![]() ![]() Some challenges, side quests / sandbox play or perhaps different endings would have been nice for replay value. Thankfully the story is deeply engaging and keeps you playing until the final outcome is revealed. (I downloaded the game and played it through in one sitting, 3-4 hours of gameplay.) It’s a very passive game as there are no puzzles to solve, you just simply trot along listening to the dialogue. Firewatch follows a red thread and the story is quite short. The forest backdrop reminded me of Assassins Creed III, yet AC III felt so much more alive with all the wildlife. In fact, with the exception of a few birds you never encounter a living thing throughout the game. While the game environments are dramatic and rendered beautifully with dynamic weather effects, walking through the forest felt a bit dull after a while as there is no sign of any wild life. The game has an original setting and story, complete with gorgeous graphics. I really enjoyed playing Firewatch on a Macbook 2013 with an xbox360 gamepad. Programming by Will Armstrong (Bioshock II), Ben Burbank (Costume Quest 2, Space Base DF-9), and Paolo Surricchio (Deadpool, Call of Duty Advanced Warfare).Gameplay scripting and design work by Patrick Ewing (Twitter) and Nels Anderson (Mark of the Ninja).Fluid first-person animation by James Benson (Ori & The Blind Forest). ![]() I decided to take apart Firewatch and give meaning to its cont.
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![]() He makes his own mixes and the flavors are not what you'll find anyplace else. The Dairylanders make incredible burgers – some of the best in town – but modern custard master Kurt Fogle's frozen treats are the best. Housemade frozen custard, ice cream and sausages, sold from a deli case or cooked for a great quick lunch on the go.ĭairyland Old-Fashioned Frozen Custard & Hamburgersģrd Street Market Hall, 275 W. Sure, there's a giant bird on the catering truck and the name says chicken, but Champion Chicken serves frozen custard, too. Order your favorite smooth and creamy custard then enjoy it outside during the summer. Living up to its name, the burgers and the custard servings at this West Allis place just across from State Fair Park are ginormous.īubba's Frozen Custard, Jumbo Burgers & Red Hotsġ276 Capitol Dr., Pewaukee, (262) 695-8189 This Greek family restaurant also offers frozen custard in Menomonee Falls.ġ440 S. This custard stop, located in historic downtown Burlington serves fresh custard in a variety of flavors daily.īest known for flipping some of the best burgers in town, AJ Bombers also dishes up frozen custard. But here is a list of some of the city's best-loved custard shops, in case you've missed a few on your quest for the cold, creamy comfort in a cone.ĥ72 Bridge St., Burlington (262) 763-8562 We're not going to tell you which custard stand is the best because it is clearly a matter of taste. ![]() And because it gets to your mouth before being refrozen, unlike ice cream, custard is creamier and softer. But hey, what's the point of livin' if you can't enjoy custard every now and again.Īlthough it looks a lot like ice cream to an outsider, custard is made from cream and egg yolks and has considerably less air (overrun) added than ice cream, which makes it more dense. This, of course, may go a long way toward explaining our waistlines. It may be Brew City, but custard is no small matter in Milwaukee, where everyone has his or her own favorite custard stand. ![]() ![]() The more I delve into linux, the more I wish I'd bought more of my software for the mac platform. If it runs well in 3d, I'll probably never go back to windows native booting. I'm going to try out my AC10 in VMWare player within a few days, on SUSE v11.0 64bit running winXPsp2 32bit image. ![]() I've not tried OSX or anything yet (I only have AC for x86, so it would just be for fun). I've read about that one can virtualize any OS, esp running VMware or similar from a BSD distro. I stopped trying 3d apps some time ago simply as the performance was lacking, but for everything else it's fine or even better than native windows booting, IMHO. I find it's a simpler solution than system restore: when something goes awry, I simple return to a snapshot or the original image file. I've been using my winXP as an image for some time now (maybe this is the way to run windows for the future more and more!) on my SUSE partition. For that alone I hope MS sinks with concrete shoes on. But Ubuntu is FREE so no more license issues or paying a firm that tried to pass Vista on it's customer base and developers. this time 2009 will see virtualization THE SOLUTION to less than premium OS's of the past, without the need for end users to upgrade or change their old software if they don't want to.īy the way, so far everything runs quite fast, as a ghost OS within Ubutu or SUSE. ![]() No need for direct BSD or any linux code for AC anymore- within a year the coders will have ironed out the 3d issues with FPS and speed I imagine. That way, it is irrelevant if an app like AC uses windows API's. I think it will run fine, with the exception of the 3d window- which undoubtably will be significantly slower, even with a x9xx GeForce card. I'm using SUSE and Ubuntu 8.04 right now, and I'll probably try VMWare-ing (sorta/similar to like Wine) my current OS to run it in a virtual machine as a guest OS inside my SUSE or Ubuntu. ![]() ![]() It is also the best application for game developers as well the graphic designers to enhance their productivity.Īn intuitive user interface is there to improve the understanding of the application, providing an advanced set of powerful tools and loads of wonderful features such as texture modeling and pipeline support. It contains a powerful set of 3D modeling tools for creating eye-catching scenes with different visual effects to give a realistic look to the models. V-Ray5 for 3ds Max 2022 enhances the functionality of the 3Ds Max and makes it even more appropriate application for 3D modeling. One of the best 3D modeling tools is 3Ds Max supporting numerous plugins and bundles to enhance the workflow.
