![]() I’d recommend writing custom EA-related questions for the game. ![]() Another useful additional step to make this a fair process is to start with a different team each time you go around the room to gather answers. Although I’d recommend still asking the teams to write down and commit to their answer in advance, as there is some incentive to modify both answers and bets once you know how other teams are answering/betting. ![]() The game rules suggest that all answers and bets should be written down and handed in before being made public, however this can be difficult in a large venue and I find it easier to just ask around the teams and type them into the spreadsheet live. This means that a seven question game typically takes around 90 minutes to complete, once you account for gathering answers and stepping between questions. I’d suggest allowing closer to 5 minutes for robust team discussion on each of these steps. With EA-type mindset teams and good questions each of these stages can take substantially longer than the one minute suggested in the rules. Each question consists of two stages, estimating the answer, and then betting on answers. It allows up to seven teams, and I would suggest aiming for close to this number, with teams as small as two people if necessary. It functions exactly the same way as the board version but is best displayed on a large screen so that all teams can see it. MechanicsĪlthough the game was originally developed as a board game, with each participant playing individually, there is a version developed as an Excel spreadsheet to allow large groups to play. By writing custom EA relevant questions it also allows participants to flex some of their knowledge and others to connect with useful EA metrics. In an EA context, the game offers an opportunity to practise creating quick Fermi estimates and to work on judgement calibration. Wits & Wagers is a trivia-based game that involves both answering questions, and betting on the other player's answers, with points awarded for being correct in either or both. I’ll lay out why I believe the game is relevant in an EA context, the mechanics of playing the game in a large group, how to write good custom EA questions, and some reflections on playing the game at recent retreats. They have consistently gone down well, with several people noting them as a highlight of the retreat. We have played the game at every yearly retreat for the past five years, with me writing questions and hosting for three of them, and playing as part of a team in the other two. I'd like to share my experience in both running and playing the game Wits & Wagers at EA retreats in New Zealand. ![]()
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![]() My sandwich was not exactly one-of-a-kind, but it was simple and good. Can I blame pregnancy brain for this even if it happened before I was pregnant? Luckily there was no harm done and my kitchen didn’t explode as a result of my oversights. Turns out I should have made half a recipe of the topping since I was only making 6 rolls! I promise that I really do read a recipe all the way through before I start cooking, but sometimes I miss things. I realized in rereading this recipe that I should have added more water to my topping to make it less stiff and easier to spread. The topping adds great visual appeal and texture to the finished product. But they baked up beautifully and the topping lived up to its title of dutch crunch, but wasn’t striped like it should have been. As I spread it (or tried to) on top of the risen rolls I had some serious doubts. The topping struck me as strange when I mixed it up and did not look like the recipe said it should. And that makes me a little weird, I know. The dough was so easy, smooth and lovely. I chose a simple soft white bread that I made into rolls. We were given a couple of bread recipes to use as the vehicle for the dutch crunch topping. Whenever I find myself in Northern California I will make sure to keep an eye out for it. Making this bread made me want to go try the real thing sometime. that I would have otherwise gone my whole life without knowing anything about. One of the reasons I really like being a part of Daring Bakers is the exposure I get to foods in other countries and other regions of the U.S. Sara and Erica also challenged us to create a one of a kind sandwich with our bread! Sara and Erica of Baking JDs were our March 2012 Daring Baker hostesses! Sara & Erica challenged us to make Dutch Crunch bread, a delicious sandwich bread with a unique, crunchy topping. Thankfully it was a successful baking experience that resulted in a tasty sandwich and picnic lunch with my little family. Janet Bossetto of Hayward credits this recipe to Sunset Magazine.This month I was confronted by my fear of bread baking with this Daring Bakers challenge. Recipes cannot be returned and have not been tested in Chronicle kitchens. Or, send e-mail to Include your name, address, daytime telephone number and the source for your recipe. Send requests and contributions to " The Exchange," Food Department, The San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, Calif. The sauce had a tomato base and - no surprise here - was finished with canned pineapple. Is baked on top of the spice layers." Sawyer wonders if anyone knows the proper procedure.