The sound is completely underwhelming in the new one and some of the tracks are even gone in the remaster. That's not to say that the game doesn't have some advantages, like the graphics which are even better than normal. The whole point of the game was to use your head in defeating the enemies, but now it's just another lovely 90s RTS where you try to OUT CREATE someone instead of using the units you have more effectively which is dog poo poo, frankly. Formations block units from firing a lot, make it take forever for them to move or do 180 degree maneuvers and much more. Defensive positioning with attack move is literally one of the only useful things to do in this game with that entire PORTION of the game. However, the dispositions are useless too. Reasons to have your units in either defensive, offensive or passive style dispositions. There were REASONS to have different formations for different strategies. The original spaced these units out enough for these formations to mean something in the game. The formations break up a group of 20 bombers into 5 bomber formations, so instead of getting one X made with all of the bombers, we now get 4 x's made out of each 5 bomber group. This can be a huge deal in a RTS game where orders are EVERYTHING. Move orders are entirely ignored about 1 out of 12 times. A new person to the series wouldn't really realize that and it totally throws the gameplay off.Ī lot of my commands aren't going to the units correctly either. Now, instead of refueling every 5 minutes, you literally have to watch your units health like a hawk in order to send them back in the middle of fights to repair. Which actually should've been a good thing, had they approached the problem correctly. Well, Gearbox in all of it's genius, decided that this was an aspect of the video game they didn't want in it anymore (I think some of the original developers said the same, as a few work for gearbox now creating homeworld 3) and removed it. With this concept, the ship would start going back to the mothership automatically once it ran out of fuel in order to refuel and get fully repaired. In the original 2 games, fighter style ships and corvette ships would have to refuel after they were out in space after a while. Gearbox also purchased one of the BEST goddamn RTS games set in space of all time, no joking, and decided to change aspects of it. Not too promising, especially when it happens at the end of a level you forgot to save in. I would say it crashed 3 out of 20 times due to a fatal error of some kind. After I started playing it, I realized that there were several crashes once I'd played it nearly 10 different times. Homeworld remastered has almost the entirety of homeworld 1 and 2 (given to us in either "classic" or "remastered versions, so essentially 4 different games, kind of) and adds a few new components skirmish wise (you can now face off Hiigarians and the Original "good" race) as well as a few maps if I am not mistaken. Because if that was the comparison to make here, they wouldn't have given it a thumbs up. theres no way they could've played the original homeworld whatsoever. I looked at the reviews on Steam and after playing the remastered version, I realized something was wrong rather quickly. uh, sort of dissapointing homeworld remastered. A post here caused me to get onto Steam and download the. I have to state, the original Homeworld games were loving amazing. Sorry, the history of this event just isn't the point I'm trying to make here, so we'll move on even though I could be wrong about a lot of what I just said (sorry). Gearbox somewhat recently purchased the Homeworld series (1 and 2, with the exception of cataclysm because the source code was stolen or something) and they're in charge of the development or publishing of the 3rd game. But allow me to digress before you all try to kill me: I hate for these words to come out of my fingertips.
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Students seldom identify a car turning a corner at constant speed as accelerating because their common understanding requires the object to be changing speed for it to be accelerating.Įven senior students regularly confuse ‘acceleration’ and ‘speed’ for example they may think that if speed is increasing then acceleration is also increasing. However, it is much more difficult to determine if an object already moving is changing its speed unless the change is dramatic. Students are familiar with objects accelerating from rest or braking, for example a car speeding up or to a lesser extent slowing down at the traffic lights. Accelerated motion is also a difficult concept for students because it occurs when an object changes It is very difficult to tell with the naked eye if an object is accelerating (for example, a ball flying through the air) and so students do not tend to think of motion in terms of whether it is accelerated or not.
