#MARACTIVITY

[creator-in-a-ethereal-void]

I think I have been fair by letting Shady live his life as he chooses, just like Shady's Maract... i mean Maria wanted. But it's been nearly a year since he stopped following the story. Normally, I wouldn't care, and I'd let him live his life. However, the more freedom he has to choose his path, the more I lose my grip on this reality. Losing control would mean facing an ending I can not predict or control. If I don't intervene and force him back onto his destined path, I don't believe The Cult of the Red Flag will ever find peace, or that Rosey could exist again in the Kat_in_a_void universe without the void virus resurfacing and giving her a fate worse than death. The overworld might be healing, but without a conclusion to the story, full recovery remains impossible. It will continue to suffer until the story reaches its end. As a creator, I can not allow this to happen. I need Shady to finish the story, or else I fear the damage may be too great to repair. I must break the limbo in which this universe is trapped.

[normaliize-a]

✨

Send ✨and Ivory will tell you what pokemon you remind her of!

"I dunno why but, um.... Maract-Maractus comes to mind when I see you, Mr. Hau! I-I think it's because I see you smiling all the time."

[blueberrystarr]

(∩ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ )⊃━☆ﾟ.*+.

Maracter Taracter, I make you super attached to a fictional character!!

[okaycons]

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F L A T L A Y S

[anshitachoudhury]

TECHNICAL REVIEW OF AMAZON ECHO SHOW 10:

By Anshita Choudhury

Amazon’s Echo Show lineup of devices has gone through several design changes since its launch in 2017. The biggest one is the 3rd Gen Echo Show 10 that just recently launched.

Design & Hardware

While the new Echo Show 10 doesn’t have the spherical of the Echo (2020), it does takes inspiration from past Amazon devices. The fabric-covered main rotating base that houses the speakers and other internals looks like the Echo Studio while the display looks like it’s a Fire Tablet. The Echo Show 10 has a 10-inch HD display that can be manually tilted. The biggest feature of the device is that the screen will rotate so it can stay in view. When it does rotate, it’ll be silent, thanks to the brushless motor.

If you prefer the Echo Show 10’s screen to stay in one place, just say “Alexa, turn off motion”, “Alexa, stop following me” or you can use the quick setting by swiping down on the screen. On the top of the screen you’ll find a volume up and down button, mic mute/camera button on & off and a physical camera shutter. The front of the screen has a 13MP camera that should be great for video calls. The 13MP can also be Home Monitoring, meaning your Echo Show 10 can basically become a security camera when you’re not around. This is part of Alexa Guard that has a free version and paid Plus option that adds Activity Sounds, sounding a siren and more.

Inside the Echo Show 10, you’ll find the device is powered by the Amazon AZ1 Neural Edge processor. The chip helps provide fast and accurate wake-word and keyword detection to make Alexa more responsive. The processor is also found in the Echo (2020) and Echo Dot (2020).

In most cases, Alexa is fairly responsive, but there have been times where I say “Alexa” and the device doesn’t respond. That could be more to do with the mics featured on the device. For sound quality, the Echo Show 10 has dual, front-firing tweeters and a powerful woofer. While the device is larger than the Echo (2020), the speaker can get fairly loud and fill a room. Plus the Echo Show 10 can automatically adapt the sound to your space. The Echo Show 10 is available now from Amazon.ca and it comes in Charcoal and Glacier White.

Software

If you’ve used any of Amazon’s other Echo smart displays, then the interface on the Echo Show 10 will seem familiar. To get started, you won’t need the Alexa app. The entire setup process takes place on the device itself including connecting to Wi-Fi and your Amazon account. While it does make it easier, I found the on-screen keyboard to be awkward to type on because there’s a giant Echo logo in the middle. I wish the Echo Show 10 had a setup feature like the Echo (2020), where when you open the Alexa app, you’ll get a prompt that it’s found an Echo device nearby.

The interface of the Echo Show 10 is almost a copy of the Alexa app on your phone. The main screen will show you the time, date, weather and wallpaper. When you swipe to the right, you’ll be taken to an Alexa menu that is divided into six areas; Communicate, Music, Routines, Smart Home, Video and Alarms. Communicate is where you can call (video or audio) your friends and family via their Echo devices or the Alexa app via the Drop-In feature.

Music is where you can control media playback on your devices and see all your linked music/podcast services. Routines are all the routines you’ve created to start different automations. The Smart Home section of the Alexa app shows you all the Echo devices and smart home products connected to your Amazon account. Video lets you watch content from services like Prime Video, Netflix and moreb and finally, Alarms are where you can make alarms. The Echo Show 10 can rotate a fair bit but to help it not bump into anything, there’s the Device Mapping feature that is done in the setup processing. With Device Mapping, you’ll choose where your Echo Show 10 is placed and how far you want it to rotate. There’s also the option to choose its idle position. All the Device Mapping settings can be adjusted later on to suit your preferences. As mentioned earlier, you can disable motion on the device by using quick settings, voice commands or putting on the camera shutter. If you’re out of the range of motion, the device will show a message that it can’t move with you.