![]() ![]() Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It can run on a PC with Windows 11 or Windows 10. Download and installation of this PC software is free and 7.0 is the latest version last time we checked. PotPlayer is provided under a freeware license on Windows from video players with no restrictions on usage. Subtitle Support: Displays subtitles from multiple sources with adjustable font and color.Skins: Personalize the player with a variety of skins available for download.Playlist Editor: Create and save playlists for easy organization of media files.Picture-in-Picture: View multiple videos in different sizes at the same time.Multi-format Playback: Support for Blu-ray, DVD, AVI, MP4, WMV, MKV and over 50 other media formats.GPU Acceleration: Utilize GPU hardware acceleration to speed up video and audio decoding and playback.Customizable Interface: Change the color and style of the interface to match personal preferences.Capture Capabilities: Record video, audio and screenshots with ease.Built-in Codecs: No need to download additional codecs for different media formats.Broadcast Streaming: Stream video content over the Internet with built-in broadcasting capabilities.Bookmarks: Save and access bookmarks at any time to jump to favorite scenes.Audio Effects: Utilize advanced audio effects such as Karaoke and Voice Removal. ![]() Audio Control: Fine-tune audio output with built-in equalizer and reverb settings.Advanced Video: Ability to set brightness, contrast and saturation, as well as video frameskip and sound synchronization.3D Support: Experience 3D videos with a variety of 3D modes and watching movies on different devices.In the end, if you're looking for an alternative to programs like GOM or VLC Media Player, this media player fits in nicely and generally exceeds expectations. PotPlayer is fully customizable and allows users to view any type of subtitle format. Another thing which this video player does it remembers where you last stopped on a movie, allowing you to continue watching something which was interrupted. Not only does PotPlayer include support for most types of multimedia types, but it also manages to play them back without a huge effect on CPU or memory usage. Regardless of quality or size, PotPlayer manages to play it back on your PC without worrying about which codecs or codec packs you may have installed. PotPlayer is one of those video players which includes a lot of functionality that one doesn't usually expect.Īs a video player, PotPlayer is somewhat useful, includes many features and plays virtually any type of media file that you want to chuck at it. Interesting and intuitive media player supporting all of the popular video and multimedia codecs and formats. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the weeks or hours before labor, you may feel your baby has dropped lower, which might cause a lighter feeling as any pressure on your diaphragm or lungs is released-this is where the word “lightening” comes from. Your baby dropping down is a natural process and means that your little one is settling deeper into your pelvis in preparation for delivery. Our Contraction Tracking Chart below is a useful resource to have when labor starts:įeeling your baby drop is a signal that labor is near and your new arrival is on the horizon. If you think labor has started and you’re experiencing contractions, you may want to time them. Your experience may also depend on whether this is your first pregnancy or a subsequent one, and how low you were carrying your baby throughout your pregnancy. Remember, every pregnancy is unique, and you may or may not detect some or any of the signs and symptoms of your baby dropping. Increased pressure on your bladder, which may cause frequent urination or some leaking of urineĮasier breathing due to decreased pressure on your lungs and diaphragmįeeling more kicks and movements from your baby below the belly button (as opposed to all over the abdomen)Ī change in your center of gravity-you may feel slightly off balanceĪ change in your posture or in the shape and size of your bump-your pregnant belly may look lower like it has dropped, or tilt forward more If you’re wondering what it feels like when your baby drops, or what a dropped belly looks like, below are some signs and symptoms of lightening to look out for: What ways does your baby or toddler engage in destructive play? Can you see the benefits of what they are doing? Always remember to provide age-appropriate toys and supervise their play.While some pregnant people experience very few or no signs that their baby has dropped, others may have clear indications.
