![]() Now the keeper of his flame was gone, too. Her longtime piano accompanist, David Lewis, played a Gershwin song and then turned to the audience to recall what Hart had told him about that melody: “When I die, I want you to play ‘The Man I Love’ in my key at the memorial service, and if I don’t walk out on that stage you’ll know I’m dead.” There was an eerie moment, one beat of silence, followed by laughter and applause. According to the archive records, Hart wrote the journal during “a period when he was apparently depressed and experiencing difficulty with his writing.”Īfter Kitty Carlisle Hart died in April 2007, her friends and admirers gathered at the Majestic Theatre to pay tribute to the grande dame. ![]() He and Kitty placed off-limits, until their deaths, the 156-page typewritten diary that Hart kept in 1953–54. Hart donated his papers to the Wisconsin Historical Society shortly before he died, with one tantalizing restriction. Few people were aware-until now-that at the very moment Hart was crafting his theatrical classic he was also keeping a secret diary revealing his real and embittered feelings about his life and Broadway. Moss Hart is remembered primarily for his perpetually best-selling memoir, Act One, a gauzy valentine to Broadway that chronicles his improbable rise from tenement-born Bronx boy to world-famous playwright. “But I loved Moss more than any beau I’ve ever had.”Įvery marriage has its secrets-the secrets that spouses keep from one another, and the secrets that they conspire to keep from the world. Given that Kitty Carlisle Hart was only 51 when she was widowed, surely she must have had many opportunities to remarry? “Oh, yes,” she replied. Yet by most accounts the Harts, a stylish, rags-to-riches Broadway couple, found hard-fought happiness and stability together. The relentlessly cheery Jewish southern belle Kitty Conn (who picked the Waspy-sounding Carlisle out of a phone book) was intimidated by her controlling stage mother and traumatized by a sexual attack by her voice teacher. The enormously talented and incessantly depressed Hart, the grandson of impoverished Jewish immigrants, had long been rumored to be gay and was so dependent on therapy that he often saw his analyst twice a day. Married for only 15 years, a union that produced a daughter, Cathy, now a doctor, and son, Christopher, a director, the Harts had been considered an unlikely match, two emotionally damaged souls who found each other. He’s wonderful.” But she kept bringing the conversation back to Moss Hart, who died at age 57 of a heart attack in 1961, as if the loss were much more recent. She confided to me on a warm fall afternoon that she was still dating, saying, “I have a beau who is 102. Her throaty rendition of “Here’s to Life” brought her a standing ovation. ![]() In her stage act at Feinstein’s, she told enchanting stories about starring with the Marx Brothers in A Night at the Opera and being courted by George Gershwin. As she perched on a sofa in the antique-filled living room, her phone rang constantly, and she happily complained of being over-scheduled. ![]() Hart in 2005-two years prior to her death-she was then 95 years old and still touring the country with her one-woman cabaret show. When I interviewed the irrepressible and elegant Mrs. Kaufman the plays You Can’t Take It with You and Merrily We Roll Along and collaborated with Cole Porter and Irving Berlin on popular musicals. The director of My Fair Lady and Camelot, he also co-wrote with George S. Kitty Carlisle Hart decorated her sprawling Park Avenue duplex with a half-century of theatrical mementos, including posters featuring the prolific output of her husband, Moss Hart. ![]()
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![]() With something like, say, ubuntu, or mint, or … anything modern. ![]() Oh, and reboot between every single one of those steps, multiple times … and about 80 separate times for the updates on top of that … if you’re lucky. – Clean the registry after 10 minutes of use ![]() – Optimize the system by removing all of the tat that comes with it. – Install drivers for everything that windows doesn’t come with – Install media playback software that actually works If you’re complaining about installing something from scratch, then try installing windows from scratch. You have to compare apples with apples here. My experience with modern distros is quite the contrary to what you’ve just said. I boot into osX only for the company VPN. The last i’ve ever depended on windows full time was NT4.