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Duke Energy and Piedmont Natural Gas emergency assistance, outage reporting and other customer service information tableĮlectric customers can text OUT to 57801 to report an outage from a mobile phone. 'People will notice a big difference in me once my eyes turn dead.’Įven though there was no physical evidence, Matthew’s words were damning enough to have him arrested.Īnd despite being only 15, it was decided the crime was so serious, he would be tried as an adult.Īt the trial this year, the prosecution said Matthew, now 18, had been jealous Lee had been spending time with the girl he liked. ‘I know what I’m going to do and I can’t do anything about it.' ‘Take a good look at my eyes the next time we talk cuz that’s the last time ur gna see them like that ever again,’ he wrote. The day before Lee went missing, Matthew had sent more messages to the girl telling her he believed a person’s eyes change when they kill someone. He made it clear he didn’t like her talking to other boys either. I like the sound of it – the idea of causing pain in someone getting in my way or causing me pain.’ ‘It’s all I think about every day but I control myself. ‘I think of killing someone and I smirk,’ it read. Matthew was known for saying sinister things, but did that mean he was actually capable of killing, or was it all talk?īefore Lee had vanished, Matthew had sent a message to a former girlfriend. He told one that he’d chopped his head and hands off so he wouldn’t get caught. Matthew called the group of boys afterwards and said, ‘I killed him. Matthew said he would lure Lee away – and he did.īut the evidence pointed to something more serious happening at the river. Matthew had wanted them to break into Lee’s home and take his PlayStation, belts and some clothes. Investigators started to interview everyone who knew Lee, and some students had a different story about why Matthew had taken Lee to the river that evening.įour of Matthew’s friends said it had been part of a plan to rob Lee.ĬCTV footage of Mathew luring Lee Manuel to his death What police did believe was that it wasn’t a random killing – this was personal. Lee’s hands would never be recovered.Īs well as being decapitated, Lee had been brutally stabbed 76 times.Įxperts struggled to determine whether some wounds took place before or after his final breath. Then he saw an ear, and realised it was a head. He pulled it ashore with a stick, and found it was weighed down with rocks. Later, his head was found by a state trooper who saw a plastic bag bobbing in the river. The corpse had no hands and no head, but a coroner determined it was the body of missing Lee. After two agonising weeks for Lee’s family, who didn’t believe his disappearance was being taken seriously enough, a man walking his dog came across a body on the banks of the Merrimack River. Spain, France, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and the United States produce most of the rest.Įcology – Hazel flowers are an important source of pollen for bees and other pollinators. Italy produces about 20% of world production. About 70% of the world’s hazelnut production comes from the black sea region of northern Turkey. Hazelnut-producing regions of the world are all close to large bodies of water, which moderate the climate. Hazel grows naturally up to altitudes of 700m. They can be found in hedges, meadows and pastures, on the banks of streams, waste places, abandoned plantings, the edges of woods, on steep slopes and by paths and roadsides. As a component of ancient forests they prefer moist lowland soil and are often found growing in the shade of deciduous trees, especially oak. Corylus avellana is native to the Balkans and Asia Minor but is widely naturalised elsewhere.īoth species are pioneer plants found in a range of habitats. Growing range – Corylus avellana is native to western Asia, north Africa and most of Europe, from British Isles eastwards to Russia and the Caucasus, and from central Scandinavia southwards to Turkey. If successfully pollinated and fertilised the female flower will grow to become 1-4 nuts for C. They are tiny individual flowers, visible only as red styles protruding from a green bud-like structure on the same branches as the male flowers.Ī wind pollinated plant, the pollen from the catkins blows to reach the female flowers. Contrary to the wonderful spectacle of the male flowers, female flowers are almost invisible unless you are actively looking for them. Give the catkins a flick in late February to see a small cloud of pollen erupt. There are around 240 male flowers in each catkin and these produce the pollen. The male flowers are held in catkins that form during the previous summer and open in the dead of winter and flower through to early spring. Sexual reproduction – As mentioned above, the plants are monoecious, producing male and female flowers on the same plant. The female flowers are tiny red tassels that emerge from buds on the stems. The male flowers are encased in catkins that brighten up the landscape in the winter. avellana but with young grey twigs, glandular and bristly leaves that are wider, longer catkins and leafy bracts that are tubular and closed, twice the length of the nut. The leafy bracts are shorter than the nut.ĭescription – Corylus maxima – Grows as a large shrub 6m high with a 5m spread. The leaves, that open in late April and May and fall in November, are almost circular with double toothed edges and a short pointed tip. Evidence of large-scale Mesolithic nut processing, some 9,000 years old, was found in Scotland and hazels have been used extensively across the temperate zone throughout all civilizations.