![]() ![]() Characters like Shun’ie and Terry rely on close-range attacks with some specials that can close the distance, while Athena is all about being able to fire out ranged attacks and close the distance with a spin move. I’m incredibly basic so I stuck with Shun’ie, arguably the game’s main character, Kyo, and Terry Bogard (hey, that’s that them there guy from Smash), but I also messed around with most of the roster and found them all to be very different from one another. I was hesitant about it at first, but then I realised I wouldn’t have to deal with twats online swapping their characters every chance they get to avoid being knocked out and I instantly loved it. That means you need to think carefully about the order of your fighters to try to balance their strengths and weaknesses. Capcom do a similar thing, it’s different here as fighters can’t be tagged out. You’ll have the chance to get used to three characters at once, as each player picks a team of three. Instead, everyone here feels incredibly distinct from one another and I don’t doubt they’d each take a long time to master. With 39 characters at launch, it’s a stacked roster that doesn’t feel loaded with clone characters or ‘this fighter but with wings’. Speaking of characters, that’s one of the areas where KoF15 shines the brightest. What seems like a simple tournament is actually backed up by characters with powers they can’t control, long-dead names being resurrected, and weird snake demons. ![]() Some background research told me that there’s a hell of a lot more going on with its story and characters than you might think. Special mention has to go to the stages, which are full of fun little details like the Metal Slug POWs in the Sahara level.Īlthough the graphics discourse is well-known, this is still my first King of Fighters, so the characters and world are completely new to me. It’s nothing compared to the sprites featured in older games, but the vibrant colours and animations help give each character a ton of personality and keep the experience upbeat along with the kick-ass electric soundtrack. ![]() KoF14 was notorious for its cheap-looking graphics as it transitioned to 3D models, but none of that is present here and it’s pretty close to Street Fighter 5 or SoulCalibur 6 in terms of visual quality. See you on online when the KOF XV Open Beta Test kicks off November 19, on PS4 and PS5.Even without any extra padding, The King of Fighters 15 has managed to solve one of its biggest issues right out of the gate - its look. Room Match in particular features KOF XV’s newest feature-Draft Vs, which will undoubtedly take your fights to a whole new level. There’s two online and two offline modes Casual Match and Room Match can be accessed online while Training and Versus are accessible offline. What’s a fighting game without different fighting modes, and this Open Beta Test features plenty to keep you busy. This is a big chance for many fans to try out the heavily anticipated resurrected characters. Naturally, there’s crossplay between both consoles, and so we hope you’ll join us in playing together online.īegins: November 19 at 7:00pm PST / 3:00am BST (4:00am CET) / 12:00pm JSTĮnds: November 22 at 6:59am PST / 2:59pm BST (3:59pm CET) / 11:59pm JST Open Beta Test Outlineįor this Open Beta Test, players can select from eight characters: Dolores, a KOF XV newcomer, Shun’ei, the hero for KOF XV, the team members for Team Orochi-Yashiro, Shermie, and Chris, and finally the team members for Team Sacred Treasures-Kyo Kusanagi, Iori Yagami, and Chizuru Kagura. Some may have noticed the details on her clothing are similar to the embroidery found on another character, and so along with that info and the fact that she’s paired up with such a strange team means this story is something you won’t want to miss! Get ready for some awesome fights with the cool and collected mysterious Dolores.Īn Open Beta Test for PS4 and PS5 consoles has been announced to test out the smooth online fighting experience. Also, she’s joined arms with the general Heidern and another new character, Isla. Our newest character is quite mysterious, as she’s a medium who can speak to the earth and control holy soil. Try out the Open Beta Test when it launches to experience the game and all its crazy fun fighting systems. ![]() Vibrant and powerful special moves shake up the stage as Shatter Strike, a new gameplay mechanic introduced in KOF XV makes fights more exciting than ever. KOF is also known for its large roster, and KOF XV does not slack in this department either as it boasts 39 playable characters on launch. Excluding spinoffs, the series has now reached 15 mainline titles (currently KOF XV), and its classic 3-on-3 team battle system is as robust as ever. The King of Fighters (KOF) first came onto the scene in 1994 and became one of SNK’s leading fighting game series. ![]()