Įven in those old days, with suse 6.3, YaST took care of pretty much everything, and it was foolproof … even back then. The last windows install i’ve ever had at home was win2k, and that was alongside suse 6.3 (which had 2.2+ and was therefore able to load modules dynamically, so adding/removing hardware became somewhat trivial). I’ve been using linux since the kernel 2.0 days, back when you couldn’t load modules at all. Not that those are hard to deal with in any way. The only things that remain annoying are things such as firmware blobs and binary drivers. Installing a modern linux distro is painless. ![]() My experience is that almost everything now works out of the box. I mean, actually tried using it … not running it in a vm to see what bad things you can say about it.Īll i can say is i start to lose my shit each time i’m forced to use windows. Have you even tried out a modern distro recently? Consoles have to get the majority of their games from the big box stores on a disc, and these games rarely go on sale at these stores and have a price in in the $40-70 range that takes a very long time to come down. But the comp gets it’s games primarily via Steam, GOG, Desura and the like, and can buy game keys from other shops, with sales ranging from 30-90% off, even for new games. When it comes to cost, the consoles have about the same up front cost a a midrange, GPU heavy gaming comp. Yes, having the capability to run the game far in excess of 60hz, 120hz or 144Hz is actually a good thing, you want them that way so that you can run with vSync on and never have slowdowns while having the graphics are turned way up.Ĭonsoles also use vSync, but instead of running at 60Hz, they cap the framerate at only 30hz and still have to turn the graphics settings down to maintain that 30hz framerate because the GPU was only upper midrange when it was new and wont be upgraded for 7 years, yet they still have to play new games released over those 7 years, many of which will be released on the comp which will be far faster. I can play pretty much all of your console games on my comp via emulation. In other words, don’t be a hypocrite, my friend. ![]() Why stress the negatives? Enjoy the fact that there is yet another platform for GoG games instead bashing said platform. Fact is, for me at least, some games run just as good (if not better) on GNU/Linux, which allows me to enjoy the game instead of worrying about whether I’m giving Windows enough of my time. But if my Wii didn’t do such a great job emulating the SNES, I’d still have an SNES. If the game runs the same, yes we can forget the platform. I know we are geeks, but we should forget the plateform when we are dealing with games… I had a Dreamcast, countless fun games, even though the graphics are now subpar with what can be found today.ĭitto again, it was and is my favorite console. I still have the Wii, and I use it to emulate all the former Nintendo consoles, as well as Sega Genesis and below. I had a GameCube and, boy, Starfox Adventures was priceless. I bet some people get fun with Wii games. It makes for a more immersive, less distracting experience. I’ll take smooth, vSync’d graphics on Linux over jerky, tearing graphics on Windows any day. Not for every game, but in this particular case, yes. The big question is : will you have more F.U.N with 100-120fps instead of 60-80? Will better graphics render the game more F.U.N to play with ? ![]() ![]() To celebrate the telescope’s 25th anniversary in 2015, Hubble unveiled two new beautiful portraits of the popular Pillars of Creation, revealing how different details can be studied in visible and near-infrared observations. The planet’s aurorae are only visible in the ultraviolet however, the structure of the red spot is well studied at visible wavelengths. ![]() These observations provided insights into the altitude and distribution of the planet’s haze and particles and showed Jupiter’s ever-changing cloud patterns. For example, a new multiwavelength observation of Jupiter released in 2020 by Hubble in ultraviolet/visible/near-infrared light of Jupiter gave researchers an entirely new view of the giant planet. Credit: ESA/HubbleĪstronomers use multi-wavelength imagery to study details that might not otherwise be present in visible images. ![]() Astronomers chose to study NGC 1512 in these colors to emphasize important details in the ring of young star clusters surrounding the core.Įlectromagnetic Spectrum. Each image represents a specific color or wavelength region of the spectrum, from ultraviolet to near-infrared, and shows the wide wavelength range covered by Hubble. Astronomers chose to study NGC 1512 in these colors to emphasize important details in the ring of young star clusters surrounding the core.Ĭredit: NASA, ESA, Dan Maoz (Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and Columbia University, USA)īy exploring the image above, you can see how astronomers have used a set of single-color images to construct the color picture of a ring of star clusters surrounding the core of the galaxy NGC 1512. Celestial bodies emit light at a variety of wavelengths, anywhere from gamma rays to radio waves. These pictures were taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Faint Object Camera (FOC), Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS).Įach image represents a specific color or wavelength region of the spectrum, from ultraviolet to near infrared, and shows the wide wavelength region covered by Hubble. Each of these wavelengths is reproduced in a different color and these are combined to form a composite image that well resembles the true emission from that celestial object.Īstronomers have used this set of single-color images, shown around the edge, to construct the color picture (center) of a ring of star clusters surrounding the core of the galaxy NGC 1512. Hubble observes in different wavelength bands, one band at a time, each providing different information on the object under study. They observe primarily in the ultraviolet and visible parts of the spectrum, but also have some near- infrared capabilities. Credit: ESA/Hubbleįor more than three decades, Hubble has studied the Universe using its 2.4-meter primary mirror and its five science instruments. From long to short wavelength, the EM spectrum includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, x-rays and gamma rays. The electromagnetic spectrum is a range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation. ![]() We can construct a more complete image of an object’s structure, composition, and behavior by combining observations at different wavelengths than visible wavelengths alone can convey. Shorter wavelengths are referred to as ‘bluer,’ while longer wavelengths are referred to as’redder.’ EM radiation in and near the visible region of the spectrum is generally referred to broadly as ‘light.’ Radio waves have the longest wavelengths, followed by microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, x-rays, and finally gamma rays, which have the shortest wavelengths.Ĭelestial objects such as stars, planets, and galaxies all emit electromagnetic waves at various wavelengths, therefore telescopes are built to be sensitive to different sections of the electromagnetic spectrum. The electromagnetic spectrum is loosely divided into divisions based on how the waves behave when they interact with matter, and each division is given a name. An EM wave, like other waves, is defined by its wavelength, and the range of wavelengths we observe, from extremely long to very short, is referred to as the EM spectrum. ![]() ![]() We may require you to log in to your registered account or create a registered account when you purchase goods at our Website in order to provide you Program benefits and.We may request, record, use, and keep any information about you (including, but not limited to, your name, mailing address, zip code, telephone number, credit, debit or payment account information and email address) that we deem necessary to fulfill your requests for service to your registered account, including, but not limited to, requests to establish your account, look up or edit your account information, or associate a purchase with your account, for as long as we deem necessary.We may send you emails at the address associated with your registered account, unless you later withdraw your consent to receive commercial emails under the opt-out procedures provided in our Privacy Policy.By joining the ThriftBooks ReadingRewards Program (the "Program") through the process provided below in Section 2, you are utilizing ThriftBooks Services (as defined in the Terms of Use) and you expressly acknowledge and agree to the terms and conditions that are laid out here, the terms set forth in the Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy, both of which are incorporated into this Agreement by reference, and any amendments and additions to this Agreement as published from time to time at our Website.īy accepting this agreement, you acknowledge and affirmatively consent to the following: The terms and conditions stated below (collectively, the "Agreement") constitute a legal agreement between you ("You", "Program Participant") and Thrift Books Global LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the "Company," "ThriftBooks," "We," "Our," or "Us"). Thrift Books Global LLC, and its affiliates provide a variety of website features at ("Website"), similar services on other websites and applications, and other products owned and maintained by ThriftBooks. ![]() This program is for the benefit of individual readers for their own reading pleasure, and it is not intended to benefit the large order buyer or reseller. ![]() The ThriftBooks ReadingRewards Program provides registered members of with special reward, discount and promotional offers. ![]() ![]() After the premiere, bonus images were released onto the Twitter account. It is the last teaser video short that premiered on August 8th, 2021, which is the anniversary of the original Five Nights at Freddy's. On August 2nd, 2021, Breaking + Entering was teased. On May 31st, 2021, an animated GIF of CAM 10 was put up on Twitter. They included an image of plastic toys of the core three animatronics, another image of these characters as plushies, an image of the Office with the "CELEBRATE" poster, and an image of a pair of clocks with the bigger of the pair saying " Fregdrick's Tools & Timepieces" on it. The first of the images, showing plastic figurines of the core three animatronics.