6/30/2023 0 Comments Star wars creatures![]() ![]() Once the four-legged design was approved, concept artist Terryl Whitlatch developed a hand-drawn walk cycle to demonstrate to ILM animators how the animal should move. The original concept sketches of the fambaa were two-legged dinosaur-like creatures, lacking forelimbs like their kaadu cousins. ĭuring the Galactic Civil War, Senior Captain Thrawn of the Imperial Navy, tasked a experienced spacer to kill an adult fambaa for him, then retrieve a vial blood sample in order for Thrawn to conduct a scientific experiment. The beast was abandoned to the Ohnaka Gang when Preigo and the other performers fled a Jedi rescue mission. Around that time, Preigo's Traveling World of Wonder had a fambaa as part of the performance. ![]() In Abafar, they were used as meat in a dish known as Fambaa Delight. ĭuring their Clone Wars insurgency, the Onderon rebels used fambaas to hold heavy artillery. During that battle, the fambaa-mounted shield generator protected the Grand Army until the generators were destroyed by battle droids. ![]() They were subsequently released by the Gungan Grand Army and outfitted for use in the the Gungan's diversionary battle. During the Trade Federation occupation of Naboo in 32 BBY, the fambaas were placed in Camp Six. They were also mounted with large booma cannons. In times of war, fambaas were used to carry portable deflector shield generators for protecting their Gungan masters. The fambaa had been domesticated by Gungans for millennia as beasts of burden and cavalry/artillery draft beasts. Their only known predators were sando aqua monsters breaching the surface of the swamp waters from the abyssal ocean beneath. The young hatched with moist skin and gills, and upon maturity, the gills disappeared and their skin hardened. Females laid large numbers of sticky, gelatinous eggs, which they deposited in puddles and underwater. There were also special fambaa stables contained inside the underwater hydrostatic bubble-enclosed cities for the domesticated breeds kept by Gungans. In the wild, fambaas traveled in herds of up to twelve, but formed breeding herds of hundreds of family units that were so large they were traditionally put to pasture in sacred swampy areas. They also foraged for underwater plants, breathing underwater and swimming with ease. They obtained food by easily knocking over trees to get at leaves and berries. You lost your master, and I lost my Jedi." ― Hondo Ohnaka to Preigo's fambaa įambaas were large non-sentient amphibians native to the Gungan swamps of the planet Naboo, as well as Onderon. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Veeam backup services![]() ![]() The amount of data stored in Extraordinary's backup repository will be measured daily and each month the average of the daily data storage usage levels will be invoiced for. Many service providers around the globe use Veeam technologies to power their services, for IAAS data protection, managed backup services, disaster recovery and. The Veeam Office 365 Backup costs are based on a per-GB price for the amount of data stored in Extraordinary's backup repository, plus a flat monthly fee per Office 365 user.
6/30/2023 0 Comments Mac supaview![]() ![]() I have a friend that uses DaisyDisk regularly on his Mac (with a faster processor) with a 500 GB disk (188 GB in use) that reportedly scanned his disk in 10 seconds. Scanning my disk took 14 seconds - that’s hard to complain about. I have 121 GB flash storage on my Mac with about 100 GB in use. As you can see, this contrasts greatly to the standard Mac storage graphic. ![]() Featuresįirst, if you haven’t seen DaisyDisk before, let’s take a moment to appreciate how attractive the interface is as this is one of it’s most popular features. DaisyDisk found a way to make the process more colorful, interactive, and gratifying. The standard storage management on the MacBook provides you with one bar for visualizing what takes up your space and then just lists everything you have when you go in to manage it.įor me, approaching storage management this way always felt tedious and made me a little nervous that I might delete something useful. Navigating and using DaisyDisk feels intuitive, it's easy and you really don’t need to read any instructions to figure out how to use it. ![]() This is advantageous in many ways because oftentimes users don’t even know where to begin when faced with the dilemma of a full disk. I have found a huge upside of this app to be the visible perspective it provides you with on all of the out of sight, out of mind files and applications that you have on your Mac. I’ve been using DaisyDisk on my MacBook Pro running macOS Big Sur for the majority of this year. This app has simplified the process of identifying large files and removing them with ease in a visually satisfying manner. DaisyDisk was developed to assist Mac users in optimizing their current disk space in a way that is safe, fast, and easy. Running out of disk space is nothing short of a nuisance and finding ways to create space isn’t always easy. It is a one time payment utility that will pretty much never outlive its use on your Mac. It is interactive, easy to use, and allows you to preview your files before making any decisions on what to delete. DaisyDisk provides Mac users with a colorful visual representation of their disk space. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Laser tag tampa![]() ![]() There are lots of places to have parties. If you want to have a party at a place where the business is concerned about everyone having fun the entire time, I would choose another venue. I told him this was not the case, and he just kept saying that is what always happens. I called the manager, who completely did not care that this had happened and told me that my child had probably broken a lot of rules and been warned a lot. My problem is that this place makes no effort to enforce their rules fairly. I understand a place needs rules (and I am a fan of rules myself), but it is unfair for there to be no warnings and only one child singled out to be kicked out of a party. My daughter was the slowest in the group, got caught and kicked out. ALL of the children were running (if you have children, you know that young children get excited and forget the rules and my child happens to be forgetful about a lot of things). They announced that NO warning would be given, if you break a rule, you get kicked out. If you want to trust that your child will be treated fairly and have fun at a party or an outing, I would keep looking. If I could rate this establishment, lower I would. It is not safe there.ĭO NOT GO TO THIS PLACE - THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND CHILDREN. Their are other laser tag businesses that you will not get bullied at. I hope all parents think twice before they spend their hard earned money going to this business. He did not pay me all the money and did not apologize once for how things had been handled the first time. I asked for my money back and basically was told that just to get us out of there he would pay me back. This made me even more upset as had we not already tried this once. The manager said I am not in the mood to deal with this tonight and his solution to the problem was to separate us. The gun hit hi in the eye when someone ran into hi with the gun first. One of my sons also had an eye injury because they don't enforce the rules of not running. ![]() If they do not obey the rules how are other people to be held accountable? I believe rules are their to keep people safe. The staff say the rules before the game but as soon as the head manager left, a couple of the staff played and were doing everything the rules tell you not to do with this guy greg like touching each other with their guns and wrestling. They threw my son out for punching the guy when he did not even touch him. When this greg started saying things under his breath so the so called chaperon-es would not hear my son made a gesture like he was going to punch the guy if he did not back off. They still let him in the game and sent someone to chaperon all of us. I told the kid running the game that we would really appreciate it if he kept the guy out of our game because we did not want things to get worse and wanted to have a good time which I had paid over 125 to have. As his behavior escalated we even tried to switch groups so we would not be in the same game. ![]() I tried to handle things first by bringing it up to one staff member that we were uncomfortable by gregs behavior because he was being confrontational during this friendly game with young children. "friend of the staff-oh you mean greg" when we first complained about this man and ultimately having my son kicked out because he stuck up for himself while being verbally abused and cornered by greg. ![]() What started out to be a great time ended in our family being first bullied by a After a long absence because of busy schedules we decided to bring my nieces there again while they were visiting from Texas. I have been going to this business since my children were 6 years old and it has been such a great time that we would bring our family and friends their over the years. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Delta airlines ontime performance![]() ![]() Not having an extra car enter and exit the track also makes using the VSC a little safer than using an actual safety car. The advantage of using the VSC over an actual safety car is that the VSC can be activated right away since there's no need to wait for an actual safety car to enter the track. If the lap time for the VSC was for the whole track and not for the individual sections of the track, you might have drivers driving as fast as they could for most of the lap and just slowing down right at the end. Recording lap times like this helps maintain distance between the drivers and helps prevent drivers from taking advantage of the VSC. Tracks are divided into sections, and each section of the track has a minimum time limit that the driver has to meet. While the VSC is active, drivers have to keep their speed low to ensure that they meet a minimum lap time. When the VSC is activated, drivers are alerted via the digital displays on the side of the race track and by a display on their steering wheels. The VSC works by having a