![]() ![]() It’s a story that not a lot of people know. “She was pleased we had taken the time to tell Ulric’s story. His 87-year-old wife, Anne, who is also portrayed in the film, saw it at a special screening in Lewes, England, where she lives.“She liked it, she thought it was great,” Ms Solomon said. Mr Cross’s son, Richard Finch, will be here to open the festival. His family is pleased that his story has been recorded for posterity. I had to understand the whole history of all those countries that was engaging and interesting from an audience point of view, but also showed the impact and importance of this man, of this time.”Mr Cross was 96 when he died in Trinidad on October 4, 2013. I had to come up with a way of telling a story that was one man’s story, but also tell a second story. “It was a very long time, partly because I’ve never seen a story like that before - one that tells the story of the Caribbean. “I began working on it in 2011 and finished it last year,” the film-maker said. These appropriations of form are essential where conventional documentation does not exist.”With so many paths to explore, the film was several years in the making. Since ‘real’ footage does not exist, we must reimagine the past in order to reclaim it for posterity. “These artistic tools are vital in order to reclaim and ?nally tell the authentic tales of our heroic Caribbean leaders, forefathers and ancestors. Its aim however, isn’t to spew the “familiar narratives of slavery and victimhood” but to instead champion “heroic agency”.“This story interweaves ‘reality’ with ‘arti?cial’ media ,” it reads. And I thought that was a very interesting story.”As described in her director’s statement, Hero straddles the three points of the triangular trade - Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. It felt very much like, let’s go and create freedom in Africa. And then when Apartheid was abolished, all over the world there was a call from South Africa for educated black people to come and help with the transformation process. ![]() “Really, it’s about the way the whole world came together to try to support the African liberation movement in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Mr Cross’s tale opened the door to the “hitherto untold story of those Caribbean professionals who helped to liberate Africa from colonialism”.“I began to realise what a big story it was,” she said. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force, ultimately becoming the most decorated West Indian airman of the Second World War, and then joined the Pan-African independence movement.It put him on “a dramatically different course”, one that was completely in line with Ms Solomon’s “life mission” as a director, producer, distributor and curator - to express the “intimate voices and larger political roles” played by people from the Caribbean throughout history. Mr Cross, a lawyer, left Trinidad for England in 1941 “to seek his fortune”. So I got involved to help my mom, initially.”Early research got her interested. She had a successful career with the BBC before she moved to Toronto, and launched her own company, CaribbeanTales Media Group, in 2001.“A family friend approached my mother and said that he wanted her to make sure a film was made of Ulric - that was his way of saying, ‘Get Frances-Anne to make a film’. ![]() It opens the Bermuda International Film Festival on March 20.“The story came to me through a family friend,” said Ms Solomon, an award-winning film-maker born in England to Trinidadian parents. ![]() Interesting story: actors Peter Williams, left, and Nickolai Salcedo in a scene from Hero, which opens the Bermuda International Film Festival (Photograph supplied)įrances-Anne Solomon did not know Ulric Cross’s story but.the request to make a film about him came from her mother.And so she started on a quest which ultimately led to Hero. ![]() ![]() ![]() Texturally these ones are awful, being the driest and most rubbery of all the nuggets and quasi-nuggets we sampled. The more I look at them, the more convinced I become that they’re actually the chain’s chicken tenders, just cut into pieces, which does them no favors. They arrive from your carhop as big, irregular pieces that look either like multiple pieces of popcorn chicken fused together, or chunks or chicken tenders that have been chopped up at random. “Jumbo popcorn chicken” is an amusing oxymoron, given that taking popcorn chicken and making them “jumbo” would seemingly just produce “chicken nuggets,” but whatever you want to call these guys they’re pretty terrible. You take one bite and then wish you had better nuggets. It ultimately makes them the least interesting nugget to eat of the whole bunch, because there’s no crunch, no real meat, and nothing to engage your interest. A 90-year-old with no teeth would have no trouble gumming these down. It is so soft and spongy, it becomes the absolute pablum of chicken nuggets. The flavor actually isn’t terrible, as the nugget is decently seasoned on the exterior, but there’s just nothing going on inside. Many nuggets favor a similarly spongy texture, including the progenitor McNuggets, but never is it so insipid and artificial seeming as it is here. The breading is a fairly plain, salt-and-black-pepper affair, but the spongy interior dominates one’s attention. These nuggets are uniquely soft and flabby-the polar opposite of crispy-with a texture that feels like it was rendered via gentle cooking for hours under the twinkling lightbulb of an Easy Bake Oven. Of course this is all extremely appropriate for BK, who we have long labeled the saddest chain in fast food by far. Even if they made them free with every purchase, we’d still pitch them out. It is telling that Burger King routinely runs promotions where they give these things away at the rate of 10 for $1, and evidence of just how few people must want to eat them. Here are the actual best fast food chicken nuggets, as determined by Paste’s tasting, ranked from worst to best. Along the way we suffered through some bad nuggets, and confirmed a few that are classics of the genre. To that end, we rounded up every major fast food chain’s chicken nuggets that were available to us, and did a proper tasting, weighing the pros and cons of each. Given that the arrival of Popeyes’ new nuggets will no doubt reignite feverish internet debate on whose fast food chicken is best, we thought this was the perfect time to truly get empirical in terms of providing an answer. Others such as KFC have blurred the lines over the years with “popcorn” chicken, which is close enough that you almost have to lump it in with the true “nuggets” of the world.