īarbara Budd of Woodacre is looking for an old recipe for sweet-sour spareribs developed by Del Monte. It appears that a brown sugar meringue, with chopped nuts, When she died, I found a recipe for it among her cookbooks, but it had only the ingredients, not the baking instructions. Susan Sawyer writes that "my mother always talked glowingly of 'Araby spice cake,' although I frankly never remember her making it. Lots of garlic, but who knows what else." As often as I have tried, I was unable to repeat the recipe. "They eventually sold sunshine salad dressing in local markets, such as Piedmont Grocery," she recalls, "and when I heard they were going out of business, I bought several bottles. Their pizza was fine, she writes, but it's the dressing for the signature sunshine salad that she really misses. ![]() Katherine Field says when she grew up in the East Bay, her favorite restaurant was Sunshine Pizza on Piedmont Avenue. It's for a coffee cake with blueberries that used graham cracker crumbs instead of flour. Hers appeared in a Sunday supplement in 1970. ![]() Kathleen Kasmire of Eureka also lost a recipe. She made the puffs twice, "and then the magazine was thrown away before I cut the recipe out." (Sound familiar?) Quick would love to retrieve the recipe and find out if it's as good as she remembers. The recipe contained Bisquick, grated cheddar cheese and grated onion. ![]() ![]() You may cancel automatic renewal by selecting Manage App Subscriptions in your iTunes Account settings and selecting the subscription you want to modify. You will not be able to cancel the subscription once activated. A core tenet of this project is to keep supporting 8-bit AVR boards while also maintaining a single codebase that applies equally to all machines. Your subscription will renew automatically unless canceled within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period. Subscriptions are billed via your credit card or iTunes account. For more than 18 years customers in over 160 countries have been using our flexible app to plan, manage & control their small and large projects no matter whether youre on a Mac or an iPad Merlin Project is project management with a bit of magic 16. Prices vary depending on geographical location. $39.99 anually – 14 days free trial included.$3.99 monthly – 14 days free trial included.No subscription required to open and view existing Merlin Project documents.Subscription required to create & work on projects Project Office X is a slick Project management software designed specifically for Mac and iOS devices.Bucking the trend is Merlin from German company ProjectWizards, which has been. Only pay when you actually use the app, and once you’ve tried it out in your own time. 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When humans must care for orphaned or injured baby birds, Wildlife Center staffs take special precautions to prevent them from inappropriately imprinting on humans. What does the Center do to prevent young birds from imprinting on humans? Some of these patients might be appropriate education animals the Wildlife Center has several human-imprinted birds, including Gus the Barred Owl, Jaz the American Crow, Edie the American Kestrel, and Buttercup the Black Vulture. ![]() Ultimately, imprinted birds find themselves in a “gray area” – they cannot appropriately interact with either humans or their own species.īirds who are human-imprinted are deemed unsuitable for release back into the wild due to these inappropriate interactions. They are typically not accepted by other birds of their species, likely because human-imprinted birds display odd behaviors and lack the ability to communicate properly. Human-imprinted birds also frequently have a difficult time communicating with other birds of their own species– vocalizations, postures, and a fear of humans are all things that birds learn from their parents, siblings, and other birds. It’s not unusual for an imprinted bird to exhibit territorial behaviors toward humans just as it would with members of its own species. Human-imprinted birds have no fear of people, and this lack of fear can sometimes lead to aggression toward humans. Imprinting on humans does not mean that birds will be “friendly” toward humans, nor does it mean they necessarily enjoy being near humans. Reversing the imprinting process is impossible – these birds are bonded to humans for life and will identify with humans rather that of their own species. If young birds imprint on humans, they will identify with humans for life. What happens if a bird imprints on humans? The timing of the imprinting stage varies from species to species, and some species of birds are more susceptible to imprinting inappropriately on human caregivers for reasons not fully understood. Imprinting allows baby birds to understand appropriate behaviors and vocalizations for their species, and