predetermined lap time for each track, which is about 30% slower than the average lap time for each track as determined by the FIA. However, it's not always practical to bring out the safety car for every incident that might require the drivers to slow down. The safety car is used during a race to slow the race cars down during incidents where there could be a safety risk from driving at speed. The VSC was first implemented in 2015, as an alternative to the traditional safety car. If you're not familiar with the VSC, let's take a minute to explain how it works, as this might help you understand delta time a little better. Occasionally, delta is also used in Formula 1 to refer to changes in performance between two different types of tires. Teams use delta time in a race because it makes it a little bit easier to communicate quickly whether or not a driver is above or below the pre-determined lap time. In practice, however, it's most common to hear delta time being used when the Virtual Safety Car (VSC) is active. ![]() ![]() The term delta time can be used in a variety of contexts it might be used to refer to a target time during qualifying, or a rival's lap time. As you can probably guess, it's very rare for a delta zero to ever occur during a race. If a driver's lap time is exactly the length of the pre-determined lap time, that's referred to as "delta zero". Depending on whether the driver is above or below the pre-determined lap time, the driver's lap time might be referred to as "delta positive" or "delta negative", respectively. In Formula 1, the term "delta time" refers to the difference between a driver's current lap time and a pre-determined lap time. In general, "delta" is a term used by engineers, mathematicians, and scientists to refer to a change in quantity compared to a reference quantity. Today, we'll be explaining everything you should know about delta time in Formula 1, including why this term is used and what it can refer to in different contexts. This usually happens during situations where the virtual safety car is activated. If you hear this, it means the drivers are being instructed to drive slower than a pre-defined lap time. One of the terms you might encounter during a race is "delta positive". If you're not extremely familiar with the world of Formula 1, you could totally be forgiven for not knowing what these terms mean. There's a lot of technical jargon used during a Formula 1 Grand Prix, and it's sometimes a little tricky to keep up with all the terms being used. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Bjcp 2015 beersmith![]() ![]()
6/30/2023 0 Comments 2 person hot tub plug and play![]() ![]() If you are looking for a quiet hot tub, this The functions of the hot tub are easy to use as theĭigital control panel can be operated without getting out of the hot tub. You can sit comfortably in the hot tub as there is ample It isĮasy to control the jets for flow, pressure, and direction to focus on specificĪreas of the body. In the hot tub to provide maximum hydrotherapy benefits to the users. This hot tub comes with 28 jets that are fixed Triangle Spa – Perfect Hydrotherapy Plug and Play Tub for Two People Another exciting feature of this hot tub is the built-in music player with pop-up LED speakers.Ĥ) American Spas AM-628TS 2-Person 28-Jet Users can also adjust the force of the jets as per their requirements to ensure ideal pressure according to user comfort. There are sixteen jets installed in the hot tub at specific points for added hydrotherapy benefits. With an Ozonator, there is no need to add too many chemicals in the hot tub to clean the water. There is an Ozonator installed in the hot tub that keeps the water fresh and clean. The modern design of this cabinet looks great in any backyard or patio. There is no need for any additional electrical setup, and you can plug the hot tub into the existing electrical supply. The hot tub offers excellent value for money by bringing a fantastic set of features in a small package. This hot tub is a plug and play unit that has ample space for two people. – Two Person Plug and Play Hot Tub with Exciting Features The 1.5 horsepower pump moves the water powerfully through the hot tub so that you can relax in hot water.ģ) Yukon Plug and Play 2-Person 16-Jet Hot Tub Sixteen jets in the hot tub are situated in the ideal position for the maximum hydrotherapy benefits. The hot tub comes with a digital control panel so that you can change the water temperature, lights, and jets without getting out of the hot tub. If you are in the market for a high-quality hot tub that sits two people and doesn’t require additional electrical fittings, this hot tub fits the bill. The hot tub has built-in seating for added comfort, and there are LED lights, an Ozonator, and a cover included with the hot tub. ![]() ![]() This hot tub from QCA Spas has 190 gallons of water capacity, and it comes with an exciting range of features. Tub – A Durable Plug and Play 2 Person Hot Tub
