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Barn raising quilt layout9/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Going up! I’m giving it a boost off the ground while Grandpa steadies the load. We used the chain so we would have an open hook rather than a knot to untie while hanging out of the door high above the ground. My son and I securing the rope to a chain hooked on the u-bolt. Obviously this meant there was some painting to be done! I think we’ll be moving the sign across the drive to the newer tool shed. The old Scott Farms sign had to come down in order to make room for the barn quilt. We attached a u-bolt from a large exhaust clamp as a point to hook on and pull the quilt up the side of the barn. The quilt itself is mounted on an aluminum frame we had built at the local welding and machine shop. The original quilt made by my great-great grandmother. It was nailed shut years ago, and it’s a tight fit with tight hinges. We still have to get that door fully closed in the hay mound. The original quilt on display with the newly raised barn quilt. While cloth quilts are usually made up of a series of squares of the same pattern placed together, a barn quilt is almost always a single square.” “Barn quilts are painted quilt squares-usually fashioned on boards and then mounted on a barn or other building. Read on for more pictures of the quilt! What is a barn quilt? If there’s a hand painted sign there, and there are many, Ed probably has painted and repainted it. Check her out on facebook at Goodnight Irene Photography.įor anyone reading who has visited or is from the Monticello, Indiana area you probably have seen Ed Ward’s work if you have ever stopped at Indiana Beach. My sister provided most of the photos seen in this blog post. Yesterday, those two creations came together and Scott Farms raised this beautiful barn quilt – with the original quilt as a special guest! Tremendous thanks to the talented Ed Ward for painting the piece!” Around that same time, a barn was being erected on the ground that would eventually become the heart of our family farm. “In the early1900s, my maternal great-great-grandmother Inez Newton made a quilt using her own variation on the Whig Rose Pattern. My sister describes the history of the quilt as follows. Thanks for the inspiration Mary.We just installed a barn quilt on the barn at our farm. I think I need to photograph my quilts in unique ways like this. ![]() You’ll be able to tell which photos were taken by Di :-). Click here if you’d like to go to my Gallery page, then scroll through the quilts. When my friend Di designed my original website she photographed a number of my quilts out in our woods. I put quilts on doorstops, hanging over barn doors etc.” I took some of the photos up at the clearing in Door County, but most were from old Falls Village in Menomonee Falls. She said: “I like to take my quilts out to photograph them in fun places. Mary Margaret responded to last week’s post with a few photographs of her quilts. I’ll let you know if it gets in :-).Īnd a quick follow up to last week’s post… But even if I had, I would have made this quilt for the sheer fun of it! Since it can’t get into the challenge at the Madison Expo, I think entering it in the actual quilt show there is a great option. I’m grateful the challenge got me to make this quilt and annoyed with myself for not reading the rules. Once it was done I discovered this in rule #7: “Quilts in multiple pieces or in frames are not accepted”. I got so into this project, and was having so much fun, that I never even thought about reading the fine print in the challenge rules. Please let me know your choice in a comment to this post.Īnd now for my true confession. Which is your favorite? Straight Furrows Alternating Circles Straight Furrows and Circles Curvy Pinwheels Barn Raising ![]() Since log cabin blocks can be put together in a myriad of ways, I’d love your input. Now I have the parts made and I’m trying to decide on my favorite set. When piecing the blocks, I decided to change the width of my logs to create a curved effect, and I alternated the placement of the green background and the scraps to add even more interest. It was great fun to make all the blocks ~ and quite a challenge to figure out how to get it all to work (the black stripes on the background quilt are the Velcro ™, the back of the blocks have Velcro ™ strips also): Well, since I’ve been absorbed in my latest quilt-venture: “Modular Memory Quilts”, it became obvious to me that I should make a background quilt and attach “individual log cabin block quilts” to it through the magic of Velcro ™. So ~ what can you do with the log cabin pattern that hasn’t already been done? Participants are to make an innovative quilt with this very traditional block, 30″ x 40″. I call it “Which Way Does the Wind Blow?” because of the mariner’s compass leaves. This was the quilt I made for that challenge. The Madison Quilt Expo has a challenge every year and I entered it a few years back when the theme was Autumn in Wisconsin.
