![]() Reader and (hopefully) actually useful rather than mere gimmicks. That said, it's becoming clearer to us which of our ideas are uniquely possible in The dust settle before deciding what direction to go next. The generative AI space has been moving so quickly that we've been letting Ghostreader is our "copilot of reading" spin on GPT-3/LLMs. ![]() Well as lower the bar of difficulty on both. Search v2 will unify full-text search and query-based filtering as Butįrom a user perspective, they want to be combined into a single search box. From a technical perspective, these features run on completely different architectures, which is why they're currently distinct. Have offline search that operates on the full-text of any document, and we have client-side filtering that operates on the metadata of anyĭocument. If you look in the Notebook section of the webĪpp, you can see we've already started to implement highlight management there and this is just the beginning. Lot of highlight actions that are much more natural alongside the original document in Reader. Recently, we've been deferring most highlight-specific capability to what we've already built with Readwise 1.0. Speaking of which, Jesse is just now finishing up his design and UX so we can prepare pagination for an upcoming dev cycle. This is the kind ofįeature that excites us because it gives us an opportunity to push the established boundaries of digital reading. We're not particularly opinionated as to which mode is better,īut we do know that many folks prefer to read longform with pagination because it provides a clearer sense of spatial awareness. Refers to reading a document one page at a time rather than continuous scroll. Artem previously led PDFs, but Mati is probably going to take this project over in the short-term so that we can divide and conquer. Little things like next page & previous page buttons, "snapshotting"Ĭapability, embedded highlights for downloading the PDF file, and so on. Next phase of PDFs in Reader is a mishmash of smallish upgrades and UX fixes. Artem has already started on TTS v2 and even made a huge breakthrough on a technical hurdle that was & seeking within a document, reenabling TTS on EPUBs, exploring non-English language support, adding playlist functionality, and addingĪirPod highlighting. This project is a bevy of one-off upgrades including porting TTS from mobile to the web app, enabling arbitrary starting Problem.”) and Adam will begin focusing on execution starting this week. Have spent the past few weeks shaping this project (“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the For folks on slow hardware with a lot of data, the speed enhancements will likely be even more dramatic. That being said, probably the most urgent item on our to-do list is a series of even more performance refactors that will make Reader 2x+ faster across both Many folks are nearing the end of their free trials and are asking where Reader is going in the short-term.īelow is a non-exhaustive list of major priorities over the next few months:Īs of today (February 13th), we just pushed up a significant performance improvement to the iOS and Android apps! They should be noticeably less laggy/sluggish now. If you prefer to read these in Reader, you can subscribe to the private RSS feed here.īefore getting into those product updates, I'm going to pull our roadmap discussion forward since I also share tips & tricks to help you get the most out of We've just shipped, bugs we've recently fixed, and what we intend to work on next. Note-taking apps, customizable keyboard shortcuts, and more.Īs a reminder, I write this newsletter approximately every two to four weeks covering features That said, we have shipped some new features worth sharing such as document-level Ghostreader on mobile, document note export to Glitches, and improving the performance of the app. This will be a briefer than usual update on the Readwise Reader public betaĪs most of what we've been doing over the past four weeks has been smashing bugs, honing onboarding & upgrading flows, fixing random UX Reader Public Beta Update #2 (Mobile Ghostreader, Custom Shortcuts, App Speed, and more)
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![]() ![]() The Department also applied for and received another Local Alcohol Program (LAP) grant to reimburse the Police Department the cost of one full time officer to conduct DUI enforcement. Patrick’s Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas/New Years. The five holiday campaigns last for several weeks each and include St. ![]() The grant allows for reimbursement of six holiday campaigns to reduce motor vehicle accidents, focusing on impaired driving and seatbelt enforcement. The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) continues to provide the Decatur Police Department with a Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) grant. Attorney assisted the Decatur Police Department in obtaining the grant and recognizes our well-developed initiative to address violent