6/30/2023 0 Comments Used accordion![]() The accordion's basic form is believed to have been invented in Berlin, in 1822, by Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann, although one instrument has been recently discovered that appears to have been built earlier. History Įight-key bisonoric diatonic accordion (c. These names refer to the type of accordion patented by Cyrill Demian, which concerned "automatically coupled chords on the bass side". Today, native versions of the name accordion are more common. The oldest name for this group of instruments is harmonika, from the Greek harmonikos code: ell promoted to code: el, meaning "harmonic, musical". Many conservatories in Europe have classical accordion departments. The piano accordion is the official city instrument of San Francisco, California, United States. Additionally, the accordion is used in cajun, zydeco, jazz, and klezmer music, and in both solo and orchestral performances of classical music. In Europe and North America, some popular music acts also make use of the instrument. In some countries (for example: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Panama) it is used in popular music (for example: chamamé in Argentina gaucho, forró, and sertanejo in Brazil vallenato in Colombia merengue in the Dominican Republic and norteño in Mexico), whereas in other regions (such as Europe, North America, and other countries in South America) it tends to be more used for dance-pop and folk music. The accordion is widely spread across the world because of the waves of migration from Europe to the Americas and other regions. Valves on opposing reeds of each note are used to make the instrument's reeds sound louder without air leaking from each reed block. These vibrate to produce sound inside the body. The accordion is played by compressing or expanding the bellows while pressing buttons or keys, causing pallets to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel, called reeds. The harmonium and American reed organ are in the same family, but are typically larger than an accordion and sit on a surface or the floor. melody dualism, tries to make it less pronounced. The harmoneon is also related and, while having the descant vs. The concertina and bandoneon do not have the melody–accompaniment duality. Other instruments in this family include the concertina, harmonica, and bandoneon. ![]() The accordion belongs to the free-reed aerophone family. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist. The musician normally plays the melody on buttons or keys on the right-hand side (referred to as the manual), and the accompaniment on bass or pre-set chord buttons on the left-hand side. The essential characteristic of the accordion is to combine in one instrument a melody section, also called the diskant, usually on the right-hand manual, with an accompaniment or Basso continuo functionality on the left-hand. Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon code: deu promoted to code: de, from Akkord code: deu promoted to code: de -"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame). ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Mac compress images![]() There is a great service called TinyPNG that does exactly that: “PNG and JPEG compression with a perfect balance in quality and file size” The technical marketers solution: Automate the process! You can compress images with minimal effects on the quality As our phones get better resolutions the images need to keep up and their size increases quite a bit.īut there is one really easy thing that you can do – and most people forget. One of the big reasons for larger websites are images. You can configure the settings and then compress lots of files in one go.Although data-plans are becoming bigger and bigger the size of a webpage still matters – according to many sources the page load time drastically affects all your important KPIs (most importantly your conversion rate). The one disadvantage of Squoosh is that it only works on one image at a time. It has a lot of configuration options for those that want to tweak the results, but the default settings work fine. Squoosh is the best image compression utility because it produces the smallest file sizes while maintaining the image quality. Original file: 3.7 MB | Squoosh: 1.2 MB The winner is… This is by far the best image compression utility and is recommended. The resulting image quality is as good as the alternatives, but the file size is much smaller. It can be dragged left and right to preview the quality after adjusting the compression settings. The best feature is the vertical bar that shows the original image on one side and the compressed image on the other. The resize option is useful as it saves you having to use a photo editor for the task. Images can be rotated, resized and the colour palette can be reduced. I often use screenshots with small text and like to increase it to 80% to sharpen the text a little, but otherwise the default is fine. The quality slider defaults to 75% and this works for most images. You can simply click the download button after dropping a photo on it, but unlike all the other utilities on test, there are a lot of settings you can customize. ![]() Using Squoosh is easy and you just drag a photo from a Finder window and drop it on the browser. I looked at Squoosh in a previous article. Google wants a faster web and because images are often the cause of slow websites, it has made an image compression service available online called Squoosh. ![]() Original file: 3.7 MB | ImageOptim: 1.4 MB Apple Preview You must remember to make copies of your photos in a separate folder before adding them to ImageOptim. One flaw in the app is that overwrites the original file without warning. Once you know what works, you can use them every time. The results are great if you don’t mind experimenting with the settings to find the best. Even greater savings could be produced with a lower JPEG compression setting, but then the image quality might suffer.