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Sql unequal9/24/2023 ![]() We’ll start with something very familiar. This stands for joins where you join using FK, but also for joins where you compare attributes that are not part of a foreign key (this is rarely used). Calling such “standard” joins an equi-joins is just a fancy way to name it. ![]() So, what are equi-joins? Equi-joins are standard joins where you’ll use the equality operator (=) while joining tables. The reason for that is that they are so common, and the whole idea of databases is related to joining tables in such a manner. You’ve used equi-joins so far, and you’ve probably never called them that way. If you need to refresh your knowledge related to primary and foreign keys, select statement, and inner and left joins, this would be the right time to do it.Įqui-Joins vs. We’ll use only two tables from this model city and country, and we’ll comment on the data later in this article while taking a look at few non-equi join SQL Server queries. If you’re still not familiar with it, take some time to see how the tables are related to each other. On this part, nothing has changed since the last article, so we’ll use the same model we’re using throughout this series. Today’ I’ll try to explain what they are and when you should use them. After reading this article, I hope you’ll agree on that with me. Non-Equi join in SQL Server sounds like something abstract (and fancy), but it’s not so abstract (and fancy) at all.
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Sonic youth superstar chords9/23/2023 ![]() Also plugging in and scowling/howling was the fabulous all-in-black Rudolph Grey, an urban nihilist who played guitar as if to penetrate to the place John Coltrane seemed to be nearing on his last sessions in duo with Rashid Ali. ![]() And the most confounding and sensuously brutalist band Mars, where street scared lyrics, mystery jazz fingerings and art school insolence all swirled in a miasma of transient noise and beauty. ![]() From farthest afield their was the always polarising DNA, with Arto Lindsay as a guitarist’s revelation – or nightmare depending on how open you were to the incineration of trad rock – along with drummer Ikue Mori, a Japanese woman who would evolve into one of the great percussion/sound improvisers of the genre. Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, fronted by a teenage runaway poet boy-shredder named Lydia Lunch with Bradley Field on single snare drum (and one stick), a contemporary freak pal to the Cramps (the almighty garage punk noise trio also from the crazoid streets of Cleveland), and Jim Sclavunos on bass, who would later be the drummer in service for Sonic Youth’s Confusion Is Sex LP and these days a mainstay in Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.Īnd most sensationally the Contortions, led by the sax anxiety of James Chance and featuring the stunning pan-androgynous slide guitar of Pat Place. They were bizarre and phenomenal.Īnother was the high energy sonic slut-core of transplanted Cleveland band the Dead Boys, formed from the Midwest ashes of Rocket From the Tombs with direct connection to the amazing outré tuneage of Pere Ubu, where a ferocious passion for the punk blueprint of the Stooges, MC5 and arcane sides of lost garage 60s punk snarl 7ins informed their entire approach.Ĭertainly inspired and informed, though more sub-underground, to these bloodcurdling bands were the No Wave bands. One antecedent was Suicide, the terrific and terrorcentric duo of Martin Rev straight up pummeling audiences with demented over-amped keyboard electronics and vocalist Alan Vega seemingly scraped off the Union Square subway platform in a state of mental patient-on-acid hysteria assaulting the audience with what seemed like some kind of Agent Orange nervous meltdown. These bands certainly exemplified the personality and psycho-geo-scuzz of the city but there was another faction of music in coexistence that really was truly fucked and completely off-the boards weirdo. Of course we were all drawn to the limelight of Patti, Hell, Verlaine, Ramones, Blondie, T Heads, but they already seemed golden and untouchable in a city blasted in exhaustion from speed-addled hippie hangover and Vietnam-Nixon burnout. ![]() There were more lame acts than great ones surely but that seems to be always the case anytime and anywhere. There were indeed even less interesting stink glam bands hitting the boards of clubland all straining at our attention as we awaited the majesty of Television, the Ramones or the Stooge-Nugget wildness of the Dead Boys. Bands like the Brats and the Harlots of 42 nd St may have had a genius lick or two but theirs was a fading raunch to the whip smart energy of Talking Heads and Richard Hell and the Voidoids, two outfits that were shocking in their avant-modernist words and music headiness.Įven more straight up bar-rock moves could be transcended by the unique infect of Patti Smith, the fabulous trans-gutter drag of Wayne County or the intelligent sexiness of Debbie Harry, infusing and elevating the 60s fun rock moves of Blondie.
