![]() ![]() There’s apparently a lot of people in Canada who claim to have been bitten by brown recluse spiders, even though these spiders have never actually been found in Canada.Ī big problem with spider bite diagnoses is that, mostly, they are made on the basis of “I have this injury that looks like a bite, and there are spiders in my bedroom”. There is a nice article by a couple of Canadian entomologists explaining how people all over the world are convinced that necrotic lesions come from spider bites, even though the vast majority of the time they are caused by things like bacterial skin infections. There is even a whole song-and-dance about how spider bites turn into these massive, necrotic lesions, where the skin in the middle dies and sloughs away, and they never heal, and you lose body parts, and all that jazz.įrom what I’ve read, one shouldn’t be too quick to blame these lesions on spider bites, unless you actually see the spider biting you (or feel the bite and actually see the associated spider or its corpse shortly afterwards). Somebody sees a spider and the first thing they think is, “Is it poisonous?” And every largeish, brown spider is a “Brown Recluse”, and is going to bite you. This whole thing about spider bites is almost completely out of hand. Then they squash the poor guy, whose only crime is looking for love in the wrong place. Which brings me to a point: this little spider fella is exactly the sort of thing that people see running around the house, and they immediately freak out, because they’ve been told over and over again that spider bites are dangerous. Granted, the site with this ID key is in Kentucky, where Brown Recluse spiders do live, so for them it would be a possible ID, but I think they are being needlessly alarmist. OK, now, right away I know this is wrong, because (a) my specimen doesn’t really look like the pictures, and (b) the Brown Recluse and its relatives don’t live this far north in any case (as can be seen from the range map on the Bug Guide page). That is the genus the infamous Brown Recluse belongs to. The thing is, I went through their questions, and it came back with the claim that I had something in the genus Loxosceles. ![]() In the course of trying to identify it, I found a page at Transylvania University,, which had a little menu-driven system that claimed to identify your spider. We’ve got it down to the family, anyway, which is something. So, I’m not going to get much of an ID on this one, from the looks of things. ![]() ![]() More to the point, it is not characteristic of wolf spiders (family Lycosidae), which have two enlarged eyes that are pretty distinctive. Again, this is characteristic of funnel-web-weavers. I tried to get a picture of his eyes, with not too much success, but it looks like there are two parallel rows of four eyes each, all pretty equally sized and none all that large. Of course, if you have 8, losing two or three is probably not a big deal. They must lose them at the drop of a hat. So far, I think every spider I’ve posted pictures of has been missing a leg. This one was wandering, and is therefore probably male.Īfter a bit, he unscrunched his legs some so that his body was a bit more visible, but this didn’t help much – he’s nearly black, with not much in the way of distinctive patterning: For most of these spiders, the females build characteristic funnel-shaped webs, which they rarely leave, while the males spend a lot of their time wandering around looking for love. Prominent spinneretes like this are a feature of funnel-web-weaver spiders, family Agelenidae. “Hey, wait”, I hear you cry, “what makes you think this is a male, anyway?” Well, if you look at the end of his abdomen, you can see some pretty prominent projections, these are the spinneretes. This fellow was scurrying across the floor, and once I caught him, he kind of scrunched up with his legs pulled in: Kitchen linoleum is a great place to find spiders – they stand out so well, particularly on light-colored floors, and usually they are far enough away from cover that catching them is a snap. Note: this is a North American funnel-web spider (and is harmless), not an Australian funnel-web spider (which are dangerously venomous). ![]()