also helps birds to visually identify with other members of their species so they may choose appropriate mates later in life. For example, precocial baby birds (such as ducks, geese, and turkeys) begin the process of imprinting shortly after hatching so that they follow the appropriate adult, providing them with safety. Imprinting for wild birds is crucial to their immediate and long-term survival. After imprinting, they will identify with that species for life. Birds do not automatically know what they are when they hatch – they visually imprint on their parents during a critical period of development. ![]() Imprinting is a form of learning in which an animal gains its sense of species identification. ![]() ![]() ![]() What started out as a basic drawing app back in 2010 has transformed over the years into a highly professional tool so much so, it's even bagged itself a couple of Apple Design Awards. If it’s a painting app for iPad you’re looking for, we highly rate Procreate. See our full Affinity Photo review for more details. If you're looking for an affordable alternative to Photoshop, Affinity Photo is definitely worth investigating. We found the Personas – customised toolsets for different jobs – to be particularly handy.Īffinity Photo is available for both Mac and Windows, and there's a separate version for iPad. When we reviewed it, we also found Affinity Photo to be less demanding on hardware than Photoshop, although that may depend on what equipment you're using (it's been specifically designed to take advantage of the latest quad-core technology). It doesn't offer all the features of Photoshop, particularly in terms of features like neural filters, but there is still a lot to impress. It also works out a lot cheaper than Photoshop in the long-run since you can buy it for a one-off cost rather than an ongoing subscription). Aimed squarely at professional photographers and designers, it's fully compatible with Photoshop and other file formats. Photoshop is only available on a subscription, whereas most of the best Photoshop alternatives below can be purchased for a one-off fee, and some are free.įrom its interface to its range of features, Affinity Photo is the closest thing to Photoshop that we've seen yet. See our how we test software guide for more info. We've evaluated them for features, ease of use, and of course value for money. In the guide below, we've made a pick of the best Photoshop alternatives mainly based on our hands-on reviews. If what you're looking more for a tool to edit photos without making such transformations, see our guide to the best photo editing software. In this guide, we'll focus on tools that offer those kinds of functionalities. It allows you to create original digital art and totally transform images with wholesale manipulations and compositions. It's worth remembering that Photoshop is a lot more than a photo-editing program. And after all, many people simply don't need all of the features that Photoshop offers, particularly if it's only to edit photos rather than make more advanced manipulations. Of course, some do remain significantly less powerful than Photoshop, but even these have their place since they're usually a lot cheaper (sometimes even free). ![]() ![]() While you can’t technically ‘farm’ Animal Crossing: New Horizons Gyroids in the same way you can with food, setting up a little farm-like area to accommodate buried Gyroids and fragments ready for watering might be a nice idea. If for whatever reason the new food items and cooking just aren’t your thing, maybe you could try making a Gyroid farm. Since the windmills are quite small, Laineyyz has also used a popular perspective trick where objects are placed on varying levels and far away to make it look like the objects are at a more accurate scale. Paired with lots of other furniture, the windmills make the farm look busy and active too. Reddit user Laineyyz has created an American ranch-style farm that uses several of the new Nook Miles windmill item. Use the new windmill for a western ranch farm my_island_is_called_windmill_and_im_super_stocked from r/AnimalCrossing You could use the pergola as a flowery tunnel leading to and from your farm, or as a junction point in the center of your farm that leads to the different crops, with flower beds and topiaries lining paths to make them clearer. You can get topiaries, flower beds, and pergolas for your island, and combining them all will allow you to create some elaborate garden displays. There are lots of new Nook Miles furniture items available now that the Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0 update is out, and you can use some of it create floral pathways in and around your farm. A post shared by Noodle & Rice (opens in new tab) ![]() ![]() KBX provides advantaged global transportation and logistics solutions to help customers win in the markets they choose to compete in. For more information on Gatik, visit and follow the company on Twitter, LinkedIn and Medium. Founded in 2017 by veterans of the autonomous technology industry, the company has offices in Mountain View and