crime issues. The Decatur Police Department Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) grant is used to pay for utility bills and maintenance agreements for the Neighborhood Surveillance Cameras. The Patrol Division receives funding from the JAG grant which is used to reimburse overtime officers engaged in proactive enforcement and community policing in the high crime neighborhoods. The procurement and maintenance of the grants are often very time consuming and complicated, but the benefit of receiving the much needed funding for equipment and manpower is well worth everyone’s efforts. The Patrol Division applies for and receives grants to assist our efforts of making Decatur a safer place to live and work. ![]() Other trees and a nearby barn on Stegall Road were heavily damaged, with tree limbs and debris from the barn blown up to 600 yards away across adjacent farm fields before the tornado lifted. A home further east of Wade Brown Road suffered minor exterior damage, while several nearby barns were damaged or destroyed. ![]() Further northeast, dozens more trees were snapped and uprooted south of Wade Brown Road, and an RV was blown over with a horse trailer partially blown on top of it. A home on Bethbirei road was damaged by a large uprooted tree falling on it, and several nearby outbuildings were also damaged. Local Storm Report by NWS OHX: 5 NNE Lewisburg NWS storm survey reports TORNADO 16 Feb, 04:39 PM CST - a low-end EF-1 tornado touched down near Big Rock Creek northwest of Farmington and moved northeast, damaging a barn and blowing down dozens of trees west of Bethbirei road. More barns and farm outbuildings were damaged and trees were blown down on East Edan Road, Morgan Drive, Tom Lane, and Marcell Falls Road before the tornado lifted west of Cross Road. Continuing northeast, the tornado snapped and uprooted numerous trees along Rushing Road and caused minor damage to a few homes and outbuildings. Local Storm Report by NWS OHX: 1 NE Ethridge NWS storm survey reports TORNADO at 16 Feb, 03:57 PM CST - an EF-0 tornado touched down in Ethridge north of Brewer Road and moved northeast, blowing the storefront off a building on Highway 43. Therefore, it was defined as two separate tornadoes. There was too much distance between the two areas of damage to say that it was one tornado track. The same storm moved northeast through Ethridge with damage in and around the town. special thanks to Lawrence County Emergency Management for their help with this damage survey. the tornado apparently lifted south of Robertson Road. Oone large tree fell onto a home crushing much of the structure. The worst damage occurred along Granddaddy Road at Gore Rd, where numerous large trees were snapped and uprooted and outbuildings damaged. more trees were blown down with minor damage to outbuildings on N Bradley Rd and Mt Lebanon Rd. Here are details from the storm survey:Ĩ W Lawrenceburg NWS storm survey reports TORNADO 16 Feb, 03:38 PM CST - an EF-0 tornado touched down on South Hood Road and moved northeast blowing down numerous trees. ![]() In Lawrence County, there were two high-end EF-0 tornadoes with 85 mph maximum winds confirmed. Want the forecast delivered directly to your inbox? Sign up for the News 2 Forecast Newsletter ![]() The extreme contrast between Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia is not fortuitous. One is occupied by the senate and the other, inverted and much larger is occupied by the Chamber of Deputies. Here, elevated on the ground plane, are two half spheres. A monumental axis with open space in the center frames a large elevated platform then we find a ten-meter separation between the office slabs, oriented east-west in alignment with the sun. Here I am also reminded of Teotihuacán, mixed up with Leonidov’s Dom Narkomtjazjprom 1933 project on Moscow’s Red Square. The infinite expanse of the landscape, and the fluid movement through its highways-overpasses without traffic lights-is interrupted by the repetitive alignment of identical government high-rise slabs reminiscent of Ludwig Hilberseimer’s ideal city projects. ![]() Within this horizontality, the monumental government buildings, symbolic of a new country, are modest interruptions in this powerful, almost extraterrestrial, landscape. The result is an empty city built on a “higher plane” from which we feel that we are always looking at the horizon. Its infinite vista-first seen in Vaux le Vicompte and then perfected in Versailles-is superimposed on the universal and abstract space of Mies. Here in Brasilia, this idea is moved forward into a real space and a real city. This emptiness in Brasilia is the clearest example of how the desire for a “tabula rasa” (not as in a blank slate, but as according to the Sanskrit, a plane of essence) as the foundation for a new architecture could only exist on paper. It was Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe’s concept of “universal space” that inspired Niemeyer. ![]() Upon completion of the game, the player receives a