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![]() ![]() To add a TOTP device later view the screenshot and scan the QR code. When the site gives you the QR code, take a screenshot and save that in some secure fashion. If you don't have all your devices available at the same time, or you want to allow for the possibility of adding a new device later, you can simply save the QR code. That way I'm covered if one of the apps stops being supported). (Actually, I scan it twice on each device, using two different TOTP apps. The simplest case, applicable if you have access to more than one device that supports generating TOTP codes at the time you are setting up TOTP for a given site, is to simply scan the site's QR code on all the devices.Į.g., when I create an account at a site that uses TOTP I scan the QR code on both my phone and my tablet. Yeah, bridging convenience and security is a long standing nightmare of a problem to solve. That also means that you should not have your password manager on the phone, or at least only have a separate one: ideally, password managers would integrate between desktops and mobile devices to pass short-lived access to passwords for Oauth/OpenID Connect auth instead. Physical separation of the two authentication factors, thus, matters. Making it not a "second" anything: it's akin to using two passwords for log in to a single site and keeping them in the same place. You are still protected from your password hash being stolen from the target website, decrypted and then used for log-in, but if password hashes were accessed, potentially a bunch of other stuff that you'd care about is too, so that's a somewhat moot point.īut someone stealing your laptop and getting access to your password manager gets access to your 2FA too. ![]() If your password manager has control of both your password and your "2nd" factor auth, it defeats the purpose of it being a 2nd factor. ![]() ![]() ![]() Let’s look at a real example, here we plotted point A at \((5,6)\) then we rotated the paper 90° clockwise to create point A’, which is at \((6,-5)\). If you take a coordinate grid and plot a point, then rotate the paper 90° or 180° clockwise or counterclockwise about the origin, you can find the location of the rotated point. Let’s start by looking at rotating a point about the center \((0,0)\). Here is a figure rotated 90° clockwise and counterclockwise about a center point.Ī great math tool that we use to show rotations is the coordinate grid. We specify the degree measure and direction of a rotation. The angle of rotation is usually measured in degrees. The measure of the amount a figure is rotated about the center of rotation is called the angle of rotation. Another great example of rotation in real life is a Ferris Wheel where the center hub is the center of rotation. A figure can be rotated clockwise or counterclockwise. ![]() A figure and its rotation maintain the same shape and size but will be facing a different direction. We call this point the center of rotation. More formally speaking, a rotation is a form of transformation that turns a figure about a point. There are other forms of rotation that are less than a full 360° rotation, like a character or an object being rotated in a video game. The wheel on a car or a bicycle rotates about the center bolt. ![]() The earth is the most common example, rotating about an axis. Hello, and welcome to this video about rotation! In this video, we will explore the rotation of a figure about a point. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Cat’s Crawl Performing Arts Theatre, 660 Heliotrope Drive, Los Angeles. Student are free to register $10 fee for adults (register online here: /8dsx5p2d). Guest judges: Singer-songwriters Jean Johnson-Witherspoon and Valerie Doby. My Funny Valentine – Old Hollywood Talent Show: Power of Positive Music Movement presents the event with contestants in K-12 and adult categories, 5 p.m. The Wildlife Learning Center has been giving, since 2007, “displaced, rescued, and zoo-born wild animals a home” (read more on the website). Event also includes chocolate covered strawberries and one glass of champagne or sparkling cider. 10, followed by a presentation on the mating rituals of giraffes, squirrel monkeys, sloths and other animals, 5-6 p.m. ![]() Fifty Shades of Wildlife – Wildlife Learning Center: An adults-only event that includes a self-guided tour of the facility, 4:30-5 p.m. As We Dwell, 441 Seaton St., Los Angeles. Free admission, however register to attend on the Eventbrite link: /5yntcpj6. The event will have calligraphy and cardmaking tutorials, letterpress arts, papercrafts, a display of vintage typewriters and Valentine writing stations. Typewriter Connection’s Love Letters – A Valentine’s Pop-up Market and Type-In: The public is invited to use a typewriter to compose a Valentine’s Day greeting to loved ones, with assistance by artisans, crafters and poets, 3-8 p.m. 12 requires separate tickets for all individual lectures. 