Toronto. Gatik is backed by Koch Disruptive Technologies, Innovation Endeavors, Wittington Ventures and others, and partners with industry leaders including Ryder, Goodyear and Isuzu. Gatik’s class 3-6 autonomous box trucks are commercially deployed in multiple markets including Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Ontario. The company focuses on short-haul, B2B logistics for Fortune 500 retailers and in 2021 launched the world’s first fully driverless commercial delivery service. Gatik, the leader in autonomous middle mile logistics, delivers goods safely and efficiently using its fleet of light and medium duty trucks. Gatik’s operations with Georgia-Pacific and KBX in the Dallas Fort-Worth area represent a hyper-efficient and customer-centric model designed to address shifting consumer behavior through higher asset utilization on the supply chain’s middle mile. ![]() The company’s operations there are anticipated to create over 500 new jobs by 2025, including operational, technical and business roles. Gatik opened the doors to its autonomous trucking facility in Texas in 2021, and has established a long-term presence in the state. We’re excited to see these operations form the foundation of KBX’s Autonomous Vehicle Program, as we prepare for wider-scale adoption of autonomous trucks to meet customer demand." "Our partnership with Gatik will enable us to redefine the traditional class 8 short-haul market and deliver Georgia-Pacific goods with even greater speed and efficiency. "KBX is focused on providing services that increase capacity and reduce costs in a safe, efficient way for the customers we serve," said Paul Snider, President of KBX. "Once proven, we believe autonomous deliveries will enable us to remove cost and complexity from the supply chain so that we can better serve Sam’s Club, and their members." "We are looking forward to testing this transformational technology to deliver Georgia-Pacific brands like Quilted Northern ® bath tissue and Dixie ® products to Sam’s Clubs," said Hayes Shimp, vice president of sales for Georgia-Pacific. "By integrating our class 6 autonomous solution into KBX’s sophisticated infrastructure across Dallas-Fort Worth, Gatik will be able to deliver Georgia-Pacific products to a vast network of Sam’s Club locations with unparalleled reliability, speed and consistency." "Our partnership with Georgia-Pacific and KBX is poised to transform regional distribution architecture that has traditionally relied on class 8 platforms," said Gautam Narang, CEO and co-founder, Gatik. The operations will commence in July 2022. ![]() By replacing traditional tractor trailers with autonomous box trucks, Gatik’s operations will establish a more responsive and flexible logistics network, increasing the cadence of delivery runs and the flow of goods, while reducing logistics costs and enabling near real-time inventory fulfillment. The operations involve moving Georgia-Pacific shipments from point to point on predefined short-haul routes using a dedicated autonomous vehicle fleet with 26-foot boxes, representing the first time that class 6 autonomous box trucks have been deployed to disrupt short-haul logistics networks traditionally involving class 8 trucks. Gatik’s class 6 autonomous box trucks will deliver goods to Sam’s Club locations in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Gatik, Georgia-Pacific and KBX announce multi-year commercial partnership to disrupt class 8 short-haul market. ![]() ![]() on the process of acquiring books in translation, what they are looking for, and how they are making acquisitions decisions. Editors panel features editors from large and small publishing houses in the U.S. Eastern, the Meet the Editors: An Hour with U.S. The panel is moderated by Shelf Awareness's own John Mutter. Panelists are a sterling group of booksellers and publishers: Ramunda Lark Young of MahoganyBooks, Washington, D.C., Cristina Rodriguez of Deep Vellum Bookstore, Dallas, Tex., Jeff Deutsch of the Seminary Co-op Bookstore and 57th Street Books, Chicago, Ill., John McDonald of Haymarket Books and Anne Rumberger of Verso Books. Part of the 20-20 Vision program and sponsored by Books Across Borders (the former Bookselling Without Borders), the panel will focus on the rise of political publishing and social justice handselling in the U.S. " Selling Political and Social Justice Books in the U.S." will take place on Monday, October 12, noon-1 p.m. (Most events require only that a viewer register with the book fair.) Among them: Last year, Snyder said that the first floor will be a traditional bookstore and include a coffee bar the second floor will be a multi-functional space for workshops, yoga classes, summer camps and more the upper floor will be a studio apartment for a writing residency and the outdoor grounds, including meditation gardens, will eventually be a site for outdoor concerts, theater performances, salon dinners, etc.