Įdit: KFC has also now made the jump to a more traditional nuggets, replacing their popcorn chicken, and we’ve updated this list. Many chicken chains, such as Zaxby’s or Raising Cane’s, don’t actually serve nuggets at all, instead focusing entirely on bone-in chicken or tenders. “Didn’t Popeyes already have nuggets?” you may be understandably asking, but the answer is no-true “nuggets” are actually not quite as common as you might expect. Building off the success and hype of its insanely popular chicken sandwich, which sparked the phenomenon now fondly recalled as the “chicken sandwich wars” back in 2019, the company made the next logical step-double down on hype with a new breed of nuggets. After a confounding waiting period, Popeyes has finally unleashed its new chicken nuggets on the U.S., promising a fast food poultry landscape that will never be the same again. ![]() ![]() ![]() The following are not included in a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)-certified group:ġ. 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![]() ![]() However, that’s not very mathematical, and in fact sometimes eyeballing If A-values don’t get less likely as we move away from the We just saw that drawing the histogram can sometimes give us a pretty How in general do we tell when we’ve got one? Well, Not every data set centered on some mean has a In the random distribution, there’s no particular peak. Notice that in the normal distribution the peak is roughly at the mean hist ( y, 25, normed = 1, facecolor = 'blue', alpha = 0.5 ) plt. set_title ( 'Random' ) n2, bins2, patches2 = axes. hist ( x, 25, normed = 1, facecolor = 'c', alpha = 0.5 ) axes. set_title ( 'Normal' ) n, bins, patches = axes. Import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import scipy.stats as stats fig, axes = plt. That I did with x except that instead of using randn, I used Points over so that instead of being centered around 0 they are areĬentered around 80. ![]() Written with the Greek letter ) and that just shifts all my The numbers will change but many of theįinally I add mu (which = 80 mu stands for mean, often It’s like a change of units (movingįrom feet to inches). The standardĭeviation is just a scaling number. The key intuition is what you’ve just seen. We’ll define it more precisely below (it’s not exactly the averageĭistance from the mean, but it can be helpful for a beginner to think of Sigma, but you’ll most often see it written with the Greek letter Spread (roughly, average distance from the mean) has a technical name. Normal distribution, just one that’s spread out more. Point is that multiplying all the data points by 5 still gives me a The number sigma, or amount of spread, is one way in which a normalĭistribution can vary. We’ll compare the basic data sets using a Let’s create two samples, one from a bell curve kind of distribution and First, let’s get a littleĬlearer about exactly what kind of clustering around a mean we’re We’ll do some practical examples shortly. This sounds like something that has to be true (“Most people areĪverage”), but as we shall see, that is far from the case. Picture then represents the idea that most things hover around the mean. Mean rapidly reduces the proportion of population with that A-value. The mean value for both higher and lower A-values, moving away from the ![]() Point is at 0 that is, the most likely A-value for a student to have is The bell shape comes from this: The highest Population has A-values in the neighborhood of that point. Of a point on the curve reflects roughly what proportion of the Represent A-values, ordered from lowest A-value to highest. Other bell-curved distributions that are not normal distributions. Is descriptive, but it needs to be used with caution, because there are Here the shape of the curve is roughly that of a bell, leading to yetĪnother name for this kind of distribution, the “bell curve”. How many members of the population have it, normal distributions lookįrom scipy import stats import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import pylab import numpy as np % matplotlib inline pylab. When you plot how close to the mean a measurement is versus Probability distribution called a normal distribution (also called a Often this pattern turns put to be describable with a kind of ![]() Proportion of the population that has an A-value around v. And theįurther away from that mean an A-value v gets, the smaller the Many cases, the A-values will cluster around some mean value. We’ll call the values you get by measuring A A-values. Value, so A can be something like height, or number of computers owned, Students, and to be concrete let’s choose A so that it has a numerical Suppose you wish to measure some attribute A for a population of Machinery and results of (mathematical) statistics which apply to Make its analysis easier, more precise or more accurate, and all the Results of such procedures,ways of planning the gathering of data to Procedures for analyzing data, techniques for interpreting the ![]() |
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