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![]() A person who weighs 160 pounds running for 30 minutes at 5 mph will burn 291 calories.Calories Burned Per 30 Minutes of Running Below are a few estimates of how many calories are burned during a 30-minute run based on three different body weights. The more you weigh, however, the more effort required by your body to move, and therefore the more calories your body will burn. Running at a slower pace for a long time can burn just as many calories as running fast for a shorter period. These factors don’t necessarily mean that you have to run a five-minute mile in order to burn fat, however. Three significant factors influence the number of calories your body will burn: your body weight, the distance covered during your run, and your running speed. All you need is a good pair of running shoes! How Many Calories Do We Burn When We Run? Unlike swimming and cycling, running does not require any particular facility or equipment. What makes running the best workout for fat loss is the convenience and accessibility that come with it. There is a long list of fat burning exercises that you can do, such as running, swimming, rowing, cycling, and jogging. This stimulates the release of fat from the cells, which is then broken down to be used as fuel. When you start running, adrenaline is released into the bloodstream. ![]() So what makes running such a good fat burner? Well, fat burning is defined as our body’s way of oxidizing fat and using it as fuel. ![]() We’ve put together an easy-to-follow four-week running challenge that is customizable to any runner at any level. Tackling fat loss can seem like a big challenge, but it can be as simple as heading out for a simple run. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each and every one of the guide writers listed in Problem Sleuth and Homestuck is a real GameFAQs contributor.ChaosDemon crafted a small fort out of perfectly generic objects, and hid inside while weeping until the meteor came." ![]() He then bets that "winnie the poop's was particularly catastrophic." Later in the book, he says that "SanctuaryRemix was probably killed before his session started, in a gruesome lathe accident. On the first page of the book, Hussie notes that they all also wrote guides on Problem Sleuth (inferior to his own, of course), and muses on how their Sburb sessions turned out, other than obviously miserable failures. ![]() The fates of the other Sburb walkthrough writers are considered in the Homestuck Book 2 commentary. She then transfers the file off GameFAQs to a remote server located in the Furthest Ring, where it is later/earlier read by Kanaya. Rose's last update is written when she destroys her first gate. John also writes part of it, explaining how he discovered a way to merge the codes of two captchalogued items to create a merged item. Rose Lalonde writes an FAQ for Sburb, which she updates as she and John play through the game. Sburb is put under the genre of "Immersive Simulation", which would be pretty accurate as it actually affects the real world that John is in. GameFAQs first appears in Homestuck when Rose Lalonde is searching through it to find some walkthroughs on Sburb to help John Egbert figure out what he's supposed to do. In Homestuck Further information: Rose's walkthrough The FAQ which was used by Problem Sleuth was written by none other than Andrew Hussie. Most notably, checking GameFAQS for cheats is the intended solution (the one not pursued by losers who have way too much time) to the plight of the four kingdoms. GameFAQs can be used not only by impatient players, but also, somehow, the characters themselves ( PS and PI) with the aid of the Code Machine. It makes an appearance in both Problem Sleuth and Homestuck. GameFAQs is a website that hosts FAQs and walkthroughs for video games. ![]() ![]() ✔️ For dryness and cracked skin: Seek out "humectants like glycerin and hyaluronic acid to draw moisture into skin, plus occlusive ingredients like shea butter and petrolatum that will seal moisture in preventing hydration loss," Wnek advises. Here are other points to keep in mind when searching for the right hand cream for your needs: "Simple moisturization and sun protection are the best treatments for hands," Dr. What to look for when shopping for the best hand creams In total, the GH Beauty Lab tallied 2,853 data points to find the best-performing hand creams on the market. Combining Lab results and consumer feedback, the experts crunched the numbers and found which products were cream of the crop for moisturization, texture, application and scent. ![]() GH Beauty Lab scientists then recruited 77 women to evaluate the label-masked hand creams and report back on how the product felt, absorbed and smelled. Six hours later, testers returned to the Lab for another measurement to determine which creams actually improved moisturization. We calculated a moisture reading of bare skin, then dispensed a controlled amount of each product onto testers' forearms and measured hydration content a second time. ![]() In the GH Beauty Lab's most recent test of hand creams, scientists evaluated 17 hand creams for their ability to hydrate skin, first using the Corneometer, a device that measures skin moisture levels. "I keep one in my handbag and one on my night table to remind me to apply before bed." "It’s super hydrating but not greasy and has the perfect uplifting scent," says GH beauty editor Dori Price. This indulgent Fresh hand cream, a GH editor favorite, is beautifully packaged and small enough to tote on the go. Based on extensive testing, we believe these are the most effective hand creams you can buy to heal and hydrate dry, cracked skin. We evaluate hand creams in our Lab using technical instruments to measure skin hydration and on consumer testers, who report their feedback on ease of use, texture, scent, look and feel of skin after application and more. To help you sort through the endless formulas on the market, we have put dozens of the most popular hand creams through our rigorous tests over the years. ![]() "You should see and feel the results almost immediately." And dermatologists agree: "It's so important to keep hands moisturized, as they are subject to even more environmental damage than the face," adds Gregory Brown, M.D., founder of RéVive Skincare in Louisville, Kentucky. "Hand creams hydrate skin, leaving hands feeling soft and looking smooth and plump," says Good Housekeeping Institute Beauty Lab chemist Danusia Wnek. ![]() Enter hand cream, which is a must for keeping the delicate skin soft and free from dryness, especially for aging and working hands, in dry climates or seasons like winter and when frequently washing your hands. We revised this guide in February 2023 with updated pricing and availability information for our top-tested picks.