11 $99 for a three-day pass the post conference on Feb. 9-11 requires a day pass per each individual day (includes exhibit halls, lectures, free events and workshops). ![]() Los Angeles Conscious Life Expo – Planetary Transformation: The 22nd annual event includes presentations on body and mind alternative healing, meditation, paranormal, spiritual and wellness topics, Feb. ![]() ![]() The Dow Jones Coal Index dropped 93 per cent over the past five years. Peabody Energy, the largest private-sector coal company in the world, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this April, following Arch and Alpha. The report said coal, which accounts for over 40 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions is declining rapidly in value, especially in the United States. The Clean200 ranks the largest publicly listed companies by their total clean energy revenues, "with a few additional screens to help ensure the companies are indeed building the infrastructure and services". Where the Carbon Underground 200TM (which evolved from the Carbon Tracker Initiative report, Unburnable Carbon: Are the World's Financial Markets Carrying a Carbon Bubble), ranks the largest publicly listed companies by the carbon intensity of their coal, oil, and gas reserves. The report said it is intended as the clean energy inverse of the Carbon Underground 200TM. The Carbon Clean 200 (Clean200TM)-a list of the 200 largest companies worldwide was created based on their total clean energy revenues. COP21 refers to 21st annual Conference of the Parties in Paris from November 30 to December 11 2015. "Over the past five years, and growing dramatically leading up to and post-Paris COP21, a movement of institutional and individual investors representing more than $3.4 trillion in assets under management have divested a portion of their fossil fuel investments and committed to divesting the balance in the next five years," the Carbon Clean 200: Investing in a Clean Energy Future said in a report released on Wednesday. Besides, IDFC Ltd is at 155 for its green infrastructure financing and Havells India at 166 for energy meters.įour Indian companies - Godrej Industries, NHPC Ltd, SJVN, and Bharat Electronics - have moved out of the rankings for being laggards and being utilities producing less than 50 per cent green energy. ![]() Thermax Ltd is at 139 and Exide Indus at 153 for electric storage batteries. The ranking has been done by As You Sow and Corporate Knights.Īmong Indian companies are Suzlon Energy at 68 rank for its wind farms, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd at 106 for its wind electric generators and solar cells, and Tata Chemicals at 114 for chemicals for biodiesel, solar energy, and fuel cells. The list is topped by Japan's Toyota Motor followed by Germany's Siemens AG. ![]() ![]() Seven Indian companies have made it to a carbon-clean list of 200 largest companies worldwide ranked by their total clean-energy revenues. ![]() ![]() You're now assigning a button shortcut to a slider, and a slider has more values than just on and off. The biggest one is a big slider called "Range". You will see new options appear in the Shortcuts tab. Now go into Shortcuts mode, and assign a shortcut to the Opacity of the Invert RGB effect. You can now strobe the inverted clip, using the Opacity parameter to control the rate. Leave all its parameters alone, but just change the effect's Blend Mode to TimeSwitcher. Let's first set up a fun parameter to play with. You can get even further down the rabbit hole when you assign a button shortcut to a slider parameter. This will let you turn the control OFF while the button is held, and ON when released. ![]() Once you enable Piano mode for a shortcut, you also get the option to Invert. If you prefer, you can call this option Momentary or Flash or whatever floats your boat. Piano is easy to remember and reminds you that you're playing an instrument. "But Resolume, that's not how a piano works at all!" Yes, you're right. All buttons in Resolume can be set to Piano mode, which means that they will be on for as long as you hold the key down, and turn off when you release the key again. ![]() Still, it has one option, namely "Piano". The Composition Bypass is a very basic control, it can either be on or off. You can also choose different options for your selected control. In this tab, you can see all your keyboard shortcuts in a handy list. This tab is only visible while you're in Shortcuts mode. In the bottom right of the interface, you'll see the Shortcuts tab. Go back into Keyboard Shortcut mode, and select the Composition Bypass again. Press the Escape key to exit the Shortcut mode, and you can now bash that spacebar to toggle the Composition Bypass on and off. Now press the spacebar, and voila, you've assigned your first shortcut! If the Bypass button was big enough, you could even read it had the spacebar assigned to it. So find the Composition Bypass button in the top left of the interface and click on it with the mouse. Shortcut-ception! ToggleĮverything blue can have a shortcut assigned to it. You can also use CTRL-SHIFT-K as a shortcut to enter Shortcut mode. The interface will now turn