ĭue to the positive reception of the new teaser videos, Phisnom released four bonus images on the FNaF Plus Twitter account on January 23rd, 2021. It was released publicly on Janurary 20th after being discovered. This video is from the perspective of Foxy attempting to escape the pizzeria during the night while imagery flashes violently on the screen. A secret fourth video, Night Mode was discovered when glitched text was found throughout the last three videos and turned into a YouTube URL. The video ends on a black screen with a distorted version of the music playing in the background. As she repeats the phrase "Follow me", her voice grows more corrupted as the curtains draw and children are heard screaming in the background. As Chica sings, the video abruptly corrupts as her singing slows and the lights grow dimmer. The third, Stage Performance, is of a stage performance with Chica as the lead singer. The second, Quiet Hours, is a video recorded from the perspective of somebody looking up onto the band of animatronics. The first of these teasers, Routine Check, featured a recording of Freddy Fazbear going through his scripted animations on stage, before the video glitches out after "005 - FRIENDLY LAUGH" with a black screen and Freddy's ominous laughter. On January 19th, 2021, several new teasers for the game were posted to Twitter, YouTube, and Streamable. This teaser featured three images of the new Freddy design, a hallway with a Freddy poster, and what appears to be a back room. On October 31st, 2020, another teaser was released in celebration for Halloween. It features Bonnie inside the Dining Area, approaching the camera and causing the eponymous connection error. ![]() On September 12th, 2020, the first teaser video for the game was revealed called Connection Error. ![]() The image teased the new design for Freddy Fazbear, and mirrors key art of the original Five Nights at Freddy's. The official name of the game was finally revealed on August 28th as Five Nights at Freddy's Plus, alongside a teaser on the official Twitter account. As one of the games in the initiative, the game will be getting official ports to mobile devices and consoles in the future. The first teaser for Five Nights at Freddy's Plus, revealed on August 28th, 2020.Ī remake of the original Five Nights at Freddy's was first revealed alongside the Fazbear Fanverse Initiative on August 21st, 2020. However, he was intrigued with the project and contacted Phisnom about a Five Nights at Freddy's remake. Since the game wasn't a transformative remake of the original game, Scott Cawthon soon took the game down. Originally, Phisnom created a remake of Five Nights at Freddy's 2 known as Five Nights at Freddy's 2: Open Source (later renamed to Another FNaF Fangame: Open Source), as practice for learning a new game engine. ![]() ![]() ![]() The game emphasizes on creativity too, and by simply taking a look at the many different bridges other players have built via the game’s Gallery section, you might just get inspired to not only complete the objective but also complete it in the most flamboyant way you know! Each level in the game comes with a budget, and other specific requirements, such as needing to make the vehicles collect a red star or go through the bridge twice (to and fro), or allowing ships or planes to pass through. However, that is not to say it will simply spoon-feed you everything. Gameplay If you’ve played a “bridge constructor” simulation game before, you should be pretty familiar with the gameplay in Poly Bridge 2 and also the holy grail of all bridges – triangles! Even if you are not, don’t fret! Poly Bridge 2 comes with a very easy-to-understand tutorial that will teach you all the basic skills you’ll need to design and build a robust bridge. The game comes with 4 different worlds, each containing 16, sometimes pretty challenging, levels with unique styles. ![]() People Also Played Summary Gameplay Community Graphics/ Sound Conclusion Summary Poly Bridge 2 is a fun and surprisingly-relaxing physics-driven puzzle game where the goal is to build incredible bridges, within budget of course, and help vehicles of various shapes and sizes go from one end to another. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Distributors and transportersĭistributors and transporters have to deal with a lot such as inventory management, distribution, and transportation of vaccines. When customers scan it, they’ll be automatically taken to the encoded web link to verify the vaccine’s authenticity. Just place a Website URL QR Code on the vaccines’ packaging. There is a much simpler way to complete the job-QR Codes. This certainly won’t provide the best customer experience.ĭon’t worry. Additionally, people will have to unlock their phone and tediously read the link to type it in the browser, and finally access it. Since nobody will be able to tamper with your website, it will help do away with the issue of duplicate vaccines.īut here’s the thing-you’ll have to print the link in a small font on a tiny space on the packaging. When people open the link, they’ll be able to see the vaccine details (such as batch number, price, and manufacturing date) on your website. You can help them do it easily by adding the link to your website portal on the vaccine. It will not only protect your business but also their health. Hence, it’s important that you help people verify the vaccine’s authenticity. But the presence of duplicate vaccines in the market put a manufacturer’s credibility at risk. And they are responsible for its proper production and quality assurance. Manufactures are the stepping stone of the vaccine. Here’s how QR Codes can be used at each of these stages by required stakeholders: 1. Then finally, they reach the patients at hospitals, pharmacies, or vaccination centres. They start from the manufacturer’s facility to the transporters to land at the distributor’s facility. Vaccines go through a long route before reaching the public at the vaccination centres. Who should be using QR Codes for vaccines You might have noticed them all around you from grocery products to medicines.īefore we talk about the utility of a QR Code on vaccines, let’s see who should be using it.Ĭreate a QR Code for vaccine A. It will not only be in the interest of the public and the law but also the manufacturer and the healthcare system.Īnd there’s a simple solution to resolve the challenge of duplicacy and counterfeit of vaccines- QR Code technology. So you’re looking for ways to address these challenges. Such issues do not only put the health of the society at risk but also breach the law. Illegal (or irregulated) distribution and transportationģ. Counterfeit and fake copies in the marketĢ. From polio and tetanus to now COVID-19, they’re helping us handle it all.īut did you know that even the vaccines need to be immunized? Against what? Well, here are a couple of challenges that we need to guard the vaccines against:ġ. Vaccines have always helped mankind confer immunity to a plethora of deadly diseases. ![]() ![]() What this means in practice, especially with GPT 3.5 now in the market and GPT4 likely launching soon, remains to be seen, though a year ago, Google said PaLM typically outperformed GPT3 in math questions, something large language models aren't necessarily best at. At the time, the company noted that the Google Research team responsible for the model was looking to build a model that could "generalize across domains and tasks while being highly efficient." With its 540-billion parameters, it's a significantly larger model than OpenAI's GPT3 with its 175 billion parameters. It's interesting that Google went with the PaLM model as the foundation for these services. The one thing we didn't see today was the public release of LaMDA, Google's best-known model. The focus here is also clearly on business users who want to augment the model with their own data and/or tune it for their use cases. Throughout its announcements, Google stressed that a company's training data will always be kept private and not used to train the broader model. They can opt to give the large language model control of this flow or use a more deterministic flow (maybe in a customer service scenario), where there is no risk of the model going off-piste. He stressed that the users will get control over the generative flow here. Kurian noted that this could be used to retrieve information, but also - with the right hooks into a company's APIs - to transact. To do this, Google combined its foundation models with its enterprise search capabilities and its conversation AI for building single- and multi-turn conversations. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Generative AI Application Builder is a fast application development environment designed to allow business users- not necessarily just developers - but to allow business users to work in concert with developers to leverage the power of search, conversation experiences and foundation models, while respecting enterprise controls," Kurian explained. It will allow developers to build AI-powered chat interfaces and digital assistants based on their own data. The Generative AI App Builder is an entirely new service. The idea here is to let developers give a number of examples to the tool to teach it what kinds of results they are looking for - and then test these and make them available as code, but Google provided very few details about how exactly this service will work in practice. PaLM chat will be the tool for building chat-style, multi-turn applications while PaLM text is meant for single-turn input/output scenarios. This service, too, will only be available to Trusted Testers and will make two models available to these developers: PaLM chat-bison-001 and PaLM text-bison-001. A company spokesperson told me that Google chose PaLM for this first release "as it works particularly well for chat and text use cases." Likely candidates for additional models are LaMDA and MUM.įor developers who don't want to delve into the API, Google is launching the low-code MakerSuite service. Why Google is not using a more generic name than "PaLM" for this API is anyone's guess, but the company is indeed making the PaLM model available through this API for multi-turn conversations and for single-turn general purpose use cases like text summarization and classification. ![]() Google says that starting today, it will make an "efficient model available in terms of size and capabilities" and that it will add other models and sizes soon. ![]() ![]() Frost-gates have a 15-second cooldown after being activated. They may also choose a location to dash another time up to a distance away from the gate upon reaching their destination. If the channel is interrupted, the gate will be placed on a 1. 25 seconds, during which they are untargetable and unable to act. Upon completion, they dash to the other side of the gate over 2.
![]() ![]() These ghosts cannot be killed or stunned and players must avoid them while killing the rest of the enemies. ![]() The evil pumpkin head will eventually spawn ghosts that travel freely through the level and seek the player character. It is invincible but can be stunned and sent to appear elsewhere in the level with snowballs or snow shots. If the player takes too much time to complete a level, an evil pumpkin head will come and try to kill the players. If players manage to take out all enemies by kicking one snowball (this one snowball may be used to make others bounce around as well and increase the chances to pull this trick off), bonus money will fall from the sky. Any enemies the snowball rolls into are eliminated and other stationary snowballs start rolling when the rolling snowball touches them. Once an enemy has been turned into a snowball, players can roll or throw the snowball, which will rebound off of walls until eventually shattering against a wall. In the NES port, King Scorch cursed princes Nick and Tom by turning them into snowmen, while he also captured the princess twins Teri and Tina, leading the brothers to defeat the king to save their land.Įach player can throw snow at enemies until each one is completely covered and turns into a snowball, however partially covered enemies in snow cannot move until they shake it off. is a platform game reminiscent of Bubble Bobble and Tumblepop, where players assume the role of snowmen twins Nick (P1) and Tom (P2) through 50 increasingly difficult stages, each with a boss at the every tenth stage that must be fought before progressing any further, in an effort to rescue twin princesses Puripuri and Puchipuchi from captivity as the main objective. A modernized version of the game titled Snow Bros Special was developed by CRT Games and published by Daewon Media Game Lab and Clear River Games for Nintendo Switch, and was released on May 19, 2022. The rights to the title are owned by Tatsujin, a Japanese company formed by Masahiro Yuge. 2: With New Elves was released by Hanafram, serving as the last game by Toaplan prior to their closure. was met with mostly positive reception from critics and players alike, earning an award from Gamest magazine and gaining a cult following since its initial release. ![]() Conversions for various microcomputers were in development but none were officially released to the public. Although first launched in arcades, the game was later ported across multiple platforms, each one being created by different third-party developers and featuring several changes or additions compared with the original version. Starring the eponymous snowmen twins Nick and Tom, players are tasked with travelling through 50 stages, throwing and building snowballs, jumping on and off platforms to navigate level obstacles while dodging and defeating monsters in order to rescue the princesses Puripuri and Puchipuchi from captivity. is a 1990 platform arcade video game originally developed by Toaplan first published in Japan, then in North America by Romstar and later in Europe. ![]() |
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