Īlthough the hands are amongst the hardest-working parts of the body, they're often not given the care of other skin (like the face). ![]() ![]() Side to Side Turning: +/- 90 degrees from center. Multi-touch gestures for system controls. The X-Porte ultrasounds large monitor tilts and turns for optimal viewing in a crowded room or for interacting with patients. Mirror image: sound bounces off diaphragm, returning to trasnducer with a longer time of flight. Machine interprets this as more liver tissue across the diaphragm. Stand Height (max): 64 (monitor up) Stand Height (min): 42.2 (monitor down) Height Adjustment: 9 travel.Low-attenuating tissue causes everything behind it to appear HYPERechoic or more visible.Low-attenuation: sound passes through object very easily.A shadow results behind a high-attenuating object.This makes the objects behind less visible.High-attenuation: Objects decrease the sound wave.Top of screen is lateral, bottom is medial Coronal: indicator to patient’s head, but probe on lateral side of body.Probe placed across body right to left to create an axial view with probe marker pointing to patient's right Transverse: indicator to patient’s right.Probe placed vertically along body to create a sagittal view with probe marker pointing to patient's head Sagittal: indicator to patient’s head.GEN = General = Middle of the probe’s frequency range.PEN = Penetration = Lowest end of the probe’s frequency range.RES = Resolution = Highest end of the probe’s frequency range.You can select higher or lower frequency for each probe Automatic laser positioning system with two-LCD touch screen control. Each transducer has a range of frequencies. ![]() Use for soft tissue, vascular access, musculoskeletal, lungs.Linear: no array of waves, waves are spread out evenly.Use for smaller spaces (between ribs, to look at lungs, heart, etc.).Phased array: all waves originate from a single point.Curvilinear: large “footprint”, best resolution centralized. ![]() If you want, you can then drag controls to empty slots on the right side so they appear on the main screen.
![]() ![]() ![]() You are currently charged with another serious or violent crime felony.You have two (2) prior convictions for serious or violent felonies AND. ![]() How does California’s three-strike sentencing work?Ĭalifornia’s three-strikes sentencing law requires longer, harsher prison sentences for felony defendants who have any “strike” priors. History of California three strikes law and criminal justice reformġ. How can I fight a charge in a three-strikes case? How do I appeal a three strikes sentence? What crimes count as strikes under California’s three strikes law? Custody credits and consecutive sentences How does California’s three-strike sentencing work? Our California criminal defense attorneys answer the following questions below: You may also be able to apply for parole. If you or a loved one are serving time under three strikes, you may be able to get the sentence reduced. Some people who were sentenced as “strikers” in the past would not be today. Or you can fight to have a felony charge reduced to a misdemeanor.Ĭalifornia’s three-strikes law has changed a lot over the past decade. You can ask a judge to remove a strike prior by way of a Romero motion. You can fight a California three strikes sentence in different ways. She is charged with grand theft for shoplifting from a jewelry store. Because carjacking is a serious felony, she is a “second striker.” 6 This means her potential prison term for the grand theft charge will be twice as long as the normal sentence. Sophia has a prior conviction for carjacking.5 But Mark is a “third striker.” So he faces a mandatory sentence of 25 years to life. 4 Normally the maximum prison sentence for California burglary is only six years. (This is a “serious felony.” 3) A decade later, he is charged with burglary of a residence, another serious felony. Mark has two prior convictions for robbery.Here are some examples of defendants who could face a longer sentence under California three strikes: (ii) Imprisonment in the state prison for 25 years.” , the term for the current felony conviction shall be an indeterminate term of life imprisonment with a minimum term of the indeterminate sentence calculated as the greatest of: (i) Three times the term otherwise provided as punishment for each current felony conviction subsequent to the two or more prior serious or violent felony convictions. f a defendant has two or more prior serious or violent felony convictions. the determinate term or minimum term for an indeterminate term shall be twice the term otherwise provided as punishment for the current felony conviction. (1) If a defendant has one prior serious or violent felony conviction. Second strikers also receive a double sentence under Penal Code 667. who already have a violent felony or serious felony prior convictions.Three strikes law also doubles the prison sentence for people The law is codified in Penal Code Section 667 PC. California’s three-strikes law is a controversial sentencing scheme that imposes a state prison sentence of 25 years to life on a defendant (1) who is convicted of a violent or serious felony offense, and (2) who already has at least two prior convictions for violent or serious felony offenses. ![]() ![]() ![]() Is it set up to interface well with PS, stand along or both?