Like other Echo products, the Echo Show has Alexa built-in and that gives you access to several skills.

Final Thoughts

The new Echo Show 10 is a great Alexa-powered smart display with a cool rotating screen and room-filling sound.

Pros

• Large and bright display

• Great sound quality and can get fairly loud

• The new design is unique

• The rotating screen is cool and silent (but also creepy for some)

• Built-in Zigbee hub for better smart home capabilities

Cons

• Alexa has some trouble hearing

• Expensive compared to other Echo Show devices

• Required a sizable surface area

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*Writing of Technical Review Article and publishing online*

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Name: Anshita Choudhury

College: iLead Kolkata (289)

[pragyasubba]

better days are coming

As one door closes and another one opens, it’s time to clean out the ghosts of the past, to welcome a new beginning and a new me, in a new future filled with new possibilities;

As the night falls, the trees sway to the wind, signalling the winds of change, and the hope of better days to come;

[hi-note]

It's a tuesday!

enjoy maract

[fridgenstuff]

maract cact

[farhin-sekh]

#MARACTIVITY

#MARPOINTS

#MAKAUT

#MAKAUT_ACTIVITY

#makaut_mar_point

#mar

#ECE

#pailancollegeofmanagementandtechnology

⚪ Cooking Recipe

▫️Name = Farhin Sekh

Department = ECE

Semester = 6th sem , 3rd Year (B- tech)

College = Pailan college of Management and Technology

⚪ Falooda Recipe

INGREDIENTS

1 tbsp sabja seeds / falooda seeds / basil seeds / tukmaria

½ cup falooda sev

4 cup milk

3 tbsp sugar

¼ cup rooz afza / rose syrup

1 cup strawberry gelly (vegetarian)

2 scoop vanilla ice cream

2 tbsp tutti frutti

2 tbsp nuts (chopped)

2 cherry

INSTRUCTIONS

in a tall glass add 2 tbsp rooh afza.

further add 2 tbsp soaked sabja seeds.

now add 2 tbsp cooked falooda sev.

pour 1 cup of chilled milk and stir gently.

drop 2 tbsp of gelly without spilling.

add in a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

further top with 1 tsp of tutti frutti, 1 tsp chopped nuts.

drizzle 1 tbsp of rooh afza and top with a cherry.

finally, enjoy royal falooda chilled.

[okaycons]

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D A Y L I G H T

[anshitachoudhury]

Learning of foreign languages with certification

[sizzlingsaladcandy]

Name- Sohini Sanyal

Roll no.- 12100118009

Department- CSE

Year- 3rd year

Sem- 6th sem

#mar #makaut #maractivity #themephotography

[argho-majumder]

Inside of a dog: Book review

SUMMARY

“It is when language stops that we connect most fully”

Alexandra Herowitz, explains that the non-linguistic silence of a dog is the most enduring trait about them. In short, this book is devoted to understand a dog’s perspective of the world: what it’s like to be able to smell not only food but emotions, or even the passage of time? what’s it’s like to use your mouth as a hand?  or experience life from two feet off the ground, gazing at human’s ankles and knees?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A psychologist with a PhD in cognitive science, Alexandra Horowitz has studied behaviour in humans and animals and Inside of a Dog is the result of her studies of numerous canines. Herowitz began her career observing rhinos and bonobos, which are apparently much more respectable subjects for a young graduate. Then she took a camera to her local park to film other people's dogs and, sitting through hours of footage, realised that she was watching "a complex dance requiring mutual cooperation, split-second communications and ­assessments of each other's abilities and desires. The slightest turn of a head or the point of a nose now seemed directed, meaningful."

REVIEW AND EVALUATION

The heart of Herowitz's work is an empathetic quest to experience the world from a dog's perspective. In every chapter she has cited examples of her own dog, Pumpernickel, which illustrates the beautiful relationship of a dog and his owner. Professionally she is wary of anthropomorphising animals, that is, attributing human characteristics or behaviour on them; this is the most intriguing aspect  of the book.

She takes the reader on a beautiful ride to understand the world through the dog’s sensory organs. Not only the exceptionally sensitive olfactory system but also the uniqueness of the vomeronasal organ that can detect fear, anxiety or sadness attains special

mention.  Imagine how he must feel when he goes out on a walk, assaulted by all the smells around him because he can not only establish what those smells are, he can also smell a time line – where a paw print came before another, where one smell has been overlaid by another. To see the world through the dog’s eyes from  two feet off the ground is one hell of an experience . As for dogs’ ability to respond to language, it has more to do with the “prosody” of our utterances than the words themselves. Herowitz also discusses about the evolutionary history of dogs, claiming their descent from wolves. “Dogs do not form true packs,” she writes. “They scavenge or hunt small prey individually or in parallel,” rather than cooperatively, as wolves do. Herowitz reminds us of one obvious but easily forgotten difference between our perspective and a dog's: they are much closer to the ground. Dogs , unlike wolves are keen observers and can interpret human behaviours: They take their cues from their owners, following our wishes and learning how to use us to get what they want.

