchases, so why not?Ĭ’mon Waves. I would jump at a reasonable in app purchase which allowed it to work with, say, GarageBand. Now waves may argue that this goes beyond the remit of a free app. Doesn’t appear on Audiobus and you can’t just switch it on to run in the background. But this doesn’t seem to get that love from Waves. Now if there is any place I can think of where making cans sound like speakers in a room would be an absolute godsend it would be on an IOS device. Waves are renowned for there audio plugins. On the IOS library it sounds great but hang on a minute. Tried this with normal cans (DT990 - no tracker). The Waves Nx Head Tracker can also be used with the Waves Nx applications for Windows and Mac and even with the Waves Nx – Virtual Mix Room plug-in for professional audio workstations, check for more information!Ĭurrently Waves Nx App only supports playing back local media files, check back soon for updates adding support to popular streaming services! Reduces the inconvenience caused by listening through headphones over extended periods of time.Live Concerts and Music all sound more authentic with Waves Nx! Experience all of your favorite content the way it was meant to be heard!.Spotify Support - stream music directly from Spotify using Spotify Premium service with Waves Nx – enjoy a wealth of content in immersive 3D audio using Waves Nx.Get the ideal acoustics of a recording studio– inside your headphones!.With Waves Nx any pair of headphones will deliver the same listening experience a GREAT speaker system does.Waves Nx uses head tracking and scientific models of the way our brains and ears perceive audio to create an amazing sounding fully immersive 3D audio experience that turns any pair of headphones into a high quality Speaker Setup, it not only models the speakers, it models the entire room! listening to speakers as our example, there are several major differences: If we take listening to stereo headphones vs. The perception of sound over headphones is a completely different experience. It combines the interactions between the acoustic sound waves and the room or space, the interaction with our head and ears, the reaction of our middle and inner ear and the audio nerve, and finally our brain’s cognition and interpretation of the acoustic scene. The perception of spatial sound in the real world is a complex phenomenon. With the Waves Nx App and the Waves Nx Head Tracker device you can use any headphones and listen to all of your content in truly immersive 3D sound, everywhere you go! Waves Nx is a ground breaking audio technology that finally bridges the gap between speakers and headphones. ![]() ![]() ![]() I've been playing it often since then: The Creature Creator is delicious, addictive fun. Last week, Maxis invited the tech press over to its office to test out the Creature Creator. Maxis hopes that during the next few months, people all over the world will download the Creature Creator and build enough interesting Spore animals to fill the full game when it's released. Will Wright calls Spore a "massively single-player" game, a clever way of saying that you'll play the game by yourself, but it'll be thoroughly social, populated by stuff that other people have created in their single-player games. Think of this as a pre-release demo, but with a twist. ![]() But today Maxis, Wright's game company, is releasing one portion of the game, the Creature Creator, for everyone for free. Spore, which Wright's fans have been salivating over for years, has been called Sim Everything, or Sim Evolution: It lets you watch and guide the development of a species from the lowest scale - the cellular level - all the way to the largest, when your species acquires advanced intelligence and can hop through outer space (in other words, it becomes Snoop Dogg). You may remember Will Wright from his previous hits - SimCity and The Sims, say? Spore, of course, is Will Wright's next video game. Here's the happier thing: The Spore Creator, the first bit of public code from the much-anticipated video game Spore, is now available for download. (Quick review: Firefox 3 has a few great features, but if you run many add-ons, you might consider waiting for the extensions to be ported over to the new version.) ![]() The first is Firefox 3, the latest version of everyone's favorite browser (unless your favorite browser is Opera, IE, or Safari). ![]() ![]() ![]() YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. 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The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the "Advertisement" category. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. ![]() ![]() ![]() I now have a paid plan with Otter.ai and it meets my needs. I wouldn’t rely on any of them alone to create ‘real’ meeting minutes so expect to edit your document afterwards whichever one you choose. They all have pros and cons depending on how you want to use them. Just send your audio recording, and you get a high-quality transcript and meeting minutes done for you in the way you want.I tested Reason8, Voicera and Otter.ai. Instead of risking burnout, it’s best to use TranscriptionWing as your transcription service of choice to transcribe your meeting audio for you. You have other tasks to deal with, and there are other audio recordings to transcribe into meeting minutes. Transcribing minutes of meetings is challenging because of the urgency and the tedium. TranscriptionWing can transcribe your meeting minutes for you Plus, you can use the search function to quickly navigate through the transcript and find the desired key points. This is especially because reading text tends to be much faster than listening to audio. With a transcript in hand, you now have a strong reference point for creating your meeting minutes as well as other documents. This is especially when there’s crosstalk, background noise, or other forms of complex audio. Rewind the audio as necessary to listen carefully to the audio.