Īlthough the Frankfurt Book Fair won't take place in the usual way next week, organizers have arranged for an extensive virtual program that includes panels and seminars addressing topics of great interest to booksellers. Ivy Bookshop completely renovated the space. More than a year ago, owner Emma Snyder had announced the move to the former site of the Divine Life Church, which has about 2,700 square feet of space, plus a basement, and nearly 2.5 acres of outside grounds. Tomorrow the store will begin offering private browsing sessions and curbside pickup, and starting Saturday, October 17, it will offer "special weekend activities on our covered patio and across our gardens." According to the Baltimore Sun, a coffee bar will open later this fall, "with help from the store's sister outpost, Bird in Hand." "Our drywall-dusted, paint-spattered, paper-cut selves have missed you deeply, and The Ivy Bookshop is ready to open our new doors and welcome you to our new location." "We made it!" the store wrote on Facebook. Who should buy this book? Elementary, middle school and public libraries.The Ivy Bookshop, Baltimore, Md., has opened in its new, larger location, a move postponed for several months by the Covid-19 pandemic. The ending hints at a sequel, so prepare for them to get hooked. To whom would you recommend this book? Kids in grades 3 to 8 who are attracted to any one of these elements: comic books, ninjas, cute pets, or manga. Really sharp-looking volume that is sure to be in high demand. The text balloons are easy to read and follow, with lots of cool, action-word art.Īnything you didn’t like about it? No. There’s definitely some homage being paid to manga, both in the look of the panels, the size of the book and the anime features on the kids (big heads and eyes, jet black hair). ![]() The art is suitably zippy with full color graphics and a very energetic diversity in the size and placement of panels. A poignant side plot looks at Leon and Marcie’s sadness about their parents’ divorce, which lends a bit of substance to the story without dragging down the action. There’s even a flashback origin story so we get to learn how the kitty acquired his awesome crime-fighting skills. More villains and allies follow in subsequent chapters (a “cat” burglar, a robot dog, a disgruntled cockroach, etc.). In the first episode, Cat Ninja foils Master Hamster and his band of gerbils’ evil plans to rob a bank after stealing patrons’ passwords (their pets’ names, of course!). Squeaks.” Leon and Marcie, their kid owners, are blithely oblivious to their pets’ adventures, which creates a lot of the humor. Claude looks like a mild-mannered housecat, but his secret identity is Cat Ninja while his chief nemesis Master Hamster innocently lives in the same family as “Mr. ![]() What did you like about the book? First in a new series, Cat Ninja is colorful and adorable. ![]() Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 5 CatNinja by Matthew Cody, illustrated by Yehudi Mercado, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 9781524861384, 2020 ![]() ![]() ![]() Anaconda RepositoryĪnaconda has a repository featuring over 8,000 open-source data science and machine learning packages. The desktop application allows you to easily manage integrated applications, packages, and environments without the command line. Here are some of the main features of Anaconda: Anaconda NavigatorĪnaconda includes a GUI, called Anaconda Navigator, which is a graphical alternative to the command-line interface (CLI). There are over 250 packages that are automatically installed in the Anaconda distribution, plus more than 7,500 additional open-source packages that you can install from PyPI, or the conda package and virtual environment manager. Anaconda also comes with very useful related tools, such as the Jupyter Notebook and Spyder IDE (which are automatically installed with Anaconda). Overview of AnacondaĪnaconda is a free and open-source distribution for Python and R programming languages widely used in data science and machine learning applications. If you would like to try another distribution for Python and R languages, check out the free alternatives below. Confirm that you want to uninstall Anaconda and it will be removed from your computer. Scroll and locate Anaconda on the list of installed applications, then click the “Uninstall” button.Type “Add or Remove Programs” in the Windows Search bar and hit the Enter button.If you no longer wish to use Anaconda for your data science computations, you can quickly uninstall the application from your system. How to Uninstall Anaconda from your Computer Click Next after the installation to open Anaconda and start coding. This will take some time and requires up to 3 GB of hard disk space to fully install. Wait for the installation to complete. ![]() exe file downloaded above to install the Anaconda application. Go to your download folder and double-click the.Hit the download button as shown below to download the software.Click on the download button on the sidebar to go directly to the Anaconda download page.How to Download and Install Anaconda Latest Version on Your PC for Free With more than 1500 Python/R packages, it offers you a simpler workflow for your needs and preferences.