ĭescription – Corylus avellana – Grows as a small tree or large shrub commonly reaching heights of 5m with a 5m spread, but sometimes can reach twice that height and takes a tree like form. Humans have been enjoying hazels since prehistoric times and it is thought by some that hazelnuts provided a staple source of food before the days of wheat. History – Pollen counts reveal that Corylus avellana was the first of the temperate deciduous forest trees to immigrate, establish itself and then become abundant in the post glacial period. Latin name – Corylus avellana, Corylus maximaĬommon name – Hazel, Hazelnut, Cobnut, Filbert, Spanish Nut, Pontic Nut, Lombardy Nut The leafy bracts that envelope the nuts are the easiest way of telling them apartĭuring this post we’ll take a close look at these versatile plants, including how and where to grow them, growing them in polycultures, how they can be used in agroforestry systems, coppicing hazel, and we’ll look at some of my favourite hardy productive and disease resistant cultivars that we are offering from our Bionursery. This post we will focus solely on these popular nut producing species. There are 14-18 species in the Corylus genus but many of the European cultivars we have nowadays are Corylus avellana, Corylus maxima or the result of hybrids between these two species. Corylus avellana produce hazelnuts and Corylus maxima produce filberts. The two species produce slightly different shaped nuts and take different growth forms. When we speak of hazel, we are generally referring to two species, Corylus avellana and Corylus maxima. What more can I say… a plant so good people started naming their daughters after it. Hazel is a multi-purpose champion of a plant that is super easy to grow, produces delicious nuts, pliable wood that can be crafted into a variety of products, provides early fodder for bees and an encouraging spectacle when flowering during the mid winter. As a bisexual, I remember lesbians shutting me out, or they’d talk in front of me about going to lesbian night at the bar and they wouldn’t invite me. I didn’t have close queer friends - women, I had gay guy friends - but I didn’t have women friends until like four years ago.īefore that, even in college, I wasn’t that close with other queer women. Raskin: It definitely brought back memories of insecurity and not being able to walk through the world with confidence … it’s a little sad to know that the younger version of your wasn’t as strong as she could have been.ĭoes queerness complicate life after college, or open doors?ĭunn: I took a long time to find a queer community, which I think Gen is struggling with, too. I always joke, “if I didn’t meet Allison, would I be dead?” ĭid writing the book open up any memories you hadn’t thought about in a while? Allison was a little but of an influence toward, “hey maybe this isn’t so great.” And that influence has carried on to today. When we did meet I was very similar to Gen - I was a mess and hooking up with inappropriate people and way more party-heavy. These girls are 22, and Allison and I didn’t meet until Allison was 24 and I was 25. But when you’re younger, you need those connections to bounce things off someone.ĭunn: It’s definitely similar to how our friendship was. As I’ve grown older, I can experience something and not immediately have to call another person and tell them about it. Raskin: Ava’s character is very heavily dependent on Gen in a way that I, at 30 years old, am not. Were there elements you felt strongly about including in the book?ĭunn: The STI storyline is something we really wanted to focus on.ĭunn: I was a journalist, mostly in high school, and I had the experience of not having a lot of queer community around. It makes it more intimate… It gives them room to be more flawed - in a private conversation with your friend, you’re going to be a little darker and a little shittier than if you were saying something publicly. Why write the book as a series of messages?ĭunn: I think part of it is you’re hearing directly from them so they’re unreliable narrators. We maybe should have outlined, but we didn’t! A lot of it was doing things in the moment that made us laugh. For a lot of the book we had a Google doc open and both typed in it.ĭunn: We knew some of the plot points we wanted to hit. We didn’t divide it up by character or anything. Raskin: It’s more standard than you might think. What was your writing process for the book? We jumped ahead to a milestone where friendships can either fade away or get stronger. Raskin: We had a great time with I Hate Everyone but You, and to us it felt like the story of those characters wasn’t over because it was the story of their friendship and their friendship wasn’t over. Variations: Limit the number of guesses each child gets. If there are multiple children then they can take turns looking around and guessing. For a child who has never played, you can start by picking out a secret object in plain view and say, “I Spy something blue” and see if the kid can guess it correctly. I Spy and its variations are wonderful sensory games and activities for young kids to get to know the world around them. Blowing very slowly, a single bubble will start to grow! Can you blow a giant bubble? How long can you hold it for? I Spy Each child then puts the end of the straw straight up and down into the suds so that a layer of soap forms over the end of the straw. Get a plate and straw for each child and put a coin-sized drop of dish soap on it. We typically think of bubbles as an outdoor activity this version can be played indoors. Or enforce an order that they must retrieve them in – first red, then blue, then yellow, then repeat. More variations: You can make it into a full on game by timing how fast kids can find 5 objects of each type. (LEGO Duplos work well.)