“ Jane Doe: The success of this strategy depends on the stock market trends for next month“) For each line, you can use a basic format like, the name of the speaker, then the line itself (e.g. Play the audio recording and start typing out the discussion.For best effect, utilize the split app functionality in Windows or macOS. Open the word processor of your choice for the transcription.Open the audio recording with the media player of your choice.The transcription process itself may be tedious and time-consuming, but with the right steps, it can be highly rewarding. It can also help greatly in informing your next business decision. The transcript can serve as a strong reference point to ensure the accuracy of your meeting minutes. While you can go straight to creating the minutes, it’s highly advisable to fully transcribe the audio first. If you want to enjoy the benefits of transcribing the minutes of your meeting while focusing on your other tasks, use TranscriptionWing to transcribe your meeting minutes for you and receive accurate, high-quality transcripts done in as short as four hours. The next steps require a lot of time and effort on your part. Once the meeting is over, stop recording and send the recording file to your computer or laptop for transcription. Advise them to avoid making unnecessary noises or nudge the table in order to minimize noise and maintain the quality of the recording’.Remind all of the participants to speak at a high enough volume for your recording device to pick up their words.Make sure that your recording device is right at the center of all the speakers to record all of their inputs clearly.Here are a few pointers to remember when you begin to record the meeting: 2.) Record the meetingīefore you start recording, it’s important that you ask for consent or inform each participant that you’ll record the meeting to create the minutes. ![]() You can use the built-in recording feature that comes in most video conferencing platforms. If the meeting is virtual, setting up the recording is a breeze. In any case, make sure that your device has enough battery capacity and storage space to avoid having an incomplete recording. Otherwise, you can use a mobile phone with a good built-in microphone to have a workable recording. ![]() You can coordinate with your colleagues to ensure that your current meeting setup will be more conducive to transcription.įor your recording device, it’s best to use a high-quality omnidirectional microphone that captures sounds from all directions clearly. These are important to make the later transcription process much easier. A recording device that captures all directions.Your speakers to sit around the same spot.A quiet environment with little to no background noise.To achieve a high-quality recording, you need: Transcriptions always require audio recordings which ideally capture every speaker’s input clearly. Here’s how you can do it in four steps: 1.) Set up the recording This allows you to fully focus on the meeting itself while capturing every single detail. However, this can take away from the flow of the discussion if you’re also part of the meeting.Ī more efficient way is by transcribing the minutes of your meetings. Typically, you start creating meeting minutes from note-taking during the meeting. Whether it’s for work or school, meetings tend to become complex and long-winded, making meeting minutes a necessity. Four Steps To Create & Transcribe Meeting of Minutes ![]() ![]() "The Afghan National Security Forces are struggling to contain the onslaught."īut she signaled confidence that the Taliban might not move into strongholds of the internationally-recognized Afghan government, including Kabul. "In this part of Afghanistan, over the past 10 days, more than 30 counties have come under the control of the militants," she said. ![]() She then offered details of the amount of territory now controlled by the Taliban. "Recently, against the backdrop of the completion of the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan, we have seen an increase in the activity of the Taliban movement in a number of regions of the country," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told reporters Monday, "especially in the northern and northeastern provinces, in close proximity to the borders of the Central Asian states." and coalition partners from the country, but regional countries have expressed concern as violence continues to ravage Afghanistan. The pullout has been part of an ongoing process to ensure what the Pentagon has deemed a "safe and orderly exit" of the U.S. and allied operations in the country for nearly two decades since shortly after their 2001 invasion. troops left Bagram Air Base, a central hub of U.S. media outlets reported Friday that the last U.S. forces reportedly withdrew from its largest airfield as part of a total military exit from the war-torn country. "Half the people have gone, the town feels so empty," said Faizi.Russia, Iran and China are weighing their options for Afghanistan's uncertain future as U.S. Many who had worked at the base have also fled the country, fearing reprisals from the Taliban. Several houses are now deserted, their residents having moved to Kabul or elsewhere in search of work. Shops that sold used gym equipment, generators, air conditioners and spare car parts are either shut or receive few orders. When the US military pulled out, it took much of its military hardware home, but tons of civilian equipment was left behind.įor several months, the town managed to thrive on a booming scrap business, but residents say that now that, too, is dying. With the Taliban seizing power last year, the airfield is now under their control. The Soviet Union vastly expanded it after the Red Army invaded Afghanistan in 1979.Īfter their withdrawal, the base was controlled by the Moscow-backed government, and later by the shaky mujahideen administration during the 1990s civil war. The airfield was first built by the Americans for their Afghan ally during the Cold War in the 1950s. "With the Islamic Emirate (Taliban) coming to power, peace has returned but business has gone," Wali told AFP, clutching his prayer beads.Īt the peak of the US invasion, Bagram was home to tens of thousands of troops and contractors, with the town serving as a hub for tons of supplies that would service the base. Shah Wali, a 46-year-old grocery store keeper, said he used to earn an income of between 20,000 and 30,000 Afghanis ($230 and $340). It is marked by rows of shuttered shops and warehouses, and those that remain open have seen sales plummet. ![]() Nowhere is the town's economic collapse more evident than in the main market. ![]() Everything has just crashed, everybody is struggling", he said. I don't know much about politics, but the exit of US forces from the base is a big economic loss," said Saifulrahman Faizi, one of the town's 80,000 residents.įaizi earned $30 a day when he was employed at the base, at a time when hundreds would queue for hours outside the compound in the hope of getting work. The US departure from Bagram has also seen the collapse of the economy in the nearby town of the same name, an illustration of how Afghanistan's fortunes were so heavily tied to the war and foreign aid. Today, the military base is occupied by the Taliban, who took over the country in a swift offensive as US forces were exiting. The sprawling complex included an air base that was the linchpin of the US invasion a prison where rights groups allege widespread violations occurred and a residential area that featured swimming pools, cinemas and spas.īut weeks before Washington officially ended its military presence in Afghanistan last August, US troops left the airbase in the dead of night. ![]() |