įollow the instructions below and I’ll show you how to download and install Anaconda on your computer for free. With over 300 libraries, Anaconda is an easy way to perform data science, machine learning, deep learning, large-scale data processing, predictive analytics, etc.Īnaconda is written in Python and is an ideal option if you’re looking for a simplified way to manage and deploy your packages. Best Parental Control for iPhone & iPadĪnaconda is an open-source distribution for python and R programming languages, which offers a rather extensive platform for scientific computing.IPVanish VPN vs Private Internet Access. ![]() ![]() ![]() On May 12th, 2009, YouTuber balladechina212 uploaded a video of a Super Smash Bros. On December 9th, 2008, an entry for "Wombo Combo" was submitted to Urban Dictionary, defining the term as a "zero-to-death ownage" or to be "destroyed very quickly." On March 30th, 2009, YouTuber feral druid uploaded a clip from the animated television show Pokémon dubbed with the audio from the Wombo Combo video (shown below, left). Two days later, YouTuber Lumpycpu uploaded footage of the match, which gained over 10.3 million views and 22,300 comments in the next eight years. After the green team executes a doubles combo against Zhu, the commentators HomeMadeWaffles, Phil and Mango loudly yell various phrases such as "happy feet," referencing Zhu's "Happy Feet" video, and "wombo combo" (shown below). Melee tournament was held, which included a doubles match between a green team consisting of player SilentSpectre as Captain Falcon and player Tang as Fox against the blue team of players Zhu and Lucky as Fox. angling the control stick straight down) are not changed whatsoever - only the Axe/Sung method is made to be consistent on all controllers.On December 6th, 2008, the SCSA West Coast Circuit Super Smash Bros. Traditional shield dropping methods that are unreliable or slow in vanilla Melee (eg. ![]() The UCF shield drop change allows all controllers to do this without the need for notches or an ideal controller gate. In vanilla Melee, the popular Axe/Sung shield drop method enables players to reliably shield drop by angling the control stick from a sideways position down to the corner (or appropriate notch). The design of this change is to mimic consistent shield drop methods currently possible on ideal controllers. In other words, holding the control stick to the side and rolling it downwards will lower the spotdodge threshold, preventing it from interfering with shield drop. If the shield is angled such that shield roll is no longer possible, AND the control stick is being held against the rim, then spotdodge threshold is decreased from -0.7 to -0.8. The code has been tested such that the input required to do so feels the same as what an ideal controller is capable of in vanilla Melee. Giving one additional frame for the dashback window enables any controller to perform dashback consistently. There is an extra conditional for Ice Climbers: If the second-frame dashback is activated, the correct controller state is retroactively applied to Nana, so that her behavior is as expected, without causing any new situations. This is done by allowing the first frame of tilt turn to cancel into dashback. The window for dashback has been increased from one frame to two frames. UCF currently incorporates the following changes. We hope that UCF becomes the standardized controller fix solution that TOs find reliable to use in tournaments of any size. UCF was developed in response to the community's desire to fix these issues, but their reluctance to put any of the existing proposed mods into practice due to unwillingness to change Melee's game design. They merely become as consistent as what good controllers already allow players to do. Those techniques will not become easier to perform than they already are on good controllers. This means with UCF, any given controller will be able to perform techniques as reliably as expected from a "good" controller. Universal Controller Fix (UCF) aims to fix these discrepancies, so that any controller is on par with a "good" controller - without going beyond what is possible in vanilla Melee. This includes a one-frame dashback window and a shield drop window only three units thick - both so precise that minute differences in controller calibration make all the difference. ![]() These controller issues are an artifact of Melee design choices that are not favorable for competitive play. This creates an arbitrary discrepancy where some players can perform techniques more reliably than others, for the sole reason that their controller is a better pick. Controllers are becoming more expensive, and few players have the luxury of testing a multitude of controllers to find one that is reliable. By now, it is fairly common knowledge that not all controllers are created equally - the disparity in quality of these controllers affects important movement techniques in Melee, most notoriously dashback and shield dropping. The availability and reliability of Gamecube controllers has been a long-standing issue in the Melee community. ![]() |