password for one of the several hidden ships, as well as the options for replaying the game at a higher difficulty setting. ![]() In certain levels, the Hard setting also prevents the player from seeing enemies outside a conical line-of-sight. Certain hidden levels are only available at hard difficulty, which provide ample opportunities for unique powerups and upgrades. Hard difficulty and above employ enemies with more health as well as fire more bullets per second. There are three levels of difficulty to choose from: Easy, Medium, and Hard, as well as the hidden options of Impossible, Suicide, and Lord of the Game. The arcade mode has characteristics from coin-op arcade shooters, such as in-game powerups and extra lives. Tyrian's full game mode features a credit and equipment-buying system, and the shield/armor hit points which are similar to game mechanics in Raptor: Call of the Shadows, another PC game from the same period. Before the player's starship is destroyed it must take enough damage to exhaust several points of shields (which regenerate over time) and armor. The game presents a variety of enemies (some flying, some fixed, some on rails) and bosses, with many occurrences of fixed and/or indestructible obstacles. The player controls a space ship fitted with different weapons (front and back, linked to the same button, and up to two external pods with their own buttons) and other equipment. It was developed chiefly as a homage to the works of Compile, particularly their Zanac series. Tyrian is an arcade-style vertical scrolling shooter. Trent secures a small fighter, and departs for Savara. Trent is the next person on their hit list, and Buce implores him to try to reach Savara, a free world. They will stop at nothing to eliminate anyone who knows of its existence. Microsol wants to use Gravitium to power their warships, which could result in them becoming nearly unstoppable. They want Buce dead because of his knowledge of Gravitium, which is a special mineral, unique to Tyrian, able to control the force of gravity. Buce lives just long enough to tell Trent that the attack was the work of MicroSol, the giant corporation that controls the terraformation of Tyrian. One day, Buce Quesillac, a Hazudra and Trent's best friend, is shot in the back by a hoverdrone which quickly disappears into the sky. His latest assignment is the planet Tyrian, which is located near the territory of the Hazudra, who are a lizard-like race. The player takes on the role of a skilled terraforming pilot named Trent Hawkins, who is employed to scout out habitable locations on newly terraformed planets. We understand the importance of finding the right Games app for your needs, which is why we are happy to give you OpenTyrian by Ranko Rodic. The player takes on the role of a skilled terraforming pilot named Trent Hawkins, who is employed to scout out habitable locations on newly terraformed planets.Ĩ. ![]() They want Buce dead because of his knowledge of Gravitium, which is a special mineral, unique to Tyrian, able to control the force of gravity.ħ. The game presents a variety of enemies (some flying, some fixed, some on rails) and bosses, with many occurrences of fixed and/or indestructible obstacles.Ħ. Buce lives just long enough to tell Trent that the attack was the work of MicroSol, the giant corporation that controls the terraformation of Tyrian.ĥ. There are three levels of difficulty to choose from: Easy, Medium, and Hard, as well as the hidden options of Impossible, Suicide, and Lord of the Game.Ĥ. Tyrian's full game mode features a credit and equipment-buying system, and the shield/armor hit points which are similar to game mechanics in Raptor: Call of the Shadows, another PC game from the same period.ģ. Upon completion of the game, the player receives a password for one of the several hidden ships, as well as the options for replaying the game at a higher difficulty setting.Ģ. You can either use the LOC method (Liquid, Oil, and Cream) or the LCO (Liquid, Cream, and Oil ) to lock in the moisture before installing the twists. Scalp massage will help spread the moisture to your roots and hair tips evenly. Proceed to massage the scalp gently to ensure your hair gets properly moisturized. Leave the conditioner in for 5 -10 minutes before you rinse it off. Using a wide-tooth comb or your fingers, gently comb your hair from the roots all the way to the top. Step 2: Condition, detangle and massageĪpply a conditioner to soften the hair and make detangling easier. You will need hair that is a little damp for a perfect two-strand twist hence do not let your hair be completely dry. Wash your hair with a detangling shampoo to get rid of any sebum deposits, oil, and dirt. ( For those who enjoy visuals, we will share a video in the next section) Step 1: Cleanse the hair This a detailed guide for installing cute two strand twists that will protect your hair. Repeat the above steps until you complete all sections of your hair. ![]() This also prevents any future knots on your two-strand twists.