Ĭool, give it whirl! And I'm not sure about the PS thing yet. I'm not a fan of the catalogs either, +1 hierarchical folders. ![]() I'll see how it plays on an old T60, 1.83GHz C2D, 32bit, maxed 3GB on Vista. Something like a Tor network which makes you location independent. But you can only take advantage of the deal if you're either in the USA or are using ![]() Right now Amazon has it for sale for $14.99 as a download. Me, I'm uninstalling LR all together - that's for sure! They've put together quite a system with hordes of free plug-ins and a fairly I have a feeling some here will be typing CASP or ASP in their posts more often than LRįrom now on. DL the trial version, walk through all the preferences to optimize it for your particular system, then try out all the features, andĬome back here and tell us what you thought - good or bad. That's fast in the extreme - given the machine spec! Batch processing 100 such 16mpx GH2 raw files took considerably less time with an average 0.63 seconds for each. Processing, converting, and saving one raw-to-jpeg image at a time occurs in about 0.8 seconds with every slider and adjustment set to something My little old MP1,1 with GTX570 can select, apply many many adjustments, and display GH2 RAW files in 0.27s or 3 FPS depending how you look at it. And the various tool pallets can be docked and floated for us multi-monitor users. It's got Versioning, Stacking, Keywording, Tagging, and Star Rating to help with progressive edit revisions and soįorth. No fancy wipes or anything but this is a RAW processor so I'm not sure how fitting something Interval, border offsets, and so on as available options. It also has a slide-show feature but it's fairly simplistic with just PDF files, Proof (Contact) Sheets, and so on. Or Aperture, there's no learning curve to deal with - just a HUGE speed increase and who doesn't want that? It has some nice output featuresīut nothing others don't have IIRC. ![]() The review-and-select toolsĪre similar to all other good PP apps I've tried so finding, sorting, and tagging stuff is done in the usual ways. User definable folders for all of its cache, work, proofs, previews, and profiles so it won't make a mess of things either. It supports catalogs which I personally dislike, and also OS hierarchal folder structures of your own devise - which is what I prefer. Up version of NoiseNinja and B&W processor with selective color capabilities. It sports a plug-inĪrchitecture but I haven't looked yet to see what APIs it's using nor if the plugs are compatible with those from/for other apps. I guess the spline data is saved in either of it's two kinds of XMP sidecar files. The selection splines can be editedĪt any time during editing or after saving the files out. Options for independent layers which allow opacity and unique selection spline sets and/or brush strokes per layer. Layer brushing can be as accurate as 2 pixels and selection areas are sub-pixel accurate. It has layer masks for selective editing and processing. The last 4 or 5 revision releases have offered OpenCL support as you can see from the image above. Much faster than LR on my liquid-cooled 16-core 4+ GHz Boxx 8980 XTREME with dual Tesla cards and 32GB RAM!Īll the usual raw processing tools plus some unexpected goodies are presented in a pretty slick highly customizable, gooey (GUI): Running AfterShot Pro on my ancient 2006 MacPro1,1 (w/32GB RAM, and 8-cores of x5355 Xeon at 2.67GHz & GTX570) acts The Corel site starts off the introductory blurb with "Corel® AfterShot™ Pro is a fast." and as these kinds of blurbs typically go they're drastically There's a trial version available on the home site here. It's available for Windows, Mac, and Linux so you're afforded a bit of platform freedom with it. Man, have you guys used this yet? Drop the poorly-written slow-as-molasses LightRoom and put aside CaptureOne for awhile and give this a try! I just got this only a yesterday but I've found that's about the same as a few weeks for the less app-aggressive users out there. ![]() ![]() States with higher access to legal cannabis were associated with higher relative internet search volumes for cannabis (Coeff (95% CI), 0.31 (0.15–0.46)). Relative internet search rates for cannabis from 2008 to 2019 were also associated with increased cannabis usage in the past month (Coeff (95% CI), 3.1 (2.5–3.7)). In 2016, significant state-level findings included an increase in relative internet search rates for cannabis in states with higher usage rates of cannabis in the past month (Coeff (95% CI), 3.4 (2.8–4.0)) and past month illicit drug use except cannabis rates (Coeff (95% CI), 17.4 (9.8–25.0)). For the US, observed internet search interest during each Presidential Election was 26.9% greater than expected in 2012 and 29.8% greater than expected in 2016. Public internet search interest for “cannabis” increased during the voting month above the previous mean internet search interest for all 18 bills. Individual