partially blue. You create shortcuts by opening the Shortcuts menu, and choosing which protocol you want to create a shortcut for. This is useful as a sort of panic button ("oh no, get it off mah screen!"), or to create tension before a big drop. So when we press spacebar, the whole output should go black. We want the spacebar to be a blackout button. Let's start with a simple keyboard shortcut. ![]() If you're running Arena, you can also use DMX input from a lighting desk. Resolume supports external control via your computer keyboard, MIDI controllers and OSC messages. Except this time, you get to decide what the shortcuts are. Sort of like how CTRL-C and CTRL-V are shortcuts for copy-pasting. You use shortcuts to assign a button on your computer keyboard or MIDI controller to a control in Resolume. Sometimes, you want an exact thing to happen at an exact moment, without having to scroll and search for it with the mouse. But during a live performance, you'll want to have more control than what the mouse can offer. You can access every parameter and set it with precision. Controlling Resolume with the mouse is great. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() First of all the level select screen looks like it was ripped straight from PvZ 2, the lives is taken from candy crush saga, AND THEY LITRALY JUST STOLE THE CLANS FETURE FROM CLASH OF CLANS AND CALLED IT CLANS, THEY DIDENT EVEN TRY TO HIDE IT. Similarities to other games: This game steals from so many other mobile games. We also had to wait 3 full years for hal, bubbles and stella to be added back in the game, WHY?ĥ. The other games had areas that were diverse and unique, it is very easy to tell 2 worlds apart in AB seasons, but in AB 2 all the worlds look like they were copy and pasted over and over. Other stuff about the game: The game's areas look boring and bland. Because the game is manipulating kids to play this game more and if they don't feed the hatchling it will be sad and run away witch could make kids sad and cry.Ĥ. This live system obviously just exists because MONEY!!! There is also a hatchling you can feed to get more feathers. You can get them back if you wait longer. And the way you can get them back is either by paying real money or watch an add. first of all there are the lives, you get 5 lives and you will lose 1 live every time you lose a level, and if you lose all of your lives. Microtransactions: Boy are there a lot of those. There are also spells that just make the game easer than it already is.ģ. And there is the daily challenge were you can lose lives unlike the arena. Mighty Eagle's Bootcamp is just a shop, nothing else to say about this mode. If you get the pig card, you can watch an add to pass or pay with gems. In the tower of fortune you can get upgrades for your birds however you can not see any of the cards, and one of them is a pig card. Now the arena its a multiplayer mode and its just as bad as the base game though you don't lose lives when you lose in this mode. Now there is the cosmetics, not really much to say about them, other than they look like they were stolen from PvZ 2. She's fine can be useful some times but sense the level design is randomly generated, it mostly just ends up making her completely USELESS. First lets start with the new bird, silver. New stuff: Okay so there is tons of new stuff that this "sequel" brought to the table, all of witch ****. Another problem with this is that because it is an roguelike, there is a new version of each level every time you re-start, meaning that it is impossible to practice them.Ģ. There is no way to tell a bot how to create meaning full puzzles without them becoming boring and easy. While I do like the roguelike genera, for some reason it gets merged with other genera's that are NOT designed for roguelikes. Level design: This level design is stupidly easy, it becomes a mindless game were all you have to do is just fling birds at buildings and pray that something hits those structures, and the reason for this because the game's levels are randomly generated making it a roguelike. Angry Birds 2 is bad game, it is a downgrade from the original and here is why:ġ. ![]() ![]() ![]() Isn’t it amazing how trusting God can most definitely change your life, especially whenever you may be having various difficulties at any point of your lifetime? My mom, Cynthia Echols, has given me such a wonderful book in Jesus Calling by Sarah Young. I ♥ what God must have in store for me as 2015 roars into full swing. To be entered to win, leave a comment below with your prayer for 2015. I’m giving away signed copies of Made to Crave today to 5 random commenters. You’ll find a friend who understands, biblical teaching that is surprisingly motivational, and a victorious perspective in the pages of this book. Whether you’re in those places or somewhere in the middle my book, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food can help. Or, maybe you are on the other end of the spectrum and need ongoing encouragement to stay healthy. Welcome my unsettled heart.