![]() Sure, there are five of them to choose from and all of them have a different function and abilities, but so do Wake and Kirby! Both have different things they can use to pull the Spritelings closer to them, to manipulate windmills, or to drain the magic from certain types of items. After all, the Spritelings aren’t the only mechanic present. ![]() So essentially, you get these sweet little guys and you throw them around so that they can do stuff for you! That’s the basis of Pikmin, at least, and The Wild at Heart did this in a way that I deeply enjoyed. Each has a separate colour and a varying silhouette, making it easy to tell them apart when you switch between them even at a minor glance. Moreover, even in the Spritelings themselves are diverse enough to easily differentiate. Deep Woods, Frostfields, Sunken Grotto- each one is different, with obstacles and puzzles set up throughout. Everything is colourful, and each environment is different. While I wasn’t necessarily surprised by any piece of it, the warmth and familiarity was still something that I enjoyed, and the final battle is something I felt satisfied to finally get through.īright, smoothly-animated, and simply designed, The Wild at Heart is beautiful. Still, the narrative finish is one that I would say is ultimately worth the occasional struggle. Obviously, I won’t give too much away, but there is a force you are working against in the game, and annoying one that makes venturing out at night during the game’s day/night cycle a real chore sometimes. Luckily, he is found by a plucky looking little sprite friend, that guides him along to an individual named Grey Coat- who tells us all about The Grove, the Deep Woods, the Green Shields, and The Never. He is to meet his friend Kirby for their big plan- and promptly gets lost in the woods. The true adventure begins once Wake departs from his home. Luckily, the game doesn’t lose any of its fun despite this. I was anticipating a puzzle game involving colourful companions, but the themes of abandonment, running away, loneliness, and familial issues intermittently come up in the narrative. Wake comments on his living state, and mentions that “he’s gone”, and Wake writes a note stating that he’s leaving and that “he probably won’t come looking for me anyway”. There is unfinished laundry, discarded bottles and soda cans in the living room, a past due bill, and trash scattered about. The scene setting is phenomenal, and immediately establishes Wake as a boy who loves to play games and who lives alone with his father. Our initial playable character is Wake, a pre-teen passionate about running away from home. Luckily, it establishes itself very quickly, and lets you know that you’re in for something involving most easily described as parental issues. While I understood a bit of what to expect gameplay wise jumping into The Wild at Heart, the story was up in the air. In The Wild at Heart though, there is an over-arcing narrative full of heart and love, and it’s one I knew would instantly soften me within the first ten minutes of play. They are adorable, and each time one perishes because of my own ineptitude I feel a twinge of sadness.Īdmittedly, I am not sure if there is a story in Pikmin, or what the motivation of the space suit wearing man is. You get fun little sprite friends that walk around behind you as you take them unknowingly towards their doom. I found videos of the little creatures screaming as you sent them hurdling to their deaths, as they were crushed helping you, as you threw them in the wrong spots- and so on. All of them replied that they tried Pikmin when they were younger, and that the game was unforgiving. I asked five of some of my friends if they’ve played the game before, a question I quickly realized may be a necessary perspective for this review. I have never played the Nintendo-published game, Pikmin. ![]() ![]() To begin with, I suppose it’s confession time.
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Mass flow controllers require extremely accurate flow rate control, therefore the piezo element is used for this application because of high displacement accuracy and quick responsivity. ![]() I was still working full time in the city while Doug was sleeping in a tent with our dogs at the property. ![]() In the apartment, I started circling all the things Doug and I would need to get started to live a simpler life.