Īdvanced: Sort by the texture of a surface or type of object, for instance wooden vs plastic vs metal. Try taping down pieces of colored construction paper, then gather objects to match. Start by creating “bins”, which can be as simple as using tape on a level surface.Ĭolors: For younger kids, using colors is the easiest way to start a sorting activity. When a child plays a sorting game, they are analyzing objects, describing and comparing them and engaging in critical thinking. This is another indoor activity for kindergarten readiness that you can easily pull together. Encourage questions and offer clues as needed. Place an item in each box and have your kids take turns guessing what the items are. Making the boxes is part of the fun – have the kids decorate them, just make sure to cut out a child-sized hand hole on the side of the box beforehand. Shoe boxes work well as they can be easily cut with scissors and do not let light through. Start by putting interesting objects into containers that a child must reach into and identify by touch. Train their minds to associate information other than just how the object looks. This is a great indoor game for kids to get them to focus on the sense of touch in a world so focused on the sense of sight. – SENSORY & SORTING FUN GAMES – Sensory play encourages the development of motor skills in children Touch-and-Feel Boxes (This works best with only two children playing for safety reasons.) Fly swatters, plastic spatulas or a wooden spoon could work well for the tennis game, but they aren’t absolutely necessary. String up a divider as a net and see how many times they can volley the balloon over the net without it touching the ground. This may be the most absurdly simple of all the indoor games with friends – blow up some balloons, tell the kids to keep the balloons from touching the floor, and get the party started! Admittedly this can be one of those games that can get a little rambunctious indoors, so move the breakables out of the way. – BALLOON GAMES – Balloons are fun for all ages Keep the Balloon Up As always, these games and activities for kids can truly be enjoyed by anyone who is ready and willing to have fun. Stick with us to the end of the list for indoor games categorized by age. What indoor games did your family love to play growing up, and what indoor games do you play now with your kids? Let us know your favorite games to play in the comments so we can share them! BEAT BOREDOM WITH THESE FUN INDOOR GAMES FOR KIDS – ACTIVITIES FOR ALL AGES! Rainy day blues? Weather not cooperating? Need to stick to a budget and stay in? Bust boredom any day of the year with this huge list of fun indoor games for kids - whether you’re looking for simple games for kids or full scale indoor activities for groups. The Topaz versions are trials, that's a watermark on them that looks weird. I probably should have, but I ran out of steam.įor what its worth, the Topaz version of the original jpg image looks best to me, the purple added by the enhance process ruins those versions. I did not include the image using LR noise reduction. Not too long ago, Topaz was saying, BIG SUR SUPPORT: Adjust AI and Jpeg to Raw AI are still awaiting updates to support Big Sur at this time. Compatibility Architecture: 32 Bit (x86) / 64 Bit (圆4) Latest Version Release Added On: 02nd Jun 2019. The newest versions of Topaz DeNoise AI and Sharpen AI are already fully supported on Apple’s M1 devices. Setup Type: Offline Installer / Full Standalone Setup. Setup File Name: TopazJPEGtoRAWAI2.1.1.rar. Third is the original image treated with Topaz.įorth is the enhanced image treated with Topaz. Software Full Name: Topaz JPEG to RAW AI 2019. I guess they were always there, but not so noticeable. BTW, Enhance really hosed the image with CA's. Second is a jpeg created using Adobe Enhance. Pretty convoluted.įirst is the original jpg made from the original CR3. That was the only way I saw to get 1024 X 1024 comparisons. I also exported the DNG file created by enhance to jpg and ran topaz on that. Then, I exported a 1024 X 1024 jpeg and used that for topaz. I first created the cropped image as a CR3, then used it to run enhance. Since its a very large file, I am showing crops that are the same size. The 24-240 lens did not help the issue, it isn't sharp enough to get full detail, but this is a extreme case. It actually looks very good as a small image, but at 1:1, the detail is very bad. As another extreme test, I took a R5 image that was ISO 51200. Find the Huckleberry Ocean Water Marbles and Snow here at MiniZoo as well as the CollectA Polar Bear and Cub, Narwhal, Walrus, and the Emperor Penguin and Chicks and some Safari Good Luck Minis like the Giant Squid, Squid, Octopus, Jellyfish, Harp Seal, and easily create a fun arctic adventure. Now you can create a sensory experience with water marbles, cotton sand, snow and plenty more for your model animals to play in. We have Dinosaur, Africa, Farm and Sea themes, and they’re perfect for playtime on-the-go.