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Best series on netflix or prime9/23/2023 ![]() Honestly, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure is nonsense at times-but such hyper-stylish nonsense that you’ll easily be swept up in the madness. The decision to focus each season on a different era also makes for a surprisingly digestible viewing experience, despite the scope. ![]() Original creator Hirohiko Araki drew influence from Western rock music and high fashion, combining these with exaggerated physiques and hyperkinetic action to make this anime adaptation visually and tonally unique. Luckily, each generation of the Joestar family has a champion (each with a name that can be trimmed to JoJo) to rise to the challenge, mastering arcane abilities of their own-notably summoning ghostly giants known as Stands-to combat Dio and a host of other supernatural threats across the ages. This is no mere tale of warring clans, though, as Dio’s dabbling with dark forces sees him returning over the eras to plague Jonathan’s decendants anew. ![]() In Victorian England, Jonathan Joestar clashes with his deranged adoptive brother, Dio Brando, starting a centuries-long feud that will sweep the globe. Perfect for fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender or The Legend of Korra, this dazzlingly animated five-season action-fantasy is as compelling for older fans as it is younger viewers-and the fact that it offers some of the best LGBTQ+ representation to be found in any medium doesn’t hurt either. Learning the truth about the oppressive forces she’s served her whole life, Adora joins the Rebellion against the Horde-but can she really turn her back on everything she’s ever known? And will Catra be able to forgive the betrayal? Developed by ND Stevenson-whose own Nimona delighted viewers as an animated movie on Netflix-the modern She-Ra reimagines the 1980s classic, eschewing the original’s connection to He-Man and its episodic structure in favor of unique mythology and long-form storytelling that’s packed with complex characters, high stakes, and some powerfully emotional moments. On the planet Etheria, Adora loyally serves the Horde, rising through its ranks with her close friend Catra by her side until the discovery of a strange sword transforms Adora into the legendary warrior She-Ra. With a sixth and final season in the works, now is the perfect time to binge the first five. It’s all presented a little bit tongue-in-cheek, and with Ralph Macchio and William Zabka reprising their 1980s roles, the show is an unabashed love letter to the classic action flicks, but thanks to some seriously impressive fights and stunt work, and with a younger cast you can’t help but root for, it’s a retro-styled delight. As the series progresses, the stakes get higher-and frankly, increasingly, gloriously ludicrous-as rival martial arts schools start cropping up all over California and alliances are forged and broken with alarming regularity. Yet after defending his young neighbor Miguel (Xolo Maridueña) in a fight, Johnny finds new meaning by reopening the eponymous karate dojo and guiding a new generation of students. Picking up decades after Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence’s iconic fight at the end of the first movie, the debut season of Cobra Kai finds the tables turned, with Daniel living the charmed life while Johnny is washed up. While this latter-day sequel to The Karate Kid films of the 1980s started life on YouTube Red (remember that?), it’s really come into its own since moving to Netflix.
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1) Did I need the 2020 version on this computer? 2) All other versions I own? We've been upgrading to almost all versions during the more than 20 years of using PSE and PS but what we really need now is to preserve our organizer since we've tagged thousands and thousands of family and other memories over decades and decades. It stalls during the conversion process because it won't "see"the external drive it had previously identified. The install was successful, the media loaded from that drive but now trying to convert the backup so the tags and other associated info for each image can be used in 2021. Downloaded PSE2021 which we owned since March, 2021 and attached a PSE dedicated external drive to it. So we're using our older MacAir with macOS 10.15.7 instead of downgrading our new computer with Monterey OS. We bought 20 within months but when Monterey came, things fell apart on our new computer. Only option for us is to use a laptop with macOs 10.14-10.15 or macOS11. Selecting a region changes the language and/or content on found out that Adobe will no longer support all versions of Photoshop Elements. Depending on your video card, this feature may not be available in Windows 7, 8, and 10.
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![]() Heart valve disease: If the heart valves do not work properly they can get stuck open or closed during heartbeats and give a sensation of fluttering in chest.It is also a known symptom of a reaction to sulfites, nitrates, and monosodium glutamate or MSG. Excess carbohydrates can also cause heart palpitations. Diet: Eating a heavy meal can strain the heart and disrupt normal heartbeat patterns. ![]() It is also common with inhalers used to treat asthma attacks. Thyroid medications that replace thyroid hormones may also cause this to happen if your dose is too high. Medications and supplements: Stimulant medications and herbal supplements with stimulants can cause increased and irregular heartbeats.This can also happen if too much potassium and sodium are lost through sweating, vomiting, and physical exercise on hot days. Not drinking enough fluids, especially in hot weather, can cause a fluttering in the chest. Some people complain of this sensation with a fever as well. Low iron levels and anemia can also cause the heart to beat irregularly. Health Conditions: If you have diabetes, fluctuating blood sugar levels may cause heart palpitations.This may feel like a “fluttering in chest.” Using stimulants that are “street drugs” can also cause irregular heartbeats. Caffeine, smoking, alcohol, or stimulant drugs: If you just drank a cup of coffee or smoked a cigarette, your heart rate may be elevated and irregular for a while after.Thyroid disease can also cause an irregular heartbeat. Hormones: Some women experience more chest fluttering and palpitations around the time of their period or during menopause.Anxiety attacks and stressful situations may also cause a fluttery feeling in your chest. Emotional reactions: You may have just had a passionate kiss, or a fright from a scary movie.Other causes may be something more serious and worthy of a doctor’s visit. Some causes are very benign and related to emotions, reactions to fear or love, or something you ate or drank. What Causes the Fluttering in Chest?įluttering sensation in chest can be worrisome. It is good to know the causes so you will know when you should see your doctor. If you are having actual heart palpitations, it could be anxiety or heart trouble. While there are several explainable causes, some may be cause for concern. Whatever the cause, it may leave you feeling concerned something is going on. It may last a few seconds, or up to a few minutes. It may be in response to exercise or feeling scared over something. ![]() Seemingly out of nowhere you feel like butterflies are inside of you. Pretty much anything can cause a fluttering sensation in chest.