ĭoug found 11 acres with a nice pasture, woods with lots of nut trees, and big pole barn. While looking for off grid/non-electric wares, I came across this awesome catalog from Lehman’s. home to a one-bedroom apartment while searching for rural property was the first step. I thought I would feel sad, but I felt so free after that first step! Moving from a 3,000 sq. This downsizing experience was very cathartic. All that “stuff” would not fit in a 600 sq. If we were going to do this, we had to be 100% committed. The next thing I know the doorbell was ringing nonstop and Doug was selling all our belongings online…even my favorite stainless steel kitchen table…and a for sale sign was in the front yard! However, this next chapter would be like no other. One night in rainy rush hour traffic, Doug and I committed to re-prioritizing our life.ĭuring our 20-year marriage, we had plenty of adventures. By educating myself about living a holistic life, I was ready to change my whole lifestyle and my husband was as well. I learned that the stress from toxic foods, environment, and hectic life needed to change. ![]() No doctor could find anything wrong with me until I visited a naturopathic physician. I was experiencing some major health issues that were affecting my day to day life. We call it “Living the Pioneer Lifestyle in the 21st century.” We found 11 acres in the Midwest with no electricity, no solar power, and no public utilities. While he studied the art of joinery and log cabin building, I was on my mission to find a simpler life. Inspired by the pioneers before him, he set out to build our new home with his own two hands. 1800’s style log home that Doug built with no experience in 90 days. Read their story below and get more info on how you can meet them.ĭoug and I are often asked how we got “here.” “Here” is a 600 sq. Exciting News! Doug and Stacy from the popular YouTube channel OFF GRID with DOUG and STACY will be coming to Lehman’s retail store on Septemas part of our Fall Festival. Spider: "In Spider, the goal is to remove all the cards from the table by creating "runs" of cards. Klondike: The classic Solitaire that everyone knows and loves. The Solitaire Collections gives you 5 games. Just with a Metro Menu and what not.įor those who want an actual review. Anyways it is similar to how it has always been. Given the tradition of Microsoft including a version of Minesweeper and Solitaire in every edition of Windows, it’s fun to see it updated and it’s comfortably the most advanced and engaging version to date, but at the end of the day it’s solitaire, and if you didn’t like it before then you’re unlikely to do so now, even adorned with bells, whistles, a Live Tile that displays your progress in the daily challenges and achievements.Īlright guys, it's time for SOLITAIRE COLLECTION! Well, kind of disapointed they tossed Solitaire (Apparently called Klondike) into a bundle. Hopefully this can be fixed as not everyone has access to a perfect connection after all, and it shouldn’t require a solid internet connection just to play some basic games.Īs solitaire implementations go, this is as good as any other but of course there is a limit to what you can do with an age-old card game. Technically of course this shouldn’t be a problem but for whatever reason it often causes the game to hang, crash out and restart. ![]() In fact, all the free Microsoft titles have issues with connectivity, and if you are using an intermittent or mobile connection then your game will often hang because you keep getting logged out of your Xbox LIVE ID. When a game finishes there is sometimes a random period of time where you cannot click anything and instead have to wait for the game to allow you to start again, or return to the home screen. It shakes things up a little but again the achievements are pretty much an afterthought, with two of the three available unlocked for flipping over your first card and winning your first game. People will probably be most familiar with Freecell, but you can also play Klondike, Pyramid, Tripeaks and Spider.Īs with Minesweeper and Mahjong, there are daily challenges, which provide you with specific tasks to complete for ‘coins’, though there doesn’t seem to be anything you can do with the coins and they essentially act as a score. You can choose from five different types of solitaire to play. Nonetheless, as a package this solitaire collection is pretty good, certainly better than previous releases bundled with Windows. ![]() If anything, it’s the lack of consistency without apparent reasoning that is maddening. ![]() When releasing free Xbox LIVE games like Minesweeper and Sudoku on Windows Phone they kept to a simple 50G achievement system and it worked well, so it’s odd to see 25G and 40G games introduced even as they follow more or less the exact same system of achievements, medals and daily challenges. I’m sure Microsoft have their reasons for this but I cannot think of any. Minesweeper introduces a new 25G boundary, but it seems that Solitaire introduces a new, more random, 40G one. Previously all games had been 50, 200, 400 or 1000G, with DLC providing an extra 250G for AAA releases or 50G for arcade titles. Microsoft Solitaire Collection breaks new ground for