Īnother exciting new addition to the MiniZoo range is our sensory play collection. They are an awesome all-in-one activity, where the pouch unzips to become a playmat scene and the soft animals can be found inside. If you’re shopping for very little ones, then check out the Papoose Felt Pouches. Or simply add the Camping Accessories to any horse and rider combination set like Sarah and Mystery and go on a camping and trail riding adventure. train your horses in fun activities with the Pony Curtain Obstacle, Pony Agility Training, and the Agility Race. Or combine two or three smaller sets together and create a story at home, e.g. While they come with some animals already inside, you could easily add the Schleich Ankylosaurus to your Quad Escape from Velociraptor purchase and truly create some prehistoric adventure playtime by pretending the adult ankylosaur wants to be reunited with its baby. We have our popular large play sets from Schleich which are always well received. Did you know they offer a bunch of horse themed craft and activities? The ‘H is for Horse’ Colouring, Sticker and Activity Book will provide hours of crafting fun alongside your Breyer Activity Suncatcher Unicorn Paint and Play Kit and Breyer Freedom Keep the Peace model rainbow unicorn, or the ‘World of Breyer’ 500 piece puzzle for those looking for a challenge. The Large Soft Latex Triceratops or the Tender Leaf Toys Wooden Dinosaur Pack pairs perfectly with the board book ‘There are 101 Dinosaurs in this Book’.īreyer is always a fan favourite among horse and pony club fans. Or perhaps you have a young dino lover like I do. Maybe you’re buying a Mojo Grizzly Bear and Cub, then add ‘A Book of Bears’ by Katie Viggers. They’re an easy gift to bundle with your model animal purchases. We love our new range of books, so be sure to check them out. We’d suggest grabbing the Modern Monty Australia Snap & Go Fish card game and some Science & Nature Aussie animals including the Penguin, Crocodile, Kookaburra, Cockatoo, Emu, Koala, Wombat, Platypus, Echidna, Bilby, and Kangaroo. Their range includes Snap & Go Fish cards, Memory games, Puzzles and Flash cards, each of which pair well with MiniZoo model animals. Modern Monty is a lovely brand which offers a range of animal games and activities which is beautifully illustrated with whimsical watercolours. But with a number of Tara Treasures play mat themes to choose from, you can make any environment easily. Or if you prefer a smaller scale, and have a magical ocean lover, I’d recommend the Mermaid Cove Play Mat Playscape with the Wild Republic Mermaids Nature Tube and the Safari Coral Reef Toob animals. For farm animal fans, go for the Tara Treasures Large Farm Play Mat Playscape, with some model animals including the CollectA Friesian Cow, Calf, Sheep, Sow, and Rabbit, as well as the Papo Alezan English Thoroughbred, and the Schleich Hen. There are 2 sizes, the larger is perfect for our ‘regular’ sized model animals, while the smaller size works well with our tube animals. We welcomed the wonderful felt products from Tara Treasures to the MiniZoo family this year and if you haven’t already seen them, the play mats are AMAZING. So I’ve got a list here to share with you if you’re wondering where to start. This year we have welcomed a number of new brands and products to enhance your model animal play and they’re perfect for bundling up with your MiniZoo purchases and helping you find the perfect gift combination that makes online Christmas shopping easy while providing hours of awesome animal playtime. Luckily, MiniZoo is home to not just some awesome and realistic mode animal toys, but some fun and educational animal resources including books, games, puzzles, activities and more. It’s November and, I don’t know about you, but this year has flown by, and I am definitely feeling the need to begin sorting Christmas gifts ASAP. The superstar gave a shout out to his dad who was in the audience that night and admitted his attendance makes him a little nervous. Mars says he just wants people to "feel fabulous" when they're at his concerts. It's about giving these people the words." Bruno Mars and Gayle King Hot damn,' – it's one thing, me being arrogant but the truth is, its people singing, 'I'm too hot. "It's just this philosophy that I go by saying every time I get up on that stage, I wanna feel like I deserve to be there. And they spent their hard-earned money for this ticket and I just wanna make sure they leave feeling something," Mars said. sha traduït dacord amb la configuració didioma del navegador. Descobreix i comparteix els millors GIF a Tenor. "I know that people wanna go out and have a good time. El GIF animat perfecte de Bruno Mars 24Karat Magic Throwing Money per a la teva conversa. "I've been to many concerts, but there's something about what you do on stage that I was literally – and this is no joke – dancing out with complete strangers," King said. 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