![]() Aiolia tries to defeat Seiya and take the Cloth from him, but sees a vision of his deceased brother telling him that Seiya is a true protector of Athena. Seiya manages to defeat all three Silver Saints. Seiya is unable to fend off the three Silver Saints but the Gold Cloth of Sagittarius awakens, and assembles itself over Seiya. Three Silver Saints, Musca Dio, Canis Major Sirius, and Heracles Algethi appear, and mock Aiolia for not finishing off Seiya. ![]() Aiolia spares Seiya, out of respect for Shaina's sacrifice. ![]() Shaina revives, jumps in the way to save Seiya, and is critically injured. Aiolia knocks Shaina out and fights Seiya. When Aiolia appears in Japan, Seiya and Ophiuchus Shaina are fighting. He orders Aiolia to go to Japan to kill Saori Kido, Athena's incarnation during the 20th century, and her renegade Bronze Saints who possess the Gold Cloth of Sagittarius. The Pope summons Aiolia and the Scorpio Gold Saint, Milo, to his hall and says The Gold Cloths of Aries, Libra and Sagittarius are missing. Plot overview File:Saint-Aioria-manga.pngĪiolia, wearing his headpiece, in a panel from the manga in vol.9. ![]() Kurumada named Aiolia after the mythical island Aiolia or Aeolia, residence of Aiolos, the god of winds. Through the storyline, it is hinted that he and Virgo Shaka are close friends. More than once, this creates some conflicts between him and the calm Aries Mu. This manga is placed seven years before the main story of the original Saint Seiya manga, showing Aiolia when he was still a young Saint and was victim of the false stories that tainted his brother's image.Īiolia is impetuous and has hot-tempered, which incites him to action. Even so, years later, the spin-off manga Saint Seiya Episode G was released, authored under Kurumada's commission by Megumu Okada, and centered on the Gold Saints, having Aiolia as the main character. In an interview, Masami Kurumada stated that he intended to use Aiolia as the main character of his series, hence his early introduction in the manga, but later he decided to use Pegasus Seiya. Even during the time Aiolia thought Aiolos was a traitor, he showed immense respect and love toward his memory. Due to this, Aiolia works hard to prove his loyalty to the goddess and erase the shame his brother's actions bestowed upon them. He is the younger brother of Sagittarius Aiolos, considered a traitor that attempted to kill Athena when she was still a baby. In his first appearance, Aiolia was present during the moment Pegasus Seiya was granted the Pegasus Bronze Cloth and the status of Saint of Athena.Īiolia is regarded as an exemplary young man in the Sanctuary, due to his righteousness and strength. In the anime adaptation, due to a relative excess of yellow tones in Kurumada's design, Aiolia's hair color was modified to light brown to achieve a better color balance and contrast.Īiolia is the first Gold Saint introduced by Masami Kurumada in his manga, along with Saga disguised as the Pope, in vol.1, although their rank wasn't revealed until later volumes. In his manga, Kurumada gave Aiolia blonde hair. As Masami Kurumada subscribes to the revered Osamu Tezuka's Star System, (a stable cast of characters which play a different or similar role in the author's various works, sometimes with the same personality and sometimes with an entirely new one), he designed Aiolia's appearance very similar to Zaji, the main character in Raimei no Zaji, a manga that Kurumada wrote and drew years before Saint Seiya. ![]() And this is the problem we see in some loglines. Goals that can be achieved very quickly or easily are not going to be enough to write 100 pages about. Forces of antagonism and other obstacles get in the way, but the goal itself should have an intrinsic degree of difficulty relative to the circumstances of your story. If Act 2 is all about pursuing the story goal, then that goal must be something that’s difficult to achieve in order for the pursuit of it to sustain an entire screenplay. This logline problem is usually a symptom of a bigger story problem. ![]() We should have an idea what we’ll be watching on screen for the bulk of our time in the theater. It doesn’t have to give away the ending, but it also shouldn’t stop after the Set-Up. Often writers think a logline is more enticing if it’s mysterious – and that can be the case. Remember, if we think about a logline as conveying a real sense of the movie we’re watching, we want to make sure we’re conveying what’s happening in the biggest chunk of the movie – which is Act 2. In a rom-com, it’s probably trying not to fall in love!.In a horror movie, it’s the characters trying to escape the monster.It’s really what people come to the theater to see. What does “goes after it” give us? That is Act 2 of your screenplay.Īct 2 is the main action. So that’s the protagonist, the goal, and the antagonist or conflict.īut we want to make sure we don’t overlook the “goes after it” part of that sentence in our loglines. Remember earlier I said that a story very basically is: “Someone wants something and goes after it against great opposition.” In a lot of cases, that’s one of the main entertainment hooks of the screenplay or movie. ![]() ![]() Sometimes we need to include the method the protagonist will use in order to show what’s really happening on screen for most of the movie. Sometimes just including the story goal isn’t enough. Remember, in the logline we really want to give a clear sense of the story. That’s the, “befriend a notorious incarcerated psychopath and use his knowledge” part. You might also notice this logline includes the method the hero is going to use to achieve the goal.