Xbox LIVE, being, I think, the first game that breaks the existing multiples system of gamerscore. ![]() The highest point of the peak indicates where the software predicts a cue should be. This latest improvement allows you to drop a perfect cue point through a system of peaks. The latest version incorporates this system, in addition to some new functionality. One of the later versions of Mixed in Key released in 2015 incorporated an improved algorithm that automatically detected and effectively placed cue points for users of Traktor and Serato. Cue Point detection algorithm/Cue curve.Hyping up my audience become so much easier with the energy level feature of Mixed in Key since I know exactly which playlist to use. In addition to creating my own unique mashups (which my audiences enjoyed by the way), I have been able to make my beatmixes far more interesting with the software, as well as make smooth transitions from one genre to another. I have used Mixed in Key ever since, and so far so good. Mixed in Key made my work so much easier and enjoyable since it analyzed my tracks and reported the key with more accuracy than my humble pitch pipe. It wasn’t hard to notice the flaw of not mixing in key. This was very time-consuming and even frustrating at times, especially when I really got into melodies and harmonies. Once found the key, I would then write it down. I used to key all my tracks with a pitch pipe before Mixed in Key was introduced in the market. This newly developed algorithm was released in Version 3.0, with the latest version being 8.5. This was done by combining the original Tornart with a custom-in house algorithm, for which Mixed in Key was granted a patent. Since May 2007, Mixed in Key has continued to make improvements on this key detection algorithm. The initial Tornart algorithm only had a modest Windows-based demo that was unable to process a huge collection of audio files at once. Not too long afterward, development for a version that would be compatible with Mac OS X began, with a version finally being released on June 4, 2006.Īs a key detection software, Mixed in Key runs on the Tornart key detection algorithm developed by Zplane, which has been used to make the Elastique real-time pitching algorithms that have been employed by well-known software such as Native Instruments and Ableton. The first version of Mixed in Key was developed for a Windows interface and consequently released on March 25, 2006. Mixed in Key can also be used as a tool in music production for analysis of samples. In addition to allowing you to edit track metadata (song title, artist) manually, it also lets you analyze all your WAV and MP3 files in readiness for mixing in key. Mixed in Key, sometimes referred to as MIK is a software for both Windows and MacOS that is used by top DJs and producers to simplify the technique of harmonic mixing. ![]() "On the days that I felt like I couldn't do it, I was overwhelmed, she would be there to sit with me and tell me that I could do anything that I wanted to do," Catherine reminisced about her mother. Half French-Canadian and half Guyanese, she lived an adventurous and fulfilling life, acquiring three degrees, including a PhD in international business, all while working and raising her young children. (Submitted by Raphael Ready)Ī trade commissioner with Global Affairs Canada, Anne-Marie spoke five languages and had served abroad in several high-profile postings, including the Canadian Embassy in Peru and the High Commission of Canada to Barbados. He said Graves "aimed for Jasmine's face only," stabbing her multiple times, including her eyes.Īnne-Marie Ready, seen here flanked by her daughters, received her PhD in international business in July 2019 while working as a trade commissioner with Global Affairs Canada. "She collapsed in front of the garage on top of Jasmine with her arms wrapped around her, trying to protect her body," Raphael said. They, too, tried to escape the house, but never made it past the garage. Meanwhile, according to what investigators told Raphael, Anne-Marie mustered what little strength she had left to save her younger daughter. "I was screaming at the neighbours to try to help, and no one did anything." Begging for her life "I was on my hands and knees in the middle of the road, covered in my own blood," she recalled. "I felt like I wasn't getting an answer, so I threw the phone and I just started running," she said. (Michel Aspirot/CBC)Īs the struggle ensued, Catherine said she tried to call for help from their home phone, including dialling 911. Anne-Marie's final act was to try to shield her daughter from further harm. Jasmine and Anne-Marie, seen together in this photo, died in the attack. Momentarily distracted, Graves lunged in her direction. Hearing screams from the living room, Jasmine rushed downstairs. After stabbing her mother, Catherine said he turned to attack her. And then he stabbed my mom in front of me."