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Instalacja cube 2 sauerbraten linux9/23/2023 After each successful rebuild, you will have to install your modified. Once you have verified all of this works, you can start making changes and rebuilding. But there would be no point in doing that, because your package should be essentially identical to the installed version (apart from missing the cryptographic signature of an Ubuntu maintainer). If successful, it should produce your own *.deb package of the game engine, which you could use to replace the currently-installed version. This will take a while and usually will produce a lot of messages. The simplest way to do it is probably to run debuild -b -uc -us in your work directory. Then, you should first try and build the game engine without any changes, just to verify that you have all the pieces in place to do it. You will also want to run sudo apt build-dep cube2 to install the tools and libraries needed to recompile the game engine from the source. There will be a sub-directory fpsgame, which will contain the game.h file. It should automatically download the source code of the game engine for you into that work directory. Then you can close the window, open a command prompt window, make yourself an empty work directory, cd into it, and run apt-get source cube2. You will have to enter your password to make any changes here. Go to "Ubuntu Software Center" -> Edit -> Software Sources, and make sure the "Source code" is selected on the "Ubuntu Software" tab. If you are serious about this, you will need to download the source code package for the game. So it looks like in order to increase your ammo counts, you'd need to somehow convince the server component that you've just picked up some ammo. picked up the item (in multiplayer someone may grab it before you). In src/fpsgame/entities.cpp there are functions addammo() and repammo(), and there is this comment near them: // these two functions are called when the server acknowledges that you really Although in a single-player mode both the client and server are on the same computer, they may still be separate entities within the game program. Since Sauerbraten has multiplayer functionality, it is split into client and server components. The same file also defines the struct fpsstate data structure, which includes the ammo counts for each gun, and the maximum ammo values are defined in static struct itemstat also in the same file. Look for static const struct guninfo starting at line #348. This function is available since SDL_mixer 2.6.0 (and as a macro since 2.0.0).It looks like the properties of the guns are defined in the source code of the game and are not modifiable at runtime. Older binaries linked against a newer SDL_mixer will still call Mix_LoadWAV_RW directly, as they are using the macro, which was available since the dawn of time. This macro has since been promoted to a proper API function. ![]() Note that before SDL_mixer 2.6.0, this function was a macro that called Mix_LoadWAV_RW(), creating a RWops and setting freesrc to 1. When done with a chunk, the app should dispose of it with a call to Mix_FreeChunk(). ![]() If you would rather use the abstract SDL_RWops interface to load data from somewhere other than the filesystem, you can use Mix_LoadWAV_RW() instead. Also, crucially, there are as many channels for chunks as the app can allocate, but SDL_mixer only offers a single "music" channel. Chunks might take more memory, but once they are loaded won't need to decode again, whereas music always needs to be decoded on the fly. In modern times, this isn't split by format anymore, and most are interchangeable, so the question is what the app thinks is worth predecoding or not. Originally, simple formats like uncompressed WAV files were meant to be chunks and compressed things, like MP3s, were meant to be music, and you would stream one thing for a game's music and make repeating sound effects with the chunks. One it calls a "chunk," which is meant to be a file completely decoded into memory up front, and the other it calls "music" which is a file intended to be decoded on demand. SDL_mixer has two separate data structures for audio data. Mix_Chunk * Mix_LoadWAV( const char *file) Function Parameters file
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Underwater spy cam in pool9/23/2023 ![]() Example: " ency hoopfish" will unlock the Hoopfish entry.ĭoing " ency all" will give the player all of the data bank entries, even ones not acquirable in-game yet.Īllows the player to build modules quickly with the Habitat Builder. Sets universal damage multiplier to player's choice. Toggles the effect of cold on the player. 0 means completely uncharged and 1 means fully charged. ![]() Spawns several air bubbles around the player.Ĭharges all batteries in inventory to given percentage. and adds a Habitat Builder, Scanner, Survival Knife and a Repair Tool to the player's inventory.0 means not flooded and 1 means completely flooded. A complete list of entities/items and their spawn IDs can be found here.įloods all player-built seabases to designated percentage (meaning water level). * Not all entities' spawn IDs are the same as their name.Example: " spawn hoopfish 5" spawns 5 Hoopfish in front of the player.Spawns a specified amount of a certain object in front of the player. A complete list of items and their spawn IDs can be found here. ![]() Not all items' spawn IDs are the same as their name.Example: " item titanium 5" will add 5 Titanium to the player's inventory.Represents a number value of the player's choice.Īdds a specified amount of a certain item to the player's inventory. Represents a variable text input that depends on the command. Pressing or will display previously entered commands, moving backwards and forwards respectively through that list.Once a command is entered, press Enter to execute the chosen command.Pressing Shift and Enter or the tilde (~) key will open the console.The input box for Console Commands can be brought up by pressing several buttons on the controller at the same time.Ĭonsole Commands are not currently available on the Nintendo Switch.ĭeveloper Menu In the Pause Menu Actionĭeveloper Menu is also disabled on Nintendo Switch. The Console can be opened by pressing the Shift and Enter keys simultaneously.