Īt the settings I chose, the compressed image was indistinguishable from the original. The result was pretty good compression and it beat WeCompress and Compressor.io by producing a smaller file. I left the compression on the default 80% but bumped up the optimization to Insane level. In addition to this, there is an optimization slider with Fast, Normal, Extra and Insane settings. There are also PNG and GIF compression settings too. For example, the JPEG compression setting can be set anywhere between 50 and 99%. ImageOptim is a free utility for people that want to bulk process images and customize the compression settings. The differences between an original image and a compressed image half the size is not noticeable to many people. It is surprising how much information can be discarded from a photo before it becomes noticeable and you could shrink an image by half and it still looks the same at a glance. Here are five ways to compress images without losing any of the quality, or at least not obvious visible quality. If you have a MacBook with a small drive, you may want to save space by shrinking images. It will make your website faster, emails send quicker, and more images can be carried on a thumbdrive. Photos should be optimized and this means shrinking the file size and perhaps the dimensions in pixels too. The images produced by the latest devices can be huge, both in terms of pixel dimensions and also file size. ![]() If you carry images on a thumb drive, email them, share them online or post them to your website, you should avoid doing so with the originals from your digital camera or phone. Whether you just want to save space on the Mac’s drive or optimize the images on your website for speed, here are five utilities and web services to compress photos and shrink file sizes. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Invisible fence for dogs wireless![]() Contact us for a free consultation and an estimate for your property. The cost varies based on which system is right for you, the number of pets, the size of the property, how many sidewalk and driveway cuts, if you want internal “garden loops”, etc. The cost for a DogWatch Hidden Fence is almost always much less than traditional fencing. We will develop a plan to meet the specific training needs of your pet(s). After the initial training, your dog goes through a training session with you for a few minutes each day for about two weeks. We will initiate the training and provide instructions and support so you can complete and reinforce the training. After training, most dogs do not cross the hidden boundary they usually stop before the warning signal to avoid the correction. Your pet also learns that if he continues beyond the flags and warning alert, he will receive a mild correction (a stimulation from the collar). As your pet learns, the flags are slowly taken away. ![]() With training, the dog remembers the placement of the flags and associates the flags with the warning signal. The training includes teaching your pet to recognize the containment area boundaries through a combination of voice commands, audible warning signals from the receiver collar and visual flags that are set in the yard where the pet hears the warning alert. After we install the hidden fence, we work with you to train your pet. Training is an important part of the process. We also have “wireless” indoor units that do not require placement of a boundary wire. Contact your local DogWatch Dealer to discuss your options. With an indoor system, the hidden wire runs around your couch, under the lip of the counter, around the trash or across a doorway or wherever you need to create either a containment area or an “off-limits” area. Although there are differences in some of the product features, this is how all hidden fences work (DogWatch®, Invisible Fence® and other radio fence brands.) Through a training program, your pet learns to recognize his fence boundaries and learns to stop at the warning signal. If your pet travels further, he will receive a mild but safe stimulation (also called a “correction”) from the receiver collar. As your pet approaches the buried wire, the receiver collar emits a warning signal (audible or vibration). Your pet wears a lightweight, waterproof receiver collar that recognizes the radio signal. ![]() The buried wire carries a harmless, low level radio signal from a transmitter installed in your house or garage. ![]() Hidden fences are created by burying a ‘boundary wire’ a few inches underground around your property. ![]() |