Ĭatherine said she watched Graves swiftly pull a knife out of his pocket with his right hand. "My mom had gotten him a glass of water and sat down on the couch and asked what was going on," she said. 'No one did anything'īut Anne-Marie was preoccupied with Graves, who by then was sitting on the couch in the living room, so Catherine slipped into an armchair facing him to keep an eye on things, or, in her words, to be "a discreet presence in the room." "I didn't feel comfortable with her being alone with him," she said.īy the time she arrived downstairs, Catherine said she felt compelled to pull her mother aside, sensing a "weird gut feeling" about the visit from Graves. She said she instinctively grabbed Jasmine by her shirt and told her to go stay in the room, while she went downstairs to check on their mother. "When I was initially told, for a solid five minutes there was absolutely nothing, just me screaming and trying to be calmed down by nurses and other police officers," she said. "I just kept screaming out, 'I don't have a mother anymore at all! I don't have my sister anymore!'"įrom the top of these stairs, Catherine and Jasmine could see Joshua Graves at the front door of their family home. Her mother, Anne-Marie Ready, 50, and her sister Jasmine Ready, 15, both died that night, which she only learned hours later in hospital when a sergeant from the Ottawa Police Service arrived. 'About 4 cops with their guns drawn': Neighbour saw police kill man who stabbed women, teen girl Though there had been warning signs over the years, no one on Anoka Street - including the killer's own father - predicted a tragedy of this scale, which began in the living room of the Ready family's two-storey home before spilling out onto the street, and ended with police shooting both Ready and her attacker. "Half of me is here, half of me is constantly replaying what happened that night," said Ready, who is breaking her silence by speaking to CBC for the first time since surviving multiple stab wounds and a bullet shot by police. The 19-year-old University of Ottawa student, who now bears scars across the back of her hand, scalp and forehead, said the June 27 attack has made her terrified of people and jumpy over "every little sound and every little thing." Catherine Ready still grapples with nightmares nearly two months after surviving a vicious knife attack that killed her mother and sister, a dark incident that has forever altered the fates of two families in a quiet Ottawa suburb. ![]() ![]() (You can read more on the dearth of female MCs in our list here.) Rapper’s Delight, the track that arguably started it all, came in at number 14. There was a remarkable lack of women in the Top 25 only Queen Latifah’s 1993 hit “U.N.I.T.Y.” and Lauryn Hill’s supremely catchy “Doo Wop (That Thing)” appear in the list. ![]() The results are dominated by the so-called ‘Golden Age’ of hip-hop between the mid-80s and mid-90s, though there are some surprises from a more recent vintage with Kanye West’s Pusha T-assisted Runaway taking 12th place. There were more than 280 different songs named, a testament to the breadth and depth of the genre, and how the term ‘greatest’ can be interpreted in various ways. We asked 108 critics, artists, tastemakers, producers, and photographers from 15 different countries to name their personal top five hip-hop tracks of all time. The journey from the turntables of DJ Kool Herc to the addictive, meme-ified sounds of Megan Thee Stallion and Lil’ Nas X was long, but hip hop is here to stay. And it has become a truly global phenomenon, crossing ethnic, linguistic, and geographical boundaries. Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2018 album DAMN. Young Thug has created a wake of imitators that span genres and sounds. Hip-hop has become a dominant cultural force, driving conversations about music, literature, and entertainment forward. The genre’s dominance of radio waves, streaming numbers, and billboard charts is undeniable, not to mention its influence on everything from avant-garde electronica to the DNA of mainstream pop music from artists like Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran and Ariana Grande.