Īre you ready to be unsettled in a good way? Maybe you’re at the beginning of your journey and feel intimidated by the long road ahead. Welcome deeper love for God and the realization I am made for more than this constant battle. ![]() I am an unsettled woman who no longer wishes to take part in distractions or destructions. Goodbye to shallow efforts, self-focus, and suspicious fears that I’ll never find victory in this area of my life. This is not who I am - nor who I was created to be. Goodbye to my remnants, my justification, shards, and tendencies. I can rest assured though the journey will be hard, I will be held. I can recognize the beauty of discipline and crave the intimacy with God it unleashes. I can discover reasons to appreciate my body and find softer ways for my thoughts to land. I can delight in hope that this is my year to change. For when I allow Your touch to reach the deepest parts of me - dark and dingy and hidden away too long - suddenly, a fresh wind of life twists and twirls and dances through my soul. I dare you, dear soul of mine, to notice the stark evidence of a spirit that is tainted and a heart that must be placed under the microscope of God’s Word. And if that’s all the bad that’s in me, I’m doing pretty good.” Attitudes that I’ve wrapped in the lie, “Well, that’s just how I am. A contented heart, thankful for its blessings, is a good way to settle.īut there are areas of my life that have also settled that mock my desires to be a godly woman - compromises, if you will. The funny thing is, I’ve spent my whole existence trying to find a place to settle down, people to settle down with, and a spirit about me worthy of all this settled down-ness. But these are the words, this is the prayer. Surely more eloquent words could be found for what I’m feeling led to pursue during this New Year. ![]() I almost wish it were a more glamorous prayer. These are the two words rattling about in my brain today. These are the words I wrote in my prayer journal… So, I prayed this simple prayer: Unsettle me. My stomach would soon be overstuffed and my resolve worn quite thin.īut that year I just couldn’t bring myself to write the list again. Yadda, yadda, yadda.īut each year around January 7, I’d get invited to a party where treats were plentiful and motivation scarce. I started out with great gusto to eat less, move more, make this a healthy lifestyle, and live in victory. After all, my list from one year to the next could have simply been a photocopy from the year before. I didn’t write a long list of resolutions as I had in previous years. That year, the year I finally got my eating issues under control, I started with a very simple New Year’s prayer. So when I lost 25 pounds a few years ago and kept it off for the first time in my life, it was a huge victory. I wanted to stop crying when I walked into my closet to get dressed in the morning. I wanted to be naturally thin like my sister. I wanted to stop calling myself awful names I’d never let another person call me. I wanted something to instantly fix my issues. My soul was rubbed raw from years of trying and failing. For most of my life, I’ve struggled with my weight and committing to a healthy lifestyle. ![]() ![]() One of the standout features for me was the impeccable output quality. This efficiency sets TunePat apart from other similar services I've used in the past. 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WhatsApp for desktop is available for 64-bit operating systems and provides users with an easy way to continue conversations even from their laptops. As more and more users began using the app for texting and video calling, the company started releasing the app for different platforms. WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps in the world. In addition to this, WhatsApp download offers end-to-end encryption, group chat functionality, a wide range of emoticons and GIFs, status update feature, and more. As a cross-platform app, it syncs texts across devices-irrespective of whether you’re using it from your PC or Android smartphone. Then, you can access and use WhatsApp without a QR code.WhatsApp 64-bit for Windows is a free messaging application that lets users connect with friends and family around the world. Enter your phone number and verify the number. Type WhatsApp in the search bar and click Install to install it.ĥ. ![]() Launch BlueStacks and sign in to Google Play with your Google account.Ģ. This process can take some time, so wait patiently.ġ.
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