variables were compared using a linear regression analysis for the beta coefficients performed in Stata Version 15.1 (StataCorp). We used the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) algorithm to forecast expected relative internet search interests for the 20 Presidential Elections. These policies included Education, Gun Control, Climate Change, Global Warming, and Abortion. To evaluate whether any associations with changes in the volume of cannabis internet searches were specific to the cannabis topic, or also occurred with other topics of general interest during an election year, the authors ran additional analyses of previously popular debated policies during Presidential Elections that may act as control topics. ![]() ![]() We then compared the internet search interest for cannabis before and after each election. These state elections were referenda, not legislative votes. ![]() Google Trends data were extracted during the time period of to for the United States (US) and select states (18) within the US including: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, and Washington when cannabis was on the ballot. We searched Google Trends for “cannabis” as a health topic. ![]() ![]() The matcher utilizes dynamic programming techniques, runs in polynomial time and is fully described in (Large, 1993). This extension provides a function, dynamicMatch.m to perform this task. ![]() Sometimes an analysis of music performance requires matching a performance to its corresponding notation, or score. » Extensions Matching Performance to Notation Author: Ed Large, Associate Professor of Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University ![]() The toolbox should be compatible with the lastest operating systems (Mac, Win, Linux) and Matlab versions. Secondly, a version of the Matlab program needs to be installed (see Thirdly, the Toolbox needs to be defined in the Matlab path variable. This will create a directory called miditoolbox. Unpack the MIDI Toolbox file package you have downloaded. University of Jyväskylä: Kopijyvä, Jyväskylä, Finland. MIDI Toolbox: MATLAB Tools for Music Research. To cite the MIDI Toolbox, use the following reference to the User's Manual (downloadable from this page, see below):Įerola, T. An article about the toolbox (Eerola & Toiviainen, ISMIR 2004).visit the Github page for the user manual.Chapter 4 demonstrates the Toolbox functions using various examples and Chapter 5 constitutes the function reference section. The documentation provides a description of the Toolbox (Chapter 1), installation and system requirements (Chapter 2). MIDI Toolbox is available from Github: » Documentation If you have any comments or problems to report, please contact the authors (PT: firstname.lastname at jyu.fi, TE: firstname.lastname at durham.ac.uk). Tuomas Eerola (Professor) is currently employed at Durham University, UK. ![]() Petri Toiviainen (Professor) is employed at the Department of Music of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland and member of the Finnish Centre for Interdisciplinary Music Research, which investigates various issues relating to music cognition. The Toolbox is available free of charge under the GNU General Public License. Besides simple manipulation and filtering functions, the toolbox contains cognitively inspired analytic techniques that are suitable for context-dependent musical analysis that deal with such topics as melodic contour, similarity, key-finding, meter-finding and segmentation. The MIDI Toolbox is a compilation of functions for analyzing and visualizing MIDI files in the Matlab computing environment. University of Jyväskylä Teacher Training Schoolĭepartment of Biological and Environmental Scienceįinnish institute for Educational ResearchĬentre for Multilingual academic communication Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics Department of Language and Communication Studiesĭepartment of Music, Art and Culture Studiesĭepartment of Social Sciences and Philosophy ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Importantly, NASA will also work with the community to determine 'acceptable sound levels' for supersonic travel. The first step is for Lockheed Martin to develop some baseline aircraft requirements and, based on early research, outline a preliminary design for QueSST over the next 17 months. That design will then undergo initial testing, including wind tunnel validation, before NASA decides whether or not it'll be worth building. They've contracted aeronautical giants Lockheed Martin to complete a preliminary design of the aircraft for them, which they're calling Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST). As you can imagine, not exactly ideal for heavily trafficked flight paths.īut NASA hopes to change all that by developing a jet that's capable of quieter, or 'low boom', supersonic travel, and could allow commercial passengers to fly at speeds greater than the speed of sound again. It's hoped that the new jet could eventually fill the commercial gap left by the retirement of the Concorde - which travelled at twice the speed of sound (Mach 2) and could get passengers from London to New York in just 3.5 hours - but without all the noise complaints.įrom an engineering point of view, we've long had the ability to travel at supersonic speeds - which is generally anything over 1,234 km/h - but when we do, it triggers a sound explosion that can travel thousands of metres in a jet's wake, rattling houses and cars as it goes. ![]() |