There are phase change materials used within the top comfort layer which helps heat to dissipate throughout the mattress. Cooling cover: The Nectar Premier uses a more advanced cooling cover.Standard cover: The Nectar Original has a standard cover that is soft and breathable, but not necessarily doing any favors for cooling.All three of the Nectar mattresses have a blend of gel memory foam, poly foam, and support foam, but each model has a different cover with the Premier & Premier Copper also have higher-quality memory foams. Of these three, the Nectar Premier and Nectar Premier Copperare the top-performing mattresses. Ending Temperature (after 5 minutes) – the temperature of the mattress after being lied upon and having no one on it for 5 minutes.Maximum Temperature (0 minute) – the temperature of the mattress after lying on it for 15 minutes.Baseline Temperature – the temperature of the mattress before anyone lies on it.The table below shows how the three mattresses compared amongst themselves. The cooling performance of the Nectar mattress was good, although not the absolute best. Nectar Premi e r or Nectar Premier CopperĦ.25″ max sinkage, excellent lying support The table below reviews a number of factors and which Nectar mattress performed best. Factorīefore we get into the gritty details, let’s highlight some areas where each Nectar mattress really shines. In many cases, the difference between scores can be minimal, but this table helps to highlight these differences. ![]() This second table shows the testing data from each test. This first table shows the factor scoring of all three Nectar mattresses in question: Factor ![]() We score each mattress using a series of performance tests, which gives us individual factor scores, as well as an overall score. Compare the ModelsĪt NapLab, we put each mattress to the test. Let’s go ahead and dive into the details. ![]() Taking the most tragic scene from The Dark Knight and suggesting it was a gender-reveal party is a hilarious idea. Had a blast at the gender reveal party in gotham last night /XCarnNp404 However, a new gender-reveal fireworks show just might be Disney’s next big thing. However, Minnie using a flamethrower to announce her baby’s gender may be a bit over the top. Really makes you wonder what other historical events were potentially caused by overexcited parents who discovered their baby’s gender.Įxclusive sneak peek at the new Disney World show, “Mickey & Minnie’s Gender Reveal Party” /gjNWW69lJBĭisney parks are known for impressive special effects in their rides & shows. It’s crazy to think one of history’s tragic moments could have been caused by a gender-reveal party. Rare, colorized photo of the Hindenburg Gender Reveal (1937) □□ /xDOF2H1YvT You can set the woods ablaze, but going after sweet Aunt May is too far. Somebody suggested the Green Goblin’s attack on Aunt May from Spider-Man was actually caused by a gender-reveal party next door. Gender reveal party nextdoor! □□♂️□□□ /LCDCqGzHqK At least we have Superman here on Earth to help us stop future gender-reveal parties from causing disasters. Wasn’t it a gender reveal party that blew up Krypton? /WDP3zBSA6lĪpparently, the planet Krypton died due to a gender reveal gone wrong. Smokey the Bear, the well-known mascot for preventing forest fires, has a new mission: preventing dumb people from doing potentially dangerous gender-reveal parties that start forest fires. Apparently, this pooch failed to realize the damage caused by this revelation. Here, the dog who usually says “this is fine” in a burning room is celebrating a gender reveal. Here are some of the very best memes about the wildfires. The internet is calling out these gender-reveal parties for the ridiculous events they are – and are of course creating memes based on the most recent gender-reveal wildfire incident. However, some people take these bursts so far it verges on dropping napalm in Apocalypse Now. These bursts of powder are normally small & harmless. Gender reveals typically involve a couple popping or breaking something filled with either pink or blue powder. California has plenty of fires, but it’s not often the fires are caused by eccentric couples who thought it was a good idea to announce the gender of their baby – via explosion. Is it a boy? A girl? One thing’s for sure is it’s hard to care about the gender of a baby when it causes a wildfire. ![]() Gender-reveal parties have become a trend recently as couples try to announce the gender of their baby in exciting fashion. By: Ross Tanenbaum California memes on fire: Why the internet is roasting gender reveals |
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