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Inspect the task structure to see how a Zone is used.ġ) If a response's value matches (text), it represents the correct answer Preview a task to experience the Zone in action. Tutorial icon to view a Tutorial which demonstrates how you can use the selected Task Builder Zones.Įxample icon to view an example of a Sample Task which makes use of the selected Task Builder Zones.ĭemo icon to view an Experiment which makes use of the selected Task Builder Zones. When the current screen is finished, Gorilla will advance to the named screen within your current display. When the screen is complete, advance to screen (text) Setting (text): Type a screen name from the current display. Go To Zone Configuration Settings example:īy default, a task will always advance to the next screen in a display. You can find out more about Zones in the How To: Task Builder Guide In this guide, for quick reference, the options available for a particular setting will be written in the setting box. Just like you would with the Zone content itself. ![]() Static Spreadsheet Manipulation Spreadsheet-Manipulation). Here you input your setting content as well as choosing the content type ( This will be followed by a configuration settings box (like the one below) which will list and explain all available configuration settings for the selected Zone.Įach Zone will have a number of different setting options which appear as grey setting boxes like this: (setting)Ĭlick on any (setting)'s box to bring up the setting's content menu. If you are looking for more information on Tasks in general take a look at our 'How To: Task Builder' Guide.įor each Task Builder Zone listed you will find a description of the Zone, the Zone identifier icon and an image example.
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Hip hop rap graduation caps9/23/2023 Nothing street was gonna come next that was gonna eliminate him," explains Vanessa Satten, editor-in-chief of XXL Magazine. These figures alone indicated that while 50 Cent's breed of "street rap" that nearly carried him through the early aughts was arguably still thriving, something different was brewing by necessity. ![]() West was still riding high off the fumes of his 2004 debut, The College Dropout, so by that following year his sophomore work, Late Registration, gave him an impressive 860,000 sales in its first week on its way to more than 3 million copies sold. In the first week alone, The Massacre moved 1.14 million units (ultimately selling more than 5 million copies in the United States). In 2005 50 Cent released his monumental sophomore effort, The Massacre, giving Fif a significant feather in his cap with what would be the second best-selling album of that year, trailing only Mariah Carey's The Emancipation Of Mimi. The year 2007 was perhaps the tipping point for the crisis hip-hop was going through two years prior. Sure, communally speaking it was a big deal, but the rest of the world lacked enthusiasm despite hip-hop's growing popularity within the mainstream. When a beef would casually surface or a rapper was rolling out a new project, it was hip-hop's little secret. 11, 2007, anything hip-hop related never really echoed on a grandiose scale, save for the tragic losses of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. The effects of this epic matchup, however, have reverberated to this day, as hip-hop music made a hard left and hasn't returned since. ![]() Of course, we all know the results: West's Graduation won with a staggering 957,000 units sold, while 50 Cent topped out at 691,000 units. 18 release, though he bumped it up a week to set the stage for what was perhaps the biggest nonviolent event in hip-hop history - as the two duked it out in a contest to see who would take home a bigger haul of album sales. ![]() 50 Cent was geared to release Curtis on Sept. It was all thanks to hip-hop, as 50 Cent and Kanye West willfully entangled themselves in September 2007 in a playful beef that attracted major headlines.īoth were at turning points in their respective careers both were dropping their all-important third albums. 11 has been solely reflective of one pivotal moment in American history, though a decade ago music fans' attention was temporarily redirected. |