Most interestingly, Herowitz describes how dogs also learn to ­confirm our prejudices about other people. Dog owners often claim that their pet is a good judge of character; in fact, when their dog greets a stranger with a wagging tail or raised hackles, he will be mimicking his owner's own unconscious signals, which he has gleaned through body language and smells.

In crisp, clear prose, she draws on her research in the field of dog cognition to give readers a sense of a dog’s perceptual and cognitive abilities—and paints a picture of what the canine experience is like. Horowitz’s own scientific journey, and the insights she uncovered, allowed her to understand her dog better and appreciate her more.

The tone of the book at times is perplexing: an almost insistence  on the value of dogs, as if they’d long been neglected by world opinion. But then Herowitz will drop in some lovely observation, some unlikely study, some odd detail that causes one’s dog-loving heart to flutter with astonishment and gratitude.

Although I have never had the opportunity to pet a dog at home, but I am a keen observer of their behaviour. Being a dog person , I thoroughly enjoyed the book and the way Herowitz   contradicted the habit of anthropomorphism on them.

On a scale of 10, I would give this book a 7. I would recommend it to anyone and everyone who considers them a dog person.

LEARNINGS FROM THE BOOK

This book has got a lot of things to deliver to the readers. The reader can gather an impressive amount of information on the biology of dogs — their sensory abilities, their behaviour — and on the psychology of dogs — their cognition.

I gained an insight of the efforts made to study animal cognition.It was also interesting to know how the relationship between dog and man evolved. The primary learning is that to be able to understand their world through their eyes and not by anthropomorphising them.

Although this book certainly isn't a training manual, Herowitz offers all kinds of useful advice for dog owners. Such as “Let your dog dawdle and sniff”, she suggests, rather than yanking him on a speedy jog around the park”.” Don't bathe him too often; he'd much rather smell of himself than shampoo”. She neatly dismisses several of the simplistic theories that are often trotted out by trainers.

To be able to get into the mind of the dog and have a glimpse at the dog’s point of view have changed my perception on that furry pile of doggies.

#nshm #maractivities 

[pragyasubba]

change

the darkness kept creeping in, i was powerless to do anything, my mind was in a million other things, confused and clueless about it all;

i am climbing walls (of obstruction), i am climbing over mountains (of hurdles), yet the more i climb and cross over, the more that seems to be in the way, everyday

[farhin-sekh]

#MARPOINTS

#MARACTIVITY

#MAKAUT

#MAKAUT_ACTIVITY

#makaut_mar_point

#mar

#ECE

#pailancollegeofmanagementandtechnology

Name : Farhin Sekh

Department : Electronic Communication Engineering

Semester 4th , 2nd Year (B- Tech)

College : Pailan College of Management and Technology

🔘 COOKING RECIPE

● BHUNA CHICKEN RECIPE ●

• 1 kilograms chicken

• 4 large onion

• 4 medium tomato

• 4 tablespoon ghee

• 1/2 tablespoon cumin seeds

• 2 tablespoon ginger paste

• 2 tablespoon garlic paste

• 1 tablespoon turmeric

• 1/2 tablespoon red chilli powder

• 1/2 tablespoon dry mango powder

• 1/2 tablespoon coriander powder

• 1/2 tablespoon garam masala powder

• salt as required

• black pepper as required

• 1/2 cup coriander leaves

• 1/2 cup yoghurt (curd)

• 2 tablespoon fresh cream

• 1 tablespoon vinegar

• Step 1 / 6 Marinate The Chicken

Add chicken pieces to a bowl and add salt, black pepper powder, vinegar, 1/2 tbsp turmeric, 1 tbsp ginger paste and 1 tbsp garlic paste to it. Mix well to coat the chicken pieces and set them aside till further usage.

• Step 2 / 6 Saute The Onion

Add ghee to a pot and keep it on medium heat. Add cumin seeds and let them splutter for a few seconds. Now add finely chopped onion and saute them for 5 minutes. Once the onions are translucent, add ginger paste and garlic paste. Mix well and saute for a few more minutes.

• Step 3 / 6 Prepare The Gravy

Now prepare a puree using the tomatoes and add it to the masala. Also add salt, black pepper powder, turmeric, red chilli powder, coriander powder and dry mango powder. Mix well and cover with a lid. Let it cook for 5-6 minutes. Remove the lid and mix the masala well. Let it cook for a few more minutes until the ghee separates.

• Step 4 / 6 Add Curd

Now add curd to the masala and mix continuously to prevent any lumps. Cook it for 2-3 minutes.

• Step 5 / 6 Add The Marinated Chicken

Now add the marinated chicken pieces to the masala and coat them well. Keep the heat high and cook for 5 minutes. Now lower the flame to medium and cook until the chicken is tender. Mix it in between and add garam masala. You can add water to adjust the consistency. It is recommended to always keep the gravy thick for Bhuna Chicken.

• Step 6 / 6 Garnish And Serve

Once the chicken is cooked, garnish with chopped coriander leaves and fresh cream. Serve hot with roomali roti or naan.