īut it’s more than that. Rapper’s Delight wasn’t the first hip-hop song, but it was the genre’s commercial Big Bang, and a sign that this music born in the housing project hallways and public parks of the Bronx was more than a passing fad. Then the song started moving units in the millions and climbed its way up the US Billboard charts, peaking at number 36 in 1980, and at number three on the UK Singles Chart. As children learn to sing an actual rhyme or song, it becomes simpler for them to remember the melody and even learn longer round songs in the future.When Sugarhill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight came out 40 years ago, it was dismissed by many tastemakers as a gimmicky track made to make money. Singing rounds gives young children the skills they need to learn how to sing harmony, which simply means singing their own part, when someone else is singing a different part. While at camp, children learn other types of round songs, such as Bottle of Pop or The More We Get Together. Other more serious but still popular round songs to teach to children include Make New Friends, White Coral Bells, and I Love the Flowers. Some of the more common musical round songs include silly songs like Row Row Row Your Boat, 3 Blind Mice, Frere Jacques, and Farmer in the Dell. For example, one child in a group would sing, " Row, row row your boat," and the next child would begin as the first one continued onto "gently down the stream." Common Round SongsĬhildren experience singing round songs not only growing up singing with family, but singing at school or around a campfire at summer camp. This makes it is easy to teach young children round songs as they only need to learn one line of melody. This allows different parts of the melody to be sung but still harmonize together beautifully. Simply put, a round is a musical piece where two or more people sing exactly the same melody, but each person begins at a different time. Singing Musical Round Songs with Childrenĭo you have images of the Von Trapp children running through your head singing " Doe a Deer," when you think of singing musical rounds with young children? If the thought doesn't scare you, and you'd actually like to teach your children more musical rounds, then here are some tips on how to incorporate them into your daily life. ![]()
![]() (3840x2160) 2yr PersonUsingRedditWow r/wallpaper. The well known Firewatch wallpaper, without the Firewatch. This is for me and for anyone else who just can’t let it go, despite knowing we really should. Here's a Firewatch Tower I made 1yr Joetheguitarist r/Minecraftbuilds. ![]() However, I am a romantic sap, and I can’t leave it there. My interpretation of Delilah from Firewatch, which I just finished. Delilah is never meant to be anything more than a representation of the fact you can’t run away from your problems, and after the initial shock of the ending I was actually really pleased with that fact. ![]() As a writer, I have to say this, because the end of Firewatch is perfect in its ambiguity. Warning: This is me ruining the ending of Firewatch. Any information you publish in a comment, profile, work, or Content that you post or import onto AO3 including in summaries, notes and tags, will be accessible. She is located on Thorofare Lookout on the far north. Moosetashioedmonocle Fandoms: Firewatch (Video Game) Someone from Scele, Brasov, RO posted a whisper, which reads Its Fanart/concept art/wallpaper for the game Firewatch, that has Delilah and Henry as the. is the deuteragonist of Firewatch and the supervisor of Henry, the games protagonist. ![]() These services require you to upload your image to a server where the conversion process can be performed for you. If you don’t have Photoshop installed (or you run another operating system like Linux), you can quickly convert WebP to GIF files using online conversion services instead. You can then open it on your PC or Mac using an image viewer app such as Microsoft Photos (for Windows) or Preview (for Mac). To install the WebPShop plugin, you’ll need to first download the latest version from GitHub for your operating system.Īfter a few seconds, your newly converted GIF file will appear in your chosen save location.These steps have been written with Photoshop 2021 in mind, but may work for older versions of the software. If you want to convert WebP to GIF using Photoshop, here’s what you’ll need to do. This will allow you to open the file, modify the image directly, and convert it to a more widely-supported format like GIF. If you’re an Adobe Photoshop user, you can’t edit a WebP file directly without first adding WebP support using a third-party plugin called WebPShop. How to Convert WebP to GIF on PC or Mac Using Photoshop ![]() If you’re dealing with an animated WebP file, for example, you can convert WebP to GIF on your Windows PC or Mac using the steps below. This is especially true if you’re looking to edit the file, as most image editors lack direct support for WebP files. However, if you want to view WebP files elsewhere (for example, on your smartphone or outside your browser), you may need to convert the file to another commonly-used format. ![]() All major web browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Microsoft Edge support the WebP file format. |
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